/u/Photemy's posts in /r/WritingPrompts
[WP] As it turns out, 70-s scifi was right. Aliens have all sorts of unimaginable technology, ftl, teleportation, even moving planets. And yet, the human smartphone is by far the most capable handheld device, rivaling the computational power of entire fleets.
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[WP] The reason eldritch beings assume that humans will go insane when told truths "they cannot comprehend" is simply because they themselves work this way. Their infinite mind would collapse into insanity the moment they learned there are more infinities than they know of.
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[WP] Your domain is the unknown. Anything humans don't understand, you can control freely. This means that the past few centuries have been getting progressively more stressful.
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[WP] You are a criminal locked up in one of the tightest security prisons on the planet. Your crime was extremely minor, and the original sentence is long over. You just keep getting put in progressively more secure prisons for escaping the previous one.
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[WP] You are the wielder of the sword of light. And the sword of darkness. And the sword of twilight. And a sword of that moment at the dawn of a july morning where the rising sun coats everything in just a slight shimmer of vermilion . And the swo....
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[WP] The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse have decided to get with the times, switching to motorcycles and other better and newer modes of transport. The Four Horses of the Apocalypse are not sure what to make of this.
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[WP] You have managed to perfectly simulate the universe. You go over to earth, and give simulated "you" a little help, to see what he does with it. A bar of gold magically appears on his desk. And yours.
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[WP] Weak force. Strong force. Gravity. Electromagnetism. Long ago, the four galactic forces lived together in harmony. Then, everything changed when the Gravity empire attacked.
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[WP] Two archenemies came to the same conclusion about what would give the other the greatest pain and suffering, a goal no sacrifice too great to achieve. They got married.
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