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Corruption Leitner Tournament Final

Ant Colony vs. The Masque of the Red Death

The Cruel Empress vs. The Feather Pillow

Green Fuse Burning vs. Ant Colony

Froth on the Daydream vs. The Eater of Wasps

The Festering vs. The Roaches

The Rats vs. The Rats in the Walls

The Voice in the Night vs. To Die in Italbar

The Fungus vs. She Is a Haunting

Caterpillars vs. Ratman's Notebooks

The Honeys vs. What Moves the Dead

Plague vs. The Plague

The House on Stillcroft Street vs. Mexican Gothic

Rappaccini's Daughter vs. The Bridegroom

Melanie's Marvelous Measles vs. Felicity Floo Visits the Zoo

Sick Simon vs. The Bongleweed

The Bugman Lives! vs. The Host

The Masque of the Red Death vs. The Black Train

#corruption poll #the corruption #leitner tournament #masterpost

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Flesh Leitner Submissions

Our next Fear Entity is Viscera! Please be sure to check the rules before submitting.

Form will be open until 7:59 AM CST on Sunday April 28th.

#flesh poll #the flesh #the magnus archives #leitner tournament #submission

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Ant Colony (From Unclean Jobs for Women and Girls) (Alissa Nutting) "When space on earth became very limited, it was declared all people had to host another organism on or inside of their bodies. Many people chose something noninvasive, such as barnacles or wig-voles. Some women had breast operations that allowed them to accommodate small aquatic life within implants. But because I was already perfectly-breasted (and, admittedly, vain) I sought out a doctor who, for several thousands of dollars, drilled holes into my bones to make room for an ant colony."

It is with that paragraph that begins Ant Colony, a short story published as part of the book Unclean Jobs for Women and Girls, the debut short story collection of author Alissa Nutting. Beside the obvious Corruption theme of its very premise, the rest of the story also touches on another, often overlooked element of this Entity: Twisted, unhealthy love."

SPOILERS BELOW CUT

The Masque of the Red Death (Edgar Allan Poe) "The Red Death was a disease spread throughout the land, and eventually taking on a physical form to spread the disease to those nobles who isolated themselves. It came in the form of a party goer dressed as a victim of the disease, manifesting in the way that would cause the most terror as they realised it could not be escaped or killed. It fits the theme of disease and other parts of the Corruption manifesting as something human-ish, as well as it gradually consuming even those of try to escape it."

Ant Colony, cont.: The plot twist of the story is that the ants hadn't begun eating the nameless narrator alive from within because the queen ant hated her, as the other doctors she talks to had theorized, but because the doctor who she had paid to implant the ants into her bones, who had already been established as having a creepy crush on her, had been purposely manipulating things in order to get the ants to assimilate her consciousness and eat her whole from the very beginning, all so that he could get the ant colony to inhabit him next because, as he puts it: "When you all crawl inside of me, we will all be one forever."

#corruption poll #the corruption #poll #the magnus archives #leitner tournament #Unclean Jobs for Women and Girls #Ant Colony #Alissa Nutting #The Masque of the Red Death #Edgar Allan Poe

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Corruption Leitner Tournament Semifinals

Ant Colony vs. The Voice in the Night

What Moves the Dead vs. The Masque of the Red Death

The Cruel Empress vs. The Feather Pillow

Green Fuse Burning vs. Ant Colony

Froth on the Daydream vs. The Eater of Wasps

The Festering vs. The Roaches

The Rats vs. The Rats in the Walls

The Voice in the Night vs. To Die in Italbar

The Fungus vs. She Is a Haunting

Caterpillars vs. Ratman's Notebooks

The Honeys vs. What Moves the Dead

Plague vs. The Plague

The House on Stillcroft Street vs. Mexican Gothic

Rappaccini's Daughter vs. The Bridegroom

Melanie's Marvelous Measles vs. Felicity Floo Visits the Zoo

Sick Simon vs. The Bongleweed

The Bugman Lives! vs. The Host

The Masque of the Red Death vs. The Black Train

#corruption poll #the corruption #leitner tournament #masterpost

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What Moves the Dead (T. Kingfisher) "In this atmospheric retelling of Edgar Allan Poe's classic "The Fall of the House of Usher", Alex Easton, a retired soldier, receives word that their childhood friend Madeline Usher is dying, so they race to the ancestral home of the Ushers in the remote countryside of Ruravia.

What they find there is a nightmare of fungal growths and possessed wildlife, surrounding a dark, pulsing lake. Madeline sleepwalks and speaks in strange voices at night, and her brother Roderick is consumed with a mysterious malady of the nerves.

Aided by a redoubtable British mycologist and a baffled American doctor, Alex must unravel the secret of the House of Usher before it consumes them all."

The Masque of the Red Death (Edgar Allan Poe) "The Red Death was a disease spread throughout the land, and eventually taking on a physical form to spread the disease to those nobles who isolated themselves. It came in the form of a party goer dressed as a victim of the disease, manifesting in the way that would cause the most terror as they realised it could not be escaped or killed. It fits the theme of disease and other parts of the Corruption manifesting as something human-ish, as well as it gradually consuming even those of try to escape it."

#corruption poll #the corruption #poll #the magnus archives #leitner tournament #What Moves the Dead #T. Kingfisher #The Masque of the Red Death #Edgar Allan Poe

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Ant Colony (From Unclean Jobs for Women and Girls) (Alissa Nutting) "When space on earth became very limited, it was declared all people had to host another organism on or inside of their bodies. Many people chose something noninvasive, such as barnacles or wig-voles. Some women had breast operations that allowed them to accommodate small aquatic life within implants. But because I was already perfectly-breasted (and, admittedly, vain) I sought out a doctor who, for several thousands of dollars, drilled holes into my bones to make room for an ant colony."

It is with that paragraph that begins Ant Colony, a short story published as part of the book Unclean Jobs for Women and Girls, the debut short story collection of author Alissa Nutting. Beside the obvious Corruption theme of its very premise, the rest of the story also touches on another, often overlooked element of this Entity: Twisted, unhealthy love."

SPOILERS BELOW CUT

The Voice in the Night (William Hope Hodgson) "The main character and his fiancée, aboard the ship Albatross, were abandoned by the ship's crew, who took the remaining lifeboats. After building a raft, they escaped from the sinking vessel and found an apparently abandoned ship in a nearby lagoon, covered with a fungus-like growth. They attempted to remove this growth from the living quarters but were unable to do so; it continued to spread, and so they returned to their raft. The nearby island was also covered with this growth, except for a narrow beach. Eventually, the man and his fiancee found the fungus growing on their skin and felt an uncontrollable urge to eat it. They discovered that other humans on the island have been entirely absorbed by the strange fungal growth.

As the man in the rowboat rows away from the sailors to whom he is telling his tale, just as the sky is lightening, the narrator can dimly see a grotesquely misshapen figure in the rowboat, scarcely recognisable as human. LINK"

Ant Colony, cont.: The plot twist of the story is that the ants hadn't begun eating the nameless narrator alive from within because the queen ant hated her, as the other doctors she talks to had theorized, but because the doctor who she had paid to implant the ants into her bones, who had already been established as having a creepy crush on her, had been purposely manipulating things in order to get the ants to assimilate her consciousness and eat her whole from the very beginning, all so that he could get the ant colony to inhabit him next because, as he puts it: "When you all crawl inside of me, we will all be one forever."

#corruption poll #the corruption #poll #the magnus archives #leitner tournament #Unclean Jobs for Women and Girls #Ant Colony #Alissa Nutting #The Voice in the Night #William Hope Hodgson

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Corruption Leitner Tournament Round 3

Ant Colony vs. The Roaches

The Voice in the Night vs. She is a Haunting

What Moves the Dead vs. Rappaccini's Daughter

Melanie's Marvelous Measles vs. The Masque of the Red Death

The Cruel Empress vs. The Feather Pillow

Green Fuse Burning vs. Ant Colony

Froth on the Daydream vs. The Eater of Wasps

The Festering vs. The Roaches

The Rats vs. The Rats in the Walls

The Voice in the Night vs. To Die in Italbar

The Fungus vs. She Is a Haunting

Caterpillars vs. Ratman's Notebooks

The Honeys vs. What Moves the Dead

Plague vs. The Plague

The House on Stillcroft Street vs. Mexican Gothic

Rappaccini's Daughter vs. The Bridegroom

Melanie's Marvelous Measles vs. Felicity Floo Visits the Zoo

Sick Simon vs. The Bongleweed

The Bugman Lives! vs. The Host

The Masque of the Red Death vs. The Black Train

#corruption poll #the corruption #leitner tournament #masterpost

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Melanie's Marvelous Measles (Stephanie Messanger) "A highly controversial children's book with the moral of the story being that vaccines are bad and measles aren't that bad and will make you stronger in the long run."

The Masque of the Red Death (Edgar Allan Poe) "The Red Death was a disease spread throughout the land, and eventually taking on a physical form to spread the disease to those nobles who isolated themselves. It came in the form of a party goer dressed as a victim of the disease, manifesting in the way that would cause the most terror as they realised it could not be escaped or killed. It fits the theme of disease and other parts of the Corruption manifesting as something human-ish, as well as it gradually consuming even those of try to escape it."

#corruption poll #the corruption #poll #the magnus archives #leitner tournament #Melanie's Marvelous Measles #Stephanie Messanger #The Masque of the Red Death #Edgar Allan Poe

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What Moves the Dead (T. Kingfisher) "In this atmospheric retelling of Edgar Allan Poe's classic "The Fall of the House of Usher", Alex Easton, a retired soldier, receives word that their childhood friend Madeline Usher is dying, so they race to the ancestral home of the Ushers in the remote countryside of Ruravia.

What they find there is a nightmare of fungal growths and possessed wildlife, surrounding a dark, pulsing lake. Madeline sleepwalks and speaks in strange voices at night, and her brother Roderick is consumed with a mysterious malady of the nerves.

Aided by a redoubtable British mycologist and a baffled American doctor, Alex must unravel the secret of the House of Usher before it consumes them all."

Rappaccini's Daughter (Nathaniel Hawthorne) "Giovanni Guasconti, a young student renting a room in Padua, has a view from his quarters of a beautiful garden. Here, he looks at Beatrice, the beautiful daughter of Dr. Giacomo Rappaccini, a botanist who works in isolation. Beatrice is confined to the lush and locked gardens, which are filled with exotic poisonous plants grown by her father. Having fallen in love, Giovanni enters the garden and secretly meets with Beatrice a number of times, while ignoring his mentor, Professor Pietro Baglioni. Professor Baglioni is a rival of Dr. Rappaccini and he warns Giovanni that Rappaccini is devious and that he and his work (which involves using poison as medicine) should be avoided.

Giovanni notices Beatrice's strangely intimate relationship with the plants as well as the withering of fresh regular flowers and the death of an insect when exposed to her skin or breath. On one occasion, Beatrice embraces a plant in a way that she seems part of the plant itself; then she talks to the plant, "Give me thy breath, my sister, for I am faint with common air."

Giovanni eventually realizes that Beatrice, having been raised in the presence of poison, has developed an immunity to it and has become poisonous herself. A gentle touch of her hand leaves a purple print on his wrist. Beatrice urges Giovanni to look past her poisonous exterior and see her pure and innocent essence, creating great feelings of doubt and confusion in Giovanni.

In the end, Giovanni becomes poisonous himself: insects die when they come into contact with his breath. Giovanni is troubled by this, which he sees as a curse, and he blames Beatrice. Professor Baglioni gives him an antidote to cure Beatrice and free her from her father's cruel experiment. However, when Beatrice drinks the antidote, she becomes sick and dies. Before realizing that Beatrice is dying, Dr. Rappaccini excitedly welcomes the love between his two creatures, his daughter and her suitor, Giovanni, who has been transformed so that he can now be a true and worthy companion to Beatrice.

While Beatrice is dying, Professor Baglioni looks down from a window into the garden and triumphantly shouts "Rappaccini! Rappaccini! and is THIS the upshot of your experiment!""

#corruption poll #the corruption #poll #the magnus archives #leitner tournament #What Moves the Dead #T. Kingfisher #Rappaccini's Daughter #Nathaniel Hawthorne

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The Voice in the Night (William Hope Hodgson) "The main character and his fiancée, aboard the ship Albatross, were abandoned by the ship's crew, who took the remaining lifeboats. After building a raft, they escaped from the sinking vessel and found an apparently abandoned ship in a nearby lagoon, covered with a fungus-like growth. They attempted to remove this growth from the living quarters but were unable to do so; it continued to spread, and so they returned to their raft. The nearby island was also covered with this growth, except for a narrow beach. Eventually, the man and his fiancee found the fungus growing on their skin and felt an uncontrollable urge to eat it. They discovered that other humans on the island have been entirely absorbed by the strange fungal growth.

As the man in the rowboat rows away from the sailors to whom he is telling his tale, just as the sky is lightening, the narrator can dimly see a grotesquely misshapen figure in the rowboat, scarcely recognisable as human. LINK"

She Is a Haunting (Trang Thanh Tran) "When Jade Nguyen arrives in Vietnam for a visit with her estranged father, she has one goal: survive five weeks pretending to be a happy family in the French colonial house Ba is restoring. She’s always lied to fit in, so if she’s straight enough, Vietnamese enough, American enough, she can get out with the college money he promised.

But the house has other plans. Night after night, Jade wakes up paralyzed. The walls exude a thrumming sound, while bugs leave their legs and feelers in places they don’t belong. She finds curious traces of her ancestors in the gardens they once tended. And at night Jade can’t ignore the ghost of the beautiful bride who leaves her cryptic warnings: Don’t eat.

Neither Ba nor her sweet sister Lily believe that there is anything strange happening. With help from a delinquent girl, Jade will prove this house—the home her family has always wanted—will not rest until it destroys them. Maybe, this time, she can keep her family together. As she roots out the house’s rot, she must also face the truth of who she is and who she must become to save them all."

#corruption poll #the corruption #poll #the magnus archives #leitner tournament #The Voice in the Night #William Hope Hodgson #She Is a Haunting #Trang Thanh Tran

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Ant Colony (From Unclean Jobs for Women and Girls) (Alissa Nutting) "When space on earth became very limited, it was declared all people had to host another organism on or inside of their bodies. Many people chose something noninvasive, such as barnacles or wig-voles. Some women had breast operations that allowed them to accommodate small aquatic life within implants. But because I was already perfectly-breasted (and, admittedly, vain) I sought out a doctor who, for several thousands of dollars, drilled holes into my bones to make room for an ant colony."

It is with that paragraph that begins Ant Colony, a short story published as part of the book Unclean Jobs for Women and Girls, the debut short story collection of author Alissa Nutting. Beside the obvious Corruption theme of its very premise, the rest of the story also touches on another, often overlooked element of this Entity: Twisted, unhealthy love."

SPOILERS BELOW CUT

The Roaches (Thomas M. Disch) "Marcia Kenwell has an obsessive fear of cockroaches. She routinely scours her apartment with roach-kill, disinfectant, and cleaner. Ever since she moved to the city she has been unable to rid herself of the pesky bugs. She was warned about them by her aunt and her mother had a phobia to all bugs, but Marcia first encounters them at one of her first jobs and it has been a never-ending battle since then. She desperately seeks a new place to live especially after the neighbors move in next door. The two men and one woman (unclear who is related and who is a lover) are loud, foreign, and dirty as Marcia sees it. Their presence brings in more roaches and this deeply angers Marcia. One day, she encounters some roaches in her apartment and without thinking, she verbally commands them to leave. In an instant, all the roaches leave the apartment. She slowly finds she has the ability to command the roaches. In a frenzy of anger, she directs them all into her neighbor's apartment. She hears yelling and screaming and then tells them to disperse. When the landlady comes the neighbor's room, she sees the mess and demands they leave. Back in her room, Marcia opens a cupboard and all the roaches flood out onto her. Instead of repulse, she feels utter love and invites all of New York's cockroaches to visit her."

Ant Colony, cont.: The plot twist of the story is that the ants hadn't begun eating the nameless narrator alive from within because the queen ant hated her, as the other doctors she talks to had theorized, but because the doctor who she had paid to implant the ants into her bones, who had already been established as having a creepy crush on her, had been purposely manipulating things in order to get the ants to assimilate her consciousness and eat her whole from the very beginning, all so that he could get the ant colony to inhabit him next because, as he puts it: "When you all crawl inside of me, we will all be one forever."

#corruption poll #the corruption #poll #the magnus archives #leitner tournament #Unclean Jobs for Women and Girls #Ant Colony #Alissa Nutting #The Roaches #Thomas M. Disch

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I guess if we're doing this sort of thing, best I can manage is Johannes VIII's annotated review of Eater of Wasps. Give it a read-through for gross body horror, family drama, apocalyptic wasps, and the Doctor being adorably delighted over the prospect of driving a tractor.

#leitner propaganda #corruption poll

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I got motivated by that one ask about the comic adaptation of 'The Voice In The Night': There is a Chilean Stop-Motion animated adaptation of 'El Almohadón de Plumas (The Feather Pillow)'. It is free to watch on YouTube, and it has English subtitles!

Like with the ask before me, this isn't exactly propaganda, I just find that animated short to be really well made and I wanted to recommend it to more people, if that's okay. Here's the link!

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#asks #leitner propaganda #corruption poll

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'The Voice in the Night' also had a comic adaptation here on tumblr, which I can't for the life of me remember where to find; I don't know if this counts as "propaganda" or not, because I'm not saying that it's more FITTING, only that it's more FAMILIAR to me (because that comic crossed my dash).

Found it

#asks #leitner propaganda #corruption poll

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Corruption Leitner Tournament Round 2

The Feather Pillow vs. The Ant Colony

The Eater of Wasps vs. The Roaches

The Rats vs. The Voice in the Night

She is a Haunting vs. Ratman's Notebooks

What Moves the Dead vs. The Plague

Mexican Gothic vs. Rappaccini's Daughter

Melanie's Marvelous Measles vs. Sick Simon

The Host vs. The Masque of the Red Death

The Cruel Empress vs. The Feather Pillow

Green Fuse Burning vs. Ant Colony

Froth on the Daydream vs. The Eater of Wasps

The Festering vs. The Roaches

The Rats vs. The Rats in the Walls

The Voice in the Night vs. To Die in Italbar

The Fungus vs. She Is a Haunting

Caterpillars vs. Ratman's Notebooks

The Honeys vs. What Moves the Dead

Plague vs. The Plague

The House on Stillcroft Street vs. Mexican Gothic

Rappaccini's Daughter vs. The Bridegroom

Melanie's Marvelous Measles vs. Felicity Floo Visits the Zoo

Sick Simon vs. The Bongleweed

The Bugman Lives! vs. The Host

The Masque of the Red Death vs. The Black Train

#corruption poll #the corruption #leitner tournament #masterpost

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The Host (Stephenie Meyer) "Silvery centipedes that burrow into your brain and take over your body? A constant emphasis put on how "kind" and "altruistic" these alien centipedes are and how utopian their society is compared to us violent and selfish humans? Unhealthy romance that never gets acknowledged as such by the narrative? Reads like Corruption to me."

The Masque of the Red Death (Edgar Allan Poe) "The Red Death was a disease spread throughout the land, and eventually taking on a physical form to spread the disease to those nobles who isolated themselves. It came in the form of a party goer dressed as a victim of the disease, manifesting in the way that would cause the most terror as they realised it could not be escaped or killed. It fits the theme of disease and other parts of the Corruption manifesting as something human-ish, as well as it gradually consuming even those of try to escape it."

#corruption poll #the corruption #poll #the magnus archives #leitner tournament #The Host #Stephenie Meyer #The Masque of the Red Death #Edgar Allan Poe

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Melanie's Marvelous Measles (Stephanie Messanger) "A highly controversial children's book with the moral of the story being that vaccines are bad and measles aren't that bad and will make you stronger in the long run."

Sick Simon (Dan Krall) "The book follows Simon through a week of school, as his illness spreads to everyone around him. The illustrations are just. So gross."

#corruption poll #the corruption #poll #the magnus archives #leitner tournament #Melanie's Marvelous Measles #Stephanie Messanger #Sick Simon #Dan Krall