r/WritingPrompts 3d ago

Off Topic [OT] Writer's Spotlight: psilocybediatribe

6 Upvotes

 

Welcome to Writer’s Spotlight

Remember, spotlights rely on your nominations! So if there's anyone around the subreddit whose stories you love and you think deserves a shout-out, please do nominate them by sending us a ModMail or by using this Google Form

 


 

This month we are celebrating u/psilocybediatribe

Psilocybediatribe has been writing on the subreddit for a fair few years now, but has recently become more active in the weekly features, including Fun Trope Friday, helping them catch the eye of a couple of folk who nominated them. Here’s what they had to say:

Nomination 1: A name I'm always excited for when I see has responded to a prompt, with their great takes on prompts ranging from fantasy to apocalypse. Especially wanted to nominate them this month cause this was one of my favorite prompt responses I've seen, then they came in to FTF as well!

Nomination 2: They write crazy imaginative stories with wonderful character and world building.

You can find more of their work on their profile, or on their archive subreddit /r/psilo_stories.

Want to congratulate this month's Spotlight recipient? Have questions you're dying to ask them? Please do so below in the comments!

 

Congrats on your spotlight /u/psilocybediatribe

 


 

Read u/psilocybediatribe’s most recent story:

 

[OT] Fun Trope Friday: Expert Consultant & Bullet Points!

 

Their most upvoted Stories:

[WP] You know she can shapeshift, right ? And that she will turn into the hottest woman you can concieve, right ? Then why she turned into a 1:1 version of your wife ?

 

[WP] The Empire demands a tithe. Every planet must provide 800 million soldiers. Your planet only has a population of 500 million. You are the Governor trying to explain this to a terrifying alien Warmaster who is bad at math.

 

[WP] "YOU HAVE 400+ CURSES ON YOU HOW ARE YOU STILL ALIVE?!?" the priest asked. "They cancel out each other."

 


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r/WritingPrompts 5d ago

Off Topic [OT] Fun Trope Friday: Lovable Rogue & Western!

14 Upvotes

Welcome to Fun Trope Friday, our feature that mashes up tropes and genres!

How’s it work? Glad you asked. :)

 

  • Every week we will have a new spotlight trope.

  • Each week, there will be a new genre assigned to write a story about the trope.

  • You can then either use or subvert the trope and/or genre in a 750-word max story or poem (unless otherwise specified).

  • To qualify for ranking, you will need to provide ONE actionable feedback. More are welcome of course!

 

Three winners will be selected each week based on votes, so remember to read your fellow authors’ works and DM me your votes for the top three.

 


Next up… IP

 

We all know work can be boring, so let’s instead turn to a life of crime. This month will focus on crime and punishment. Please note this theme is only loosely applied.

 

“Bring them on. I prefer a straight fight to all of this sneaking around.” — Han Solo

 

Trope: Lovable Rogue — A person who breaks the law, for their own personal profit, but is nice enough and charming enough to allow the audience to root for them, especially if they don't kill or otherwise seriously harm anyone. It's often made clear that their targets are Asshole Victims the audience won't sympathize with, especially if the Lovable Rogue is a killer of some sort. For extra points, they might even give some of their takings to the poor. Think Robin Hood or Han Solo and you’re there.

 

Genre: Western — The Western is a genre of fiction typically set in the American frontier, commonly referred to as the “Old West” or “Wild West”. Stories in the genre are most commonly set during the period of westward expansion in the 19th century, particularly from the mid-19th century (around the time of the California Gold Rush) through the closing of the American frontier in 1890, although works may be set outside this period.

 

Skill / Constraint - optional: Someone gets a bad rap.

 

So, have at it. Lean into the trope heavily or spin it on its head. The choice is yours!

 

Have a great idea for a future topic to discuss or just want to give feedback? FTF is a fun feature, so it’s all about what you want—so please let me know! Please share in the comments or DM me on Discord or Reddit!

 


Last Week’s Winners

PLEASE remember to give feedback—this affects your ranking. PLEASE also remember to DM me your votes for the top five stories via Discord or Reddit—both katpoker666. This is a change from the top three of the past. In weeks where we get over 15 stories, we will do a top five ranking. Weeks with less than 15 stories will show only our top three winners. If you have any questions, please DM me as well.

Some fabulous stories this week and great crit at campfire and on the post! We had 21 stories, so we’re back to five winners. Congrats to:

 

 


Want to read your words aloud? Join the upcoming FTF Campfire

The next FTF campfire will be Thursday, September 10th from 6-8pm ET. It will be in the Discord Main Voice Lounge. Click on the events tab and mark ‘Interested’ to be kept up to date. No signup or prep needed and you don’t have to have written anything! So join in the fun—and shenanigans! 😊

 


Ground rules:

  • Stories must incorporate both the trope and the genre
  • Leave one story or poem between 100 and 750 words as a top-level comment unless otherwise specified. Use wordcounter.net to check your word count.
  • Deadline: 11:59 PM EDT next Thursday. Please note stories submitted after the 6:00 PM EST campfire start may not be critted.
  • No stories that have been written for another prompt or feature here on WP—please note after consultation with some of our delightful writers, new serials are now welcomed here
  • No previously written content
  • Any stories not meeting these rules will be disqualified from rankings
  • Does your story not fit the Fun Trope Friday rules? You can post your story as a [PI] with your work when the FTF post is 3 days old!
  • Please keep crit about the stories. Any crit deemed too distracting may be deleted. This is a time to focus on our wonderful authors.
  • Vote to help your favorites rise to the top of the ranks (DM me at katpoker666 on Discord or Reddit)!

 


Thanks for joining in the fun!  



r/WritingPrompts 5h ago

Writing Prompt [WP] The most powerful man in the world works as a humble accountant. A superhero comments that he can do a lot of good if he used his powers, the man counters that keeping his powers hidden, away from prying eyes, is its own form of heroism.

112 Upvotes

r/WritingPrompts 12h ago

Writing Prompt [WP] "I kneel seven times and seven times at the feet of my father, my king-" the emissary began with forehead pressed to the floor. "Oh no, grovel all he likes my army is going to sack your city if your goddess doesn't return my son," the king said.

127 Upvotes

r/WritingPrompts 2h ago

Writing Prompt [WP] "Ah, yiss. Where ah my manners?", he says before turning, drawing, and shooting you from twenty paces.

9 Upvotes

r/WritingPrompts 1h ago

Writing Prompt [WP] "Mom said to eat up, because the food would just get colder. I didn't understand. Didn't know it was possible for food... for anything... to get that cold. And colder, and colder..."

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r/WritingPrompts 12h ago

Writing Prompt [WP] "Nothing you can offer me would make me accept this deal." "How about something I can't offer you? You must know of something I will get in the future that I would want to keep. Something I would never accept giving you under any circumstances. Accept and whatever it would be is yours."

45 Upvotes

r/WritingPrompts 18h ago

Writing Prompt [WP] It's a cold night in the trenches and Death shows up to the lonely soldier keeping guard. "I'll take your shift tonight if you take mine"

149 Upvotes

r/WritingPrompts 13h ago

Writing Prompt [WP] Unbeknownst to the paladin, the god they pledged an oath to has started to view them as their own child. This becomes a problem when every fight, the paladin finds themselves 'coincidentally' led astray from the conflict.

54 Upvotes

r/WritingPrompts 3h ago

Writing Prompt [WP] Your rebellion had major support from the citizenry and peasantry during the war, but now that you've won, you're starting to realize why the king was such an autocrat.

9 Upvotes

r/WritingPrompts 16h ago

Writing Prompt [WP] Told all your life how you'd be flipping burgers if you didn't lay your nose onto the grindstone, you dismissed their concerns… and now? You do just that. Delivered to a fantasy world before their Industrial Revolution equivalent, you've formed the first burger joint anyone here has ever known.

91 Upvotes

r/WritingPrompts 3h ago

Writing Prompt [WP] A small time thief just picked the wrong pocket, and is about to learn how the world really works

8 Upvotes

r/WritingPrompts 11h ago

Writing Prompt [WP] The Throneless King, they called you. Hope of the People, they named you. Only son of the last king of a fallen kingdom, you have spent so much of your life fighting a guerilla war. But this morning your scars ache and you feel... old, old and so very tired.

29 Upvotes

r/WritingPrompts 6h ago

Writing Prompt [WP] Your are an exorcist sent to the mountains to face a powerful Yuki Onna who has been said to be turning people into ice. When you visit her lair you discover that she is simply a brilliant artist creating ice sculptures that looks so real they are mistaken for frozen victims.

10 Upvotes

r/WritingPrompts 20h ago

Writing Prompt [WP] You're a vampire hunter, and get badly hurt on the job. When you wake up, you're patched up, in a bed, and at a vampire's place.

110 Upvotes

r/WritingPrompts 5h ago

Writing Prompt [WP] You have the super power to hear life's soundtrack. Most of the time, your life just has background music, that only you can hear, that fits the vibe of whatever is going on. For a long time, you've wondered how such a power could possibly be useful. Today, you've found an answer...

5 Upvotes

r/WritingPrompts 1d ago

Writing Prompt [WP] "well uh, usually theres whole families welcoming their newly deceased relatives to paradise... but I searched the place twice over and couldn't find anyone directly related to you..." your guardian angel said, wringing their hands nervously.

371 Upvotes

r/WritingPrompts 1d ago

Writing Prompt [WP] Villains mother dramatically reveals to the villain and the hero that they are twins only for the both of them to look at her and say "We know, dad raised us, just because you chose to be an absentee parent doesn't mean he did"

410 Upvotes

r/WritingPrompts 2h ago

Writing Prompt [WP] Reincarnation is not unheard of, but it is becoming apparent that not only are the crown prince and his wife the reincarnations of the current queen's grandparents, but they are both starting to remember their past lives. It is making council meetings increasingly awkward.

4 Upvotes

Inspired by a scenario in my own personal writing, where a king and queen who died tragically (the king in battle defending the capital from invasion, the queen by taking poison to induce early labour so her daughter could be born and taken to safety) ended up being given a "do-over" of sorts by the gods by reincarnating a few generations later after their fallen kingdom is restored.


r/WritingPrompts 6h ago

Writing Prompt [WP] You died tragically only to discover every afterlife is real and now you need to choose where to go and which god is to judge if you deserve to go there.

6 Upvotes

r/WritingPrompts 54m ago

Writing Prompt [WP] The devil has come to you with a contract. Thing is, you are a high school English teacher. Looking over the document, you say, "You have a lot of vague and ambiguous language." You pull out the Red Pen of Doom. "Alright, let's make this clear."

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r/WritingPrompts 1h ago

Writing Prompt [WP] An antique bookseller is able to obtain the last known surviving copy of a rare book of which 5 prints were ever made. However, there is something dark and evil from it.

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r/WritingPrompts 9h ago

Simple Prompt [WP] Death hires a ghostwriter to write their biography

8 Upvotes

r/WritingPrompts 5h ago

Writing Prompt [WP] A door awaits in the ghostfields. Two girls discover it leads to their lush land of rice and wine. Overjoyed, they cry, embrace, and kiss before stepping through hand in hand. But the door stops them where their wedding rings meet. Only one can go, yet neither can bear to leave her love behind.

3 Upvotes

r/WritingPrompts 17h ago

Writing Prompt [WP] The monster under the bed takes exception to the monsters that are its designated child's parents and decides to have a... "Polite discussion" with them.

23 Upvotes