Status Updates From FAVSTVS

there is a line in here that actually seized my chest with dread like there is a physical sensation of pain that unfortunately i could not rationally explain to you if i tried

i...no longer know about this

every time i read one of these (it has only happened a handful of times) i find myself Forced To Reckon with very uncomfortable truths about myself...that is how i know this is very, very good. among other things. but mostly that.

god will this man eVER die

i don't mean to keep updating every 10% but that's how it's unfolding thus far. there is so so much i want to say and can't. this thing is so goddamn good

this book is one of the biggest fumbles i've read in a long time :/

help not christopher marley

nothing worse than a book with such a promising beginning that becomes middling and unimpressive by the last quarter

a chapter's opening is something that can be so personal...anyway this one's taking it

oh alright, everyone at least pretend to be surprised this is already very, very much up my alley

alright can we wrap this up how do i still have so many pages left

i'm actually quite annoyed that this is not living up to expectations ):

This fucking guy...

the middle is middling but i'm holding out hope that the end can bring it back around

Alright, there has been some redemption for the plot. It is very in line with the OG play which again, make plot points seemed forced and over the top fantastic for the story that is trying to be told. Seems to be just another unworthy addition to the ambitious feminine rage genre

I'm incredibly confused on what the role the crime organization HIVE fills. they are the evil women only crime group that makes is behind most movement politically and financially in the world that follows this misandrist manifesto... but they offer magic contracts to men for unlimited power for 24 years and then kill them. for what? it doesn't make sense. and this plotline of the SAed girl also doesn't make sense

A TERRIBLE VERSION OF WILL-THEY-WONT-THEY. WHY ARE THEY BEING SO CASUAL ABOUT HIM BEING A RAPIST

man, meph and faustus have a weird dynamic I am not into. it's like aquainences to lovers type of thing but not? I guess more in an intellectual sense. but as even the book says, I am annoyed Meph is not a lesbian.

I have been finding it very obvious when a plot point (again haven't read the source material) is only happening because it happened in the play. not even at all subtle.

you ever just rub [redacted] all over your naked body with [redacted] and then you go to [redacted] which leads to [redacted] and then you end up on a [redacted] with [redacted}?

The incel personality trait feels forced. I don't buy a guy with the intelligence to bullshit his way onto military bases/situations and has CREATED A VACCINE FOR THE BLACK PLAGUE has not studied and perfected the art of charm and seduction. Some contradictions in his thinking that is common for incels make sense, but that does not. Plus Meph stand in being interested in him also feels forced.

okay the middle was middling for a bit there but i think it’s coming back around

the line "...he was 29 and basically still a virgin..." after raping a woman is truly a very difficult line for me to move on from.. I know it's a character I am meant to enjoy watching fall from grace, but I still have to get through him rising to grace

I am not enjoying the real life-ing of magic plot points. the devils and demons are secret organization agents with all the money and time to constantly watch and fuck with a dude? lame.

also, the main character, after committing a heinous crime, is still trying to be portrayed as an impressive interesting guy whose head we are stuck with for 500 more pages? realllly tempting to dnf, but ill hold out

well, that whole sexual assault scene and the build to it was not done well. everyone seemed to really act out of character just so that the plot point could happen there.

I am going into this story blind, as I only know the overall "deal with the devil" bit with the OG story. So far, it's weird and moody (positive)

When you hit the first SCUM Manifesto quote as a chapter header 😈

this guy is insufferable (celebratory)

really quite obsessed with this