WritingPrompts

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[WP] Magic has returned to the world, but most of humanity still hasn't noticed. That's because coincidentally, real magic looks like a dated CGI effect.	87
[WP] To your great horror, you wake up in a universe governed entirely by tired /r/WritingPrompts cliches. You must use your knowledge of tropes to survive. Your first task: finding what all these damn floating numbers are about, why your blood is yellow, and what the tattoo on your wrist means.	64
[WP] The world watches transfixed as a cluster of large meteors collides with Venus, blowing off 80% of it's atmosphere. For the first time, the surface of Venus is visible from Earth.	59
[WP] Write a coherent story arc that seamlessly links the last five posts you made to Reddit.	50
[WP] A desperate man makes a contract with a powerful supernatural entity, guaranteeing he'll always find a job. But in a sadistic twist, he find's he's unable to keep the same job for more than a week. As a result, he's been and done nearly everything.	47
[WP] You have a telescope that, instead of making far-away objects look larger, makes ugly things appear beautiful, prose like poetry, nonsense scribbles like artistic masterpieces, meaningless chaos like order. That is, until you make the mistake of looking through it backwards.	46
[WP] You come across what appears to be illegal trash-dumping in the woods. Angry and intrigued, you then realize that you've seen none of the brands in the pile before, and the labels on the bottles and wrappers, though they resemble English, are only about half-readable	41
[WP] The local superhuman has found the perfect gig-- among his powers are altering perception and implanting false memories, so he's been taking turns playing the hero and his own arch-nemesis, creating havoc and cleaning up after himself later. This has been going on unnoticed for years.	36
[WP] In 2061, you can make huge bank while hardly lifting a finger, all you have to do is sell your brain's processing power to a private server company while you sleep. Seems like a great deal! That is, until the unintended consequences of these new networks start coming to light...	33
[WP] A group of people discovers that their mutual friend, who they've all known for years, is a shared-hallucination. This throws their entire reality into question.	29

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