rattle the stars

microdosing hell by being awake and literate

quarterly reminder that if i reblog something ai-generated it is 110% and always an accident and for the love of god please tell me so i can delete it from my blog

I wanna thank Matt Dinniman for writing Carl as such a good, good man. Yes I had to double it, that's how good he is. It is such a breath of fresh air.

dcc fans are doing the thing where they misinterpret a character to make them more visually appealing but instead of making some bland boy pretty theyre all collectively ignoring how fucked up purebred persian cats look

dungeon crawler carl is fun because you go into it thinking it'll be an unserious, fun and gratuitously violent action book, and then you get to the very first boss, and then you think, now hold on. Hold on. And then all of a sudden you're seven books deep and insane and also holding on to the indomitable human spirit for dear life and also a crab has to jack off. like holy shit dude. i've got relentless hope and found family in one hand and the world's weirdest foot fetish in the other

One of the things that impressed me the most about Dungeon Crawler Carl (mind you, I went in with zero expectations) is that not only it manages to turn a talking cat into fully realized, complex character who is still unmistakably *a cat*, but also that the cental relationship of the series - this kind of strong, unshakable bond between the main characters that never fails to make you emotional over how much they mean for each other - is unmistakably a relationship between a man and a cat. Not just nominally, but in a way that is instantly recognizable for anyone who ever owned and loved a cat. And mind you, it's not for the lack of other relationships - Carl finds new friends and comrades, and each of them is important for him in their own right, but still THE most important person in his life is a cat and as a cat person I think that's beautiful

I won't even lie, reading about how Carl and the other crawlers don't get to sleep, don't get to rest, don't get to stop...they're literally going 24/7!!! The idea makes me exhausted and vaguely ill. It makes me crave laying in bed and just resting. I can feel how bad they, especially Carl, needs to have that downtime.