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[WP] Hero faces his/her final epic battle, only to discover he/she has no reason to fight anymore. | "The world turned, Saul. Not for us, though."
The infuriating thing was, Saveliy was right. Two years they'd spent on this game, two years hunting and hiding and killing and tearing through society and now that Saul had him, now that Saul had a gun to his face, it didn't make a difference. There was nothing left to ac... | 1 | 0 | 15 | 25,400 |
[WP] Hero faces his/her final epic battle, only to discover he/she has no reason to fight anymore. | Pertha sat in the seat facing the temple door. He looked at Stacy. Where was her man? It was he who he wanted. It was he who carried the stone of power. He tightened his grip on Stacy's arm. She squeaked and pleaded him to let go.
"Quiet human! I will not let go, your pleas land upon hard ears." He chuckled to himself... | 1 | 0 | 15 | 25,401 |
[WP] Hero faces his/her final epic battle, only to discover he/she has no reason to fight anymore. | [deleted] | 1 | 0 | 15 | 25,402 |
[WP] Hero faces his/her final epic battle, only to discover he/she has no reason to fight anymore. | "The Yorath have made their surrender, but we can't be too sure it's real. We can't know that they don't know how many we've lost or how weak we've become. Intelligence informs us that their final battalion is headed to your position, and the only way we can know they're done for good is to wipe the last of them out."
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[WP] Hero faces his/her final epic battle, only to discover he/she has no reason to fight anymore. | [deleted] | 1 | 0 | 15 | 25,404 |
[WP] Harry Dresden is sent to investigate one or more of the Sailor Scouts breaking one of the 7Laws of Magic | Offering a 5$ "thank you for being awesome" bitcoin tip to the top voted comment in this thread. The WP community is great, and I want to support the good writers here and drum up interest in what I think is a good prompt.
Edit: Will check tomorrow for winner, to give people writing time.
Edit2: $5 to /u/Lexilogical ... | 12 | 0 | 33 | 25,405 |
[WP] Harry Dresden is sent to investigate one or more of the Sailor Scouts breaking one of the 7Laws of Magic | If I knew anything about the Sailor Scouts I'd be all over this. As it is, I know nothing about the Sailor Scouts but love Harry Dresden. You have my interest... | 3 | 0 | 33 | 25,406 |
[WP] Harry Dresden is sent to investigate one or more of the Sailor Scouts breaking one of the 7Laws of Magic | I'm not sure I've ever seen a Sailor Scout break one of those laws though. They were pretty candy-ass. | 5 | 0 | 33 | 25,407 |
[WP] Harry Dresden is sent to investigate one or more of the Sailor Scouts breaking one of the 7Laws of Magic | In my basement apartment in Chicago, a neglected telephone began to ring. I decided it was best to ignore it as I carefully poured a mixture of depleted uranium and corn syrup into a glass vial containing three tears from a werewolf and olive oil.
"Uh, Harry?" Bob the skull said from his perch on the bookshelf.
"... | 10 | 0 | 33 | 25,408 |
[WP] Harry Dresden is sent to investigate one or more of the Sailor Scouts breaking one of the 7Laws of Magic | Part 1 labeled as such if I decide to continue writing more... Will probably have to edit for fomatting reasons. This is my first copypasta from LibreOffice to Reddit...
Edit: Yup, don't write in LibreOffice. It fucks it up.
Edit 2: Ok, the problem has been fixed.
Moon Burn: Part 1
“I can't believe I get to meet Sa... | 2 | 0 | 33 | 25,409 |
[WP] Harry Dresden is sent to investigate one or more of the Sailor Scouts breaking one of the 7Laws of Magic | If I had any idea on how to write first-person well, I would be all over this prompt.
That being said. You are wonderful for coming up with it. <3 | 2 | 0 | 33 | 25,410 |
[WP] FTL has been invented and we meet our first alien race only to find out that everyone else in the galaxy are giants and we are about the size of ants in comparison. | We used to joke that everything's bigger in texas. But having been to Rigel, we now know that Texas is like a sandbox to them.
Humans, to the rest of the Galaxy's race, were a novelty at first. How could something so tiny have made a space-faring civilization? Even their common cold variant was a foot tall. On the one... | 7 | 0 | 7 | 25,411 |
[OT] Why do you think us writers are drawn more to morose / macabre than to happy or cheerful writing? | I'm guessing it has to do with venting anger and express our true feelings. When I write, my feelings are typed, and I think it helps relieve stress, vent anger, grieve some, and just relax. I always feel better after writing something, especially something with a sad or morbidish ending. When I wrote [this story,](htt... | 5 | 0 | 11 | 25,412 |
[OT] Why do you think us writers are drawn more to morose / macabre than to happy or cheerful writing? | Because conflict is more interesting than peace, and failure is more interesting than success. | 6 | 0 | 11 | 25,413 |
[OT] Why do you think us writers are drawn more to morose / macabre than to happy or cheerful writing? | I used to prefer writing the macabre, sad stuff. I don't know why I stopped, exactly. I mean, I'll still write one every once in a while, but I much prefer writing comedy these days. Writing the sad stuff tends to feel easier, because sad is pretty universal. A story about someone losing their loved one is sad to almos... | 3 | 0 | 11 | 25,414 |
[OT] Why do you think us writers are drawn more to morose / macabre than to happy or cheerful writing? | That one Tolstoy quote that opens Anna Karenina about all happy families being alike sums it up for me. | 3 | 0 | 11 | 25,415 |
[OT] Why do you think us writers are drawn more to morose / macabre than to happy or cheerful writing? | I think death despair sadness etc. just have some kind of unmatched ''beauty'' in them, which a happy story just can't touch. Often the saddest stories are the truest. (imo) | 3 | 0 | 11 | 25,416 |
[OT] Why do you think us writers are drawn more to morose / macabre than to happy or cheerful writing? | Personally for me, it's intrusive thoughts. Seeing what could have been and what would have been with real life is very mundane. The banality of making decisions in a regular, reasonable and logical environment is rather dull.
So it's nice to give a bit of horror to a situation.
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[OT] Why do you think us writers are drawn more to morose / macabre than to happy or cheerful writing? | With cheerful, happy stuff it's easy to give into wish fulfillment and other types of creative poison...
this sub does produce some great comedy, but a lot of the more popular prompts are centered around heavy themes...loss, death, the absurdity universe etc...things way beyond us while being ever at our doorstep...a... | 3 | 0 | 11 | 25,418 |
[OT] Why do you think us writers are drawn more to morose / macabre than to happy or cheerful writing? | It's the easiest emotion to convey, so often writing about it turns out better and more emotional/thought provoking overall. I mean, I could make you bawl your eyes out, but I don't think that I'm a good enough writer to convey happiness through a legitimately good piece. | 2 | 0 | 11 | 25,419 |
[OT] Why do you think us writers are drawn more to morose / macabre than to happy or cheerful writing? | Really? I always thought the folks who tend to post prompts were the morose ones, and my lighthearted kin were saddened away from responding. | 1 | 0 | 11 | 25,420 |
[OT] Why do you think us writers are drawn more to morose / macabre than to happy or cheerful writing? | Generalizing works as "morose and macabre" is about as inaccurate as replies citing lofty, artistic merits for these things being the case. This isn't to say that they're "wrong", but they're a bit off target.
From a purely technical approach, drama engages readers the most. A story has characters engaged in a series ... | 2 | 0 | 11 | 25,421 |
[OT] Why do you think us writers are drawn more to morose / macabre than to happy or cheerful writing? | I think that happiness is just harder to capture. "Frolicking with your dog in a meadow" is a happy statement to some, while "Holding your dead dog in the middle of the street" is a sad statement to everyone. Happiness is more individual, while sadness is more universal. | 1 | 0 | 11 | 25,422 |
[OT] Why do you think us writers are drawn more to morose / macabre than to happy or cheerful writing? | Happy/cheerful is hard to write without sounding cheesy. Dark/morose is easier. | 1 | 0 | 11 | 25,423 |
[OT] Why do you think us writers are drawn more to morose / macabre than to happy or cheerful writing? | "We cannot escape anguish. It is what we are." | 1 | 0 | 11 | 25,424 |
[WP] Tell a story about a person who is addicted to something that is seemingly innocuous. How is it ruining their life? | There is nothing else. I keep refreshing the front page, hoping for new material, but everything is already purple. The random subreddit button is my new best friend, occasionally bringing me to one I haven't already scoured.
Karma is like crack. Upvotes are counted and counted again on my user page. If someone downv... | 4 | 0 | 9 | 25,425 |
[WP] A neurodegenerative virus mutates and crosses species barriers at the local zoo. No entity outside zoo employees finds out until a year after it was initially discovered. What happened over the past year? | Two kids entered the Rockmount Zoo. Two kids went to the zoo. Two kids went to zoo at around midnight. Two kids went to the zoo at around midnight and the moon was full. Two kids went to the zoo at around midnight and the moon was full, then, the next day, two sets of parents arrived to collect the bodies. Two sets of ... | 1 | 0 | 4 | 25,426 |
[WP] Aliens contact earth and invite them to a galactic council. Describe humanities eventual rise to power. | They were naïve, to invite us into their council. They underestimated us because of their power, their intelligence. We were a race to control.
Most of all, they underestimated our ambition. Our ability to blindly strive for something for the sole purpose of attaining it.
They had waited years, thousands of years,... | 103 | 0 | 105 | 25,427 |
[WP] Aliens contact earth and invite them to a galactic council. Describe humanities eventual rise to power. | Huber the fifth rose from his seat and looked at the creatures around him. To his right sat XVSs7 representing a group of green blobs that originally were from planet 62 in galaxy 392, but were recently forced to leave their dying planet and live in the gigantic spaceship they had built when they realized that there pl... | 30 | 0 | 105 | 25,428 |
[WP] Aliens contact earth and invite them to a galactic council. Describe humanities eventual rise to power. | [deleted] | 2 | 0 | 105 | 25,429 |
[WP] Aliens contact earth and invite them to a galactic council. Describe humanities eventual rise to power. | *I wrote this story 4 months ago, but fits the prompt so posting here*
"The Burning of Martian Anchorage." There it came again, that querulous, high pitched, scratchy voice. You knew the moment you heard it someone had had a bee in their bonnet for a long time. It was going to go on and on, buzzing until the bee was r... | 25 | 0 | 105 | 25,430 |
[WP] Aliens contact earth and invite them to a galactic council. Describe humanities eventual rise to power. | *The following is from several abridged articles found in the 2344 edition of the Encyclopedia Galactica.*
**Origins**
Imagine the surprise of the UN delegation when the ambassadors from the Galactic Council said they needed several hours to compute their homeward hyperspace jump *by hand*. The computers aboard the a... | 40 | 0 | 105 | 25,431 |
[WP] Aliens contact earth and invite them to a galactic council. Describe humanities eventual rise to power. | *Universal Translator active*
Uhhh...
I think it's recording.
If you're hearing this, then I'm already dead. Today marks the end of our homeworld, our civilization. I have accepted this fact.
Ever since we've come into consciousness, we wondered about the existence of other intelligence. The game is much too large ... | 9 | 0 | 105 | 25,432 |
[WP] Aliens contact earth and invite them to a galactic council. Describe humanities eventual rise to power. | Their decisions led to their fall, not our actions. The Eldarin had long watched Earth. They had watched us grow from fire-building neanderthals to a technologically advanced species. They saw the potential and ambitious fire in our eyes and they respected it. They too were there when we destroyed ourselves... 50 years... | 4 | 0 | 105 | 25,433 |
[WP] Aliens contact earth and invite them to a galactic council. Describe humanities eventual rise to power. | This thread has been linked to from elsewhere on reddit.
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[WP] Aliens contact earth and invite them to a galactic council. Describe humanities eventual rise to power. | We told them we came in peace, bringing the best we had to offer; our science, our mathematics, our philosophy, our art. We were a young species, devoted to learning about the universe and our place in it.
They believed us. | 10 | 0 | 105 | 25,435 |
[WP] Aliens contact earth and invite them to a galactic council. Describe humanities eventual rise to power. | [deleted] | 0 | 0 | 105 | 25,436 |
[WP] Aliens contact earth and invite them to a galactic council. Describe humanities eventual rise to power. | "Earth. The Blue Dot. We are a young planet. A young species. We have much to learn, much to share with this council. If there is anything that I would like to convey, is our humble gratitude. We, being the dark, only knew ignorance of the solar system. Our knowledge, shrouded in mystery, was only overwhelmed by our ... | 3 | 0 | 105 | 25,437 |
[WP] Aliens contact earth and invite them to a galactic council. Describe humanities eventual rise to power. | The first country to be contacted was China.
Arguably the world's most powerful country after surpassing America in the latter end of the 21nd century, it had finally attained the unattainable. After a series of bloody battles that lasted for over 50 years, China was the first country in the world to become a perfect ... | 5 | 0 | 105 | 25,438 |
[WP] Aliens contact earth and invite them to a galactic council. Describe humanities eventual rise to power. | We as a species had always had grandiose ambitions; to us it was simply the way life was. We laughed, we worked and we loved. We always wanted something. It drove the delegations mad how we always had questions and things we wanted. After the delegations got tired of us contacting them on a monthly basis they agreed to... | 2 | 0 | 105 | 25,439 |
[WP] Aliens contact earth and invite them to a galactic council. Describe humanities eventual rise to power. | I suppose, looking back, that there never really was a point of no return. We didn't realise it at the time, but the humans certainly did.
From the moment of first contact we regarded humanity as somewhat of a joke. After all, they were thin and squishy, apparently lacking any form of protection. Most of us also appl... | 2 | 0 | 105 | 25,440 |
[WP] Aliens contact earth and invite them to a galactic council. Describe humanities eventual rise to power. | October 19, 2099: Contact
Extraterrestrial life has made its first mistake: They came here. On October the 19th, year 2099 at exactly 12:00:00 PM every screen on the planet switched on. Not all of the screens were looked at, and of those that were, even less were understood, most being switched back off a couple secon... | 6 | 0 | 105 | 25,441 |
[WP] Aliens contact earth and invite them to a galactic council. Describe humanities eventual rise to power. | **Extract from an N-Net lecture given on the 100th anniversary of the restoration of the Galactic Council.**
The universe seemed empty to us as we readied to take our first step into the stars, our desperate search for life had yielded nothing and we had accepted that we were to be alone. So as the United Earth Ship U... | 3 | 0 | 105 | 25,442 |
[WP] Aliens contact earth and invite them to a galactic council. Describe humanities eventual rise to power. | Shepard. A legend. A name that was once known throughout the universe. A name that once invoked such miraculous, such incomprehensible acts, that some say that Shepard, was merely a myth. A name, now unknown, erased from the galaxy forever, because of our ambition of power.
We were observed by them at first, the prot... | 1 | 0 | 105 | 25,443 |
[WP] Aliens contact earth and invite them to a galactic council. Describe humanities eventual rise to power. | Alien Council bestowed power
We blossomed it like a flower
but started a war
then started four
Now, with animosity they cower
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[WP] Aliens contact earth and invite them to a galactic council. Describe humanities eventual rise to power. | He found it hard to believe that, out of the people on Earth, he was the one chosen to repesent the human race. It was only a month ago that the invitation had arrived at SETI. The internet lit up with conspiracy theories and hurrahs about the new era we were entering, an era of peace and prosperity brought about thr... | 3 | 0 | 105 | 25,445 |
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A Link To A Short Film Based Off A Post From r/WritingPrompts "Temptations" | That's great! I'm always amazed at the creativity that comes out of this subreddit :)
I've added your film to the writing prompts inspired media section of the [wiki](http://www.reddit.com/r/WritingPrompts/wiki/multimedia), I hope you don't mind! | 3 | 0 | 16 | 25,447 |
A Link To A Short Film Based Off A Post From r/WritingPrompts "Temptations" | This is awesome! | 2 | 0 | 16 | 25,448 |
A Link To A Short Film Based Off A Post From r/WritingPrompts "Temptations" | The original post by the user:
http://www.reddit.com/r/WritingPrompts/comments/1uei23/wp_i_want_to_make_a_short_film_scene_anyone_feel/cehcdu3 | 5 | 0 | 16 | 25,449 |
A Link To A Short Film Based Off A Post From r/WritingPrompts "Temptations" | Call me stupid but I don't get it | 2 | 0 | 16 | 25,450 |
A Link To A Short Film Based Off A Post From r/WritingPrompts "Temptations" | Who did you copy this time? This guy saw a video of mine and copied it shot for shot.
Mine: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o01Tf1nb_cQ
His: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=21pfQGBY50g | 2 | 0 | 16 | 25,451 |
[WP] A golden armored Paladin stands before the horrifying monster that made him a what he is today. Will he seek vengeance or retribution? | Aggor stood before the creature. The monster. The one who had burned his homeland, slaughtered his people, and left him to die in muck. Only through the Grace of Kren was he still alive, rescued by the followers of the holiest of gods. He glared at the monster, seated in that chair, in a court of their peers. He knew w... | 3 | 0 | 6 | 25,452 |
[WP] A golden armored Paladin stands before the horrifying monster that made him a what he is today. Will he seek vengeance or retribution? | There he stood, no longer the knight in shining armor, but a worn and tired man, rich in scars and woe. A mighty hammer at his back, sword clutched in his right hand with four tattered fingers gripping the blood-soaked leather of the hilt with a quiet "squish" while all that remained of the glorious shield strapped to ... | 2 | 0 | 6 | 25,453 |
[WP] The main character meets the devil, and is surprised by what he/she meets. | A red spots car pulls up next to me. A girl in a red dress rolls down the tinted windows and beckons. She is pretty, but not beautiful. I approach her window, expecting her to ask for directions.
She opens the door and gets out the car. This surprises me, I see no reason for her to beckon to me if she was just going t... | 15 | 0 | 51 | 25,454 |
[WP] The main character meets the devil, and is surprised by what he/she meets. | The devil was a black cat.
No, that was incorrect actually. The devil was a horde of black cats.
Again. The devil was a black cat, and thousands of shadows.
James chewed on his lip, drawing blood. The cat moved full circle around him, on silent paws. Maybe this wasn't such a good idea after all.
*meow*
The dev... | 13 | 0 | 51 | 25,455 |
[WP] The main character meets the devil, and is surprised by what he/she meets. | She looks somewhat familiar to me. I find myself staring, though I'm trying my best not to. She looks gaunt. Ill, almost. Her hair falls limply around her face. I think it's brown but really it looks colourless. She's probably a similar height to me but significantly skinnier. Her hands are like bird claws, skeletal an... | 60 | 0 | 51 | 25,456 |
[WP] The main character meets the devil, and is surprised by what he/she meets. | I bury the box of trinkets in the middle of the crossroads, just like I'm supposed to. Any minute now, he'll be here. I remind myself not to be afraid, not to be tricked. *He's a liar* I tell myself. *He's a liar. Deceiver. Manipulator.* Suddenly, I hear the rattle of a snake. I turn around to see a naked woman. She’s ... | 4 | 0 | 51 | 25,457 |
[WP] The main character meets the devil, and is surprised by what he/she meets. | "Why not?" said a high voice.
It stopped me cold. My palms turned clammy. The words had come from the playground fence exactly as I'd had the same thought: "Why not?"
I had just been walking by, but Christ now I was looking: a playground, twenty-some kids playing. Adorable kids -- irresistible kids. She stood there a... | 8 | 0 | 51 | 25,458 |
[WP] The main character meets the devil, and is surprised by what he/she meets. | [deleted] | 2 | 0 | 51 | 25,459 |
[WP] The main character meets the devil, and is surprised by what he/she meets. | Ben pulls his car aggressively into a narrow slotted spot in the church's parking lot. He has a bottle in his hand; its name unbeknownst to even him (to be honest, he had forgotten it was there altogether.) There's only one thing on his mind, now. His wife's screams have become an anvil to all other thoughts.
He had ... | 2 | 0 | 51 | 25,460 |
[WP] The main character meets the devil, and is surprised by what he/she meets. | The grass waved gently as a strong breeze blew threw the field. Andrew lifted himself onto his elbows and looked around in confusion. He didn't know how he got there. The sun shone brightly from a brilliantly blue summer sky that was painted with a few wispy clouds. It was a beautiful summer day.
He looked down at him... | 10 | 0 | 51 | 25,461 |
[WP] The main character meets the devil, and is surprised by what he/she meets. | Over coffee, cigarettes, and sex, through twilit streets and moonless nights, I found her more and more enchanting. Passing her on the street, one would fail to notice under the wan but seemingly amorous pretense of her character an unyielding passion that steered her toward the closest pleasure with which to subdue he... | 2 | 0 | 51 | 25,462 |
[WP] The main character meets the devil, and is surprised by what he/she meets. | The air in the park became suffocatingly damp. Damp like sleeping with your head under the sheets, recycling your own breath. In the distance, a street light flickered and burned out. It was late night and there was little movement in this part of town.
He stepped onto the path and walked smartly into the darkness of ... | 1 | 0 | 51 | 25,463 |
[WP] The main character meets the devil, and is surprised by what he/she meets. | [deleted] | 1 | 0 | 51 | 25,464 |
[WP] The main character meets the devil, and is surprised by what he/she meets. | I opened my eyes.
White light. At the end of the tunnel? Had I made it?
I sat up quickly, looking around, searching for a sign. Investigating the scene, I stood up, looking at the clothes on me. Red Converse, standard blue jeans and a starched white shirt. A tap on my shoulder caught me by surprise.
I looked ... | 2 | 0 | 51 | 25,465 |
[WP] The main character meets the devil, and is surprised by what he/she meets. | "Bartender."
The man ignored me and served a drink to another patron. I cradled my current, nearly empty cup. "Bartender?" He walked to the other side of the bar and began gathering empty cups. I let out an annoyed sigh.
"Kind of a bitch, isn't he?"
I jump at the voice and turn. A woman who hadn't been there before ... | 2 | 0 | 51 | 25,466 |
[WP] The main character meets the devil, and is surprised by what he/she meets. | The devil stole the money from the collection box, and the Reverend Billy Scott didn't need to know that the horned beast had come in the form of a homeless child by the name of Lonnie, who had no idea what to do with the 100,000 dollars in that box, Saturday's meager take.
And he didn't need to know that his insuranc... | 1 | 0 | 51 | 25,467 |
[WP] The main character meets the devil, and is surprised by what he/she meets. | "So I guess there's only one stop left, huh, Virgil?"
"Will you *stop* calling me that? I *told* you, my name's James."
The living man shrugged. "Sorry. Always been a literature geek. The Divine Comedy was one of my favorites, and you've been filling the role of Virgil quite well."
The dead man rolled his eyes. ... | 3 | 0 | 51 | 25,468 |
[WP] The main character meets the devil, and is surprised by what he/she meets. | Michael Masters opened his eyes. Or rather, he tried to open them. The room was far too bright for his liking. After a few painful moments, his eyes began to adjust. He looked around.
He was standing in the middle of a dull gray room, barely the size of his bedroom. The fluorescent bulbs above made him nauseous, and h... | 1 | 0 | 51 | 25,469 |
[WP] The main character meets the devil, and is surprised by what he/she meets. | One of the few luxuries you have when you're tied to an enormous pentacle, or maybe pentagram, is that you can review your most recent mistakes with huge clarity. I have come to the conclusion that I will never again accept a ride from someone with a panel van no matter how wet or cold I am.
I turn my head and cough ... | 2 | 0 | 51 | 25,470 |
[WP]: a murder investigation keeps getting sidetracked by John Doe's hilarious tattoo | The saffron carpet looked ill bearing his dried blood. His face was contorted in shock, like he was still trying to scream. A butcher's knife to the throat. Donaghue grimaced. Not the nicest way to go and not the tidiest either.
"The incision is 4.8 inches deep at the point of entry. The wound isn't wide however: not ... | 15 | 0 | 46 | 25,471 |
[WP]: a murder investigation keeps getting sidetracked by John Doe's hilarious tattoo | After his rather unpleasant conversation with the lieutenant regarding his average closing time on his cases, Detective Armin Salmon sighed. His times *used* to be somewhat okay, but the latest case is throwing his time way out of wack.
He opened the folder again and looked at the photos again. The place is an absolut... | 4 | 0 | 46 | 25,472 |
[FF] Describe what will be the downfall of humanity in 100 words or less. | Two hands reaching up
To grasp the inky night sky
God's plan traced out in
One thousand stars
Two hands reached up
To touch the moon
To feel space press against
Our fibreglass suits
Two hands will reach up
To clutch at the heavens
As we forget
To look down
Two hands will bind together
As the... | 11 | 0 | 16 | 25,473 |
[FF] Describe what will be the downfall of humanity in 100 words or less. | Numbers and symbols scrawled a dozen whiteboards, inscrutable to anyone without an intimate understanding of abstract mathematics. Long into the night Dr. Adrian Vold worked through doubt, frustration, obsession, curiosity, through sheer force of will. At 1:08am, his life's work had finally paid off.
"The meaning of... | 2 | 0 | 16 | 25,474 |
[FF] Describe what will be the downfall of humanity in 100 words or less. | They said it was a great idea, an AI created for the army
In the beginning it worked just fine,but the army slayer was ahead of its time.
It wasn't long before all wars ended, but its programming bended.
With it no longer needed from its original purpose it seceded.
No longer would it anticipate, now preventative w... | 5 | 0 | 16 | 25,475 |
[FF] Describe what will be the downfall of humanity in 100 words or less. | The wind blew the scrap of paper across the street until it wrapped itself around a parking meter. It’s edges tic-ticked against the metal, but it printed message was now legible.
“PLUG IN,” it read.
And under: “Millions of avatars to choose from, countless adventures to be had.”
And under: “Fibercon Experimenta... | 2 | 0 | 16 | 25,476 |
[FF] Describe what will be the downfall of humanity in 100 words or less. | For centuries humanity lived as if they were the center of the universe. People believed that their personal wants held priority above that of their neighbors. That their personal needs held priority above that of the planet. That their personal goals held priority above the rest of mankind.
They were wrong. | 1 | 0 | 16 | 25,477 |
[FF] Describe what will be the downfall of humanity in 100 words or less. | Blograx looked at the information in front of him. "Do the people of this planet," he looked at his notes. "Earth... Do they know what they are doing?"
"We do not know my lord, but it is truly the most offensive gesture in the universe, and many of them are seen to demonstrate it. They must be mocking us."
Blograx l... | 8 | 0 | 16 | 25,478 |
[FF] Describe what will be the downfall of humanity in 100 words or less. | [deleted] | 3 | 0 | 16 | 25,479 |
[FF] Describe what will be the downfall of humanity in 100 words or less. | The temperature changed a few degrees. People stood for themselves and not each other. The conflict's casualties did not lie in the millions by guns and bombs, but the billions by lack of water, food, and medicine. Within another thousand years the earth had swept humanity under the carpet and begins again. | 1 | 0 | 16 | 25,480 |
[FF] Describe what will be the downfall of humanity in 100 words or less. | It was so damn obvious after all. So many movies, books and jokes. But all the preparation in the world didn't stop us from making artificial superintelligence. Jon watched the solid black wave slowly block out the sky. It needed energy and couldn't care less what was under the solar panel. Ma always said don't stare a... | 2 | 0 | 16 | 25,481 |
[FF] Describe what will be the downfall of humanity in 100 words or less. | [deleted] | 1 | 0 | 16 | 25,482 |
[FF] Describe what will be the downfall of humanity in 100 words or less. | It was beauty killed the beast. No, wait... Never mind. It was a meteor. | 3 | 0 | 16 | 25,483 |
[FF] Describe what will be the downfall of humanity in 100 words or less. | [deleted] | 1 | 0 | 16 | 25,484 |
[FF] Describe what will be the downfall of humanity in 100 words or less. | [deleted] | 1 | 0 | 16 | 25,485 |
[FF] Describe what will be the downfall of humanity in 100 words or less. | [deleted] | 1 | 0 | 16 | 25,486 |
[FF] Describe what will be the downfall of humanity in 100 words or less. | “I'm having second thoughts”
“What do you mean”
“Do we have the right to do this? Why is it OUR decision? Shouldn't THEY decide for themselves?”
“You're kidding right?”
“No”
“Look, since when do...people make the best decisions for themselves?”
“Hardly ever. But still”
“We aren't doing anything they technically ... | 1 | 0 | 16 | 25,487 |
[FF] Describe what will be the downfall of humanity in 100 words or less. | [deleted] | 1 | 0 | 16 | 25,488 |
[FF] Describe what will be the downfall of humanity in 100 words or less. | His assistant backed away slowly, the rust-coloured ChimeraCorp logo emblazoned on her white lab coat. She stared at him, wide-eyed and horrified.
“What have you done?” Her voice was only just a raspy whisper.
“What others refused to—change, diversity, life.” He brought the swaddled bundle that had been held over ... | 1 | 0 | 16 | 25,489 |
[FF] Describe what will be the downfall of humanity in 100 words or less. | [deleted] | 1 | 0 | 16 | 25,490 |
[FF] Describe what will be the downfall of humanity in 100 words or less. | It was hubris.
We knew we were better than them and they had to die.
As it turns out, they felt the same way.
Nuclear winter doesn't judge.
| 1 | 0 | 16 | 25,491 |
[FF] Describe what will be the downfall of humanity in 100 words or less. | we got hungry... | 1 | 0 | 16 | 25,492 |
[FF] Describe what will be the downfall of humanity in 100 words or less. | And so we sat and we talked, we sat and we talked, all about what to do.
In the meanwhile, the sun grew ever dimmer, and ever wider. | 1 | 0 | 16 | 25,493 |
[FF] Describe what will be the downfall of humanity in 100 words or less. | What's the point. Seriously, why should I even try if I it's probably not going to work. And what will people say when they see me fail. No one respects a failure. No good ever come from failing. Hell, no one even respects success nowadays. I have to be better than everyone else and then they'll respect me. I have to d... | 1 | 0 | 16 | 25,494 |
[FF] Describe what will be the downfall of humanity in 100 words or less. | Meowmeow searched lolcats for right charm and right witticism for his mood. He picked from sorting wheel- color, fangs, noses, chubbiness, etc.
Finding a fitting caption was tricky, then WHAM, kitten hanging by claw from chandelier, cute as a kitten.
**Caption:** I can haz chikin tomorra?
Lotsa Paws-UP votes for t... | 1 | 0 | 16 | 25,495 |
[FF] Describe what will be the downfall of humanity in 100 words or less. | We didn't start the fire
It was always burning since the world's been turning
We didn't start the fire
Though we didn't light it we didn't try to fight it | 1 | 0 | 16 | 25,496 |
[FF] Describe what will be the downfall of humanity in 100 words or less. | Not only did they prove that there was no god, but also that we were alone in the universe—in every universe. So we quit. We quit everything.
There were holdouts. People who disputed the science. People whose religion stayed their mind from grief. Those who thought that they could make their own meaning. They were the... | 1 | 0 | 16 | 25,497 |
[FF] Describe what will be the downfall of humanity in 100 words or less. | Back in the 2000s, the water only shot out of Old Faithful for a few minutes at a time, and only about every 90 minutes or so, but those eruptions got closer and closer over the years. Now, it seems, the endless stream won't stop. The news said there was a volcano under here. They said there's no way to stop what it wi... | 1 | 0 | 16 | 25,498 |
[WP] Rewrite a children's story as told by the antagonist from the original story in a first person perspective. | "Mirror, Mirror, on the wall; who is the fairest of them all?"
The beautiful woman asks me everyday. She is vain and the fairest women I have ever seen. So naturally I tell her she is. Not that I ever see anyone else. Day after day the only person I see or talk to is her. When she is done with me she throws a cloth ov... | 5 | 0 | 5 | 25,499 |
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