History Literature / TheInterfaceSeries

-->--'''The Investigator''', the very first post

* TakeThatMe: One section is just the narrator poking fun at his own story and accusing himself of making stuff up as he goes along. At the end he also accuses himself of being a misogynist with mommy issues.

* SenseFreak: Individuals recently extracted from extremely long stays in the "feedrealm" are used to instant gratification, and will often start [[ADateWithRosiePalms masturbating]] in front of the technicians meant to be resocializing them.

* AsTheGoodBookSays: Their are a lot of Biblical references throughout the story.

* RayOfHopeEnding: [[spoiler:Ultimately, the resistance have no way of destroying Mother/Q, as she is too powerful, but they hope to write down their story and spread it to an alternate timeline that may be able to stop her in their place. Mother/Q then destroys the world in a nuclear holocaust. Some humans escape in space ships but most of them are too apathetic to want to try to retake earth and are content to spend the rest of their lives in hedonistic virtual reality. Meanwhile, in Nick's timeline, the last chapter ends with Nick about to confront Mother and decide the date of the world, with the story ending just before we see the result. The one hope is that Karen has managed to dimension-hop from the prior timeline to his timeline, and will continue to fight for humanity.]]

* NoEnding: Their is an ending to the story in the world with the flesh interfaces, [[spoiler:but none for Nick's story as his story stops as soon as he enters Mother's lair]].

* AndThatLittleGirlWasMe: The kid abducted by Mother and traumatized [[spoiler: grew up to be Nick. That's mostly the reason he's traumatized.]]

* TheBadGuyWins Q [[spoiler: destroys the world but some humans survive by escaping into outer space]]... Unless she doesn't actually exist and the narrator is just ''crazy''.

* ButWhatAboutTheAstronauts: [[spoiler: Surprisingly they actually live.]]
* CameBackWrong: People who cross an interface and return rarely survive, and those who survive rarely are unscathed. [[spoiler: sending a corpse through the interface makes the person return alive, but they're just as messed up and usually die again shortly after.]]

* HumansAreBastards: All the [[EldritchAbomination Eldritch Abominations]] are created by humans meddling with the reality breaking power LSD has in this alternate history. [[spoiler: Except that Mother is heavily implied to have altered humanity's DNA to make everything possible in the first place.]]
* MetaFiction: The story starts with detailing a horrible AlternateHistory, but eventually this is revealed to be a story being told by a narrator who has been writing the "story" from visions of the alternate timeline and has dealt with Mother's manifestation in his world.
* NoEnding: Their is an ending to the story in the world with the flesh interfaces, [[spoiler: but none for Nick's story as his story stops as soon as he enters Mother's lair]].

** Near the climax Nick goes to confront Mother in his world. [[spoiler: When he reaches her lair the story just ends.]]
* PortalNetwork: The flesh interfaces are portals that link to other dimensions. The horrifying twist is that rather than being simple entry points made of warped space, they are [[spoiler: living, breathing tunnels made of flesh, created when large amounts of people are dosed with LSD.]]

** The technology used in the future to interface with virtual reality [[spoiler: was made by reverse engineering flesh interfaces]].

* TheAssimilator: Q wishes to fuse all lifeforms into one. [[spoiler: The ending makes it ambiguous whether she manages to pull it off or simply destroys the earth out of spite.]]

* MetaFiction: The story starts with detailing a horrible AlternateHistory, but eventually this is revealed to be a story being told by a narrator who has dealt with Mother's manifestation in his world.
* NoEnding: Their is an ending to the story in the world with the flesh interfaces [[spoiler: but none for Nick's story as his story stops as soon as he enters Mother's lair]].
* NothingIsScarier: A side chapter shows a CrazyCatLady living alone with a bunch of cats. Nothing happens except her interacting with her cats and pretending they're human. It was regarded by lots of the readers as one of the creepiest chapters of the series.

* PoweredByAForsakenChild: After realizing that children can survive Flesh Interfaces, both the Soviets and US start using them as test subjects.

* {{Satan}}: While never explicitly said, it is implied that Mother, the EldritchAbomination villainess, is in fact the Devil. She is an ancient being from before prehistory who is said to have guided and shaped humanity through their DNA. She is mentioned in a post on a thread discussing Lucifer, and the post is titled "I-20 West with The Devil on our ass". In an earlier post, a Korean references the Devil and how the Devil “came here”. The very religious Shawn also refers to the “evil one” tempting him in the same cave where Mother is said to dwell. At one point, she tells Nick to command stones to become bread, which is a direct quote from Satan in Literature/TheBible- and her reaction to Nick reading the Bible itself is pain and bleeding. She also seems to rule over a strange realm on the other side of the flesh interfaces, possibly {{Hell}}.

Collected together they told a nightmarish story revolving around the titular "flesh interfaces"- strange tunnels made of flesh that serve as portals to a bizarre other realm- and humanity's attempts to study them. The story spans space and time, from a World War II Nazi concentration camp to a future Atlanta, and details how the various characters deal with the influence of the titular Mother Horse Eyes, a being from the other world manipulating Earth since ancient history.

* {{Satan}}: While never explicitly said, it is implied that Mother, the EldritchAbomination villainess, is in fact the Devil. She is an ancient being from before prehistory who is said to have guided and shaped humanity through their DNA. She is mentioned in a post on a thread discussing Lucifer, and the post is titled "I-20 West with The Devil on our ass". In an earlier post, a Korean references the Devil and how the Devil “came here”. The very religious Shawn also refers to the “evil one” tempting him in the same cave where Mother is said to dwell. At one point she tells Nick to command stones to become bread which is a direct quote from Satan in the Bible. She also seems to rule over a strange realm on the other side of the flesh interfaces, possibly {{Hell}}.

Collected together they told a nightmarish story revolving around the titular "flesh interfaces," and humanity's attempts to study them. The story spans space and time, from a World War II Nazi concentration camp to a future Atlanta, and details how the various characters deal with the influence of the titular Mother Horse Eyes, a being manipulating the world since ancient history.

* {{Satan}}: While never explicitly said, it is implied that Mother, the EldritchAbomination villainess, is in fact the Devil. She is an ancient being from before prehistory who is said to have guided and shaped humanity through their DNA. She is mentioned in a post on a thread discussing Lucifer, and the post is titled "I-20 West with The Devil on our ass". In an earlier post, a Korean references the Devil and how the Devil “came here”. The very religious Shawn also refers to the “evil one” tempting him in the same cave where Mother is said to dwell. She also seems to rule over a strange realm on the other side of the flesh interfaces, possibly {{Hell}}.

* RayOfHopeEnding: [[spoiler:Ultimately, the resistance have no way of destroying Mother/Q, as she is too powerful, but they hope to write down their story and spread it to an alternate timeline that may be able to stop her in their place. Mother/Q then destroys the world in a nuclear holocaust. Some humans escape in space ships but most of them are too apathetic to want to try to retake earth and are content to spend the rest of their lives in hedonistic virtual reality. Meanwhile, in Nick’s timeline, Karen has managed to dimension-hop from the prior timeline to his timeline, and will continue to fight for humanity, while the last chapter ends with Nick about to confront Mother and decide the date of the world, with the story ending just before we see the result.]]

* BizarroEpisode: Post 49, "The Old Apple Nullity", is completely unlike the serious tone of the other entries. It takes place in a world that seems to be completely different from either of the main timelines of the series, instead set in a world where trees don't exist and a boy hangs his tire swing from literally nothing, referred to as an "existential nullity". The boy is told to chop down the nullity and does so, somehow. It turns out that trees in this world have been replaced with... [[VulgarHumor giant flayed demon penises]].

* Ben and Karen's Narratives: Follows the titular Ben, a Readjustment Specialist working in a dystopian future Atlanta who helps people with hygiene beds, virtual reality devices that serve to pacify the populace in a false world. He encounters Karen Castillo, a 33-year-old woman who is awakened from one of the beds.

-->--'''The very first post'''

* BigBad: [[OneBadMother Mother Horse Eyes]], aka Q, is an EldritchAbomination responsible for manipulating all of human history and pre-history, and is responsible for all the horror in each time period. In the main timeline, she slowly establishes a totalitarian rule over the planet, keeping everyone in virtual reality prisons, while in Nick’s time, she is his main tormentor and the one driving him into his alcoholism.