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