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2/2/21, 1:33 PM
I usually don't read #political stories, but I like your stories and this is also a great one.
2/2/21, 1:11 PM
Excellent as always! Personal preference, but i love your stories when there is slightly more push back/me against the hypnosis involved but thats just me. Either way we should all be so Chad...i mean lucky.
2/2/21, 12:59 PM
holy mystics scary and erotic
Anonymous
2/2/21, 12:16 PM
One of the best stories on the site, I would love to see how the competitors would react leaving the statue mode !!
2/2/21, 12:13 PM
Bossy, I also imagine that the transformed Chads would look a bit like Madison Cawthorn or Josh Hawley. Maybe those guys were the first to change into Chads because they didn't need to change very much! Part of what inspired me to write this was seeing those guys in the news and thinking, "Man, they're pretty hot! But they're evil! But still, they're pretty hot."
Anonymous
2/2/21, 11:54 AM
nice ending loved the punishment for victor would love to see a follow up after everyone is unfrozen
Feb 1, 2021
2/2/21, 11:49 AM
I want this mask on my face!!
2/2/21, 11:24 AM
great story! my most favorite in this site is "gerrymandering" so i'm glad you write this kind of story again. such hopeless sinister story. too bad you add Chad Cawthorn in the story because I like to imagine that all the transformed chad would look like that guy lol.
2/2/21, 11:18 AM
My pleasure, Hypnothrill! As you say, what was once unthinkable has become normalized--I'm sure you are familiar with the concept of the Overton window? It's moved so far to the right...and to be frank, I'm terrified of it not going back. Thankfully there are people working to make it happen, but sometimes it feels impossible, especially when those in power are so invested in the rightward push. Stories like this, though, play a role in helping too! I think the most effective part of the reality change is how in this nightmarish America, the land of "freedom" and "individual rights" has literally become populated by like-minded clones with virtually no free will. And yet the clones THINK they're free because of propaganda telling them so. Similarly, the commentary on a culture so obsessed with masculinity that it has sex with its own masculine ideal (but NOT being gay, because there's nothing gay about appreciating your fellow Chads' bodies in this world, right?). :p That's brilliant! I love reading your stories. :)
2/2/21, 11:01 AM
Thanks again for your analysis, Feed Your Head. When I wrote this, I was really interested in taking a Reality Change story and giving it an overtly political twist. As you suggest, part of what we've seen under Trump is a kind of slow "reality change," where previously unthinkable dictatorial behaviors and fascist attitudes become normalized and everyone simply gets desensitized to it. It's been about 5 years since I've lived in the US, so it was a lot of fun for me to write this kind of parodically heightened and nightmarish version of American culture (where "God Bless the USA" is the new national anthem). I essentially set the story in a lightly fictionalized version of the town where I attended graduate school: Bloomington, Indiana (where there really was a vegan burrito shop/record store not far from campus).