Main character. 27 years old. AMAB nonbinary person. Moved back home to Longsprings, CO after eir mother was diagnosed with cancer to help care for her.
age indeterminate. Alien sent to earth to work with the engineered fungal colony that took root in the local aspen grove thousands of years prior. She has purposefully altered her mind and body to function better within human society to better study and interact.
Marin's birth mother. (1965-2031). Died the year prior to the beginning of the story of ovarian cancer. Ran a herbal medicine practice and a tea shop in Longsprings, CO for the past 30 years
Marin's non-brith mother. (1964-current). Had falling out with both Marin and Aria after Marin came out as trans.
Married triad. Best friends of Aria. Collectively own the local library in Longsprings, CO. Were effectively other parents to Marin growing up
David - (he/him/his) - (1968-current) - Smells like pancakes. Great hugs.
Larry - (he/him/his) - (1975-current) - Sassy
Jessie - (she/her/hers) - (1961-current) - Snarky
Marin's best friends/quasiplatonic lifemates, who ey met through online gaming stuff. Opened Marin's eyes to the world of being queer and trans. Live in the San Francisco bay area.
Cairn - (they/them/their) - 26 years old - Black AFAB nonbinary person, a short feisty gremlin.
Lilly - (she/her/hers) - 30 years old - latina trans woman - tall, strong and wonderful femme.
Alien designed artificial fungal symbiote that forms the basis for the alien's biotechnology. Allows direct mental communication using quantum entangled signaling. Can release spores with many different varieties of sensory capabilities that allow the individual to perceive many different aspects of reality. Can parse mental and language based queries and commands but is not a sentient creature.
Fictitious mountain town I have made up. Near where Granite, CO is is kinda where I'm imagining it to be.
Alien shared mental space where decisions are made for the non-hierarchical alien population.
The alien's "Spaceship" and physical location of The Consensus. Currently in orbit at the Earth-Moon L2 Lagrange point.
- Chapter 26 – an author’s note about not knowing how to finishMay 6, 2023
- Chapter 25 – The Other G SpotOct 30, 2022
- Chapter 24 – An Overdramatic RequestOct 23, 2022
- A Brief InterlewdOct 23, 2022
- Chapter 23 – Memories of Unvoiced ConfessionsOct 16, 2022
- Chapter 22 – The Big RevealOct 15, 2022
- Chapter 21 – Turning Green with SpicyOct 13, 2022
- Chapter 20 – Texting and Driving is Much Easier When Car Drives ItselfSep 24, 2022
- Chapter 19 – Are We Really Giving the Fungus Internet Access?Sep 3, 2022
- Chapter 18 – Flirting With MyselfAug 21, 2022
- Chapter 17 – Must Always Salute the Pink, White, and BlueAug 18, 2022
- Chapter 16 – An Extra-Terrestrial Filled News CycleJul 7, 2022
- Chapter 15 – BrotaturnMay 14, 2022
- Chapter 14 – Enter the ConsensusJan 28, 2022
- Chapter 13 – Fungus FunJan 24, 2022
- Content Warning
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- 57 completed
- 13 paused
- 18 dropped
This story is amazing. It's so delightfully and unapologetically queer, so wholesome and sweet. I love the various rambling tangents that Marin goes on, about biology, etymology, and so on, that aren't simply "infodumping", but add important context and add depth to characterization. Another thing is that in this story the author didn't shy away from politics and queer history, and has a more thorough understand of it than most other authors on this website seem to put into their works. The way the author uses the queer experience of alienation to have the protagonist empathize with actual extra-terrestrials is brilliant, as is the exploration of how the alien species functions biologically and socially (I don't know how much of this is the work of the author, and how much is the work of Octavia Butler's as I have not read the Xenogenesis series).
I'll be eagerly awaiting updates, and should this be published, I'll be first in line to buy a copy.
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