#fantasy logic

[starlitkai]

being a fiction reader and liking realism is a constant internal battle because what do you MEAN they traveled 300 miles in a day. on foot.

[indecisivechicken]

Mermaids in space, anyone? No?

Right so, hello people, please bear with me as l explain this wonderful thought I had that involves the exploitation of fictional rules:

So first, please grab yourself a mermaid (or other land/sea humanoid hybrid) - here’s one I found earlier!

Now, these mermaid people can go in land (or at least to the surface of the water,) but can also go to the bottom of the sea to build civilisations (sufficiently deep enough that land dwellers don’t notice the cities.)

Also, my avid audience, for now we are going to go with the idea that mermaids can magically ‘breathe’ regardless of oxygen or water level.

Just- the mermaids don’t need to breathe, that’s good enough. Anyway,

So, as you may know, pressure increases a LOT as you go down in the sea (if I remember correctly, pressure increases by one atmosphere of pressure for every 10 meters you go down in the sea.)

creatures that live deep in the sea are made to live in that high pressure environment, and would turn to mush at surface level pressure. Similarly, creatures that live near the surface would get squished like tin cans if they went down deep.

So, how do mermaids deal with these pressure changes? Well, they must be immune to all levels of pressure! It’s the only logical explanation!

So, what is a place that people have trouble going to because they can’t breathe there and the vacuum provides an inconvenient pressure-related conundrum? Why it’s space! The vast unknown above our heads! So now, you see (or at least I hope you do,) the wonderful discovery that we can throw mermaids into space and they won’t be affected by the vacuum! What a wonderful and utterly useless discovery!

We hope to use this information in the future to do, er, something or other. :D

[mommymilkits]

how do flums pants and stuff stay on during battle like what

also how does her outfit just respawn onto her even tho it’s destroyed many times

anyways it’s probably just fantasy logic but it’s ok bc I enjoy it like that so you literally do not have to answer that question pls do not waste ur time answering that question

Edit: stan flum for being a complete girlboss

[pinkbiscuits-perks-and-curses]

you know the fantasy trope of a goblet that infinitely regenerate the first liquid that is poured inside

well, how do they work?, do they work for soup, as in, do they keep it the temperature it was first poured in, or does it start generating room temperature soup, and on that note, if the soup is chunky, do they generate the chunks also, or they just generate the broth so to say

and if they generate chunks, can't you just generate any raw material, like if you put gold dust in water and pour that in, won't it keep generate gold flake water, and if it doesn't then how does adding muddy water work, does it just start generating clean water? you wouldn't think so would you

and on another note, if you add liquid gold, will it generate liquid gold as well, like if it doesn't generate the heat would it start making solid gold or gold dust, in junks?

like what are the rules

[rosebloodcat]

Teeth Transformations

My dad made me realize something about oral transformations. Fantasy and Horror stories need to have characters teeth fall out when they're undergoing a transformation.

Why? Because of their Dentistry.

Imagine, for just a moment, what happens when a werewolf transforms for the first time. What happens to the dental fillings they'd gotten? The tooth caps? The replacement teeth?!

That wolf is gonna have a mouth fill of holes, exposed nerves, and maybe even missing teeth! Werewolves aren't only dangerous for being wolves, they're in pain!

And the Dentist bills!! The health insurance!

The easiest way to get around that would be to have the normal, human teeth fall out and be replaced with teeth that fit their new role better.

And can you imagine how much scarier a transformation would be like that? If the character put a had to their mouth while changing and pulled away with a handful of teeth?!

Think about that.

[mint-leaves-sugernever]

In fantasy wearing glasses make a character disappear , blend , change their while skin features:

They did be like this

to somehow this:

Or these

Or put the glasses and go from this to this

Where did they go we have no fucking idea

And we just go with it because why not

[alorielumia]

Adding to the potato in fantasy type discourse, but I just learned in class that old wheat was as big as people, and only very recently has wheat been modified to be like hip height at most. During the green revolution, to make more grain, and simplify machine use.

It is less impactful than potatoes, but it still means almost all the fantasy art with wheat fields are wrong! Why would they have wheat made for machine use when they don’t have any machines AND still rely on wheat fiber for house roof and other uses?

[speedygalaxytale]

How Zombie viruses logically work

I’m sure everyone knows the rule; One scratch, one bite, (if you watched that movie I can’t remember the name of off the top of my head), even getting a drop of zombie blood in your eye, and you’re infected.

But we also know that zombies tend to also eat their victims.

Kinda.

The other big thing people know zombies for doing, are moaning out for brains. But what if I told you, zombies don’t actually eat brains?

Usually, there are two rules for killing zombies. Decapitation (In some/most damages the brain stem), or catastrophic blunt force trauma to the head (Destroy the head, usually with a hammer or plenty of bullets). Usually a zombie has access to rudimentary musculoskeletal control and not much else. No actual hunger, no heart rate/blood pressure for certain, but also no pain receptors because those are controlled by nerve endings. Everything a zombie usually has access to is controlled by the brain, if not the spinal cord, which would indicate that it’s the only feasible place for such a virus to inhabit.

Zombies eat, yes, but I think it’s more like mauling their target to debilitate them long enough for the virus to finish incubating and prevent any mutually assured destruction-based heroic sacrifices causing far more zombie deaths than infections.

After all, why would a bird eat the nest it just laid its eggs in?