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Prompt: Any sci fi, any, 'Crazy robots, crazy robots everywhere.'
Phoenix flung a dancing ad out of her line of sight--baby formula, what the hell--as she got off the subway. Lights appeared ahead of her, leading to the bus she usually took to work in the mornings; another set flashed in the direction of a café. She ignored both of them, firmly waved away music suggestions, and physically shoved aside a figure beckoning her to a juice bar on her way to the bus to her parents’ neighbourhood.
Prompt: Discworld, Any, an encounter with a BS Johnson creation
The Tallest Building on the Disc is in Ankh-Morpork. Actually, several of them are, but the title itself is held by a six foot tall tower on Shuffling Street, admission $5, children under 6 free. The proprietor has a fine line of patter, which he uses to describe the sightseeing balcony (2 feet off the ground) complete with glass floor, the elevator, the well-appointed gift shop, and the lightning rod, which extends 100 feet above the roof of the building proper.
Prompt: Mulan (Disney), Fa Mulan/Li Shang, our antebellum innocence
Before the Huns invaded, Li Shang studied the Confucian texts, for a general in peacetime must know and be known at the court, and have the virtues of peace as well as war, and so he learned the importance of integrity and the wickedness of deceit.
Before the Huns invaded, Li Shang trained with other sons of military families, exercising hard but having years to perfect himself, months to master skills and decades to build strength.
Before the Huns invaded, Li Shang courted no women, believing none of them could be either skilled or interested in his chosen pursuits, and with no need for a housewife as yet; he was grateful for this when the war started, for it meant he would have no distractions from his duty.
Prompt: Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead, any, "even on the gallows, you have options. you can either take it like a man or cry a lot."
GUILDENSTERN: Does it make a difference? Do you care, once you can't care about anything anymore, how it happened, or what anyone else thinks of it? If there's no way of getting out of it, no way of changing the inevitable, no chance of affecting the emotions of the hangman, who has certainly seen it all before--
ROSENCRANTZ: What about the crowd?
Prompt: any, any, coffee shop on a space station AU
“Dreadfully sorry!” the woman shouts over her shoulder as she leaps over the tables after someone, in a British accent that makes Angie sit up and take notice. You don’t hear a lot of that on this space station, and she thought she knew most of the fatheads in Security already; she wonders where this dame flew in from and if she’s likely to stay.
That wouldn’t be entirely a benefit, if this is the stranger’s normal behaviour, she admits to herself, as the disgruntled customers start to call her over to complain about their knocked-over drinks and stepped-in breakfasts, but really this place could use some shaking up.
Prompt: Any sci fi, any, 'Crazy robots, crazy robots everywhere.'
Phoenix flung a dancing ad out of her line of sight--baby formula, what the hell--as she got off the subway. Lights appeared ahead of her, leading to the bus she usually took to work in the mornings; another set flashed in the direction of a café. She ignored both of them, firmly waved away music suggestions, and physically shoved aside a figure beckoning her to a juice bar on her way to the bus to her parents’ neighbourhood.
Prompt: Discworld, Any, an encounter with a BS Johnson creation
The Tallest Building on the Disc is in Ankh-Morpork. Actually, several of them are, but the title itself is held by a six foot tall tower on Shuffling Street, admission $5, children under 6 free. The proprietor has a fine line of patter, which he uses to describe the sightseeing balcony (2 feet off the ground) complete with glass floor, the elevator, the well-appointed gift shop, and the lightning rod, which extends 100 feet above the roof of the building proper.
Prompt: Mulan (Disney), Fa Mulan/Li Shang, our antebellum innocence
Before the Huns invaded, Li Shang studied the Confucian texts, for a general in peacetime must know and be known at the court, and have the virtues of peace as well as war, and so he learned the importance of integrity and the wickedness of deceit.
Before the Huns invaded, Li Shang trained with other sons of military families, exercising hard but having years to perfect himself, months to master skills and decades to build strength.
Before the Huns invaded, Li Shang courted no women, believing none of them could be either skilled or interested in his chosen pursuits, and with no need for a housewife as yet; he was grateful for this when the war started, for it meant he would have no distractions from his duty.
Prompt: Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead, any, "even on the gallows, you have options. you can either take it like a man or cry a lot."
GUILDENSTERN: Does it make a difference? Do you care, once you can't care about anything anymore, how it happened, or what anyone else thinks of it? If there's no way of getting out of it, no way of changing the inevitable, no chance of affecting the emotions of the hangman, who has certainly seen it all before--
ROSENCRANTZ: What about the crowd?
Prompt: any, any, coffee shop on a space station AU
“Dreadfully sorry!” the woman shouts over her shoulder as she leaps over the tables after someone, in a British accent that makes Angie sit up and take notice. You don’t hear a lot of that on this space station, and she thought she knew most of the fatheads in Security already; she wonders where this dame flew in from and if she’s likely to stay.
That wouldn’t be entirely a benefit, if this is the stranger’s normal behaviour, she admits to herself, as the disgruntled customers start to call her over to complain about their knocked-over drinks and stepped-in breakfasts, but really this place could use some shaking up.