/u/serenity78's posts in /r/WritingPrompts
[WP] Earth starts to receive messages from an alien race on the other side of the galaxy. It is evident they were sent thousands of years ago. The messages begin friendly, but soon turn into pleas for help. Earth's people are captivated by this drama, listening as a long-dead civilization collapses.
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[WP] Transhuman prosthetics take off in the late 2050s. A man with terminal brain cancer becomes the first person to have their brain fully replaced with a synthetic one. After the surgeries' success, an international public debate begins: are we speaking to a machine with a dead man's memories?
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[WP] A mad industrialist rigs a satellite to explode in high orbit, creating a cloud of space junk so huge as to prevent humanity from leaving Earth for 1000 years. They explain: "This is to give humanity time to mature: to ensure we can't run away from the problems we've created on this planet."
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[WP] It's just a low-budget horror movie that blows up in 2021, titled "Death Defects" . What is the plot, and why did everybody love it?
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[WP] When the universe was still young, and the Earth was a slowly cooling ball of molten rock, a wandering Lovecraftian entity chose to lay its eggs within our planet. After incubating for billions of years, our generation is cursed to witness the mass hatching of the young.
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[WP] A massive, corrupt tech company in the near future comes out with brain uploading technology, to preserve their customers' consciousness after death. Now people are paying exorbitant $ to this business in the hope of being preserved in a digital afterlife.
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[WP] How do you write a note to yourself that can successfully defeat your human curiosity? [Detailed outline of the prompt in the text:]
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[RF] The most vengeful supervillain ever, not satisfied with simply murdering his enemies, removes their brains and stores them away, attached to life support. Their conscious minds will stay alive in complete sensory isolation, potentially for up to a century
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[WP] The most vengeful supervillain ever, not satisfied with simply murdering his enemies, removes their brains and stores them away, attached to life support. Their conscious minds will stay alive in complete sensory isolation, potentially for up to a century NSFW
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[WP][Star Wars] After escaping the 2nd death star's destruction, Luke puts on the Vader armor, flies the Imperial shuttle back to Coruscant, and goes about in the guise of Vader trying to collapse the Empire from within, encouraging them to surrender peaceably to the Alliance
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