#storyseed
Kidnappers asked for Bitcoin then lost the ransom because crypto is hard. Villains really need better tech support futurism.com/future-... #scifi #future #storyseed
Bitcoin Finally Finds Practical Use: Kidnapping Senior Citizens for Ransom
The horrifying kidnapping of Nancy Guthrie has put Bitcoin in the spotlight for some pretty despicable reasons.
futurism.com
February 11, 2026 at 2:24 PM
Illustration from Color Problems: A Practical Manual for the Lay Student of Color by Emily Noyes Vanderpoel, New York, 1902. #booksky #artsky
January 27, 2026 at 4:40 PM
This is some next-level American Folk Horror to rival the Wickerman and anything the English could come up with.
November 14, 2025 at 3:05 PM
if you stay up late on Halloween until after the tv station signs off, and stare at the color test long enough, a special live broadcast from hell comes on
November 1, 2025 at 12:41 PM
October 30, 2025 at 4:57 PM
BER. Stuttgart 21. January 6th.
Our systems don’t just support stories—they are stories.
What if your fantasy city had its own controversial megaproject or failed oath?
New blog: Systems as Storytelling.
📖 arvelsarchives.com/2025/09/21/s...
#TTRPG #FantasyPolitics #StorySeed
Stories within Stories – Looking at systems and rituals – Arvel's Archives
arvelsarchives.com
September 21, 2025 at 7:27 PM
imagine a dystopia where people’s emotions are taxed.
cry too much? fees. fall in love? surcharge.

One girl finds a loophole — silence.

#WritingPrompt #DystopianFiction #StorySeed
September 9, 2025 at 11:35 AM
I feel like there is a potential Lovecraftian #storyseed in here. #wirtingcommunity #horro
Hikers who were rescued after being lost in the Catskill Mountains told officials that they had consumed psychedelic mushrooms and one was experiencing a “debilitating high.” It was the second such episode in recent months.
‘Debilitating High’: Hikers on Psychedelic Mushrooms Are Rescued From Wilderness
The hikers, who were in the Catskill Mountains, told officials that they had consumed the hallucinogen and one was experiencing a “debilitating high.” It was the second such episode in recent months.
nyti.ms
September 7, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Accidental storyseed
August 16, 2025 at 10:26 AM
They return home.
A chain on the door.
Police tape flutters.
A tree blocks the drive.

Nothing looks broken—
but everything feels wrong.

What would make your MC feel like a stranger in their own life?

#TotD #WritingPrompt #AmWriting #WritersOfX #StorySeed
July 29, 2025 at 12:36 AM
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May 21, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Agree 100%. Also, "subscribe to life" is one helluva good cyberpunk dystopia #storyseed.
I am sick of having to subscribe to... *everything* in order to do anything. Anything that is said to be convenient - streaming, food delivery, software packages, reading articles online - they all want you to sign up and pay over yet more money. How long before we have to subscribe to life itself?
May 14, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Roman Egyptian faience phallic lamp, 1st-2nd century AD approx, National Museum of Antiquities, Leiden, The Netherlands. 🏺🗃️ #PhallusFriday 📸 me
April 4, 2025 at 9:12 PM
#storyseed for a better world, from @grickle.bsky.social
March 31, 2025 at 7:55 PM
March 27, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Welcome to the weekend. It’s time for #SaturdayStorySeed #writingcommunity #writesky #writing #storyseed
Today’s sci-fi seed is from an unlikely source- Freud!
Thanks to modern science “Man has, as it were, become a kind of prosthetic God.”
He said it 100 years ago. Where will be 100 years from now?
March 15, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Welcome to the weekend. It’s time for #SaturdayStorySeed #writingcommunity #writesky #writing #storyseed
Did you know kangaroo rats and some other desert animals don’t need to drink water? This is my #storyseed today since I’m working on a short set on a desert world. 2 words: Metabolic Water
metabolism in kangaroo rats
Many documents (e.g., this, this, and this) state kangaroo rats are special because they can use water produced by metabolism. Is the metabolism of kangaroo rats more efficient in producing water t...
biology.stackexchange.com
March 8, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Welcome to the weekend. It’s time for #SaturdayStorySeed #writingcommunity #writesky #writing #storyseed
Haven’t watched this, but the idea of benign robots undergoing hyper evolution outside of human intent is a scary concept. Think of possible outcomes. Is it possible to write a ‘new’ robot story?
Hyper Evolution: Rise of the Robots (TV Mini Series 2017) ⭐ 6.5 | Documentary
2h
www.imdb.com
March 1, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Welcome to the weekend. It’s time for #SaturdayStorySeed #writingcommunity #writesky #writing #storyseed
Why limit your Steampunk to the Victorian Era? Lots of ideas here to push it back as far as Classical times! Where would you set a non-traditional Steampunk story? Pharaonic Egypt for me!
Automation in Ancient and Medieval Times - Fascinating Inventions That Surprise
Explore the brilliance of ancient technology with us as we uncover the surprising marvels of Automation in Ancient and medieval civilizations.
vorster.pl
February 15, 2025 at 6:26 PM