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With a sharp claw, he began to tear into the wrappings and opened the box. Inside it was nothing. Jeff, perplexed, looked further, around, under, over, elsewhere, bearing his consummate perception to the maximun. That's when he saw what was really in the box. It wasn't nothing, it was Nothing...

I'd be inclined to say the opposite: many dumb people aren't able to recognise or value smartness, like in the formation of the "crab basket" mentality or "tall poppy" syndrome. The ones that stand out by being smarter are constantly brought down by their peers or specifically targeted by those...

Wow, imperial Japan winning WW2 and ruling East Asia with an iron fist seems to be way too heavy a topic to be fought by the power of love and manga. That leaves you with two options : - 1) Taking the setting seriously. So you have an hyper-racist government willing to fund human...

Disclaimer: I haven't read your story. Your going back to romance may just be how your brain works. You want to make cool characters, they're so cool you (unconsciously) ship them, and you end up with romance... Write a villain. Someone you actually would find despicable. And then let them...

There is said to be a domain. A haven and a cage, a place for those who have lost a part of them to find solace, a place to seal away the damaged goods, a hiden cove and a gilded jail. In that place, none that live are whole. Some are missing a finger, a toe or a limb. Some have scars and some...

What if the power to control others isn't mental at all? An endocrinothurge (made-up word: a mage/psychic who controls hormones) would be a cool opponent, especially if they have a reputation to be a mind bender and their opponents come prepared with mental shields and defences, only to be...

Go for it, dude! I'm not that versed in Marvel lore, but you seem to have the story well planned ahead. Now comes the part where you actually write it. I know it's hard, I'm advising without practising, I have many stories in my head and neither the confidence nor the time to write them. But...

1) Theseus' ship: If in the next millennia, Napoleon gets remembered as a fire-breathing demon bent on conquest that only the deepest cold of Russia could, and eventually would, quell, how much of it would be a bona fide myth and how much of it would be based on real events? 2) The historical...

What mythology isn't fictional?? But yeah, go ahead, Cthulhu mythos are fair game! (And I'm listening to any other idea you might come up with!) Odin as a necromancer? I'm in! He's already a canonical sorcerer, and has had to deal with death to gain his knowledge of magic. Outright necromancy...

Hi folks! Here's my writing prompt for today : "In a few paragraphs (min 300 words, no maximum), explain how the traditional retelling of a mythology you are familiar with is wrong." Alternative character interpretations, twists in the tales, everything is fair game! PS: I have my own twist...

Cool premise! Please narrow down which part you'd expect us to write. I come here for some quick writing exercices, not figuring out a whole book series... You know what? I'll post a writing prompt about mythology, you got me inspired!

10K words is a bit much for me... The whole supermarket is interesting, but if you want to keep it on the down low, and be rich: just raid the spice rack! In medieval Europe, spices reached stupid prices, even things we take for granted like pepper were a luxury and a delicacy. "Time accident...

I've got a joke that may work*: A woman, tired of recent string of stupid, cheating "boyfriends" and one night stands, decides that she's going to buy a dildo instead. She goes to the least seedy sex shop she can find, and her eyes are immediately caught by a massive ebony contraption in the...

Great story! And you were instinctively close to a great final joke, if my Spanish still stands... "No era un pollo, era una polla" "It wasn't a chicken, it was a dick"

"I don't know why you haven't divorced him yet, dear. I mean, he never stops cheating on you, and you always have to deal with the skank afterwards. It must be really tiresome after a while. Why don't you cut your loses and start dating on your own? I hear Ares and Aphrodite are separated again...

That's an interesting idea. If you go the traditional medieval route of Isekai, and the also often seen "asskicking = authority" trope, you're going to find many issues to deal with. The most glaring issue of the standard medieval setting will be literacy and information. Unless you can keep...

Hell yeah! Take back that story, dude! I can guarantee that you'll have a lot of readers who'll be delighted to see it pop back up in their reading list! At least that's how I'd feel if a story I followed came back after a few months.

Why do I get very strong Yaoi vibes from this image? Anyway, let's take a powerful but not godlike mage, and a decently loaded billionaire. Money guy is probably going to hire magic guy for things that money can't normally buy, like immortality, magic-proofing his mansion or simply as an...

Kid trains for years to be the best karateka. He's robbed of his title in the final round by an opponent who should never have been there due to his injury, using an illegal move.

Oh ok! Then it's a power move in a BDSM context, either "I can do whatever I want with you, including lending you to fuck this person and I'm dominant enough not to care, I know you're mine!" or "Look at me fuck this person, stay still, bask into the humiliation and know that I can have fun...