minghao!

Johnny fucking the woman who was supposed to help him translate the German in The Navidson Record and never getting the translations and then when another bit if German popped up later just going "So sorry." in the footnotes instead of just trying to translate the single simple word himself is so funny to me. The editors adding in the translation after is even more funny imo.

Hmm… curious. This old guy left a fake review of a movie that doesn’t exist after he died. I better fuck every woman he talked to in the last 5 years. Investigatively

House of Leaves adaption where Johnny Truant is a reaction streamer watching a video essay made by Zampanó about The Navidson Record just pausing the video at random times to ramble wildly at his non-existent chat and doing shots on stream

reading House of Leaves rn and a lot of people could learn from Johnny Truant. for ab the first half of the book this guy is hallucinating and losing his mind and he STILL shows up to work. not only that but he even makes time to do drugs and have wild sex. all while reading a haunted ass ye olde ARG.

Johnny Truant is the character ever actually and yall are missing out. He has mommy issues and TWO kinds of daddy issues. He lied his way into working at a fish canning factory at age 13. He goes on long-winded stream of consciousness rants about vaguely disturbing but largely irrelevant topics. He does too many drugs. He has tons of casual sex with women but all of them think he’s sweet. He saw a stray puppy on the side of the road and immediately fell in love with it. He only has one friend. He thinks he’s being haunted by a demon but he probably just has PTSD. A pretty girl said 6 words to him and he immediately considered ‘petitioning all major religions in order to have her deified.’ His only hobby is organizing and annotating an academic manuscript written by a dead old man about a movie that doesn’t exist.