Gello Nullo Synopsis

“The UK is three years into a carcinomic plague caused by a massive explosion at Hinkley Point C nuclear power plant, possibly a false-flag cyber attack by a western superpower to incite conflict with China. The UK has become a pariah state, desolated by irradiation and has been universally trade- and travel-embargoed.

Near the Spider Mother’s cave in Peru there is an ancient Cupisnique temple wall with a fading ochre mural of a decapitator Spider Goddess wielding a knife next to a Catholic shrine to Saint Felix. This wall becomes covered in a web-like material and, at the shrine, peasants seeking intercession for cancers see an apparition of a spider with wings covered in an image of the Virgin Mary and discover the webbed wall miraculously cures even terminal cancer. This comes to the attention of the parish priest and the Vatican initiates an investigation into this miracle (ultimately condemning the wall as demonic because of the side effect of sexual impotence).

Valentina, in Argentina, a transwoman artist has been hearing a new voice, the voice of Spider Mother, and to begin with is sceptical, attributing this voice to her past experience of auditory hallucinations, but the Spider’s story of cancer cures at the wall is confirmed by her brother, a parish priest in a village near the Cupisnique temple, so Valentina responds and goes to Peru to retrieve the spider and take her back to Argentina.

Valentina’s mentor and artistic sponsor, a Tasmanian entrepreneur, goes to Argentina to see this spider and has his terminal lung cancer cured by Spider Mother’s web (and at the same time loses both his sexual potency and capacity for emotional empathy). He agrees to help Valentina to obey Spider Mother’s command to go to the UK to strike a deal with the UK government with a view to developing a universal cancer vaccine/therapy based on her web.

The UK government are persuaded and agree to instruct the SAS who abduct Spider Mother from Argentina and take her to VDEC, Porton Down, in the UK.

The vaccine is successfully developed using a combination of advanced gene editing technology and AI algorithms, and takes the form of a viral plasmid which combines DNA code for the unique hyper-conductive half-metallic web protein SpirionX with code for the coronavirus identified by AI as having DNA compatible with the DNA for SpirionX.

Johnson, PM, and his government, is struggling to maintain control over a disintegrating social infrastructure when he hears news of a potential scientific breakthrough – a cure for cancer. The beleaguered Johnson announces a moonshot cancer cure, but shortly afterwards is suspended from parliament on charges of corruption.

The cancer vaccine-treatment, CanVx, is rolled out but has an unanticipated side effect, it also extracts sexual desire from nearly all biological males, creating psychopathic monsters, known as the Nullos.

The Nullos are unified by a desire to destroy the feminine in a ruthless lustmord, a self-styled ‘war on the vulva’, forming armed units intent on seeking out and castrating all those with persistent sexual desire, the Viragos, mostly biological women.

Predictably, a civil war, involving mass castrations and indiscriminate slaughter of the Viragos breaks out. The Viragos flee the cities heading northwards.

Johnson, who had been suspended just after the vaccine was rolled out, is now, in the light of emergent worsening violent anarchy, appointed President pro tempore by the King, and parliament is prorogued.

A few individuals, called Reactor-MasterNarcs, mostly powerful narcissistic elites, have a paradoxical reaction to the vaccine and become hyper-sexualised, disinhibited and hyper-neotrophic, developing a form of Satyriasis, Proteus and Quantal Squander syndrome.

In response to the predicted fall in birth rate due to the vaccine induced impotence the government sets up a eugenic breeding programme using genetically screened and Anglist Reactor-MasterNarcs to impregnate genetically screened women in birthing camps in order to generate a pure Anglist offspring.

A religious castrati cult, the Skoptsys, with members in elite circles, believes the genitals are a mark of sin and proselytise castration for men and women. They already hold positions of power and take advantage of the sexual side effects of the vaccine to create a moral and existential panic to take increasing control of government. The Skoptsys are against procreation and laws are passed cancelling the eugenics programs the arrest and execution of the Reactor-MasterNarcs, passing laws mandating castration and clitocision of the Viragos.

It turns out, after the vaccine has been rolled out that the genetic code of the cancer vaccine/cure is corrupted with a delayed action transmissible slow Prion virus, possibly as an act of intentional bio-terrorism, or as an AI ‘algorithm accident’. This takes three years to evoke the first symptoms in the male population, which it preferentially attacks.

The slow Prion virus, three years after the vaccine roll out began, then starts to show its neurodegenerative effects and a slow viral plague commences, especially affecting the mostly biologically male Nullos.

The Skoptsys, who being Christs on Earth have declined vaccinations, are immune to the slow virus. They close down the birthing camps, and, to appease Spider Mother, start a programme of sacrifice of the Reactor-MasterNarcs with castration and decapitation in public in chapels called Christ Faith Ships,.

All the time Spider Mother has been in telepathic contact with two transwomen, one an artist, Valentina, who finds and brings her to the UK, and another, Ms Shuttleworth, Grand Mistress of the UK Rosicrucian Crotona Society in the UK, helps ensure Spider Mother and a coterie of Virago resistance activists escape the UK.

Martha, a psychiatrist in a gender dysphoria clinic and a feminist researching conspiracy theories and Christian premillennialist fundamentalism, forms a relationship with a much younger woman, Victoria. Victoria has been a victim of sexual abuse by a preacher at a Brethen Fraternity in Kent and well known breast cancer surgeon Professor Prichard (who has a cleavage fetish). Martha rescues, but is then controlled by, Victoria and eventually, when she finds a breast lump, Victoria abandons Martha and returns to Prichard.

Prichard performs trials on the effects of the web using an OncoBra using Victoria as a guinea pig. Victoria becomes a psychopathic Nullo after her vaccination with CanVx. Prichard becomes a Reactor-MasterNarc after his vaccination and eventually has to be incarcerated. Victoria rises in the Skoptsy ranks and becomes known as Archangel Akulina, first assistant and to Selivanov, Son of God.

Akulina makes sure Prichard is the first Reactor-MasterNarc to be sacrificed, biting off his genitals and drinking his blood at a mystical radenie dance gathering where believers go into a trance and speak in tongues.

Martha is genetically screened and abducted to a birthing camp and impregnated by Johnson, but she is rescued by an underground feminist resistance, Spider Mother is also ‘rescued’ and they escape in a private jet to join a feminist movement in Argentina.

In the UK a mostly female rebel army, has adopted the name Viragos and they receive the tonsure as a symbol of resistance. They are being assembled, trained and armed on the Welsh borders.

In combat, over time the Viragos, led by Ms Shuttleworth (a latter day Joan of Arc) begin to exhibit superior tactical skills to the Nullo army in the south. The Nullo army is fearless and utterly ruthless but so focused on the compulsion to destroy the ‘sexuals’, the women and a few men, (in a kind of frenzied ‘lustmord’), at all costs, that they lack military finesse and begin to suffer defeats. Ms Shuttleworth the Virago leader is being helped by Spider Mother through telepathic message and accurate predictions of Nullo plans.

In the UK Johnson, a Reactor-MasterNarc is deposed by the Skoptsy as the slow viral pandemic takes a grip and is castrated and sacrificed live on TV and dumped in the Thames. Shakespeare-Morris (SM), a well known religious (Catholic) right wing MP and Skoptsy sympathizer, with several children , becomes self-styled President pro tempore and Lord Protector.

Selivanov, Christ on Earth, the Son of God and leader of the Skoptsys see Shakespeare-Morris as a threat to Skoptsy doctrine and power and tell Shakespeare-Morris that redemption is at hand but requires mass suicide of the believers and he is persuaded to die by his own hand, by drinking Kool Aid laced with cyanide, on the basis of a false belief that his death will heralds revolutionary mass suicide (Jim Jones style) and the heavenly rapture.

Selivanov appoints two acolytes, (oneof whom is Akulina) as heads of state, setting up a Skoptsy government, of which he is the sole commander.

After their escape from the UK, Spider Mother is taken back to where she was first discovered in a cave in Peru. The shrine and temple have been cordoned off, deemed a place of evil by the Church and military because of the desexualising effects of the web. The Virago members of the resistance, with Spider Mother, find an alternative route to the cave via a man-made tunnels system leading to an ancient Moche burial chamber with skeletons of a high priestess, sacrificed guards and Moche sex pots. At her command they leave Spider Mother there on her own to spawn.

A spider expert from Tasmania Octavius is convinced Spider Mother is an ancestor of the Australian Peacock Spider (discovered by his great uncle and shown to Darwin and Octavius Pickard-Cambridge in 1874), and a hermaphrodite given her apparently virgin pregnancy. He ponders on the benefits of the evolutionary pathway followed by Spider Mother compared to humanity’s path through sexual dimorphism and sexual desire. Spider Mother, as symbolically two-souled, has an affinity with the transwomen, maybe why she chose them to facilitate her task. The nature of her task, or ultimate intentions, remains obscure.

Addendum

There is hope in the sense that the apparent eradication of a male form of sexual energy by the web results in the isolation of an oppressed group, woman mostly, with a female form of sexual energy, forced into an armed resistance, the outcome of which is unknown. The Reactor-MasterNarcs are authentic narcissistic psychopaths, a psychoanalytic aberration and the web leads to a hyperbolic increase in their sexual energy and life force leading to their final destruction. The Nullos embody a totalitarian psyche instrumentalising fascist outcomes where woman and sexual desire is the enemy. The emergent Skoptic theocracy rules but for how long? In the background lies an idea that sexuality can be male or female and determines a person’s relation to power and is not bound by biology. Most women and a few men have a feminine sexuality and these are the ones immune to the web. Most men and a few women have a masculine sexuality and are desexualised by the web losing desire and transforming into unthinking myrmidon-like troops in the service of the Skoptsys hunting down Sexuals to destroy.

Bio:

Owen Dempsey has had a career as a family physician, and a specialist in addiction and asylum seeker medicine, and has spent time in the occupied Palestinian Territories as a humanitarian activist with Community Peacemaker Teams (Chicago). He has a Masters in Health Sciences and a PhD in psychoanalysis and politics. He has published academic papers on critical theory and xenophobia, and has authored a published academic book using Marx and Lacan to critique anticipatory medicine. His debut fiction is a story of totalitarianism, patriarchy and sexuality through the lens of a dystopian future in a UK riddled with irradiation and a carcinomic plague, embroiled in a genderised genocide, the emergent political power of a Skoptsy castrati-cult, a cancer vaccination-cure derived from the hyper-conductive half metallic protein Spirion* in the web of Spider Mother, a Peruvian hermaphrodite ancestor of the Australian Peacock Spider, a cure that also extracts sexual desire from men, creating psychopathic monsters engaging in a frenzied lustmord against the Viragos, and a eugenics breeding programme using the sperm of narcissists, deranged and hypersexualised by the cancer cure, the Reactor-MasterNarcs.