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houk
houk is 39% done with The Listeners
ugh please not this. if this particular story beat follows the route it feels it might... it certainly wouldn't be enough to ruin the experience, but i find it hard to believe this trajectory wouldn't sour it for me, at least a touch
Aug 13, 2025 01:20PM Add a comment
The Listeners

houk
houk is 32% done with The Listeners
interesting to read "god, this wanting" in reference to a similar situation after just having heard jeremy discuss the "tragedy of kendall's wanting [deforming] his life." while i suppose it's a common thematic element in both fiction and life, everything is succession all the time if you're me, i guess.
Aug 13, 2025 11:40AM Add a comment
The Listeners

houk
houk is 19% done with The Listeners
ooooough yeah, this one is gonna hit. not the direction i anticipated maggie to lean but very pleased with her execution thus far. a bit of a stretch from the raven cycle but quite an apt maturation. very good i am excited to continue thru this
Aug 13, 2025 07:17AM Add a comment
The Listeners

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reading so many things at once it feels pointless to log them all until i finish them. spreading myself too thin for fun (?) i guess? and i Need to reread no one is talking about this AND foster dade. so very much to get to and so very little time...
Aug 11, 2025 01:51PM Add a comment

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always a fan of a well-done cannibalism story; simultaneously, i am growing Very Tired of the, at this point, incredibly overplayed theme of female hunger. i cannot stress enough. we understand. women have always harbored a hunger for a myriad of earthly pleasures. please, for the love of christ, say something interesting about it.
Aug 01, 2025 01:31PM Add a comment

houk
houk is 37% done with Antarctica
"i have a dog who almost died but doesn't care about being alive."

hm. that doesn't sound familiar...
Aug 01, 2025 11:17AM Add a comment
Antarctica

houk
houk is 27% done with Antarctica
"she sits in the bottom pew and opens the missal at random, reads the lesson from palm sunday and thinks judas iscariot is a beautiful name." <3
Aug 01, 2025 08:34AM Add a comment
Antarctica

houk
houk is 26% done with Antarctica
her name is cordelia :'] forever and ever my girl my girl my girl
Aug 01, 2025 08:26AM Add a comment
Antarctica

houk
houk is on page 24 of 352 of Adventure Time: The Art of Ooo
after the intro + noted collaboration btwn penward and alex hirsch i'm blubbering dumbly. nothing i love more than these guys. wowowow what a gift to humanity--angels on earth. del toro's intro already had me weeping btw. can't recommend enough. this show and everything surrounding it fucking rules
Jul 30, 2025 04:29PM Add a comment
Adventure Time: The Art of Ooo

houk
houk is starting Adventure Time: The Art of Ooo
taking a break from all my other literary endeavors as my mind is so swamped in depressive grief that i can't possibly focus on anything i've already begun well enough to meaningfully engage. this is the pinprick of light at the end of the tunnel. grateful for it.
Jul 30, 2025 01:06PM Add a comment
Adventure Time: The Art of Ooo

houk
houk is 15% done with Antarctica
ohh claire keegan you're incredible
Jul 21, 2025 01:34PM Add a comment
Antarctica

houk
houk is starting The Song of Achilles
we don't need to talk about it. yes i'm going through something yes i need this rn. this is to me something fundamentally unknowable to anyone else living or dead i'm sorry
Jul 19, 2025 02:33PM Add a comment
The Song of Achilles

houk
houk is 90% done with Immaculate Conception
"maybe there exists in my subconscious a masochist hell-bent on punishing me."

tell me about it!!!! >_<
Jul 18, 2025 10:42AM Add a comment
Immaculate Conception

houk
houk is 87% done with Immaculate Conception
OUGH I FEEL SICK. LING LING HUANG YOU ARE EVIL AND BRILLIANT. I ADORE YOU FOR THIS.
Jul 18, 2025 10:29AM Add a comment
Immaculate Conception

houk
houk is 79% done with Immaculate Conception
"i can see it in my past works, how reactive they were. i was frozen in this weird way in which my entire identity was just that of someone processing trauma." uhhhhh yeah brother
Jul 18, 2025 10:14AM Add a comment
Immaculate Conception

houk
houk is 74% done with Immaculate Conception
i've always imagined what it would be like to merge minds with my best friend. now i wonder if i'd even like to. jesus. horrific. this book brings to mind so many variables i'd never have considered. still, i think i still would, if it would make it any easier for either of us.
Jul 17, 2025 07:21PM Add a comment
Immaculate Conception

houk
houk is 70% done with Immaculate Conception
WHATTTTTTTTT. WHAT
Jul 17, 2025 12:02PM Add a comment
Immaculate Conception

houk
houk is 14% done with Immaculate Conception
"i just don't have it. whatever it is that propels people forward. i don't know if i'll ever have it again, don't even remember what it was like."
Jul 16, 2025 11:50AM Add a comment
Immaculate Conception

houk
houk is 13% done with Immaculate Conception
"while i was genuinely worried for her, looking after mathilde was a necessary distraction from the paralyzing depression that came from being so terribly suited for the thing i most wanted to do."

louder for the ppl in the back...i guess...
Jul 16, 2025 11:46AM Add a comment
Immaculate Conception

houk
houk is 7% done with Immaculate Conception
"as much as i disliked them, i also felt sorry for them. i couldn't have been the daughter they'd been conditioned to want."

AYO!!!! ENOUGH!!!!
Jul 16, 2025 09:40AM Add a comment
Immaculate Conception

houk
houk is 5% done with Immaculate Conception
"for the jealous" oh this is about to be SO good i've never been more locked in in my whole life
Jul 15, 2025 01:56PM Add a comment
Immaculate Conception

houk
houk is 79% done with Sunburn
"i have become something of a pet to her, and i am so glad, because without a guiding hand i am no good."

she gets me
Jul 15, 2025 01:11PM Add a comment
Sunburn

houk
houk is 52% done with Sunburn
"forgive me, forgive me, forgive me, i am going to do whatever heinous thing i need to save myself."

k.
Jul 15, 2025 11:29AM Add a comment
Sunburn

houk
houk is 12% done with Sunburn
"we make each other. i wouldn't make sense without them. i might not even exist."

ah yes, the overwhelming and all-encompassing Correctness of lifelong friendships formed through the strife of high school
Jul 09, 2025 01:38PM Add a comment
Sunburn

houk
houk is 6% done with Sunburn
"the silence says a lot. all that upset has to go somewhere; i sometimes feel it moving under my skin, waiting to be lanced. i never thought i was being a pest until i was made aware i was one."

ayo ease up we're only 6% in!!!!!!!!!!! got damn!!!!!!
Jul 09, 2025 12:50PM Add a comment
Sunburn

houk
houk is 32% done with Fox
eugh gross dude i am so nauseated
Jul 05, 2025 01:10PM Add a comment
Fox

houk
houk is 41% done with Blood Over Bright Haven
wait this is kindof tea though
Jul 02, 2025 01:53PM Add a comment
Blood Over Bright Haven

houk
houk is 35% done with Blood Over Bright Haven
"he allows this grey space for delusion. you take a void and you name it 'goodness,' and is it so? if you can lie to yourself that you're a good person, despite all evidence, then suddenly is it so? then, within this system, anyone with enough self-delusion can admit himself to heaven. this is nonsense."
Jul 02, 2025 12:44PM Add a comment
Blood Over Bright Haven

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