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(DIR) Post #As60b9D7zPKLlCnbv6 by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-03-16T00:51:08Z
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The "Women love me, fish fear me." ball-cap floats on the dark river. You slow the motor of the zodiac and let the river carry you closer to pick it up. Not hint of the owner. Without the motor running, the water grows very still. Out of the corner of your eye you see a wave, or... perhaps, no no no it *must* have been a wave, not a fish, no river fish is *that* large. (But is any wave so powerful? So sinuous? )
(DIR) Post #As62PzYHlB9UWkVIBc by Unixbigot@aus.social
2025-03-16T01:11:28Z
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@futurebird Reminds me of the McGuffin from _Legacy_of_Heorot_ (eliminate the one man-eating river monster and you get a plague of them as the juveniles now have no predator)
(DIR) Post #As63ZPVCkLjBZT7M92 by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-03-16T01:24:26Z
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I used to not think about giant river fish eating people (well not this often) but I've changed a lot over the past few years.
(DIR) Post #As65QzA2zyiRT0Ke3c by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-03-16T01:45:19Z
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Consider how one might reimagine the soundtrack of Jaws, but for a swampy freshwater context. It'd need to be a more mellow and round creeping sort of dread. And there would never be blood in the water, never gnashing teeth or sudden movements. Your fishing buddy simply vanishes with an elegant *sploosh* if you happen to look away. And if we want to be ironic why not let it be a massive carp. A former pet goldfish who has see our world and knows what must be done.
(DIR) Post #As65hh37agkUDX3k5w by knwmoon@mastodon.online
2025-03-16T01:48:20Z
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@futurebird I do worry more about the ones that can swim up your bitsโฆ
(DIR) Post #As65oeFmNrxzZbIRA8 by jannem@fosstodon.org
2025-03-16T01:49:32Z
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@futurebird In my head I have the Jaws theme slowed down to half speed, with the bass line croaked by large frogs.
(DIR) Post #As65wPpBuj5v8iZ0dc by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-03-16T01:50:55Z
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@josh0 I always show up if it's giant bugs... or any kind of bugs really.
(DIR) Post #As662Ycc7SPwA2bqQi by Fat_Farang@mastodon.social
2025-03-16T01:52:04Z
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@futurebird Dueling Bangos?
(DIR) Post #As664qgluw7Km3eAcq by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-03-16T01:52:29Z
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@cinebox OK this is a different kind of tale about the "one that got away" than what I was thinking of... but go off I suppose.
(DIR) Post #As667O1QxKvojbWO80 by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-03-16T01:52:57Z
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@Fat_Farang And also cicadas
(DIR) Post #As66QXWfqSDPiEGb7Q by BritishKoalaTea@social.coop
2025-03-16T01:56:22Z
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@futurebird I have a sudden urge to watch Betty White's finest movie role, in Lake Placid ๐
(DIR) Post #As67d0H2t23SIlSoG8 by geonz@mathstodon.xyz
2025-03-16T02:09:50Z
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@futurebird I love love love this idea. SWAMP THING revisited.
(DIR) Post #As67p5cCqz1YLI7mjI by snork303@toot.community
2025-03-16T02:12:00Z
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@futurebirdI get more of a this kind of vibe.https://youtu.be/J6UG1Jlwiow?si=H4QeHwYoSGMqXNNR
(DIR) Post #As68AwGmHU05jDWIwy by atrus@toot.cafe
2025-03-16T02:15:58Z
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@futurebird I'm thinking the opening/background/closing musical noise from Home Free's acapella cover of Man Of Constant Sorrow.(Is this a thinly veiled way to get people to listen to an excellent acapella tune? Who can say?)https://youtube.com/watch?v=-ew_bfFvros
(DIR) Post #As6AZBGYNNx7656P8C by ohmu@social.seattle.wa.us
2025-03-16T02:42:47Z
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@futurebird And Ice Cube survives all the way to the end of the film.
(DIR) Post #As6BpoNsnrSH0X1asK by CuriousMagpie@beige.party
2025-03-16T02:56:59Z
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@futurebird you are, without a doubt, one of my favorite people in the fediverse!
(DIR) Post #As6HpGDuPbV2mhToh6 by llewelly@sauropods.win
2025-03-16T04:04:10Z
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@futurebird clearly, we need Jaekelopterus to come back and get those fish under control.
(DIR) Post #As6KLRZfwbNdAF8QSW by PTR_K@dice.camp
2025-03-16T04:32:21Z
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@futurebird c.f. the short story "God's Hooks!" by Howard Waldrop.Apparently set shortly after the Great Fire of London, it starts as kind of slice of life vignette about a gathering of dudes who just love eating and catching fish. Toward the end takes on themes of faith, obsessive pursuit of The Big One, and apocalypse.https://www.lexal.net/scifi/scifiction/classics/classics_archive/waldrop5/waldrop51.html#FantasyFiction
(DIR) Post #As6Z85PmWK2tz9b0IS by TheBreadmonkey@beige.party
2025-03-16T07:18:00Z
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@futurebird
(DIR) Post #As6dOz8zUJT5HC3VLc by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-03-16T08:05:53Z
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@TheBreadmonkey https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YGqdjaz2Upg
(DIR) Post #As6eAvK4zwFTKE6KFU by rayhindle@mastodon.social
2025-03-16T08:14:33Z
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@futurebird Looks like it's already been tried with The Pikehttps://moviesandmania.com/2014/04/08/the-pike-horror-novel-aborted-film-movie-1982/
(DIR) Post #As6fe7XMlSNtYjnlvk by kittizontal@mstdn.social
2025-03-16T08:31:02Z
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@futurebird @TheBreadmonkey โ ๐ข๐ช๐ท๐ญ?โ ๐
(DIR) Post #As6ggrgiFQuRE72umW by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-03-16T08:42:48Z
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@ErictheCerise @Fat_Farang "Brood X"Always sounded like the title of a horror film.
(DIR) Post #As6i2qCGZXSmvXqcjo by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-03-16T08:57:56Z
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@ErictheCerise @Fat_Farang I do see one big problem with a cicada based horror film. And mostly it's that cicada look like this:๐m๐They are just derpy little guys. Here is a drawing I did of one last year.
(DIR) Post #As6iGjaTwVQOTyncWG by dank@jorts.horse
2025-03-16T09:00:26Z
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@futurebird @ErictheCerise @Fat_Farang it does kind of sound like being licked to death by pugs ๐ธโ
(DIR) Post #As6iHgw9HaoSYGOFyy by nazokiyoubinbou@urusai.social
2025-03-16T09:00:27Z
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@futurebird @ErictheCerise @Fat_Farang I just keep thinking of Higurashi no Naku Koro ni. It's the people who get the blood lust when the cicadas come out...
(DIR) Post #As6iMzUXixDVXv0M88 by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-03-16T09:01:34Z
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@AncTreat5358 And under, before you can even scream.
(DIR) Post #As6juXjbWxCZG7c240 by jdp23@neuromatch.social
2025-03-16T09:18:49Z
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Yes but what if theyโre mutant cicadas? https://youtube.com/watch?v=6jmszvGw0SI&si=broeLBwW5kCHuB9W@futurebird @ErictheCerise @Fat_Farang
(DIR) Post #As6jwY33KqRAoLfJaq by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-03-16T09:19:14Z
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@kittizontal @TheBreadmonkey One day I was in school early trying to fix the laser cutter in the makerspace and singing this... really belting it out (I know all the lyrics of THIS version) then one of the history teachers walked in out of nowhere (the school is normally DEAD at that hour) I'm a bit embarrassed and switch to awkward humming (totally stopping would have been worse and more obvious I think) she says: "ha ha forgot the lyrics?"I stop. Pause for FAR too long. Then say "Yes."
(DIR) Post #As6k4q7Q29L7Ajf3lA by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-03-16T09:20:43Z
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@kittizontal @TheBreadmonkey The only correct course of action is to arrange for her to "accidentally" hear me singing this a few more times. Then just randomly send her this link.
(DIR) Post #As6kMOyBiA1KBSiZ3w by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-03-16T09:23:54Z
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@kittizontal @TheBreadmonkey This would go against "Project Please Just Try To Be Normal" however I think that project has been dead in the water for a long time now so... yeah.
(DIR) Post #As6lnCAbVZvWG7riCW by TheBreadmonkey@beige.party
2025-03-16T09:39:50Z
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@futurebird @kittizontal
(DIR) Post #As6lrhRFCA0wOWnRNA by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-03-16T09:40:45Z
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@TheBreadmonkey @kittizontal *nodding vigorously* Yes. Let's be NORMAL.(Fails to be normal at all)
(DIR) Post #As7G0gJLkkmk85IqKO by shinobiken@mastodon.social
2025-03-16T15:18:28Z
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@futurebird I was picturing some kind of anglerfish that had evolved its โlureโ to attract fisherman.
(DIR) Post #As7IrgVrvtMG0nYnPk by JoBlakely@mastodon.social
2025-03-16T15:50:28Z
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@futurebird I picture this.