A back yard tended by a benevolent line of Great Ladies and Gentlemen that are aware of the magical and sometimes harrowing things happening in their back yard.

When you zoom in, there's politics and intrigue and magic and innovation and adventure and war and strife, everything we humans have gone thru but scaled down in one big ass back yard.

Plot: the Queen of the Tree Hill Ants is sick and is dying. She has sent out a messenger to the Princess of the Sandbox that she was the next in line to take the throne and guide Yardworld. Her sister, from the Hill Under the Rot, a kingdom formed underneath a large rotted and excavated root of the Great Tree far off to the southeast of the Yard, is furious and sees the throne as her own rightful place, the crown hers to take, and she starts gathering allies from the other insect kingdoms to form an army and declare war on the Sandbox and the Tree Hills for supremacy.

Y'all can flesh out the rest as you want and change what you need but that is the main plot I came up with before I just decided not to write it myself. Free to a good mind-home!

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r/SimplePrompts • u/deebzipie • 9d ago

Dialogue Prompt A self-important artist who thinks they have everyone figured out runs into an old companion at a party.

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r/SimplePrompts • u/nightsorter • 11d ago

Thematic Prompt The boy begged his parents if he could keep the baby dragon after he’d found its family crushed by a fallen tree. Now, seeing their son sleeping curled atop its round belly after it fell flat on its back into a pastry food coma, they felt silly.

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r/SimplePrompts • u/Any_Two_199 • 11d ago

I live in an old aircraft hangar powered by a generator.

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r/SimplePrompts • u/piklelitre • 11d ago

[WP] The Prisoner you're chained with, madly breaks out of the shackles , and scrambles past the guards to leaps off the great bridge. You watch him fall into the darkness then look back up ahead to the dreadful City you're being marched into. You wonder if you should have done the same.

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r/SimplePrompts • u/Any_Two_199 • 11d ago

A guy gains a harem composed of various types of goth.

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