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auideas · 2 years

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So, I found you a while ago and thought you guys would never resurface

But I was proven wrong

So I got this story I'm trying to write, yeah? Fantasy magical dystopian, got any ideas you could shoot my way?

Hey, we live to defy expectations! We'd be more than happy to help.

Fantasy magical dystopian prompts is incredibly specific, but AMAZING. Let's get it started:

No one knows why some people lived while others died when the apocalypse came; they suddenly vanished, almost before their very eyes. With 95% of the population gone, the remaining survivors simply attempted to keep living and moving forward. Small communities were built in the ruin of their old world, later to be called “villages.” After some months of establishing the new world order, strange happenings began to take place: weird weather, objects moving on their own, and other such oddities. It’s only on that day when Character A looked up from their dry garden to the heavens, raised an arm, and pulled down with the intent of a god did rain fall from a cloudless sky. Seemingly impossible, the remaining survivors of the human race may have not been human at all, but something more.

The world was perfect. The complicated and seemingly impossible concept of utopia had been achieved. Waste had been reduced to near nothing, energy was renewable, the economy was saved from collapse -- the human race was thriving for the first time in centuries. As it always seems with perfect things, it was too good to be true. This new world isn’t without a massive, dark flaw: to create this utopia, influential humans have enslaved those with the gift of magic, using them to achieve their nefarious means. The concept of “utopia” had been completely bastardized for their own gain. Humans...they never change.

When you live in a dystopia, you learn to use what you can find. Scavenging wasn’t just a side gig now, but a way of life, and this wasn’t more true than for magical botanists and potion-makers. Because they lacked access to their previous supply chains (damn them for shutting down the internet and its associated conveniences), they had to find other creative ways to source materials. Defunct fabric stores, joke shops, herbalists in Chinatown -- you name it, they’d scavenged it. All seemed well and good until some of their spells had, well, unexpected effects due to poor quality substitutions.

History repeats itself, and the world heals in cycles...at least, that’s what they all said when the climate took a turn for the worse. Everything was thrown out of whack in a mere 20 years, and few people could discover the truth of what seemed to be happening. The new world felt almost apocalyptic, but it turns out the world wasn’t ending, but merging. Two planes of existence were slowing melding together: one our own and the other...horrendously fantastic. No one believed the ravings of Character A until the first dragon ripped the sky open and rained fire down from the heavens.

Being a part of a coven after the world all but ended was difficult enough, but having that life be all someone knows makes it just that much harder when they have to leave it. As a part of a coming of age ceremony, Characters A, B, and C are sent on a quest across the country to source materials from the old world: The Munich Manual. However, they were refused reasoning as to why the elders needed the ancient script, citing it as “none of their business” and that they “weren’t old enough to know the truth.” Well, Characters A, B, and C are officially adults now, right? Who’s to say they can’t just open the manual find out for themselves?

The “wall of fish” trending on TikTok some time ago seemed like it was too strange to be true; so many people ignored it and simply kept it in their back pocket as a fun fact to bring up at parties. After all, what’s a better ice breaker than “you heard about those floor fish??” No one expected anything to come of it, simply writing it off as another secret the sea kept hidden. It wasn’t until this wall of fish completely disappeared did anyone take notice, because what it left behind was ten times worse. In this world, sea creatures are connected by a hive mind, and this in combination with morphic fields allowed the creatures to simultaneously alter their body chemistry and release a strong, deadly acid that poisoned almost every water source on Earth, eating the land and leaving little behind. Within five years, the only humans remaining on planet earth are the mountain tribes, sustained through the magical manipulation of their own morphic fields.

Supplies are hard to come by when the world has gone to shit, and that couldn’t be any more true of the world without UPS. The sourcing of rare materials was left for only the most brave and capable. These requirements made Character A’s trips along the New Silk Road that much more bewildering, given their small stature. Perhaps it had to do with the materials they were carrying...it seemed like an awful lot of bottles filled with weird colors, bones, and insect wings for such a little thing.

Being a plain non-magical human in a group of tightly-knit survivors trying to live in the slums of a dystopian city isn’t exactly a cake walk, but if they thought Character A was also magical because they could somehow convince neighboring groups to accept impossibly unfair trades for their own gain, who was Character A to correct them on their mistake? After all, it’s not like Character A would willingly admit that they were just in debate club in high school, not a silver tongued sorcerer.

Not everyone is cut out for living in an apocalyptic situation. Jobs that fit your skills are hard to come by, especially for a mute academic (and a linguist at that). In an effort to pull their weight, Character A becomes an archivist and logs information as best they can from members of the community to document how the old world can inform the new. They decide to start with the elderly who speak a myriad of languages (most were ones Character A could also speak, thank god). As Character A records their stories and words, they fail to realize that what they’re recording aren’t just stories, but spells and incantations with the ability to release something much, much darker if spoken by the right person.

Everyone thought the creatures were destroying the world of their own accord. “It’s simply in their nature,” they’d say. “They can’t control themselves.” Well, that was a bit true in part: someone else was calling the shots, and they certainly didn’t have everyone’s best interest at heart. Who’s to say someone else can’t pull their strings, though?

These should give you a great start, but I’ll be honest in saying that I could have kept going forever! Maybe we’ll have more AUs along the same lines as these in the future~

- Admin M x

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thunderc1an · 1 month

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am i selfish?

#warrior cats #warriors #thunderclan #riverclan #stonefur #mistystar #bluestar #oakheart #firestar #please not this is a slight au to canon #if u see a spelling/grammar mistake... no u don't

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cracklewink · 2 months

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Harmony Syndrome Part 5/5

The last chapter of my mlp infection AU! Thank you to everyone who followed along. Some final thoughts on my twitter @cracklewink if anyone's interested : )

#mlp #my little pony #mlp infection au #mlp infection #twilight sparkle #Sorry for leaving the ending open ended but I genuinely couldnt decide on just one way for things to turn out and I liked the idea of #leaving it open the most #in my mind sunset's final message is like we found a recording from the later days of the infection and we dont know what happened in the #end because the recordings stopped/ended #In any case I think they were able to put twilight and the others to rest #but who knows who survived the “final battle” and who didnt #also yes Twilight created harmony syndrome but not on purpose lol #it was the result of her botched attempt to create a spell that makes ponies immortal #obviously it backfired lol #and the irony is that twilight ends up dying before any of her friends #if they didnt want me writing my little pony horse tragedy they shouldnt have left mlpfim off on the note that all of twilight's friends #were growing old without her #ending thats been haunting me for five years #if anyones seeing this this is an open au btw so feel free to adopt any of the ideas if you like! : )#tw thanatophobia #thanatophobia

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gammija · 18 days

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dungeons and archivists

#tma #the magnus archives #magnus archives #tma s2 #jonathan sims #jon sims #martin blackwood #martin k blackwood #martin #jonathan #love making all these characters incredibly unoptimized #he can upcast some spells too! dont be mean jon #id in alt #tma dnd au #gammijart

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bamsara · 25 days

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The Rehabilitation of Death

Chapter 17: Drunken Gods

On this day, The Lamb declares a holy day. For a wedding, for a feast, and for a festival to celebrate the grand harvest.

Despite his initial reservations (and after a particularly horrid nightmare) Narinder decides to attend, if just to please the Lamb well enough that they'd leave him well enough alone after. That's the only reason, surely.

With followers intoxicated, the cult becomes a ground of wild party, and Gods are not immune to the temptation of overindulgence.

There's music, fighting, flirting, more fighting. There are shenanigans all evening; including but not limited to: uncomfortable socialization, reminiscing on one's past, impulsive decisions of the close-proximity sort, hide-and-seek games, and sparring with drunken, uncontrollable bloodlust that may or may not lead to a near-mental snap with eldritch power when you remember something you weren't supposed to.

Read Tags/Notes for Warnings. Chapter Wordcount: 25,674

Happy Reading!

#writings #trod au #the rehabilitation of death #narilamb #i know theres many spelling and grammer errors but I physically need to step away from this word document for a bit klsdghlsd #plus arson cant load ao3 very well so ill have to edit it on the different pc #btw i completely cut the dancing scence out #i had to #It will come back though i prommy

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sualne · 9 months

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more about the AU!

(timeline)

#one piece #crocodile one piece #monkey d. luffy #nico robin #crocodad au #my art #my comic #described in alt text #so we're done to 28 comics planned now! (tho they will be more as it goes im sure) this luffy will be different from canon since sm of what #made him the luffy we know is because of shanks and his family. i'll be going back and forth in time for the first 17 years since it doesnt #need to be told in order til a Certain Event. i'll make a timeline post once there's +5 of posts from this AU. by now im sure people #whove been following my art for years know that im throwing out fluffies and funnies while readying my beloved beautiful baseball bat with #nails that spells 'ANGST' on it.

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carrotkicks · 2 months

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cupid depression edition

#doodles #soukoku #skk #so i started thinking about lore!!#chuuya is a very sad little angel boy who very much wants someone who will love and cherish him #so he starts shooting people with his love spell to see if they'll be the right fit #and he gets dazai who is. incidently. immune to love spells. Dazai's originally in it for the *benefits* but actually likes chuuya soon #so chuuya's worried that dazai's only pretending to like him bc the love spell didn't actually work.#while also trying to grapple the ethics of brainwashing someone into loving him and his own.. dubious morality.#also skk have loads of sex LOL #ahhhh au born from some niche valentines art and the need to see much angel chuuya wings art.#cupid!chuuya vs poor sod he shot!dazai

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tigerr-cherry · 1 month

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Meow meow meow

¡ inspo !

#Does it count as waxplay if ur literally made out of wax?#tumblr killed the quality #narinder my pathetic lil meow meow #tbh i havent decided if i like this or not #Narinder turned out kinda ugly #cotl au #cotl fanart #cult of the lamb #narilamb #cotl lamb #cotl narinder #my art #if i missed spelled anything dont look

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notllorstel · 2 years

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Hollow Mind AU where everyone ends up in Belos’ mind

#toh #the owl house #toh darius #toh hunter #raine whispers #toh eberwolf #toh luz #spoilers #fanart #llorsdood #I imagine the trio had some kind concealment spell to protect thier identity when they went into his mind #would it worked? maybe #I wanted more hang out time with em #with these hands I CAN #eberwolf always ready to bite belos’ ankles #would Daruis be tempted to enter the painting and see what happened to his mentor in his last moments? >:}#10k #hollow mind au

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maudiemoods · 3 months

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Art slump making me hate these BUT!! they're for you all <3

I'd like to think death has been encouraging them to find a partner for a long time now! Sun's all in for it but knows moon isn't, so he doesn't try to persuade moon. Still not exactly sure how they meet y/n!

I think they need an outfit change but I have been so so bad at designing them AURGH!! I DO like the originals but they're so blue and orange AUWGU!! but these are too!! Fjkqkckskx idk!!

#ignore all the spelling mistakes:)#maudiemoods art tag #security breach moondrop #security breach sundrop #doodles #sundrop #moondrop #soul eater au #souleater au

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thaltro · 3 months

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Here’s my son I hate him. I’m writing a comic about him and he will give everyone therapy. I’ve been writing him for awhile and recently been seeing a lot of content like “what if nightmare suddenly became passive” well uh,, he can do that. He’s a good plot device. I’m not going to put too much about himself here because you’ll just see it in the comic but he is terrible and yeah. Projected my autism onto him.

#sans au #undertale multiverse #sans oc #psychology sans #undertale #you can be mean to him #I am #if I have spelling errors ignore it #utmv au #utmv #psych sans

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lilybug-02 · 4 months

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Any more random Soul or other such Lore you’d like to share with us that you’ve come up with but can’t fit in the comic anywhere?

GET READY TO READ. Chara Timeline Lore!!!

Also take all of this as soft cannon. Most, if not all, will not be showing up in the comic (or at least in this amount of detail). And the comic does not need this information to make sense.

These book entries are from an in-universe source.

I hope you enjoyed the world building :> Again this is mostly all for fun!

4th Wall Break Time! - Humans are completely oblivious to the fact “soul entities” are humans themselves. Their little heads would probably pop if they truly knew. So don’t tell them! - Monsters are still made of dust in my AU, but they are more physical than their Undertale counterparts, only slightly… - Both Humans and Monsters cannot do magic freely. They would need to go through extensive training to get…a Wizard license! :O - It’s strange, but the Monsters seem more human than the actual humans in this world…huh…