around me black bats dive up from the dark.

my mom said something disapproving about how "cumbersome" it will be to get my little cat adequate pain management and I said "what's the alternative?" and she said "it's going to be difficult"

and now I am having a real Big Emotion.

that's my baby and I think she should have healthcare. I know this is historically not how you have felt about healthcare, especially pain management! I know you usually err on the side of not seeking healthcare for small mammals including, for example, your human children!

top five books of all time:

Witches Abroad. Pratchett in general but this one is My Pratchett. honorable mention to Carpe Jungulum, which is also My Prachett.

Beneath The Rising was so fucking good that it leaps to mind whenever people ask me to rank things. honorable mention to John Dies At The End and its sequels because it's good in a similar way except the protagonist is also a dirtbag and it's very funny.

The Poisonwood Bible is one of my top five books of all time. it is not what I usually read and I cannot reread the epilogues and Adah Price got to me when I was sixteen years old. so.

short story collection: St. Mary's Home For Girls Raised By Wolves

Harrow The Ninth. this should be #2, actually, but I don't feel like renumbering the list. Harrow The Ninth. my favorites, in order, Harrow, Nona, Gideon. and Gideon was good! that's just the order for me.

book you've reread the most times: interesting question! I rarely reread, to be honest. it might be Madness by Marya Hornbacher, which I have read at least three times. it might be Carpe Jungulum but I think it's not.

oh, it might be The Poisonwood Bible! although since the first read I have not read the multi-chapter epilogue because I think it sucks so I pretend it's not there. (Leah and Rachel's epilogues were perfectly good. Adah's cerebral palsy gets cured via complete bullshit after an otherwise beautiful portrayal. so the epilogues don't exist).

I recently made an attempt to reread World War Z and bounced off because Teen Me evidently had a much higher gore tolerance than I presently do

when do you most often read: the answer here is "like an anaconda" as in "not terribly often and in large gulps." I used to be a more consistent reader but lately I am either not reading or reading a book in three days. sometimes diligently reading fifty pages a day-ish for a while and then devouring the back half.

like, I can't know. I am just one guy sort of squinting at some posts

going 'that argument seems a little flimsy and produces the exact same outcome as the ones the fascists want.'

like, I cannot know what is in any OP's heart and I think the people reblogging these things are genuinely doing their best but I am just.