I don’t know how to rate this.
On one hand, this article has some of the most insane and genuinely illogical beats to its story - the Authority having the power to modify people’s knowledge on a level you can convince someone lemon juice is a type of milk, it knowingly feeding a dangerous anomaly to the people in the canteen and a masscre being played off as a joke, the unnecessary censorship, the proposal to use it as a torture device. If this came out today, it would be nuked before it even reached the mainlist.
But, this was made in the early days, before the Authority even started forming the basics of what it would become. It stays tonally consistent during an experimental phase of the site’s writing, and manages to constantly elevate the batshit insanity and keep me engaged throughout.
Excellent, insane work.