It really is a testament to your skill as a writer that you are able to get us to root for characters who we ought to regard as the villains. Even as I was writing my last comment, I had to catch myself and think, “The Hosts aren’t the heroes! They’re just the protagonists! We shouldn’t want them to win!”
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I had a similar moment. I was writing with the idea in the back of my mind that I was saving them, my little band of rebels. Allowing that, the story takes on a particular tone, a feeling of hope.
When I got to 18, I knew what I had to do, so I took a day off and realigned myself with the truth: there’s no way in hell an all powerful alien is going to be some tin-hitler’s stooge.
I had tried to imagine the Sheriff with the Deputy silent behind him as the muscle, the all powerful genie, but it just didn’t work.
The Sheriff had to brought down.
That, plus the upcoming climactic moment, really puts everything in its proper perspective. Trust me.
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That the Deputy was going to put Lane in his place, I predicted. The foreshadowing of Rugby Boy having that moment of doubt made it quite clear that things were not going to go according to plan. But I’m surprised that you were genuinely contemplating the “rag-tag band of rebels” angle. I wanted it- I love Snake and Rugby Boy and have been hoping against hope they’ll make it through this mess- but I think a part of me knew it wasn’t going to be so nice and tidy.
And you delivered on that unspoken dread. Snake’s enthrallment to his son-god was such a delicious moment, like a dark chocolate cake of erotic villainy. Did I want things to pan out better? Absolutely. But I think I prefer what we got instead.
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Very true. We root for the symbiotes to transform more men. We rooted for King Rex to subjugate the heros to his will by a meer touch or by his transformative cum. In Recruits we rooted for the bodybuilder and his slaves that were bringing hot men into the fold to submit to muscle with an earth shattering orgasm. Mimbo Drops we wanted to see the transformationfrom straight to muscle bound gay slut. I can go on.
Absman simply puts words to our fantasies of muscle, muscle growth, massive cock, transformative sex, and the cum we crave.
We root for what gets us hard.
Thank you
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Me, too!
However, in the “happy” ending, Snake and Rugby Boy all but disappear into the background. With the “realism” ending, Rugby Boy becomes the crux of the story.
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Must. Not. Ask. For. Confirmation. Of. Theory!
I know you’ll just tell me it would be spoilers and to keep reading. But trust me, Absman, I’ve had a theory brewing in my head that has now been sent into overdrive!
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quel dommage!
I predicted Vernon and Rugby Boy meeting up. But outside of Rugby Boy’s ass full of his long awaited symbiote I can’t predict it any further. The new great one Deputy; Snake enthralled; Sheriff morphed and his mind orgasmiclly fried; Joe and Lieutenant entering the picture. Don’t know which way to look first but I’m sure we will be able to point with our hands behind our backs cum Friday.
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I’ll tell you a frustrating hump day clue, then: chap 19 did not exist in the original plot. Material in it was mined from chap 18 & chap 20, but 19 didn’t exist as a stand-alone until a few weeks ago, when I was writing 16 and made some hard choices.
Don’t panic — I’m being purposefully obtuse — I’ll explain on Friday. Then we can have a nice talk about construction and pacing.
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Well, certainly the two Great Ones have to eventually battle it out. I guess that’s a source of the conflict I was talking about above.
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As somebody who was precisely nerdy enough to sit and watch all of the behind-the-scenes material in the Lord of the Rings Extended Edition DVDs as a kid, I love hearing and reading creators talk about their process.
If I remember correctly, you said that the event that prompted the expansion of Book Two by a chapter was moving the vignette that was originally meant to end Chapter 17 to the beginning of Chapter 18- the rebirth of the Deputy as the second Great One- and that this shift, while necessary to keep the sequence of events from going wonky, had plot implications that you needed to adjust for.
I look forward to your explanation on Friday and over the weekend, as well as the explanation that will inevitably follow the end of Book Two. I think I’m starting to see the path to the end in my mind’s eye- nothing more than vague plot projections, though, based on the trajectories of certain characters and their arcs up to this point. But it’s also likely that I’ve been ignoring certain details and hints out of an unconscious bias in favor of others, and I could be completely wrong.
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See? That’s the fun of releasing a multi-chapter work one piece at a time. If I’d dumped the whole season, you would’ve just binged it, and not had this wonderful torture with your own imagination! To me, THAT is the strength of episodic works that have BREAKS between.
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Sure – if thousands of years of literary construction are to be believed.
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Oh I’m not complaining! Even when my boyfriend and I watch a series on Netflix, we take it only an episode or two at a time, we actually very rarely binge. That way we do actually have the chance to sit down and speculate about what’s going to happen next.
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Phew! I just thought I was old school!
I’ve been writing an essay – for my “real world” friends and family on FB – about the process of writing this sequel and what it’s meant to me. I’m planning to use this frame from Gym Junkie’s CGI POLLINATION adaptation for the essay header.
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Any chance we can get a link to the comic adaptation? I’m liking what I’m seeing 
Here you go:
It’s an interesting mix of the original story and the series, and I dig the military adaptation, too.
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The interpretation of the Great One is insane! I know the Great Ones are supposed to be impossibly muscled, is this basically what you had in mind?
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Yes, absolutely – the only thing I’m not fond of is that he gets kind of leafy skin, which I don’t dig. I love the eyes, tho.
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Yeah the mossy skin strikes me as a little weird, but I do agree that the way he does the eyes is great.