Posts tagged "gen"
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Being a parent (who is having a great time with it) has made me interested in “parental horror”. Here's a mythopoeic short story with lot of it:
A minor character is the only adult survivor of a weird advanced civilization and had to raise ~10000 children in a time loop. They had to batch the kids in groups of ten and do that a thousand times. At the end of this, they are basically insane. They live at the periphery of the civilization that arose from those 10000 people. They’re called the Greatmother and they live at the source of a river of milk.
Every first gen kid raised by the Greatmother experiences their childhood as abusive and neglectful, but they wouldn’t describe it in those terms because there’s no other baseline. This sets the tone for their whole culture in ensuing…