Hello! I welcome any and all interactions with this blogette (although I retain the right to ask people to disengage situationally or entirely) and it's kind of just going to be me yelling about my special interests and shit i'm less intensely into and my daily life and neat facts and cute animals pics and and and And a lot. Literally anything I want in here that's sfw.
animal: If you look into the opening of an owl's ear, you can see the back of its eyeball. (google at your own peril, it's a little weird looking) vegetable: Cabbage, broccoli, brussels sprouts, kohlrabi, kale, and cauliflower are all the same species of plant, just bred with a selective focus on different parts of the plant. Spoiler: diagram showing which parts mineral: Diamond may not actually the hardest naturally occurring mineral anymore! From what I've gathered, there's decent evidence that both lonsdaleite and wurtzite boron nitride are both harder, but the problem is trying to get enough to test to confirm. There's not a lot of it out there.
I HAD MY FIRST DAY AT NEW BUG JOB AND IT WAS REAL GOOD pings my autism organizing enjoyment perfectly
I've been able to read again lately, so I'm going on a horror kick for spooky szn. Gonna repurpose this for yelling about the books I read / prolly liveblogging them somewhat.
Going with this list, minus the Stephen King books except for the Institute: https://www.goodreads.com/blog/show...utm_medium=email&utm_source=horror_newsletter
OKAY first book is A Head Full of Ghosts by Paul Tremblay. Synopsis: Spoiler The lives of the Barretts, a normal suburban New England family, are torn apart when fourteen-year-old Marjorie begins to display signs of acute schizophrenia. To her parents' despair, the doctors are unable to stop Marjorie's descent into madness. As their stable home devolves into a house of horrors, they reluctantly turn to a local Catholic priest for help. Father Wanderly suggests an exorcism; he believes the vulnerable teenager is the victim of demonic possession. He also contacts a production company that is eager to document the Barretts' plight. With John, Marjorie's father, out of work for more than a year and the medical bills looming, the family agrees to be filmed, and soon find themselves the unwitting stars of The Possession, a hit reality television show. When events in the Barrett household explode in tragedy, the show and the shocking incidents it captures become the stuff of urban legend. Fifteen years later, a bestselling writer interviews Marjorie's younger sister, Merry. As she recalls those long ago events that took place when she was just eight years old, long-buried secrets and painful memories that clash with what was broadcast on television begin to surface--and a mind-bending tale of psychological horror is unleashed, raising vexing questions about memory and reality, science and religion, and the very nature of evil. So far, I like it. I'm keeping going with it. I'm an only child and some of the detailed interactions between Majorie and Merry feel very personal in a way that's hard for me to grasp, but it's not offputting.
I just listened to the audiobook of A Head Full of Ghosts! I feel like Tremblay has a great feel for characters and dialogue that feels natural. Also the blog posts with all that early 2000s internet speak is so accurate I physically cringed lol
Especially the child/teenage voices, which can be really hard to pull off and if you don't do it right it just sends all the immersion down the toilet and given the premise of this book is really important.
Ooh I just finished Head Full of Ghosts. I feel like the very ending was a little bit of a letdown? There was this big horrendous windup where we have kid!Merry being manipulated into killing her family, which gives you the sense of peeking through your eyes at a horror movie and going "DON'T!" at a protagonist who you know is going into a dangerous situation. And then it just petered out in the coffee shop. I'll post more thoughts later.
Wait no here's another one - I really like the kind of anvil and hammer of her dad going round the bend as well. We'll never know if he was going to kill his family, of course, but it's a good unanswered thought.
OKAY IT WASN'T A LETDOWN I JUST MISSED THE IMPLICATION THE LITTLE SISTER WAS THE ONE WHO WAS POSESSED
Time to change the title of this thread, I'm derailing into scifi with The Diamond Age by Neil Stephenson
The Diamond Age wasn't like, bad, but I DNF'd it. I might pick it up later. I'm back on horror reading The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones. Spoiler: Book Spoilers (major) Kind of feel like it hit a wall after Lewis died. I love Denorah though.