This is a nsft blog but by far the book I hate and love the most is Kneller's happy campers. The themes of hopelessness and depression are prevalent throughout the entire book, and as somebody who struggles with depression and got better, I was waiting for the same thing to happen to my main characters.
This is not the case. It's a beautiful novel that I need to reread through the lens I have now and see if I missed something in my first reading, but as I remember it, it's just edging you and has the message of "everything sucks forever" instead of "find your own happiness one step at a time". I might have been too immature to understand it though.
Please read these book if you aren't sensitive to depression, su*c*de, AH, self harm, or things of that sort, I fucking hate it so much. I also love it. It really captures the monotony and hopelessness with depression and puts a very interesting take on the afterlife.
Please then tell me what you think if you read it.
Oh yikes. Gonna stay far away from this one in that case. I really don't like depression narratives that - intentionally or not - play up the idea that it's just hopeless. I don't want sugarcoated "have you tried not being sad" stuff either. I feel like both can be really damaging. Especially since the people most likely to seek out depression narratives are people who are going through it themselves
Work has been absolute hell the last few days. I am utterly exhausted
I swear to God I'm getting fucking ads on my keyboard
Using predictive text and it keeps suggesting titles for shit I've never heard of
Trying to text Zan and type the letter g and fucking swiftkey is immediately like "Ghosts of Tsushima" and I have no fucking clue what that is
I look it up cause I'm curious now and it's a goddamn game. It's some fucking video game that I don't know anything about, have never talked about before, have never typed out before, but the fucking keyboard is telling me about it
And then it happened with other shit
Movies, shows, other games that predictive text has no reason to assume I'll be talking about
I am aware that we live in an advertising saturated hellworld but I really don't need it rubbed in my face like this
Hey, it turns out that, despite my absence, I'm not dead. So join me for some more Dragon Age 2
https://www.twitch.tv/therobichaud
I wonder what's next from streamers like the one I talked about in this post
A live reading of The Turner Diaries to raise money for the Holocaust Museum?
Or Elliot Rodger's manifesto with the promise to give some money to a DV shelter?
Oooh, what about a shot-for-shot remake of Birth of a Nation and donate to a Black charity?
After all, according to them, any amount of bigotry is canceled out by money.
i think it's called the unwinding? it's a dystopia where the premise is that there was a civil war between pro-choice and pro-life groups in america(?) and they made the compromise that all pregnancies must be carried to term and kids must be raised for a certain amt of years, but then at a certain age, 13 i think it was, if the parents dont like the kid they can have them "unwound," which is that they will be meticulously surgically taken apart but all of their organs and skin and everything will still be alive? somehow? and ig they'll still have some level of consciousness? and like, anyone who needs an organ transplant or skin grafts or like, amputees who want a new arm or whatever get that body part from an unwound kid. and the book follows a runaway who was gonna be unwound and then also a kid who was tithed, so like his parents had him w the express purpose of donating him to the church for unwinding?? the premise is absolutely bonkers and the narrative of the book shifts constantly, it touches on a whole bunch of real-world politics without ever actually committing to any stance, and the whole thing reads like a wattpad original work in a really bad way. but somehow there's like a whole series and it's legit popular!! i dont get it at all
This sounds like some fundie subterfuge nonsense.
They love to do this. The YA dystopia boom brought us so many books like this. Gentle Tyranny is another one, it's all about how feminism is evil.
They think that they can put a secular mask on and convert people without them realizing it. But they're really really bad at it. Like, who else other than fundies would even come up with this idea??
Was the writer a blonde white woman? I don't want this book in my search history, but I'm willing to bet I'm right
cis people when a trans person turns out to be a bad person: oh so i can misgender them now? i can misgender them now right? now it’s okay for me to completely disrespect their identity and show other trans people their pronouns are a privilege right? i can do that now? i can be blatantly and violently transphobic to this person even though it has nothing to do with what they did right?
Secret History drinking game: Take a shot every time Tartt makes a ghost analogy
Can we talk about Star Lord's grandfather for a moment?
The dude watches his daughter die, and then his grandson, who he was supposed to take in, just fucking disappears immediately after. And he never sees him again.
They never address this. The poor man. He lost fucking everything in the space of seconds.
I need to see a reunion here, please.
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