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[WP]: a brand new, shiny crowbar has appeared on your back yard. You wouldn't mind, otherwise, but the damn birds get rowdy when they're drunk

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[WP]: You somehow landed a job screenwriting a children’s show. Unfortunately, you don’t know all that much about humans or what their young find enjoyable.

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[WP]: There are news from the battlefront. Soldiers from both side have made contact, and made friends, bonding over shared experiences of harsh training and bad food. There will be no more war.

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Was fainting from shock ever a common occurence, or was it merely a trope in fiction? Did people actually use to lose consciousness overcome by emotion, or have modern people simply become too desensitized for something like that to happen?

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[WP]: The human species is surprisingly sensible and easy to negotiate with. They, however, are a social species and ofter travel with their young, and if there ever was an unexpected horror on a multi-species ship, it is human children.

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[CW]: An utterly despicable, awful person commits a disgusting act of evil, all written from the perspective of someone who loves them madly.

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[WP]: In order to cheer up your little daughter, you told her that mistakes are GREAT, because that's how you learn things. She takes this to the heart the wrong way and now AIMS to fail. But this somehow works great, as she continues to fail in bigger, grander and more accomplished ways.

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[WP]: Ten years after the collapse of a mine, an underground pocket of air is discovered at the site. Within are 15 miners who have miraculously survived being trapped for a decade. A contact is established. They do not want to be rescued.

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Did pre-automobile societies have ”drunk driving” laws? How drunk were you allowed to be while riding through town before you get arrested?

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[WP]: Being roommates with a videogame protagonist, an anime protagonist and the heroine of an opera was the worst desicion of your life.

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Title	Upvotes	Subreddit	Mark as read	Favorited	Rating	Add to a list
[WP]: a brand new, shiny crowbar has appeared on your back yard. You wouldn't mind, otherwise, but the damn birds get rowdy when they're drunk	67	WritingPrompts
[WP]: You somehow landed a job screenwriting a children’s show. Unfortunately, you don’t know all that much about humans or what their young find enjoyable.	67	WritingPrompts
[WP]: There are news from the battlefront. Soldiers from both side have made contact, and made friends, bonding over shared experiences of harsh training and bad food. There will be no more war.	67	WritingPrompts
Was fainting from shock ever a common occurence, or was it merely a trope in fiction? Did people actually use to lose consciousness overcome by emotion, or have modern people simply become too desensitized for something like that to happen?	66	AskHistorians
[WP]: The human species is surprisingly sensible and easy to negotiate with. They, however, are a social species and ofter travel with their young, and if there ever was an unexpected horror on a multi-species ship, it is human children.	66	WritingPrompts
[CW]: An utterly despicable, awful person commits a disgusting act of evil, all written from the perspective of someone who loves them madly.	66	WritingPrompts
[WP]: In order to cheer up your little daughter, you told her that mistakes are GREAT, because that's how you learn things. She takes this to the heart the wrong way and now AIMS to fail. But this somehow works great, as she continues to fail in bigger, grander and more accomplished ways.	65	WritingPrompts
[WP]: Ten years after the collapse of a mine, an underground pocket of air is discovered at the site. Within are 15 miners who have miraculously survived being trapped for a decade. A contact is established. They do not want to be rescued.	64	WritingPrompts
Did pre-automobile societies have ”drunk driving” laws? How drunk were you allowed to be while riding through town before you get arrested?	63	AskHistorians
[WP]: Being roommates with a videogame protagonist, an anime protagonist and the heroine of an opera was the worst desicion of your life.	63	WritingPrompts