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David From The Blackwood Lagoon

@ghostforest.bsky.social

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Whimsical nihilist. Passionately apathetic. Mentally ill, but saving up to be "eccentric."

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David From The Blackwood Lagoon @ghostforest.bsky.social · Dec 4

While yet a boy I sought for ghosts, and sped
Thro’ many a listening chamber, cave and ruin,
And starlight wood, with fearful steps pursuing
Hopes of high talk with the departed dead.
—Percy Bysshe Shelley

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David From The Blackwood Lagoon @ghostforest.bsky.social · 38m

“Leopards break into the temple and drink all the sacrificial vessels dry; it keeps happening; in the end, it can be calculated in advance and is incorporated into the ritual.”
― Franz Kafka

Damn.

David From The Blackwood Lagoon @ghostforest.bsky.social · 1h

Yeah, make him go live in The Falklands.

David From The Blackwood Lagoon @ghostforest.bsky.social · 2h

You'll never get super powers with that attitude!

David From The Blackwood Lagoon @ghostforest.bsky.social · 2h

So, he just gets stripped of his title? They don't like cut his head off and put it on a pike or at the very least imprison him in an oubliette? The monarchy has really fallen off SMDH.

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David From The Blackwood Lagoon @ghostforest.bsky.social · 7h

Well I enjoy your posts so I’m glad to see you back.

David From The Blackwood Lagoon @ghostforest.bsky.social · 17h

I will be reading at least one of your stories today.

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David From The Blackwood Lagoon @ghostforest.bsky.social · 17h

Bonfires burning bright. Pumpkin faces in the night...

Happy Halloween!

David From The Blackwood Lagoon @ghostforest.bsky.social · 20h

WTH. Did you deactivate your account for a while or am I imagining things?

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David From The Blackwood Lagoon @ghostforest.bsky.social · 20h

The contagion might manifest itself as depression, rage issues, an inability to form healthy relationships, sexual dysfunction etc. But it’s there.

David From The Blackwood Lagoon @ghostforest.bsky.social · 20h

By abuse in some way. Some people manage the contagion better than others (and I would say that largely depends on what kind of support they receive later in life.)

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David From The Blackwood Lagoon @ghostforest.bsky.social · 20h

I don’t know actual numbers of course but from my own experience of life it seems that the vast majority of abusers were victims themselves. Of course not everyone who is abused grows up to be an abuser. But no one escapes that experience unphased. It’s impossible not to have your psychology altered

David From The Blackwood Lagoon @ghostforest.bsky.social · 21h

I definitely get the feeling that Miles Davis hates me.

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David From The Blackwood Lagoon @ghostforest.bsky.social · 22h

I’ve been all over the Bay Area, Monterey County, Big Sur etc. but still haven’t made it to Santa Cruz. I’d like to check it out someday.

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David From The Blackwood Lagoon @ghostforest.bsky.social · 1d

Once had something similar happen with Thai curry. I can't handle spicy food anymore, so I always order mine mild. The whole dish was fine, up until one of my last bites. What I thought was a bell pepper was actually one of those green chillies. I thought I might die.

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David From The Blackwood Lagoon @ghostforest.bsky.social · 1d

Built in the 1930s as a Russian Orthodox church. Operated as a bar from the late 60s until 2017. There was an effort to move the building, but it was structurally unsound, so it's been torn down and there's an apartment building there now.

David From The Blackwood Lagoon @ghostforest.bsky.social · 1d

One of my favorite stories. A masterclass in subtle, slow-building dread.

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David From The Blackwood Lagoon @ghostforest.bsky.social · 1d

My older brother had one in the 80s. Not sure how much it ever ran. He had a habit of making ill-advised vehicle purchases, based solely on how cool said vehicle was. One day he showed up with a blue C3 Corvette that he ended up selling within a year, because he couldn't actually afford it.

David From The Blackwood Lagoon @ghostforest.bsky.social · 1d

Can't beat a good banana split.

David From The Blackwood Lagoon @ghostforest.bsky.social · 1d

I loved that book. Had a bunch of the comics (well, I think I still do, gathering dust in a closet at my mom's house on the other side of the country). In retrospect, Cho's unapologetic horniness is a little uncomfortable, but I liked when he balanced it out with cute talking animals.

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David From The Blackwood Lagoon @ghostforest.bsky.social · 1d

...victimized by "The Big Bad Wolf" went through a transformation of personality. And often became monsters themselves.

David From The Blackwood Lagoon @ghostforest.bsky.social · 1d

...a werewolf themselves. Just as victims of child abuse often grow up to be abusers themselves. Abuse perpetuates itself. Abuse is a contagion. Now, am I saying that the originators of those myths and folktales knew this? Not consciously, probably, but they certainly observed that those who were...

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David From The Blackwood Lagoon @ghostforest.bsky.social · 1d

...you one of them. So the germ of this idea has been in my head for a while. But I recently started thinking about werewolf stories (and Little Red Riding Hood, thanks Angela Carter) as cautionary tales about child predators. In many versions of these stories, the victim of the werewolf becomes...

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David From The Blackwood Lagoon @ghostforest.bsky.social · 1d

...that traumatized people (especially children) reenact their trauma and often inflict that same trauma on others? I'm sure all of you read and memorized my book Cuts You Up, so I don't need to tell you that I dealt with this theme a little bit there: Cassandra says that the real monsters make...

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David From The Blackwood Lagoon @ghostforest.bsky.social · 1d

I've been thinking a lot later about Monsters as Contagion. Now I'm sure that plenty has been written about monsters as disease metaphor (especially vampires) but I got to thinking about it a different context: what about monsters as a metaphor for the way violence is "contagious"? For the way...

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tama @tama00001234.bsky.social · 1d

Happy Halloween🎃🐼

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