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I’m very happy you asked!

so we begin: an evil alien brain slug is infiltrating the Canadian parliament with its troop. his troop-leader has already secured the body of Canada’s future prime minister. he’s in the body of the prime minister’s son, and is pretending to be him (going to classes, following his routine, etc) UNTIL!!!! HE GETS HIT BT A TRUCK!!

the slug wakes up in a mausoleum. a glowing golden goddess tasks him with killing the demon king. he says “what?” but unfortunately the processes are already processing. he wakes up again: he’s in the body of a (formerly) dead prince, in medieval fantasy Britain.

seems pretty straight forward, right? well here’s the twist. in the depths of a castle, he finds a grey-skinned human/spider hybrid being held captive. this “spider man” has an eight pack. the slug is affected by the eight pack.

and now the spider is coming along on their crusade to kill the demon king. but wait! freeing him from imprisonment might have had consequences. the consequences being, the slug is now bondaged to the gills and being dragged underground, where the spider’s gigantic cannibalistic mother awaits.

and what happens next?? will the slug find a way to contact his troops, and resume their alien invasion in this new fantastical world? how will they fight the demon king? will the slug have anal sex with the spider? you’ll have to read to find out!

it’s called The Ignoble Invasion of Prince Proculo, and currently it’s in pre-order

not to be dramatic but i just wanna say that i hate this whole kind of thing with all my being and think it makes fandoms worse and aggressively uninteresting

Not like, in relation to other published books, mind you, but normal for something a queer person on tumblr who likes Terry Pratchett and video games where you get to fuck the werebear in full shift and The Murderbot Diaries would write.

Anyway, I've said before that my idea of a good indie movie (this also applies to other media) is one that panders shamelessly to a audience so niche it has most critics muttering, "Who is this even for?!" and I think this book accomplished that.

Weird, sure. But internally consistent!

I LOVED the “in which …” chapter titles. I’ve seen those used for humor before, but these are both funny and give fascinating emotional background to each chapter. Mostly it’s a small emotion that’s highlighted, but it adds so much depth to what happens next. Here’s the prologue title for example:

I also loved the way the tone of the book shifted rather gently from “this is a comedy“ to “this is a horror novel“. I don’t know that it actually was a horror novel? Definitely speculative fiction. Maybe horror lite? Too much of a happy ending for horror, but too far from Happy Ever After to be traditional comedy. But that inability to nail down “who is this book for“ is part of it charm! 

The emotional drift of the story is Very Compelling. The slow breakdown of losing everything to get the one thing you want - and how that is happens differently for The Mad Sorcerer and for Sir Cameron. The grasping at bits of joy in the midst of chaos and confusion. The getting everything you wanted and it being confusing and different from what you pictured.

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Harry was about to show off his own genetic superpower: Rich patron complaining.