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  Can you please...?
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  I understand that some people are new to this and don't know how it all works. It goes a little something like this:

  You write a post I read the post I use the post as fuel for a flash fiction.

  Not much to fret about, right?

  Except...

  I really prefer it when the prompt is in the content of the prompt thread, and not the title.

  So can you all please make sure the prompt is not the title? It makes all things way easier for me.

  Likewise, it's preferable to have one post per prompt. Do not reply to a post with another prompt, please.

  Also... you don't need to tell me to have fun with a prompt. I always have fun. Telling me is just superfluous.

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  Guy in space
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  Wait, what happens to the poor guy in space in “Show Me the Way...”???
  Does he find his way home or does he make space into his new home? I’m so curious now.

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  Terrifying words
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  And then she spoke.
  She was xir’s friend, xir’s confidant, xir’s companion through thick and thin. She was the one xir trusted above anyone else.
  But she is also dangerous, deadly, and vicious; a deathworlder before all else, a human at heart.
  Xir will never forget those three words for as long as xir lives:

  “Actually, I can.”

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  Adrenaline
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  Adrenaline is a well known (and banned due to its effectiveness/danger) military combat drug.
  What happens when aliens find out that human bodies produce it naturally when under stress or danger?

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  Why not?
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  “Why not?” Is probably one of the most dangerous questions in a humans repertoire, ESPECIALLY when followed by the response “Because fuck you that’s why.”

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  Code of conduct
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  On the wall was posted the human regiment’s code of conduct/safety instructions:

  Do not subtract from the population. Do not add to the population (looking at you Jared). Do not end up in the hostipal, the news, or in jail. If you do end up in jail, establish dominance quickly.
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  To be human is to err
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  How do aliens react to sayings such as “to be human is to err”, “it’s fine, you’re only human” and multitude of others like them?

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  Humans
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  Not mine, but by randomacts13.

  “Humans survived the volatile early years of their species rise through community-bonding. They put the needs of a group of individuals over all else; hunting as a group, eating as a group, raising families as a group, and sometimes dying as a group. This tendency to form strong bonds means that while a human’s signed contract can always be trusted. It also means that a human cannot be trusted to not rip that contract up and say “Fuck it” if an individual with whom they have a community-bond is in danger. ”

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  Espionage
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  Spies are sent to earth, disguised as historians, to find earth’s weeknesses and strengths.
  Know thy enemy and all that, but they who know the past control the future.

  To see what these people have done to each other...
  They are horrified at what they find.

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  Failure
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  Seeing as humans as tasked with mainly with protecting and defending a ship, regardless of their occupation and other roles they serve, how do the humans and their crew react when their ship is attacked? And if (when?) they fail?
  How do humans cope with loss and failure when their more squishy havenworlder friends need comforting the most?

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  Pack bonding?
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  There’s always talk of how humans pack bond to everyone and everything. But that sort of connection, especially with sentiments, needs to be mutual. So how do humans cope with being the only human on a ship? With loneliness?
  Who supports the one who’s supposed to do all the supporting?

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  Relationships change
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  What happened to the human dying the storm in “Challenge #01981-E157: One Educational Day on a Strange New World”?
  How did their relationship change after?
  Please write more of this story! It’s so fascinating!

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  A lesson on interspecies cultural appropriation.
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  The older jade-skinned female shook her head with a sympathetic smile - not angry, but understanding good intentions gone misinformed.
  "Lana, you're young and determined, but also human. Tall, white, human. Not short, not green, and definitely not goblin. I appreciate you wanting to plan this 'goblin pride' rally thing, but it's kinda romanticized. Just because we mixed into human society doesn't mean we risk losing ourselves. We still know our history and have our beliefs and traditions, as crude and vulgar as some of them are in the opinions of some humans."
  The goblin woman frowned a bit, as if hesitating slightly. "But Goblins... we weren't exactly the whole 'noble savage' thing like you were taught and want to show, nice as that might sound to pretend otherwise. We were craven little gremlins, jumping at shadows - funny to learn fantasy roleplaying games were pretty accurate on that, to a degree, huh?"
  A pause as Lana chuckled, then she continued. "Before the humans discovered the first goblins, we were little monsters; we scavenged carcasses or garbage, lived in swamps & caves, and basically used sex as currency. Integrating with human society was a good thing. Medicine, good food, safety. Lives got longer, kids got smarter. We... are better off now. Now come here, kiddo, let's see if we can't get things a bit more presentably accurate..."

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  It went *plink*
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  'Don't be silly', snapped Mara, 'cows have 6 legs'. (Mara from Feists 'Empire' trilogy, goes with Kevin to Midkemia)

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  Played like a fiddle
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  “How could you?
  “I trusted you and, and you played me!”

  “Like the cheap kazoo you are”

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  Bacteria and acid
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  Humans are walking biohazardd to everyone and everything. Our saliva can cause several pandemics alone is unchecked. If our gut is punctuated, the bacteria (and acid) inside us will eat us alive, not to mention whoever else may come into contact with it.
  What happens when the galactic community first learns about this fact?
  What happens when a human is found with an open gut wound that ha been left untreated?

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  Dogs?
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  How do alien ambassadors to earth first react to trying to translate/figure out what is a dog and what isn’t?

  At this point it’s a minor policy at the embassy to just assume all furred quadrupeds smaller than a horse are dogs.

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  Hate
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  “I hate you”
  “You just saved my life! Plus, we both know you adore me.”
  “Well, finding someone else to hate is too much work”
  “And risking your own life to save me wasn’t?”
  “See? This is why I hate you. Nitpicking, and ungrateful.”

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  Relationships are weird
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  How would aliens react to human-human relationships? Particularly close ones (best friends, romantic partners) where affection is mainly shown through quips and teasing?

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  Ghost ship 2 (also in space)
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  Alien crew explores a likely-haunted spaceship wreck they found floating around