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Shelving this one for now! Lovely prose aside, it’s done very little to entice me. Twink bags Milf. Riveting.

(Jokes aside; No hate towards this one. As winter sets in I find myself craving something a little more fantastical (and less British), so I’ll save this one for when spring comes back!)

Halfway through HS i decided I simply Had to involve my friends and we started a weekly Homestuck bookclub. I cannot WAIT for the first timers to get to this page. Based based based based.

Have been informed that “the only story worth telling” is a heterosexual love story. Am awaiting the announcements that Forrest Gump was an all-time classic and that ketchup’s too spicy.

Blood yuridian…

McCarthy, holding up the king of spades except the illustration depicts a king that has been scalped and is in extreme agony: Is this your card
Me, scared out of my gourd and having the best time ever: Absolutely.

Aw shit here we go again

Ik ga iedereen in dit huis in elkaar slaan

“It is possible that I ought to feel grateful for this mark of your confidence. I cannot say that I do, but I am willing to suppose you may deserve my thanks. Take them; and pray leave me.”

In proof of the character he gave himself, Mr Pecksniff suffered tears of honesty to ooze out of his eyes.

I can physically feel a star limply peeling off the 5-star score I’d been anticipating for 245 pages. What a boring, predictable turn for this otherwise refreshing story to take.

Reading the website in hopes of rekindling my fondness for this series. Its crazy how cool/funny/witty this series is when its presented to me in tumblr-style shitpost formatting and Studio Trigger-style art. Xiran my love are you sure a written narrative is the best choice for this series I think you'd write a banger graphic novel/comic/manga script. Preferably with 30% fewer communism monologues.

This book resisted my reading it so much that it caused me to reread homestuck instead. 8000+ pages of self-indulgent 4chan-bro chronically-online Superwholock nonsense was more appealing than this. Babygirl what happened.

Equius is such a FREAK i hope a clown kills him or whatever

Somehow this is dropkicking me out of my reading slump with the same speed and grace of Susanna Clarke’s Piranesi and that book was Tailor Made for me… How do these gamer goobers enthrall me so…

WHY is the word CLOUT in this book

I miss Shimin.

I had to restart this one for the third time because the narrative doesn’t stick… I’ll persevere for my boy Mark Tapley but Charles, man, you’re better than this, c’mon.

The truest testament to THG’s strength as a novel is that 16, 21 and 26 year old me all remember EXACTLY what 9 year old me felt while reading this for the first time. Usually those feelings amount to “WHAT she drops WASPS on them NO WAYYYY!!!!” but I digress!

“Luister Rosa, Vincent is een hele lieve, gevoelige jongen.” HIJ ZAT IN EEN STRAAT GANG???

Ik ben nu ong halverwege met de hele serie herlezen en t is een ACHTBAAN.

“Vroeger praatte je alleen maar over hoe mooi het was op alle plaatsen waar je nooit geweest was.”
“Dat was toen.”

Why is the word “bogus” in this book. Ill-fitting in both a historical etymology way (18th century American-English slang w/potential French or Hausa roots) AND modern vernacular way. Like you can do whatever you want forever but I just feel this specific setting allows for way more interesting language usage AND it completely took me out of an otherwise interesting conversation. What if Yizhi said “Sigma”.

Ill-fitting Tiktok speeches aside, still having a good time so far! Though I miss when Zetian had the impulse control of a furious Sonic the Hedgehog, she made the narrative way stronger when she was off her rocker on revenge cocaine.

PICKLE RICK?!?!

The PDA here is gonna haunt me I’d HATE these women irl

IN PUBLIC???

Cute as this is I do notice I find quirky tumblr speech being used in books a little unswag. “Useless bisexual” is something you put in the bullet list of vibes when you’re developing a character, “praise it and blaze it” is something you put in the tags of a picture of a nun with a joint. But it’s not book-proof and definitely not DIALOGUE-proof.

SHES SO CRINGE 💖

Girls rule 👍🏻

Free him!! Get him outta there!! Hes an old man what’d he ever do to you guys besides the kidnapping and the theft and the fencing and the being an accomplice to murder and the being the head of an underground crime network and the—