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oh i forgot to say: on your recommendation i checked Alice Elliott Dark’s Fellowship Point out from my library…already finding it very pleasurable and welcoming…i love a book with a map and a century-spanning temporal structure that doesn’t make me think about elves

also ms. strain i love this article and this shark-based mode of cinematic analysis it is very pleasing to me

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omg yay I loved that novel so much… not sure if you have read Howards End but I feel like those two texts are so in convo with each other

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forster is a huge blindspot for me! i will put that one next on my list

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Thank you so much!

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this is urgent and necessary, thank you. point of order about the OC: Shannon Lucio guest starred as Lindsay in season two, not season one. tremendous all around

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Thank you kindly! I see now how “one-season” could be misconstrued as “season one,” but trust that I remember Lindsay’s oboe-playing ass rolling onto the scene in ol’ S2.

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Sent this to my shark movie friend (is this a universal experience!?) and she loved it 🦈 ❤️

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The validation I crave 🙏🦈

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My best friend in middle school had Spring Break Shark Attack DVRd and we watched it allllll the time til her dad deleted it. Thank you Tessa and Fran Mag for shining a light on this terrible movie!!!

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This is so poignant and beautiful to me.

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Need to know if Tessa has seen Ghost Shark, the Syfy classic about a vengeful shark whose spirit can leap out at the protagonists from any body of water (freshwater lake, glass of seltzer, puddle on the ground, etc.).

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not “glass of seltzer”

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I haven’t but I remember the trailer! It was such a bumper crop in that era I could barely keep up.

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just when you thought it was safe to go back on tiktok...

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we're gonna need a bigger blog post!

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... where's sharkie????

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where do sharks rank on your phobia list (if anywhere)

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not phobic, i love em

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