Aghh just used up half of my weekend on one of the worst trade fairs I’ve ever attended. Tried to get an earlier train home but it was so stuffed I couldn’t even get on. Depressing.
Dani Hall
@academicgifts.bsky.social
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Creator and boss of Present Indicative and The Literary Gift Company. Also part-time doctoral candidate (education) at the University of Reading - for school governance chat head here: @danigov.bsky.social. She/her.
![[Scene is a DRINKS PARTY with various monstrous horror characters - proper grown-up, modern horror film type nightmare things - and they are standing around chatting. A little GREEN BLOB MONSTER called Dan is being introduced to the other monsters].
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MONSTER 1 [introducing the little blob to the other monsters]:
Everybody, this is Dan
GROUP OF THREE MONSTERS:
Hi Dan!
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MONSTER 2:
Pleased to meet you Dan, I’m Peter
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MONSTER 3:
I’m Mary
MONSTER 4:
I’m Sean
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MONSTER 1:
Peter is an extended metaphor for bereavement
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MONSTER 1:
Mary is a manifestation of intergenerational trauma
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MONSTER 1:
And Sean is a body-horror chimera expressing the cannibalistic dynamics of late-stage capitalism.
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MONSTER 4:
And what do you, Dan?
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BLOB MONSTER:
I’m a green blob that lives in the toilet and bites you on the arse.
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MONSTER 3:
Gosh…
So is that like a metaphor for… society… or…?
BLOB MONSTER:
No.
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BLOB MONSTER:
I’m a basic, old fashioned, meaningless horror movie monster. I’m a green blob in your toilet. I bite you on the arse.
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[They all look disgusted]
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[As the other monsters look awkward and drift away, Blob monster thinks]:
I hate parties
[ends]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4m3we4apbjayclzcnhwe3pfp/bafkreieektn7l3cxqhifqvh2rvjdo53mlme3f3lk2zn43sjae56xullqh4)
