/u/PotentialSmell's posts in /r/WritingPrompts
[WP] Most of the galaxy is a mess of experiments by an ancient enigmatic precursor race, and being by far the most naturally average of all the intelligent life forms in the galaxy humans are the perfect control group
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[WP] A mad scientist unleashes a giant robot in the city every Monday, on Tuesdays an ancient evil wakes up, on Wednesdays an alien invasion happens, on Thursdays a supervillain escapes the prison, on Fridays an ancient conspiracy tries to take over, Saturdays have giant monsters and on Sunday...
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[WP] Your brothers each asked your grandfather for life advice and soon after went from an unemployed loser and hopeless romantic to CEO of a successful company and happily married respectively. However when you ask them what advice they got they simply cannot remember, so you decide to ask yourself
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[WP] Unknown to most holy magic and necromancy are two sides of the same coin, both drawing from the powers of the afterlife to manipulate life and death
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[WP] Each twinge of emotion someone feels has a minor effect on reality, which is too small to notice or measure for an individual, and in fact for most of existence was negligible. But with the population skyrocketing and overpopulation causing untold suffering things have begun getting strange
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[WP] Every time you near death a strange voice tells you that it is not yet your time and you come back free of whatever killed you. This has been going on for centuries and now you have to wonder when is it going to be your time
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[WP] A secret government agency works to minimise deaths from superpower related incidents, as a veteran agent you tend to get the most important assignments, and this one simply sends you to a random high school to make sure a prom night goes smoothly
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[WP] Many people thought different things about how aliens would look like, what their technology would be like and what their culture would be like. When aliens were finally encountered they were exactly as expected... by 1950s pulp fiction standards
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