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Wow! A notification!? Vile was excited... until he saw IT. He was confused. How does this octopus get into EVERYTHING? His virtual inbox was nothing but pixelated tenticles and a judgemental stare.
...
He couldn't close the window on his computer. He couldn't turn off the computer. Unplugging it did nothing. It persisted.
Honestly, he wasn't all that surprised. Well, he had nothing better to do... time to stare!
I don’t object to lit fic on principle, but I’ve read lit fic novels that were trying to ‘elevate the genre’ and they failed to include the elements essential to that genre. I just finished one and I have Thoughts.
The Octopus by Tess Little was a drama about abuse and malignant narcissism that was also a Christie-style murder mystery. But murder mysteries require you to get to know that characters, understand their personalities, relationships, circumstances. I finished the book knowing barely anything about half of them. The detective character kept monologuing about her difficult relationship with her daughter (for page... after page.. after page) and her trauma, and octopus metaphors. She barely spoke to half the murder suspects. The three-act structure didn’t help.
Can genre fiction be used to talk about serious subjects? Of course! Read And Then There Were None and tell me it isn’t an exploration of arrogance and class privilege and guilt. But it's an expertly written mystery that entertains you! You can do both! I think some lit fic writers are dismissive of anything entertaining. Christie wrote mysteries so she must have had nothing to say about power, or class, or abuse (she did). They dismiss the genre, then try to write in that genre without understanding how it works.
Basically... I don’t think you should try to ‘elevate’ a genre if you don’t respect or understand it.
#BlackmailFriday: Interview w/@_WhitneyWebb on #OneNationUnderBlackmail!
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Casbot from Media Monarchy talks to Whitney Webb about her important new book, ‘One Nation Under Blackmail: The Sordid Union Between Intelligence and Crime That Gave Rise to Jeffrey Epstein,’ and the knowledge we’ve gained around the research of the late Danny Casolaro.
The tech reporter was mysteriously…
“Walrus on your doorstop” this “fairy’s more unrealistic” that my professor just uttered the sentence “there was one day I found a real octopus in my backyard” this man hasn’t left Utah his entire life. How was there an octopus in his backyard in Utah. He then said “I do not have time to elaborate we need to cover a lot today in class” GIRL WHAT DO YOU MEEAN
Netflix came out with a documentary called The Octopus that's about a suspicious death of an investigative journalist and the story he was persuing
and if anyone plans on watching it, HUGE trigger warning for specifically self harm and suicide to a lesser extent in the first episode
I've never even done what was described but I've thought about it and just that was enough to trigger me- like, super descriptive shit, and they had photos for some fucking reason
BEHOLD! This year's gingerbread creation: Ginger the Octopus!
I bought a pepakura pattern from Papercraftfreakshop on Etsy (link here) and used that as a base, even though I had to adapt it a bit due to me making it in ... well, gingerbread.
The whole thing is 100% edible, and made out of gingerbread, icing (or is it called frosting?) and small chocolate candies only.
It has taken me ... AGES. Approximately about 30-40 hours? (just baking the pieces, one by one, took 15 hours over a weekend)
But worth it. Look at her. She's so pretty.
(For progess shots and exclamation of regret, see here)