Talk:Ixodida/@comment-25226524-20160826212803

I keep talking myself out of pinning down the themes, which I suppose is a good thing and likely what you were going for. Individualism, toxic/parasitic partners, societies impact on the transgendered, "hell is other people", drug addiction; I think I even see some nihilism and possibly a big shot at God, or rather, the idea of one. This is certainly transgressive.

Are we simply play things? Who fucking knows. You've stirred me up.

Some of the word play was really clever. Overall this is one of the deeper and more enjoyable things I've read in a while. I actually took longer pondering it than I did reading it. I do hope you comb over this another time or two to catch the handful of mistakes I noticed. I know it seems lazy that I didn't fix them, but I decided a long time ago that I wouldn't bother with that when I was actually reading a story that I was planning to comment on. I don't know if anyone else will see in this what I have, but I think it's incredible.