#prompt clarification

[sicktember]

In anticipation of the questions to come, we would like to go ahead and clarify the prompt ‘Pulling a Ferris Bueller’ for anyone who may not understand the reference. 

Pulling a Ferris Bueller is a pop culture reference born from the 1986 American teen comedy, Ferris Bueller's Day off.’ In the film, the titular character, Ferris Bueller, not for the first time, decides he wants to skip school. It’s a nice day and he’d like to go to Chicago with his best friend and girlfriend. He devises a complicated plan that starts with faking sick, after which he goes to great lengths to avoid being caught. These lengths include (but aren’t limited to) telling plenty of lies, creating an elaborate setup to make it appear he’s never left his bed, borrowing an expensive car and later rolling the odometer back, and hacking school records. This all becomes especially humorous as the school’s dean becomes increasingly desperate to prove that Ferris is continually absent despite the perfect attendance that had been recorded.  While out and about the trio hit several comical snags and engaged in a great deal of banter. During the film, Ferris often breaks the fourth wall to explain his choices and thought processes.

Basically, the saying, 'Pulling a Ferris Bueller' usually means faking sick to skip school/work for no reason other than to have a good time. As a trope, it tends to lean more heavily into the movie's plot and themes. You can use Either! ... or Neither!

Below, you'll find some resources to help you better understand the movie this prompt refers to. Or, you can swap this one out for one of the provided alternate prompts!

Resources ⬇

Official Trailer [Youtube.com]

Short Clip or Ferris' Sneaky Setup [Youtube.com]

Extensive Summary [Gradesaver.com]

Wiki Page [Wikipedia.og]

Tropes within the Trope [allthetropes.org]

[flufftober]

HEY!! i just wanted to ask, what does the day 2 prompt mean? im currently writing the draft for the first day and in the process of brainstorming for the other days, but for the second day, i just can't seem to get a grasp of the prompt.. T_T

Hey there 😊 thanks for your ask! Love prompt explanations 😍

Okay, so the day 2 prompt “Left. Other left!” is actually something silly and kinda aimed at people/characters like me who find it difficult to tell left from right 😅 but as always, you can interpret it as you want.

Basically, one scenario you could imagine is character A telling B to move left but character B moves right - either intentionally or accidentally because they honestly can't tell it apart.

Think of it as the character instead saying something like, "Move left. No, not right, move left." So basically, by saying "other left" the person speaking pretends that "right" is also a version of "left" and now they tell the other person, "no, not that left, the other left."

Another way to interpret this could be a scenario where two people move something, the person walking forward giving directions to the person walking backward but forgetting about the fact that left and right are switched around for the other person. A good example of that are the first few seconds of this scene from the TV show 911 Lone Star:

He doesn't say it exactly like the prompt, but I hope it gives you an idea of what we mean 😊

Really hope this helps and maybe even gives you some inspiration - Happy Creating 💚

[whumptember]

What does intimate whumper mean? Is it rape, forced/abusive “romance”, or just general closeness and intimacy without sexual or romantic context? Could it be any of those?

Hi! Thanks for asking, it can be any of these :]

[sonicman66]

DpxDc fic where Danny is just haunting the Bats and providing memes to the internet whilst being invisible

Because I read a fic ('the curious case of who lives in the walls' by RaccoonRobyn over on ao3) that has Danny chilling in the Wayne Manor's walls and commenting on the Wayne's habits and goings on and i just

Tl;dr danny has a twitter page where he invisibly follows the bats and documents their funny mistakes like a nature documentary.

One day a Gothamite spots a new twitter page on their feed. Its not got a lot of posts, but they're all pictures. And the first one is... Nightwing. Lying on the concrete, face-down, with another bat or bird very obviously laughing at him.

They think nothing of it. They compliment the photoshop for its realism, and move on. Except there's more pictures. All of them, every last one of them, has the Bats and Birds suffering from a trip, fall, a gaffe, a misstep, anything and everything.

And then they find a video

Its clearly a handheld or phone camera, pointed at Robin in an alleyway. Someone starts talking, in a very poor attempt at sounding like David Attenborough, narrating like a wildlife documentary. "Here we see the youngest of the Bat-brood partaking in one of its more private behaviors, unseen and unknown by its kin."

And Robin just. Steps further into the alleyway and gets swarmed by stray cats, all begging for food. He grins and starts feeding them, all whilst narration continues, talking about this like its an animal's behavior.

And they have more. So many more.

A video of Red Hood. He does a fancy gun twirl when nobody's around, bobbles it, and accidentally fires into the ground. He picks it up and acts like nothing happened. But the video sees all.

A video of Batman on a gargoyle on a skyscraper, with shaky footage from clearly around a corner, but on the same level. "Commentary on this specimen has been added in post, for reasons you will soon see. Batman, the patriarch of the Bat-Brood, is incredibly elusive to research, and for good reason." In the video, the camera jolts a little and Batman turns suddenly to the sound of rocks moving. The camera goes still, and Batman scans the area, seemingly seeing nothing. Then, his white eyes turn blue, and he looks directly into the camera. Footage ends.

The acc posts a screenshot of a dm that is very clearly an Oracle sockpuppet. She has sent something along the lines of 'how have you obtained this footage, this is dangerous,' etc etc. His response is 'i am in ur walls lol'

He is not aware of the level of Bat Paranoia this brings out.

[ghostbsuter]

"Quick!" A- a girl? Wraps their arm around Steph's own, dragging her close and shielding their own face. Their eyebrows are knitted together, they're biting their lip.

"Pretend we're out together please– there are some creepy people following me for some time."

Steph's eyes narrow, she scoots closer, practically glueing herself to the strangers side and smiling brightly.

"Gosh," she starts, then lowers her voice, "what should I call you?"

They fumble for a moment too long, and Steph takes a leap of faith.

The blond grins. "It's been so long since we met up again, isn't it, Beatrice!"

The stranger plays along, giggling behind their hand. "I'm sorry, you know I've been terribly busy," they raise an eyebrow at steph, asking for her name silently.

"Agnes," she whispers, and they repeat. "Agnes! My cats have been missing you too, you should come over more."

"I will, I will," Steph promises, peering behind her to watch out, and just like her new friend warned her, there were some weirdos in white lab coats and some in suits walking around, searching.

"Thank you." 'Beatrice' whispers as they walk around a building, leaving the place in the dust.

"No problem." Steph replies with a smile.

They separate once far enough, and 'beatrice' fiddles with something before handing it to her.

"My number," 'beatrice' explains at the bewildered look. "You're pretty cool, I thought– maybe you'd like to stay in contact?"

"Yes!" She jumps at the opportunity, taking the number with care and getting out her phone.

"My name is Danny, He/him." they speak in low tones, steph following right by their side as they continue.

"Steph, She/Her." She shoots him a quick wink before sending a text and hearing the sound of Danny's notification ping.

"I gotta go now. It was really nice to meet you, steph."

"A joy for me as well."

[befuddled-calico-whump]

please please emotionally steamroll your villain whumpees

humiliate them

parade them around town

take away whatever gives them power, permanently, and flaunt it

hurt them until they can't move and taunt them for not fighting back

turn them into a shadow of themselves. just completely break them down

[theshadowrealmitself]

Scenario: Character A’s favorite dessert comes from a little bakery where only a set amount is made each week, it’s supposed to be a “first come first serve” basis where the desserts can’t just be held for later customers

Unfortunately, the bakery has recently gotten a new employee who lets their friends in before opening hours to pass out the dessert and will even hold some of them for friends who can’t show up early, so A hasn’t been able to get their favorite dessert in awhile, despite always being the first one there and looking like a kicked puppy at the doors

Character B (could be any relation to A, family member/bestie/enemy tired of A showing up to battles sighing sadly/etc, my personal favorite is “rival with a crush trying to pretend they don’t have one”) has decided they have had enough of this and vows to get A their favorite dessert again

[quartergremlin]

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[omegajasontoddweek]

Hi everyone! Prompt voting for OJTW2024 is offically open, with a swagful of never before seen prompts! Get your votes in before 28th of January, and the final list for OJTW2024 will be released on the 29th.

See you then!

[viperwhispered]

The 'Anything Goes' Story

So, I was thinking of doing a fun little writing challenge thing, where basically

Y’all give me a prompt

I write a short bit according to that prompt

Y’all give me another prompt to continue the story with

I write the continuation to the previous part based on the new prompt

And so on so forth

Now I know my brand’s basically Jamil x reader, but feel free to throw whatever my way, as long as we're sticking to twst.

A serious LeoVil scene? I’ll make an attempt. Crack (taken seriously or not) Crewel x his furcoat? Sure I’ll give it a go. Just a day in the life of the prefect? Yeah I'll go for it.

Like, I can’t promise to do them well, especially with characters I'm less familiar with, but I will try to do something.

Especially with the prompts after the first one, you can totally take things into a totally new direction with genre, style or character suggestions.

Want me to turn the story into a soap opera? Sure. Horror story? I can try. Pepper in some angst (or humor) in the middle of whatever else is going on? I’m on it. Throw a surprise character (or even oc) my way? I’ll try to squeeze them in somehow.

Basically, this is giving you all free reign to throw curveballs my way and see what a beautiful mess story we’ll make together.

I would ask you to keep the prompts short, like a couple lines at most, since the individual story installments will ideally be about drabble length (unless I get carried away, oop). Something like character(s), scenario, tone / genre, or whatever y'all think would be fun to see.

For starters, I’ll pick the first prompt given as a reply / reblog to this post. For future installments, I’ll probably be posting the continuations at different times, giving folks on different timezones the chance to participate and give a prompt.

Also no two prompts in a row from the same person (if this somehow gets a lot of people onboard, I might increase the limit, but let’s start with that).

If for some reason I’m uncomfortable writing something in a particular prompt (or my head is fully empty), I might veto it and ask the person to modify their suggestion / make a new one. I would also like to keep this story sfw, tho I’m okay going suggestive / violent / dramatic with it.

The story installments

Part 1

Part 2

Part 3

Part 4

Part 5

Part 6

Part 7

Part 8

Tag list

@colliope @crystallizsch @diodellet @jamilsimpno69 @jamilvapologist

@lex752 @perilous-pasta @twstgo

If you’re someone who would like to be tagged for this thing (or my writing in general), do let me know!

[sicktember]

Hi! I was hoping for clarification on prompt 5 rouge organ! I was guessing it to be swelling/inflammation but I'm unsure

At first I thought it said Rouge organ and was super excited to try to write something like that. It's funny to imagine the organs gaining freewill and trying to escape

Thank you!

It appears that we have misspelled Rogue for Rouge. Because we are human, and autocorrect was utterly useless in this situation. 😬 We will get that fixed.

You've got a great idea going on there! Haha! We love it and it's right in line with what we actually meant!

But in case anyone needs a clarification on what a Rouge Rogue Organ is:

Several organs in the body are considered non-essential. If they become chronically inflamed or damaged they can be removed without causing major hardships on bodily function. We listed a few beside the prompt but there are others: Adnoids, appendix, gall bladder, reproductive organs, one kidney, part of the liver, the spleen, tonsils, and for a stretch- wisdom teeth.

There are other organs you can live without but they would require some medical intervention to replace their function. Like the colon or stomach.

When we chose the prompt Rouge Rogue Organ, what we had in mind was a sick character suffering illness, not because of germs but because one of their own organs had turned against them!

But, as always, feel free to stretch the prompt as far as you'd like! A fic from the Organ's POV sounds fantastic. Reminds us of the Awkward Yeti comics!

[flufftober]

Would you mind explaining what "laundry day" means? It sounds like it has specific implications but in my country, we don't have this term. If you could give an example, that would be amazing. Thanks a lot! <3

Hey there 😊 thanks for your ask.

Laundry day is a very loose term. Some people use it to describe the day in the week they set aside to do all their laundry (or maybe even more housework). Some people might have a regular day in the week due to work and other engagements, while others might just use any random day they have the time.

The prompt itself is inspired by countless scenes I've seen in movies and/or on TV shows, where one person wears something hideous/old/funny looking, and when asked about it they often use the excuse that everything else is dirty/currently being washed due to the fact that it is "laundry day" for them. Sometimes it's a lie, sometimes not; sometimes they don't care, sometimes they're embarrassed - all up to interpretation.

Now, as always, this is just one way to interpret this prompt, and I'm sure there are many others that even we cannot think about.

I really hope this helps - otherwise, always remember that we have alternate prompts in case some of the OG prompts don't inspire you 😉

Happy Creating 💚

[jrueships]

guess whos not going in at all this week, actually

[stormvanari]

Day 8: Dislikes

quite ironic for someone to work with bones but hates gnawing on bones

though that's fair: i love archaeology and paleontology, and i am picky to eat anything with bones in it

[redrobinfr]

you guys can't put something into a coded message and expect me to not try and decode it

[crepuscular-haze]

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