The Monkey's Paw

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I wish for the magical monkey paw to permanently cease to exist from reality. (lemmy.ml)

submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] themeatbridge 46 points 4 months ago

The monkey paw disappears. Your finger curls.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago

Granted. The monkey paw no longer exists in reality. However, every single work of fiction has now been infiltrated to include it as the main plot device. Everything from the Iliad to Mean Girls now unalterably revolves around the paw.

[–] hperrin 5 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

The monkey paw disappears. In its place is now a void in space the same shape and volume as the monkey paw. The crushing implosion and resulting explosive rebound is so loud and violent that it completely ruptures your eardrums and blows apart the hand in which you were holding the paw.

You’ve released the world from the paw, but at the cost of your hand and hearing.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (2 children)

The paw would have to be extremely massive to cause that much of a shockwave lol

[–] hperrin 3 points 4 months ago

Just voluminous.

[–] 200ok 2 points 4 months ago

I thought it was going to turn into a black hole