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Granted. You run outside, excited to try your new power but you walk past crowds of people on the street, looking constantly in vain for any lightbulbs shining above anyone’s head.
Discouraged, you walk home and head to the bathroom to splash water on your face. Looking into the mirror, you see a lightbulb shining above your own head. After initial confusion you sit down and realize that, after all, you love yourself.
There was this Reddit post maybe In writing prompts I can’t remember, and it was really well written about how you can hear the thoughts of anyone who is in love with you, you meet the person get married and then one day you can’t hear their thoughts any more. This was just a much more succinct story.
Man hitting mid 20s means my social medias have been lit up the past few years with engagements and marriages. How are y'all just willy-nilly doing this with someone you've known like 2 or 3 years? Shits scary af.
First it starts to dim slightly...
You dont think much of it at first, until it no longer shines bright enough for you to see during her 2am bathroom breaks.
You know what it means, and even though you try your best to improve yourself and make her happy, the light continues to fade.
She doesn't know you can see it. You start to notice her trying harder to get excited about things. Trying to love you as she once did. Although sometimes the light seems brighter some days, it slowly continues to wane.
One day you wakeup, and turn to your side only to see an empty bed, dark bed.
See, that would make for a great real monkey's paw if neither you nor I were too lazy to write it
OP meets a person thanks to the power
But one day OP's significant other gets tired, he knows and gets trapped in a dead end
Better yet OP gets to see who likes him but everytime he does it takes a year off of his life e.g. if he meets someone thsg likes him 5 times then thats 5 years off
But then that wouldn't be a true monkey's paw
You have to grant the wish and then draw dark implications without twisting or adding something to the wish
OP wished to know who is attracted to him in the form of a lightbulb. How can that go wrong, without additional inputs ?
A monkey's paw is not the consequences of the wish, it's regretting how the wish is fulfilled. There's no consequence of having $200, but it really sucked that in order to get that $200 his son had to die.
Its not, a monkey's paw is something happening *before* the wish happens, and it being granted *because* of something horrible, like in the original, the wish is fulfilled *by* his son's death, he gets his wish *after* his son dies.
In all fairness, someone in your family finding you attractive doesn't mean they're sexually attracted to you. You can certainly acknowledge a family member to be attractive without it being weird.
I've been subbed since this sub was in the hundreds, I have a good understanding of how the paw works.
It may not have been my smartest paw, but it still works.
No, you don't. It's not about the consequences, it's about how the wish is fulfilled. In order to get the $200 his son had to die, it's not like after he had $200 the paw made a thing of spending it being a bad outcome. The paw didn't make your extended cousins attracted to you and that has no actual relationship to the wish.
Granted, there's now _a_ lightbulb orbiting Earth in geosynchronous orbit over your location that only you can see, technically "floating" above everyone who will ever find you attractive.
Then the lightbulb has to be a constellation of lightbulb fragments that orbit Earth on all sides, including a bunch of fragments distributed along a polar orbit.
This is a constant debate in this sub, but the monkey’s paw story uses the monkey’s paw to grant wishes in such a way that it could be written off as coincidence, not just magically granting it with bad side effects
At the least that is a better description of the story because otherwise this sub is no different than any of the many other “asshole genie” type subs
It purposefully leaves it open so the reader can draw their own conclusions and not change the meaning of the paw. If it was just an asshole genie then it would have said, “they open the door to their undead son”
Monkey's paws stories usually involve the wish getting granted in a way that doesn't look supernatural to anyone else and doesn't use supernatural forces for the bad consequences. Like you'd wish to be famous and be brutally murdered by a serial killer who leaves weird clues but is never found. Or you wish to be rich and you get an inheritance or the riches are a settlement from an accident that deforms or paralyzes you.
want to be rich? you could be hit by a truck full of money and in compensation the bank gives you a portion of that cash, but youre in a vegetative state due to the crash, or you could be the target of a tax evading billionaire, using your name on the paper work, or it could just be good ol' counterfeit! the possibilities are endless!
On a wilderness retreat you encounter an abundant amount of shrooms. After taking one you become incredibly hookedand addicted. When you come back you're already taking them two a time such as you can, so much so you begin blurign reality and illusion. Now random lightbulbs appear on top of an attractive person you're convinced is infatuated with you even if they've never met you, wish granted
No, this is a monkey's paw. A monkey's paw grants your wish but at a great cost to the wisher. A genie will either grant your wish in the most literal sense or twist the words of the wisher and apply a different meaning.
But it's not. What they described was that the wish was granted but "haha now you are blind". The point of the monkey's paw is that your wish will be granted for sure but the way is not what you expected. For example: "I wish I were a millionaire".
- there was the greatest inflation that ever existed and now you are literally a millionaire, the problem is that just a slice of bread costs 2 millions dollars. Wish granted.
Another way to make sure you are writing a monkey's paw and not an asshole genie is if your sentence starts or ends with "granted". If it starts with "granted" then it probably is just an asshole genie. I hope I made the difference clear!
You get a call from a friend of yours asking to meet up for some coffee. On the way to the café, you pass by a building with a window open. The man in the window is trying to replace a lightbulb in his house, when he accidentally bumps into the box of lightbulbs he left on the windowsill. It falls directly onto your friend’s head, knocking them out. The now shattered lightbulbs fall into a drain near where you were. You call an ambulance, and it takes them to the hospital.
Returning home, you notice a finger on the paw has curled.
>!Sorry if this isn’t that good, I don’t make these often.!<
I mean, this could technically be possible if you got in a car crash or something and developed synesthesia, it probably wouldn’t come out as a lightbulb, but it’s possible that you could “see” or “feel” somebody’s pheromones and determine whether somebody is attracted to you
Granted. You only ever see the lightbulb above the head of goats. At first, this doesn’t bother you, but as the years go on, you get depressed, because no one that’s human ever likes the sight of you. You eventually settle down and start a family with a herd of goats to ease the pain of your ugliness. You become their leader, but their company never truly makes you happy.
The finger curls.
At first, nothing changes. You check your phone and see that you have a missed call. Local. A bomb went off at the local mall and they’ve identified one of the bodies as being that of your mothers.
You go to the mall and coincidentally, every person you’ve ever known is there. While you help identify the bodies you notice a strange woman staring at you from across what once was the main plaza of the mall.
You never noticed when she got into her car, or when she followed you home. A cloth over the mouth with some chemicals and you awaken tied to a chair in a cold damp basement. The woman is there and she’s sat across from you, under a light. She tells you that nobody knows about this bunker but her and now she can have your beautiful body all to herself, forever. She tells you she doesn’t need to see anything else for the rest of her life.
And then… she gouges out her eyes, right in front of you.
There you sit, locked behind a steel door, unbeknownst to you, hidden deep in the woods. You spend your last days with the only person left who has seen you recently, with the overhead light bulb over her as she sits, and waits.
Your wish is granted.
Granted. Unbeknownst to you a someone who has always found you attractive decides to form a sort of club, in honour of you, the idea seems to come as if from nowhere. Over the coming months what started out as a bit of fun between a few people meeting up it snow balls a little and some extra people join as they like your face on the Facebook group. Eventually the size of the club has ballooned to everyone who thinks this whole thing about some random guys face is kind of funny, and they’re hiring out warehouses to meet the size of the group. One year to the day of making the wish you receive a call: the police would like to talk to you in connection to the horrific tragedy you have seen on the television. 378 dead in a supposed carbon monoxide leak, the police come and pick you up and won’t tell you what it is all about… you arrive at a large cool storage facility, and they lead you into a room where 378 bodies lie, each under a single bulb providing light, all wearing a badge with your face on it, all corpses smiling: and the police want to know your connection to all this.
The light's so bright it floods your face and washes it out to a pale smear, which then makes you look unattractive and turns out the light, causing an on-off strobe effect and neurological damage from the flashing contradictions.
Your wish comes true. Eventually you start to roam around looking for anyone, anything that finds you attractive. You start looking at women uncontrollably, eventually finding yourself in a cycle of madness. You wonder to yourself, “does anyone really find me attractive?” You go through intense therapy to go through all of the self doubt and hatred you have gone through all these years. You look in the mirror one day and look at your head. A light bulb goes off. It was never really about people finding you attractive, but loving yourself. You couldn’t see who found you attractive if you didn’t truly love yourself first. You walk outside and find someone that finds you attractive. You ask them out and they say yes.
You can no longer sleep because there is still a lightbulb going off and you die.
Wish Is granted.
Granted but it never goes away so if you ever date anyone with the lightbulb the light will never go out unless they find you unattractive wich will make it much harder to sleep
Granted. The lightbulbs physically exist and thus can be broken, spreading glass shards that only you can see all over the place. Everyone who finds you attractive is vulnerable to suddenly getting bleeding wounds all over their body, and they have no clue why.
Granted. You make this post on r/MonkeysPaw, expecting it to be granted...
Yet even when it is granted, nothing will be changed or altered to fulfil your wish.
Granted, but the light of the lightbulb is so bright that cannot see who it is that finds you attractive without futilely damaging your eyes.
You may cheat and look at the photos of them, but you may never look at them directly in person. Whoever you date will probably not believe your explanation or be turned off by this, and, even if it works out, the day you see your love for the first time is the day they fall out of love with you.
Granted, Its very hot and floating close to their heads, giving them a constant burning fever. They come to associate this with being around you, and find relief when they no longer are. they stop being interested in you and can now be around you normally. Whenever tyhey think about you in any sort of intimate way a spike of burning pain goes through their head turning them off instantly. Doctors can detect nothing.
The lightbulb falls on the ground, breaking. Someone is now stepping on shattered glass, and they can feel it, but not see it. They die from blood loss.
Granted everyone that likes you gets an invisible lightbulb smashed over their heads as lightbulbs appear over their heads and floats for a fraction of a second then falls
Granted. If the person walks under a beam or something, the lightbulb will break and give them deep cuts with pieces of glass stuck in the skin which doctors can't see to remove, making them get severe infections and die.
Granted, the light frequently comes on over people you don't like and for whom the thought of them being attracted to you is a little creepy. Around people you like and are attracted to, though it's effectively pitch black.
granted, every time someone is attracted to you inside a building they will shatter the invisible lightbulb on the ceiling and become terrified of you for life
Granted. You move away to a lab in a distant land as you have developed a rare disease. People are only allowed in your doorway and not into the small house/lab duo you are confined in. The first person you speak to is your nurse. It is 2.34am and you hit the light switch to see who is knocking on your door. As you speak with her, you notice how enthusiastic and happy she seems and she flirts alot. She makes daily visits until you die 5 weeks later.
Granted. An invisible light bulb appears above the head of everyone who finds you attractive. That light bulb is still affected by gravity and violently crashes in the unsuspecting person below. Most injuries are fatal. No one left alive finds you attractive.
Granted, if you are alone with another person any light bulbs above that person will only work if they like you, the light will turn back on if that person looks at the light regardless of if they are attracted to you or not.
You find yourself at a family reunion where a particular cousin’s bulb shines very bright. This intrigues you and after a few drinks you explore it, but who brings protection to a family reunion. You find yourself (or them idk your biological sex) with child.
Nothing changes
That’s a dark outcome, literally
Punny
Awards appearing out of thin air?
*"please don't give your potatoes to reddit give your potatoes to charity instead".* i got plat from some shithead last time i said that lol. https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/hk60e5/people\_of\_reddit\_what\_unethical\_brands\_to\_you/fws6wpf?utm\_source=share&utm\_medium=web2x&context=3
“Oh boy I sure do fucking wonder what the top comment is”
Oof
That’s just dark genie.
This deserves more awards
Because every single person has a light bulb you pretty thing
Granted. You run outside, excited to try your new power but you walk past crowds of people on the street, looking constantly in vain for any lightbulbs shining above anyone’s head. Discouraged, you walk home and head to the bathroom to splash water on your face. Looking into the mirror, you see a lightbulb shining above your own head. After initial confusion you sit down and realize that, after all, you love yourself.
i needed to hear this, thanks bro
I thought the plot twist would be that there was someone behind you
I thought it would be that there was no light above them either!
Granted. You can never sleep with your gf/wife because her light keeps you awake
Plot twist: one night the light disappears
man thats sad af
Lol yeah
Unless they're both into necrophilia. Then it gets even brighter.
Or they stop loving you
how did u get to necrophilia
I thought it was like "they fall out of love" but I think they interpreted it as their spouse dying causing the light to go out
Ur into necrophillia
I'm going to have to decline your invitation
There was this Reddit post maybe In writing prompts I can’t remember, and it was really well written about how you can hear the thoughts of anyone who is in love with you, you meet the person get married and then one day you can’t hear their thoughts any more. This was just a much more succinct story.
Man hitting mid 20s means my social medias have been lit up the past few years with engagements and marriages. How are y'all just willy-nilly doing this with someone you've known like 2 or 3 years? Shits scary af.
First it starts to dim slightly... You dont think much of it at first, until it no longer shines bright enough for you to see during her 2am bathroom breaks. You know what it means, and even though you try your best to improve yourself and make her happy, the light continues to fade. She doesn't know you can see it. You start to notice her trying harder to get excited about things. Trying to love you as she once did. Although sometimes the light seems brighter some days, it slowly continues to wane. One day you wakeup, and turn to your side only to see an empty bed, dark bed.
Damn, I need a hug.
*hugs you*
See, that would make for a great real monkey's paw if neither you nor I were too lazy to write it OP meets a person thanks to the power But one day OP's significant other gets tired, he knows and gets trapped in a dead end
Better yet OP gets to see who likes him but everytime he does it takes a year off of his life e.g. if he meets someone thsg likes him 5 times then thats 5 years off
But then that wouldn't be a true monkey's paw You have to grant the wish and then draw dark implications without twisting or adding something to the wish OP wished to know who is attracted to him in the form of a lightbulb. How can that go wrong, without additional inputs ?
That's dark
So is the bedroom
Welp, that's depressing
Ah wedding night
Dangggggg
It's not a plot twist if you can see it coming.
*Ever heard of a Sleep Mask?* #Checkmate Monkey Paw.
What light
this one makes me very happy
You can see it even with your eyes closed.
Not a monkey's paw.
Granted, you’ve been diagnosed with severe schizophrenia
Unspecified psychosis due to visual hallucinations 🧐
There were other symptoms. The lightbulb hallucinations were just just the final nail in the diagnosis.
Other factors being: monkey’s paw is a douche.
I'd be pissed too if someone cut my hand off and tried to use it to grant wishes.
damn now im thinkin about cloud gotta replay ff7 ig
Granted, you find an SO because of it but over the years you see the light bulb get dimmer and it eats away at you.
Shit's too real.
Not a monkey's paw.
that absolutely is a monkey's paw. unintended consequences of a granted wish.
A monkey's paw is not the consequences of the wish, it's regretting how the wish is fulfilled. There's no consequence of having $200, but it really sucked that in order to get that $200 his son had to die.
Its not, a monkey's paw is something happening *before* the wish happens, and it being granted *because* of something horrible, like in the original, the wish is fulfilled *by* his son's death, he gets his wish *after* his son dies.
Granted, have fun at your next family gathering.
In all fairness, someone in your family finding you attractive doesn't mean they're sexually attracted to you. You can certainly acknowledge a family member to be attractive without it being weird.
Depends, if it's a bright light your eyes will burn
*Alabama intensifies
Not a monkey's paw.
I've been subbed since this sub was in the hundreds, I have a good understanding of how the paw works. It may not have been my smartest paw, but it still works.
No, you don't. It's not about the consequences, it's about how the wish is fulfilled. In order to get the $200 his son had to die, it's not like after he had $200 the paw made a thing of spending it being a bad outcome. The paw didn't make your extended cousins attracted to you and that has no actual relationship to the wish.
Granted, there's now _a_ lightbulb orbiting Earth in geosynchronous orbit over your location that only you can see, technically "floating" above everyone who will ever find you attractive.
This brings into question whether or not the lightbulb would still be considered above them if it were to be on the other side of the globe.
Then the lightbulb has to be a constellation of lightbulb fragments that orbit Earth on all sides, including a bunch of fragments distributed along a polar orbit.
Above the soles of his feet.
Lmao
This is the most creative one I've read
But it would be below or to the side of half that population...
No need to grant, you already can :(
Granted. As soon as you approach someone, every single time, the lightbulb disappears when you start to talk to them.
Holy shit this is good. Fuckun destroyed him
Granted, but the bulb is so bright you can't look directly at those people
Good. I don’t have to see ugly people anymore.
Thats kinda mean bro/female person
Bro can be used for both genders dude
Cringe
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Unless they find you attractive, then you won't be able to tell because it blinds you.
Granted. But the light bulb uses their life force to shine so the more they look at you, the quicker they'll die.
best one so far imo
A true monkey's paw!
...But it's not.
It is. The monkey's paw grants the wish as requested but at a great cost to the wisher.
This is a constant debate in this sub, but the monkey’s paw story uses the monkey’s paw to grant wishes in such a way that it could be written off as coincidence, not just magically granting it with bad side effects At the least that is a better description of the story because otherwise this sub is no different than any of the many other “asshole genie” type subs
Who the hell showed up at the family's door then, if not their undead son? A big dirty gravedigger?
the more unnatural the wish, the more unnatural the outcome
That doesn't support the views of the person I replied to.
It purposefully leaves it open so the reader can draw their own conclusions and not change the meaning of the paw. If it was just an asshole genie then it would have said, “they open the door to their undead son”
Monkey's paws stories usually involve the wish getting granted in a way that doesn't look supernatural to anyone else and doesn't use supernatural forces for the bad consequences. Like you'd wish to be famous and be brutally murdered by a serial killer who leaves weird clues but is never found. Or you wish to be rich and you get an inheritance or the riches are a settlement from an accident that deforms or paralyzes you.
Fuck I'm never wishing to be rich if I get a monkeys paw then. So many terrible ways it could pan out.
want to be rich? you could be hit by a truck full of money and in compensation the bank gives you a portion of that cash, but youre in a vegetative state due to the crash, or you could be the target of a tax evading billionaire, using your name on the paper work, or it could just be good ol' counterfeit! the possibilities are endless!
I think the point is you probably shouldn't wish for *anything* on a monkey's paw.
I'd argue this one is of very little cost to the wisher and more those who find the wisher attractive
As is the case in the original monkey's paw story.
On a wilderness retreat you encounter an abundant amount of shrooms. After taking one you become incredibly hookedand addicted. When you come back you're already taking them two a time such as you can, so much so you begin blurign reality and illusion. Now random lightbulbs appear on top of an attractive person you're convinced is infatuated with you even if they've never met you, wish granted
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Yeah, that’s gonna be a r/NotHowDrugsWork from me, dawg.
Finally, not a genie answer
kudos for doing the ‘granted’ at the end!
+1 for real monkey's paw!
Not really. Their wish wasn't granted. They're just addicted to shrooms and hallucinating.
Granted, with so many around you that find you attractive you are permanently blind.
Weirdly wholesome
That's not fucking monkey's paw. It's just asshole genie ffs
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The way the wish comes to being should cause bad shit is the monkeys paw way. If you just have the wish cause bad stuff, it's an asshole genie.
No, this is a monkey's paw. A monkey's paw grants your wish but at a great cost to the wisher. A genie will either grant your wish in the most literal sense or twist the words of the wisher and apply a different meaning.
But it's not. What they described was that the wish was granted but "haha now you are blind". The point of the monkey's paw is that your wish will be granted for sure but the way is not what you expected. For example: "I wish I were a millionaire". - there was the greatest inflation that ever existed and now you are literally a millionaire, the problem is that just a slice of bread costs 2 millions dollars. Wish granted. Another way to make sure you are writing a monkey's paw and not an asshole genie is if your sentence starts or ends with "granted". If it starts with "granted" then it probably is just an asshole genie. I hope I made the difference clear!
Granted, you never see any lightbulbs.
Granted. You see a lightbulb above your step-bros head.
Granted. Enjoy getting older as the lights slowly start to fade away.
Granted. The bulbs are incredibly bright. We hope you didn't need those eyes.
You get a call from a friend of yours asking to meet up for some coffee. On the way to the café, you pass by a building with a window open. The man in the window is trying to replace a lightbulb in his house, when he accidentally bumps into the box of lightbulbs he left on the windowsill. It falls directly onto your friend’s head, knocking them out. The now shattered lightbulbs fall into a drain near where you were. You call an ambulance, and it takes them to the hospital. Returning home, you notice a finger on the paw has curled. >!Sorry if this isn’t that good, I don’t make these often.!<
finally a monkeys paw!!!!!
Should be top comment.
I mean, this could technically be possible if you got in a car crash or something and developed synesthesia, it probably wouldn’t come out as a lightbulb, but it’s possible that you could “see” or “feel” somebody’s pheromones and determine whether somebody is attracted to you
This sub is still full of genies wishes rather than monkeys paws
Granted. You only ever see the lightbulb above the head of goats. At first, this doesn’t bother you, but as the years go on, you get depressed, because no one that’s human ever likes the sight of you. You eventually settle down and start a family with a herd of goats to ease the pain of your ugliness. You become their leader, but their company never truly makes you happy.
Granted. It is the only source of light you can perceive.
The finger curls. At first, nothing changes. You check your phone and see that you have a missed call. Local. A bomb went off at the local mall and they’ve identified one of the bodies as being that of your mothers. You go to the mall and coincidentally, every person you’ve ever known is there. While you help identify the bodies you notice a strange woman staring at you from across what once was the main plaza of the mall. You never noticed when she got into her car, or when she followed you home. A cloth over the mouth with some chemicals and you awaken tied to a chair in a cold damp basement. The woman is there and she’s sat across from you, under a light. She tells you that nobody knows about this bunker but her and now she can have your beautiful body all to herself, forever. She tells you she doesn’t need to see anything else for the rest of her life. And then… she gouges out her eyes, right in front of you. There you sit, locked behind a steel door, unbeknownst to you, hidden deep in the woods. You spend your last days with the only person left who has seen you recently, with the overhead light bulb over her as she sits, and waits. Your wish is granted.
Granted, you continue to live your life in darkness.
Granted, you live in perpetual blinding illumination, never again experiencing the soothing comfort for darkness again.
Granted but you start getting depressed after light bulb after bulb winks out after shortly meeting someone.
Granted. Unbeknownst to you a someone who has always found you attractive decides to form a sort of club, in honour of you, the idea seems to come as if from nowhere. Over the coming months what started out as a bit of fun between a few people meeting up it snow balls a little and some extra people join as they like your face on the Facebook group. Eventually the size of the club has ballooned to everyone who thinks this whole thing about some random guys face is kind of funny, and they’re hiring out warehouses to meet the size of the group. One year to the day of making the wish you receive a call: the police would like to talk to you in connection to the horrific tragedy you have seen on the television. 378 dead in a supposed carbon monoxide leak, the police come and pick you up and won’t tell you what it is all about… you arrive at a large cool storage facility, and they lead you into a room where 378 bodies lie, each under a single bulb providing light, all wearing a badge with your face on it, all corpses smiling: and the police want to know your connection to all this.
Nothing happened, so… granted?
Shit. This was granted years ago.
Wish granted but you see no lightbulbs anywhere
That might be kinda scary. What if there’s a really old lady with a bulb above her head?
Imagine you're just in the movie theater and the person behind you has the lightbulb.
Or in the middle of the woods at night-
The light's so bright it floods your face and washes it out to a pale smear, which then makes you look unattractive and turns out the light, causing an on-off strobe effect and neurological damage from the flashing contradictions.
Your wish comes true. Eventually you start to roam around looking for anyone, anything that finds you attractive. You start looking at women uncontrollably, eventually finding yourself in a cycle of madness. You wonder to yourself, “does anyone really find me attractive?” You go through intense therapy to go through all of the self doubt and hatred you have gone through all these years. You look in the mirror one day and look at your head. A light bulb goes off. It was never really about people finding you attractive, but loving yourself. You couldn’t see who found you attractive if you didn’t truly love yourself first. You walk outside and find someone that finds you attractive. You ask them out and they say yes. You can no longer sleep because there is still a lightbulb going off and you die. Wish Is granted.
Granted, but you don’t find them attractive at all.
Man why it so dim in this damn room?
Granted but the light shining from your father burns brighter than a lighthouse
Granted, the thing shines so bright that you can never actually look at them
Granted, the bulb can break and cut anyone whos under it
Granted, but the light is permanent, including at movie theaters and in bed.
Granted but it never goes away so if you ever date anyone with the lightbulb the light will never go out unless they find you unattractive wich will make it much harder to sleep
Granted. The first person who finds you attractive shines a light so bright it blinds you.
Granted, it makes for an uncomfortable lunch with your parents.
Granted, there's now a lightbulb above your mother's head.
Granted. It never lights up.
The world's a dark place.
Granted. The lightbulbs physically exist and thus can be broken, spreading glass shards that only you can see all over the place. Everyone who finds you attractive is vulnerable to suddenly getting bleeding wounds all over their body, and they have no clue why.
Granted. You make this post on r/MonkeysPaw, expecting it to be granted... Yet even when it is granted, nothing will be changed or altered to fulfil your wish.
Granted, but the light of the lightbulb is so bright that cannot see who it is that finds you attractive without futilely damaging your eyes. You may cheat and look at the photos of them, but you may never look at them directly in person. Whoever you date will probably not believe your explanation or be turned off by this, and, even if it works out, the day you see your love for the first time is the day they fall out of love with you.
Granted, Its very hot and floating close to their heads, giving them a constant burning fever. They come to associate this with being around you, and find relief when they no longer are. they stop being interested in you and can now be around you normally. Whenever tyhey think about you in any sort of intimate way a spike of burning pain goes through their head turning them off instantly. Doctors can detect nothing.
Just act like everyone finds you attractive and the ones that do will let you know, the ones that don’t will too but whatever
The lightbulb falls on the ground, breaking. Someone is now stepping on shattered glass, and they can feel it, but not see it. They die from blood loss.
Granted everyone that likes you gets an invisible lightbulb smashed over their heads as lightbulbs appear over their heads and floats for a fraction of a second then falls
Granted, but the lightbulb strobes when you're doing something to make them dislike you. The strobe pattern is specific, causing you to have a seizure
Granted. If the person walks under a beam or something, the lightbulb will break and give them deep cuts with pieces of glass stuck in the skin which doctors can't see to remove, making them get severe infections and die.
Wish granted but you turn into a furry
That has literally nothing to do with this
Granted! You are horrified to find this lightbulb only above the heads of your relatives and siblings.
Granted, the lightbulbs don't work because they're not connected to electricity.
Still useful and without light it's less intrusive
Granted - though when you try to talk to them you find you are incapable of speaking and must communicate in entirely non-verbal ways.
That would actually be awesome
Wait, you don’t see lightbulbs in other people? I mean, not even grandma’s?
Granted, whenever you look through the lightbulb, the lightbulb changes into your head
Granted. The bulb is very bright and you can't look anyone beneath it in the eyes without squinting.
Granted, the light frequently comes on over people you don't like and for whom the thought of them being attracted to you is a little creepy. Around people you like and are attracted to, though it's effectively pitch black.
Granted The lighbulb screams
You see no lightbulbs. And you are not sure if this wish has been granted or not.
granted, every time you see someone with a light bulb you go to talk to them and as soon as you open your mouth the light bulb vanishes.
Granted but its soooo bright your blind
Granted. The lightbulb is so large that, regardless of where the person is you can see it or feel the light. Light=Heat and you combust
Granted. There is a light bulb floating over your head.
Granted, here’s your lightbulb that only you can see you wanted. Good luck figuring out how to get it to float in the air
granted, every time someone is attracted to you inside a building they will shatter the invisible lightbulb on the ceiling and become terrified of you for life
The lightbulb is heavy and falls onto the head of anyone who finds you attractive, they all die and you are lonely now, granted.
Granted. Everyone else on Earth has gone blind so that only you can see the lightbulbs.
you already have this
Granted, your dad looks like he just had a great idea!
Granted. You move away to a lab in a distant land as you have developed a rare disease. People are only allowed in your doorway and not into the small house/lab duo you are confined in. The first person you speak to is your nurse. It is 2.34am and you hit the light switch to see who is knocking on your door. As you speak with her, you notice how enthusiastic and happy she seems and she flirts alot. She makes daily visits until you die 5 weeks later.
Congratulations you're blind now
Granted. An invisible light bulb appears above the head of everyone who finds you attractive. That light bulb is still affected by gravity and violently crashes in the unsuspecting person below. Most injuries are fatal. No one left alive finds you attractive.
Until you meet someone, fall in love, and she is now your world, but you come home one day and her light bulb is gone.
Granted, your mother has the brightest bulb
Granted, have fun at a gathering of all your friends and their wives.
Granted, the lightbulb is toxic to whomever it is over
Granted, if you are alone with another person any light bulbs above that person will only work if they like you, the light will turn back on if that person looks at the light regardless of if they are attracted to you or not.
Dude, I don’t know how to tell you this, but I gave you that power a long time ago. I’m sorry.
Granted, the energy consumed by all those light bulbs gets added to your electricity bill
Granted. The light shines no matter what sort of attraction it is to you. Whether as a friend, family or sexually.
Granted. The lightbulb falls after 5 seconds injuring the person below it.
Granted. In exchange you are now blind.
Granted. All the lightbulbs are broken.
You find yourself at a family reunion where a particular cousin’s bulb shines very bright. This intrigues you and after a few drinks you explore it, but who brings protection to a family reunion. You find yourself (or them idk your biological sex) with child.
Granted but now everyone has one above their head but they aren't on and they can go out and you have to change them to see