Christ, can you imagine being someone being stuck being pregnant forever? Or, god forbid, being stuck in labour because the birth can't happen? Horrific.
in a way this is every IP where the characters aren't allowed to age. The Simpsons is mostly like this except it does sometimes have character deaths that are actually permanent
I want to thank you for posting this. Considering yesterday's crazy news cycle, the wording sort of weirded me out, but then some friends explained, and I started reading the series and it's SO. GOOD. <3 so yeah, thanks. :)
Whatever you're working on where this is relevant, you may want to consider The Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect. It's very good and I want someone other than "Rationalist" types talking about it, despite it seeming gross and shocking at first glance! (also it is pretty gross, i won't lie)
This would be such a raw deal if you where nine months pregnant.
Immortality, but heavily pregnant with a reminder of the baby you'll never get to see.
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Literally one week ago I pondered to myself, "hmm I wonder if Jacob Geller has read 17776, I feel like it should really make an appearance in an essay sometime."
Honestly putting him in a hole and filling said hole with concrete and building a very large building on top of that hole (preferably offering social services to poor black people) would be a better punishment that blipping him out of existence
This made me curious so I looked it up
Clicked the article link, read a bit, scrolled to read more, then got jumpscared so badly that I closed the tab
I'll come back to it tomorrow 😭
Tbh the intro is a bit unsettling, but that isn’t the tone of the whole piece! That was really just a one-time thing. I recommend checking it out past the intro!
Exact same thing happened to me.
I knew it was coming too, unlike people of the time who tried to read a simple "What will football look like in the future?" article.