Post Ax2LoIXWlhhXtGigaW by jeremycshipp@mastodon.social
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 (DIR) Post #Ax2Lo9pz7i7MtuHnbk by jeremycshipp@mastodon.social
       2025-08-10T14:50:14Z
       
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       The calcareous cavern under the video rental store has all the best tapes. There's the tape where everyone you know is made of crudely-carved foam and they speak to you of embarrassing things you said years ago. There's the one where a homunculus crawls out of the screen and tries to eat your hair.
       
 (DIR) Post #Ax2LoES3y4xBDA8GW0 by jeremycshipp@mastodon.social
       2025-08-10T14:51:03Z
       
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       There's the one where a man in a tight top hat lists off all the birds he's ever seen only he doesn't know their actual names and calls them things like red-tailed tooter and snappy wingbat. There's the one where the man in the previous tape tries to pull his top hat but the hat devours him.
       
 (DIR) Post #Ax2LoIXWlhhXtGigaW by jeremycshipp@mastodon.social
       2025-08-10T14:51:48Z
       
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       There's the tape where you're working at the video rental store above, only you don't actually work there, but the tape goes on for hours and hours and you start to believe that yes, you do work there, and you're late for your next shift.
       
 (DIR) Post #Ax2LoODtdbYzW7a5p2 by jeremycshipp@mastodon.social
       2025-08-10T14:52:06Z
       
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       There's the tape where a woman with a turtle on her head searches through a pile of pebbles. Sometimes she looks into your eyes, and you feel as if she can see too deep. Finally, she finds the two pebbles, and when she taps them together, a tiny version of yourself crawls out of the turtle's mouth.
       
 (DIR) Post #Ax2LoTCf7cXyxk2g5o by jeremycshipp@mastodon.social
       2025-08-10T14:52:47Z
       
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       There's the one with the man descending a spiral staircase, and every so often he comes to a door and tries to grab the handle but he can never quite grip them properly. He fumbles at the handles more frantically as the tape progresses. He never pauses at any of the doors. He won't stop walking.
       
 (DIR) Post #Ax2LoYY7FHg9Xj7Nj6 by jeremycshipp@mastodon.social
       2025-08-10T14:53:06Z
       
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       There's the one with the man who touches his TV remote and the thing explodes into splinters of plastic and metal, and you see him talking to his friends, family, scientists, trying to understand what happened. He does research online. No one can give him any answers.
       
 (DIR) Post #Ax2LoeNhYuuhdAI9KK by jeremycshipp@mastodon.social
       2025-08-10T14:53:46Z
       
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       Sometimes he dreams of the splinters rearranging themselves, forming words that he can't quite make out most of the time. Once, the splinters tell him he's on a tape in a cavern. Once, the splinters spell out this whole thread. He doesn't understand.