So the plan wasn’t a clusterfuck, it was just circling the clusterfuck target zone, getting ready to come in for a landing.
Martha Wells, Exit Strategy (The Murderbot Diaries, #4)
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So the plan wasn’t a clusterfuck, it was just circling the clusterfuck target zone, getting ready to come in for a landing.
Martha Wells, Exit Strategy (The Murderbot Diaries, #4)
Nick Barlow, Clusterfuck/Keep It Together, 2022
Oil on mountboard, 81 X 81 cm
My nevermore face claims
Pt. 2 (clusterfucks)
Annabel Lee
Prospero
Ada
Montressor
Will
Idk man
CLUSTERFCK
Someone pointed out that the Misfits seem to fall apart faster when Lenore is not there than the Clusterfucks do without Annabel. I hypothesise that this has something to do with why they formed in the first place. The Misfits are a group of friends. They protect each other, they look out for each other, wherever they see each other, they are sure to help each other. The decision makers in their groups are Lenore and Duke and those two mostly agree on everything (they're also both fking crazy). But in a live or die situation, their democracy works against them and it turns into a too-many-cooks-spoil-the-broth situation. Thus slowing down the decision making process and making things difficult during emergencies. So, amazingly, the fact that they genuinely care for each other somehow works against them. 😅 They cannot make decisions fast enough for it to matter and save them all as a whole.
Now, as soon as disaster strikes, the Misfits work to stay together, the Clusterfucks scatter. 💀 Yet in the end, the Clusterfucks achieve togetherness better than the Misfits and render aid to each other (shocking most of the audience).
The Clusterfucks have a more Top to Bottom system of government with Annabel sitting at the top. Prospero and Monty are somewhere in-between, with Ada and Will at the very bottom. With Annabel at the top, her word is law, she makes the final call on every decision, so naturally, they gravitate to her during disaster. She designed it this way so that she could control them. They are known as a ruthless powerful group so, they already do not have a lot of friends. This is why they stick together. They need each other. Because no one else will fight for them.
I neeeeeeeed to hear some love for this one, I think if I took this one back 10 years, 19 y/o me would be sobbing. They'd be confused as to what I did to Cluster's design, but they'd be loving it.
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They're going, going...
... gone.