Pink contagionby cassius · Sep 25, 2026
A mysterious new virus begins spreading through the city. At first it only causes mild fever and a strange craving for pink. Within days the infected start changing. Bodies soften and expand into exaggerated hourglass figures, voices turn higher and breathier, and minds steadily empty of everything except fashion, attention, and pleasure. There is no official cure, only rumors that the virus rewrites desire itself, and that some people stop wanting to be cured at all.