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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.
Here are some examples to inspire your own showerthoughts:
- Both “200” and “160” are 2 minutes in microwave math
- When you’re a kid, you don’t realize you’re also watching your mom and dad grow up.
- More dreams have been destroyed by alarm clocks than anything else
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- The entire showerthought must be in the title
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- If your topic is in a grey area, please phrase it to emphasize the fascinating aspects, not the dramatic aspects. You can do this by avoiding overly politicized terms such as "capitalism" and "communism". If you must make comparisons, you can say something is different without saying something is better/worse.
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Basically, yes.
Well we already have the word "fiction", I want magic to mean something else
Oh sorry, i glossed over that a bit. You can of course have fiction without magic. Take any story that plays in our world and doesn't have any supernatural elements.
But most science fiction will have "magic", though it usually marketed as some future technology. Like Star Trek, for example. In-universe they don't have any magic (I think, not a hyper-trekkie), because everything can be explained by in-universe technologies and phenomena. But of course it might as well be magic to us, because that stuff doesn't work in the real world.