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Patapasta. what can one do with that phrase?

Pataphysics is the study of a realm beyond metaphysics, moving into the narrative structure of all existence and focusing on works that blur or completely erase the line between fiction and reality, creating surreal and intriguing works.

i'll try to keep this distinct from SCP-4378 but yea.

my thinking right now is some sort of anomalous bowl of pasta (perhaps macaroni to go along with the joke that i put in the desc of this forum) that contains an entire universe.

perhaps the bowl acts like a ouija board purportedly works, causing anyone trying to make macaroni art with it to be controlled by some unseen force and made to create something else, and that something would be: the pictographic story of an entire universe.

maybe its the same universe every time, maybe its a different one. i dont know. i'm thinking maybe the same universe would make for something more interesting because you could tell an ever-developing narrative through pictographic macaroni art.

thoughts? feedback? i'd love to hear it!

I feel like for people who don't know what pataphysics is, this just won't really make much sense. Cimmerian's new tale works well because it's enjoyable even if one isn't familiar with pataphysics or isn't aware that there's a pun happening in the premise to begin with.

Without the context of the pasta/pata typo joke, this is just a pretty standard generic magic object with a compulsion effect in the "causing anyone trying to make macaroni art with it to be controlled by some unseen force and made to create something else". I'm also pretty skeptical about someone being able to use macaroni to create the story of an entire universe… that's a lot of time and energy.

Maaaaaaaybe you'd be able to make a tale about it using characters to lampshade the pun, but I kind of feel like an SCP article about pasta and universes just seems a little unapproachable if it's solely made to facilitate a kind of obscure inside joke.