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Say we're in the 13th century... How is obesity viewed by everyone? Is there a difference in how obese nobles are viewed vs. obese non-nobles?

101 upvotes • r/AskHistorians

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[WP] You are immortal. After your body can no longer be supported in any form on any planet due to the universe entering the final stages of heat death, you finally understand - you are to become the next "God", due to you existing before the next universe's big bang and being unable to die.

17 upvotes • r/WritingPrompts

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[WP] You wake up one morning to find that, when you reach for your phone, it levitates towards you. You have just discovered you are able to use psionic powers now, with the ability to move matter being your most basic ability.

15 upvotes • r/WritingPrompts

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[WP] One day, you are watching the live population count go up gradually, when suddenly, it starts going down exponentially until you and 9,999 others are left, and then the counter stops at 10,000.

12 upvotes • r/WritingPrompts

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[WP] You can see the ages of souls. Most are the same age as their physical age, but one day, you see a man and his boyfriend whose souls both read “5 million years old”

9 upvotes • r/WritingPrompts

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[WP] You are a professional chef. For as long as you remember, you've loved cooking and baking. This might be because, for some reason, you can see the amount of time and at what temperature a food item is supposed to cook for. Thus, all your food comes out perfectly cooked...

7 upvotes • r/WritingPrompts

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[WP] You are dead. Upon arrival in the afterlife, an entity says "Welcome home, hero."

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[WP] It turns out that the scientists were wrong - red dwarfs don't die. As the leader of the last million Human inhabitants, you must find a suitable planet orbiting a red dwarf to terraform and inhabit for the next few trillion years.

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[WP] Gordon Ramsay was just transported to another world with culinary traditions that are completely different from ours, and you're the first person from that world to meet him.

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[WP] It turns out that magic does exist; priests, witches and warlocks did, in fact, manifest magic on the lowest levels, but with the study of the mind, magic has become science. Its name? Psionics.

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Say we're in the 13th century... How is obesity viewed by everyone? Is there a difference in how obese nobles are viewed vs. obese non-nobles?	101	AskHistorians
[WP] You are immortal. After your body can no longer be supported in any form on any planet due to the universe entering the final stages of heat death, you finally understand - you are to become the next "God", due to you existing before the next universe's big bang and being unable to die.	17	WritingPrompts
[WP] You wake up one morning to find that, when you reach for your phone, it levitates towards you. You have just discovered you are able to use psionic powers now, with the ability to move matter being your most basic ability.	15	WritingPrompts
[WP] One day, you are watching the live population count go up gradually, when suddenly, it starts going down exponentially until you and 9,999 others are left, and then the counter stops at 10,000.	12	WritingPrompts
[WP] You can see the ages of souls. Most are the same age as their physical age, but one day, you see a man and his boyfriend whose souls both read “5 million years old”	9	WritingPrompts
[WP] You are a professional chef. For as long as you remember, you've loved cooking and baking. This might be because, for some reason, you can see the amount of time and at what temperature a food item is supposed to cook for. Thus, all your food comes out perfectly cooked...	7	WritingPrompts
[WP] You are dead. Upon arrival in the afterlife, an entity says "Welcome home, hero."	5	WritingPrompts
[WP] It turns out that the scientists were wrong - red dwarfs don't die. As the leader of the last million Human inhabitants, you must find a suitable planet orbiting a red dwarf to terraform and inhabit for the next few trillion years.	4	WritingPrompts
[WP] Gordon Ramsay was just transported to another world with culinary traditions that are completely different from ours, and you're the first person from that world to meet him.	3	WritingPrompts
[WP] It turns out that magic does exist; priests, witches and warlocks did, in fact, manifest magic on the lowest levels, but with the study of the mind, magic has become science. Its name? Psionics.	3	WritingPrompts