Jeff Vandermeer made up a fake freshwater squid in a book and people believed it really existed and now he feels bad
I will boost this until everyone has seen it
@moviewitch Haha this is amazing
@conatus I just can't stop laughing it's so great
@moviewitch thank you so much this is very much my shit
@platypus haha I'm glad!
Michael W Lucas
I just realized that my whole life has aspired towards this level of whee.
@mwlucas it's so good!
@moviewitch im gonna be thinking about this all day
@douglasfur isn't it great???
@moviewitch ok ok im reading im reading
@moviewitch this is incredible
@Pixley the expert!!! "Squid anatomy is hard enough!"
@SeanAloysiusOBrien the mayfly squid!!!! "Hey BBC here can we interview you since you're an expert"
@moviewitch don't go screwing around with people's heads with your
@aurant poor Jeff just wanted to write a story :(
@moviewitch i just got around to reading and, thank you so, so much for sharing this
@saladeredux isn't it great??? That reporter asking him for an interview!!
@moviewitch from the freaking BBC. also @ all the people who called him to say that they’d spotted the freshwater squid nearby... what did they ACTUALLY see????
@saladeredux that guy who's like "i know my eyes did not deceive me" what is going on there!!!
@moviewitch see this guy acts all innocent and incredulous but then he does shit like this. i love it
@saladeredux we longtime fans of his work know that Jeff is a rascal
@moviewitch @saladeredux if you wanted the wayback link to what seems like the original posting of it https://web.archive.org/web/20051125044122/http://www.fantasticmetropolis.com/i/squid/
@cuttlefish @moviewitch thank you cuttle!
@saladeredux @cuttlefish yeah thank you so much!!
@moviewitch "Do your creative work about something you are truly passionate about and enjoy" is not just advice about keeping up your motivation, it is a premonition and a threat.
@moviewitch He says ... He says ... "Fantastic Metropolis eventually folded, and the black hole of the electronic world one day devoured its GoDaddy hosting account and all mention of freshwater squid vanished from those coordinates."
But ... this exists:
https://fantasticmetropolis.com/i/squid
@clifstan oh damn you're right!! Thank you
@moviewitch
> Ironically, I never received any ambergris in the mail.
That would be a fun day for any drug-sniffing dog coming across that package along the way. Although I guess the same would be true for the dried squid
I'm serious. Please read this
https://lithub.com/jeff-vandermeer-on-the-saga-of-the-festival-of-the-freshwater-squid/