Status Updates From The Northern Caves

I'm rereading this. also lol @ the fact that nostalgebraist has a goodreads listing

getting a hint of that horror genre now with our chronicler's dream...

aaron and marsh are taking their exercises in interpretation a bit weirdly personally. forgive and forget?

the readers as (originally) anti-salbians is an interesting dynamic

(# pages = chapter) enjoying so far, and liking the kind of (self-admittedly) whiny narrator and this sort of direct address in general - mycroft canner gave me the taste for it, i think.

the central concept itself is also very compelling.

Is this what having OCD is like?

"For the most part, I think my interpolations are harmless. I'm not entirely sure I said "Aaron, what are you doing?" -- but I said something more or less similar, and what's the difference?"

I have only one word. Yikes 😬

"...their matriarchal twist on animal dominance hierarchies; their heavily ritualized and significance-invested "bonding" which takes the place of both friendship and romance;"

Chat, is this Homestuck?

So I decided to re-read this because I looked up some internet forums for House of Leaves investigations and theories and they felt so much like TNC forum sections that I experienced a brief weird derealization I haven't recovered from yet