#equoid

[torpublishinggroup]

Looking for something to read tonight? Try "Equoid," a Laundry Files novella from Charles Stross.

The "Laundry" is Britain's super-secret agency devoted to protecting the realm from the supernatural horrors that menace it. Now Bob Howard, Laundry agent, must travel to the quiet English countryside to deal with an outbreak of one of the worst horrors imaginable. For, as it turns out, unicorns are real. They're also ravenous killers from beyond spacetime...

[stainlesssteellocust]

Side-thought to the Glowy Blue Eyes thing, the Equoids also have glowy blue eyes, and the ones in the titular novella are white.

I wish I had commission money this month bc I wanna see an Equoid version of those horsegirls from that gacha/anime that’s big right now.

She looks like Jeff the Killer crossed with one of those exaggeratedly pale and blonde Anime White People and wherever she goes, other Uma Musume start to disappear

and she runs like this

[the-nephelococcygian]

Recently binged Equoid by Charles Stross

My favorite moment is when a mounted police unit (horses) officer goes on a massive rant about how the modern police needs genetically engineered carnivorous horses to keep up, he then catches a cognitohazard from a Microsoft Word document and becomes a zombie.

Zombie infection is spread by skin contact. He then infects another police officer, but Howard corrals the zombies by hijacking the unicorn mind control magic because zombies are stupid.

Oh btw zombies in Laundry Files happen not from a virus, but rather from demonic possession.

[margysmusings]

Georgina darts forward, grabs my hand, and pumps it up and down while peering at my face as if she’s wondering why water isn’t gushing from my mouth.

Charles Stross, Equoid

[failureofmylife]

Let’s talk about tea

In Equoid there is a passage about tea. Let me quote:

She gives the tea another violent stir, then sloshes a stream of orange-brown liquor into the mugs—one of those breakfast blends with more caffeine than espresso and a worrying tendency to corrode stainless steel—and shoves them at Greg and myself. (Americans think we Brits drink tea because we’re polite and genteel or something, whereas we really drink it because it’s a stimulant and it’s hot enough to sterilize cholera bacteria.) I accept the mug with some trepidation, but it doesn’t smell of sheep-dip and my protective ward doesn’t sting me, so it’s probably not a lethal dose.

I drink LOTS of tea but I’m no expert. However, the “more caffeine than espresso” and “corrodes stainless steel” makes me think of the excellent Bewley’s Irish Breakfast.

The only thing I can think of that will wake you up faster is licking a wall outlet, and that is only in the case of 1) 230 Volts and 2) lots of old-school metal fillings in your teeth.

This stuff is great for those low-energy mornings when you need something to kick-start the day. It may lead to unsightly vibrations and general muscle spasms but you will be upright and doing a fair imitation of life.

[ellestra]

Eldritch abomination

Unicorns and slugs and taking over minds to create a trap - someone on Legacies writer staff has read Charles Stross’ Equoid.

[atollcomics]

A review of Equoid by Charles Stross

[lichtvorbei]

There is something really majestic about an alien horror in the form of a horse with a sea shell on its back, ramming one its many tentacles inside of a girls anus and eating her insides. That's really awesome.