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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...

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?"

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?

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...

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...

So, you defeated the evil emperor after getting transported to this unreal world. You go back to the good kingdom and the king, whose sons were killed by the emperor's assassin's, declares you his successor. As the king grows old and dies, you take over the kingdom, having lost all hope of going...

What if a metahuman (with flight/invincibility/strength/speed and anything required to make those four work) who was extremely ideologically motivated decided that the world, or at least some significant part of the world, is going to get his ideology and get it in droves, through a...