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[WP] An alien civilization on the verge of losing a war reaches out to anyone who will listen for aid. You are its ambassador, desperately trying to convince other societies to your aid. (lemmy.world)

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[WP] One of the eggs you bought from a local farmer hatches into a baby dinosaur (lemmy.world)

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[WP] You are the last human left alive, not because everyone else is dead, but because someone needs to maintain the servers they all uploaded themselves to (lemmy.world)

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[WP] While riding their bike back home from school, a kid notices something strange out of the corner of their eye: Amid the trees, a lone staircase had appeared seemingly out of nowhere. (lemmy.world)

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[WP] A billionaire loses all their money and assets, and must survive living as one of the common folk (lemmy.world)

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[WP] RCP8.5 scenario → collapse → CO2 decline → world rebuilding (lemmy.world)

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in 2300 ? ... the worst global warming scenario does not say what happens after global population has collapsed.

SCENARIO (for 2300)	PROJECTED GLOBAL WARMING (°C)	CO~2~ CONCENTRATIONS (PPMV)
RCP2.6	0.0 to 1.2	360
RCP8.5	3.0 to 12.6	2000

i like the book series "Foundation" by Isaac Asimov where he describes rebuilding after collapse.

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[WP] It's your first day on the job at the IRS, and they gave you the hardest job of all: collecting taxes from the North American cryptids. (lemmy.world)

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[WP] You wake up one morning and find a clowder of cats in your living room, all of them staring at you. (lemmy.world)

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Clowder is a group of cats apparently

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[WP] You're a housepet a person is trying to take a picture of with their smartphone and you have no idea what that is, or what they're doing with it instead of petting you or giving you food. (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by Apytele@sh.itjust.works to c/writingprompts@lemmy.world

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Not gonna share my AO3 handle but I get a fair amount of praise for my stream of non-human consciousness bits so (if it's your jam) I really encourage you to take a deep dive into sensory and processing differences between you and the animal you're attempting to depict. Its fascinating (or I'm a huge nerd lol).

As a semi-related example, a dog can have difficulty seeing a yellow ball against green grass due to red-green colorblindness, so you could also write an angry epistolary to just get a blue fucking ball already because nobody can fucking see that Jared.

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[WP] You submitted your house as a fan stage to a fighting game. They accepted it, and now you keep finding strangely dressed people fighting life or death battles in your living room. (lemmy.world)

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[WP] You are interrupted when that phone chimes. You already know who it's from before opening the message. A hollow laugh escapes your lips as you realize they've doomed us all. (lemmy.world)

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[WP] In a future where AI has surpassed human capabilities, with everyone either merging with AI or uploading their consciousness, the last fully human person chooses euthanasia. (lemmy.world)

submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by Ragdoll_X@lemmy.world to c/writingprompts@lemmy.world

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[WP] You marry a succubus, to the chagrin of everyone you've ever known and many different religions. (lemmy.world)

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[WP] A vampire knocks on your door, desperately begging to be let in. (lemmy.world)

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[WP] You saved a stranger's life. Turns out, they're a knight, and they've been following you ever since to repay the life debt they owe you. (lemmy.world)

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[WP] You, James Hoffmann, realize you probably had one espresso too many when your prototype time machine leaves you stranded in mid-17th century London. (lemmy.world)

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[WP] Aliens infiltrate the government and business elites of humanity, but possess more empathy and care more for people than the sociopathic human elites (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 3 months ago by Justas@sh.itjust.works to c/writingprompts@lemmy.world

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[WP] The last 4 seconds before the bomb goes off. (lemmy.zip)

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[WP] You can rule the world only after you find someone to marry and there's a long list... (lemmy.world)

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[WP] You know who the killer is, but no one believes you despite the evidence you have, because there's no way something that cute can be a killer. (lemmy.world)

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[WP] You die every day of your life, and somehow wake up the next day perfectly fine. No one remembers you dying and time keeps moving like normal. That changes when someone saves your life one day. (lemmy.world)

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[WP] Vampires vs Aliens (lemmy.world)

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[WP] A dragon fights a princess to save the knight she kidnapped (lemmy.world)

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[WP] You suck at cooking. It's so bad, you accidentally summoned a spaghetti monster, and once your yellow cake turned radioactive, but you're not gonna stop chasing your dream to be a head chef. (lemmy.world)

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[WP] The king is actually a mimic that ate the real king a while back, but no one's seemed to notice and this whole kingship thing is confusing as all hell. (lemmy.world)

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