#the cipher

[greensapphic]

Brainrot coffee shop doodles

[flameswallower]

Little fan art for Kathe Koja's The Cipher, which is one of my favorite novels. Written and set in early 90s Detroit, it's a story about a man and a woman on the social fringes who come together because of a strange hole in a neglected store room at the man's apartment complex. Even though their relationship is usually terrible and unsatisfying to both parties, neither can quit it, and neither can quit fucking around with that damn hole. Is it a vehicle for transcendence? A source of artistic inspiration? A portal to hell? Kind of all those things?

The main characters are cis in the novel, but for various reasons I've come to imagine them as trans, and I think turning it into a t4t toxic relationship would be one of the only major changes I'd make if I were somehow responsible for creating a TV/movie/comic book adapatation.

[reaperquinnandkayaquinn-blog]

Gravity falls au idea here

What if bill had a bigger family, like many siblings and he’s one of the middle children? What if there were more survivors of his home world but he doesn’t know that? What if one his siblings saved their family by using their own powers and a deal with the axolotl? What if this made them have similar abilities to bill but end up in different realities? Spread across the multiverse are the cipher family, meeting versions of the pines. 

[libraryofbaxobab]

April 27, 2024:

This became a cult classic for its griminess, every time it's brought up people highlight the squalor, the filth. And I also think that atmosphere is its strong point. However, that's not enough for me here.

The title doesn't make sense to me. There's not really a puzzle for the reader to put together or follow along with. And this edition is full of weird typos (random periods in the middle of sentences, word substitutions of similar-looking words, etc) that made me think maybe there was some secret puzzle! But no, as far as anyone can tell, those are just mistakes from it being digitized from the 1991 print copy. Disappointing.

I'm frustrated by the lack of exploration here. Even the body horror is just kind of... there but not emphasized. It's a character study of people who suck, but people who suck in ways I don't think are fun.

4.5/10 #WhatsKenyaReading

[vanchovvy]

ok i lied heres the actual humanoidization

[stained-glass-cicada]

God I fucking knew the moment that I heard that Luca's session wasnt meant to be recorded that the cypher was doing something to the wax and I knew that something would happen during Phillipa's session but the fucking vile observer In the ardent?? I- god Mr. Media that absolute piece of shit he creeps me out so much and he must have brought the vile observer there to corner her and force her to take him up on a deal

[bangbangwhoa]

books I’ve read in 2023 📖 no. 112

The Cipher by Isabella Maldonado

“I've given up on hope," she said quietly, then lifted her chin. "From now on, I fight."

[roughentumble]

for any witcher fams out there that would love to hear more of yen's voice-- anya chalotra is in a podcast!

[considersparrows]

Cover art for The Cipher by Kathe Koja

[awitchatdinner]

I love this. Gripping, different, amazing. I love it.

[lazyydaisyyy]

Nakota would rot differently from other people; she would be the first to admit it.

Kathe Koja, The Cipher

[reasonably-annoyed-fog]

Finished listening to BBC Sounds’ The Cipher which was quite fun actually, and it seems it’s based on a book? Can anyone tell me if it’s worth picking up? Is it a series? It seemed like the story was just about to really take off

[roxasbooth]

[angelofdumpsterfires]

presented without comment

[pikatik]

Wanted to draw that scene from The Book of Bill :D

[cipher-fresh]

I must not mock Gen Alpha. Mocking Gen Alpha is the mind killer. Mocking Gen Alpha is the little-death that brings total generational solidarity obliteration. I will engage with Gen Alpha lovingly. I will permit them to be cringe. And when they grow up I will turn my eye to their accomplishments. Where mocking has gone there will be nothing. Only generational solidarity remains