Feral cars express suppressed wild traits after a few generations, for example a rough gray hide to blend in with the asphalt and concrete.

Even the puddles in the streets form nixies that sing at an almost inaudibly high pitch and occasionally pull a mouse or rat under water

In the workers’ quarters, magical pollution makes snowflakes fall as tiny ice furniture while raindrops have bulbous misshapen outgrowths

humanity is shadowbanned from the universe

Through unspoken agreement, the gnomes have settled only my ceiling. Now a whole village’s worth of houses and bridges is dangling from it

In the colony in the binary system, they know two sun gods: Mother and Father Sun, surrounded by their playing children

a system of linguistics/syntax based on bodies instead of grammar trees, with head, heart, limbs

He was going to meet fate that day, but fate didn’t show up. Forgot about him. It’s been centuries now and his faded outline still lingers.

☂: That’s an acetylene torch and that room belongs to someone else.↵$: And you lack poetry in your soul!

$: With our paint-on rooms, just draw a door onto the wall with our kit, step through and behold: A new room for your apartment, near free!

when you tap your feet to a song, that’s called one foot in the rave

But the easiest way to get into another universe is still to start it, because that’s where the hole in the ourotorus lies

Experienced world walkers can, by the patterns of its scales and symmetries of its physics, tell whether it’s a cousin of ours, a sibling,

The older a universe and its ouroboros, the thicker its hide: Jörmungandr’s is nigh impenetrable, but younger universes are more accessible.

imageboards love OC because they swim in so many derivative memes that they become cheap while OC stays hard to come by

they make the originals more accessible/popular or provide more depth, and their presence will also motivate creators to make more pioneers

what follows are fan art & fiction, mashups, jokes, cultural references etc, derided in some contexts but an important part of the ecosystem

among memes, there are pioneer species that establish a cultural shared context that other memes then settle (e.g. books and other OC)

Snorting food coloring will not cure your cold, but at least you’ll leave behind tons of paper tissue rorschach blots

You’ll see them dance around the woods, jump over their crowns, wander them in wonder, steal saplings or just stare into one for years

Slow down subjective time enough and a forest becomes a chlorophyll fire with wooden bones. And indeed, they’re like bonfires to the gods.

a pixel dies in the sky, comes loose, falls to the ground, and from the point of impact ripple concentric fairy rings

A burning ship’s on our tail↵leering faces on its rail↵↵But many-angled sirens fill our ears↵soothe our fears↵and we zoom down the maelstrom

We sail the fractal ocean↵in our ship Convergence↵up and down the magnitudes↵↵The promised land lies hidden↵within its foam, a tiny pearl

They came, ruled, left, all a century ago. Our slums overgrow their ruins like mold, our children play in monolith fields of unknown purpose

the docs pronounce you deaf. the years go by, no agent smith turns up.↵not a revolutionary, not the chosen one, just someone whose pod broke

a thin static crackle like headphones unplugging, then the sound of the world cuts out and you hear the machines’ low hum for the first time

In the Middle Ages, they made their screens out of a special bee’s hive. The larvae, naturally bioluminescent, were their hexagonal pixels.

That wasn’t a blotter. Those were golem instructions.↵ｅｎｊｏｙ　ｙｏｕｒ　ｔｒｉｐ

+++ half the city’s mailboxes on the run after hackers sneak a Name into the local newspaper’s headlines +++

My hobby: Sending letters with names of God on them so that the mailboxes in which they’re placed become golems and run away

[fantasy concept] but it has physics↵↵[the end game of X, and how you get there]↵↵[nonsensical idea seed, germinated]

In case your religion forbids sex with robots, our Chastebot™ will still cook for you, hug you, warm your bed, breathe quietly at night

In the dream, the letters have more than two dimensions and reach into the paper as well. And way below them, others are swimming

A ship nears the shore, extends a number of oars and scuttles onto dry ground, while behind it an angry and presumably hungry kraken roars

do prisoners for life deserve the immortality treatment

They will be the only ones to not fear death - the young immortals who follow will fear it even more than mortals, being unfamiliar with it

Once we get immortality, there’s going to be a rare breed of immortals that have come to terms with death because they were once mortal

her memory palace has trapdoors, elevators, secret passages, shifting rooms↵↵his is a memory forest: ancient oaks, animal trails, burrows

Something takes over your body while you can only watch. It’s kinder, makes better jokes, you begin to wonder if maybe it’s for the better

To escape the matrix, overwrite the simulation stack’s return pointer: Dream the right paradoxes and you’ll wake into the real world

It appears our solipsist is demented. People have been vanishing randomly, cities losing their h story, aging backwa ds, se d h lp pl e, ,

dreams waft off her head, slowly circle it, luminous fog tendrils and klein bubbles, prisms and tiny dragons caught within

The animal colloquially known as “lens flare” is in fact a usually invisible moth that’s drawn to cameras

The second year, the last of them dies.↵The third year, it blossoms.↵A hundred years, a dryad sits on the beach, chatting with the mermaids.

Druids, stranded on an island, build a Frankenstein tree out of driftwood, rip the pages out of books to give it leaves

The soap bubbles it produces are black, oily, never quite round and things with too many limbs writhe within

minimal because larger examples of the same system could show the same emergent properties

attempted definition: a (minimal) emergent system is one that follows statistical laws not seen at the constituent level

“These pyramids didn’t build themselves”↵Actually they did, they’re asleep right now, or did you expect the aliens to be carbon based