Nameless Grub · 3mo
hii i wanted to say two things today, 1. i had read serious weakness in bouts of energy whenever i could bc of severe focusing problems and such, consuming each chapter in many different time periods. so i really appreciate how the amount of time that passes in-story is ambiguous and could be over the course of days, weeks, or months… i think that adds to the nebulousness of the whole ordeal, it’s murky, just events of notable trauma and healing in a sea of shit. chunks of meat in a bowl of vomit. like how memory works, it’s all muddy but you can remember this Thing That Happened to You. and that’s all that matters.
2. have you read The Troop by Nick Cutter? it’s abt boy scouts and bugs and worms wearing people and has a lot of intense body horror and boys being boys that i feel like you would appreciate, and reminds me of your work
- mmm it is interesting to consume a piece of art over variable time, getting the book sticky, two-way contamination, a shifting and hazy mirror...and yes, being separated from time is a big part of breaking a captive. Conveying "things related to time" was a big attention of mine when writing it. thank you! <3 ✌️
- I did read it! I remember being reasonably entertained, it's so scary to starve like that. I like that it touches on how as boy scouts decrease in popularity, it becomes a magnet for undersocialized or psycho kids, which works well with a horror story. def checks out as someone who was a boy scout. and of course I'm writing my own intestinal boy scout parasite story...
