User blog comment:Gnomehunter/October Monster Girl Writing Challenge/@comment-44242415-20201003154309/@comment-43782881-20201004205455

You are so right, and it's the funniest thing, I literally did not even mean for this to come across as NTR. The concept doesn't really do it for me, after I learned what it was. I kind of meant for this to come across as romantic, man falls in love with ant and achieves satisfaction/community through working with others, then there's this ant mimic who's lazy but sort of discovers the same value in work.

I'd kind of like to see that other giant ant story, but it feels like this was partly due to how KC wrote these 2 monsters. I took the most literal interpretation of the bio, maybe connecting a few dots KC hadn't meant to be connected. Men are brough into the hive as mates>Ant arachne mooches off the hive by taking one of those men as a mate. But how the heck would there be an unclaimed man in the hive? Maybe she takes him before anyone else does? Maybe if there aren't very many ant arachnes? It just felt like this was a somewhat natural progression of how ant mimics interact with the worker ants.

I appreciate the comment, and pointing out what the story looked like from another perspective. I think I'm just going to slap a warning at the top. Not sure if I want to rewrite the majority of this story, even if it might have turned out differently than I intended.