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+dystopian nightmare black comedy
+crystallise
+## setting
+
+DMC on stan lee:
+> [Stan Lee](https://genius.com/artists/Stan-lee) was brilliant. Stan Lee was a genius because he put the superheroes in New York. So when I read a Marvel comic book, it was real to me. Avengers Mansion is in Manhattan ... Oh shoot, Spider-Man’s from Queens, I’m from Queens too!
+## protagonist
+
+not a programmer
+but something like it
+```
+senior environment monitoring technician at
+worm protein garden
+growtein industrial
+growtein garden
+```
+
+
+## struggles
+
+### noise
+drilling at night
+dogs
+garbage trucks (some kind of weekly disturbance that recurs)
+
+
+### incompetence
+offshore team that can't/won't do anything themselves
+have to figure out what kind of stupidity they are doing
+given clear instructions and errors will just ask for somebody to fix for them
+
+### dystopia 2025
+opsec
+rent increase notice with a beautiful blue beach picture on the front ![[Pasted image 20251029090819.png]]
+### psychomedia
+
+unnamed overseas villain trying to destroy the food
+internal villain `` which is corporate software of the parent company trying to get in / help
+
+- nothing gets better, nothing gets worse
+    - things happen but nothing changes
+
+    .. except..
+
+- programmers have essentially become wizards
+
+- even when things are obviously completely fucked they will keep going
+   - crypto
+   - the routine is immutable
+
+
+### the hurt
+use scenes from the most extreme moments in life
+dostoyevsky going to the gallows
+serge
+aaron
+alex
+when jt leaves in the evening for the night shift
+
+## style
+
+### hallucinatory
+barnacles in the sink
+holes in people
+parasites
+ahab's splintered brow and features
+   the sails
+   captain's eyebrows themselves, splintered timber