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This is going to be a long post, so please bear with us.

In order, there will be:

1. Audio/video

2. Fandom-specific (only Harry Potter were submitted)

3. Words/phrases

4. Quotations

5. Situational

6. Image

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Audio/Video Prompts:

1. In the Air Tonight by Phil Collins (youtube)

2. Prayer of the Refugee by Rise Against (youtube)

3. Sails by Erik Payton (soundcloud)

4. Ostinyo's Hogwarts Introduction by Erik Payton (soundcloud)

5. This doc has 13 spotify playlists with lots of songs on each. All should be romance-free.

Fandom-specific Prompts:

1. Aurors Harry Potter and Ron Weasley work together to get to the bottom of the latest case.

2. Dudley is also a Wizard, and he and Harry's relationship changes after this revelation, and maybe they go to Hogwarts together or something?

3. Harry Potter and Viktor Krum strike up an unlikely friendship following the Triwizard Tournament.

4. Ginny and Luna were friends before Hogwarts, but drifted apart after Sorting, and now find themselves rekindling an old friendship.

Words/phrases:

1. The night is darkest just before dawn.

2. Please hold me.

3. I don't need you.

4. I'm begging you, please don't lock yourself in your room.

5. Why the hell is there a cat in my bed?

6. "Why would you even attempt that?!"

7. "Why is everyone pointing at me?"

8. "Watch me down this in two seconds!"

9. "Why didn't you let me know!?"

10. "You know, for a second there I actually thought you were going to die."

11. Queen

12. Shame

13. Summer

14. Shake

15. Gondola

16. Dusty

17. Ridicule

18. Throw In the Towel

19. All Greek to me

20. [I'll] eat my hat

21. We need to rent a room for our party.

22. Sometimes, all you need to do is completely make an ass of yourself and laugh it off to realise that life isn’t so bad after all.

23. Abstraction is often one floor above you.

24. The mysterious diary records the voice.

25. I would have gotten the promotion, but my attendance wasn’t good enough.

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Quotations:

1. I am in blood / Stepp'd in so far that, should I wade no more, / Returning were as tedious as go o'er. (Shakespeare, Macbeth)

2. Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten. (Neil Gaiman)

3. Here lies One Whose Name was writ in Water. (John Keats' gravestone)

4. True courage is not the absence of fear, but the ability to face your fears. (???)

5. "Let the world end now, it matters not to me." (Puck, Dota 2)

6. The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential... these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence. (Confucius)

7. People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do. (Isaac Asimov)

8. Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive. (Elbert Hubbard)

9. Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can. (Arthur Ashe)

10. Don't watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going. (Sam Levenson)

11. Be yourself; everyone else is already taken. (Oscar Wilde)

12. A day without sunshine is like, you know, night. (Steve Martin)

13. It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop. (Confucius)

14. Expect problems and eat them for breakfast. (Alfred A. Montapert)

15.Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time. (Thomas A. Edison)

16. Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom. (Bertrand Russell)

17. The dead cannot cry out for justice; it is a duty of the living to do so for them. (Lois McMaster Bujold)

18. People will accept your ideas much more readily if you tell them Benjamin Franklin said it first. (David H. Comins)

19. Laughter is the closest distance between two people. (Victor Borge)

20. We are all apt to believe what the world believes about us. (George Eliot)

Situational Prompts:

1. "Burn," she commanded, and the world burned.

2. They say that true faith takes courage. It turned out to be quite the opposite: the moment of apostasy took more courage than a lifetime of true belief.

3. They were never late, not ever, not once in their life–except today, and that changed everything.

4. What does it mean to laugh until you cry? A beautiful day when it all changed for the better.

5. "Off with their heads!" the villain cried, never suspecting the plan was already set in motion.

6. A piece about drugs, and the unseen world.

7. A christmas/birthday/holiday gift arrives from a old friend not in contact for a long time, bringing back memories, and perhaps renewal.

8. A school reunion, where people reconnect after many years.

9. Write your BROTP performing karaoke together.

10. If you have an OC, write a cast interview with the real or fake actor/actress who play them.

11. A platonic version of a popular romantic trope. For example: fake ~~dating~~ friendship, enemies/rivals to friends, meet-cute's, slow burn friendship, etc

12. Being roommates/living together/anything revolving around platonic domesticity

13. Raising/taking care of an animal together

14. Wrong number AU

15. Start a business selling faulty rpg items. Such as brass knuckles that do 1d6 lightning damage but due to conduction you also take damage.

16. A hero who wears dark clothing, and everyone thinks is a criminal or villain (perhaps a POC). But they help. They go up to villains and help them figure out why they’re doing bad things, and help them get the help they need.

17. If children, age up, if adults, age down. Run a coffeeshop.

18. It’s the Vampires retreat, it’s 2018, you’ve just turned 500 years old and have been invited for the first time. Have a warm glass of blood, pull up to the bar and listen to the old stories being told.

19. “I found out that your so-called composition notebook is really an Ipad and that you were using a cover to trick everyone at school. By the way, the principal wants to see you.”

20. Why is there a dog following you around?

21. “i know we hate each other but it’s christmas eve and your flight was cancelled please come inside”

22. “YES I BOOBY TRAPPED THE PRESENTS BECAUSE YOU DO THIS EVERY FUCKING YEAR”

23. “i live below you and i was minding my own business watching the snowfall out the window WHEN I SAW A BODY FALL ARE YOU REALLY PUTTING UP CHRISTMAS LIGHTS NOW”

24. (for a queer/quasiplatonic relationship) “i did that annoying thing where i put loads of smaller boxes inside one big box and you’re getting really mad but you don’t know that the ring is in the smallest box and i can’t wait to see your face”

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