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    Collection of prompts from 2024 because why not? Cure my writer's block with me.

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    15 May 2026

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    Rumi has been standing in front of the wooden gate for approximately ten minutes now, listening to Mira and Zoey bicker inside her house. This is so stupid. She could just take the leaves from the oregano plant from within her reach. It's right there.

    But Mira insisted that they had oregano inside and told Rumi to wait here. So she waits.

    "Zoey, how did you rearrange the spice cabinet?!"

    "By vibes!"

    "What does that even mean?!"

    Rumi hid her cough with her fist. She just needed one oregano leaf, not whatever these idiots were trying to give her.

    ~*~*
    In which Rumi doesn't know why her mothers keep asking her to ask for leaves from the new neighbors, but she does so anyway because she's a good daughter. Zoey and Mira fumble their chance with Rumi (or do they?) because they don't know their plants.

    or in which the author really projects their culture on Rumi and Celine.

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    27 Apr 2026

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    So that’s it, huh.

    Mira does a better job at stifling her tears than Zoey, but she still feels a few warm drops run down her cheeks.

    The hopes and dreams of being an idol at Sunlight Entertainment—hell, of being anything—are gone with a handwave from some guy in a suit and a paper that says “Thanks for auditioning”.

    Before she can storm out as quickly as possible to save what little face she has left, Mira turns on her heel and freezes at the sight of Celine, the CEO of Sunlight Entertainment, watching her. That odd woman with the purple braid and mask floats behind her, eyes gleaming.

    “Mira. Zoey.” Celine steps towards them. “Before you leave, I have an offer I’d like you to consider.”

    Or: When Mira and Zoey, both running from difficult pasts, audition to become idols at Sunlight Entertainment (famous for its mysterious headliner idol Hunter) and fail, all hopes of meeting and training under Hunter go out the window until Celine makes them a different, surprise offer: train under Celine’s unknown ward Rumi instead.

    (“Why us?” Zoey asks.

    “Honestly,” Rumi says, “I think you're both really weird.”

    Oh. Mira might kill her.)

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    18 Apr 2026

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    Marcella “Marcy” Grayson is the twin sister of Mark and the bane of his existence. And just like her brother, she idolized their father, the infamous Omni Man, and wanted to follow in his footsteps. But they never saw him for who he truly was. When they both gained their powers, neither of them could have predicted how drastically their lives would change - for better or for worse.

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    04 Apr 2026

  5. Public Bookmark 5

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    Red of hearts is pulled away from her home in wonderland and is arranged to marry the heir of auradon. A queen no one will go into detail about, much to reds annoyance. The only way out appears to be over the garden wall but a charming stranger interrupts her attempts at escape.

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    A fanfic based on the garden wall scene from queen charlotte, a Bridgerton spinoff.

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    08 Mar 2026