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You both look very spot on, too. So, is there any reason you gave this cosplay or was it just because? Just curious.

We're thinking of doing another one soon, where I'll be sporting my TARDIS dress. There's just something much more satisfying about wearing costumes you made instead of bought. ^^;

In canon, you have the Hallow (which is sort of the Anti-Corruption, it shows up when Hardmode hits and acts almost exactly like the Corruption/Crimson but is full of sunshine, rainbows, and fairies and unicorns... that want to kill you), but it doesn't spread onto Corrupted/Crimsoned land, just like the Corruption/Crimson doesn't spread on Hallowed land.

And you also have powder that beats back or spreads the Corruption in pre-Hardmode, with its Hardmode equivalent being the Clentaminator (portmanteau of "Cleanse" and "Contaminator") that, using Solutions colored after the different biomes, sprays said Solutions to contaminate or cleanse the earth. (Which, DOGA might be interested in the Clentaminator. It's essentially a flamethrower that destroys or creates corrupted effects. Supply a Canon Solution, and...)

Is if that typo hadn't been a typo, but instead a "Cure"-rruption - fixing everything the Corruption damaged...

But I doubt this author's that sort of creative. >.>

But please don't break your mind in the process! |D

Not sure if he was aiming for horror or "this is how I'd bring about my ideal world".

Since the author also seems to be a Believer in what he's writing about, going off the info in his site.

Just type your name into the Author slot every time, it's simple as that. We have some nasty history with banned individuals trying to sneak their way back on, so we want to know it's you and that you can be trusted. Okay? Thanks. :)

Welcome to the PPC, by the way. I'm Twistey, a 1-year-bie who has way too many ideas. Since it seems like people have already been asking you questions, I shall spare the majority of them. However, what do you intend to do here? Any ideas for agents, etc.? Do you write original stuff? I'd love to know!

Since I've been too morbidly fascinated with Baldi's Basics these days (note: not representative of all my fandom tastes :P), your newbie gift is an electric ruler. You slap someone with it and it'll function as a taser. If you decide to hand it down to your agents, it'll be perfect for taking down a Mary Sue nice and discreetly in a realistic continuum, for this ruler could easily be invented in real life. I guess. I could verify my claim, but then what would I do with the ruler?

Anyway, it's nice to meet you. Once again, welcome to the PPC.

-Twistey

But then I realized that the phrase "femail" was already taken by all the rear orifices at the far-right news outlet Daily Mail. Sadness.

Also, that's a cool mailbox.

-Twistey

If we don't know you, we don't know how well you write/how willing to learn you are, and if we let people write missions who don't write well and maybe even aren't willing to learn, PPC missions would be very hypocritical, wouldn't they? That's why the Permission thing is in place. Nothin' we have against ya. :)

A lot of newbies come in thinking that they can start writing PPC fic without having to get to know us and get Permission. Admittedly, it seems like that's how it was during the time of TOS (from reading the author's notes), but that's not how it is now. In order to both keep track of who all writes PPC missions (because having to get Permission makes it a lot harder for there to be missions we don't know about) and prevent any PPC badfic that's not part of the Badfic Games or any other joke event (see wiki), the Permission process was implemented at some point in time (maybe an oldbie can tell you when.) I know there are some users who have rushed in and then chilled out (i.e. me), but this can sometimes lead to unfavorable incidents stemming from impatience and/or failure to learn when they do try for Permission, on the part of the newbie. Sadly, it's even lead to some nasty things happening in the past, which further intensify our need for us to know who you are. So I also suggest that you do, in fact, relax, and see all that the Board has to offer. You won't be disappointed if you do.

-Twistey
(Note to other PPCers: Perhaps we could make the need for Permission less easy to miss on the Wiki? That might prevent some of this kind of stuff.)

Okay, now we've gone from "what are you on that extended Your Mileage to include Cthulhu" to simply "excuse me but that's not how to do horror properly, and my advice may or may not include that sensitive subjects should not be placed in a horror story willy-nilly, but I don't want to read the story so I don't know if the Polyp forcefully does what I think he forcefully does." *sigh* Slightly better than expected. Slightly. So we have that.

-Twistey

And... yeah. At the very least, I think your analysis is better than the author's seemingly-serious take. It very much seems like they're taking the Descent Into Madness as something positive in the book.

...If I could actually stomach reading this in-depth, I might try my hand at writing a fixfic.

The main page of a site is sometimes referred to as the landing page. Also, this appeals to the Pern fan in me. ^_^

The Head Clerk/Cleric wouldn't be in charge of the wizards. Just other clerks. Basically, you'd have the theoretical authority to delegate the tedious jobs I've delegated to you. Doesn't mean you'd have to use it, though.

Up to you, of course. {= )

~Neshomeh

Awesome job on the costumes and the playing of the characters. Those pics are a ton of fun. I think my favorite is the one where you're both looking around the wall.

~Neshomeh

Can't say I've ever heard of a schizophrenic whose head-voices told them nice things.

And, having just taken a brief poke around Google to see if I could quickly turn up anything to refute that perception, here is an article by an actual schizophrenic that also turns the idea of Salt on its head. Not sure if that supports or dismantles my take on the book, but I'm not suggesting that it's serious interpretation of the text anyway. {= )

~Neshomeh

But the odd thing about Salt is that (and I did skim this, so I may have missed something) to my recollection, the descriptions are equally muted and unreal there. And I guess that's the point, in your parse.

But if that was the mark the author was trying to hit, it would make far more sense to portray the scenario very differently. The ocean scenes would be comforting and muted, and Salt would be a more painful delusion than it was. As it stands... everything feels dull, and the ocean portions are tinged with Body Horror. With no contrast save that, it's hard to see why Lyle would ever prefer the ocean to Salt.

Or would be, if the white world Lyle starts from made any more sense than the blue world he envisions in his death throes.

The trouble is, the author doesn't understand people at all. When all our base needs are met, when we're secure and healthy, we don't lose all motivation and cease to do anything. We create. Heck, some people create even when they can't afford to feed themselves, because they can't help it. Creating and engaging each other in games, and dance, and song, and stories, and all arts and crafts, is a base human drive. You can't just ignore it.

I mean, sure, some folks will lose themselves in front of the TV or the computer, but that's the exception, not the rule. Most of us here on the ol' Interwebz are using the medium for... you guessed it... creation. Sharing ideas. Communication and engagement.

It's not all positive, of course, but for the purposes of dismantling the logic behind the State of Salt, it doesn't matter. If every person on the planet had Internet access directly implanted in our brains, it wouldn't change the fundamental drive of humans to use their minds to DO stuff. Even dumb stuff. Even horrible stuff.

Brave New World did the socialist-hedonist dystopia better.

Though, granted, it sounds like the dystopia in this book is just an excuse for weird tentacle-monster sex later. Point is, I utterly fail to care. The starting scenario makes no sense, and our protagonist cannot be sympathetic, because the situation he's raging against is unclear and baffles more than it horrifies. His escape from it has no power to move me.

I could almost get into it as a fascinating trip through the wild fancies of a deranged mind, though. Maybe he's a paranoid schizophrenic or something, the State of Salt is white because that's the color of clinic coats and padded walls, and that's the world he sees when he's taking his meds, and he's one of those people who convinces himself that he's not his "real self" when medicated and chooses the familiar delusion over facing up to stark, frightening reality with its confusing rules and expectations. I dunno. It makes more sense than taking the book at its word.

~Neshomeh

I also dropped an "and", and several times forgot to replace asterisks with the HTML for italics, because I forgot that the PPC board doesn't run on Markdown like Discord and several other sites do.

Already said my piece on it in the Lounge, but I'll say it again over here.

Over in the *Terraria* fandom (which luckily doesn't seem as prolific as some others, but that's no reason to let it go unprotected), I found this shining example of a badfic.

The fic in question is unfinished- only the first chapter exists, the writer having abandoned it back in 2012- but it already seems to be something that the Department of Technical Errors would have a field day with. The fic ignores the fact that paragraph breaks exist, generates a Mini with the title *alone*, cuts the benefit a player would get from a Life Crystal in half (you get 20 max HP from using one, not 10) while simultaneously misnaming it a "crystal heart" (which brings to mind a certain artifact from the My Little Pony continuum), forgets that the player character is supposed to start with a copper shortsword as well as the copper axe and copper pick.

On top of that, the fic also severely warps the character of the Guide, transforming him from a helpful, no-nonsense walking tutorial that helpfully directs you to sacrifice him in the name of progress once you near the end of pre-Hardmode, into a coward that goes flamethrower-crazy and then breaks down into a sniveling heap when called useless, and actually fears for his life just long enough to guilt-trip the Sue!Player into building a house for him to hide in... which he promptly abandons in favor of becoming a pseudo-player character, and tagging along with the Sue!Player while they go mining. (And even then, if the player character knew how to play Terraria, he shouldn't have needed guilt-tripping in order to want to build a house for the Guide, as well as several other houses for the various other NPCs in the game, most of which act as merchants.)

So, yeah, we're dealing with a Sue!Player *and* a possibly-character-replaced Guide.

Relatively harmless, but still nuts. Better than the other way around, I suppose...

Who doesn't want to assassinate the "secret twin" of Harry Potter while looking exactly like the man himself?

Although I'm not sure it's very wise to disguise yourselves as canon characters...

(In all seriousness, looking great!)

You put a lot of thought into this. G'job!

-Twistey

Fictional monarchies are nothing like the monarchy we had when we declared independence. Aragorn, Queen Amidala, and all those other such monarchs are just rulers. They let their people have a voice. King George III didn't let the colonies have any voice whatsoever, and basically treated them like a toy for him to play with. Case closed.

-Twistey