#book cult club

[rabbits-of-negative-euphoria]

please sir can i have a housewife character whose problems are unrelated to housewifery

[spurgie-cousin]

i very naively thought i could watch a paul and morgan video and react, in a reasonable amount of time, in a reasonable tone, but wow turns out paul is maybe a sociopath so i absolutely can't

so if you were waiting for that reaction last night (which i did say in the tags i thought would be when i could post it nooooo problem) I'm so sorry lol, i got so riled up by paul i had to do like........4 takes total and only in the last one did i get to the end of the video by 2:30am.

i don't really watch their videos so to some degree i thought the joke about paul being an absolute sociopath only pertained to like, 40% of his video appearances but jokes on me bc it's 100% all the time 24/7. if you've ever thought paul olliges criticisms were too mean just know, not a single one of them are mean enough

[starlightphil]

*insert drumroll here* …The DNP Book Cult Discord server is now live! Here's the link!

"What the fuck is the dnp book cult?" I hear you ask. Simple: the dnp book cult is a Discord server dedicated to both Dan Howell & Phil Lester and books. We’ll discuss our favorite books, authors we love - literally anything bookish - and Dip and Pip at the same time.

A huge shout out to my friend moons for testing everything and helping me fix my mistakes! Please tell me if you have suggestions, questions, or notice any issues in the server. I might be a millennial/gen z cusp but I'm a bit of a boomer when it comes to Discord lmao. I have ideas for more channels, roles, etc so stay tuned!

[docbenwaysarchive-blog]

One of my favorite books, written by gay author Chuck Palahniuk.

Brad Pitt is also really hot in the cult film based on the novel.

[powerbottomblake]

love how the men in yellowjackets (mainly jeff and walter) are just. extremely cool with their girlfailures having committed murder they're just THAT down bad. jeff is like oh cannibalism? ritualistic murder? idc babe whatever you need I love you so much while walter is like *desperate for mistussy voice* it's fine it's FINE that you're a serial killer my grandma was a killer too see we can even bond over it here take all my compensation money can I hit now can I hit. pretty please 🥺🥺🥺🙏🙏🙏

[mollywog]

This and this had me thinking about intergenerational cycles of abuse

In her post @periwinckles asked: if you didn't want to name her Valancy why didn't you choose something else?"

Because Valancy’s parents were just as trapped by the Stirling Clan’s rules and hierarchy as Valancy is.

Valancy's name origin by her own account:

Her full name was Valancy Jane. Valancy Jane was rather terrible, but she liked Valancy, with its odd, out-land tang. It was always a wonder to Valancy that the Stirlings had allowed her to be so christened. She had been told that her maternal grandfather, old Amos Wansbarra, had chosen the name for her. Her father had tacked on the Jane by way of civilising it, and the whole connection got out of the difficulty by nicknaming her Doss. She never got Valancy from any one but outsiders.

First I’d like to note the name came from her maternal grandfather (not a Stirling)

But either way: an elder selected the name and the parents felt they had no agency in the matter except to select a ‘tame’ middle name and awful nickname.

The entire Stirling Clan is trapped in this bullshit.

This is not an excuse, just an observation, because while Mrs. Fredrick Stirling also likely feels miserable and trapped, she does nothing to make Valancy’s life more bearable when she clearly has the power to do so.

[funnuraba]

Anyone who tries to tell you that fandom used to be chill before Kids These Days came along is lying to you, because I've been in the trenches going through old zines from the very beginning of organized science fiction fandom in the 1930s, and let me tell you, it was the autism Thunderdome. They were calling each other Hitler, getting into physical fights, writing into letter columns suggesting that other fans kill themselves.

To give the briefest of summaries: the first convention happened in 1936 with about 9 guys, and within three years they and all of sci-fi fandom had split in two over who got to plan the cons and who was a card-carrying Communist. By 1943 they'd had the first attempted fandom cult and the first faked suicide. Two different sex offenders were exposed, one the attempted cult leader and one a major player in the Communism feud. Another sex offender was only exposed in the 21st century after his death; in the 1940s he publicly proposed to a lesbian Satanist in the pages of A FANZINE and she had to politely suggest that this was best discussed in private. Everyone kept making fun of a teenage Ray Bradbury for being a terrible writer. They would tear their own friends' work to absolute shreds in public if they didn't like it!

Two young men got to the Chicago Worldcon by stowing away on boxcars and riding in the freezing cold for 30 hours (they got an award and cash prize for doing this). All this is taking place at a time where there were maybe 50 genuinely active fans, and they all knew each other and had to pay money to mail their fights to each other. It was wild out there, my friends.

[vamprlestat]

i played a concerning amount of cult of the lamb today

[fungi-maestro]

Vic Sage getting scared on hallucinogens any% speedrun

[lepakonpaska]

[happy rambling in the tags because i love my job so much ✨️🌻]

[spurgie-cousin]

for the people who asked, this was the video a Brown sibling told me they liked btw 😭

(edited for clarity bc my first caption was worded weird)

[starlightphil]

Long shot but would anyone with experience with Discord who is interested in the dnp & books server I’m working on like to volunteer to be a “beta tester” for it? Basically I just need a few people who can give me feedback and maybe help with small technical issues lol. My lovely friend Moons has been helping but I don’t want to put it all on her and I think the more help the better! Thank you so much! 🫶🏻

[golden-doves]

Okay, so no art here but fuck it, The Rose has me at gun point to share this so oh well.

Azami, as discussed before, is like Shamura in the wisdom aspect, and she often reads with him.

ANYWAYS, she also writes short stories. And now I am going to share one once a day to fill up some space when working on the story.

<3 Day one:

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Meaningless words pierce my ears and I'm left useless on the floor. A shaken mess of nerves, the voices around me are spinning angrily as I attempt to calm myself, yet I'm still left shaking.

Maybe I deserve this fear, after all I merely sat there lazily watching as the walls collapsed around me.

My minds a mess. And I have no support for it, maybe I should give up. Maybe I should let them win.

Yet I have to keep going, for if I submit to the chains holding me down it will be evident that I am the one who has shackled myself to this misery.

I can feel the broken wings of others who have suffered the same fate I would have been left it as I fly away.

Yet the chains around me pull taught, and I struggle against them, angry tears fill my eyes as I attempt to escape, and I fall to the floor once again, broken.

Misery is my only company in these times of sadness, yet I look up to see a light shining before me, beckoning me to break free of these chains.

I can hear them clink behind me as I stand once again, taking a step forth and running to the light, words of encouragement from my friends wrapping around me like a shield against the words of all who try to harm me.

My weight is thrown forth as I stumble, the chain lay broken behind me. I am pulled into the warmth of those I love as I finally find myself free.

The lights come on around me and I find myself laying down, my lover beside me as the babble of children playing down the halls fill my ears. And I'm left reminded to keep going. For her. **For Them**

I find myself free as I lay beside her, watching the peaceful breaths she takes as she sleeps, and finally, at last. *I'm Free*

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Shamura cried when reading this the first time because he was so proud of her for writing it <3

Garden, Signing off

[libraryleopard]

Young adult paranormal graphic novel

Two estranged childhood friends–a witch and a werewolf–reunite to investigate ominous demonic happenings in their small New England town

Cute & witchy

Queer, Deaf, Jewish, and Chinese American protagonist; nonbinary, Chinese American protagonist, F/NB romance

[pant-passions]

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Fight Club (Chuck Palahniuk)

❓What do you think about the movie's ending?

I prefer the one in the book 📙 by #Palahniuk

Film Ending (1999)

In David Fincher’s movie, the protagonist (Edward Norton) realizes that Tyler Durden is a hallucination and tries to stop him. However, he fails to prevent Project Mayhem’s final plan from unfolding. After shooting himself in the mouth to "kill" Tyler, he sees Marla enter the room and takes her hand. As the city lights up with explosions, buildings collapse, and financial systems are destroyed.

👉 The movie seems to suggest that the rebellion against the system has succeeded, with an almost romantic sense of destruction and rebirth.

Book Ending (1996)

In Chuck Palahniuk’s novel, the sequence is similar up to the final confrontation between the protagonist and Tyler. However, Project Mayhem’s plan fails because the protagonist has sabotaged the explosives, making them ineffective. After shooting himself to eliminate Tyler from his mind, he wakes up in a psychiatric hospital, believing he is in paradise. But the nurses and doctors reveal themselves as Project Mayhem members, telling him they are waiting for him to recover so they can "carry on with the plan."

👉 The book’s ending is more ambiguous and unsettling: there is no clear victory for the protagonist, and the system remains intact. The cycle of violence seems destined to continue.

📌 Fun fact: Palahniuk has stated that he prefers the movie’s ending over the one in his book. 😅

💬 Drop your thoughts below 👇🏼

[i-eat-mold]

just here to say that gertrude robinson is the single funniest character. she is THE character. she dies before the show even starts. shes an old lady that adopted an edgy teen and traveled the world. She is the avatar of one of the fourteen elditch horrors that feed on primordial fears, she had basically infite knowledge of everything and her plan to stop one of the rituals of a cult of another one of said list of eldrich horrors was to blow it up with a bunch of c4. we only find out about this because she stored all of the explosives in a random storage unit and the aforementioned edgy teen with mommy issues (who by the way, is dead, but when he died she sneaked into the morgue to put him inside a book) speaks through the book to the woman's succesor who, by the way, has no idea what the fuck is going on because neither she nor anyone else has bothered to explain shit to him, and tells him that she kept something important in the unit. we only find out about this after 100 episodes of the show. She feeds her subordinates to an all consuming monster/god, but its ok i guess. Later on (earlier on? at the same time? in a different timeline? after?) the literal end of the world and the end of the end of the world shes back and still has to deal with this stupid teenager who at least doesnt spend half his life focused on dyeing his hair and the other half about finding murder books (not as books about murder but as in, books who actively murder). She is a well experienced arsonist despite having no affiliation with the actual official arsonists club that is yet another cult to yet another one of the previously mentioned eldritch horrors. She is, however, metaphysically tied to the Chosen One, the Messiah of said cult, or some shit. She is absolutely terrible at her actual office job (on purpose). She dismembered a guy (who was her assistant) and probably commited several undocumented crimes against humanity. Once again, she has all seeing abilities and barely noticed her favorite assistant was torturing a coworker. She dares her murderous boss to kill her and gets surprised when he does so. When asked what to do about a literal Monster Pig, her advice is to encase it in cement. She was such a bitch. Her plan B was always to set things on fire. Her plan A was often to set things on fire. One of these instances was approved by her boss (the one who killed her). It is canon that the reason she started all this shit in her life was because the fire cult killer her cat. She sacrified another one of her assistants who became an avatar of the literal concept of Insanity but it was just a other thursday for her. She knows on a first name basis pretty much every person and monster affiliated with the eldritch horrors that she tries to keep at bay on the daily. She stopped a ritual for The Lonely by making the place a tourist destination. She has an ebay account. Instead of performing a ritual for the God that she was affiliated with, she wanted to destroy it and planned to 1. blind herself, and 2. set fire (yet again) to her workplace. It didnt work, because and her boss, who was also the one who was going to perform the ritual, finds her right before and kills her after she says he has no balls to do so. Also she is voiced by the mother of the main character's voice actor (who he named with his own, full, legal name) and the series' writer, which are the same person. Shes the worst, shes the best, i love her, we will never get anyone like her again, we need more characters like her.