Content Warnings Animal cruelty and death is a part of the story though the guy causing most of it gets a deserved and satisfying comeuppance
Simon Kress, a rich, entitled, cruel asshole, acquires exotic alien pets and badly mistreats them. Karma comes back around for him soon enough and the titular sand kings get their own back. I love the horrific, unsettling psychic bonds portrayed in this story, the life cycle of the alien pets (and what we learn about them in the end!), and the implicit but unexplored between the pet shop owners that sell Simon the sandkings in the first place. Long story short, they are a human+nonhuman partnership that clearly are psychically linked and I specifically would be curious about their backstory, how they met, what their dynamic is like as partners and friends, fic shipping them, fic with an ambiguous relationship they don't care to define...
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April 21 - Cabinet Man - Lemon Demon, Sandkings - George R. R. Martin
21 April 2025 03:39 pm (UTC)Cabinet Man - Lemon Demon
(Reccommended by .oceangirl!)
Media type: Song
Approximate length: 0-10 minutes
Content Warnings body horror and some violence
A scientist turns himself into an arcane machine, and runs a very successful (and insanity inducing) game.
Sandkings - George R. R. Martin
(Reccommended by Anonymous!)
Media type: Short story
Approximate length: 11-30 minutes
Content Warnings Animal cruelty and death is a part of the story though the guy causing most of it gets a deserved and satisfying comeuppance
Simon Kress, a rich, entitled, cruel asshole, acquires exotic alien pets and badly mistreats them. Karma comes back around for him soon enough and the titular sand kings get their own back. I love the horrific, unsettling psychic bonds portrayed in this story, the life cycle of the alien pets (and what we learn about them in the end!), and the implicit but unexplored between the pet shop owners that sell Simon the sandkings in the first place. Long story short, they are a human+nonhuman partnership that clearly are psychically linked and I specifically would be curious about their backstory, how they met, what their dynamic is like as partners and friends, fic shipping them, fic with an ambiguous relationship they don't care to define...