🧪✨ Tuesday: Science ✨🧪
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comment_fic🧪✨ Hello, everyone! I’m simplyn2deep, and I’m back to host another week! ✨🧪
Today’s theme is Science. 🔬⚗️🧪 Whether it's groundbreaking discoveries, mad experiments, space exploration, forensic investigations, futuristic technology, or simply a character trying to figure out how the world works, science opens the door to endless possibilities. From laboratories to starships, let curiosity lead the way and inspire today's prompts!
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✏️ No more than five prompts in a row.
🎭 No more than three prompts in the same fandom.
📝 Use the character's full name and fandom's full name for ease in adding to the Lonely Prompts spreadsheet.
⚠️ No spoilers in prompts for a month after airing, or use the spoiler cut option.
📚 If your fill contains spoilers, warn and leave plenty of space, or use the spoiler cut option.
Prompts should be formatted as follows:
[Use the character's full names and fandom's full name]
Fandom, Character +/ Character, Prompt
✨ Some examples to get the ball rolling… ✨
🧬 Teen Wolf, Stiles Stilinski & Lydia Martin, one late-night experiment for a science competition, accidentally proves that one of Stiles' ridiculous theories was right all along.
🚀 Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, Christopher Pike + Spock, a routine scientific survey turns into first contact when the data starts answering back.
🧫 CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, Gil Grissom & Sara Sidle, the lab receives evidence that appears to defy the laws of science until they uncover the surprisingly human explanation.
We are now using AO3 to bookmark filled prompts 📚✨. If you fill a prompt and post it to AO3 please add it to the Bite Sized Bits of Fic from 2026 collection. See further notes on this new option here.
Not feeling any of today’s prompts? 🤔 You can use LJ’s advanced search options to limit keyword results to only comments in this community. Fret not, DW members 💙; we are working on a way to search through old entries for prompts for you! As of right now, the best way to search for a lonely prompt on DW is to search the community’s archive, which can be found [[HERE]].
While the use of LJ's advanced search and DW’s archive are options, bookmarking the links of prompts you like 🔖 might work better for searching in the future.
As a friendly reminder about our schedule ⏰, Lonely Prompts and sharing completed fills are encouraged on Sundays 🌿, while new themes and prompts are posted on Tuesdays and Thursdays 📅. Saturdays are a Free for All day 🎉. We'll share our posts on DW and LJ for everyone's convenience. Keep an eye out for notifications! 👀
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🔬 tag=science
simplyn2deep, and I’m back to host another week! ✨🧪Today’s theme is Science. 🔬⚗️🧪 Whether it's groundbreaking discoveries, mad experiments, space exploration, forensic investigations, futuristic technology, or simply a character trying to figure out how the world works, science opens the door to endless possibilities. From laboratories to starships, let curiosity lead the way and inspire today's prompts!
📌 Just a few rules:
✏️ No more than five prompts in a row.
🎭 No more than three prompts in the same fandom.
📝 Use the character's full name and fandom's full name for ease in adding to the Lonely Prompts spreadsheet.
⚠️ No spoilers in prompts for a month after airing, or use the spoiler cut option.
📚 If your fill contains spoilers, warn and leave plenty of space, or use the spoiler cut option.
Prompts should be formatted as follows:
[Use the character's full names and fandom's full name]
Fandom, Character +/ Character, Prompt
✨ Some examples to get the ball rolling… ✨
🧬 Teen Wolf, Stiles Stilinski & Lydia Martin, one late-night experiment for a science competition, accidentally proves that one of Stiles' ridiculous theories was right all along.
🚀 Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, Christopher Pike + Spock, a routine scientific survey turns into first contact when the data starts answering back.
🧫 CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, Gil Grissom & Sara Sidle, the lab receives evidence that appears to defy the laws of science until they uncover the surprisingly human explanation.
We are now using AO3 to bookmark filled prompts 📚✨. If you fill a prompt and post it to AO3 please add it to the Bite Sized Bits of Fic from 2026 collection. See further notes on this new option here.
Not feeling any of today’s prompts? 🤔 You can use LJ’s advanced search options to limit keyword results to only comments in this community. Fret not, DW members 💙; we are working on a way to search through old entries for prompts for you! As of right now, the best way to search for a lonely prompt on DW is to search the community’s archive, which can be found [[HERE]].
While the use of LJ's advanced search and DW’s archive are options, bookmarking the links of prompts you like 🔖 might work better for searching in the future.
As a friendly reminder about our schedule ⏰, Lonely Prompts and sharing completed fills are encouraged on Sundays 🌿, while new themes and prompts are posted on Tuesdays and Thursdays 📅. Saturdays are a Free for All day 🎉. We'll share our posts on DW and LJ for everyone's convenience. Keep an eye out for notifications! 👀
If you have a Dreamwidth account and would feel more comfortable participating there, please feel free to do so…and spread the word! 📣
comment_fic🔬 tag=science
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Date: 2026-06-16 04:21 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2026-06-16 06:01 am (UTC)Any, any, when science goes too far
The Last Upgrade (original)
Date: 2026-06-18 05:13 pm (UTC)The invention was simple in theory: a neural implant that dampened emotional pain. No more grief. No more heartbreak. No more trauma.
The world celebrated. Governments funded it. Hospitals installed it. Millions signed up.
Including Maya's younger brother, Ethan.
At first, everything seemed perfect.
When their mother died, Ethan didn't cry. He attended the funeral calmly, offered polite condolences, and returned to work the next day.
Maya told herself that was progress. Then Ethan stopped visiting. He stopped calling friends. He stopped painting.
One evening, Maya found him sitting alone on his apartment balcony, staring at a sunset.
"Beautiful, isn't it?" she asked.
Ethan glanced toward the horizon. "I suppose."
The words landed harder than any accusation.
"You don't feel anything?"
He considered the question. "I don't feel sad anymore."
"But?"
"But I don't feel much of anything."
Maya's stomach twisted.
The Empathy Filter had been designed to block suffering. What her team hadn't understood was that grief wasn't isolated. It was woven into love. Loss mattered because connection mattered.
Remove one, and the other began to fade.
Weeks later, Maya stood before a packed room at a press conference.
"The Empathy Filter will be discontinued immediately."
Reporters shouted questions. "Was it unsafe?"... "How many people were affected?"
Maya took a shaky breath. "We believed human pain was a flaw to be fixed."
The room fell silent. "It isn't. Pain can be unbearable, but it teaches us what matters. It reminds us who we love."
That night, she sat beside Ethan as a new procedure began, removing the implant.
Hours later, tears filled his eyes for the first time in years. "I miss Mom," he whispered.
Maya cried too.
For the first time, the grief felt like hope.
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Date: 2026-06-16 03:53 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2026-06-16 03:56 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2026-06-16 03:57 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2026-06-16 04:02 pm (UTC)chemistry of a bad idea (original)
Date: 2026-06-18 05:36 pm (UTC)“Tell me that’s not what I think it is,” she said.
“It depends,” Ben replied. “Do you think it’s the greatest purchase of my life?”
He opened the box with a flourish. Inside sat six oversized glass beaker mugs complete with measurement markings.
Maya stared.
“They’re drinkware,” Ben added with glee.
“They’re science...they’re beakers."
“They’re beaker mugs,” Ben corrected.
An hour later, their friends had canceled due to rain, leaving only the two of them. Ben poured cider into one beaker and carefully examined the markings.
“Three hundred milliliters,” he announced.
“You could just say one drink.”
“Where’s the scientific precision in that?”
Maya rolled her eyes but accepted the second beaker.
“To responsible experimentation.”
They clinked glasses. The novelty should have worn off immediately. Instead, it got worse.
“Observe,” Ben said, swirling his cider dramatically. “The subject appears happy.”
“The subject appears annoyed.”
“Interesting reaction.”
Maya laughed despite herself. Soon, they were narrating everything like researchers.
“Hypothesis,” Maya declared. “If I consume additional cider, I will become immune to Ben’s nonsense.”
Ben scribbled on a napkin. “Results inconclusive.”
By the end of the evening, they had filled an entire page with fake observations, including Subject attempted to toast a houseplant and Researcher forgot what he was researching.
Maya set down her empty beaker and looked at the mess of notes. “You know,” she said, “this might be the dumbest thing we’ve ever done.”
Ben raised his mug. “Correction. The dumbest thing we’ve done so far.”
Maya groaned and clinked her beaker against his anyway. For science, of course.
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Date: 2026-06-16 07:48 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2026-06-16 07:48 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2026-06-16 07:49 pm (UTC)