/u/Smooth_Jazz_Warlady's posts in /r/WritingPrompts
[WP] You volunteer for an experiment in uploading human minds to computers. While you're still adjusting to life as a digital being, a cataclysm wipes out all life on Earth, leaving only you and the other uploaded volunteers as the last conscious minds on the planet.
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[WP] In an instant, everyone on Earth develops the ability to shapeshift, but it takes a while for everyone to find out that staying as a form for too long locks you in that form forever. You're a caseworker specializing in helping people who got stuck in a form come to terms with the changes
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[WP] Humanity expands outwards into space, but we never discover FTL or aliens, and settle for the "hard" scifi approach to space (STL, near-immortality, megastructures > planets). Until our farthest explorers stumble onto a species who had broken the light barrier despite being far less advanced.
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[WP] A witch has turned you into a form she was sure you'd hate, but somehow you ended up enjoying/feeling comfortable in your new form more than your original one
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[WP] Vampires are discovered to be real, but thanks to how many powerful/influential people were secretly vampires until now, vampires quickly become treated more like sufferers of a chronic disease than bloodthirsty monsters.
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[WP] A group of interdimensional wanderers, each unable to return to their home world/dimension for a different reason, meet on a truly alien world and share stories from their exiles
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[WP] In the space of a second, everyone on Earth blacks out for 24 hours. Those lucky or prepared enough to survive 24 hours with nobody at the wheel find themselves waking up as shapeshifters with no "true" form.
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[WP] You've been cursed to wander through space, time, and dimensions, but after a decade or two, you realize that thanks to the exact wording of the curse, you've been rendered completely immortal
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