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telophase ([personal profile] telophase) wrote2022-06-03 02:41 pm

NEW GENERATOR!

In collaboration with [personal profile] yhlee, I present to you, the...

Yoon Ha Lee Story Prompt Generator

Featuring the Yoonifierâ„¢,
in which objects and weapons are created
by smashing together
random adjectives and nouns.


This originated when [personal profile] yhlee posted a list of Cool Bits--stuff he liked to write and read about. As that sort of thing is catnip to my ears, I offered to make a generator, and thus it was born.

A member of a secret society and a space mercenary walk into a bar in a military academy...



As always, not all of the prompts are useful, or even sensible. XD
A tormented but brilliant strategist has telepathy.

Someone pretending to be something they're not emerges from a prison seeking to become a librarian.

When Merri wants to play chess, how can a bloody but non-incapacitating injury, a uniform, and a bad boy turning good help them achieve their goal?

Young-Soon must find a budget mythology before a femme fatale does.

A supersoldier, a torturer, and a murderer enter a teahouse...

Tyler wants to become a prisoner of war.

A damaged warrior seeks an entropy crypt.

Yevheniy, a person who doesn't understand they were abused, was the war engineer who developed the dreaded hellspace tremblor.

The sex citadel is almost within Ha-Neul's grasp...if they're not thwarted by a cold and logical pragmatist first.

Kyung-Hu, someone who expects to be punished for failure, was the war engineer who developed the dreaded officer climber.

Batt, a benevolent mastermind, was the war engineer who developed the dreaded space station reviewer.
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[personal profile] ellenmillion 2022-06-03 08:17 pm (UTC)(link)
Haha! This is amazing!
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[personal profile] ellenmillion 2022-06-03 08:18 pm (UTC)(link)
It is imperative that Hak-Kun finds someone who cries in their sleep with prominent shoulderblades.
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[personal profile] larryhammer 2022-06-03 09:28 pm (UTC)(link)
Excuse me, but I'm slightly hung up by this budget mythology thing...
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[personal profile] larryhammer 2022-06-03 10:09 pm (UTC)(link)
So, like, a single parent god and their two children, plus a couple demigods picking up some slack in domains that are important but otherwise not covered? A creation story that's more like a sketchy outline? An epic known only in prose summaries?
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[personal profile] larryhammer 2022-06-04 10:36 pm (UTC)(link)

Bullfinch already IS mythology Cliff Notes...