I was chatting with a friend of ours a while back about wish fulfilment in fiction and I was just thinking 'My wish fulfilment wouldn't be some Hero's Journey where Frodo comes back to the happy Shire, it would be where everybody in the world simultaneously had a brain seizure and a transformation and became a completely fresh being, freed of all their crabbed habits of mind'.
Your best stories kind of achieve that sort of transformation in narrative form. This is a cheeky version of that.
I do love a little cheek😏I do love a transformation, too, maybe it’s a kind of envy. Mammals never really undergo this process, even puberty pales in comparison to what most insects go through. Also I was thinking about what you said about taking in all the news and letting it come out in your writing. I don’t know that it was successful, I’m not great at overt messages, but it was a goal with this piece.
I really think you are very successful and I also don’t think it’s an overt message. It comes off as what I said, a cheeky black-comic apocalypse which is seen as welcome. The transformation is not obviously but rather craftily seen as a beneficial thing, a cleansing.
Since we don’t take it literally, we can just take it as a creepy tale, but the ‘something else’ is there lurking.
I honestly think most readers won’t even perceive it as any kind of message at all, but the suggestion will be there working its brain-transforming effects, like some ovipositor with a benign little egg ready to hatch one day.
I also feel humbled that I in any small way contributed to this mighty little thing of yours. I have and was preparing to dust off a similar type of thing but which featured a brain virus rather than a god-creature.
You actually really helped me over the paralysis. Stuff that’s bothering me always makes it into my writing, but what’s going on now is so big I was afraid if I tried to write about it it would end up preachy or boring. But I was like, “Prof said to do it and I have to at least try.” So thank you 🙏
Wow, this is like a new genre
cute horror, I like it
Ha! I love that, thank you! 🙏
This was captivating and horrifying- most excellent! 🙏🏼✨
that kill scene kicks ass
Ha! Thank you, it was a fun one to write.
I love the delight Ida and Melon take in their, er, craft. Charmingly horrifying!
Ha! They are quite the pair😂
Superb HG.
I was chatting with a friend of ours a while back about wish fulfilment in fiction and I was just thinking 'My wish fulfilment wouldn't be some Hero's Journey where Frodo comes back to the happy Shire, it would be where everybody in the world simultaneously had a brain seizure and a transformation and became a completely fresh being, freed of all their crabbed habits of mind'.
Your best stories kind of achieve that sort of transformation in narrative form. This is a cheeky version of that.
I do love a little cheek😏I do love a transformation, too, maybe it’s a kind of envy. Mammals never really undergo this process, even puberty pales in comparison to what most insects go through. Also I was thinking about what you said about taking in all the news and letting it come out in your writing. I don’t know that it was successful, I’m not great at overt messages, but it was a goal with this piece.
I really think you are very successful and I also don’t think it’s an overt message. It comes off as what I said, a cheeky black-comic apocalypse which is seen as welcome. The transformation is not obviously but rather craftily seen as a beneficial thing, a cleansing.
Since we don’t take it literally, we can just take it as a creepy tale, but the ‘something else’ is there lurking.
I honestly think most readers won’t even perceive it as any kind of message at all, but the suggestion will be there working its brain-transforming effects, like some ovipositor with a benign little egg ready to hatch one day.
I also feel humbled that I in any small way contributed to this mighty little thing of yours. I have and was preparing to dust off a similar type of thing but which featured a brain virus rather than a god-creature.
You actually really helped me over the paralysis. Stuff that’s bothering me always makes it into my writing, but what’s going on now is so big I was afraid if I tried to write about it it would end up preachy or boring. But I was like, “Prof said to do it and I have to at least try.” So thank you 🙏
wow that's excellent!
such musical writing and such a bizarre world of magic powers.
Thank you!!
Brutal and cool!
Thank you!!
Of course!