WritingPrompts

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[WP] Liquid water is the most chemically important substance in the universe, but is exceptionally rare. So, imagine the intergalactic community's shock when humans arrive on the interstellar scene.	2934
[WP] Humans have always been endurance hunters. We can endure untold physical, psychological, and emotional trauma. Being so unexceptional, we are mocked by the intergalactic community until war shows how terrifying it is to simply... endure.	779
[WP] You started a young hero with bright eyes full of hope. Decades have left you with nothing but cold, cruel logic. It has gotten you here to the last moment of your last battle with the final evil. Here, with a last desperate spell, the villain forces you to recognize what you've become.	495
[WP] Fermenting alcohol? Fine. Consuming poisons? Often done as a sign of strength. But the intergalactic community's is shocked to learn we purposely make things (drugs, liquor, food, plants) MORE toxic ON PURPOSE.	433
[WP] Every race has their own way of casting magic. Some use words, some song, others gestures. It's been thought that humans were the only race incapable of magic, until one person discovered what was needed of humans.	160
[WP] "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." Or at least we thought until we found out what actual magic was, and the secret why we humans couldn't use it.	46
[WP] Often in nature, prey gives up when death is guaranteed. This holds true throughout the universe, as alien battlefields are quiet with the dead and those who've accepted it. Then, they learn the horror of a human battlefield, and the terror of a race that will simply not... accept... death...	30
[WP] Every species to achieve interstellar travel is a prey species. They all also have a unified government due to natural herding/cooperation instincts. These traits used to be considered mandatory for a species to reach the stars, until humans join the fray.	28
[WP] Earth was an experiment to develop the deadliest killing machines science and nature could produce. Imagine the intergalactic community's surprise when they're experiment is domesticated into small, fluffy pets. Further, their masters appear to be unremarkable and physically unimpressive apes.	16
[WP] "Don't go there." "Why? Because of heat the humans did?" "Mmhmm." "Oh, please! Humans are an old wives' tale. Not a single one has been seen in almost a thousand years!"	16

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