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November 11th, 2019 at 12:56 pm
#nofilter
November 11th, 2019 at 1:36 pm
I told you it would be madness to mix up the Columbia and MGM logos, but you wouldn’t listen!
November 11th, 2019 at 2:23 pm
It take a certain sort of genius to invent the Photoshop Fail in 1969. Not a good sort though.
November 11th, 2019 at 2:25 pm
Increase Sewall sounds like the name of a rejected Good Omens character.
November 11th, 2019 at 2:33 pm
Even though it’s a cat’s mouth, it still has that “Smirky McSmug” look.
November 11th, 2019 at 3:10 pm
NEES, FEELING LOVE, WEARS HER CAT
Cat in her hair, G.
Witchcraft transformed her face, allowing her to hiss with renewed purpose at Duke Even Botenev.
November 11th, 2019 at 3:17 pm
One feels the evil shadow of witchcraft lacks conviction, what with unspeakable rites only in secret.
November 11th, 2019 at 4:30 pm
No, that blurb needs more work. Call in The Blurbinator (TM):
“The evil shadow of [1] hung over the [2] and unspeakable [3] were performed in [4].”
[1]
a) witchcraft
b) Roseanne Barr
c) election meddling
d) tie-dye shirts
[2]
a) town
b) TV studio
c) White House
d) Berkely campus grounds
[3]
a) rites
b) avocado recipes
d) corruptions of democracy
e) sit-ins
[4]
a) secret
b) the state of Hawaii
c) broad daylight
d) safe space
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November 11th, 2019 at 4:45 pm
I wonder what Increase’s friends called her. Innie? Creasey? Inky?
November 11th, 2019 at 4:54 pm
@Tor Mented: Plussie, Addie, Topper or “the sum one”
November 11th, 2019 at 5:24 pm
If you conduct an unspeakable rite in public, it’s still sort of secret, isn’t it?
Is that supposed to be a cat or a fox. A woman who turns into a fox opens up a lot of possible plot-avenues but makes my childhood memory of ‘Basil Brush’ a lot more Yewtree-ish.
November 11th, 2019 at 7:11 pm
@Tor Turns out Increase was a man, and is, at the time of the events of the book, long dead and an evil lurking presence. I think the nick names still apply.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40230920-the-revenge-of-increase-sewall
November 11th, 2019 at 7:16 pm
The dark side of Pussy Galore
November 11th, 2019 at 7:55 pm
Tag suggestion. ‘cover noir’ or any other appropriate French color for a sparse cover with a solid color background.
I think that the evil shadow of witchcraft should have warped the symmetry of the cover.
November 12th, 2019 at 1:04 am
@JuanPaul: You’re right about that. I had a nagging suspicion after making my post, so I looked up the name on Wikipedia. It’s a male name derived from a literal English translation of the biblical name Joseph or Yosef.
One of the most prominent men named Increase was Increase Mather, “a powerful Puritan clergyman in the Massachusetts Bay Colony. … He was influential in the administration of the colony during a time that coincided with the notorious Salem witch trials.” And was the father of Cotton Mather, one of the driving forces behind the witch hysteria.
I also encountered the family name Sewall while looking these people up. So I’m guessing Heinrich Graat drew a lot from the lore of the Salem witch trials.
November 12th, 2019 at 1:25 am
So is this going to be “things turning into cats” week?
What with the internet, there are no more unspeakable rites nowadays: there is no act so foul or depraved that it hasn’t been used in a My Little Pony fanfic by this point.
November 12th, 2019 at 3:32 am
This is a special level of blending fail. Just cut and paste a couple of different-sized pictures together unevenly — it’s not like people worldwide are going to laugh at it in 50 years, right?
@Tor: ALL cats are Smirky McSmug. At least all of them who’ve owned me.
@anon: Perfection!
@MakkaPakka: indeed, how can the town be shadowed if the rites are secret?
@JP: egads! First of a trilogy!
@Tor (again): Increase Mather was the first thing I thought of too. We always had a good snicker in history class over his and Cotton’s names. No wonder they went all witch-hunt crazy. The description says it’s set in New England, so I guess Graat (rhymes with cat?) just swiped some names from a pamphlet he got at a Salem souvenir shop.
August 17th, 2020 at 11:25 pm
You had one job. Cats don’t pluck their eyebrows.