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I finally get it. This is what the 2020s will be like. Cthulhu mythos with a P. G. Wodehouse UX.
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Hmm. Can any long-arc extended universe type stuff be traced to the 1920s? Especially in genre fiction? Considering a hypothesis that it was a slump decade for EUs.
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The great gatsby was actually a cthulhu mushroom
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For some reason I feel like connecting The Great Gatsby to The Call of Cthulhu in the same extended universe. What’s the most plausible connection? Maybe Gatsby dreams of Cthulhu? Maybe Daisy *is* Cthulhu?
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I basically laid around doing nothing all day today but sometimes idle days pay off. I’ve been tugging at these strings for months now. Finally it all comes together 😎🐙🦑
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My theory of the 2020s rhyming with the 1920s is a bit American-centric but I’m going to guess it was a global big mood then too.
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Roaring 20s, Jazz Age, Cthulhu, Spanish Flu aftermath hedonism, interwar global economic instability, collapse of grand narrative, birth of existentialism, Dada art, Weimar era, beginning of end of European empires, Cthulhu mythos. Sound familiar? Transpose to 2020s.
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Szplug! Weird Tales began in 1922. Tintin emerged in 1929, Astonishing Stories in 1930. It took the crash of 1929 to end the disturbed, diseased subconscious imagination era and reboot a new bourgeois consciousness.
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Clubhouse as one of the many new speakeasies, speech police/cancel culture as the new temperance movement... 🤔
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