Crawler 001: Ellender Cartwright

rereading eye of the bedlam bride for the first time is an EXPERIENCE because on one hand there's obvious bangers such as "you can't hold me accountable for everything i've ever said to a stripper" and the whole "captain enormous" bit. but on the other you have a god who lost his mind in the empty telling carl that the river in his mind goes too deep to be easily fixed and that they are the same. and on the other hand you learn about fifteen year old carl sitting in an interrogation room silently begging the cops to See Him. and on the other you have a crab that needs to be degraded so he can cum and this is genuinely important for winning a boss fight in another part of the city. and on the other you have foreshadowing to book 8 with donut choosing a colosseum called "the arena of the eulogist". and on the other you have the ai telling carl that the only cause it believes is worth fighting for is one about protecting one's own, not dying for a nameless government that doesn't care about your race's extinction

Trying to get people to read these books makes you sound so insane

I'm in the boat of I just want more

I love how Carl is so obviously the ai’s favorite, EVERYONE knows he’s the ai’s favorite. Yet, every time the ai does something for him Carl is always like, “Ohhh my god this fucking guy again. The ai must hate me…🫩”

Carl is the guy who is 3 months into a serious relationship and doesn't realize it until you introduce him as your boyfriend.

Okay but, why am I crying

"what's your favorite horror story?" oh just carl in book 6 sitting outside a gas station on christmas keeping the memory of an abandoned dog company and debating if he's going to trigger the fail safe and spiraling a bit because the choice has been placed in His hands and he's So Angry at borant and the universe but donut drunkenly messages him and asks when he's coming back because she misses him and he realizes that as angry as he is, he loves more than he hates and he tells donut i'll be back soon and deactivates the fail safe so no one will be able to trigger it and the ai will be released