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why.

this is a great reminder that i should take my OCD meds

i can’t be crying like this rn there’s still 20 percent of this book left 😭😭😭

dawg what the hell is happening

urashima taro recognized for the bleak af horror story it truly is

hagakure namedrop 😭 had to be either that or nitobe's soul of japan for how Serious and Solemn the samurai are being characterized here

woke samurai history enjoyer being nitpicky again abt the over-romanticization of warrior culture and the idea that history is made by the acts of military Great Men and not the masses who lived and died by their whims. (commented as though loser 歴女 rozobr is not writing a book that is probably also doing precisely that. listen i just think swords are cool #hypocrisy)

guy who has only read Hawk Mountain, reading their second modern gothic horror: getting a lot of 'Hawk Mountain' vibes from this…

this is way gayer than i thought it would be

new semester start deskwarming is such a nonsensical time of year i do just be sitting in the office reading a book about eating people while listening to my bleeps and bloops

i think i’m just at a point as a horror lit enjoyer where i find graphic descriptions of cannibalism as a metaphor for love to just be cringe rather than disturbing

sen feels a little YA for his age and this book’s concept but ig yoshitsune was a bit of a naif … big fan of yora though. i ADORE rui despite this now meaning i have to change the name of myangry peasant girl with a Backstory with the samurai boy protag bc me and A.S. Tamaki both having a rui in that niche is just too freaky of a coincidence, i fear

i’m compelled by the idea of vaguely satanic self-sacrifice but the name “kripke” in this context just makes me think of A Certain Television Series

ok hold on there’s something cooking…

i recognize this is a literal journey through hell but why's this journey such a fucking slog. the "only one bed" and subsequent boner poke scene actually made me groan out loud because Miss Becky. you are 29 whole years old. i can't read more than 10 pages at a time without having to put this down out of sheer embarrassment on the editorial department's behalf. is that mean of me to say. well. it's true

gonna be honest y’all… this might be her worst yet

reading this in order to be an Informed participant in discourse

me when i read a gory book that has content warnings for being extremely dark and am shocked to find it gory and extremely dark 🤯🤯

*muttering to self* polycule polycule polycule polycule polycule polycule polycule po

ocd knows ocd we really do need to check. just gotta Check

always funny reading a white mom wasian mc. so this is how the other side lives

is bram stoker feminist question mark