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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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  What are we?
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  The war rages, bodies fell left and right, were they man or monster? They do not know, for the the line that separated them blurred centuries ago.

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  Unspoken rules
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  There are many unspoken laws across the galaxy. Don’t provoke a calm man. Fear the wrath of a protective mother. Don’t take any of human Girth drinks. Ok maybe not that the last one but it only applies to one ship.

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  True Insanity.
  insanity humans are insane field trip • • Guest

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  Internutter, a suggestion? What if the person gave, with the proper offensensitivity warnings first, a history lesson of mental health care, and what defined "insanity" to humans before better science and understanding became normal? And an explanation of the stigma still attached to that word that persists, unfortunately, possibly even into that era at least amongst some groups of humans?

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  Petting Zoo Planets
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  Whole planets dedicated to humans need to touch things. They range from your typical cat cafe walking with elephants, to even swimming with sharks. And that's just the animals from earth! Each plant has a different variety of species to accommodate any human, Making them a great alternative for humans who keep touching the unknown animals on equally unknown planets.

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  Others' problems with her wealth.
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  She was an avid inventor, had been ever since she was a small child. She had been born on a world controlled by DeReggers but her family had moved away from that place and into Galactic Alliance space finally settling on a haven world that allowed for havenworlders and deathworlders to live together. When she was 9, she'd found a way to improve upon the translators that allowed for better communication with other species. When she was 13, she'd graduated from school with honors and entered university at 14. And now, here she was, at 21 and having graduated universities with honors. She, with help from others for the project had begun when she was 17, had built a massive space station with all the reinforcements and luxuries a human could design into the thing for all species they could think of. And, thanks to the landing fees, and immense commerce this huge hub had, she had managed to not only grow quite wealthy, bring bring the rest of her family out from DeRegger space and set them up with good homes of their own here on the station.

  The problem is, the Leaders of the DeReggers were NOT happy with this. Someone born from their worlds, even though her family had moved away with her when she was only a little girl, living in Alliance space and getting wealthy without THEM getting a cut?? And then now pulling away hundreds of people that had once been under their thumb to give them the lives that the DeRegger leaders had insisted were NOT possible for people like that? They were going to make sure their voices were heard!

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  He LIVES.... Again!
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  It had been years since zhe had been seen last, though not nearly as long as had been estimated, wagered or theorised. When a derelict, cobbled together ship limped into The Blackstump research station. it had seemed to come from come from beyond what was known and explored space, and from the entirely the wrong direction from which the occupant was last seen.

  The Return of Andi the Undying

  https://steemit.com/fiction/@internutter/challenge-02156-e327-they-ll-be-back

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  Captain America: Background and actions
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  What kind of man was Steve Rogers, to fight for America with his background?

  In the original comics, he was Irish from the Lower East Side. This means he was probably Irish Catholic from the tenements, which meant he was considered by most Americans with power (maybe) one step above dirt.

  On the other hand, he was a tall, blond, blue-eyed man, the Nazi ideal. The Catholic church coexisted with the Nazis without severe discrimination. Many Irish were allied with the Nazis.

  He grew up in a multicultural multiracial neighborhood and would have known many people that the Nazis considered less, but he would not have been one of the people they considered less due to their genetics.

  So what kind of man could look out, see the horrors that are being done to other people, and choose to ally with the people who treated him and many others like dirt instead of the ones who would treat him extremely well but commit atrocities against others, and continue to do so over the course of an entire war?

  And for a laundry list of references related to this...
  https://historicallyaccuratesteve.tumblr.com/post/92559081749/protestant-steve-rogers-v-catholic-steve-rogers
  https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/captain-america-getting-real-life-statue-some-say-its-wrong-place-180959706/
  https://www.history.com/topics/immigration/tenements
  https://iowaculture.gov/history/education/educator-resources/primary-source-sets/irish-immigration-beyond-potato-famine
  https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/nazi-racism
  https://markhumphrys.com/sfira.nazis.html

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  Silver Magic
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  H: Did you know that you can use Duct Tape to patch your space space suit a pinch?
  A: I believe you are trying to deceive me. To make me feel better about the situation you have got us into.
  H: Aww. Don't be like that. It works, I promise, I've done it before.
  A: That does not surprise me.

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  My body is a weapon
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  Some humans fight with blades, those who live on worlds that allow it, use firearms. Or for those aboard stations and ships, crossbows. Me? I refuse to use any of that. My body is my weapon. Sure I carry a utility knife, don't most of us? But it's never been used to draw blood. With a single blow I can knock a man down, with a well-placed kick I can knock over a being the size of a tree. My hand, small as it is, can strike a seemingly random spot, and in moments my enemy seizes up and then dies.

  My body is my weapon, trained by an art that was many centuries old. It was taught for defense, it was taught for meditation, it was taught, to all things, peaceful monks in temples. Martial arts, kung-fu, tae-kwon-do, judo, tai-chi, ninjitsu, jujitsu, hapkido, aikido, capoeira, sambo, dim mak, kendo, and so many others. I've learned them all.

  My body, a deadly weapon of war, meant to protect the peaceful. None shall harm those under my care. I won't let you die, not on my watch.

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  Laughing in the dark
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  Jokes can sometimes lead into a battle of wits. While normal jokes can be represented as a straight kick or punch, puns act as the roundhouse or the hooks or uppercuts. All can be block if they known or prepare. But there’s one genre of joke many dub as “distasteful”. Dark humour, a sucker punch, illegal moves to some. It is not the jokes themselves are funny it’s is the reactions of those in the receiving end which make the jokester burst with laughter. To some dark humour is like food, some don’t get it.

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  Things to Never Mix Up...
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  It is, at best, unwise to mistake these things for each other...

  Kindness for Weakness

  Patience for Passivity

  Caution for Cowardice

  Silence for Ignorance

  Those who have done so have, almost invariably, learned the differences are vast indeed, and quite often have learned this in a manner whose results ensure they do not ever make that same mistake twice... or do anything else ever again, either...

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  Invention
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  "Necessity is the mother of invention... Boredom is the father."

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  Time Travel
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  In today's episode of "Fun with Wormholes!" we will discuss how most people's family lines are actually Mobius Strips!

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  Problem solving
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  "Ain't no kill like overkill."

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  Warning.
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  "OK. This place is disgusting. I don't think there is enough bleach on the planet to make it safe..."

  "I found this stuff! It was in the cleaning section, and while I can't read anything on it it has a 5 page booklet of what I think are warnings... At least all the skull and crossbones and hazard signs look like warnings."

  "Grab three. Anything with that many warnings has to be good."

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  Diplomacy
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  "Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far." - Roosevelt

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  Panic Later
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  Human to Alien: Could you please have the head of engineering come here? Don't worry, nothing is wrong. I just... saw a way to improve this! I am holding it so I don't lose track on the spot I want to talk to them about. Please hurry... I don't want to "forget" what I want to tell them.

  Human to Engineer: So... Please keep this quiet. I don't want to cause a panic and make this worse... But, if I let go of this everything is going to get REAL bad REAL quick. If you can find a fix or bypass immediately I would appreciate it... Not to stress you any but I am pretty sure my hand is (burned, frozen, bleeding, damaged) to much for me to use anymore already so we are kind of running on death grip right now. Sorry for the trouble.

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  Broken
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  "Don't fix what's not broken."

  "If it's not broken, you haven't tested it enough."

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  The most valuable find...
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  A pre-shattering time capsule is found on Earth. In 2019, the time capsule was put into a cavern that was deliberately collapsed back in that prehistory era only to be opened, slowly, by centuries of erosion and earth shifts. Several teachers and historials carefully gathered text books, history books from around the world, old newspapers, maps copied old scrolls, various sets of encyclopedias, bibles from as many cultures as possible, books on languages from around the world, to name but a few of what was in there. It was an incredible treasure trove of history. From the ancient histories, to the civil war, to the history of the various earth world wars, to things like the great depression to the modern era. The history books were from many nations and various cultures. And not just history books, but recipe books, people's personal diaries and photos as well. The capsule being a hard, resilient plastic container filled with inert nitrogen to try to prevent oxidization of these assets.

  And who found this treasure trove to start? A homeless, hungry, twelve year old who was exploring caverns and a havenworlder who had come to visit earth and gotten lost from the tour group.