dragonlady7

love william gibson, his twitter handle is thegreatdismal, i recommend giving him a follow

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all cyberpunk stories are like “If you wanna crack open a cybercroissant this nasty, you’re gonna need a real top notch e-driller. i know a guy- Toledo Killswitch- he’s got the frag ordinance you need to grizzle this bocce ball.”

If you’re terribly curious why this is, it’s because William Gibson – the guy whose work is largely synonymous with first-wave literary cyberpunk – spent most of the 1970s bumming around the Toronto drug scene (for many years he claimed he’d moved to Canada in order to avoid the Vietnam draft, though he later admitted that it was mostly for easier access to weed), and much of the distinctive argot of his work is based on the youth counterculture slang he observed during that period of his life. So basically the reason that dialogue in classic cyberpunk sounds Like That is because the characters all talk like teenage Canadian stoners from the 70s. (Your picture was not posted)