Double Prime Minister Event Is In The Cards, I Have Done The Maths

double prime minister event is in the cards, i have done the maths

I mean, yes, a lot of horror media boils down to “wouldn’t it be fucked up?”, but let’s not be reductive – there are several distinct subgenres of “wouldn’t it be fucked up?”, including but not limited to:

Proposing a very improbable situation, then gesturing toward it and asking “man, wouldn’t this be fucked up?”  

Wildly exaggerating an everyday state of affairs in order to demonstrate that it was, in fact, always fucked up.  

Taking a thing that it’s broadly agreed is fucked up and making it a different kind of fucked up.  

Inventing a new type of guy, then pointing at the guy and going “this guy is fucked up.”  

Grabbing the audience by the shoulders like, no, man, the fucked up thing is, like, a metaphor. For a different thing. That is also fucked up.  

Taking a genuinely innocuous situation and through some unlikely contrivance rendering it fucked up.  

Making a thing that self-referentially gestures at itself and asks “isn’t it fucked up that this is so fucked up?”  

Framing a fantastical scenario and asking “is this fucked up? why is it fucked up? what does it mean to be fucked up? what is ‘fucked’? what is ‘up’?”

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my realistic prediction for whatever rq is hinting at is something like a short little tma halloween special, probably something more in line with the fluff episodes than anything else and nothing post-canon. my heart, however, is now convinced that they're releasing the magnus archives: 2 magnus 2 archive.

"The Angels of Evangelion are truly some of the best creature designs of all time. It’s very important for me to create something very unique as well, but I went into it with this knowledge that there’s a minimalist spectacle that we haven’t seen photographically in film."

Jordan Peele in Dazed

if fantasy genre reincarnation were real (ie, the kind where everyone always reincarnates as human and can recover most if not all previous-life memories) humans would use it for such DUMB SHIT you guys. like every other week you’d get headlines like “20 year old cave diver vanishes down This One Fucking Cave for the 5th life in a row.” and the body of the article would be like “His last words were ‘This time I’m going to find out what’s at the bottom of that crevasse!’ We’ll see you when you get your memories back in 16 years Dylan, the scientific community can’t wait to find out what was at the bottom of that crevasse.”

It is an absolutely genius feature of Fiasco that just when you've played enough scenes for your character to claw their way out of the muck they start in, just when your character maybe gets a glimpse of something like resolution, the game has you generate a load more complications - one of which is usually "something precious is on fire"

With all the pieces in place for the final act, the cast finds out some new complications that are sure to upset the board.

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STARRING:

Josh Yard as Bilbo Biltong

Natalie Winter as Sue Sherpa

Alexander Pankhurst as Mike Sherpa

Matt Boothman as Gregg Nevin

ROLEPLAYING GAME SYSTEM: Fiasco Classic by Jason Morningstar

MUSIC BY: Alexander Pankhurst

EDITED AND PRODUCED BY: Matt Boothman