I'm not surprised at all by the amount of stuff that got cut. Leafing through the doc after it was recorded it was more and more apparent to me 80% of it was either too gross or infuriating to read out loud. The worst is I'm not even sure it's a failing entirely on my part. I don't know if
any amount of trimming down and story selection could redeem the TSA. It is a
dense archive of fiction, one chock full of 50 page stories written in awful, convoluted, stilted writing where nothing happens until "and then I was a cat". Its worst stories, the ones that ended up in the doc, are also its best. That's not to say I regret submitting the subject, it's still a super weird site and it does make for a great episode where a listener can go "Huh? What? So you jerk off to this? Statues?" Props to you guys for soldiering through and making it work.
The most confounding thing is that, by and large, the TSA is not an erotic archive. For every explicit story there's five others of capt. Kirk just turning into a parakeet. I guess what most surprised me isn't that somebody would write a story about their telepathic dog transforming them into their dog-wife by way of intercourse (because of course they'd write that), it's the sheer amount of time some of these people spent, pouring
buckets of unfiltered prose in this collective archive. I honestly don't know, man, 90's nerds.
All in all,