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You do not get to turn these powers off, they are always active.

This question was inspired by those toy dinosaur things.

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[-] medicsofanarchy@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago

"Ha ha ha, let's throw a bucket of water on this nerd!"

"Don't make me wet. You wouldn't like me when I'm wet."

[-] mycodesucks@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Gets bigger but not any heavier or stronger

[-] njm1314@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

I guess the grow bigger in the water thing because I can't imagine how hard it would be to fall asleep if I'm glowing.

[-] blarth@thelemmy.club 4 points 1 month ago
[-] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

It's night half the time, and I'll be really visible if I'm glowing whether I want to be or not. So, definitely the second one. Prolonged water contact in a visible place is easier to avoid, if needed.

I plan to re-enact Gulliver pulling along the Lilliputian armada.

[-] stickly@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

But imagine that you get stuck in a water pipe or wedged somewhere in a rain storm. Glowing is annoying but not nearly as bad as potentially drowning because your car crashed into a lake and you can no longer escape through the window.

[-] P00ptart@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

Take a shower and destroy your house. I'm going for glowing.

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[-] Worx@lemmynsfw.com 4 points 1 month ago

Wow, both those options suck. Nice dilemma, OP

[-] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

The second sounds like it has far more room for stupid bullshit, so that one

[-] smuuthbrane@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 month ago

Fuck you, I'm doing both and glowing harder the bigger I get.

There we go, Halloween sorted.

[-] DarkCloud@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I'd need time durations on the size changes... But obviously the size changes.

Other comments indicate you also get heavier, a bath each morning followed by exercise could be interesting with the extra weight.

Also you'd have documentaries made about you. It's a completely novel behavior... And what happens if you soak just a part of your body.... Your penis for instance?

The glowing? Technically you could already do that, genetic scientists have already created glow in the dark pigs, so glowing seems similar. No more hiding in the dark, you're a beacon now. If a mugger or the cops are chasing you... Oh there you are. Not really helpful like being three times taller and heavier because you had a bath would be.

[-] JeSuisUnHombre@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 month ago

"You look a little small. Are you drinking enough water?"

[-] MightyThistle@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

I can imagine glowing in the dark would be both a blessing and a curse depending on the circumstances. If you're lost in a cave that could be lifesaving. Trying to sleep in the dark though? That's gonna be tough haha. I think I'd still choose to glow in the dark though so I could fuel sweet rave parties

[-] Aussiemandeus@aussie.zone 1 points 1 month ago

My wife says the same thing about sleeping with a light on, I just close my eyes and don't see anything i must have thick eyelids

[-] PixellatedDave@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

If I put part of me in say a glass of water then would it just be the part in the glass that slowly grew and how fast and how much.

[-] hperrin@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 month ago

You’re gonna put your dick in a glass of water, huh?

[-] Horta@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 month ago

Glow in the dark for sure.

[-] superduperpirate@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

Glow in the dark, since i do lap swimming for exercise and the other option would rule that out.

[-] JayFonduh@lemmy.org 1 points 1 month ago

Why can I not come to a conclusion on this decision...

[-] superduperenigma@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

"But I'm straight"

"So is spaghetti... Until it gets wet."

"Okay but that's a bad analogy because I just turn ten stories tall when I get wet."

[-] Randelung@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

Sex would be weird, but probably a good kind. Until it's painful.

[-] agent_nycto@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

Fun fact, we already glow in the dark, just not in a way we can see.

Bigger when wet would be kinda neat, but if it's based off of toy dinosaurs then the glow doesn't last all night. So I can take the glow and use it for sick pranks and cosplays or whatever. Be like alien Mr Burns.

[-] swelter_spark@reddthat.com 1 points 1 month ago

I like glow in the dark stuff, but I also like to be sneaky, so...idk. Conflicted.

[-] MintyFresh@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

I will bathe in the ocean and at long last fulfill my ambition of punching mother gia in the face.

[-] Today@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

I love to swim and the water one sounds really inconvenient. I choose glow! You would never really be afraid of the dark- like your own personal night light. Maybe i could get a job doing those nighttime ghost tours.

[-] MutantTailThing@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago

Would the insides of my eyelids glow? Cause fuck that if that’s the case.

[-] TheLeadenSea@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 month ago

No, only the outside of your body

[-] Tywele@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 1 month ago

Do you grow to a maximum size in water? Or do you just keep growing the longer you stay in contact with water? If the latter then I think glowing in the dark is the less inconvenient option.

[-] TheLeadenSea@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 month ago

Yes, to a maximum size about 3 times your regular size.

[-] otter@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 month ago

Does the amount of water affect the rate of growth, or is it a timing thing?

Am I absorbing water like a sponge, where I'd grow much faster in a pool vs. the rain

Or is it a reaction to any prolonged contact with water

[-] TheLeadenSea@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

It's like a sponge. It takes several hours to get to your maximum size.

[-] saltnotsugar@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

Any super strength? Like 3 times my strength or would I just be big. I could do advertising for a boat salesman or something. “bigger than huge sale this weekend!” And other such methods.

[-] Tywele@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 1 month ago

Then it would still be less inconvenient to glow in the dark since showering would become a real problem.

[-] Obi@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 month ago

It does say slowly, we really need more information about the rates at which you grow and shrink. Still I think the growing in water thing at least seems to have some potential positives whereas glow in the dark is just annoying.

[-] bizarroland@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

I imagine guys would do it just so they could have temporarily larger penises.

I know I would.

"Babe, I'mma wreck your holes tonight, let me hop in the bath."

[-] sauerkrautsaul@lemmus.org 1 points 1 month ago

what the fuck is it with lemmy and "holes" like thats somehow hot or something

like all of these lemmynsfw posts are like "look at my holes" and "what would you do to my holes" and its just girls spreading their ass cheeks open to show.. well, you get it

I just find it kind of a gross way to try to be sexy

[-] hperrin@lemmy.ca 0 points 1 month ago

Would you be able to stay hard when you grow? We haven’t asked enough questions.

[-] TheLeadenSea@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 month ago

People with penises get hard because of blood flow to the penis, so I imagine absorbing water might have a similar effect 💀

[-] hperrin@lemmy.ca 0 points 1 month ago

Would these powers be supernatural, or bound by the laws of physics? Like, does glowing require extra calories? And does my electrolyte balance go out of whack when I’m in water?

[-] TheLeadenSea@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 month ago

Magical. You are perfectly healthy in each case

[-] AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago

Do you get bigger by absorbing air (thereby increasing your buoyancy) or by absorbing water (with the opposite effect)?

[-] TheLeadenSea@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 month ago
[-] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 1 points 1 month ago

you would sink though.

[-] spittingimage@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago

How bright would I glow? Enough to read by?

[-] TheLeadenSea@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 month ago

Yeah, like a dim yellowish greenish light that you can just about read by

[-] spittingimage@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

My eyesight's pretty weak, so I'm not sure that would do it... but on the other hand I could navigate the house at night without bumping my shins on furniture. I think that's enough to sell me on glowing.

[-] KoboldCoterie@pawb.social 2 points 1 month ago

You'd have moths flocking to you at night, though, which might be awkward.

[-] spittingimage@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

That would be a definite minus.

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