I am once again coming to these late, and once again, it's full of bangers. It's hard to pick a favorite quote. This is such a fantastic hook:

The Taylor Glacier of the McMurdo Dry Valleys in Antarctic bleeds. There is just a waterfall of deep red, bloody water that spouts from the side down onto West Lake Bonney. I assume this was an absolutely horrific sight to the 1911 Terra Nova Expedition guys, particularly Thomas Griffith Taylor, who named it. It is regrettable it did not start doing cosmic horror to him, given that he was a shitty race scientist guy.

You may be wondering several things, most notably, why in God's name is the world bleeding? Why is there so much blood? Why is it there, at the frozen ends of the earth? Can God save us? No, silly, of course He can't. This is the domain of Microbes.

Thank you again for this effortpost, it should be under f/best_post because this is one of the best posts.