/u/copenhagen_bram's posts in /r/WritingPrompts
[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.
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[WP] When wars are fought in space between advanced civilizations, nobody dies except for the machines. When humanity joins the galactic community, other species are appalled that humans kill each other in wars with themselves. They're even more shocked when humans die in a war against them.
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[EU] Water. Earth. Fire. Air. Some people could bend these elements, but nobody could bend metal and nobody knew why. Then scientists discovered that metal is made up of a different set of elements. Suddenly people who were never benders were discovering that they could bend these new elements.
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[EU] "You don't know me, but I know you. I would like to play a ga-" "I know you, John Kramer. You put your victims through games of torture in the hopes that they will survive and learn to appreciate life like you do. I'm Elliot Alderson, and I hacked you.'"
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[EU] Basilisk skins, leather parchments, quills, dragon heartstrings, house elves, butterbeer. It's hard being a vegan in the wizarding world.
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[WP] Aliens discovered by humans fall under two categories: simple plants and animals not much different than ours, and entities we know little about that makes us seem like animals in comparison.
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[WP] In a post-apocalyptic future, many are struggling to survive after a terrible global disaster of some sort. But for the first time in centuries, these times of hardship have caused another outbreak of dancing mania. Modern scientists are eager to study it.
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[WP] Your scientists have constructed a machine made of solid helium taken from the Core and capable of ascending the upper layers of the Universe without disintegrating, and discovered a vast, gasless alien realm without form or reason, ruled by godlike beings who call themselves "humanity".
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