I finished Pluribus and I’m about to finish There Is No Antimemetics Division by qntm and I have many thoughts, and I want to articulate them. However, I need to express my immense disappointment in the direction that both stories take with the ‘other’ that, I guess, exposes my desire for a story about the ‘other’ where it is not diametrically opposed to the question of humanity. God!!! Something is seriously bothering me about it!!! I mean. I guess art did its job, it made me feel, and what it made me feel IS ANNOYED!

I wonder if it’s because I’ve already been spoiled by The Southern Reach trilogy by Jeff Vandermeer and, honestly, even Solaris by Stanislaw Lem. Both of these works came way before the former two works above though. Brain full, brain marinating. I will speak on this again >:(