#adding stuff to My List™ .. (spreadsheet)

[kuromi-hoemie]

do you have a comfort game/show?

right now i don't i am in such a dry phase omg. i don't think I've played and watched everything to death, but they gotta sit for a while and I've just been watching youtube mostly tbh 🙈 generally true crime, coco butter or paleontology/generally educational videos for the most part.

also intermittently trying to get back into elden ring but the DLC hasn't quite hooked me in the way most new games would.

in general tho there are certainly stories and games i find myself going back to. for stories i love Berserk and Tower of God, and for video games i love Dead Cells. i revisit fromsoft games too but less often bc they turn into a whole project ૮ – ﻌ–ა which is its own kind of fun but not always what I'm looking for. i can't Not make custom spells when i know that i know how to 🙈 but it keeps things more fresh/interesting when i come back to it

[welllpthisishappening]

Hello! First off, I just want to thank you for all your book recommendations; they're giving me both life and a very long list of what to read next!!! I have two questions and two recommendations. First, have you read Atlas Six? It popped up on amazon and I am very curious. Also, The Raven Cycle is good??? I've always wanted to read it but feared it would kinda suck. Ok, recommendations: The Empirium Trilogy is pretty badass, and Daughter of Smoke and Bone series! Both have unique concepts!

Hey, thanks for saying nice things! Particularly about me shouting into the void while reading every single YA fantasy and ridiculous sports stories I can find. At some point, I became, like, a half-book blog and it's nice to know that me screaming about absurd plots is not falling on totally deaf ears.

To answer your first question: I have not, but I would very much like to read Atlas Six. It seems entirely in my wheelhouse of things I would enjoy. The only problem here is that I am an snob™ who does not want to get left hanging by books in unfinished series. So, it's absolutely on the list (which is now a literal list, seriously) but I need a promise of payoff to jump in.

Second question, and fair warning, this might get a bit long because The Raven Cycle was—well, let's say it's a weird series. I really enjoyed it, but this is one of those very "JUST BECAUSE THE CHARACTERS ARE TEENAGERS DOES NOT MAKE IT A YA" instances y'know? Like, everyone was very much in high school with some HIGH SCHOOL problems, but they were also way more concerned with the ancient Welsh king possibly buried in their small Virginia town. And, like, the end of the world. Things I enjoyed about The Raven Cycle include, but are not limited to:

The absolutely immaculate vibes — passably creepy, weirdly magical, it felt like middle-of-nowhere Virginia.

MARAUDERS FEELINGS. If someone told me that this was originally conceived as Marauders fic I would be, like, yeah that checks, actually

Just generally accepted magic. No one questioned it. It just was.

Speaking of magic, there was a crazy magical forest that was (occasionally) confusing to understand what was going on in, but was also like it's own character. So, that was fun.

Richard Gansey III, my beloved.

Different POVs. Sometimes that can be confusing and a little annoying, but these, I thought, added to the story.

Everything to do with Ronan Lynch. Of which there were a lot of things, some of which totally surprised me.

The prose was really pretty. Back on that whole magical kick.

It's entirely possible that I also felt like this wasn't a YA book because sometimes I was reading it and was like...wait, what is going on??? So, I like to imagine I'm not more easily confused than the average 16 year old. Because of that, it's important to know that, at times, it felt very plot-heavy too. There was a lot of stuff going on. I'm not sure that I'd ever read it again, but I really did enjoy it while I was reading it.

Both of those recommendations are on my ridiculously long Google spreadsheet of books to read! I've been wanting to read Daughter of Smoke and Bone forever, too, so that might move up the list.