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Mister Magic by Kiersten White

Genre; Horror

Trigger Warnings: harm to children, sexism, homophobia, biphobia

Summary: Thirty years ago, a terrible tragedy hit the set of the popular kids show Mister Magic halting production permentally. Now, hardly anything about the show remains aside from the memories of the viewers. No home media, no clips online, not even a definitive answer on who Mister Magic even was. Until a podcast manages to reunite the five survivors of the show to do a reunion podcast. One of those survivors, Val, must now figure out what happened that fateful day 30 years ago.

Rating: 3 out of 5

General thoughts: This was one of those books that had me hooked from the beginning. Great character interactions and a compelling mystery kept me reading well into the night. Although marketed as a horror novel, most of the horror comes from the implications about what was going on behind the scenes and the lasting effect it had on the cast.

My only real issue came with the ending. The author ran into an issue a lot of horror writers ran into, over explaining the monster. The ending tried to go for bitter-sweet, but it ended more frustrating than it was probably intended to be.

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I CANNOT STRESS ENOUGH THAT THROWING MOLOTOV COCKTAILS AT A BUNCH OF JEWS IS FUCKING NAZI BEHAVIOR HOLY SHIT

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Even as bad as things are, I continue to find self-flagellation just so unappealing. Stop with the borderline religious rhetoric about a collective “we” deserving punishment from a wrathful God err, righteous force in order to atone for our sins when you’re among the people who actually voted to prevent this. "We" don't deserve any of this shit. Stop taking blame for Republicans and have some self-respect. Get off your knees and off the cross! We're not responsible for Republicans' fuck-ups! Some posts are really about to be like, “We need a Great Flood to purge America of its sinners—"

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what’s your “odd” comfort movie? a movie that isn’t stereotypically comforting but does comfort YOU? mine’s conclave (2024)

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First drafts aren't the final product and they're allowed to be messy. Except mine. Mine has to be perfect immediately

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Today is the 25th of May. An important day for all Terry Pratchett's enthusiasts. An important day in the life of Samuel Vimes, a man from whom you might learn a couple of interesting things.

"That's the way it was. Privilege, which just means 'private law.' Two types of people laugh at the law; those that break it and those that make it."

"You took an oath to uphold the law and defend the citizens without fear or favor," said Vimes. "And to protect the innocent. That's all they put in. Maybe they thought those were the important things. Nothing in there about orders, even from me. You're an officer of the law, not a soldier of the government."

"You realized that people like Carcer were not mad. They were incredibily sane. They were simply men without a shield. They'd looked at the world and realized that all the rules didn't have to apply to them, not if they didn't want them to. They weren't fooled by all the little stories. They shook hands with the beast."

"Vimes had spent his life on the streets, and had met decent men and fools and people who’d steal a penny from a blind beggar and people who performed silent miracles or desperate crimes every day behind the grubby windows of little houses, but he’d never met The People. People on the side of The People always ended up disappointed, in any case. They found that The People tended not to be grateful or appreciative or forward-thinking or obedient. The People tended to be small-minded and conservative and not very clever and were even distrustful of cleverness. And so the children of the revolution were faced with the age-old problem: it wasn’t that you had the wrong kind of government, which was obvious, but that you had the wrong kind of people."

Night Watch, Terry Pratchett

Credit to the artists I manage to find :

@stivaktis (twitter)

Jaearts (tumblr)

Ukropstales (tumblr)

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Honestly part of the problem with this obsession with only consuming unproblematic fiction is that people are less likely to acknowledge when something is harmful. If you so much as say hey this one joke in this one episode was offensive fans will write you an essay on why it wasn’t. Because they’ve created a world view where this is basically accusing them of being a bad person who has committed an unforgivable sin.

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I took the quiz at https://yourmist.streamlit.app/ It's very quick (may have taken longer for the page to load than for me to actually answer the questions) and if you consent, researchers can use your data in a study on misinformation.

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When your characters just start revealing lore you didn't know about them, as you're writing them

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a writing competition i was going to participate in again this year has announced that they now allow AI generated content to be submitted

their reasoning being that "we couldn't ban it even if we wanted to, every writer already uses it anyway"

"Every writer"?

come on

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I think I am officially Fandom Old. I am so worn out from the arguments on who's the top or the bottom (who cares), what is allowed to be written (anything you want, bejeebus), what is Problematic (I know, just tag it), what other people Should Do (they Should live their lives free of judgment). There isn't a Right Way to do things. Tag your stuff appropriately, don't read stuff you don't want to read, and leave other people (me) alone.

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I hate when the day is going alright, and then suddenly everything goes to shit.

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If you want to write a dumb little story with a dumb little plot and ridiculously silly characters. No one's stopping you. Genuinely, no one should be allowed to stop you. Write that dumb story with your whole heart and don't hold back.

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there's a post on here that's like "the worst thing a piece of fiction can be is mean", and while I agree with that, I think it being insincere is just as bad. nothing more obnoxious than a story that's constantly sneering and rolling its eyes at its own genre in a bid to seem clever and above it all.

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Got up early today for an appointment with my psychiatrist, but I started getting concerned when the time passed with no call from them.

I then checked the website to see if I made a mistake or if I missed the call window. It turns out that I did make a mistake; I thought I made my appointment for 9:30 AM but I actually made it for 9:30 PM.

I guess the lesson I should take from this is always double-check the time you pick when making an appointment?

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saying I miss a character is so funny I don't even know what I mean. I could engage with the media anytime. i could even read or even WRITE fanfic. but man. i miss the character