/u/eddyekko's posts in /r/WritingPrompts
[WP] Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. Similarly, any sufficiently advanced magic is indistinguishable from technology. A high-tech and high-sorcery society meet, and they are impossible to tell apart.
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[WP] In a world where every single 'punk' genre (cyberpunk, steampunk, biopunk, etc...) exists as its own, thriving industry, you are an engineering professor. And the projects your students submit for extra credit are getting more and more ridiculous by the year.
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[WP] Shapeshifters gain their powers during childhood, and are immediately capable of making permanent changes to their form. You are a 16 year old shapeshifter, and, after having enjoyed years of fun little changes and mods, you realize that you no longer remember what you actually look like.
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[WP] Fortunately, humans are the most musical sapient species in the galaxy. Unfortunately, this means every human is expected to be musically gifted.
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[WP] In a world where acute stress often leads to the creation of mad scientists, you are a Science Major halfway through an exam you have no hope of passing, and you are beginning to feel very, very Inspired.
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[WP] The Martians are awesome telepaths, the Zelon incredible supermen, the Rakith wise clairvoyants. In a superpowered galaxy, no one human power measure up against any alien counterparts. But every human has their own, unique power, and that makes fighting them very, very annoying.
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[WP] Of all the rivalries in the magical world, none is as bitter or as strong as the one between werewolves, and weredogs.
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[WP] God has a crisis on his hands, when all the good souls in Heaven wake up to the massive humanitarian nightmare that is Hell.
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[WP] Aliens already make first contact with Earth, except they already know all about humans. Turns out one human had already made onto the galactic stage, and now homo sapiens have a bit of a reputation.
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