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Saving this for vibes.

Here’s a video so you can hear the water and the thrushes. I took it for you because you couldn’t be there. <3

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Writing Prompt: Dialogue

“You’re handling this beautifully, you should definitely keep talking.��

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No wait, random worldbuilding idea:

A people who have an age-old tradition, that when warriors left home to go to war, their family that remains home prepare funeral goods for them while they wait, sewing them the clothes and preparing the tools and all that they will be buried with - to emotionally prepare them to the hard possibility that the one who left will not return home alive. If the warrior returns, their burial goods are all burned in a bonfire that is lit for the celebration of their return.

And to this modern day, mothers of the culture will tell their children "fine, but let me take your measures for burial clothes before you go" as a way of telling them that something they're about to do is lethally stupid. Sharing stories about just how dramatic their mothers are, someone tells their group of friends that his mother once actually took out a measuring tape to start taking his measures when he said he's leaving home for a work trip.

And another one goes "pfft, yeah. This one time I went to a rock concert and came back home to mom sitting on her sewing machine, fucking making me a funeral coat."

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Historical fiction writers at 2:46am be like

– how long does it take to bleed out in a field – could someone stab you with a hairpin – how did medieval people mourn – would a queen notice if her ring was stolen – did people think thunder was a sign – how loud was it inside a castle during storms – did anyone ever die from a broken heart in history

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"I don't want answers. I want revenge."

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Botanical Names Part I

Names you can choose for your characters. Taken from the little signs in a botanical garden. So they are names of plants.

Adoxa

Potentilla

Fraxinus

Stellaria

Valeriana

Iris

Tulipa

Syringa

Danthonia

Avena

Silene

Irsine

Amaranthus

Barbarea

Cleome

Nigella

Erica

Arbutus

Malva

Calluna

Viola

Phyllis

Majorana

Salvia

Morina

Petunia

Calliandra

Veronica

Gilia

Juniper

More names!

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Write a piece about a sprint through the rain

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Person A: "Sometimes, I feel like you take great joy in being difficult."

Person B: "With you."

Person A: "Pardon?"

Person B: "I like being difficult with you. Only you."

Person A: "That's. Not better."

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"I know, I know they need you too. I'm just...not used to sharing you and so much of your time."

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You know what I've never really seen realistically depicted in fiction? The way that people in places that get a huge amount of snow deal with said snow. Specifically in the cities. I get that it's probably not exactly an intuitive thing to think about if you've never lived in a place that gets a lot of snow, and even if you do, you probably figure that they must have some really sophisticated infrastructure systems specifically for this purpose. It's not like they'll just scoop the snow off the streets and gather it into huge piles, and then just climb over the progressively larger and larger snow piles every single year for months while waiting for the piles to melt in the spring.

We do. There's no point in planning more sophisticated systems to get rid of something that'll eventually just go away on its own. So they just pile the snow into randomly designated spaces that cars or people aren't supposed to go through, and let it pile up. There's significantly less street parking available in the winter because some spots where you could otherwise park a car are currently the parking spot of a snow pile three times taller than a car.

You get used to it. And if you grow up around here, it never even occurs to you to think of it as something strange in the first place.

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"Give me one good reason."

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“They did that to you? And you let them?”

“You think I had a say in how I was fucking tortured?”

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"Hands off."

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Writing Prompt #3791

"I've been smote! She smote me."

"No, no, you're smitten with her. That's not the same thing."

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baby dragons whose scales are much more shiny and iridescent in order to hide in their parents' hoards

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Writing Prompt #3790

"Have you ever thought that maybe you're your own problem?"

He gasped with faux shock before rolling his eyes. "I know I'm my own problem. Now are you going to help me get into less trouble, or are you going to leave?"

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Prompt #1194

"It's not that bad."

"Not that bad as in 'we can fix this'? Or not that bad as in 'I only need to leave the country, but not the planet right away'?"