This week’s anomaly

[Brandnewbuddy]

A world like ours but one major difference, each week the world gets hit by anomalies, little rips in reality which makes things change. Sometimes everyone is affected by the same one, sometimes everyone gets a different one, sometimes only a few are hit by them. Regardless, anomalies have been normalized: they’re just a thing that happens. Occasionally the effects stick around but most of the time they don’t so you just need to grin and bear it.

I thought that could lead to some interesting ideas:

For example: Guy has had a crush on his neighbor for some time. Start of the week, she is knocking on his door as an anomaly hit and she is now a catgirl in heat…which sounds great to him to him till she gives him a blowjob and he finds out that she got a cat tongue to go along with the ears and tail, and instead of just telling him where the right places to touch her are when he asks, she starts scratching him.

Or: the whole world is effected and anyone in a romantic relationship gets fused with their partner and both of them have access to all of their thoughts…and some of these fused beings realize there’s more than two people in themand they were not in an open or polyamorous relationship before the anomaly

Or: seems like for once there was no anomaly…then suddenly every adult has an orgasm. Turns out all adults got tied to one person whose orgasms are shared with them. So every time they jerk it or rub it, everyone gets an orgasm. Soon the world is trying to come together…to stop everyone from coming together

 

[TheWritingGroup]

Is a god of sexy mischief doing this?

One week, all male sexual organs change size, so the richest people have the smallest and the poor men (and presurgical transwomen and intersex people with penises) have the biggest. If you earn money, your dick shrinks (slightly). Do billionaires dump their possessions to cure their micropenis condition? Are homeless men sought out to act in porn (and earn their way out of that job pretty quickly)?

--Annie

 

[Brandnewbuddy]

The only rule I would say is that there is no explanation given for the anomalies.

I like that idea. I could see billionaires’ financial advisers going “it’s just a week” only to have their clients cave and start giving away all their cash.

“Sir, it’s just a week!”

“I don’t even have one big enough to pinch, let alone fuck one of my mistresses! …what do you mean it doesn’t get bigger if I get a receipt for taxes?”

 

[TheWritingGroup]

The stereotypical billionaire would be sure he could earn another billion easily, because he got it by sheer talent and skill.

The crafty ones would transfer the money to their wives and then divorce them, expecting to get it back. And many would be surprised.

--Annie

 

[Rob_Royale]

The only rule I would say is that there is no explanation given for the anomalies.

I think that is a mistake. To hold a readers interest, they need to at least understand what is going on. Otherwise, they give it a weird look and an alt-backarrow.

I feel the same way about the 'anything can happen'. It's too big. Find a way to limit it. One geographical location near some sort of temporal anomaly. One person, who is cursed somehow. Or one community is being experimented upon by an alien intelligence.

Readers need definition.

 

[TheWritingGroup]

The characters are living in the simulation hypothesis. A teenager in the "real" world is playing with the sim, then reverting the rules of the game after seeing what happens.

--Annie

 

[Brandnewbuddy]

I disagree. Cause I think the focus is best on the various characters and how these anomalies mix up their lives.

If you create an outside force or put focus on what’s causing it, then the little stories become less important to the readers vs the meta plot.

If we have to have something, it needs to be kept nebulous. Like

“See our world is like yours but in 2013, the first anomaly happened. Or at least the first one we knew about-kinda hard to ignore every citizen of Greenland turning into a mermaid. Some said it was the Mayans, some said it was aliens, all we know is once the clock hits midnight on Sunday in Kiribati, the last set of anomalies ends and a new one or ones start.”