the blood is the life

my reading goal in 2026 is to have fun and be myself

house of leaves is a book about a guy going insane over a guy going insane over a guy going insane and soon enough you're the guy going insane over the guys going insane

remember to bury the dead with a phone, everyone. these days the ferry terminal at the river styx wants you to download a fucking app

Kuwei is inherently such a funny character lmao he got a higher bounty than THE SUN SUMMONER for watching his dad make Crack 😭😭😭 can't believe some ppl still hate him

“I don’t put politics in my stories” is the literary equivalent of a cishet guy going “I don’t have pronouns”

the worst thing about all those dracula adaptations that recast mina as a pure wilting heroine caught in a dark romance with the sexy evil vampire who's obsessed with her, is that that story already exists. my girl my queen the sexy evil obsessive vampire of all of our dreams carmilla karnstein is RIGHT THERE!! laura, the pure sweet heroine who cannot resist the dark sexyevil allure of the vampire who won't leave her alone is RIGHT THERE. the people do not want dracula. the people yearn for carmilla.

rereading dracula after reading carmilla for the first time really makes me appreciate carmilla's efficiency in securing a place. dracula had to deal with all the logistics of the housing market meanwhile carmilla just crashed her car on someone's lawn and she got a cushy guest room and a girlfriend out of it. carmilla the woman you are

no dude it's so cool how attached you are to that character who is singled out and ostracized due to the external monstrousness that clashes with their internal spark of humanity. and i love how drawn you are to themes of horror and love, nature versus nurture, otherness, isolation, and the abject. i bet you have normal feelings about your own personhood