Based On Mary Shelley’s Post Apocalyptic Novel The Last Man. It’s Very Interesting, Before I’ve

Pollen looks an awful lot like my period

fuuuuuuck I can't I'm busy. there's pollen tomorrow

TMAGP 6 SPOILERS BELOW CUT

TURN BACK BBY

"Just make sure you eat them on site" what, do the mini donuts fucking dissipate off site, Lena? Are you a goddamn Fae Lady, """Lena"""?!!

The SIZE OF THE BUILDING is disproportionate to number of employees... Feels significant

fuckin NEEDLE PERSON HARVESTING FEAR

CELIA. CELIA WHOSE NAME WAS STOLEN? IS CELIA ALSO FROM THE ARG???

they're going to eat Celia, Celia Ripley

Alice feels kinda jealous with the overwrought lampooning of Sam's conversation with Celia

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The fact that TMAGP begins with boot up noises -- and it's implied that Teddy turned off his computer but it turned itself back on -- establishes that we're listening from the same vantage point as whatever's in that machine. Or the system at large.

So the pub conversation is what confuses me. Is whatever's in the OIAR system on Alice's phone? She would DEFINITELY ignore regulations around not connecting personal devices to the network/etc. But is it following her intentionally, or did it just get on there? You hear camera noises while Sam talks to Colin, so it feels intentional. Malicious or beneficent, though...

The transcripts also say that Norris's and Chester's readings occurs in "CYBERSPACE," which is cool to me because TMA didn't get super deep into fears of technology (certainly cameras, keyboard eating, and uncanny automata could all be lumped in, but tech itself wasn't the "fear" - it was the eye, the spiral, and the stranger). So far technology, the complexity of it, the things lurking in spaghetti code, are front and center.

All of the stories so far have also touched on body modification, even transhumanism (esp. 3), and I can't resist thinking I KNOW where this is going. Gimme that sweet sweet .jmj 🙈

I also wonder if the mere act of categorizing these cases is constructing the new fears.

Ce N’Est Pas Une Pipe

MAG 35 mentions my poor meow meow, Gerard "Silent R" Keay, in a Mastodon shirt. I just happen to be wearing a Mastodon shirt. What a great dead guy 🕷️

Also listen they didn't say his hair was BADLY dyed, just OBVIOUSLY dyed. Though in British, that may be the same.

LISTEN IM ONTO SOMETHING-

Windows NT Business released in 1993. I'm looking up the main differences between 95 and NT, and there's one thing that's specific that's caught my eye.

Windows NT wasn't technically succeeded by Windows 95. No, no, no. Windows 95 was meant for home use. Businesses used Windows NT for awhile after. Not until Windows 2000 which officially released February 2000 was Windows NT outclassed.

So let's say, hypothetically speaking, it's the late 90's and you're running a spooky Institute that still needs an operating system for its daily work. You would use Windows NT as your operating system. Your IT department is probably going to upgrade your systems in the year 2000, when the new release is out.

It's a shame though that, you know, The Magnus Institute burned down in 1999. I guess they never did upgrade past Windows NT.

TMAGP has me thinking about the sublime. The idea of beauty and terror sharing a space in your brain, and the exultation of artistry - a painter like Daria or the virtuoso with the demon violin - to the point of destruction. The joy and horror at seeing a loved one return from the dead. The excitement and fascination of becoming something not quite human, the distress and panic as your body is changed. The shiver of fear as a pleasurable sample of terror.

I wonder where they're going with this.

I like to imagine TMAGP'S Gerry is just as goth, but covered in paint (and hair dye)