/u/actually_crazy_irl's posts in /r/WritingPrompts
[WP]: Faith magic is real. Things have power if you believe they do, and the most powerful things are the things most people believe in. Your dog, fortunately enough, believes in your power to do anything.
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[WP]: You, a historian, find something odd in your records. The same face, accompanied with variations of the same name, keeps emerging in paintings, drawings, woodcarvings and documents, from a span of several centuries. It looks suspiciously like your assistant.
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[WP]: You are known as a stern, strict god whose followers must follow many strange, inconvenient and sometimes impossible rules. To manage, they have become very good at coming up with loopholes, following the letter of the law. Secretly a trickster god, you are proud of them.
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[WP]: An unhuman creature walks up to you and starts chatting like you are old friends. From the way it talks you realise it thinks humans are immortal, and is mistaking you for one of your grandparents.
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[CW]: Tell a story describing only negatives: who the characters are NOT, what the scenery is NOT like, what are they NOT doing, etc.
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[WP]: It's been three years since you broke the fourth wall. The author wants to keep pumping out books while you crave the sweet release of death. All your suicide attempts are undone by plot armour.
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[WP]: You are italian. You love garlic, being in the sun, going to church with your family and looking at yourself in the mirror. You have also just been turned into a vampire.
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[WP]: A "mad scientist" is an umbrella term. Specifically, you are a team consisting of a mad botanist, a mad mathematician, a mad chemist and a mad social engineer. You work with each others' strengths and differences.
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[WP]: Instead of prisons, condemned criminals have their ages rewinded, turned back into children in order to be raised better this time around.
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