The "Be Careful What You Wish For" Meme

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Everyone has something they wish for. If we didn't have desires, we wouldn't have hearts. Sometimes we want mundane things: a turkey sandwich sounds pretty good right about now. And sometimes we want impossible things: if only I could make her love me.

Just for today, your heart's desires are granted. Maybe it has something to do with that monkey paw you found at a flea market. Perhaps you've gone on an expedition and returned with some rusty old lamp. It could be a wish on a shooting star, an extinguished birthday candle, or even the work of a good old-fashioned Faery Godparent. Whatever's caused this sudden change in your luck, one thread holds true. It turned out wrong.

Now, your crush loves you so much she's stalking you. You can turn objects into gold with a touch, but all the food turns inedible on your tongue. Everyone's left you alone to read, but you've just broken your glasses. The sandwich is a little dry.

Can you handle getting what you want?
Thread around and find out.

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[on_your_nerves]

[There is a book called Han Feizi that was written in the 3rd century BC. In it, there is a story about a man trying to sell a spear and a shield. When asked how good his spear is, he says that the spear can pierce any shield. When asked how good his shield is, he says that it can defend from any spear. But then someone asks him what would happen if he were to take the spear to strike the shield--and the seller could not answer.]

[This is a world where unstoppable forces meet immovable objects. Where criminals and terrorists are just as intelligent as the people trying to keep order, where governments are just as intelligent as the governments of their enemies. People who seek to destroy are as intelligent as those that seek to create and protect.]

[The end result? Pure apocalyptic chaos. Apparently the answer to the paradox is that both the immoveable objects and the unstoppable forces are simply destroyed. They cease to be.]

[It's been one day since Moriarty's wish kicked into effect. In a single day, the world has been reduced to a living nightmare. In a single day, Sherlock Holmes became just an ordinary man, because when everyone is exceptional the exceptional are ordinary. In a single day, his entire life went to pieces, as the world changed around him, as people changed around him, as the Go-Away bombs hit and cities and parts of countries got completely wiped from the map, as gray nanite goo started to consume living tissue in some parts of the world in rolling waves the size of buildings, as bio-engineered diseases were released in a single day. There are people that are just as intelligent working to counter each threat--and they are doing it, but when titans clash, there's always collateral. The world is falling apart.]

[John Watson was killed when one of the Go-Away bombs hit, five feet away from Sherlock. The edges of the blasts were so sharp they sometimes sheered people in half. Fortunately John's death was quicker, his whole body was caught, the information that told the matter in it what it was supposed to be was stripped away instantly, and Sherlock was left standing there next to a smoking crater cut into a bowl shape in the Earth, that had eaten up several city blocks.]

[It's a difference of one meter that led to John not being alive with Sherlock and Sherlock not dying with John. One meter's difference led to Sherlock making his way through a ravaged city alone.]

[Sherlock wanders through the city like the walking dead, by the light of the many fires, with no idea where he's going and why he's even trying to go anywhere when there's really no chance at all the human race is going to make it through the night.]