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Ooh, this explains a Jasper Fforde hotel name in Early Riser (the only book of his I've liked).Has anyone ever tried a meaty wine?
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Julie Burchill forced to apologise for twitter comments , and pay out a fat wedge .
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hitmouse
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Back on the folk horror side of this thread, I've just thought: how does The Secret History fit into/relate to all this? I feel like it would fit a lot of characteristics on any folk horror checklist/bingo card, but I also don't really feel like the term fits for it. Is it like folk-horror-adjacent or something, and if so why?
We're now onto novels and I don't read so much and I don't know this one. We really need Reno on this thread, but I think he's on a break from urban.
The Secret History is more classical horror
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Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
The Secret History is a thriller, if you’re talking about the Donna Tartt book
hitmouse
so defeated, thinks it's funny
Yeah, I'd never really thought of it as a horror before. But if we're talking about stuff that deals with
rural cults, rituals, human sacrifice and entrapment (and also like the theme of some kind of atavistic return to primal destructive urges)
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
well for one they're all elite students which isn't the usual cast for folk horror.
kittyP
Pluviophile
Tbf Jasper Fforde fits folk weirdness quite well too.
hitmouse
so defeated, thinks it's funny
Yeah, that makes sense. And maybe there's a rule that if you've inspired a tiktok aesthetic then you're not allowed to be folk horror anymore?
Thinking about Secret History and horror conventions is interesting though (or maybe it isn't and I'm just really desperate to avoid doing any work this afternoon), like
in some ways, "young college students go off into the woods/countryside and meet a farmer" is such a horror cliche, if not a folk one then at least a pretty standard slasher format, going right back to Texas Chainsaw and that, but obv in the Secret History the whole thing of who's the victim and who's the villain is turned on its head? No idea if Donna Tartt was actually trying to write a reverse slasher with folk horror elements when she wrote it though, any more than if she was deliberately trying to inspire a tiktok trend in 2020.
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
You’ll have to explain the TikTok thing for us elderly folk
hitmouse
so defeated, thinks it's funny
There is a trend called "Dark Academia" that involves... dressing like an academic? Wearing a lot of tweed? I don't claim to understand it myself, but I feel like Donna Tartt bears a tremendous amount of blame for tricking young'uns into thinking that studying the classics is cool and sexy? That and probably also something to do with Harry Potter.
ska invita
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Can you make the font bigger in your posts, Im struggling to read them.
And SPEAK UP!!
splonkydoo
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Here I was thinking this was 35 pages about Julie Burchill.... wtf.
splonkydoo
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And I refuse to acknowledge this is currently 'the best thread on urban' , fight me.
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
Reading poetry out loud in caves whilst wearing a black turtleneck?
hitmouse
so defeated, thinks it's funny
Yeah. Or in your bedroom while pretending you're in a cave, probably?
Tweeted a play on George Floyd's name to have a go at the new Meghan/Harry sprog. Pretty gross really
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
It is it is
Plumdaff
joy in people
I don't think she was suspended I think she flounced, having made some typically horrible racist statement about Meghan and Harry's new kid, that Twitter said wasn't horrible and racist.
Funky_monks
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Merry Xmas!
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