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The Tick People

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 In the city of Gloomville, situated on top of the giant dog called Old Gloomy, lives Fernando Mendez. He has the demoralising job of keeping Old Gloomy perpetually unhappy, so as to keep him from wagging his tail and thus cause earthquakes in Gloomville. Uncertain of whether he wants to continue literally Kicking The Dog for a living and just generally questioning his life, he tries to distract himself by finding his matchmate. This has especial significance since in his world, your matchmate is the only person in the world you are physically capable of having sex with.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_content_3'); })However, after undergoing the tests he finds to his horror that his supposed one true love is not even human - instead, she's an "ectoparasite," one of the despised and degenerate Mutants who have evolved to live off of the blood of giant animals like Old Gloomy. Fernando swears that he wants nothing to do with his half-insectoid bride... but he soon finds that destiny, or at least biology, is conspiring against him...The Tick People is a work of Bizarro Fiction by Carlton Mellick III.
 The Tick People
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 2018-11-25T20:10:04Z
 The Tick People
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 2020-06-24T08:34:42Z
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 Does This Remind You of Anything?
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 Does This Remind You of Anything?: The titular Tick People can be read as allegorical of either minority groups, people marginalized for their strange, alien customs and left on the fringes of society that produce prejudice from the majority, or the homeless, given their squalorous and unsanitary life-styles and complete and utter lack of rights given to them. Either that or they are meant to be a freaky hybrid of both. It would not be surprising, given the genre.
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 Crapsack World: Maybe not the whole world, but certainly Gloomville, which is the only part of it we see. People there are actively trying to be miserable out of fear that Old Gloomy will find their happiness infectious.
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 Big Friendly Dog
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 Big, Friendly Dog: Big enough that people built a city on it while it was taking a long nap! For all his monstrous size, though, Old Gloomy just wants to run and play and eat delicious food like any dog.
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 Cute Monster Girl: Deconstructed with Google. She doesn't actually look too bad, but her Bizarre Alien Biology makes intimacy with her... unappealing.
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