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Social media has always made me uneasy. There’s something prying and nosy underlying the whole apparatus, something presumptuous and…

I'm an anxious person. Social media makes me anxious. That anxiety was the springboard behind me writing my Johnlock future AU Sherlock Holmes and the Adventure of the Paper Journal. I shared a bit about it on Medium.

#sherlock #sherlock holmes #facebook #twitter #fake news #donald trump

I’ve had trouble putting my finger on exactly why the Colin Kaepernick situation enrages me as much as it does. So much worse has happened…

I find myself deeply invested in what happens to Colin Kaepernick and wrote a bit about why.

#colin kaepernick #nfl #black lives matter

September is the month of 30-day writing challenges, and on the first day of the month I came across a post on my Tumblr dash announcing a…

Fellow writers:

Just wanted to share an idea that helped me a lot last year.

It's coming up on September, and 30 Day prompts have probably already been shared or will be soon. If you're stuck on a multi-chapter idea like I was last year, maybe try using the prompts to pry something loose. Last year, I used the 30 Days of Sherlock prompts in the graphic above to write a short novel-length multi-chapter story called Before Holmes Met Watson. I shared the story on Wattpad where it was featured and gave it away as a free ebook that's topped Amazon's LGBT-Mystery/Detective ebook rankings several times. I shared the experience on Medium (link out above if you're interested).

Reblog to give someone a push!

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In this week's update to THE LEUCROCOTTA, we learn more about Roger Templeton, the main suspect in Carol Ogilvy's murder.

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Me Hearing “Game of Thrones” Showrunners Are Putting Out a New Project on HBO:

Me finding out the premise is: “What if the Confederacy Had Won?”:

Also me:

And:

Do better HBO! Too many people still revere the Confederacy, believe it’s cause was just, and long for its ideology to take hold again for you to be offering up this spank bank to them. All while the people they want to see oppressed have to be screaming “Black Lives Matter!” at the top of their lungs.

Can we just not?

beardedrebutterofafkar

I don’t see a problem with this. The best disinfectant is sunlight.

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Honest question: What is being disinfected?

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Preamble: I haven’t seen any trailers or read anything on this show.

If the series is what I think it is, and knowing HBO it will be, it’ll showcase extreme racism and prejudice against poor farm hands. It will likely show that the illiterate and uneducated hands viewed black people as what they were at the time, farm equipment. And some black savior who teaches his fellow men how to read, etc. etc.

It will bring to light that the way of thinking in the plantation era south wasn’t and isn’t the proper way to treat people, or even animals in some cases. It will apply yesterday’s morals to today’s society and, while it will likely be painful to watch, I’m looking forward to it if it’s what I think it’ll be.

People right now are calling me a racist and bigot in my notes and I’ll get to them shortly, but I’m neither. I abhor idiots and idiots think this would’ve been a sustainable social model. Idiots also tend to apply today’s morality to yesterday’s events.

This will likely be a series about current day African nations, or Asian nations, with regard to slavery, transposed onto American soil. You should be elated about this show. It’ll show the evil of mankind I witnessed for more than a decade and hopefully will show the helplessness truly good people felt in it’s face.

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You just described pretty much every slave/plantation film set in the American south. So, again: what exactly is being disinfected? What is this light revealing to us? Nothing you’re saying people should be “elated” about seeing hasn’t been discussed before in great detail. If people want to see what you’re talking about, they should just watch Roots. Not to mention, the premise of the show obfuscates the reality that the South might have lost the war, but it definitely won the peace.

The spirit and legacy of the Confederacy are very much alive and affect American political life in tangible ways. Slavery is still legal in the United States - the 13th Amendment explicitly exempts prisoners. And that loophole was used to put a huge proportion of the freed slaves back in bondage. It is still being used to oppress their descendants. The battle flag of the Confederacy still flies over some state capitals and was removed from others in only the past couple of years. The south is littered with Confederate monuments erected to the “glorious dead” who were killed in the “War of Northern Aggression”. The leaders of the traitorous movement are widely revered. What do you think people who say, “The South will rise again” are talking about?

This isn’t a game. These people are already emboldened. Nooses keep cropping up at places where they’ll intimidate black people, Emmett Till’s monument was destroyed, minorities are being routinely verbally and physically assaulted, and police are shooting them dead with no consequences left and right. The most prestigious network putting out a show where Southern racists were the victors of the Civil War is going to go poorly, and it’s going to cause real-world violence. Anyone who’s been paying even scant attention can see that. What you think is infotainment is going to become a clarion call/manifesto to some people for how things should be. The fictional “Resistance” ultimately being successful (after 5 seasons or so) won’t undo the damage.

When 13 Reasons Why was in pre-production, the powers that be were warned that the way they were planning on presenting suicide on screen would lead to copycats. They ignored the experts, and the worst came to pass. HBO is getting a similar heads-up. Whatever sensationalised violence they show being done to blacks onscreen is going to inspire real life attacks. The Klan never burned crosses until they saw Birth of a Nation.

Game of Thrones handles slavery and race poorly. I don’t trust the people responsible to navigate the minefield of American race relations and the immense violence associated with it deftly - not in this context. HBO has put out some excellent programming, but it’s also dropped some duds. This show is a terrible idea, and they shouldn’t produce it, especially not in this political climate. It’s gasoline on a fire, but I suspect you’re not one of the people who’s going to get burned.

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Me Hearing “Game of Thrones” Showrunners Are Putting Out a New Project on HBO:

Me finding out the premise is: “What if the Confederacy Had Won?”:

Also me:

And:

Do better HBO! Too many people still revere the Confederacy, believe it’s cause was just, and long for its ideology to take hold again for you to be offering up this spank bank to them. All while the people they want to see oppressed have to be screaming “Black Lives Matter!” at the top of their lungs.

Can we just not?

beardedrebutterofafkar

I don’t see a problem with this. The best disinfectant is sunlight.

harrisonkitteridge-blog

Honest question: What is being disinfected?

Me Hearing “Game of Thrones” Showrunners Are Putting Out a New Project on HBO:

Me finding out the premise is: “What if the Confederacy Had Won?”:

Also me:

And:

Do better HBO! Too many people still revere the Confederacy, believe it's cause was just, and long for its ideology to take hold again for you to be offering up this spank bank to them. All while the people they want to see oppressed have to be screaming "Black Lives Matter!" at the top of their lungs.

Can we just not?

#HBO #Confederacy #can we just not

Check out my Instagram magazine, HARRISON KITTERIDGE WRITES, at: https://instagram.com/harrisonkitteridge

This week’s theme is “Fright”.

I startle easily. I don’t jump every time a shadow moves, but it’s pretty damned close. A vivid imagination is essential for what I do, but it has some incredibly aggravating pitfalls like getting me to think my power cord is a serpent when it brushes against my leg. I don’t like to think of myself as being frightened all the time, but there is a part of my mind that leaps to the worst conclusions. I always have to walk myself back to the benign. The upside is, I’ll be mentally prepared for the zombie apocalypse when it arrives!

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

- “The Foster’s House” (a Very Short Short Story)

- Writers on Writing

- Blog: Film Recommendation: “What We Do in the Shadows” (2014)

- Assassination (a One Line Story)

- Excerpt from “Before Holmes Met Watson”

- Weekly Bit of Cheer

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Read snapTALES 1-149 here: https://www.wattpad.com/story/95332055-snaptales-snapchat-flash-fiction-featured Add me on Snapchat: https://snapchat.com/add/harrikitteridge

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This week’s update is up!

The Leucrocotta (The Muralist & the Inspector Episode 3) - 3 (on Wattpad) http://my.w.tt/UiNb/fqSjdKWDOE UPDATED SATURDAYS Detective Inspector Mark Reed is investigating the murder of a promising university student. The only clue is a mural drawn two days earlier that seems to depict the crime. Mark searches for the muralist and finds a fragile man with whom he shares a mysterious bond. In this episode, a clearer picture of Roger Templeton, the prime suspect in the murders of Carol Ogilvy and Mark's sister emerges, and Mark is forced to confront the seriousness of Cormac's illness.

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Oh this, thank goodness it got put into words.

Therapist’s Notes (A Very Short Short Story)

David had a tense relationship with his therapist. “It takes time to build trust,” she’d told him at their first session.” And he supposed she was right. Nevertheless, months later he was still reticent and closed. Sometimes he outright lied.

It was hard to keep track of the fabrications, and she nearly always caught him out. She never became angry or began to shriek the way his mother would have. She always calmly continued taking notes and asked why he’d felt the need to hide the truth from her.

He wanted her to like him, to think he was cool. He didn’t fancy himself in love with her, though. He wanted everyone to like him and think he was cool. She saw that too. And wrote it down.

Did she think he was pathetic? Was he one of her favourite patients? These thoughts plagued him constantly. As did the thoughts that made it nearly impossible for him to hold on to a job, that had him living at home with his mother who still shrieked and roared.

We are our thoughts, and he was spilling his into her notebook. He began to have nightmares about disappearing and existing only in its pages. The fear became so consuming that he broke into her office, stole it and burned it.

At their next session, she opened a fresh notebook and asked him why.

THANKS FOR READING!

This was an excerpt from this week's issue of my Instagram magazine Harrison Kitteridge Writes. Check out more of my original short form writing there: instagram.com/harrisonkitteridge