Reviewer: youre_my_slave Signed [Report This]
Date: October 09 2019 3:33 AM Title: Chapter 1

I can honestly say in confidence I haven't been this viscerally disturbed and confused on how to feel since watching Hereditary.

I suppose it's because we all happened to liken Lucky to a dog (or a cat) but with cognitive thought that surpasses a dog (approx intelligence of a 5 y/o human) or a cat (approx 2 years because scientists can't get them to sit still long enough to study them further than that). And we all thought "oh okay, so this is one of those "humans are dogs" stories". So the idea that the giants would keep him while simultaneously eating his own kind is built up to be disgusting and wrong, just like how eating dogs and cats is taboo (and horse in the anglosphere).

Funny thing is, there are animals irl that pull double duty of being pets and food (chickens and pigs are what come to mind immediately) however, they've both got the potential to be cannibals for "pleasure". (for example it's rare in animals like dogs and it's usually mother eating new pups either from stress, food scarcity, it being a runt, you know kind of a survival thing) You throw a chicken leg down in a coop it's gone in seconds. Pig dies? Here comes the fucking swarm (they'll eat you too, given the chance. Wizard of Oz got a whole lot darker, didn't it?)

So in short, this story could have gone in a whole different direction and it could have been even more disturbing. Now I'm kind of lusting for an alternate ending where Lucky. despite recognizing a human leg for what it is, goes "HELL YEAH, FOOD!" and digs right into that juicy thigh. and the little girl laughs and the parents are like "... WHAT IS WRONG WITH THIS HUMAN"

OH and what lord_ne meant by zero to a hundred, it starts off as a nice "oh that's cute he's like a little puppy dog, aw." "wait" "WaIt" "WAIT" "WAITWAITWAIT" "HOLY CRAP THIS IS A HORROR STORY"

I hope this all makes sense because it's like 5AM, I have adhd so I lose track of what I was talking about, AND I have no idea what's going on right now. (FUN FACT: I read this story when it first came out and this is how long it took to ruminate on how I felt and finally put it all into words.)

Reviewer: CptAndyofUbi Signed [Report This]
Date: September 22 2019 8:30 AM Title: Chapter 1

I want to see more of this story.