Chelsea
I didn't expect much from this because I bounced off the serialized version on the SCP wiki, but it improved a lot in the editing process!
I love that it just ran with the concept and let it get as crazy as possible. My favorite bit was the huge antimemetic leviathan skull that they turned into a meeting room with built-in idea containment.
The writing is basically fine. It's all written in the present tense which I always find a bit annoying. The use of black boxes as 'censorship' feels a bit overdone to me at this point, but that may be because I've spent too much time reading SCPs.
I thought using memetics as a lens to explore how fascism captures and corrupts people was a very fun angle, and a good way to tie all the interesting bits here into a cohesive novel.
I didn't expect much from this because I bounced off the serialized version on the SCP wiki, but it improved a lot in the editing process!
I love that it just ran with the concept and let it get as crazy as possible. My favorite bit was the huge antimemetic leviathan skull that they turned into a meeting room with built-in idea containment.
The writing is basically fine. It's all written in the present tense which I always find a bit annoying. The use of black boxes as 'censorship' feels a bit overdone to me at this point, but that may be because I've spent too much time reading SCPs.
I thought using memetics as a lens to explore how fascism captures and corrupts people was a very fun angle, and a good way to tie all the interesting bits here into a cohesive novel.