Jonica

Was the shitty hand drawing of boobs necessary?

I love stories where you don't know what to think 🤔 the agony of not knowing exactly what happened is so sweet

Ok, so this one is a tough read. It doesn't hold your hand and it's best to just kind of give yourself up to it and just take in the words if you can't take in the meaning quite yet. I would suggest using this as an exercise in developing media literacy and avoid looking up explanations while reading. It took me till about 2/3rds of the way through before my thoughts started to become cohesive about what I was reading.

Keep reading if you'd like to hear about what I think is happening:

I believe that this story is about evolution. The huge environment changes and the strange creatures melding into the narrator or giving things like their eyes to them feels like a poetic way to describe the evolutionary process. For awhile, I thought that the narrator was never human like I thought but was making their way to human and perhaps started as plant or small single celled creature. But towards the end, with the single eye (or potential space helmet) and launching into space thing, I believe that it's possible that narratively, evolution is used to describe the dramatic shift in humanity. Could be wrong but being right ain't really the point!

Once again another banger from octavia e. Butler. This one is a bit bleak but so compelling

Yassss fuck you doro