Bram Stoker in his grave like: fucking stop complaining that I rose the stakes in early October and then ghosted and gave you scant updates for the rest of October ok did I say “hello dear readers please rearrange my work so it’s chronological and then read it in real time? Did I say wait in suspense for three weeks while they take trains and boats???” Did I fucking say any of that? I figured you people would get through the bulk of October in like 10 minutes
The sea of neon rippling waves under a heavy rain that batters the window of the dark hotel room in the middle of the city. There is no point to any of this except beauty. A return of dreams, Hong Kong.
—Hong Kong Express : HK—
01. Ghost 02. Window 03. Return of Dreams 04. Shanghai 05. Glass Temple 06. City Killer 07. HK
wheres the episode of lower decks where harry gets to show up as a captain, I already had to put up with tom in an episode I’m owed this and without a stupid joke about ‘forever an ensign harry kim’
“The Signal-Man” by Charles Dickens (1866) “What is the danger? Where is the danger?”
This idea of the adventuring British gent who wanders out into the world and feels free to go anywhere by rights is prime horror material, in particular because it’s good to swat down that idea by putting that gent in over his head. Now this story isn’t that necessarily (”A Distant Episode” goes there), but it does highlight that if you think you can just wander into someone else’s business on a lark then you’re fucking around and you will find out.
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“Hello, My Name Is…” by Nadia Shammas, Rowan MacColl, Licha Myers, Chris Sanchez (2021) “Workers have names. Management has power.”
What is a name but a tracking system? The means by which to search and destroy.
I was a good half hour into this movie before I realized this was not the Medusa I was looking for, but I couldn’t just stop watching after getting that far. This one does do something interesting with transformation and a reckoning for the abusers, then it muddles things a bit by trying to justify it all with an explanation. I do like a good explanation, but this one doesn’t pan out.
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Medusa dir. Anita Rocha da Silveira (2021) “Don’t let yourself be deceived by the worldly people.”
Now this is the Medusa I intended to watch, and it’s a different kind of movie altogether. It’s light on the horror but it does present a horrifying reality. That sense of a danger that might feel new but we’ve been facing for millennia. People get scared and they get together to come up with rules and systems that ultimately can’t serve everyone, and then they’re scared of the outliers, and then there’s death, and then one group or another is the majority and the rules and systems remain but in different forms. Anyway, that’s where my brain went from watching this. Systems and death.
whoop whoop my name’s Noonien Soong, I’m a cyberneticist but my lab is full of dinosaurs, I named my android sons “Facts” and “Heresay” and “Before I Fucking Learned How To Build An Android”, my wife died so I rebuilt her as a robot and then she dumped me, I made sure my robot sons who look exactly like me but weirder were really good at fucking before I sorted out their emotional disorders and this isn’t creepy, my planet got destroyed by a giant piece of mixed greens salad
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my planet got destroyed by a giant piece of mixed greens salad
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wait what
same energy
Hi my name is Doctor Noonien Soong and I had short toussled brown hair (just like I gave my androids) which has become ancient white fuzz that reaches my upper back and warm blue eyes like limpid tears and a lot people tell me I look like Brent Spiner (AN: if u don’t know who he is get da hell out of here!). I’m related to criminal geneticist Arik Soong but I sort of wish I wasn’t because he was kind of problematic. I’m a cyberneticist but my lab is full of dinosaurs.
