I enjoyed this, especially the slow reveal that the transformation is actually good. I do think it would have been more thematically powerful without the last line. The black goo being passive didn’t bother me—I didn’t interpret it as a nanite AI, but just a dumb lifeform that slipped in through a wormhole or something.
The ending is because I normally write horror and take perverse delight in making small additions to wholesome things which totally subvert and ruin them. It’s a compulsion at this point, lol.
The black goo is called Vitriol. A sort of a symbolic constant across many of my stories, present in different forms for various purposes. Typically it represents the corrosive hatred we indulge in, a poisoned well we cannot help but keep returning to even as we feel it killing us.
I’m thankful for your readership and will endeavor not to disappoint you. Tomorrow’s will be a neat one.
The ending is because I normally write horror and take perverse delight in making small additions to wholesome things which totally subvert and ruin them. It’s a compulsion at this point, lol.
I have noticed this tendency. Sometimes it’s really well done though, I loved the ending for ||the ehancer story||. (spoilers for another one of Alex’s stories)
I enjoyed this, especially the slow reveal that the transformation is actually good. I do think it would have been more thematically powerful without the last line. The black goo being passive didn’t bother me—I didn’t interpret it as a nanite AI, but just a dumb lifeform that slipped in through a wormhole or something.
I’m looking forwards to tomorrow’s post.
The ending is because I normally write horror and take perverse delight in making small additions to wholesome things which totally subvert and ruin them. It’s a compulsion at this point, lol.
The black goo is called Vitriol. A sort of a symbolic constant across many of my stories, present in different forms for various purposes. Typically it represents the corrosive hatred we indulge in, a poisoned well we cannot help but keep returning to even as we feel it killing us.
I’m thankful for your readership and will endeavor not to disappoint you. Tomorrow’s will be a neat one.
I have noticed this tendency. Sometimes it’s really well done though, I loved the ending for ||the ehancer story||. (spoilers for another one of Alex’s stories)
If you were trying to spoiler tag that, it didn’t work.