WritingPrompts

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[WP] "The ouija board is dangerous!" "I thought you didn't believe in spirits." "I don't, the ouija board functions via the ideomotor effect. But it's dangerous! Secrets get revealed, the subconscious expresses itself. I have some ouija stories, none of them are supernatural."	13
[WP] Everything is beyond human comprehension. Scientists have been studying matter for centuries and still have only theories about some things. Your computer is beyond your comprehension. So we can fight this Eldritch horror that is attacking us, all we need to comprehend is how to make it bleed.	13
[WP] A paperclip maximizer AI has taken over the world, but it didn't exterminate humanity. It needs humans to define the paperclips. Life is great for you, but there are paperclips everywhere, and robots making sure you acknowledge them as paperclips.	12
[EU] Earth. Water. Fire. All three nations continue to live in peace. But ever since the last airbender died, it has been getting harder to breathe.	12
[WP] Physicists have figured out a way to generate energy for nothing. Perpetual motion machines are now possible. The problem is, the waste created by this process is matter with negative mass, and the more people do it, the more risk there is that everything will be destroyed in a false vacuum.	12
[WP] Something terrible once happened. An historical event so strange and horrible that while it is still mentioned in news or nonfiction, it is often ommitted from fictional stories out of respect.	11
[WP] You and everybody else are deaf after the Great Deafening. But one day you wake up and you can hear again. And every phone in the world is ringing.	11
[WP] It turns out there's no way to cure old age, because it's part of how the human mind works. Even when we can upload minds into a digital space, our digital minds eventually accumulate mental illnesses such as Alzheimer, and degrade into insanity.	11
[WP] Bacterial/viral life exists on Mars. None of them have wiped out human life (yet), but as a Martian doctor your fellow colonists sure catch some weird diseases.	11
[EU] "But didn't the Oocca create the Hylians?" asked Link. And so the Oocca explained to Link that the fans and propellers in the City of the Sky were powered by lightning and science, not divine magic, and so were the elevators and magnetic cranes of Death Mountain.	11

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