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Finished reading: The Husky and His White Cat Shizun: Erha He Ta De Bai Mao Shizun (Novel) Vol. 2
First half a little slow (not to mention took me a little while to remember who everyone was and what was going on), but devoured the last third in a few hours when the mystery plot picked back up again.
The longer Mo Ran spends in his life reborn, the less he understands the man he once was, to say …
The second book of the Eisner Award-winning horror series from writer JEFF LEMIRE (Sweet Tooth, Black Hammer) and artist ANDREA …
In Essential Asatru, renowned author and priestess Diana Paxson demystifies an ancient, rich, and often misunderstood religion, and offers a …
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Finished reading: Blood Sigils (Vampire: the Masquerade 5e)
This books spends its entire length talking about the vampire blood magic community as “The Scene” and oh my god I could not take it seriously.
Regardless, fun mix and crunch and fluff. One of the things I’m liking a lot about the 5e books, including this one, is the inclusion of “meta-mechanics” for the Storyteller on how to structure the build of stories themselves. Which are useful tools for a bunch of things, not just tabletop sessions. So. Multipurpose!
Blood trickles in channels alongside the walls of Ur, and pools in chalices in Transylvanian castles, carrying within it the …
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Finished reading: Demon, Volume 1
Second library read for the day, content warning for suicide and self-harm under the cut.
"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.
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.
