I really love how you trigger my memory of stories you wrote so many years ago. Yes... the Shaman... I remember the story well. And I love that anteaters are preds you enjoy to return to. Thank you for this story.
This is a bleak story with a pred that doesn’t care who it eats and other people who don’t much care that it did. But yes, explaining how anteaters eat people by invoking the old story was fun. 83
Actually... as a reader who fosters prey-fantasies, I always find it difficult to identify with "evil" prey characters who "deserve to be eaten". I am also not too fond of "evil" preds either. So, I am not too unhappy if this moral judgement is left outside. Maybe this is why for example I always enjoyed falling prey to IT in our roleplays. It was never about any moral judgement. Just randomly being at the wrong time in the wrong place doing the wrong thing. I just have this taste for this one moment... when a seemingly harmless situation suddenly shifts. When the prey suddenly realizes that he is in no control over the situation anymore. So... forgive me if in my book? ...this story is not "bleak" at all :-) (although I don't really identify with being as stupid as Bobby is) ;-)
People do stupid things all the time at zoos, and elsewhere. I generally only worry about making the prey "bad enough to,be eaten" when it’s a kid, and not always then. The kid who went into the badger den to fetch the ball for his friends didn’t do anything wrong, he just ran into an opportunistic and hungry pred like this kid did.
Bobby and his mother didn’t really do enough to deserve to be eaten, but simple animal preds aren’t too concerned about the motivations of their meals. They are simply happy that one came within reach.
Posted by nc 3 years ago Report
I really love how you trigger my memory of stories you wrote so many years ago. Yes... the Shaman... I remember the story well. And I love that anteaters are preds you enjoy to return to. Thank you for this story.
Posted by Strega 3 years ago Report
This is a bleak story with a pred that doesn’t care who it eats and other people who don’t much care that it did. But yes, explaining how anteaters eat people by invoking the old story was fun. 83
Posted by nc 3 years ago Report
Actually... as a reader who fosters prey-fantasies, I always find it difficult to identify with "evil" prey characters who "deserve to be eaten". I am also not too fond of "evil" preds either. So, I am not too unhappy if this moral judgement is left outside. Maybe this is why for example I always enjoyed falling prey to IT in our roleplays. It was never about any moral judgement. Just randomly being at the wrong time in the wrong place doing the wrong thing. I just have this taste for this one moment... when a seemingly harmless situation suddenly shifts. When the prey suddenly realizes that he is in no control over the situation anymore. So... forgive me if in my book? ...this story is not "bleak" at all :-) (although I don't really identify with being as stupid as Bobby is) ;-)
Posted by Strega 3 years ago Report
People do stupid things all the time at zoos, and elsewhere. I generally only worry about making the prey "bad enough to,be eaten" when it’s a kid, and not always then. The kid who went into the badger den to fetch the ball for his friends didn’t do anything wrong, he just ran into an opportunistic and hungry pred like this kid did.
Posted by doomed 3 years ago Report
Poor annoying kids dying to teach society lessons , but as the phrase goes you gotta break a few eggs to make an omelette lol
Posted by Strega 3 years ago Report
Bobby and his mother didn’t really do enough to deserve to be eaten, but simple animal preds aren’t too concerned about the motivations of their meals. They are simply happy that one came within reach.
Posted by DrakeZephyr 3 years ago Report
Does... does that mean its ok to feed the animals now?
Posted by Strega 3 years ago Report
Not really. The zoo might get in trouble! That's the prime consideration here.