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Jacket Mike wrote: Xelrog T. Apocalypse wrote: Isn't anything that would be posted to this site a spin-off of existing content, and therefore not original content anyway? That was probably the main idea of the site, but, after all, it ended up accepting original stories as well. After all, if someone can't upload an original Mario pasta (kind of difficult) in CPW, it can here.

There's no such thing as an "original Mario pasta." A Mario pasta is a Mario pasta. It features characters and settings from the Mario series. An original pasta is an original pasta. It contains original characters and settings without interference from any existing franchises. The two are quite exclusive.