Worldbuilding Weekend Prompt #62 - Middens
Welcome to the next in an ongoing series of writing prompts in the Worldbuilding community !
I'm aiming to post one of these each Sunday. They aren't a replacement for the excellent daily prompts from @worldbuilding they're just an extra opportunity if you have a writing itch you want to scratch. 😀
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The prompt this week is - Middens
A midden is an archaeological concept, but what it really means is a heap of old refuse. They're a thing much sought-after when old ruins are explored, because they are full of things which tell about ordinary life in that period - broken pots, discarded household items, textiles damaged beyond re-use, bones, shells, stalks and other preserved food waste that tells what people ate.
Our modern era is making huge spoil heaps, both landfills and open toxic heaps of twisted metal and discarded technology that the poorest pick over for scraps and salvage. Tell me a story about middens in your setting ! What is dumped there, how safe (or unsafe) is it, where do people dump their waste, and who might dig it up in the future ?
Just to add a bit of spice to things, the two entries I most like (and are linked in comments to this post, so I can find them !) that are posted by midnight (GMT) next Saturday will each get a prize of one Hive SBI.
This link will take you to the FAQ where you can read more about Hive SBI - it's a project I thoroughly support because it gives both the donor and winner a steady trickle of passive income paid out in the form of upvotes on posts.
Guidelines
I stole these guidelines straight from @worldbuilding prompts (I hope that's okay !), I couldn't have written them any better myself....
- Prompt replies may be anything! Art, game assets, stories, worldbuilding details, fake wiki entries, maps... whatever you want to create!
- Please ensure you reply to this post with a link to your reply
- Posting in or cross-posting to the Worldbuilding community is highly encouraged
- Use the hashtag #worldbuilding
- Prompt replies can be any length.
Some other neat communities for writing that you might want to check out are:
It can be a lot of fun to mix and match our prompts with some of these other community prompts.