/u/RuberCuber's posts in /r/WritingPrompts
[WP] One morning everyone in the world wakes up in their 18-year old body, memories intact. Society tries to continue as normal despite the change, but a world full of energetic adolescents certainly has its quirks.
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[WP] FTL travel is actually possible. However, when humanity sends out our first FTL spacecraft, we discover the terrifying reason why nothing, not even light, dares go past that cosmic speed limit.
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[WP] Turns out, most alien species actually evolved in the vacuum of space. Their bodies are unable to deal with even the weakest of gravitational fields and the presence of an atmosphere, hence they concluded life couldn't exist on planetary bodies...until they discovered humans.
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[WP] Overused sayings and expressions actually apply to you. Watching a kettle will never cause it to boil. Time travels faster for you when you're enjoying yourself. You are able to cure any sickness by eating an apple every day.
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[WP] Humanity finally discovers FTL travel, but the first ship they send out abruptly gets pulled over by a galactic law enforcement officer for speeding.
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[WP] There is a countdown clock to the end of the world. As the clock counts down the last few seconds, the entire world is watching. 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, 0, -1, -2...
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[WP] People's reflections in mirrors exist. They can think freely, but their actions are entirely controlled by the real person. Recently you have been making small uncontrolled actions, like a blink or a twitch of your finger. You start to question whether you are actually the one in control.
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[WP] You wake up in someone else's body, in a room you don't recognise. Panic and confusion overwhelms you, until a phone beside your bed suddenly starts ringing. It's your number.
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[WP] Your superpower? Imaginative gestures and actions you make with your body occur in real life. You can shoot things using finger-guns. You can fly be flapping your arms.
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[WP] “According to all known laws of aviation, there is no way that a human should be able to fly. Its arms are too skinny to get its big fleshy body off the ground. The human, of course, flies anyways. Because humans don't care what the universe thinks is impossible.”
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