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Tade "Will Eat Your Heart in the Marketplace" Thompson @tadethompson.bsky.social · 4h

"One of the greatest paradoxes of human culture is that at a time when the image reigns supreme the very notion of a creative human imagination seems under mounting threat." The Wake of Imagination / Richard Kearney (1994)

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Tade "Will Eat Your Heart in the Marketplace" Thompson @tadethompson.bsky.social · 14h

Hmm. Carrie (2026) is full of Battlestar Galactica alumni.

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Tade "Will Eat Your Heart in the Marketplace" Thompson @tadethompson.bsky.social · 15h

"Yes," he says, brushing broken glass off his jump suit. It dawns on me. "You just wanted to crash through the window dramatically, didn't you?" "You know me so well." He smiles, and activates a handheld device. He's covered with a glow and gone. "Dick," I say. "Now I need a new window." /End

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Tade "Will Eat Your Heart in the Marketplace" Thompson @tadethompson.bsky.social · 15h

The window to my study shatters as a dark figure rappels in. It's my future self. He snatches my pen out of my hand. "Don't. Nobody will like it." "So you wrote it?" "Yes." "What are you trying to do then? You can't change your past. You'd create a paradox." "I know," he says. "But you came." 1/2

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Tade "Will Eat Your Heart in the Marketplace" Thompson @tadethompson.bsky.social · 21h

I'd love to, but it's for New Scientist and I lack control over what goes with the essay unfortunately.

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Tade "Will Eat Your Heart in the Marketplace" Thompson @tadethompson.bsky.social · 21h

Just finished writing a small Frankenstein essay. I didn't think I had anything new to say about the book, but apparently one can squeeze water out of a rock. "It is only after creating life that Victor himself, as an emotional creature, is created." Anyhow, back to writing my own fiction now.

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Tade "Will Eat Your Heart in the Marketplace" Thompson @tadethompson.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

And the older the tree, the more likely it has totemic power in and of itself...

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Tade "Will Eat Your Heart in the Marketplace" Thompson @tadethompson.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

It's Friday. What have you done to banish poltergeists and banshees?

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Tade "Will Eat Your Heart in the Marketplace" Thompson @tadethompson.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Does your kid have a hat (or any item of clothing) that they love and wear all the time, yet you cannot stand? (I want to take it while he's sleeping and incinerate it)

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Tade "Will Eat Your Heart in the Marketplace" Thompson @tadethompson.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Oh, sweet. I like this one. Ok if I use as model for another drawing?

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Tade "Will Eat Your Heart in the Marketplace" Thompson @tadethompson.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Also, any triumphalism about executions, public or otherwise, will be met with a swift block. No, I won't fucking debate you. I know all your arguments and I have no interest in refuting them or convincing you. Just miss me with all that.

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Tade "Will Eat Your Heart in the Marketplace" Thompson @tadethompson.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

These mags are already on my shit list. (But not the editors. It's not their fault)

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Tade "Will Eat Your Heart in the Marketplace" Thompson @tadethompson.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Public executions do not serve as a deterrent. *Points back to history* *Also points to forensic psychology. Repeat offenders tend not to pay attention to 'deterrents' that frighten regular folks*

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Tade "Will Eat Your Heart in the Marketplace" Thompson @tadethompson.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Livestreaming executions. Weren't the Western press castigating wannabe theocracies for this just five minutes ago?

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Tade "Will Eat Your Heart in the Marketplace" Thompson @tadethompson.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I'm not interested in extreme violence and extreme sexual violence just for its own sake. I enjoy about 50% of Ennis' output.

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Tade "Will Eat Your Heart in the Marketplace" Thompson @tadethompson.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Yeah, the extreme nature of it was a turn off. Crossed got top talent, though. Even Alan Moore did a Crossed story, I think.

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Tade "Will Eat Your Heart in the Marketplace" Thompson @tadethompson.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

There are many reasons to read Jane Eyre. This is not one of them.

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Tade "Will Eat Your Heart in the Marketplace" Thompson @tadethompson.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

The same as any other patient. Sorry, I don't make the rules. (With the caveat that treatment can only happen if it is safe to do so)

What is a doctor's responsibility to an abusive, racist patient?

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Tade "Will Eat Your Heart in the Marketplace" Thompson @tadethompson.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I'm gonna keep reading to them until they tell me to stop, which doesn't seem likely.

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Tade "Will Eat Your Heart in the Marketplace" Thompson @tadethompson.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I see myself more as a man after midnight, but I'll take trooper...

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Tade "Will Eat Your Heart in the Marketplace" Thompson @tadethompson.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

[Also, he played Abba all the way through, which somehow made it worse.]

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Tade "Will Eat Your Heart in the Marketplace" Thompson @tadethompson.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Diary of a Middle Aged Karateka: Sensei person waited until we had exhausted ourselves, then, in the last five minutes of the session, made us do spinning kick drills over and over and over again. It was good conditioning to be sure, but I am dead from the waist down. Bury my legs in Carmarthen.

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