August 2021 Writing Prompts!

[iam_senpai]

The summer continues to crawl on regardless of our readiness for it. It's another new month and with it we bring the promise of more inspiration for you and yours. A warm welcome to some of the new faces in the community, because we wouldn't be here without all of our players~

And As always--

Disclaimer: I never close old writing prompts from previous months. People can and should be encouraged to post on old month's prompts and I highly encourage players to track these posts to catch stragglers or new people writing on old prompts.

Now. With that out of the way, onto this month's prompts.

August's Writing Prompts

1. "You could stand to be the responsible one, for once."

2. Write about a summer holiday/festival/tradition that's important to your character even if not beloved.

3. Culture shock

4. "I only pretend to know everything."

5. How does your character handle long trips? Do they Have to be the one driving? Are they more content to be in the back sleeping the whole way? Do they want to stop every hour to take pictures?



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“Cheese pool” or “you could stand to be the responsible one, for once.”

[itmeanstruth]

The twins were in their apartment, sharing the combination of breakfast/dinner that often comes with their respective shifts.

“Despite this, the isothiocyanate sulforaphane that we isolated from broccoli is easily among the most potent naturally occurring inducers of human KEAP1/NRF2 pathway…” Isamu described one of his many ongoing IRIS projects when his PINpoint pinged for the fifth time. “One moment.”

Minoru munched on his oatmeal, watching his brother smirk before replying back quickly.

“Okay, there is no way that’s from work.” He gestured with his spoon.

“Astutely observed. It is not.” Isamu replied, setting his device back down on the table next to his laptop. “It was actually Aarne.”

Minoru snickered. Despite the grief his brother had given him about the irresponsible antics of the rock stars, ever since they worked on that experiment together, his attitude toward the band members had changed. He saw, first hand, what it took to do what they did. He found some common ground. Maybe even made some mutual friends.

“Oh? What’d he want?”

“Do not be surprised if you receive an invite for a pool party in which the pool is crafted entirely out of Gruyere cheese and filled with Jack Daniels.”

Minoru cocked his head, “Wait, what?”

“Gruyere has a tensile strength of 70 kPa. Take the proposed depth (3 feet) times the water density (1 kg/L) times gravity (obvious) times the proposed pool radius (15 feet) and divide by 70. The wall of cheese only needs to be two feet thick to withstand the pressure of around the proposed 18,000 gallons of liquor.”

Minoru just stared, eyebrow raised.

“Yes, I am aware that calculating using the tensile strength of fiberglass would produce the same result with only a millimeter of thickness. But once the discussion of obscenely large soft pretzels came up - did you know he is quite the chef? - there was little that could be done aside from choosing an appropriate complimentary cheese. When I picked up the classic 456-page Cheese Rheology and Texture handbook for a little light reading junior year, I never expected it to come in so handily.”

That eyebrow hadn’t budged.

“Oh! I also volunteered that we would pick up a couple of fruit trays.” He added. “Please do not let me forget to add that to the grocery list schedule.”

Eventually, the silence broke. Minoru just burst out laughing.

“I beg your pardon?”

“Geez, Bro.” He lightheartedly rolled his eyes. “You could stand to be the responsible one, for once.”