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[WP] Aliens come to Earth. They completely ignore all attempts at diplomacy as they're only looking for a single person in particular. (lemmy.world)
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[WP] A revolutionary takes work at the McDonald's in the Pentagon as part of their plan to assassinate the president. However, they end up falling in love with one of the officials there. (lemmy.world)
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[WP] After winning a long winded court dispute with the devil over your soul, you opened a business helping others navigate their infernal contracts. (lemmy.world)
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[WP] You reincarnated into a fantasy world, where you attend a magic school. Though, it turns out your entire class is made of people who reincarnated. (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] Everyone knows not to go near the house on the hill, lest the witch inside curses you. Despite that, you're determined to take her on a date. (lemmy.world)
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Consolidation with lemmy.world writing prompts community (lemmy.world)
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I have closed the lemmy.world community, and redirected it here.

Should benefit everyone :)

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Immediately after your death, you hear, "focus tester #503, thank you for participating in Earth. Remember: your feedback will likely be incorporated into future updates." (lemmy.myserv.one)
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From an AskLemmy question by @[email protected]

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[WP] You have an exceptionally bad student in your class. Unfortunately, reality has invariably bends over backwards to make their wrong answers right. (startrek.website)
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[WP] Those who can’t do teach. An atheist leads a religious service and does a better job than the priest—to both their bewilderment. (startrek.website)
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[WP] You never got the memo that your tech support company was bought out by Wizard Craft Inc. and continue to dispense advice as usual. (startrek.website)
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[WP] You wake up in a strange place not knowing who you are, and unable to remember anything. (sopuli.xyz)
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You have recently noticed that your friends will do everything you tell them. Is it a prank? A superpower? Doesn't matter. You won't let this opportunity go to waste. (lemmy.myserv.one)
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From an AskLemmy post [link here] by @[email protected]

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When an elderly person went to their local mall, they had no idea they'd wind up saving the world. (blog.reedsy.com)
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Another prompt from the reedsy list. From September 21st, 2018.

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"I'd like to buy a plane ticket to your furthest destination today," you told the airline employee. (blog.reedsy.com)
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From blog.reedsy.com, September 21st, 2018.

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[Meta] How do you folks feel about pulling prompts from writing prompt lists online? (lemmy.myserv.one)
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One of the prompts on this list here is

"Describe an everyday item as if it's magic."

is vaguely similar to my cyberpunk prompt.

Which makes me feel like I'm kinda reinventing the wheel here.

Plus, the lists I am talking about are enormous! It would take years for us to run out of prompts from them. Definitely a good way to keep the community's pulse going until the prompt posting process starts to happen more organically.

I'll be sure to hyperlink the source of the prompt in the body, (or in the case of reedsy, possibly the URL field.)

So what do you say? Shall we borrow prompts until we've gathered some steam?

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It's our world, (and the events can be ordinary and boring), but the narration and main character's internal monologue are in the tone of a cyberpunk dystopia. (lemmy.myserv.one)
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Example:

Darren operated the mouse and keyboard, aware of them only as mundane extensions of himself, told his computer's web browser to establish a connection with the address called "Amazon." As if an online "marketplace" (powered by an ever evolving, manipulative artificial intelligence) bore any resemblance to the wilderness that used to cover the earth.

Especially when said stretch of wilderness was already a fraction of itself, eaten up for strip farming or land speculation by dozens of corporations driven by the same profit-seeking mindset that motivated Amazon itself: infinite growth.

Millions of microscopic lights flashed to show images of "products you might be interested in." Darren, like any other person, had to constantly relearn how to push past and ignore the suggestions. A subtle arms race between humans and the AI built by the rich to control the poor.

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In the cultivation genre, pushing past limits (and neglecting rest) strengthens one's body, mind, and psychic powers. Recently, someone with anxiety and insomnia got isekai'd into such a world. (lemmy.myserv.one)
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Spells require lifespan: more time lost generally yields more power. There's also skill. Anyway, some rich/noble fool just destroyed all the reasons one spell-caster might care about the first part. (lemmy.myserv.one)
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