/u/aescolanus's posts

Title	Upvotes	Subreddit
[WP] Your best friend is a serial killer on death row. Your plan to save him: become a copycat serial killer so dangerous that the desperate police offer your friend clemency to help profile and catch you	3	WritingPrompts
What would have been the experience of a Jewish family fleeing Judea and settling in Egypt during the age of Augustus? What legal, linguistic, and cultural barriers would they have encountered? How comparable would the situation be to a modern European citizen relocating within the EU?	3	AskHistorians
[WP] Smell is the sense most strongly tied to memory. Your MC passes a person on the street, and their perfume makes them remember something they'd forgotten long ago	2	WritingPrompts
[WP] I Was The Dark Lord's Greatest General, But I Was Reincarnated As The Son Of The Hero Who Defeated Him... But Now He's An Alcoholic NEET?	2	WritingPrompts
[WP] At the end of the world, its sole immortal travels through time to the beginning, living through its history again along with tens of thousands of her past and future selves. This is what she found worth dying for.	2	WritingPrompts
[WP] After the galaxy-wide success of "To Serve Man", human beings have become critically endangered - and very, very good at concealment and self-defense. As the Galaxy's finest chef, you've taken it on yourself to track down an ingredient not seen in a hundred years: a live human infant.	2	WritingPrompts
What would be the ecological impact of an impassable barrier along the US-Mexico border? What animal migrations would be prevented? How quickly might we see new species form?	1	askscience
If particular varieties of some plants - apples, for instance - can only be grown by cloning/grafting, will all the grafts eventually (simultaneously) die of old age?	1	askscience
[WP] A vicious, incurable plague has destroyed your people, killing most and leaving survivors sterile. As your companions fell one by one, you finally discovered the genocidal plot behind the spread of the disease. You are the Last Mosquito, and you have sworn vengeance on mankind	1	WritingPrompts
What caused the concern over "superpredators" in the early 1990s? Was there any genuine reason to believe that that generation of black children posed a unique threat to society, or was it a moral panic without genuine evidence?	1	AskHistorians

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