#crungulus asks

Welcome! Please, help yourself to a handful of sawdust 😋

Finding them coincidentally is definitely an intrinsic part of the appeal, but if anyone else ever happens to find a pill coincidentally, feel free to send a picture my way.

Thank you! This is very kind. Regrettably, it's been a while since I've done much reading for fun. On the whole, I'm a big fan of absurdity, though.

In high school I read a lot of Chuck Palahniuk. Some of it I really thoroughly adored, other stuff not so much. There is a fine line between using edginess and shock value in ways that are effective and deliberate, and using it in ways that just feel gratuitous and overwrought. He has stuff that falls on both sides of this line.

As a kid, I was very much into fantasy as a genre. I wanted magic and talking animals. So middle school was when I read Tolkein and Warrior Cats.

I think the most recent reading I did for fun was when I read Red Dragon, The Silence of the Lambs, Hannibal, and Hannibal Rising in the span of two weeks, during which I also watched all the movies. But that was less about loving the books and more about the good clean fun of media analysis.

I recently took a brief tour through 20th century American lit for a class and enjoyed it, but the scope there is really broad.

These days I read a lot of elder scrolls lore, but I think that's not what the question is getting at.

Name dropping my vintage ibuprofen collection has also raised a lot of questions. Here it is!

There are some allergy pills in there too, I think.

The story behind the vintage ibuprofen is that my mom was showing me some of her old purses, clothes, etc because I love the stories that old objects tell. But like... there was so much loose ibuprofen. She'd pick up a bag and open it up to see what kind of mementos were inside, and some ibuprofen would fall out. And I was like hm. Well, I guess I'll hold onto that.