/u/I___Dont__Understand's posts in /r/WritingPrompts
[WP] Aliens with FTL travel arrive on earth with thousands of years of high definition video of us throughout history, taken from the stars. It all tends to line up pretty well with our present historical narritive until they reveal something... strange...
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[WP] An alien is sent to earth to judge how dangerous humans are as a civilization, their randomly selected target? An ex-military survivalist who takes trips to the dessert and climbs mountains for fun.
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[WP] Aliens send an intentionally confusing bit of data to earth as a joke, but humanity takes it way too seriously and somehow manages to develop ftl travel using the data, they are extremely amused.
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[WP] All gods are real, there are thousands of them, and they reveal themselves by psychically sending messages to people. You, a fresh god, are having a very rough time getting through to your very first disciple. He thinks he's going insane.
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[WP] A woman awakes in a field full of lavenders with no memory of who she is or how she got there. The only clues she can find are a burn scar on her wrist and a fence that stretches on to forever.
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[WP] Aliens are threatening to crash the moon into Earth's surface if we don't comply with their demands to provide unlimited free access to our cable TV network. We don't have the heart to tell them the cable's been down for 400 years... or that the moon's a hologram.
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[WP] Humans first discovered aliens when they invaded us, "just for the fun of it". Now, twenty years later, humans have nearly exterminated the war oriented aliens "just for the hell of it".
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[WP] Hundreds of time travelers have gathered to view the most important moment in human history. However, you, half naked and holding an empty bottle of beer, are wondering why all of these people are staring at you.
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[WP] We always knew the brain alters what we see, from something as basic as adding color and motion blur to blocking out blind spots, but we never could have guessed how much. The first person to ever have a video streamed into their brain goes mad, your job? Figure out what they saw.
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[WP] Your best friend is falling apart emotionally after years of failed relationships and dead-end jobs, in a last ditch effort to help, you try to summon an angel to help them, but accidentally end up summoning a demon instead... they decide they'll try to help anyway.
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