Jay

I wish it good tidings, as I ponder on it and its spiritual sibling. Not to mention the poem that teased it. Or the other poem related to it where I pondered on the feeling of zhurm that overcame me once. (That’s in a poetry book I finished last year, but is out soon.) And, where do things go next? Well, there’s the Longest Short Story You Will Ever Read coming soon. (Wrote that before this novelette was birthed into the public world, and it’s at last coming - as less than fifty words in a 600+ page book, and yet, it took someone three months to read.)

Bridgerton, Strictly, and James Bond all mentioned, adding onto Davina McCall, Star Trek

“Cushy”, “okay”, “TV” all interesting words to Emily, adding onto foundled, spoor, smelt, chapping

The vitamin string quartet-ass covers of pop songs really fucking with whether we’re supposed to understand the music as diegetic or not, especially when we’ve been told there’s a tenuous distinction in The Devil’s Chord

direct references to an earlier character intro (Rogue paralleling Jack) just like I’m Space Babies (Ruby paralleling Rose)

aliens that are lured in by plot twists

also flashbacks to reveal previously unknowable information

it’s bringing up The Distancing Effect for me, being forcibly pulled out of the spectacle of something through uncanny elements and asked to reevaluate it. What happens when the characters in a tv show get dissociated from their show and have to reevaluate their existences? Who the fuck is Susan twist

Esquivalience??

GUYS

ANDDDDD the song in it came about because of a conversation with my producer on [REDACTED DWU AUDIO PROJECT] during a script-editing meeting about how they really wished they could put “The Lost” in there as a song that goes through the ages. But, of course, you can’t. So, instead, that project is likely to use The Twist At The End. (Certainly, it will recur…)

Okay, so here’s one thing that I can say is not a coincidence…

The word facdocksparation has seeded in advance (a year in advance! It’s not in the story itself, it’s just in the cover… isn’t that playful?) and it will return in the future, too… Oh, and at least one of those other words on that cover will appear elsewhere too.