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It’s super interesting to read a philosopher’s take on how he thought Covid would impact our culture as a whole.

He was wrong, but I think we all were. I distinctly remember thinking that Covid could - for all the heartache and death it brought with it - also bring a reframing of our lives and a refreshed priority list to all of us. We could really take a moment and breathe for a bit, look around, and evaluate whether we as a society are okay with the grind that is modernity.

Turns out yes, people were okay with it. Well. Rich people were okay with it. As so often happens, the curtain lifted a bit to show that that so-called “unskilled labor force,” is actually holding up civilization while the rich just pretend to do important things.

At this point, Covid feels like a wasted opportunity to right an awful lot of wrongs.

Edit: I wrote the above in 2022 and I feel like I’ve just gotten more radicalized year after year from my disappointment in all of us as a society. We could have done so much. We could currently be in such a better place. But no, the workforce was forced to cave to the rich, showing their trick of limiting wages to barely livable also meant that nobody had the opportunity to reject the systems that they set up.

We were set up, exploited, and manipulated and words cannot express just how fucking angry I am about the whole thing because now there are ZERO silver linings or redeeming values to Covid19. Just a whole lot of unnecessary death and tighter grip on the people by corporations and billionaires.

It kills me, man. I’m not even kidding. I hate it and it breaks my heart every. single. day.

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It’s fine.

It’s actually got a pretty decent story to it where a local haunted house, Hill House (not to be confused with THE Hill House), is constantly toured by two little pranksters. The tour guide tells the tale of how the house was built by a seaman who led this side there and, after he never came back, she ran away. Then his ghost appeared, roaming the halls with a light looking for her.

Pretty cool.

Then a boy accidentally finds where the ghost is hiding (ghosts just hide places. What did you think they did? DISAPPEAR?) and told him now HE can’t leave, rips the kid’s head off (not gory, he just REMOVES the head like a toy crash test dummy) and hides it.

Then the seaman leaves.

Which is hilarious.

Anyway, is the ghost of the kid roams the house.

A new kid tells them he’s seen the ghosts and convinces them to join him there at night where he confesses that he is the headless ghost. He’s been borrowing this head (as one does) and needs to return it, which is just good manners. But now he wants the boy prankster’s head!

The kids flee, stumble into hidden rooms or whatever and find the ACTUAL head. Then the ghost appears, reunited with the head, and fades away.

Weird that the headless ghost wasn’t just hiding somewhere.

Anyway, turns out this new kid is the tour guide’s nephew and they all leave.

Decent story.

But then Stine fucked it up because he just COULD NOT resist.

WEEKS go by and the kids take one last tour only to find cops waiting for them outside asking what they were doing. They said taking the tour.

“But it went out of business MONTHS ago. You must have been getting tours from ghosts!”

And, sure enough, the tour guide and his wife are in the window, ghosts.

Pretty sure those chunks of time need to be reversed to make any sense since other people were on these tours.

Or he could have just stopped when it made sense!

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I won’t lie: I rolled my eyes at the cover, but this is actually one of the better ones in the series (which is nice since we’re so deep in it at this point). The premise is that the daughter of a ride designer and her best friend get to go on a tour of a new ride that focuses on the Shock Street horror movies.

And it goes horribly wrong (as you could guess).

There was a clever misdirect in the beginning where the daughter asks if they should take her mother on the ride as well and the dad says something like “excuse me, young lady?” Like she did something wrong.

“The mom must be dead,” I thought. Then everything after that was based around that until the best friend keeps harping on the fact that all these monsters must be robots because the girl’s dad is so great at making them. Then the friend pulled the girl out of a mud pit with strong arms and I thought “he’s a robot!”

“A robot that was made to be the girl’s best friend after her mom died!”

But I was wrong. Well. Partially wrong. Both kids were robots. The reason it was suspicious when she asked about her mom is that she didn’t have a mother.

I’ll admit it: I was fooled.

When you sit back and think about it, it IS weird that the trial run of the ride to see if it’s the right level of scary was done with two robot kids because… they’re robots. What real data are they going to give? Also, don’t robots famously not have emotions?

I also wonder why the robots were allowed to live lives that were at LEAST normal enough that they went to movie theaters and watched movies. Or were the memories false the whole time?

I 👏🏼 have 👏🏼 ques 👏🏼 tions. 👏🏼

Still. A good one for sure.

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Just finished Neuromancer, my first time reading William Gibson. Difficult but worth it. Wow. Amazing and prophetic, so many things written in 1984 that have become relatable today. The world he creates is so massive and complex. Curious about the sequels, but I think I'll read something lighter in the interim.

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1) Things out of place by Adesire Tamilore is such a beautiful yet haunting short story exploring being stuck when you have depression. How the world moves around you yet you are left behind in your own, dreary bubble. It really hit me hard.

Link to free short story - omenana.com/2023/11/01/things-

2) A Glitch on the Railway Bridge by Mseli Ngoma - I liked this one. It starts off strange but evolves into something that tugged at my heart.

link to free short story - omenana.com/2023/11/01/a-glitc

3) Baranda by Tunmise Onifade - explores immigration on both the border and the personal level. The ending was a gut punch.

link to free short story - omenana.com/2023/11/01/baranda

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omenana.com · Things out of Place | Adesire Tamilore - omenana.comOmenana Speculative fiction magazine is a tri-monthly magazine that is open to submission from speculative fiction writers from across Africa and the African Diaspora.
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1) Yu Yu Hakusho v2-5 - Yup, just reading the classics. This is a classic shonen manga about a spirit detective. Its intersting to see Togashi's evolution as a mangaka. From cute and silly but still heartwarming to dark battle manga. We're still in the early stages but its an entertaining to read even if rough around the edges compared to his work now.

Working On:
1) The Stone Sky by NJ Jemisin - Almost done! I'm curious to see how this wraps up.

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1) Honeys by Ryan la Sala - A young adult horror book involving bees and a rich people summer camp. I kind of have no idea what I've just finished. 🤯

2) Obelisk Gate by NK Jemisin - sequel to the fifth season. Pretty solid, things happened and some people grew up.

3) Yu Yu Hakusho v1 - classic shonen manga by Togashi. Its about a delinquent named Yusuke Urameshi and his life as a spirit detective. I've watched the anime so I have a general idea of what to expect but wanted to read this for myself to see the differences. The first volume

Working On:

1) The Feral City by Jeremiah Moss - nonfiction/memoir about NYC during lockdown and after. I'm sort of slowing down on this one. I feel like I'm getting the same idea told in a slightly different way in a loop.

4) Octavia's Brood - no progress here

5) The Stone Sky by NJ Jemisin, no progress yet but it would be wild to finish this one within the week too!

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1) Tomie - an iconic horror manga by Junji Ito. It really plays around with the ideas of lust, jealously, obsession...

2) The Fifth Season by NK Jemisen - The start of a science fantasy trilogy that's won a bunch of awards and a lot of other folk have read already. I did not like the main characters, but the world and plot are incredibly intriguing and I'm about 1/3 of the way into the sequel.

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1) The Feral City by Jeremiah Moss - nonfiction/memoir about NYC during lockdown and after. Reflecting on the exodus of the rich and the takeback of the poor. Its a lovely audiobook.

2) Honeys by Ryan la Sala - A young adult horror book involving bees and a rich people summer camp. I like la Sala's other work, love the atmosphere, the exploration of gender fluidity, I just hope the story is going somewhere. Honestly I would probably be bored if I was reading as opposed to listening to the audiobook.

3) Obelisk Gate by NK Jemisen - sequel to the fifth season. About a third of the way in. Consistent quality wise. I'm glad the MC got yelled at by someone.

4) Octavia's Brood - no progress here

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1) Fantasy&ScienceFiction Nov/Dec 2023 - Honestly a pretty solid issue, if I named the ones I liked it would basically be 2/3 of the issue.

2) Whatever Gets You Through: Twelve Survivors on Life After Sexual Assault - From around 2017 yet still quite relevant. Accessible yet powerful reads. I recommend it, but also taking care while reading this one.

3) Gyo - A horror manga by Junji Ito. One of the big three he's made (about 400 pages). I haven't seen a lot of talk about this one. Its generally 'go read Tomie and Uzumaki'. I can see why. Gyo is so strange, even compared to those two. That said I really enjoyed it. It bounces between campy and incredible body horror. Its hard to recommend unless you are familiar with the artist and can handle his work, then give this a shot.

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1) Tomie - Another horror manga by Junji Ito and one of the 3 tomes. This one explores the horrors of lust and I feel would appeal to feminists if you can stomach the surreal and visceral horror. Not done, but this one makes me think alot about misogynistic trends in society, its really interesting.

2) Octavia's Brood: Science Fiction Stories from Social Justice Movements - A short story collection from diverse writers writing about possible futures and exploring social justice topics. Only a little way in and I like the stories more than no so far. They also seem incredibly short (a few pages) so this may appeal/turn off. I like short stories so I'm ok with it.

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