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Slowly working through Rocky Ridges
▲ 579 r/Pokopia

Slowly working through Rocky Ridges

I don’t wanna think about how many cliffs I already cleared… I haven’t even gotten to opening up a path to the museum bc I’m too scared to look at it 😔

u/TragicHeroine_ — 18 hours ago
▲ 4 r/horrorlit

Thirteen Storeys by Jonathan Sims (MINOR SPOILERS)

I posted this same review on goodreads but man I had to come here and talk about this!

Tagged minor spoilers because the ending of the book is already told at the start!

I personally love interconnected short stories so this was up my alley, each of them pretty strong individually—the manifestations of their struggles was very fun to see, especially through the lens of each distinct and troubled character—but I think a lot of people could probably agree that the ending kinda hits you in the face with a sledgehammer aka its very obvious anti-capitalist theme.

Actually, I think it may have been even better to leave the events of the dinner party ambiguous. The short stories did so well to build up to the very obvious fate of Tobias Fell that the extra over-the-top anime takedown was to me entirely unnecessary. Each aspect of capitalism that haunted each character was made clear enough. There was no need to spell it out!

(Also, is anyone else tired of villain monologues 😭 At least in this context it kinda makes sense because he’s gathered them all for this event, but still!)

Okay. Now we gotta talk about the mistakes. I’m not going to fault the author for that. He is an excellent writer especially for his fame in The Magnus Archives. We all make typos. Whoever copy edited, whoever approved this for publishing though… I’M GONNA COME FIND YOU I SWEAR. Missed punctuation, mispellings, “your” instead of “you’re”, “off” instead of “of”, character names that were accidentally changed midway through the story… there was an entire line that was just

‘Hello…

This was what it looked like on the page. In context it was likely missing a question mark. No quotation mark. Wtf. I’m so glad I borrowed this from the library because I would’ve asked for a refund had I paid money for this 😭 Highly recommend others just borrow it until a properly edited version is released, if it ever will be.

With all that being said I still rate my personal enjoyment a 4/5 (even tho this review was entirely my complaints lol) with a star being knocked off due to the issues highlighted above.

If you liked this book but had problems with the same things I did, do check out The Magnus Archives! I actually think that the author’s strengths may be limited when placed within the constraints of a traditional novel.

…God the editing errors are absolutely mortifying though. It took me out of the book each time and there were MANY TIMES. There were typos in the FIRST CHAPTER. It’s unacceptable that this book was released in such a state. I can’t get over it. I’m so baffled I might reread the book again just to compile a physical and comprehensive list of all the mistakes I can find. Lmk if you want to see it lol, I’ve got 3 weeks left til I gotta return this thing 🫡

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u/TragicHeroine_ — 1 day ago
▲ 85 r/RoastMyCat

This idiot thought it would be a good idea to go UNDER my dog instead of AROUND him without warning

Dog got startled obviously, jumped while trying to look between his legs, slipped on the squeaky clean hardwood with his limbs in every direction like a deer on ice, cat panicked, dog panicked, and both ran away from each other as if they were in some looney toons skit 😪

Dog was very sorry (it wasn’t even his fault!!) and although cat was a bit pissy and sulky for a few minutes, he ended up plopping himself in front of him and rolling a ball over to play so they’re both good now

…then he proceeded to scare himself a second time by launching himself and the ball across the room, hitting his toy stick and also launching the stick which ricocheted off the wall and slid under his legs to which he jumped and hissed. I think this might be karma

u/TragicHeroine_ — 1 day ago
▲ 202 r/TabbyCats

Rly sad that people misinterpreted a silly post of me messing around with my cat

Probably not enough people saw it to care but I was pretending to box him and he wasn’t flinching (we mess around with each other all the time and some of his fav games are to jumpscare me and to wrestle) due to desensitization and the fact that he trusts me very much. He was just eepy due to having just woken from his afternoon nap.

I know I shouldn’t put too much care into what Reddit thinks of me and my cat but this boy is the light of my life and I love him so much 😭😭😭 He chose to come home with me (thank you CDS) and I will always be so honoured

He never leaves my side, he guards and takes care of me like I’m his baby;; because of that trust I can feed him medicine (vid posted here before), I can take him to the vet and he behaves, I can clip his nails and he has no issue (vid also posted here before), never have to worry about him purposely scratching or biting me, if at any point he is scared he runs straight to me etc etc

I could yap on and on about how much he means to me. I’ve been enjoying this sub a lot so I’m very sorry for giving the wrong impression and stirring stuff up. I’m probably overthinking anyways but yeah;; might end up deleting this later as well

u/TragicHeroine_ — 6 days ago
▲ 270 r/TabbyCats

This is how he tucks me in bed

He is quite lenient on my nocturnal sleep schedule but 2AM is the absolute cut-off apparently. If I’m sick then I better be in bed by 11PM 🙄

I’ve struggled quite a bit with insomnia and when I sleep I tend to toss and turn and squeeze my bolster pillow very tightly. Each time I turn another way he gets up and arranges himself so that he’s facing me again, arms around my shoulders as far as he can reach, and that way I can hug him to sleep 🥺💕

The only downside: he licks my forehead so often the skin has peeled off 😭😭😭 The pain is worth it tho

u/TragicHeroine_ — 7 days ago
▲ 3.1k r/standardissuecat

Somehow cat distribution system gave me a cat who doesn’t scratch furniture, eat human food, or get upset by nail clipping

He does chew on my face in the mornings but it is forgiven because he lets me chew on him back

u/TragicHeroine_ — 9 days ago
▲ 2 r/AutisticWithADHD

Paradoxical reactions to medications/food/drink/anything ingested

EDIT: Removed specific med names as it’s not the main point of this post!

Figured that there’s lots of us out there with this problem 😭 Anyone else in the same boat?

- Caffeine of course does the opposite. Tea is much better but coffee promptly knocks me out along with the additional effect of nausea, headaches, and diarrhea

- Psychiatrist had to test out multiple sleep meds because they kept keeping me awake and hyperactive

- We settled on my current one and while it does help me sleep, it actually mostly relaxes all my limbs to the point that I can’t move them, which has an added side-effect of easing my chronic pain that affects my sleep (apparently it’s not typically used for pain, but it is now for me lol)

- I’m always on the lowest possible dose for all my medications because otherwise my body flips out

- On the contrary, painkillers don’t do much for me

- I have a pretty good diet all things considered, eating my fruits, vegetables, and meat—except no matter how consistent I am with this, I am always on the toilet shitting like a faucet 😭 Meanwhile the things that typically cause an upset stomach (extreme spice (I usually go for max level at restaurants, I prefer the heat of birds eye and can eat chili padis by itself), dairy, straight up acid) have no effect

Not looking for advice or anything as I’m already slowly working things out with my endocrinologist, psychiatrist, and neurologist. Just wanted to discuss and maybe laugh about it with some others!

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u/TragicHeroine_ — 13 days ago