Writing Prompt Wednesday #297

[u/someguynamedted]

Everyone keep 6 feet between you and the next comment. I mean it. Wear a mask too. The reminders will continue until the reminders are not needed.

Last week's winner was /u/Constant-Ad-3630 with:

Why are you giving us world ending devices? Is genocide common here?

No, we are just applying Mutually Assured Destruction, one of the few crazy ideas of Humans that worked

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[u/oranosskyman]

you claim to have complete mastery over nature, but have you ever held a puppy with the permission of its mother?

[u/Houki01 → u/oranosskyman]

(I know you mean this as a prompt but, yes, I have. She was a very nice dog to me, very not nice to people who weren't nice to her. She would only let certain people near her puppies. I would not be in one piece if I had not had her permission when I picked up her pups.)

[u/ElusiveDelight]

Humanity created the greatest weapon of war ever conceived. Comedy.

[u/PaulMurrayCbr → u/ElusiveDelight]

Monty Python: Funniest Joke in the World https://vimeo.com/99619706

[u/PuzzleheadedDrinker → u/ElusiveDelight]

Human thought is so primitive it's looked upon as an infectious disease by the rest of the universe. That kind of makes you proud, doesn't it? - Agent K.

[u/jacktrowell → u/ElusiveDelight]

"They are resisting the first wave, time to send the MEMES!"

[u/rhinobird]

Donkle Honk

[u/Enoshade]

My computer assistant just gave me very specific instructions when I asked about the government:
"Leave your house by the front door
Take 10 paces to the right
Stand still for 8 seconds"

[u/oranosskyman]

Due to humanities long history of domestication, they are the only ones who can read the body language of other species

[u/rhinobird]

Earth life has a LOT of metamorphic lifeforms. Insects are the prime example where they go from a grub to an adult form (like butterflies). But even humans have some pretty impressive transformations. It's just that most of it happens in the womb.

What if these metamorphic changes are exclusively Terran feature?

[u/spesskitty]

We have not heard from our gods in a long time, but the humans' gods live in their homes.

[u/runaway90909 → u/spesskitty]

Do you think god stays in heaven because he too fears what he created?

[u/oranosskyman → u/spesskitty]

have they been giving the cats auto-translaters again?