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* ChronicSelfDeprecation: Lois has serious self-esteem issues, though she improves by the end of the story.
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* HeroicSelfDeprecation: Lois has serious self-esteem issues, though she improves by the end of the story.
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* ForWantOfANail: The failure of Lady Midday's first attempt to re-enter the world is described as a positive example of this: [[spoiler:When Iris Whitcomb summons the goddess aboard a train travelling to Toronto by playing the silver nitrate film containing her memories of Lady Midday, she discovers too late that the goddess has already killed her son Hyatt and now plans to possess Iris as Her new high priestess. It's only sheer luck that this particular train car is one which still uses gas lamps rather than electric lights; Iris is thus able to grab a convenient match and set the film on fire, thwarting Lady Midday at the cost of her own life]].
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* SpannerInTheWorks: Lady Midday's first attempt to re-enter the world fails because of this: [[spoiler:When Iris Whitcomb summons the goddess aboard a train travelling to Toronto by playing the silver nitrate film containing her memories of Lady Midday, she discovers too late that the goddess has already killed her son Hyatt and now plans to possess Iris as Her new high priestess. It's only sheer luck that this particular train car is one which still uses gas lamps rather than electric lights; Iris is thus able to grab a convenient match and set the film on fire, thwarting Lady Midday at the cost of her own life]].
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* TheVerse: Takes place in not only the same universe but the same small art scene as the short story "[[https://apex-magazine.com/short-fiction/each-thing-i-show-you-is-a-piece-of-my-death/ each thing i show you is a piece of my death]]", which chronicles the spread of a mysterious and sinister figure called the Background Man through even already-finished big-budget films. One of the main characters of the story, Soraya, appears in the book as a side character working on an audio-only installation with Safie, and tries to warn Safie away from working with Lois because her experience with the Background Man made her wise to this sort of thing.
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* TheVerse: Takes place in not only the same universe but the same small art scene as the short story "[[https://apex-magazine.com/short-fiction/each-thing-i-show-you-is-a-piece-of-my-death/ each thing i show you is a piece of my death]]", which chronicles the spread of a mysterious and sinister figure called the Background Man through even already-finished big-budget films. One of the main characters of the story, Soraya, appears in the book as a side character working on an audio-only installation with Safie, and tries to warn Safie away from working with Lois because her experience with the Background Man made her wise to this sort of thing. It also shares a universe with ''We Will All Go Down Together''--the town Wrob is from, Overdeere, is the nexus of the Five-Family Coven mess (he also claims to be related to one of said five families, but probably spuriously).
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* TheVerse: Takes place in not only the same universe but the same small art scene as the short story "[[https://apex-magazine.com/short-fiction/each-thing-i-show-you-is-a-piece-of-my-death/ each thing i show you is a piece of my death]]", which chronicles the spread of a mysterious and sinister figure called the Background Man through even already-finished big-budget films. One of the main characters of the story, Soraya, appears in the book as a side character working on an audio-only installation with Safie, and tries to warn Safie away from working with Lois because her experience with the Background Man made her wise to this sort of thing.
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* DomesticAbuse: Wrob always starts ''out'' as a doting, caring boyfriend...until he steals from you, manipulates you into committing crimes for him, or, if god forbid you dare to have your own achievements that outshine his, burns down your entire life. (Literally, in one case; although it was never officially ''proven'', his ex's business and home burning down coincided closely and suspiciously with said ex's career starting to overtake Wrob's.)
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* ForWantOfANail: The failure of Lady Midday's first attempt to re-enter the world is described as a positive example of this: [[spoiler:When Iris Whitcomb summons the goddess aboard a train travelling to Toronto, she discovers too late that Lady Midday has already killed her son Hyatt and now plans to possess Iris as Her new high priestess, and it's only sheer luck that her particular train car is one which still uses gas lamps rather than electric lights; Iris is thus able to grab a convenient match and set the film on fire, thwarting the goddess at the cost of her own life]].
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* ForWantOfANail: The failure of Lady Midday's first attempt to re-enter the world is described as a positive example of this: [[spoiler:When Iris Whitcomb summons the goddess aboard a train travelling to Toronto, Toronto by playing the silver nitrate film containing her memories of Lady Midday, she discovers too late that Lady Midday the goddess has already killed her son Hyatt and now plans to possess Iris as Her new high priestess, and it's priestess. It's only sheer luck that her this particular train car is one which still uses gas lamps rather than electric lights; Iris is thus able to grab a convenient match and set the film on fire, thwarting the goddess Lady Midday at the cost of her own life]].
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* ForWantOfANail: The failure of Lady Midday's first attempt to re-enter the world is described as a positive example of this: [[spoiler:When Iris Whitcomb summons the goddess aboard a train travelling to Toronto, she discovers too late that Lady Midday has already killed her son Hyatt and now plans to possess Iris as Her new high priestess, and it's only sheer luck that her particular train car is one which still uses gas lamps rather than electric lights; Iris is thus able to grab a convenient match and set the film on fire, thwarting the goddess at the cost of her own life]].
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* HauntedTechnology: The psychic Vasek Sidlo is capable of embedding the memories of another person into silver nitrate film as a series of images; when the subject of this process is someone "touched", directly or indirectly, by Lady Midday, [[spoiler:the film becomes a tool capable of summoning Lady Midday into the world when played by someone so marked]]. A cellphone video taken by Lois at the Vinegar House also turns out to contain [[spoiler:a subliminally embedded message from the ghost of Iris Whitcomb]].
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* HauntedTechnology: The psychic Vasek Sidlo is capable of embedding the memories of another person into silver nitrate film as a series of images; when if the subject of this process is someone "touched", directly or indirectly, by Lady Midday, [[spoiler:the film becomes creates a tool capable of summoning doorway for Lady Midday into to enter the world when played by someone so marked]]. A cellphone video taken by Lois at the Vinegar House also turns out to contain [[spoiler:a subliminally embedded message from the ghost of Iris Whitcomb]].
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* HauntedTechnology: The psychic Vasek Sidlo is capable of embedding the memories of another person into silver nitrate film as a series of images; when the subject of this process is someone "touched", directly or indirectly, by Lady Midday, [[spoiler:the film becomes a tool capable of summoning Lady Midday into the world when played by someone so marked]]. A cellphone video taken by Lois at the Vinegar House also turns out to contain [[spoiler:a subliminally embedded message from the ghost of Iris Whitcomb]].
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* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:Subverted, both intentionally and unintentionally -- Lois and Safie give Simon the slip to go face Lady Midday at the site of Her final summoning without him, precisely to prevent Simon doing this to save Lois. However, despite Lois fully expecting to die herself as the price of refusing the goddess, she winds up being accidentally saved by Wrob, who knocks her aside to demand of Lady Midday that ''he'' be chosen as Her prophet. This rudeness gets the [[OffWithHisHead expected response.]]]]
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* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:Subverted, both intentionally and unintentionally -- Lois and Safie give Simon the slip to go face Lady Midday at the site of Her final summoning without him, precisely to prevent Simon doing this to save Lois. However, despite Lois fully expecting to die herself as the price of refusing the goddess, she winds up being accidentally saved by Wrob, who knocks her aside to demand of Lady Midday that ''he'' be chosen as Her prophet. This rudeness gets the [[OffWithHisHead expected response.]]]]Wrob.]]
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* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:Subverted, both intentionally and unintentionally -- Lois and Safie give Simon the slip to go face Lady Midday at the site of Her final summoning without him, precisely to prevent Simon doing this to save Lois. However, despite Lois fully expecting to die herself as the price of refusing the goddess, she winds up being accidentally saved by Wrob, who knocks her aside to demand of Lady Midday that ''he'' be chosen as Her prophet. This rudeness gets the [[OffWithHisHead! expected response]].]]
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* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:Subverted, both intentionally and unintentionally -- Lois and Safie give Simon the slip to go face Lady Midday at the site of Her final summoning without him, precisely to prevent Simon doing this to save Lois. However, despite Lois fully expecting to die herself as the price of refusing the goddess, she winds up being saved by Wrob, who knocks her aside to demand of Lady Midday that ''he'' be chosen as Her prophet. This rudeness gets the expected response.]]
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* NotSoStoic: When Lois finally tells Simon her theory about the supernatural causes of both her own illness and Clark's, Simon loses his temper and snaps at both her and Safie in a highly [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness uncharacteristic]] moment.
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* HauntedHouse: A relatively understated example in Whitcomb Manor, the "Vinegar House"; the only eerie urban legends reported of the site are stories of a persisent, inexplicable foul smell (from which the nickname came) and the odd tendency of teen trespassers never to leave their own graffiti. [[spoiler:Lois nonetheless has what turns out to be an encounter there with the ghost of Iris Whitcomb, although it appears only to be a seizure at the time.]]
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* HauntedHouse: A relatively understated example in Whitcomb Manor, the "Vinegar House"; the only eerie urban legends reported of the site are stories of a persisent, inexplicable foul smell (from which the nickname came) and the odd tendency of teen trespassers never to leave their own graffiti. [[spoiler:Lois nonetheless has what turns out to be an encounter there with what turns out to be the ghost of Iris Whitcomb, although it appears only to be a seizure at the time.]]
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* ShoutOutThemeNaming: Come on, [[Franchise/{{Superman}} Lois and Clark]]?
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* VomitIndiscretionShot: Clark throws up directly on Lois when [[spoiler:the ghost of Mrs. Whitcomb deliberately makes him ill in a final desperate effort to put Lois off her investigations]]; the result is described as [[spoiler:"absolutely horrifying--it had a greenish-black consistency, like dirt and rotting tubers"]].
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* AppliedPhlebotinum: A rare example of a real-life material being used this way: silver nitrate film (which really is just as unstable and prone to destructive, toxic combustion as described) appears to be a required element in the process of [[spoiler:summoning Lady Midday into the world.]]
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* DrivenByEnvy: How Lois explains Wrob's ongoing attempts to screw up her project researching Mrs. Whitcomb, since Lois originally found out about Mrs. Whitcomb from seeing one of Wrob's films and then interviewing him. [[spoiler:The ending and epilogue reveals that this may be more true than even Lois realizes -- Wrob turns out to have been the student, mentioned in passing earlier, who spent a night trapped in the abandoned Whitcomb mansion the "Vinegar House", and his final words to Lady Midday strongly imply that ''he'' expected to be the one she chose as her new filmmaker/prophet.]]
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* ArbitrarySkepticism: Despite being a practicing Catholic who admits to believing in the supernatural, Simon has a great deal of trouble accepting Lois's theory about what's happening because he can't make sense of it.
--> '''Simon:''' All ''this'' stuff, though... it's contradictory, paradoxical. There's no logic to it.
--> '''Simon:''' All ''this'' stuff, though... it's contradictory, paradoxical. There's no logic to it.
