this post was submitted on 07 Oct 2025
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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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I disagree. Its in the spirit of the genre to keep a consistency in its identity and to explore themes around it. Having occasional runs with a different age is that very exploration but in those cases other parts of it's character anchor it, but that can only happen if the character has fully been fully absorbed by audiences.
We can create an interesting batman story with his parents alive bc we've seen all the iterations of him with his dead parents. We would be able to explore the idea of whether that trauma was truly what changed him so dramatically or if that's who he was always gonna be, perhaps with a different reason as motivation.
I could go in depth but I've got icecream to eat and its beginning to melt.
Edit. Even when i disagree I'd like to say thank you for starting an interesting conversation