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Of course, I hesitate to incorporate "dragon as good or neutral," in fact, as anything other than "wild beast," into motifs and fiction, because it is indelibly associated in the West with evil, and demons seem to prefer associations, which makes sense given that they are beings of pure...

Rightists who drink the American koolaid who only now realize that global capital is contrary to traditional societal values make me laugh, because it causes boomercons and libertericans to knot into absurdities such as "globalism [global capital and free markets] is nothing but communism." The...

Don't tell me for ONE SECOND you didn't want to parse this as "Idaho man falls into hot water after cooking two chickens in Yellowstone."

This is why you have to safely eject an external drive! You can corrupt the memory on the drive otherwise!

You're walking in a downtown city area when it begins to rain heavily, so you duck under the awning of a music store you've never been to nor had interest in before. An old man, the owner of the store, invites you in and you call a friend of yours to pick you up. In the mean time, you bide your...

That's right, people shouldn't be convinced things through reason or rational argument, but through chemicals. Materialism was a mistake.

What happens, by the way, to communication? Say the radical distributist theocracy on Planet #17 wants to chat with the Pope for matters of whether Mass should be celebrated every earth week or every earth ten days given the differing rotation or whether monks should control all or only some of...

Now's the ideal time to start that theocracy, ancapistan, or other political project you've been hoping for with a bunch of like-mindeds and ambivalents looking for a marginal improvement in their lot.

This is going to have unintended consequences that I don't want to say out loud. I laugh nevertheless.

Faster spread of global capital and the interchangeability of man.

Here's an obvious sci-fi one: there's FTL that doesn't involve making space somehow smaller, but the most effective weapon isn't just a rock with an FTL drive behind it.

I'm asking mostly in terms of worldbuilding: author or screenwriter includes element x in the setting and doesn't notice what this entails for the rest of the world, or perhaps something is done for the plot that leads to you asking, "Why doesn't everyone do this," or "Why has this never been done?"

Those are rather frightful. Also, trade? They were landlocked and now need to develop shipping ex nihilo. I don’t know the standard ISOT conditions for cables that cross borders, but what happens to any line crossing a border?

Intelligent or not, are there examples in fiction of a species (the “wolves”) being taken by another species and bred for various specialized purposes (“dogs”)? What about mongrels from being left to breed on their own in nature? Are there any fictional equivalents to the Carolina Yaller?

"Make hypercanes" My goodness, beyond-nuke levels of destruction at a snap? I'd be a one-man climate change; I'd be the weather forecast for life. Do I have to take that chance to go to one universe, or am I being evicted from this one? If I have to leave, I'll take some near-to-our-own universe...

I meant more things that the author explicitly stated.

I really love “I never would have thought of that” type consequences of some element in a fictional world. Take for example the fact that beaches in Spongebob are goo, because they are underwater and so a water beach would just be a canyon. This is a frivolous example. There’s also the case of...

You must know that I didn't literally mean Narnia, but a "typical high fantasy setting," and used Narnia in the title as a shorthand for "getting isekai'd to a fantasy world then coming back."

Your muscle memory et al are shifted such that there is no non-contiguity between how you were when you left not-Narnia and how you are in your slightly different figure.

In forums such as this one, Space Battles, and several SFF-focused forums in general, I see forum roleplaying games, but I have never had a clear picture of how to join in on a game and play. Because these RPs across various forums seem to be similar, I assume that at least one person has done a...