Finished reading: Demon, Volume 1
Second library read for the day, content warning for suicide and self-harm under the cut.
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alis finished reading Demon by Jason Shiga
Demon by Jason Shiga
"No matter how hard he tries, Jimmy Yee cannot die. A noose around his neck, a razor across his wrist, …
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Finished reading: Shibuya Goldfish, Vol. 4
Read in the library when I needed to kill some time. Basically “what if zombies but goldfish” which, in theory, as fan of both horror and aquariums, should be exactly my jam? Except this manages, somehow, to be . . . kinda boring?
Wild.
alis finished reading Shibuya Goldfish, Vol. 4 by Aoi Hiroumi
alis finished reading Final Fantasy XIV: Shadowbringers -- The Art of Reflection -Histories Forsaken- by Square Enix (Final Fantasy XIV)
Final Fantasy XIV: Shadowbringers -- The Art of Reflection -Histories Forsaken- by Square Enix (Final Fantasy XIV)
alis finished reading Final Fantasy XIV: Heavensward -- The Art of Ishgard -The Scars of War- by Square Enix (Final Fantasy XIV)
Final Fantasy XIV: Heavensward -- The Art of Ishgard -The Scars of War- by Square Enix (Final Fantasy XIV)
alis started reading The Husky and His White Cat Shizun, Vol. 2 by Rou Bao Bu Chi Rou (Erha He Ta de Bai Mao Shizun, #2)
The Husky and His White Cat Shizun, Vol. 2 by Rou Bao Bu Chi Rou (Erha He Ta de Bai Mao Shizun, #2)
The longer Mo Ran spends in his life reborn, the less he understands the man he once was, to say …
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You know you read a thing and you’re like, “Well. Can’t unread that . . .” but also you know exactly the person you’re going to give a rec to? This is that book.
You’re basically going to know if this is the book for you just by reading the blurb and the content warnings, and if they sound like a thing you want to read, you will have a good time. I will say this was more explicit and visceral and fourth-wall-breakingly surreal than I was expecting, and the satire here is not subtle, though nor is it supposed to be. You know JK Rowling when she shows up. Sympathetic characters are also thin on the ground, though the messiness and the cruelty are recognisable and understandable, and you’ve seen them before to some degree or another if you’ve spent any time in queer alt …
You know you read a thing and you’re like, “Well. Can’t unread that . . .” but also you know exactly the person you’re going to give a rec to? This is that book.
You’re basically going to know if this is the book for you just by reading the blurb and the content warnings, and if they sound like a thing you want to read, you will have a good time. I will say this was more explicit and visceral and fourth-wall-breakingly surreal than I was expecting, and the satire here is not subtle, though nor is it supposed to be. You know JK Rowling when she shows up. Sympathetic characters are also thin on the ground, though the messiness and the cruelty are recognisable and understandable, and you’ve seen them before to some degree or another if you’ve spent any time in queer alt spaces. People also drink piss. It’s that sort of book.
Brainwyrms is not going to be for everyone, but if you’re looking for a messy, visceral, surreal, trans cosmic horror . . . then yes. This.
alis finished reading Brainwyrms by Alison Rumfitt
alis started reading Brainwyrms by Alison Rumfitt
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Bought this on a whim as a coffeetable book and enjoyed it more as a straight read than I thought I would. It’s kind of a moodboard of various gothic tropes, interconnected by brief articles. It doesn’t touch on anything in particular depth, and there probably won’t be much new here for anyone who’s ever paid even half-hearted attention to the psychosocial aspects of the horror genre. But it’s a good overview to anyone who hasn’t, as well as a solid “further reading/viewing” list.
alis finished reading Gothic by Roger Luckhurst
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“Here is an early lesson: the poles of the normal and the pathological can be swiftly flipped in value, and what any social order excludes as monstrous can become an unexpected point of identification for the outcast and abused.”
alis started reading Blood Sigils by Renegade Game Studios (Vampire the Masquerade 5th Edition)
Blood Sigils by Renegade Game Studios (Vampire the Masquerade 5th Edition)
Blood trickles in channels alongside the walls of Ur, and pools in chalices in Transylvanian castles, carrying within it the …
alis finished reading Next by Gillian Polack (CSFG Anthologies, #8)
Next by Simon Petrie, Rob Porteous, Claire McKenna, and 29 others (CSFG Anthologies, #8)
Sequence. Succession. Cause and effect. Show us what happened. Next.
Next suggests ‘change’, perhaps, but it doesn’t have to invoke …