Theghostofacookie - Theghostcookie

the thing about gideon the ninth is that it should not work. the whole thing sounds like a fucking disaster. you look at it on paper and it seems like a word salad made into a novel. there's bible shit. there's space shit. there's whodunnit shit. there's Human Anatomy and Physiology BIO 2102 and Lab shit. the characters have names like Williambert Decaheptagoneronagus. there's internet memes for some goddamn reason. none of this should work. and yet somehow it all ends up not only working as a coherent novel and series of books, but being an incredibly profound piece of art on themes of grief, love, and human nature itself. it doesn't pull any punches, even if sometimes the punches are protonjon quips from 2007. thank you tamsyn.

"i am undone without you"

"hup"

Level 1: Dating sim character has a mental breakdown when they realise that they’re a character in a video game.

Level 2: Dating sim character realises that they’re a character in a video game, and is weirdly cool with it.

Level 3: Dating sim character knows they’re in a video game, but they’re convinced that they’re the human player and you’re just a fourth-wall-aware NPC.

Level 4: Dating sim character successfully proves that they’re the human player and you’re just a fourth-wall-aware NPC, whereupon the perspective immediately switches so that now you’re playing as them and your former viewpoint character is an NPC.

Level 5: Dating sim character successfully disproves that their world is just a video game, and the game immediately ends.

yes labeling gideon the ninth as Enemies to Lovers is potentially misleading but Enemies to Mutually Self-Sacrificing Homoerotic Non-Consummated-Wives is not a pre-existing trope category that can be marketed and you should perhaps be warned that they do very much want eachother ground into toothpaste at the beginning of the book

Got new pants

??? I can't see them

Last night i dreamt that jerma did a "breaking and entering stream" and when i opened it he was streaming from inside of my house

I have replaced the dragons in Skyrim with the state of Ohio.

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My dad was dealing with some mixed feelings so I told him "In therapy when something is too complicated to do a simple 'pro and contra list' we sometimes do an excercise where you imagine all these mixed feelings around a table in some kind of conference, letting each tell their bit and you leading the debate."

and my dad didn't really respond and just stared ahead so I kept preparing lunch. Until a few minutes later when he suddenly piped up: "I am having a bad time at the conference"