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The CanLit Generator is the best thing I've seen today. I know some of you will find it amusing.

For those of you who aren't from Canada, trust me, it's accurate. Especially the despair and incest.

Date: 2016-02-16 11:33 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] kakodaimon.livejournal.com
Oh snappppp...

About 1/5 of these I would definitely read. "Three undergraduates from diverse backgrounds raise a sheep that may or may not talk in an RV to bring medicine to their snowed in family" = yes please, "A prairie nun meets a BC woman who never takes off her hiking gear to better know their withdrawn, uncommunicative father" = would rather die and feel like I had to read it already 30 times in Saskatchewan high school.

Date: 2016-02-17 01:01 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] kakodaimon.livejournal.com
So sad I didn't save my "wish this was real" one for the statue of Louis Riel trying to get to a Drake concert.

Date: 2016-02-17 03:05 am (UTC)

Date: 2016-02-17 01:35 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] kryss-labryn.livejournal.com
These are hilarious and familiar, lol.

A statue of Louis Riel builds a small-town church on a stolen houseboat despite an absent father.

A troupe of French-Canadian clowns have to leave Frobisher Bay in a Bennett buggy while working for the Hudson's Bay Company.

A group of writers battle with a Wendigo under the pall of heavily implied incest

A Port Dover fish farmer lives a metaphor in the Great Depression to reconnect with the false, nostalgic simplicity of their youth.

A statue of Louis Riel learns to salt and cure cod in a pickup truck to find themselves.

Lol!! A troupe of French-Canadian clowns cross the Rockies which results in the death of half of The Tragically Hip.

Damn, these are addictive, lol.

A group of writers bury a memento in the dirt outside their childhood home, disillusioned with the pace and emptiness of urban living. <-- Pretty sure I've read that one.

Date: 2016-02-17 01:37 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] kryss-labryn.livejournal.com
A Bell employee explores the Maritimes while working for the Hudson's Bay Company.

How about: A Rogers employee explores the Maritimes while working for the Department of Defence? XD

Date: 2016-02-17 01:39 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] kryss-labryn.livejournal.com
This one may be the best one yet: "One of the Eatons eats poutine at a fictionalized version of a diner in your town you totally recognize and for some reason feel that you knowing that place is somehow a flaw of the story, and maybe has sex with a bear— unless that was a dream, I never can tell."

Date: 2016-02-19 12:16 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] kryss-labryn.livejournal.com
Really? I couldn't get away from it, lol.

I assume that's because "Bear". :D

Date: 2016-02-17 02:47 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] coconuthead.livejournal.com
I love this so much!

Date: 2016-02-17 03:09 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] sacramentalist.livejournal.com
Canlit is great at tying together alienation and elements. Only to finally be killed by Vikings.

Date: 2016-02-17 03:11 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] sacramentalist.livejournal.com
"A troupe of French-Canadian clowns solve a mystery under the pall of heavily implied incest"

Date: 2016-02-17 01:03 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] sacramentalist.livejournal.com
You have a way with words, there.

Date: 2016-02-17 01:09 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] sacramentalist.livejournal.com
Farley Mowat book?

I don't read enough, so I'm just gonna pretend it's all Sinclair Ross, Alistair MacCleod, and Atom Egoyan films

Clearly I haven't read nearly enough CanLit

Date: 2016-02-17 08:20 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ed-rex.livejournal.com
The Generator left me cold, like a Newfie from an outport drinking too heavily in Parkdale while pining for the days when he drank too heavily back on the Rock.

Date: 2016-02-17 05:04 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] ironed_orchid
These are so good:

A family and their dog smuggle rum under the pall of heavily implied incest

Drake builds the 2nd tallest lighthouse in Atlantic Canada to provide care for their ailing mother.

Two dogs transform into a moose in the Day-Glo version of Newfoundland they show you in the tourism ads to make it to a funeral.

ETA:
Two dogs write Laura Secord erotic fan-fiction only to be beset by the spirits of their ancestors.

I like all the dogs
Edited Date: 2016-02-17 05:09 pm (UTC)

Date: 2016-02-19 12:15 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] kryss-labryn.livejournal.com
I can't help but feel that you should show this to your kids.

I can't also help but feel that somewhere, a parent will be horrified and outraged (probably by all the heavily implied incest and the bear sex) and complain; but it's still hilarious, so. :D

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