"Premature - if I get to the place I want to get you, and do it right, you'll sleep with the lights on, chug gravol for a week and every day google Antarctica just to make sure you're in the timeline where its under two miles of ice. But we're not even close to there, yet."
— DValdron, the thread's author
ONLY IN THIS THREAD WOULD THE RESPONSE TO DEAD GIANT SQUID TENTACLES BEING USED AS SEX TOYS BE: It's a nice idea, but I don't think it's tenable.
— one of the readers of this alternate history
"The recurring theme of the Tsalal is 'hell is other people.' Through desperation or extremity, the Tsalal end up making their own societies hellish and destructive.
"As we do...The secret of the Tsalal is, take away the window dressing, they're just us. They're just people struggling to get through life, and ending up creating hellscapes. That's human history."
"As we do...The secret of the Tsalal is, take away the window dressing, they're just us. They're just people struggling to get through life, and ending up creating hellscapes. That's human history."
— DValdron
