Blind Parasites Nesting in the Insensate Flesh of an Unthinking God 2025-08-29

By Max Woerner Chase

Oh wow, my text editor is not a fan of how long this title is.

Anyway, this is a setting that I apparently came up with about a year ago, and shelved for a while, and I've been revisiting it recently. The basic premise is that, in this setting, instead of stars surrounded by planets, there's just an endless expanse of flesh that lies dormant except in the vicinity of sun-sized hearts, which pump blood that gets filled with "life". This "life" is fed upon by a strange ecosystem that developed within one such circulatory system. The basic idea is to do spec-evo/bio worldbuilding in a fantastical setting where everything is made at least a little out of meat. I've got a very small idea of the kind of life that could exist in this context, but I'm having trouble figuring out how I want to convey it. One idea that I'm looking into is, rather than a documentary/"scientific" perspective, present things as an in-universe document similar to a medieval bestiary. However, I don't want to reinforce that it's a bestiary through the usage of affected antiquated language or spellings; I don't want to write stuff like "beeynge" or whatever. I guess there are sites that rephrase and summarize bestiaries in contemporary language, so that seems reasonable as a thing to try.

Anyway, I'm trying to take things easy right at the moment, so maybe I'll be up for trying that out in a few days. For now, I need to wind down.

Good night.