Zoostuck 3

point it at the author

The author's dead, though. He died back in the last version of the universe and hasn't had an implausible resurrection yet. And, well, you have no idea how to point a bad idea ray at the afterlife.

Seriously, how would you even do that?

eat it and absorb its powers

Of course! If you eat the bad idea ray, you can probably gain its powers and that will let you reach the afterlife with it! You start attempting to eat the thing, but you soon run into a problem: It tastes awful.

You don't care how much you're being influenced by your proximity to this thing, you're not going to eat something that tastes this terrible.

Of course, since you are being influenced by the bad idea ray, rather than conclude that you should just not eat it, you conclude that you need to find a way to make it palatable so you can eat it.

How are you going to do that?