#ange.book

cannot get over how ART had one of the most iconic character introductions of all time. in the span of 100 pages and a few weeks, it was like hey. if you mess with me i'll squash you like a bug. check out how i'm 10,000 times more powerful than you. wanna watch tv together? ah FUCK my tv blorbo died. what do you mean you won't tell me all the secrets of your dark past. can i do some surgery on you? do you need me to blow anything up? let me hijack your brain for a couple seconds. ok that went great! here's my number in case you ever need it

normally with sff/horror authors, i assume their writing can't possibly be autobiographical. however essay #1 of mariana enriquez's cemetery memoir recalls a 2-day trip to genoa at age 25 where she fell for a street violinist, fucked him on a tomb in the genoan cemetery, and then never saw him ever again. so it is in fact possible her books are just her life.

can't believe the tumblr cannibalism girlies are not talking about paradise rot by jenny hval. codependent toxic roommates. fungi. decaying factory-turned-house. girlbestie who writes fanfic about cannibalism. unsubtle edenic imagery. a concerning amount of bodily fluids. narrator who is having such an alienated time about going to college.

mad respect to tamsyn muir for taking that poetry device where the first-person speaker addresses an unknown surprise "you" at the end, inverting it, and turning it into a whole book