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A few I haven’t seen mentioned in the thread yet:

• Ducks, Newburyport - Lucy Ellman. It’s one sentence long, although it occupies 1,000 pages. It’s well though done that it doesn’t just feel like a creative writing exercise. It’s not necessarily something I’d recommend, but it’s surprisingly ok.
• If on a winter’s night a traveler - Italo Calvino. It’s about the reader (you) trying to read a book called “If on a winter’s night a traveler” It’s funny, and short enough to not push the bit too far. Every time you think you’re onto its trick, it finds a new one.
• Ulysses - James Joyce. A loose reframing of the Odyssey with the stakes massively lowered. Different chapters have different writing styles. Other works borrow ideas from this, so any individual attempt at innovation may be something you’ve seen elsewhere. For example, the single sentence stream of consciousness of Ducks, Newburyport was likely inspired by the 3 sentence closing chapter here. The book is kind of a lot. If you were to read it, it’s worth at least considering if you want to use a guide. The Joyce Project has a good wiki-style guide embedded in the text.

Movies don’t always do a great job of depicting things. I imagine they might skew towards depicting practices that are common in southern California, or where the creative team grew up. If the cafeteria set on the back lot is shaped a certain way, re-dressing it to change to another style might not make sense for your budget.

It’s going to vary based on private/public, state, and then local school jurisdiction, wealth of the community, and wealth of the family.

My school experience had a mix of:

• Kids bringing their own lunch. This would often be a sandwich, and might include additional items like fruit (apple or banana) or single serving snack packets (chips, cookies). Sometimes there wouldn’t be a sandwich. Leftovers were rare, partially due to no microwaves being available for student use. Sometimes these items would be packed by a parent, or the kid might pack their own.
• Kids buying lunch. A hot lunch had a fixed fee per day and there were usually several items of questionable culinary/nutritional value to choose from. There were also cookies, chips, or milk available for purchase. There may have been more options here, I didn’t interact much with the paid lunches.
• Kids bringing money for lunch and choosing to pocket some or all of it, and just eating later.
• Kids not bringing money for lunch, and not bringing their own. This could be their choice, food insecurity, neglect, or any number of other reasons. Their friends may or may not feed them depending on the relationship.
• Trading items with friends. It doesn’t even have to be food for food.
• Various mixing and matching of the above depending on external factors. A kid might bring lunch then buy milk or a snack on top of their other items. Or they might beg their parents to buy them lunch once a week so that they could have pizza when it was available on Fridays.

Most tables would be a mix of these choices. Some tables might only have kids buying items, or only bringing items from home. In one friend group it might be considered lame to buy lunch, or lame to have something packed by a parent. In some groups and age brackets trading might be prolific, rare, or non-existent.

I’ve avoided it so far. I struggle to enjoy a lot of TV that’s made before the early 2000s. I can understand why people do, but I generally want more serialized rather than episodic stories.

MacGyver comes up a fair amount, but mostly in reference to bodging something together rather than people actually talking about the show, so I haven’t felt much pressure to try it.

Do you think it’s good enough to ignore my qualms and the rest of my giant backlog to jump the line?

It wasn’t used here, but it’s slightly better if the actual cross-post functionality is used. Then at least Piefed can maybe merge the comments sections.

AFAIK that doesn’t help for Lemmy or other federated services.

I mean that’s true for a lot of crossovers, even the ones where an actual character shows up. Tommy may be nonsense, but it’s fun to see what you can link up.

I was looking up how Battlestar Galactica gets pulled in. Partway through the connections the link is Yoyodyne. I suppose that means the Crying of Lot 49 and the rest of Pynchon also get roped in. I wouldn’t be surprised if that means a lot more links, although I’m not sure if linking through literature instead of TV & movies is done.