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[PM] Writer's block! Instead of murder mysteries, why not send me a western prompt?

Submitted by Ox_of_Dox t3_z7e1p3 on November 29, 2022 at 12:32 AM

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[WP] Everybody knows that the Dark Lord cannot be defeated. Their army is invincible, their fortress unbreachable. But you (like so many before) will try anyway - you've simply no other choice.

Submitted by GodawfulMe t3_z3rj7z on November 24, 2022 at 6:45 PM

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[WP] You have a retro-causality gun. If you shoot anyone with it, the timeline will be rewritten such that you were entirely justified.

Submitted by Bobby-Bobson t3_yxv30g on November 17, 2022 at 4:48 PM

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[WP] a serial killer has swapped himself for the husband of a dying marriage. He accidentally rekindles the marriage through trying to act like a husband as well as his weird shenanigans that turns the wife on.

Submitted by SufficientThroat5781 t3_z8w0xt on November 30, 2022 at 4:35 PM

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[WP] When someone is born their soul is bonded to a random star in the universe. Magic is real and most people have varying degrees of power, with that power tied to the proximity of your star. Your soul is bonded to your sun.

Submitted by XantosZ t3_z8wsyf on November 30, 2022 at 5:05 PM

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[WP] You are a superhero and your arch-nemesis is convinced that they are trapped in a hyper-realistic virtual reality alongside you. You have dismissed their claims as insane for years, but after your latest fight with your nemesis their claims are starting to make a disturbing amount sense.

Submitted by Kitty_Fuchs t3_z66f64 on November 27, 2022 at 5:04 PM

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[WP] Dragons, manticores, gryphons all play an important part in the ecosystem, but warriors are slowly driving them to extinction. You won't let that happen. You are a Monster Hunter Hunter.

Submitted by BarrytheNPC t3_z67nbh on November 27, 2022 at 5:52 PM

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[WP] You've recently realized that all your life you have been secretly the protagonist on a truman-esque reality TV show. The show runners don't know you know. Time to have some fun...

Submitted by ImmortalJadeEye t3_z5al9r on November 26, 2022 at 3:49 PM

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[WP] “You’re… firing me?” Satan looked on in confusion. “Actually, we’re liquidating your whole sector. Every last demon.” God replied.

Submitted by Totally_Not_Thanos t3_z0ld14 on November 21, 2022 at 1:17 AM

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[WP] Ever since 7 got arrested for cannibalism, disorder broke out among the numbers. 9 was dead. 8 was accused as an accomplice. 6 was in therapy for months. It's your job, as the chief of police, to add order back as a variable, and subtract the fear from the masses.

Submitted by BigBradWolf07 t3_z4w3nl on November 26, 2022 at 2:54 AM

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[WP] You are a vampire hunter. Your roommate is a vampire. Neither of you can afford the apartment on your own so if one of you attacks the other you'll lose the apartment. The tension between you two is increasing by the day.

Submitted by john_snape_ t3_z1ktv3 on November 22, 2022 at 4:57 AM

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[WP] Your normal, average Isekai but the entire United States is transported to a fantasy world

Submitted by horsemachinegun t3_yoagx9 on November 7, 2022 at 2:40 AM

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[CW] Write a scary story without using darkness, monsters or even psychopaths.

Submitted by Thainexylon t3_ysywhw on November 12, 2022 at 6:48 AM

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[WP] Storage unit auction, you and your significant other bought unit's contents relatively cheap. There is mostly a bit of everything, you later find out that the items used to belong to modern magic detective and witch, life has now become slightly awkward or odd depending on the item of the day.

Submitted by Aftel43 t3_z51q47 on November 26, 2022 at 7:50 AM

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[SP] "I don't know why the stars chose me..."

Submitted by ALuckyMushroom t3_yyt7hw on November 18, 2022 at 8:04 PM

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[WP] "It's aware wolf!" "a warewolf?! Where?!" "No aware -- wolf! The wolf that is clairvoyant"

Submitted by RoboJoe9000 t3_yo8p9d on November 7, 2022 at 1:17 AM

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[WP] Describe the indescribable.

Submitted by The_Eternal_palace t3_z4v04o on November 26, 2022 at 2:00 AM

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[PM] Give me god/deity-related prompts!

Submitted by PolarisStorm t3_z4lp4x on November 25, 2022 at 7:20 PM

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[WP] You decide with your newfound immortality to get shredded and pretend to be a God, however one day you swim to the bottom of the Mariana trench and, due to lack of oxygen lose muscle control and lay there until a submarine crew finds you 3 century's later.

Submitted by ZombieMann43 t3_ysvz0q on November 12, 2022 at 4:02 AM

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[WP] A pandemic rages across the world, turning humans into grotesque monsters. You have just been infected.

Submitted by Embarrassed-Toe6687 t3_yx4saa on November 16, 2022 at 8:14 PM

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[WP] For your entire life you have been able to feel the presence of life. While passing through a town you stop at bar, and are greeted by someone who you had felt no such thing.

Submitted by TehTeaser t3_yo5k2a on November 6, 2022 at 10:56 PM

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[WP] You are the Big Bad, you've been purposefully sending weaker minions to the Hero and their party, in order to strengthen them for the final confrontation. All you seek, is a worthy death.

Submitted by BlightFantasy3467 t3_z4d2dg on November 25, 2022 at 1:12 PM

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[WP] You are the weakest member of the Hero's party, despite this they refuse to kick you out, claiming "we still need you", during the final battle you are forced to sacrifice your Humanity to slay the Antagonist, but even then, the Hero refuses to put you down

Submitted by EmbarrassedCar2262 t3_z7lgea on November 29, 2022 at 6:14 AM

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[CW] Follow Me Friday - Elevator

Submitted by throwthisoneintrash t3_ys9slv on November 11, 2022 at 1:00 PM

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[WP] For millennia, two opposite but equally powerful weapons have been used in grand quests and battles, always used on opposing sides. Over time, they've been upgraded and empowered to the point where they've developed sentience and intelligence. And they're both sick of the whole situation.

Submitted by adriantullberg t3_yuotno on November 14, 2022 at 4:29 AM

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