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Work book club brought me here.

The Esoterica YouTube channel brought me here.

Having an IMPOSSIBLE time reading these days because the story I'm writing is more interesting to me than any book to ever exist.

Holy misophonia, Batman

This is so absolutely My Thing that my entire brain is vibrating.

Vektal really said, “I don’t care, I love my butt-ugly mate” 😭

I want to give this a fair shot, but every time Vektal says "my resonance" or "khui" I feel my fight or flight response kick in.

The narrative voice is charming so far. Plus I love a good monastery or convent. Love a good, long description of an herb garden.

The sexiest love interests are shapeless, shadowy entities that cannot be accurately captured on video.

Yeah, I would also immediately fall in love with a kinda flaky shapeshifting faerie with long, white hair like an anime character.

I fear that it would be all too easy for a giant spider lady to lure me with sweet treats.

"In Our Own Image" is VILE. I love it!

Okay, I can't speak for the rest of the stories yet, but reading IHNMAIMS as sexist is a deeply bad faith, surface-level interpretation that completely ignores the narrator's unreliability and the inherent horror of what AM is doing to the characters by manipulating their minds. Just, wow. I need to learn to stay out of the reviews of classics.

Oh, the protagonist just adopted a small dog no one else wanted. Maybe it does make sense that she said the main character reminded her of me.

Good lord, this woman drinks a lot of wine.

Buddy read with my mom.

Ugh, I hate them I hate them I hate them!!

I'm really not in the mood for all the interviews with neo-Nazis, and would probably bail if I didn't have to finish this for a book club. I already have to spend way too much time thinking about neo-Nazis as it is.

So far, the general griminess is so much grosser to me than the cannibalism.

Good lord, this place sounds horrible.

Ew, mission trips.

I’m about ready to go poking around the dumpster of my local gay bar looking for blobs to program into the perfect partner. I’m sure nothing terrible will/would happen.

I’m so tired of all the “good guy Tyler” and “feminist ally Tyler” stuff.

I mean, of course I’m reading this.