WritingPrompts

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[WP]: There's a tiny predator in the human quarters that nobody is allowed to exterminate - under the threat of complete human riot. The humans willingly admit that yes, it DOES sometimes try to attack humans as well, but altogether, they are relaxed by the presence of the "cat".	10888
[WP]: Rule of thumb: If you see something on a foreign planet that has all the outward traits of an apex predator, but no obvious and apparent way to kill you - run. The methods in which they kill aren't something you want to see.	9798
[WP]: No other intelligent, spacefaring life form knows the concept of sunk cost fallacy. For most of them, wars can be ended simply by presenting their capability for further war, and the weaker one yields. Humans, however, will take anyone on out of pure spite.	4775
[WP]: Due to your limited skills as an evil wizard, instead of cursing your enemy’s home to be overrun by a swarm of frogs, the whole town is tormented by one single frog.	609
[WP]: "You can't run your whole life on nothing but pure spite", they said. "Fucking watch me", you said, and headed out to thrive.	558
[WP]: "Is it called a 'mountain spider' because it lives on the mountains, because it's the SIZE of a mountain, or it literally IS a mountain?" "Honestly, I can answer that, but you won't like the answer."	361
[WP]: 20 years ago you and your annoyingly optimistic poet friend were forced into horrifying ordeals. He later on wrote a book about it, painting you as the hero of an adventure. You are still asked if all of that really happened. It did, but none of it was so simple and pretty.	275
[WP]: Due to your great, great grandfather's arrogance, all of his descendants are either blessed or cursed with pathetically small superpowers. You have the ability to unseason chicken.	142
[WP]: After getting their first thriving and successful human enclosure in one of their zoos, aliens are surprised to discover that many humans will openly volunteer to join one.	71
[WP]: Domestic cats are smaller, more docile and social than wild cats such as lynx, tigers or lions. It turns out that humans are simply DOMESTIC humans, far smaller and more social than larger wild species.	57

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