Tina Stormcaller

@TinaStormcaller@icosahedron.website
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She/Her, DJ, VJ, broadcaster and demoscener.
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Does anyone know how to rent a fire engine

Foxes have eaten
the peaches
that were on
our tree

and which
we were
saving
for later

Forgive me
revenge is coming
so wet
and so cold

@halcy Schuko is good but the one thing it lacks that it could really do with is a specific polarisation
@3a29 basically this is more to dissuade people off the street coming into the event to ogle at kinksters, making pests of themselves and ruining the event for others. Basically, they want people attending to make an effort in their appearance, but want to both allow for a wide range of kinks, and give an option for people who can’t afford kinky outerwear. The vagueness isn’t isn’t intended to exclude, but it’s a difficult thing to word without doing that
@derf 7 layers = A Pasta So Tasty, No Dessert Preferred!
@classabbyamp @gsuberland thanks, watched the clip where the penny dropped for Hugo, saved to watch later so i can watch on my lunch break tomorrow :)
@gsuberland if there’s a link to it that sounds hilarious
@saxnot @fesshole The tip is the place you bring landfill and recycling waste that’s too big for the dustmen aka garbage collectors to take away
a pox on whoever decided it was okay to allow webpages to hide their own scrollbars

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Inspired by a quote post elsewhere.

And following on:

The plan was simple enough. fly in on a free press pass, scribble some notes about corporate bio or medical engineering, maybe milk a few piña coladas from the bar by the visitor centre.

But then I saw the raptors.

Christ, the eyes on those bastards.

They said the park was safe, "We spared no expense".

Sure, old man, tell that the the cow they hoisted up like some kind of symbolic sacrificial lamb, late-stage capitalist tech bro hubris strapped to a free-ride meat crane.

The cow had no idea it was about the be a footnote in genetic history.

And then there was the goat.

Thick syrupy symbolism with this lot.

The T. rex snorting rain off its snout like some kind of half drunk post football game brawler at a drive through getting the last snow in his face before a late feed.

And I, low paid hack in a hawaiian shirt just walking face-first into the reptilian id of man's doomed obsession with playing god.

Everywhere there was thunder. Not the good kind, not mescaline or the mesmerising heartbeat of a casino floor.

No, the boom boom of something older, bigger.

Wetter.

I saw the rex destroy a toilet block. More symbolism of the ultimate worth of low-brain capitalists at work.

All come to as much as the lawyer ending his life as a snack.

He deserved it. All the lawyers do.

Nature finds a way to humiliate the best and worst of us, even on the shitter.

By the time the power went out I'd eaten three packets of questionable gummies from the visitor center.

I'm still not sure if the adrenaline mixed with the sugar or someone had slipped something a little more interesting in the pack.

I knew the former made more sense but hoped for the latter.

The fences shorted. the paddocks were open.

The only thing separating me from Genarro's fate and the lizard king's greatest work was my total commitment to radical cowardice.

God bless the children I thought, as i hitched a ride on a jeep with a palaeontologist who should have known better,

...and his sweaty chested glistening partner glistening like some B-movie god by the dashboard light.

Thankfully the command centre stopped voicing any kind of confidence in where we should go when Alan Grant shot out the console.

I fled the island at dawn.

No souvenirs. no feature story. a pocket of melted gummies, scribbles on a notepad lost somewhere in a pile of dilophosaurus shit, or spit, or hallucination.

Just a healthy respect for the velocity a raptor can disassemble a man.

Back to the mainland, and an editor with teeth less sharp.

And the only thing that made sense was beginning to run when the thunder started. the lesson here?

We are all the goat, and somewhere out there is something bigger.

Meaner.

Older.

Just waiting for the power to flicker out and civilisation to take a pause.

God help us all.

@NanoRaptor oh wow, great short story
@NanoRaptor
Oh bravo! That was magbificent
@bloognoo
No no youre thinking of the related story Back to Fear and Loathing in the Future.
@NanoRaptor
@dlakelan @NanoRaptor
Oh! +5 Internet points for a pun from a typo. You've made my day
@NanoRaptor Amazingly good! You really channeled HST.
@NanoRaptor That is art. Makes me want to read HST again.
@NanoRaptor as your lawyer I advise you to load some .357 salt rounds for when the ghost of Crichton calls.
@NanoRaptor that’s pretty good for a stream of thought. Perhaps try some more with other Spielberg movies, or some James Cameron?
@NanoRaptor Epic short story. Commenting on this post, because it is the one that unambiguously identifies your country of origin.
@NanoRaptor idk thunderstorms are pretty wet

@NanoRaptor my brain instantly had the urge to add:

"We can't stop here, this is [nano]raptor country!"

@mabs you can stop in nanoraptor country! It’s safe. Guaranteed.
@NanoRaptor One toke, you poor fool? Wait till you see that goddamn T. rex, man.