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“We may call Eurydice forth from the world of the dead, but we cannot make her answer. And when we turn to look at her, we glimpse her only for a moment before she slips from our grasp and flees.”

bars

not liking how realistic this is smelling in today’s political climate

“‘Do you think God listens?’”

ohhhhh this might be breaking my brain a little bit

“But on the other hand, isn’t that reality? Won’t most of us die in fairly unclimactic ways? Our passing unremarked by almost everyone, our deaths becoming plot points in the narratives of the people around us.”

“‘You’re wearing a mask right now, and you don’t know how to remove it. That’s okay. You don’t need to, not yet. That mask is protecting you.’
‘I don’t like it.’
‘I know. It’s going to get worse before it gets better. We’re going to lose more friends. We’re going to have to do some pretty horrible things just to survive. So, I need you to keep that mask on.’”

goddamn

“Don’t engage.” *immediately engages*

“When big things happen on such a large scale, it’s easy to forget sometimes that these big things are also happening to the little things in the world, too.”

too real, especially given the current happenings in the U.S. (f*** 🧊)

“The rain had finally stopped. Just long enough for the light to shine brightly on a clearing in the middle of the forest in this forsaken place. A health bar appeared.” ☹️☹️☹️☹️☹️

“‘So y’all like it when other people die? Great. Let’s go all in.’”

i love when my boy gets to be unhinged

carl the professional antagonizer

carl “mommy issues” dungeon crawler not knowing how to react when a middle aged woman is kind to him

no, no, no. you misunderstand. carl isn’t stuck in here with YOU, you’re stuck in here with HIM.

“‘Carl, why do I get the feeling you’re about to do something really stupid?’ I grinned.” }} sums up the entire series, actually

“… [redacted] wrestles daily with this realization, teetering on the edge of indecision: do I protect him because I love him? Do I kill him because he doesn’t love me back? Do I continue with my duty? What would become of me if simply… disobeyed?

It’s a lot of stress for a creature not used to having any emotion. It’s almost… too much.”

i’m starting to think this isn’t actually about [redacted]

one day i’ll force myself to read something that isn’t dungeon crawler carl. today is not that day. (tomorrow probably won’t be either.)

boy howdy, i sure hope nothing weird is going on with this guy

“‘Sometimes, we do things that are not of our nature to protect our own.’”

finally made a carl playlist on spotify and some of the songs have me vibrating in anticipation for what’s in store

love/hate relationship with books that throw you into the story with no explanations 3

i am intrigued though

are you sureeeeeee about that mordecai? are you reaalllllyyyy sure??????

good news: everything seems to be going well for carl and the gang!

bad news: there’s too many pages left for things to continue going this well, and i can’t remember how things go wrong!

the body horror aspects of this book are really good at flying under the radar, but they’re there. they’re reallyyyyyy there.

“Look kid, I want this to sink deep into your thick skull: you can’t save them all.”

math teacher reference? in MY dungeon crawler carl book???????

BOMO AND THE SLEDGE 🪨

top 5 worst off screen deaths of all time

(for me, emotionally. not because of the writing. the writing, unfortunately, makes complete sense.)

time to get on the train! 🚂

YEOUCH

eat moss and DIE, apostate!