TheLobster
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While browsing Wikipedia for various research purposes, as one does, the rabbit hole somehow threw me out at this article.
And next to it, there was a bunny.
Our plucky young heroine moves to a new apartment in a big city. Unpacking her stuff, she needs to hang on the new walls her extensive collection of still nature artworks / samurai knives / Labubu dolls / <insert whatever else that may fit>. After a quick Google search and finding out how much a handyman would cost, she decides to roll up her sleeves and do it all herself. But because this is a standard American dwelling made of plywood and paper mache, first she has to know where are the unobstructed areas of drywall she can drill through.
So, she orders a stud finder. She orders it from, well, somewhere. Okay, the website may not have been Amazon, but it very convincingly promised that the device will "find you every stud there is to find". Oh, and it was much cheaper than anything else.
The package comes the next day, and sure enough, the odd-looking does seem to point her in some direction. Except that where it leads is nowhere near any wall. Indeed, it's not even inside her apartment.
Needless to say, hilarity ensues.
Now, what exactly happens likely depends on what we mean by "stud" for the FMC (or MMC; I don't traffic in GM but the premise might work even better there). It could be guy that possesses qualities she would be attracted to, but that aren't easy to discover on the surface level.
Or more straightforwardly, if we're not going for a slow-burn romance, it could be a guy who has a talent for pleasing women sexually, but may or may not necessarily know it.
Or maybe the device has mind-controlling effects on the target, ensuring that whoever the FMC finds attractive will fall for her much more easily than he would otherwise.
I'm sure there are many more options. Heck, if it turns the target stud is married, you could even craft it into an LW story
And next to it, there was a bunny.
Our plucky young heroine moves to a new apartment in a big city. Unpacking her stuff, she needs to hang on the new walls her extensive collection of still nature artworks / samurai knives / Labubu dolls / <insert whatever else that may fit>. After a quick Google search and finding out how much a handyman would cost, she decides to roll up her sleeves and do it all herself. But because this is a standard American dwelling made of plywood and paper mache, first she has to know where are the unobstructed areas of drywall she can drill through.
So, she orders a stud finder. She orders it from, well, somewhere. Okay, the website may not have been Amazon, but it very convincingly promised that the device will "find you every stud there is to find". Oh, and it was much cheaper than anything else.
The package comes the next day, and sure enough, the odd-looking does seem to point her in some direction. Except that where it leads is nowhere near any wall. Indeed, it's not even inside her apartment.
Needless to say, hilarity ensues.
Now, what exactly happens likely depends on what we mean by "stud" for the FMC (or MMC; I don't traffic in GM but the premise might work even better there). It could be guy that possesses qualities she would be attracted to, but that aren't easy to discover on the surface level.
Or more straightforwardly, if we're not going for a slow-burn romance, it could be a guy who has a talent for pleasing women sexually, but may or may not necessarily know it.
Or maybe the device has mind-controlling effects on the target, ensuring that whoever the FMC finds attractive will fall for her much more easily than he would otherwise.
I'm sure there are many more options. Heck, if it turns the target stud is married, you could even craft it into an LW story
