I don’t know. I read it once and the images stayed in my head. I imagine the main character must feel like someone with a mental illness. Driven by an unexplainable urge to do something which will destroy them ultimately.
I guess I just don't get the scariness of it. It's a little weird but "person feels compelled to enter hole, comes out wrong on the other side" just... idk wasn't that scary to me?
The body horror aspect is obvious, but the psychological horror is completely up to the reader. Some might find a particular relation to the whole ‘endless hole that I know I shouldn’t fall into, but I just can’t help it’ aspect, others feel triggered by the whole ‘fear of the unknown’ aspect, yet others can draw comparisons between this and self-destructive behavior of some kind.
And others, like you, might not feel anything at all.
Knowing exactly how much bullshit (or elephant shit, in this case) you can get away with is a key competency of military members that transcends space and time. If we don’t get stories like this out of our first war against the Alpha Centaurians, it’ll be because no humans are left to tell them.
Navy submariner. Can confirm sailors definitely do that on sausage days, or at breakfast with bananas. Usually on a dare, though, or as a joke. Otherwise the food is usually slightly below Air Force grade minus the butler, unless you count the seaman that’s cranking as a food service assistant asking every table if they need anything.
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