#lol there was a critrole mention in the ep

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so I got through mag 120 (s3 finale) and oooof I love to hate Elias. And I still love how well Martin used being underestimated to deal with Elias (well, as much as he could, but ya know). It’s gonna be interesting to see how this goes with Peter Lukas.

And! Because it was up next in the feed, I switched to RQG Honey Heist and whoaaa that tone shift was wiiiiild

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its like 1am so im kinda brain fried so i do not have much to say on ur thoughts abt transmigration but yes that sounds very cool (i got slightly distracted watching critrole -- i think i told u i was on ep 2? i just finished ep 5 i believe. lies down. -- but i saw u mentioned orv in ur tags and had to respond LOL). also i adore the idea of having multiple transmigrators in the same character -- are there past hints of the previous... brains.... in the character? is it like an interaction scenario? or was it like the trope where it’s like “if u dont do xyz bad thing u will die” and then the guy manning the ship (character) dies and then ur mc takes over. i love the idea of like, the.... characters (ugh words are hard).... merging in the bodies & the boundaries between ur entities becoming different -- ie who’s the original character as you’ve said. so honestly super neat idea!!! if u ever write it up pls hmu i’d love to read it. 

wrt orv - hmmm i would say it qualifies as transmigration, i would say it definitely counts, but i feel like it’s also... different than other transmigration webnovels i’ve read? although i really haven’t read very many, so it’s hard to put to words i think. as for it being a well crafted story... i mean, like, i’m not necessarily going to argue with that point because i did enjoy it. but also, like, it’s really long. like, i think i had to try to read it three or four times because it was really long and it got kind of boring even though like cool stuff is happening it’s hard to keep track of and you get the sort of awkwardly bland prose that comes with translated webnovels (sorry.) so all in all it took me a hot moment to get through. and like, honestly, the ending is what got me. but i will say, despite yk the length and whatnot i would say it really follows through with its themes on idk stories and interpersonal connections and whatnot and idk. words. anyway. so tldr its long beware, but it does have some cool stuff. if u ever read it, i’d love to hear ur thoughts on it (also bc ive forgotten like half of it LOL). 

re: yoko ogawa idt she’s my fav author, altho i don’t think i have one. my first book of hers was revenge, a short story collection, that i read rather recently and im just going thru her stuff. revenge was pretty good, i dont have a lot to say abt it. the memory police was also good, but i think, and this feels like a lot of scifi to me lol, that she had an idea, and it was interesting, and she expressed it, but it didn’t really go far from there. like i was expecting more of an ending, i guess. i think a number of her works are sort of open-ended or ambiguous and it works for some of them (like the diving pool) but i wouldn’t have said so for the memory police or dormitory (another novella in the collection named after the diving pool). i don’t think there’s any particular order you need to read things in, but the diving pool (the novella) is my fav of hers so far lol. altho im gonna read hotel iris soon and am trudging my way thru a few short stories of hers in french. 

helloooo. here is an ask as u requested 😳 read anything interesting lately? i am becoming very fond of the storygraph recommendation system—i didn’t like it much at first, but it’s growing on me haha. and have u been writing recently? if so, what abt & anything you’d like to share?

the main things i've been reading recently are nonfiction, manga, and the history of middle earth series. the first two nonfiction books i've read were misses, but the one i'm reading now, merchants of doubt, is really cool so far. it's from 2010, but it's about how these scientists covered up the truth about tobacco and global warming (as well as other areas related to that, like the effects of secondhand smoking). i finish mob psycho 100 yesterday and enjoyed it a lot. before that i finished nausicaa of valley of the wind (and i've realized i was writing the title wrong the entire time smh), which i also think is a good story, but the most impactful volumes for me for the last two. i'm going to start the reigen volume soon, but that'll probably be it for manga for a while. and the history of middle earth series i'm read because i'm a nerd and like tolkien, and it's really interesting to see the ways the stories have evolved and the ideas that were scrapped (some i agree with scrapping but other times i'm just like, jirt why??).

so, uh, in general for reading something interesting lately that i'd actually recommend... mob psycho 100 and merchants of doubt, so far.

i haven't used the recommendations system all that much yet (mainly because i have 734 books on my tbr and i know there's more that aren't on my thestorygraph tbr :pensive:) so i'm very hesitant to use it yet. what's your favorite part of it? :eyes:

honestly i've been in a bit of a slump recently with like, creating things in general. it's the usual mood that i don't like anything i'm creating, i think i suck, etc. etc. which is really annoying, but i'm trying to get myself past it. for art, i've mainly been trying to go back to the basics and i've fallen off on writing everyday, but i'm going to try and make it very lowkey again (writing something and i'm probably going to do it for a side project that i'm drafting out, cause both are very low stakes). for side projects, there are kind of four main ones, all of which have very creative and super accurate titles: "time travel mult trans" which is about multiple time travelers who don't know any of the others exist (they also left time and went back in time at different points so it's confusing. i had to make a timeline); "coming back from the dead" which is about a necromancer bringing a kid back from the dead and the ugly fallout; "local man" which is that bit of flash fiction i did where local man was possessed by a ghost who he's since adopted. not looking forward to the newspaper format but needs must; "the ship of theseus" which is a study into a transmigrator, because i find the concept of transmigration really fascinating.

thank you for the ask and hbu? anything interesting you've read/written?