Hey, I’ve got a question for you guys. Did any of you read a book about this kid who was sent to his dad for the summer, because he accidentally punctured his dogs ear with a dart? He wore this patch that he wasn’t supposed to take off. His dad lived with the kid’s grandma from what I remember. And at the end of the book, i remember the kid waving back to his grandma because he was returning home with his mom.

A scene that really stuck out to me was when the kid was talking about going to a baseball game with both of his parents. And how nice it’d be to have a nice, normal outting with them because he never had that before (since they were divorced)

biana and maruca being best friends in book 1 was such a fever dream

Was the animorphs series a real thing or was I just hallucinating as a child

Did Anne have a stroke in front of the keyboard orrrr

Pov youre trying to get information about poe de spell but mission failed impossible because there is literally zero lore abouthim. Apparently he didnt even do anything in the original ducktales. He was just kinda there. I dont know why. It seems no one knows why. Those ducktales people were just like nehh i dont like Ratface but i still want a raven so they named the raven poe and gave him a little hat (kinda based) and why not hes magicas brother too now. They could not have thought more than 10 minutes about this. They just decided that the raven is magicas brother and now thats just a thing everywhere (except for in comics). Your choices have consequences guys.

You know at this point he could have just always been a raven and magica lied about it. There is so little lore on him i can make up the lore myself. What if he isnt biologically magicas brother but actually the son of the servant of magicas aunt and they grew up together so magica sees him as her brother? What if? What if thats just his backstory now? Now imagine that huh. It doesnt contradict the previous poe backstory, because there is none! Imagine that that backstory was created by disney and made into a graphic novel huh! Imagine that! Would be crazy! Now imagine if it would be currently widely published by Egmont as a separate release! Imagine that would be happening!!

... do you guys think we'll get to know the names of twp books by the end of this year or...

lrt does anyone else actually remember +Anima

sometimes i'll just be going about my day and then i remember that declan was the only 'real' lynch brother

Comics Read in 2023:

The Whole of Humanity Has Gone Yuri Except for Me Vol. 1 by Hiroki Haruse (2019)

The Whole of Humanity Has Gone Yuri Except for Me Vol. 2 by Hiroki Haruse (2020)

Ogi's Summer Break Vol. 1 by Koikawa (2021)

Ogi's Summer Break Vol. 2 by Koikawa (2021)

7th Time Loop: The Villainess Enjoys a Carefree Life Married to Her Worst Enemy! Vol. 1 by Hinoki Kino, Touko Amekawa, & Hachipisu Wan (2021)

7th Time Loop: The Villainess Enjoys a Carefree Life Married to Her Worst Enemy! Vol. 2 by Hinoki Kino, Touko Amekawa, & Hachipisu Wan (2021)

7th Time Loop: The Villainess Enjoys a Carefree Life Married to Her Worst Enemy! Vol. 3 by Hinoki Kino, Touko Amekawa, & Hachipisu Wan (2022)

My Next Life as a Villainess: All Routes Lead to Doom! Vol. 1 by Satoru Yamagachi & Nami Hidaka (2019)

My Next Life as a Villainess: All Routes Lead to Doom! Vol. 2 by Satoru Yamagachi & Nami Hidaka (2019)

[ID: Covers of aforementioned books. End ID.]

finished in the miso soup.... i've never read anything from this author before (though i have seen the audition movie) but i'm kinda disappointed that the back blurb on the book literally tells you exactly what happens. i was expecting this to be a bit more of a thriller i suppose with at least some mystery but it's much more of a philosophical book. which is fine, just not what i was expecting 😭 readjusting my thoughts about it tho, i do like the cultural comparisons as well as the kind of... unraveling of it in the 2nd and 3rd chapter where the similarities are revealed as well, and i think the use of the gore and graphic violence really nails the point home. the 3rd chapter gets a little heavy handed with it and was the weakest part of the book but overall i think it's an interesting exploration of this strange kind of.. obsession and intertwining of cultures. as an american i definitely felt myself agreeing with kenji's observations of his american clients and i also liked how kenji goes from "americans are a unique kind of lonely" to recognizing a similar kind of loneliness in the locals and himself as well, only realized after an extreme act of violence peels back the layers for him.

the Scene in chapter 2 is very graphic, so i can't really recommend it unless you're already familiar with extreme horror literature, but it is contained to that single scene (for maximum impact). the author is very patient and builds up a good bit of suspense through the first chapter before springing it on you. the third chapter kinda fumbles it a little in my opinion, the tension is gone and it gets a bit repetitive and tiresome. it definitely has a dream-like quality after ch2 compared to the fast pace of the first chapter, even kenji starts to wonder if it was just a bad dream (which makes me think it was potentially done purposefully). the beginning is also a little sleazy, but nothing totally offensive or that you won't normally find in this genre, especially from a book published in the 90s. overall 3/5 i tore through it pretty quick and appreciated the (unexpected for me) philosophical & cultural musings.

Been reading the Fnaf graphic novels and I gotta say the second one is a lot better story wise. It makes more sense.

The writing in the first one just has no context.younnever know what's happening.

William definitely looks like that. Crusty fuck. His teeth are probably rotting. Gum disease.

John is the only one who is aware. Also Charlie is so smart look at her building machines.

"I'm not my dad" honey.

Top 3 (or 5 or 10, this is a difficult choice) fave Hermann Hesse works? 👀

Ohhhh good question

I have read 5 of his books so i will rank all 5 👍

Beneath the Wheel

Demian

Journey to the East

Narcissus and Goldmund

Siddhartha

Recently saw a post about Rainbow Magic in my dash and it reawakened my childhood memories of devouring those books like crack. So, I wanted to see what new books there were and uh… I found some weird stuff

Then I found these.

I don’t know guys, the author might be British.

Okay so orv has some fairly confusing concepts just thrown at you in the final bits of the novel, and i’m here to throw my 2 cents in on how the dimensional stuff works. Or at least how I understood it after reading and thinking on it for a hot minute. Obviously major spoilers so keep that in mind.

The most ancient dream is the lifeblood of this universe, a world where ways of survival has come to life because 15 year old Dokja’s longing was so strong and so powerful it manifested into reality. Every worldline that exists (sort of) is based in ways of survival. So how is it that 28year old dokja’s world was drawn along? Based on how most ancient dream works, he literally cannot look at worlds that don’t involve ways of survival, because that’s not the story he wants to see. However, it was inevitable that 28yr kdj would eventually become “seen” by the oldest dream, because 28yr kdj unknowingly brought the 1863rd yjh into his timeline.

Okay so. We know kdj is transported to the 1863rd round of ways of survival by secretive plotter, whether in the “original” story or one of the many other timelines isn’t really important, just that it was the 1863rd round for one such yjh. When kdj brings back yjh’s hope, that desire to live, he inspires 1863rd yjh not only to regress, but to find the world where kdj is, because kdj is the one who promised him that he could have a happy life. So yjh not only regresses, he travels across worldlines to find kdj, a fact backed up by secretive plotter who followed 1863rd yjh as yjh was going to “a world he didn’t know.” The moment 1863rd yjh regressed into kdj’s world, that is when the most ancient dream began to look at 28yr old kdj’s world. It wasn’t a world that could exist within the most ancient dream until it became entangled with ways of survival, and it is only because ways of survival started playing out in that timeline that kdj was able to travel to the 1863rd round at all. It follows the same paradox that the other major time paradoxes follow; in a world dictated by novel logic, the past can write itself alongside or after the future, and the future can exist before the past.

It also explains why 28yr kdj is both a character and a candidate for the most ancient dream. They ultimately are one in the same, but 28yr kdj comes from a world most ancient dream never could have imagined, because forget only focusing on ways of survival, 15yr kdj never even imagined himself capable of growing up. Of course 28yr kdj is going to be a “character,” because how else is the most ancient dream supposed to rationalize it in his mind?

Off topic, but it is somewhat funny in that in trying to bring about his own demise/trying to prove a point to kdj secretive plotter actually is responsible for creating ways of survival and bringing about the entire plot of the novel by letting kdj inspire hope in 1863rd yjh. Like wow. Fucked up big time didn’t ya buddy. Good thing you found your absolution bc if not that would have fuckin sucked.

is it just me or did everyone imagine all of atwq in black and white with no color except for blue