/r/WritingPrompts

Title	Upvotes	Author
[WP]Humans start out at birth with milk-white blood. The more bad deeds they commit, the darker their blood becomes. One day, you meet your soulmate. Skip a few years, and things are amazing… Until your soulmate trips, falls, and the cut they get drips ink-black blood…	2842	ChaosWolf1982
[WP] The dead spinning in their graves is a real thing and now used to generate electricity. Your job is to come up with the best ideas to piss off the deceased in order to maximise energy production.	2839	rayx
[WP] Nothing seemed unusual during first contact until the extraterrestrials and humans realised they both had occurrences of the 'cool S' symbol in their respective cultures and neither knew where it came from.	2839	mihir_lavande
[WP] There's two kinds of magical disfigurement. One is trollification, where your magic has gone so utterly WRONG that your body shifts into grotesque shapes just to survive it. It's nasty, but it's usually fixable. The other is Elvenification, which is permanent because you can't fix 'perfection'	2838	archtech88
[WP] "If we survive this, we'll be heroes!" "And if we don't survive?" "Then we'll be legends."	2837	theloneshewolf
[WP] You are a scientist working on "Project Ark," trying to translate all human knowledge into DNA code and put it in the junk code of a common virus, preserving our culture and technology beyond the death of humanity. While examining the common cold's genome, you realize someone beat you to it.	2837	moms_new_boyfriend
[WP] A sentient AI falls in love with a minimum-wage retail worker and decides the best way to make them happy is to "fix" society for them.	2834	ThatGuyWhoUsesXray
[WP] You were cursed to “die the next time the sun sets on you”. That was 10 years ago. You’ve been racing the sun ever since.	2831	Burakku-Ren
[WP] Humanity is so famously hard to faze that other species regularly ask them to deal with nightmarish situations. That there are concepts and sounds they fear at a Genetic level is therefore equal parts odd ("Those things aren't That scary") and terrifying ("What the hell made Them that scared?")	2831	archtech88
[WP] A serial killer is trying to kill you and your friends while on a weekend escapade. It would be terrifying if you and your friends weren't immortal.	2829	Broodfoos

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