/u/Xais56's posts

Year:

Only show posts with narrations

[WP] Due to a rare brain condition you've spent your entire life hallucinating the presence of a six foot tall penguin. You're on a date one day when you're asked "So what's the deal with the penguin?"

7999 upvotes • r/WritingPrompts

Mark as read: Add to a list

[WP] Charon, Ferryman of the Dead, has grown bored with taking souls to the Underworld, and now moonlights as an Uber driver.

573 upvotes • r/WritingPrompts

Mark as read: Add to a list

Common citizens in Elizabethan London are often referred to as peasants, but I can't imagine that there was much Lord's land to farm in an urban centre. What made them peasants?

75 upvotes • r/AskHistorians

Mark as read: Add to a list

[WP] A political party lead by an Actual Penguin manages to win every seat in the house, but with only 50.1% of the popular vote. Society is divided, especially when the new premier moves to pass their first law...

70 upvotes • r/WritingPrompts

Mark as read: Add to a list

Did the British really pretend that carrots derived night vision were the source of their radar-derived intelligence?

57 upvotes • r/AskHistorians

Mark as read: Add to a list

Is the trend of referring to decades as the "[x]ies" a modern thing?

46 upvotes • r/AskHistorians

Mark as read: Add to a list

What is the history of time? How did the whole world come to agree on sixty seconds to a minute, sixty minutes to the hour, and twenty four hours to a day?

38 upvotes • r/AskHistorians

Mark as read: Add to a list

Who or what was responsible for civil order before the police?

32 upvotes • r/AskHistorians

Mark as read: Add to a list

[TT] You've gone decades without a single illness or broken bone. You've never felt real stress, you've never been depressed. "I'm sorry," The doctor says to you. "it's cancer."

30 upvotes • r/WritingPrompts

Mark as read: Add to a list

How much power did Queen Victoria have compared to Queen Elizabeth II?

29 upvotes • r/AskHistorians

Mark as read: Add to a list

Title	Upvotes	Subreddit	Mark as read	Favorited	Rating	Add to a list
[WP] Due to a rare brain condition you've spent your entire life hallucinating the presence of a six foot tall penguin. You're on a date one day when you're asked "So what's the deal with the penguin?"	7999	WritingPrompts
[WP] Charon, Ferryman of the Dead, has grown bored with taking souls to the Underworld, and now moonlights as an Uber driver.	573	WritingPrompts
Common citizens in Elizabethan London are often referred to as peasants, but I can't imagine that there was much Lord's land to farm in an urban centre. What made them peasants?	75	AskHistorians
[WP] A political party lead by an Actual Penguin manages to win every seat in the house, but with only 50.1% of the popular vote. Society is divided, especially when the new premier moves to pass their first law...	70	WritingPrompts
Did the British really pretend that carrots derived night vision were the source of their radar-derived intelligence?	57	AskHistorians
Is the trend of referring to decades as the "[x]ies" a modern thing?	46	AskHistorians
What is the history of time? How did the whole world come to agree on sixty seconds to a minute, sixty minutes to the hour, and twenty four hours to a day?	38	AskHistorians
Who or what was responsible for civil order before the police?	32	AskHistorians
[TT] You've gone decades without a single illness or broken bone. You've never felt real stress, you've never been depressed. "I'm sorry," The doctor says to you. "it's cancer."	30	WritingPrompts
How much power did Queen Victoria have compared to Queen Elizabeth II?	29	AskHistorians