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“Footnotes” by A. K. Benedict:

This was a quick short story, about nine pages, but Benedict made exceptional use of those pages. Incredibly unique premise, loved the incorporation of Celtic mythology (I actually tabbed some pages so I can do more reading on the figures mentioned). The ending made me gasp out loud; looking back, there were hints throughout the story, but it caught me totally by surprise.

5/5

“From the Sea” by Charlie Higson:

Love me a good epistolatory short story. Higson establishes the characters well through their emails. I thought the ending was a biiiiit predictable (though given that the characters refer to HP Lovecraft many times, this was the only way the story could have ended) but I loved the media exploration of the ending.

4.5/5

something about losing my grandma last month has put me on a huge graphic novels kick

this book is singlehandedly overcomplicating the plot of the series to the point of ridiculousness

this is so delightfully spooky

apologies if I am clogging your feed!! I have some downtime between classes, so I'm doing a much needed cleanup and some organization. senior year of college will be the death of me 3

Rereading this to see if it’s as bad as I remember

I’m being bullied irl into continuing the series smh

***maybe spoiler theory***



I’m calling it now: Anderson was writing the Daffodil Daydream books under a pen name and faked the author’s death because he didn’t want to write them anymore for one reason or another

***pausing here to note down a theory, skip if you don’t want minor spoilers of how the magic system works***


what if Julian and Miguel were killed because there’s a brujx in the area using human blood for their magic?? human blood was said to be more powerful than animal blood, but the ritual will take all the blood at once. what if someone is killing people to use their blood in rituals??