#not from queue

I liked how they adapted the villains in this one, which is an improvement from the previous two. Riot was a blank slate who looked enough like Venom to be a physical mirror so that they could play out the "villain having the heroes exact powers in a superhero movie" trope, and Carnage was hindered by the lack of an R rating, and being a bit ooc in general especially in regards to Cletus not being very close to his own symbiote, when in the comics those two are closer than any other symbiote host combo which is part of why they are so dangerous. As well as the fact that he just died unceremoniously in a way he wouldn't come back from, when, as essentially a slasher movie villain with a symbiote, he should've been allowed to survive.

But enough about the previous movies, point is they made the antagonists work this time in a really clever way, taking previously unrelated concepts and syncretizing aspects to better adapt those ideas in a way that wasn't disappointing to me as a comics fan.

I will say that there is a bit less explicit symbrock content than some might've been hoping for. There's subtle signs of it but I might not be the best at detecting that, actually.

(and also from me including hemalurgy in our ttrpg campaign)

All of this is in his words; I handed him my phone and told him to write whatever he knew about the cosmere. He's read Brandon's Alcatraz series but that's it. Now behold:

spook hates electrons

kelsier the kiwi knight has negative aura

vin is stoopid

spook hates light

kelsier the kiwi man plays fortnite

yumi paints nightmares

hemmalurgy should be banned and is the process of stabbing a guy, then stabbing yourselfwith the same spike to gain some randos unnaturally good health

burning aluminum takes away all ur metals

tress is an emerald sea

ferrochemmy exists

mr sands is really good at writing and one of the fastest authors alive

I really enjoy the cosmere, but I don't want to be That Guy I've heard of who reads nothing but Brandon Sanderson, so once I finish the Stormlight Archive I'm not reading anything else by him till school starts again. During the semester I'll probably finish off the whole of the cosmere that's currently out, so I'll basically have to read other books between new Sanderson releases then.

Once I finish Wind and Truth I have a couple of recommendations from the book club that I want to read to escape my comfort zone: Where the Crawdads Sing by and The Naturals, so I'll run through those. After that I'll go a bit back into my comfort zone, with fantasy but still no Sanderson. Some of the books I'm thinking of are:

Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo

Wizard's Hall by Jane Yolen

The Spellshop by Sarah Beth Durst (recommended to me by @aerequets ages ago (hope it's ok that I'm pinging her for something so small))

A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K Le Guin

Nettle & Bone by T Kingfisher (aka Ursula Vernon(is she all right? I hadn't seen anything from her in a while... (went and checked; she did get breast cancer but her wikipedia page says "is" and she wrote a new book! Good for her)))(Anyways, I tried this when I was way younger and quickly realized it was not a kids book lol. I could probably enjoy it now though.)

Snake-eater by T. Kingfisher (found out about it in the middle of writing the post lol)

Charming as a Verb by Ben Phillipe (I liked the last one of his that I read. Also coincidentally the only man on this list)

FOUR DAYS TILL A NEW GAME FROM ONE OF MY FAVOURITE DEVS!!!!! AND ITS A SEQUEL TO THE FIRST VIDEOGAME OF MY LIFE

CENTERED ON MY FAVOURITE LEGENDARY

AAAAAAAA!!!