Dialogue Prompt

things you can use in place of cultural monsters

Can't use golems in your fantasy world because they're beings that belong to Judaism and you aren't Jewish? Try using elementals!

Can't use w*nd*goag in your story because they're monsters from Native beliefs and you aren't Native? Try wraiths or forest spirits!

Can't use Skinwalkers, either? How about changelings, The Thing-type aliens or faeries?

Don't want to use Christian biblical angels? Try eldritch monstrosities from another world.

Don't want to namedrop La Llorona, Hachisukisama or the Cupecabrah? How about old-fashioned undead, zombies or ghosts?

Just because certain supernatural beings are only for certain groups, doesn't mean you have to limit your monsters! There's plenty of demographic-neutral alternatives to famous creatures that you can use without culturally appropriating or disrespecting people's beliefs.

Prompt

Icarus didn’t fall; he turned into an incredible creature. The wings fused into his back and the winds became his best friends. Touching the sun transformed him. The Icarus people knew did die, but a creature of the sun was born. And with the sun child born, the moon child was created.

-Mod Katie @Lovelykat23 on Instagram

Prompt

A conspiracy theorist is convinced that an FBI agent is listening to her through her phone. Instead of being overly cautious, she spends her time talking to the agent.

Little does she know, there actually IS an FBI agent listening, and he has a huge crush on her...

- submission by daughteroflight1999 on instagram

When your spending time with your dad but you have to disappoint your mom by saying that you're with friends because life sucks and you can't tell her you chose dad over her just cause he asked first. So now not only is she disappointed in me but I'm also disappointed in myself.

Prompt

In every alternate dimension of Earth, a different religion is real and those deities actually exist. All religions that people believe in are valid- just perhaps not in their dimension. An interdimensional traveler goes to our dimension and is stunned to see that our Earth has no 'real' religion. Rather, it is the spawning point for the religions of the other dimensions.

- Lynn

i have an image i made last night while Not Sober that’s technically accurate but it mentions 9/11 so i will show it to you but you’re not allowed to get mad at me if you think it’s insensitive for mentioning 9/11

Want to learn something new in 2022??

Absolute beginner adult ballet series (fabulous beginning teacher)

40 piano lessons for beginners (some of the best explanations for piano I’ve ever seen)

Excellent basic crochet video series

Basic knitting (probably the best how to knit video out there)

Pre-Free Figure Skate Levels A-D guides and practice activities (each video builds up with exercises to the actual moves!)

How to draw character faces video (very funny, surprisingly instructive?)

Another drawing character faces video

Literally my favorite art pose hack

Tutorial of how to make a whole ass Stardew Valley esque farming game in Gamemaker Studios 2??

Introduction to flying small aircrafts

French/Dutch/Fishtail braiding

Playing the guitar for beginners (well paced and excellent instructor)

Playing the violin for beginners (really good practical tips mixed in)

Color theory in digital art (not of the children’s hospital variety)

Retake classes you hated but now there’s zero stakes:

Calculus 1 (full semester class)

Learn basic statistics (free textbook)

Introduction to college physics (free textbook)

Introduction to accounting (free textbook)

Learn a language:

Ancient Greek

Latin

Spanish

German

Japanese (grammar guide) (for dummies)

French

Russian (pretty good cyrillic guide!)

I am morally opposed to there being glass between me and these puppies (Underlook.org)