That was an odd read. Leaving the tone aside, which I assume is intentional, this article just seems like it's trying way too hard to get a reaction out of me, the reader… which it did, but I think it's not the one the author intended because I'm just very confused right now
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Just about everything really, to the point that I'm struggling to articulate why I don't het it. The opening line alone is an effective attention grabber but it's also just entirely nonsensical.
SCP-8771 is currently inside the human bloodstream.
What does this mean exactly? "the human bloodstream"… you mean the bloodstream of a single person? Not really because its treated as some sort of collective thing, which uh… what? And everything that follows is equally confusing
Maybe I'm just not reading the subtext or getting the metaphor, if there's even any, but yeah I don't get it
The "human bloodstream" is a part of the firmament of blood, a domain that encompasses all blood that exists in the universe. The whale literally exists inside the human bloodstream. Nothing in this article is a metaphor and all of it actually happened.
The article is intentionally written in a matter-of-fact way intended to paint the picture of a world where all of this is established fact, which would not need to explain any of it.
"The Foundation manipulates some integral facet(s) of existence" is a relatively common concept, but this executes it in a wholly novel, nightmarish way. Initially feels somewhat disjointed, but the essence of the dream logic is that there is a unifying principle behind the weirdness and jarring assumptions, and the hostile intrusion of the normalcy orgs into such concepts as "blood" and "grief" is just such a principle. If I had to guess, there wouldn't be a dionysian blood-whale if there wasn't already a GOC station in the firmament of blood.
I think this would be better if you removed all proper nouns other than the species name, but its good as is
agreed. Author is clearly going for something that happens in a conceptual realm vs the real/corporeal world, but it just comes across as jargon for jargon's sake
I really like this glimpse into this strange world and how the article doesn't bother trying to explain itself.
This felt a lot like reading Vermis imo, similar feeling of sticking your head into a deeply dysfunctional world and getting slapped across the face with horror made mundane before you can pull it back out. The evocative style landed square on target for me. +1
This is excellent stuff. I wish more people wrote on this site with as strong an authorial voice as you.
Thank you, J Dune.
I only joined this site after reading your seminal work, "The Ones That Got Away", so I am very happy to hear such praise…
Glad I'm not the only one who mixes these 2 up all the time 😭
…since when did we have signatures?
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