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The ultimate question of life, the universe, and everything, is "what the fuck is 6 7"

The computer, sadly, misinterpreted the space as multiplication.

Truly the best possible outcome this post could've had

Thinking back to the first story I ever started writing down (I was 7 or 8) about a group of stray cats who, every full moon, took the form of human kids. They actually were human kids, who had been killed (all at different times/by different people). Their bodies were each dumped by the side of the road where a cat had been hit by a car previously, and their souls landed in the cats' bodies. Eventually they all found each other and decided that every full moon, when they shifted, they'd try to solve each other's murders one by one. It was going to be a series, with each book focusing on a different kid's murder mystery. I told my mom about it once, briefly, and she said "Those cat books (warrior cats) are making you creepy."

Just finished writing this manuscript, the first story I ever started. 23 years in the making. Never give up, even if your mom calls you creepy 🖤

NEVER GIVE UP PEOPLE WE’RE GONNA GET THE STRAY CATS AND DEAD KIDS STORY

Good news: I got a vacuum cleaner for Christmas (I asked for one because I’m an exciting adult now) so now I can vacuum my apartment with a vacuum cleaner that does something other than make lines in the carpet

Bad news: I’m apparently the first person in a long time to vacuum this apartment with a vacuum that’s actually effective because I have vacuumed the entire place three whole times and I’m still sucking up the same level of filth each time

Fire alarm went off during the GDQ finale and I’m loosing my mind at the one sad Velocity plushie that got left behind in the empty auditorium.

How fucked up would it be if you woke up one morning and everyone was the exact same height relative to age. Like all ten-year-olds were the same height, all eleven-year-olds slightly taller, all adults who had finished growing? Exact same height baby. People whp lost their legs would be appropriately shorter but would find that their prosthetics, if they use them, ate sized to make them the same height as everyone else. Wheelchairs? Well I guess they have to stay chair sized so they're easy to actually use, but everyone else is at eye level.

I'm not going anywhere profound with this I just think the fallout would be funny as hell. Admittedly clothing sizing would become easier on one axis.

Sports would have a freakout period, high heels would be even more of a statement, height restrictions on theme park rides would become age restrictions, math textbooks could have new and interesting questions (how many 11 and 17 year olds would it take to reach the moon?), and people who previously leaned into aesthetics that utilised their height (like cutesy or big macho manly men) would have to scramble to redefine their parameters

The reddit threads of people suddenly finding they're getting way more or way less respect at work or in their friend group...

Wait, how would this work with gradual changes? Do you just grow a few inches instantly on your birthday when you're young, or is it slow and over time?

If it's gradual, you'd still end up with variation in school classrooms, though a lot less than before, and entirely based on age.

Yeah you grow normally but everyone increases in height at the exact same rate. So a 12 year old who just turned 12 would always be shorter than a 12 year old who's about to turn 13.

High heels would become incredibly problematic among the antis as a reference to someone wearing high heels on a date makes the relationship "age gap coded".

this but you never stop growing. you just keep getting taller till you die. vampire hunting gets way easier because they’re like 30 feet tall but also harder because now you have to fight a 30 foot tall vampire.

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