The feel of the 2010's

[Mr. Tea]

The 90s was also the final onslaught of a certain brand of American fiction. The decade was rammed with big books by people like Wallace and DeLillo and Roth and Gass and Gaddis and Pynchon then 9/11 happened and a bunch of people tried to declare 'the death of irony' and demanded novelists write about "feelings" as though none of those writers had.

Do you suppose they meant specifically, you know, girly feelings?

 

[pattycakes_]

I agree, that’s why I’m wondering if it was the decade that didn’t happen.

It's the 2010s from here on out I'm afraid. We've plateaued

 

[craner]

It's the 2010s from here on out I'm afraid. We've plateaued

2010 or the world ends.

 

[pattycakes_]

So are we still in a long 2010s then? Is Biscuits correct, and the 2020s haven’t started yet?

Yes and they never will

 

[version]

It's the 2010s from here on out I'm afraid. We've plateaued

This is how I feel about the attempts to claim we're into "post postmodernism" or "metamodernism". It all still feels like postmodernism to me.

 

[craner]

Yes and they never will

Your spirits have plummeted since this morning!

 

[pattycakes_]

Your spirits have plummeted since this morning!

The Phoenix needs ashes to arise from, innit

 

[pattycakes_]

Have to test the ranks from time to time

 

[version]

The widespread replacement of 'good' and 'bad' by 'based' and 'cringe.'

Cringe Dialectics | @ghostofchristo1

Guest Column #023

covidianaesthetics.substack.com

 

[shakahislop]

I'm surprised @shakahislop hasn't mentioned his favourite subject: giant asses.

we're working up to the most important ones

 

[version]

The 2010s were the decade my mum, a middle-class white woman, finally lost faith in the police.

 

[craner]

The 2010s were the decade my mum, a middle-class white woman, finally lost faith in the police.

Finally, we have a definition!

 

[craner]

It only took 10 pages.

 

[version]

The twin ghosts of Savile and Epstein, the haunted bookends of the 2010s.

 

[version]

The vivisection of the British monarchy.

 

[craner]

The twin ghosts of Savile and Epstein, the haunted bookends of the 2010s.

Oh, come on Versh, this thread is already depressing Patty.

 

[craner]

The vivisection of the British monarchy.

90s

 

[version]

Oh, come on Versh, this thread is already depressing Patty.

Blame whoever gifted us the "historical sexual abuse" tag.

 

[craner]

Blame whoever gifted us the "historical sexual abuse" tag.

I thought you wrote all the tags.

 

[version]

I usually do, but only two of those are mine.