WritingPrompts

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[WP] All intelligent species go through the same cycle of rising, encountering a great catastrophe that causes them to fall before another takes their place. It is certain mankind will fall, but humanity decides to build massive monuments to preserve our knowledge to help those who come next.	1
[WP] The secret to going faster than light is magic, an art that humanity has forgotten thousands of years ago, thus being forced to develop in different ways. Thus when aliens arrived they defied all expectations, with ships made of wood, run by mostly manual labour and that simply should not work	1
[WP] Having a non human spouse is always difficult, but having children blows any other problems of an alien-human marriage out of the water. Currently you are researching how to stop one kid from levitating right after learning apparently developing venom glands and fangs is perfectly normal	1
[WP] A science fiction story set in the distant far future year of... 2023	1
[WP] Ever since you have been unable to sleep, not because you were terrified, but because you weren't	1
You have a complete and utter immunity to magic, something that has been utterly irrelevant until around 5 minutes ago	1
[WP] When a cultural exchange is started between a newly discovered species and the rest of galactic civilisation special attention is paid to their depictions of aliens in media to give an idea of how they are likely to interact with others. So far the reports from the humans are deeply concerning	1
[WP] After spreading out beyond the cradle of the solar system humanity found an empty universe, or at least that was what it looked like at first. Mankind was not the first nor most advanced civilisation, one has been around for billions of years and was completely ignored, the stars themselves.	0
[WP] The alien invaders proudly declared that all of humanity were but mere cockroaches compared to their great empire. What they didn't account for was just how true that metaphor was, for while small and weak as individuals, humans proved impossible to wipe out, and equally impossible to contain	0
[WP] In an unassuming building there is a staircase that seemingly leads up forever, endlessly spiralling upwards far past the point where the dimensions of the building end. For one reason or another you have been climbing for more than a week, and you finally see a platform with a door at the top	0

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