#I am very much a critique-y hater sometimes i Know This

[sanchoyo]

been watching a playthru of paranormasight and its VERY good. cool art style, cool characters (my GOD the girls and women of this game are SO good and NONE are over-sexualized at all!!!! a rarity in that genre of game!!!) VERY cool story and mechanics. 10/10 would recommend buying if you like horror/mystery visual novels (altho if youre sensitive def check out a trigger warning list first, but if not, 10000% recommend going in as blind as possible like I did) just. Awesome Game 👍 kind of blown away by it!!!

[docholligay]

"I want to put her in the blender" is such an Ianthe-based mood. She made all the stuff with Harrow so much more fun for me, because like I said, she's just a good balance.

And yes! I feel like her voice totally undercuts some really beautiful things, or things that could be beautiful, because she's got to sound himbo-y or whatever. It is my literary cilantro--I can concieve of the idea that people like it, but I do not understand how the taste of soap isn't ruining the entire dish for them.

I actually very likely won't read Nona. I read the "Gideon will be back in Nona the Ninth" and I will be so annoyed if, after doing all this really lovely stuff about letting go, and how Gideon died and you have to let her die, it's going to be me opening a book to read, "Our blood ran red, and together--you know, sort of like in a children's hospital! Fuck yeah! I'm wearing aviators" and then I will be mad on at least two levels.

Thank you so much! I was nervous about doing it because believe it or not, I don't actually like being an insufferable hater. ("Why am I constantly painted as the critical one, came the inevitable critique")

I LOVED that. I read it like three times in a row, just, amazing. I loved her whole "Apologize, tell me you loved her, tell me you would never have hurt her, and now I'm going to fucking DISMANTLE you." Loved Mercymorn. God. Top tier character. And not just because I'm like #relatable but I think both she and Augustine are this really clever way of showing that thing I was talking about when I posted the whole Mercymorn quote, about working together with people you can't fucking stand, and both she and he are annoying and constantly pick at each other, but they CAN work for a better good, and they both are tragic figures in their way. I do like Mercymorn more because I GET her more, but I think Augustine is also great.

I just need, bodies hitting the floor. Don't get me wrong, I actually loved what this did with grief and loss and ghosts. No quarrel even a little bit with how they used "dead" people in this book, and y'all know me THAT IS A FUCKING COMPLIMENT. It wsn't even a case of "I'm choosing to let this go" which I sometimes must do, it was a case of 'This feels so correct and organic and not like an asspull at all" that I didn't even feel annoyed MILDLY.

But, if after those last chapters, Gideon is back, I am going to feel cheated. I do not like being emotionally screwed with. You want me to feel grief, and sadness, you had better be prepared to live without that character.