#fruit fly

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[applesolutelymac]

A fruit fly (lol) was smacking itself onto Toshiyuki's screen

it's not aware it's not an *apple* in the sense of the fruit

[irvin-the-blowfly]

normies: "nothing kills bees, except humans and fire. they might kill a few bees here and there, but nothing can take out a whole hive." me, an environmentalist:

[darllenadwy]

Fruit Fly - Josh Silver

i've been chewing on this and i can't quite figure out if i hate the book itself or if i just can't fucking stand the characters in it.

i think it's very much a Me Problems as every single person in the book club absolutely loved it and thought it was really impactful and intense, but i closed the cover anfter finishing like. this is what you're calling a masterpiece? the front cover had a quote calling it "savage and darkly hilarious" and i don't think i'd use either of those words myself.

i might be missing something but it felt very surface level to me. i don't know anything about this author's background and i heard tonight that he used to be in the spaces that this book explores but i think maybe he just failed to quite say anything with the novel. i am willing to accept that it simply wasn't meant to speak to me as i don't and haven't ever really experienced anything similar.

the main character and her social circle was the main thing i fucking hated though GOD. if performative was an olympic sport she would win gold. every single thing she did was with the Omnipresent Audience in mind. she formed her own narrative like she was trying to get ahead of an twitter callout post at times. i understand that this is like a critique on the scene and i'm perhaps not meant to adore her and find her faultless but it was actually painful to get through for me.

i just cant fucking standddddd instagram influencers and their way of thinking and speaking and the more i think about it i think this is the main reason i just did not enjoy this book at all. i didnt want to be in her head because it was making me miserable. make a choice out of your own desires for once in your life. who gives a fuck that your lampshade is too common and you might need to change it so people dont think youre following the trend. im clawing my eyeballs out

i think like it was an effective way of portraying her being stuck. in the relationship mostly but also in life. i dont think it was neccessarily a bad choice. it was her trying to control her image because its the only thing she has left to control cause her husband is a piece of shit. but man. i couldnt do it. i had to read it in such little chunks cause it was just so fuckingggg miserable to get through. i dont look at instagram for a reason i dont wanna have to deal with the instagram mindset while reading a book.

the ending was a bittttt. idk. we kinda agreed on the fact that it didnt quite fit or flow. felt kinda like he didn't quite know how to end it? but like not the worst ending in the world. thoroughly just did not enjoy the book though so it mightve coloured my opinion of it.

i do think leo was a fasciating character and i enjoyed getting to see his thought process. other people commented on the sentence structure while hes high being really effective and impactful but i thought it was mostly just decent? i think maybe i've read some darker books than a lot of them have so that might be affecting this too like it seemed like this dark grim storyline was relatively new for them while i read aftg at like 15 so, u know, different expectations of what is shocking and gripping ? idk.

the main character mallory and her childhood friend joanie was really good too i think it was really effectively portrayed how u can be right beside someone and yet still get isolated from them until you can't reacognise eachother anymore. i did like their dynamic a lot i thought it was interesting and well written.

i don't really know why exactly i hated it so much i really do think its mostly the voice of mallory. she just pissed me offfff with how she cared so so much about appearances. which i understand again is part of the character and the story being told. but. like. it was in such an influencer way. i think it it wasnt contemporary and name dropping real brands and companies it wouldnt have grated on me so bad. i fucking hate consumerism

[every-day-creechur]

Large Cucurbit Fly Dacus bivittatus

A fruit fly from east Africa. They are considered pests on crops including cucumber, melon, and zucchini.

image by icipe_Biosystematics_unit-R_Copeland

[concoisarchives]

It's because his shoulder appears to be fully flushed with the pillow. The framing of his face and especially the book implies we should see some kind of extension of his shoulder/arm but it appears to be fully pressed into the pillow. This makes me sound crazy 🤣 bit instantly by it because thwt man is not using and does not own a selfie stick but if he actually did take the phot himself he would have almost had to have used a stick. And no way he owns one of those.

Lmfaoooooo this is the kind of detective work we DESERVE yes and I’m fully aware we sound fucking insane right now and I have made my peace with it. THANK YOU

[concoisarchives]

so like in a whimsical and/or super factual way, you believe that c must be physically next to f when it comes to these two author follows? (lol i forgot josh is also an author haha)

It’s all whimsy. I don’t know ever fucking know where Connor is unfortunately 😭 but sure maybe he’s having a little vacation in NYC decompressing after Turpentine while François films his new project. Why not! Could be! Until another cryptid Trader Joe’s photo comes out from LA, this is what I’m choosing to whimsically believe.

And the Fruit Fly photo wasn’t a selfie so idk

[sinceyousawvienna]