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10/24/20, 3:27 AM
Great story!! Loved it!!!!
10/24/20, 1:38 AM
>the comments are really a big spoiler in kind of way > I promise I haven't given any spoilers -- I've merely given us some things to think about...
10/24/20, 1:03 AM
> I think of the Deputy more as “Frankenstein’s Monster” than anything else at this point. When he comes to life, will his power be containable? The Sheriff seems to think so… the comments are really a big spoiler in kind of way, underline the different between the old and young. about the sheriff the ambitions can destroy but a good "villain" always has a plan B over his hands (maybe Survival of the fittest).
10/23/20, 11:59 PM
I like this low key transistion. Lenoldi and the Coach, then to Snake and my dear Rugby Boy, only to be followed by the soldiers, and then....her. My heart sank. But it was so good. Do I trust her? At this point, I do. I didn't think I'd ever be interested in seeing her again, but now I look forward to seeing her again (and those are rare words in my life) On the flip side, I didn't like the feminization of the soldiers: "honey," throwing a kiss, sashay. Every other character seems to be growing in his masculinity (even Tully lol) and that just didn't fit.
10/23/20, 11:30 PM
> It’s also rare that I go for the happy ending, which can anger the audience, as well. I’m very curious about what kind of love I’m gonna get when all is said and done with Book Two. When I discovered the David DeCocteau Brotherhood series, I was disappointed to discover that the hero never joins the villains, because I always thought the idea of him joining him would be more interesting and sexier. Having good always prevail felt like a betrayal of horror and queer horror in general. Plus I think it has to do with my dominant and submissive sides enjoying a description of an irreversible act of submission So I, for one, will probably be quite happy with the results.
10/23/20, 10:00 PM
> Catering to the audience. And that’s fine… but I’ve always found erotic horror to have a little bit more meat to it > First of all, for the phrase "It’s an eroticized thanatos" you win the internet today! Congratulations! You said it so much better than I ever could -- I just write scary, but oddly erotic stories when I get high, man. I'm with you on erotic horror, tho. Many of my stories have some sort of sinister overtones that add a level of creepiness to the proceedings. It's also rare that I go for the happy ending, which can anger the audience, as well. I'm very curious about what kind of love I'm gonna get when all is said and done with Book Two. I think "horror" endings stay with a reader more than "happy" endings do. However, when people make emotional investments in characters and then those characters don't get the ending the reader wants and the reader FREAKS OUT!?! That's when I feel I've succeeded the most.
10/23/20, 9:44 PM
> ... they suddenly find themselves in a horror movie. It's a great twist. So often, erotica that features mind-control and loss of identity themes only focuses on them as fetishes because, well, people who read that kind of erotica tend to view them as fetishes. Catering to the audience. And that's fine... but I've always found erotic horror to have a little bit more meat to it: you're forced to confront how terrifying the thing you are secretly attracted to is, even as you long to experience it. It's like seeing the bones and shipwrecks strewn on the sirens' rocks, even as you steer your ship towards them. It's an eroticized *thanatos*, a simultaneous fear of and desire for that which we know will harm us. To lose one's sense of self, to die as the body lives on, an anonymous unit in a sea of drones... even as we recoil at the thought, some of us feel an awful longing for the liberation of obliteration.
10/23/20, 8:40 PM
> The farming scene reminded me of a similar scene .... I got flashbacks to reading that scene as I read the opening episode. You took me to a good place with that. > Okay, that's super cool. The "seeding the field" image has been a large part of this story's make-up -- there've been dreams about it going all the way back to the early chapters of Book One. So it was really important for me that once we got to the actual, physical moment they discover that it was nothing like they thought it would be. I wanted the characters to have these kind of rapturous feelings associated with the farm so that when they find out what it really is and what it's going to do to them, they suddenly find themselves in a horror movie. But the best line of the chapter goes to Rugby Boy when he says, "“C’est la partie du film où quelque chose d’effrayant se produit.” *This is the part of the movie where something scary happens.
10/23/20, 8:13 PM
Another enjoyable chapter, but I had to give the army guys a side eye about leaving Devin behind. I was like, "Dude, you guys are still army; where's the whole 'no man left behind' attitude?" Glad the Lieutenant got things straightened out. Sheriff Lane selling out Kansas was rather enjoyable; just when he was going to receive another visit from Tully, he sicks her on Kansas. The farming scene reminded me of a similar scene in one of my favorite novels. In Robert McCammon's *They Thirst*, there's a scene in it where a former coffin maker is turned into a vampire and working on an assembly line. I got flashbacks to reading that scene as I read the opening episode. You took me to a good place with that.
10/23/20, 2:12 PM
> Right now, I’m reading the upcoming “war” between the two symbiote factions as a metaphor for how two of your main strengths as a writer–coming up with distinctive characters and devising plots that revolve around depersonalization/dehumanization–are going to war in this story. > I'm excited to have a deeper conversation about this, but right now it would cause SPOILERS the likes of which could shake my fragile reality to the ground! Check in with me again in chapter 18!