Meme nabbed from redsixwing

[soc_puppet]

Throw me a concept/idea/title and and I will give you a brief summary of the story I would tell based around it.

(You have no idea how much I've missed doing memes like this on DW. I have missed them so much.)

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[redsixwing]

The day the plants figured out human communication.


(Edit: yay!)

[soc_puppet]

So here's how it goes in the optimistic version.

Plants and humans take to this pretty well! There's some ...horticulturalism? Well, it doesn't start out entirely perfect, of course, but it does start out with houseplant "adoptions" and such, and then moves on to more of a houseplant personality matching system. On farms and the like, systems are set up for humane harvesting, and

Plants all have wildly different personalities, as humans do. Some plants are more affectionate than others. Spider plants are especially clingy. Cactuses are a bit more complex; some embrace their prickly exterior and all relevant stereotypes, others mourn them and live for their sweet, soft insides.

Working together, humans and plants start evolving towards a more sustainable global culture, where they can all live in harmony. ...Possibly there are eventually human/plant hybrids. This would make me happy.



In the pessimistic version, the plants figure out exactly who and what is responsible for all this ecological destruction and commence all-out war. In the slightly-less-pessimistic version, they only or mostly attack the big conglomerates who are 99.9999% responsible for this BS; in the incredibly pessimistic version, they effectively target all humans (with some human sympathizers and some plant-allied humans, etc). This does not end well for humans, one way or another.

[redsixwing]

\o/

I love this! (Okay, the optimistic version a bit more because inter-genus communication, whee!)

[sasha_feather]

Humans begin to speak in visual cloud bubbles like cartoons.

[soc_puppet]

This works out poorly for blind people, unless humans don't lose audible communication with this cloud bubble trick. It's great for learning new languages, since you can see how individual words are pronounced by actual speakers, and puns tend to be a lot more obvious. The real amusing parts are when, in the presence of youngsters, all curse words turn into grawlixes ("grawlix" being the actual name of those cartoon scribbles you get in the newspaper to replace swearing) and incomprehensible sound effects. A new coming-of-age rite begins to celebrate when a youngster begins to actually understand the words underneath the grawlixes, though whether it's celebrated at the early stages (the first understanding of "minor" swears like damn) or when the youngster finally understands all Seven Words You Can't Say On TV is the subject of no small debate.

[sasha_feather]

Oh how clever!! I love picturing this. :D :D