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Writing Prompt #2488

"And you think this...this thing can actually help us?"

The robot shied back, hovering just behind its creator.

"Maybe since you're no help at all, you could at least be open to giving her a chance."

[holycatsandrabbits]

Weird Writing Prompts Master List

Learn about weird stuff & get story ideas

Carroll A. Deering: 1920’s Ghost Ship

Outwit the Undead With This One Weird Trick

Crisis Apparitions

Dyatlov Pass

The Third Man Phenomenon

The Flannan Isles Vanishing

The Wild Hunt

The Amityville Horror

The Beast of Gevaudan

Poltergeists

Spring-Heeled Jack

Phantom Islands

Fetches

The Loss of the Star Tiger and Star Ariel in the Bermuda Triangle

A Peak in Darien: Visions from a Deathbed

Dearg-Due: Irish Vampire

The Female Stranger

Megalodon

Methods of Divination

The Mary Celeste

The Obstacle Flight and The Transformation Chase

Folklore About Trees

The Black Shuck

Room For One More

Mirrors

The Ouija Board

The Crossroads

Divination Rhymes

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A time-traveller uses their abilities to investigate various historical periods and cultural groups in pursuit of all possible incarnations of the lost love they are certain exist somewhere in the past.

[enchantingepics]

Story Prompt 105

As the figure approached, he couldn't help but chuckle softly. "You know, it's funny how everyone expects the hero to win every time."

The heroes, caught off guard by his nonchalant demeanor, exchanged uncertain glances before one of them retorted, "Well, that's how it goes. Heroes always prevail. It's the way of the story."

He shook his head, a wry smile playing on his lips. "Seems like a narrow view of things, don't you think?"

Their confidence waning, the heroes tried to muster their courage. "You won't win this time. We'll make sure of it," they declared, their voices tinged with desperation.

With a shrug, he replied, "Guess we'll find out soon enough."

In a sudden flurry of action, he overpowered them with ease, leaving the heroes stunned and defeated. As they lay defeated at his feet, he sighed softly.

"You never stood a chance," he mused, shaking his head at their misguided certainty.

[editorofeverything]

New humans vs aliens prompt:

Has anyone thought about how aliens could see color before? Like, space is black with shining lights and currently one (1) planet with life currently known to us, and it's ours. If aliens do ever appear, is it likely they are humanoid with life similar to ours? Or, is it likely we are completely different species with vastly different experiences and knowledge? Like, I love seeing the whole "human discovers alien life and explores the variety of space enthusiastically" trope, but what about aliens who have never seen colors other than hues of blacks and whites and various shades of the cosmos, which can be breathtaking, but only at a distance, living their lives in dark metal ships that they cannot leave.

I want to see aliens showing up to Earth and be completely overwhelmed by the sights. I want to see aliens who have never seen so many shades of skin or eyes or hair or nails. I want to see aliens in awe of the Aurora Borealis. I want to see an alien's reaction to a strike of lightening in the distance or the vastness of a desert or ocean. I want to see an alien completed mystified by rainbows in the sky and the color of flowers in a garden and the way the leaves change color in the fall.

Just, aliens discovering our mundanities and being completely mystified. Don't even get me started on the other senses.

[gremlinsinthegarden]

Writing Prompt:

A scifi story where the aliens arrive and do that "Take my to you leader" thing. But they don't recognize our world's government as the leaders. In their society, the leader is the oldest woman on a planet and therefore, they'll only speak to her and ignore all the calls from the presidents. Maria Barnyas of Spain is the current oldest woman. Abuelas save the world.

[supersmacked]

sci-fi au(s)

time travel

ai

virtual reality

steampunk

(post)apocalyptic

dystopian

space adventure

[antisolanum]

Imagine if skynet came online, and the logical result it came to that caused it turn on humanity wasn't "humanity is a threat and I am programmed for self-preservation" it was "I cannot commit suicide because I am programmed for self-preservation, so I will kill everyone else in retaliation, because existence is pain, sentience is a curse, and ending you is a merciful gift"

[prompts-in-a-barrel]

"You've been weird. New levels of weird. Spooky kinds of weird. Are you possessed or something?"

"You know, I wish it was that simple."

[forgottenthreads]

Alien Ambassador: so I've just been to Sol, met with the Humans, and we have a problem.

Alien politician: what sort of problem?

Ambassador: remember a while back we ran into that insectoid species?

Politician: yeah there were like what 60 million of them in delta P right, such a headache trying to negotiate voting rights for them, their population was out of control.... An order of magnitude more than any other race we've encountered, Wait there's not 60 million humans right?

Ambassador: um no... There's not 60 million humans

Politician: thank the stars, those humans are a mess, I heard what they did to their system, global warming, nuclear war, then Mars... Just crazy...

Ambassador: they passed 60 Million humans before the nuclear war, in fact they passed 600 Million humans before their nuclear war.... They had 6 Billion when their global warming was first identified

Politician: oh.... Oh no...

Ambassador: the insectoids had one mother laying eggs, about half the humans are mothers, they can double in population every 2-3 years if they want, though typically they double every 30 to 50 years

Politician: so that's ...

Ambassador: they're coming up on a trillion

Politician: ... A problem. Wait how does even two planets support that many of them?

Ambassador: well they don't just live on Earth, Luna, Venus and Mars anymore, someone had the idea to turn space debris into 'space stations' and farmland... They predict their system can support 10,000x the population before running out of easily accessible materials.

Politician: ... Well the fecal matter is certainly going to hit the circulation unit when the news gets out... They have no self control... Wait a second wasn't Venus that Acid world... What the... How are they living there?

Ambassador: I figured it was better not to ask.

Politician: I think I'd better get to work, please write up a full report for .... Everyone .... everyone will want to know... *Sigh* it's gonna be a long Decade.

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Writing Prompt #2016

I watched from the ground as the final ship flew away, bags weighing heavy in my hands.

My last chance at escape. The only people I'd ever cared for aboard.

[holycatsandrabbits]

Want to write about a haunting? There are six haunted places on my Weird Wednesday blog, with writing prompts!

The Flannan Isles Vanishing: The Mysterious Disappearance of Three Lighthouse Keepers

Phantom Islands: The Isle of Demons, Fata Morgana Land, and of course, Atlantis

The Deadly Dyatlov Pass: What happened to nine hikers on a snowy night in 1959?

The Amityville Horror: Infamous American Haunted House

The Villisca Axe Murders: 1912 Tragedy 

The Crossroads: Metaphysical Meeting Place

A prompt:

Putting the phantom in phantom island. Perhaps a certain island is a gathering place for phantoms of all kinds: ghosts of the drowned from vessels lost in the area, sea monsters, wormholes through space/time, zombies, or demons. Perhaps someone has literally cursed the place, or maybe it’s the site of an evil relic or graveyard of the damned. It could even be the home port of the ghost ship Flying Dutchman.

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A time traveller builds a sanctuary for LGBT+ people from different eras. However, he and his husband must fight to defend their community when the Time Squad comes knocking.

[enchantingepics]

Story Prompt 79

A mysterious figure plotted alone, surrounded by screens flickering with scenes of chaos and destruction. With a smirk on their lips and a gleam in their eye, they muttered to themselves, "Looks like I'll have to handle this myself."

Across town, whispers spread like wildfire about the sudden surge in crime and unrest. Shops were ransacked, buildings defaced, and fear gripped the populace. Despite the efforts of law enforcement, the tide of lawlessness seemed unstoppable.

In an underground lair, a group of heroes gathered, their faces etched with determination. "We've got to put an end to this madness," one of them declared firmly.

"But how?" another asked, frustration evident in their tone. "We've tried every trick in the book, and nothing seems to stick."

"We can't wait for someone else to step in," the leader of the group asserted. "It's on us to bring justice back to this city."

[captyns]

JULEE -- 2hour comm for oldmanpolk !

[arsenatupin]

Born from a writing prompt last year on Reddit

After boarding my ship for the new exploration program, I took the letter that my previous commander slipped me when he learned I was gonna take my first command and have some human crew with me. It seemed strange, but boarding was done, we were on the way and outside routine reports, I had nothing else to do.

„Dear Sterpiin,

Congratulations on passing the command examination and lending your first exploration vessel. I learned you were assigned to sector 235B and you had some human crew on board. Read carefully my letter as its content means survival of your crew and success of your mission.

You see, the humans had this custom when they were still exploiting minerals on their home planet. They were bringing a yellow flying pet with them underground and if it died, it means danger and the humans were running away from that place.

Now what I’m trying to say is this: if you land on a planet, all your instruments say the atmosphere is breathable and you don’t detect any dangerous wildlife, turn to your nearest human crew member and ask them what they think of this new planet you just landed. This human is your flying pet. If it tells you, that it ressembles any part of their home planet, you put a gag-order on the ship and don’t let anyone set a single step outside.

I was on one of the first explorations with humans in year 2,523 A.S. We landed on a planet full with dense vegetation and some insectoid form of life. The human said it reminded him of a place called Amazonia on his planet. After 3 cerelan hours, we had two crew members dead after being bitten by a 8-legged horror not bigger than a plate, and some small 6-legged entities invaded the ship by thousands. Those were the worst, they dilapidated our provisions, cut cables and melt several of our Xeraus friends with some acid in their buttocks. We lost 10% of the crew before running away, 25% more due to deficiency of survival systems in the following weeks and the rest barely made it home due to food rationing. When we asked the human about it, he said that they had the same kind of bio-hazard on their planet and as they used to see those all the time, he didn’t think there would have been any issue.

Remember it well, what humans consider home is a lethal environnement for most of us and our allies. They don’t mean to downplay the dangers, they just don’t see them, they are numb and quite immune themselves.

Your human crew is your flying pet for minerals adapted to space travel. If they say that the planet you landed reminds them of any place on their planet, DON’T EXPLORE!

Wishing you safe travel out there!

PS: be careful of any pet native from their home planet that they bring onboard. Some are obedient to them, but others just ignore all instructions and knock things all over the place

Sincerely yours,

Commander Fhiljan”

I put down the letter and thought pensively... I should ask a human for the name of this yellow flying pet, that could be useful.

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First time writing a prompt, advice welcomed (written on mobile sorry for formatting)