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finished reading the terror the final hundred pages had me overcome with so many waves of pure revulsion that i kept having to close the book and take laps around my room. dan simmons you are NOT seeing the pearly gates!!!!!!!
#what the fuckkkkkkk#imagine writing goodsirs final chapter and then. whatever that was. we should all explode#the terror#the terror novel
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Reading The Terror and just reached this hysterical passage re: The Creature
'It can't climb the mainmast, thought Blanky. [...] At least it can't climb the mainmast. Nothing that size can climb. No white bear --if it is a white bear-- has experience climbing.
The thing began climbing the attenuated mainmast.'
#Dan Simmons you old so and so#the terror#the terror amc#the terror novel#perhaps I'm just delirious from all of the personal problems rn but the impeccable comedic timing rearranged my atoms#this entire chapter is so tense#the entire book is tense tho tbr
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I’m listening to an audio book of DS’s The Terror Bc I need something to keep me awake while I work on a project, and I stg I have to take a break and pace around my house every so often because something in the book will be so fucking egregious that I have to shake the urge to hunt down Simmons and strangle him.
I assume this is a fairly standard reading experience for this book.
#the terror novel#Dan Simmons#the terror#how Dave K managed to make an interesting/comprehensible/not disgusting story out of this dumpster fire is one of the wonders of the world
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if the les misérables book is called "the brick", the terror book should be called "the berg".
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I started playing The pale beyond. This might be what actually gets me to finish The Terror. I got that book like about a year ago and I haven’t gotten that far into it. Arctic ship crash fiction is a weird rabbithole to fall down but I am falling.
#the pale beyond#pale beyond#the terror#the terror novel#books#video game#management game#the terror is less over the top horror and more existencal dred#I like historical fiction#and it’s a little neat to be able to check the names of the characters only to see they were real people#we also don’t know what happened to the crew on the Franklin expedition
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I love how unsanitized The Terror feels. Like there’s grime everywhere. You can tell those men smell bad. When they do surgery you can hear the bone being cut, when they get sick they look genuinely ill. The main character’s actor even has pockmarks, he LOOKS like he could be from the 1800s! And idk, I think it’s cool that we’re so aware of the characters’ carnal desires. They’re hungry, thirsty, freezing, etc, and it is so obvious that they have a body with needs!!
I think this also accounts for how horny the show feels, even though everyone is bundled up 90% of the time and there are no real romantic subplots. Besides the fact that it’s a very carnal show, it just has the intimacy and grime of true horniness. Is this thing on
#rambling#virtually none of my mutuals/followers like The Terror… y’all please give it a shot…..#it’s SO MUCH like jsamn. like surprisingly similar#speaking of fantasy novels#I should write a little essay about how many Great Stories have a sense of physical realism to them!#like think about Lord of the Rings#in those books it takes them ages to get anywhere. they spend a lot of time talking about their water bottles and food supplies#and I’m thinking of that one bit where they spend the whole chapter trying to figure out how to get down a small cliff#you FEEL like you’re hiking with them#same sorta deal with the terror#the terror#the terror amc#I’m talking about horniness very confidently for someone who is ace lol
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this is what really happened to the franklin expedition btw
#the english lit in question are british propaganda and novels of dubious quality and also oldman yaoi on ao3 dot edu#the terror#franklin expedition#this post is so low effort it almost feels disingenuous but i couldnt resist#cavetext
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How awful do you have to be for Heaven to nickname you “the three tumors” when Feng Xin and Mu Qing are around constantly destroying the capital while everyone laughs about it??
Ling Wen, Shi Wudu, and Pei Ming. What did you do??
#I mean yea I KNOW what they did#but that’s just so iconic okay#feng Xin and mu Qing are knwn for mass destruction and all the officials are giggling as they watch placing bets#the three tumors on the other hand are considered terrors even though I’m pretty sure they DONT cause mass destruction and chaos#and at that point no one even KNOWS what Shi Wudu did to He Xuan they just all hate him because he’s a dick#feng xin#fengqing#mu qing#pei ming#ling wen#shi wudu#mxtx tgcf#tgcf#tgcf donghua#tgcf manhua#tgcf spoilers#tgcf novel#tgcf season 2#tgcf mu qing#tgcf feng xin#tgcf fengqing#tgcf pei ming#tgcf shi wudu#heaven official's blessing#heaven officials blessing#heaven official’s blessing#mxtx novels#mxtx#mxtx characters#mxtx fandom
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"[Fitzjames'] public demeanor, which was always an easy mix of self-effacing humor and firm command, remained the same, but in private with only Crozier in attendance, Fitzjames spoke less, smiled less frequently, and too often looked distracted and miserable. For a melancholy man like Crozier, the signs were obvious. At times it was like staring into a looking glass, except for the fact that the melancholy countenance staring back was a proper lisping English gentleman rather than an Irish nobody."
The Terror, Dan Simmons
#The Terror#James Fitzjames#Crozier#Simmons' writing is so good but I'm mildly obsessed with this passage in particular#the intimacy of Fitzjames letting his guard down in front of Crozier and only Crozier#the concept of them as mirrors of one another#but it's only shown when the veneer of a “”“proper”“” Englishman is stripped away#which of course Fitzjames isn't (if the original novel follows the show - haven't gotten that far yet)#so they're both outsiders to the Empire they're perpetuating#but Crozier doesn't *know* that#so instead of relating to Fitzjames or trying to help him it just feeds his self-loathing as an “Irish nobody”#the whole description perpetuates the idea#that it's the Artic that is doing this to them rather than an innate sickness#we're blurring the lines between colonizing as metaphorical sickness and depression as a mental sickness#and the real sicknesses they're suffering from their own hubris + bringing along to a vulnerable population#IDK I GOT A JUMBLE OF THOUGHTS#none of which are coherent like the lovely meta others have done on this show#but this passage ~resonates~
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city spirits dpxdc
may i suggest a recommendation for anyone in love with the city spirit concepts to check out, gotham academy, olive silverlock, and the dc villain known as calamity. i feel it could feed all of your creative flames.
for those who aren't into digging up the comics, gotham academy has several videos on youtube where people basicly read them to you.
but i feel with those three twigs via wiki, dpxdc fans who love amity and gotham as city spirits with tension especially can start a bonfire.
#pun intended#dcxdp#dp x dc#dp x dc crossover#fanfic#dc comics#dpxdc#gotham academy#calamity#is a ghost named amity possessing a kids mom#and hints of it possessing her too#and the ghost is a witch burned at the stake!#i'm just going to add this here#Amity Park takes its name from Amityville#New York#a town on Long Island that serves as the location of the 1977 novel and the 1979 movie series#The Amityville Horror.#Amity Island is a fictional beach town in the Jaws franchise that was terrorized by a great white shark#gotham is a stand in for the dark side of new york.#the witches in her coven fled Gotham >.>#maybe to start their own town#where the veil is thin#i don't know#just things
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Yanderes Doodles
hello! hellooo! I hope they are well! Today I bring you some doodles of the crazy "lovers" that is, the types of yandere-type visual novels and the truth is I didn't have a reason to draw them, I just did it and I hope you like them Σ(°△°|||)︴
#jonhdoe#jonhdoegame#sunny day jack#peter dunbar#your boyfriend#alan orion#my dear hatchet man#visual novel#yandere#doodles#traditional art#traditional#terror#toxic relationship
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Terrors Of Dracula Vol.1 #4 - Eerie Publications, August 1979.
Front cover art uncredited. Back cover by Oscar Novelle.
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Out this week: Rocket and Groot: Tales of Terror (Graphix, $8.99):
Amanda Deibert is back for another all-ages Rocket and Groot tale, this time working with artist Leo Trinidad. In this volume, the duo find themselves trapped in the forest with a mysterious cloaked figure, and the only way they can leave is tell a really spooky story.
See what else is arriving at your local comic shop this week.
#comics#new comic book day#marvel#ncbd#new comics day#new comics#new comics wednesday#graphic novels#scholastic#amanda deibert#leo trinidad#rocket and groot#rocket and groot: tales of terror#groot#rocket raccoon#graphix
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Fun facts about Tristan:
-He can look down an object's path through time and use that object as a grounding tool to time travel.
-He sometimes coughs up green slime.
-He befriends a creature he coughs up with the green slime.
-He's terrible at first dates.
-He has anxiety.
You can read the first few chapters of Hunger Beauty Terror Magic here!
#Tristan#Hbtm#Hunger Beauty Terror Magic#comic#oc#original character#concept art#character art#illustration#graphic novel#original story#queer characters#horror comic#horror story#horror art#horror#fantasy story#fantasy art#fantasy#my art
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the problem with the terror (2018) is that it rewires your brain and gives you enough brainrot to make you look at the terror (2007) with the same hubris of a victorian british explorer thinking that I will find the northwestern passage, actually
#i say this with love and respect to all my fellow fans btw as someone who also thought well *I* can do it#it's not going to be *THAT* bad#and then I did it. but at what cost#the terror#antiqua reads the terror#i just think it's really fun that we all hear about how bad the novel is and then go well *I* can read it for sure#and we pay for that hubris
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W.A. Ballinger - Drums of the Dark Gods - Five Star - 1967
#witches#gods#occult#vintage#drums of the dark gods#five star books#w.a. ballinger#w.g. mcneilly#wilfred glassford mcneilly#black magic#novel#terror#1967#pentagrams
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