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Try to read something depressing without triggering my mental OCD-related compulsions challenge. (I’ve already failed)

Grady’s really making the Overlook sound like an MLM right now.

Happy October everyone! 🎃 I hope y’all get to read and watch some nice and spoopy stuff this month! 👻

I’ve learned that no amount of extreme horror media consumption ever properly prepares me for reading a Maruo story. The [REDACTED] and [REDACTED] is not a vibe at all. 💀

Fukushima washing her face and completely reapplying a full face of makeup in the middle of a work shift has got to be the most ridiculous shit I’ve ever seen. Did setting spray not exist when this was written??

One minute I’m thinking about how Suehiro Maruo is one of the greatest mangaka of all time in terms of illustration, and then the next minute I’m wanting to throw the book across the room because what the FUCK man????

I’m pretty sure that dude’s peepee turned into a barnacle. Tragedy or superpower…? Only time will tell.

I’m enjoying this way too much. 👁️

“The wheels of progress; sooner or later they took you back to where you started from.” Mood.

Perhaps I shouldn’t have watched the TV miniseries adaptation and the Kubrick version while reading this. I can’t stop picturing both adaptations smushed together while trying to focus on the actual story. All Shining and no play makes me a dull boy. 🙃

I shouldn’t have eaten an edible before trying to read this. It’s scary.

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This isn’t as cute or well fleshed out as I thought it would be, but it’s still kind of fun.

I need a cute story to hug my brain rn

“I ought to confess that ever since those days in Switzerland I have had a strong feeling that you have something awful, loathsome, some bloodshed on your conscience… and yet something that would make you look very ridiculous. Beware of telling me, if it’s true: I shall laugh you to scorn. I shall laugh at you for the rest of your life…”

Mood.