/u/SpeedBoostTorchic's posts
[WP] "There's a big market for mice" is a common joke in biotech, referencing how miracle cures tested in mice almost never work in humans. Annoyed at their lost research dollars, Pfizer campaigns to have GMO super-mice granted citizenship so they have someone to sell these failed drugs to.
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[WP] In order to hide their sexualities, a gay couple takes turns crossdressing when visiting the other's family (holidays, weddings, etc.). They're the only ones who don't know its not working.
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[WP] You are a Lightchaser - a historian armed with an FTL drive and a telescope. All sorts of things can blot out the light when you're looking at Earth's past from light-years away: gravity, debris, hostile aliens, or, worst of all, Lightchasers from rival universities.
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[EU] The year is 2123. Many animals have gone extinct since the turn of the millennium. With all its original pictures destroyed, paleo-artists must attempt to depict a now extinct species using the only contemporary visual evidence available: the Pokémon it once inspired.
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[WP] Scientists have cured every disease imaginable... but only in mice. Annoyed the lost research dollars they sunk into testing these "miracle" drugs, big pharma companies campaign to have a race of GMO super-mice granted US Citizenship so they have someone to sell them to.
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[WP] The itinerant city strikes ever westward leaving death in its wake. With giant wheels and countless sails it flees the rising sun. For this is a city of vampires, and now, as it nears the coast, is the allies' last chance to sack it before it disappears into the ocean for another year.
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[WP] A little known fact about tooth fairy economics: sharks, who lose over 100 teeth a day, are the richest creatures on earth. This overabundance of supply has devalued the market for human bones, hence why a child may receive only a quarter per tooth.
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[WP] The queen was furious to discover the king in the arms of an ambitious young schemer. Secretly, however, she knew she would have trouble holding the moral high ground. After all, she had begun an affair with the very same person just last week.
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