I sense Fear and Loathing in Atlantic City by F Scott Fitzgerald. And The Electric Lemonade-Acid Test by Ernest Hemingway
And if I don't, well then I'm still interested in seeing what will come from this. Keep it going chief.
I expect the most probable pitfall I can run into is making this TL too over the top. I am very aware of this fact and will do everything I can to keep it grounded. Yes, a TL about 1920s flapper-hippies will try to be grounded.
Hmm, that's a bit tricky. Psychedelic is just so catchy and well known that's it's hard to break away from. Would you go with taking from Greek routes (soul-to manifest), perhaps switching to Latin (Soul=Anima; Manifest=Manifeto; "Animanifesto"?), or something English? There may even be original timeline terms out there which were never popular or never took off that could be used.
Maybe you could run with the whole Kaleidoscope thing and go with "Kaleidoscopic" or "Kaleidopic/Kaleidospic/Kaleidpic" (kal is Greek for "beautiful" and eidos is greek for "form").
Bioshock just got Trippy.MDMA called Rapture. I salute you.
Will WWI be covered in detail or skipped over?
Bioshock just got Trippy.
"No, like, Gods or Kings, man. There's only, like, man, man. Far out!"
Hmmmm...
Even IOTL, psychedelics were being experimented with early on. Parke, Davis was selling Peyote in the late 1800's. (A few years after, one guy from the UK by the name of Crowley was able to order some...)
http://books.google.com/books?id=ZesN1ZJNMQYC&pg=PA7&lpg=PA7&dq=parke+davis+peyote&source=bl&ots=XT2hE-VoT9&sig=JTgmTawC_xQT4izXQHs2LLYWVCo&hl=en&ei=TM_pTJTSKMT7lwekxOmeCQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CCkQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=parke%20davis%20peyote&f=false
As for Searle, I knew them more from NutraSweet...
I don't understand the video game reference. That's the way the drug feels.