Everybody’s Always On Writing Prompts Like “what If There Was A World Where Everyone Had A Timer

everybody’s always on writing prompts like “what if there was a world where everyone had a timer ticking down to their death… but you met someone whose timer said infinity!” or “what if everyone had their cause of death tattooed across their forehead… but you met someone whose forehead said THE CREATURE!” Enough -

enough. stop with the shock value. there is no need to insert THE CREATURE; the benign concept of such a world is horrifying enough. not even in urgency, but just in banal, everyday interaction. imagine you meet someone and their timer says two years. not tomorrow, not urgently soon, but two years. enough to do quite a lot. they could fall in love in that time - could they get engaged? have a baby? you might otherwise get to know them, befriend them, but perhaps you opt not to, make a conscious choice not to invest in your own grief. what balancing act would every individual person have to participate in - I have ten years, is that long enough to be a good mother to children? is that long enough to secure a caretaker for my own mother? my wife will die a few months before me. my newborn’s timer reads nineteen years.

and cause of death. you interview for a job and emblazoned across the healthy, smiling face of the HR lady is MALNUTRITION. your country is prospering, safe, but every person you meet on the street from the babies to the old women read BOMB. BOMB. what kind of havoc would fate wreak on the world? what about the loss of privacy? how would that shape our notions of hope? idk man I think a lot of those ancient poems were right, and the fates are monsters. I’m interested by the framing of these ideas as trite horror tales when the premises themselves are so much more disturbing if simply taken to their logical ends

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Who the hell gave them anything besides 5 stars 😤

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7 months ago

wishing we had gotten more episodes w audra bcuz do y’all have any idea how funny it would’ve been to see her meet cooper. like it would literally be this.

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you know what, fuck you *unkills your character*

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So you know how you need 3 for a grudgby team...

So You Know How You Need 3 For A Grudgby Team...

We have 2... and I think we know someone in that class with a certain competitive spirit

So You Know How You Need 3 For A Grudgby Team...

Plus with how he encouraged hunter to try flyer derby

All I'm saying is you can pry grudgby player darius out of my cold dead hands.

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