#insomnia reread

[transmandayoung]

Stephen King: this is Lois. I will repeatedly describe Lois, and things in her house, as hobbit-sized

King: this is Ralph. he's several inches over six feet tall

King: they're going to get married

[moonlightdistractions]

hey, just reread this and it gave me all those soft wincest domestic pining dumb brothers vibes that sometimes I need for mental health reasons, so I thought I'd share in case y'all need some domestic!curtain fic wincest.

Rome Was Also Built on Ruins by zorrosuchil, AO3, 2013, 15,297 words, post Purgatory, curtain fic, first time wincest, Dean's pov

Dean is messed up after Purgatory, among other things. Sam needs space. They fight, then split up for a while, but then Dean gets hurt on a hunt.

[unfortunate--moth]

i think its really interesting how Mr. Creepy Pasta (yes that's his name im not lying) appears in Fight Song before this MV.

But then again, Tobi's outfit at the end of the video doesn't look like the one he wore in Fight Song (no designs on the sleeves/its a hoodie instead of a zip up though this could just be something he only wore for that video and im overthinking things)

so i'm wondering if Eve's plans for Mr. Creepy Pasta changed or if story wise after what happened in the Insomnia MV he went to the zingai world for whatever reason??? or maybe Fight Song comes before Insomnia? who fucking knows. i sure don't.

But reading that first image, it's really interesting that he has mental attacks specifically. If he's the alter-ego zingai to the character in Insomnia, is that what he's doing to him? there's a lot of parts where he is Going Through It. BUT THEN there's also parts where Mr. Creepy Pasta is caring for him in a similar way that Baku cared for Tobi? So why would he do those mental attacks unless it's just the character's own mind working against him? fucking. idk dude. this mv came out 2 hours ago and i woke up like 1 hour ago. if i have more thoughts i'll make another post or something.

anyways read kara no kioku read it read it read it

[ambrosiagourmet]

If any of the dunmeshi heads that follow me ever want to enjoy another dungeon crawling banger, y'all should check out Order of the Stick

[xysidhequeen]

Should I take this as a sign I should sleep?

Yes.

Will I instead continue reading the fic I, in a rare moment of intelligence, downloaded?

Yes. Yes I will.

[yurious-george]

please spill the sleepless domain opinions. ive only ever seen praise for it

DISCLAIMER: SD's story is simply not to my preference. No issues with that - normally I would just stop reading and move on - but I was on the official SD discord server during my formative years, and basically had to pretend to like Sleepless Domain to interact with the server at large. Pent up bitterness, thy name is hallowed.

That said, my god. The two main characters are insecure little bores with one of the most unimpressive lesbian relationships I've ever seen in fiction. They are So. Damn. *Samey.* They spend so much time reassuring each other and talking, so much that any conflict is brought up and resolved within pages. You can skip whole pages of dialogue and not miss a single thing of import!

On a similar note, all the other major characters have very similar flaws. They're all insecure and hate themselves in pretty, palatable ways. All of them are so afraid of hurting each other and reassuring each other, binging the comic is genuinely frustrating - I desperately wanted someone, anyone to have a different flaw besides "I'm insecure!" Just because it manifests in different ways does not mean they're different characters - they're the same characters with different set dressing.

None of these are bad characters, but they don't have a single interesting character dynamic to rub between them. Besides which, this connecting trait reveals an alarming reduction in what a good person is, compared to Kiwi Blitz - good people put others first, good people secretly aren't confident, good people hate themselves. In KB, Mary's earlier comic, the majority of characters are all trying to do the "right" thing, but have very different motivations and contexts around the concept, and here they're all... the same...

SD is most engaging when it follows Rue, an unregistered, confident magical girl with a lot of siblings. She's a conspiracy theorist, but she actively asks questions about and discusses her world - such as what's outside the barrier, how to study it, etc. Her confidence causes her to break things off with a very vulnerable character over a small lashing out, and was possibly the final snapping point in her depressive spiral. She's far more proactive than the mains in Figuring Out the World, and I would like SD a lot more if she had more focus!

Speaking of the world. I find the author. frustratingly liberal at times. As in, we've had very different experiences with mental health and Ms. Cagle's parents Probably Didn't Threaten To Send Her To A Ward Overseas For Being Suicidal :) Or torture her with an overdose of psychotropics to make her 'productive'. (you can read more about my experience here.) Opening up with loved ones has clearly been beneficial for her and that's awesome! Unfortunately some of us got tortured more for doing that. And her (so far) refusal to acknowledge that in her story is... such a massive gap in her worldbuilding?

So, despite setting up a system with a monetary benefit to torturing children, she refuses to actually depict a child being tortured by her parents into compliance with being a magical girl - the logical, ultimate conclusion of her capitalist system. All the parents are So Scared For Their Kids :( Ok, well - where's the parent who's scared of losing their meal ticket? Why Are You Setting These Things Up And Not Putting Your Whole Pussy Into It

The art and paneling are fantastic, and Ms. Cagle has some of the most clear action sequences in comics. Sleepless Domain is a great comic when it's not about the main characters.

Also the "teenagers" all talk like therapypilled 20somethings and it makes me nauseous

[wittgensteining]

Kant talks a lot about common sense for a person that has none at all

[dodgeryaps]

like what if I just deleted all my works

[quirkle2]

guess what. sans

[starlit-mansion]

the other thing that the writers and artists forgor from WOE is that kellan's mom made him a special enchanted embroidered coat with significant scenes of her time with oko stitched into it and then... he didn't think about it or wear it EVER AGAIN. don't think he even brought it though the omenpath. serving the gaudy off-style amulet that chip left sonic with at the end of sonic unleashed

[cosmicrhetoric]

this is how you lose the time war was one of those books where it is really really not what i go for generally (prose wise) and if i hadn't read it in one sitting during a bout of insomnia im not sure if i would've made it through. that being said its probably one of the only "romances" that had me genuinely choked up at times anyway reread when

[transmandayoung]

FINALLY finished insomnia. longass book

[imagineandwrite]

I was rereading the Obsession chapter and I saw that Shuri says “Believes our Queen is dead…” I kid you not! First thought in my head: I coulda sworn I killed yo momma...

So a few things have been fixed in those two chapters 😁

[altrxisme]

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[zelzahdarkcloak]

I already hear the birdsong. The pale blue morning light appears.

I am still awake.

[yurious-george]

reading your SD thoughts is kind of eye-opening to me in regards to why, despite me having subscribed to the RSS feed of the comic, i haven't read a single new page in months. whatever intrigue there is IRT the goopgirl was the thing keeping me on board but it was Not strong enough to power through a cast like that. let undine and kokoro have an actual fucking messy conflict, for the love of god, theyre literal teenagers on the verge of death every night

^^^!!!