Something I really don’t see too much of but absolutely love is mass mutual weight gain or society wide weight gain. Stories where everyone one just starts getting fatter everywhere.
Like maybe it’s some new invention, maybe it’s corporate advertising, or maybe people just start giving into gluttony and hedonism because they just love it.
Like imagine you’re chilling and one night your roommate comes home with way more food than they normally do. You ask and they say they got a killer deal on it, one that was almost too good to be true! Over the course of the night the two of you shock yourselves by eating everything and spend the night blissed out and bloated on the couch.
The next morning as you take the bus to work, nursing your still full and sloshing belly digesting last nights feast, you notice others seemingly doing the same. Trying to rub gas out of their stomachs subtly while others who look like they’ve already put on some weight caring less about subtly.
You start finding great deals on food practically everywhere you good, leading to overindulgence becoming more of the norm. You end most nights passed out next to your roommate, the remnants of your feast surrounding you. The next morning your roommate comes to breakfast wearing practically nothing saying “it’s so much of a hassle especially since I’ll just outgrow it soon” you realize that’s pretty valid and start doing the same.
You notice a lot more changes in your everyday life, with influencers and celebrities gaining weight as part of a new social media trend. News casters discussing rising weights with a burger barely off screen waiting for them. More and more folks opting to work from home so they can spend more time relaxing and eating. You notice your neighbors pumping up as well and occasionally catch glimpses of their fattened bodies in the hall or through windows.
Your morning commute has changed too. There are more people practically spilling out of their work clothes and uniforms, many still eating the end of their large breakfasts. Two women across from you have are chatting with their morning coffee, which you’ve watched go from a small to go cup to an xxl cup that’s basically just a milkshake with coffee at this point. Mid sip, one of the women’s shirt buttons finally give and rather than me mortified at all her fat surging forward, free from its constraints, she actually moans a little and says “oh thank god that feels soooo much better”.
This incident seemingly unlocks a switch in your brain and suddenly food and pleasure are much closer together than you thought they’d be. It’s why two nights later your roommate is standing over you with a funnel in their hand teasingly praising your weight gain and asking if you want more. “Fuck yes” you say in a daze and as the funnel goes in your mouth the only thing you can think of is “more”.