April is the cruellest month, January the horniest
"It was early morning. The street was jointed. I moved from joint to joint like a bad case of rheumatism. Things don't like me. I'm hurting the street."
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April is the cruellest month, January the horniest
The Primal Hunter 11: Mortal Kombat - Die of Old Age Edition; Everybody Loves Jake, But Huntin' Honey LOVES Jake; Trolley? No Problem; Labyrinths Again For No Reason; Tons of Crafting/Cultivating Minutiae While The Last Time There Was Some Actual Story Was Probably 1500 Pages Ago #booksky #litrpg
Car Bomb: Paroxysm #mathcore
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds S03E08: Aspock Time! It plays slightly less dumb when they are actively leaning into dumb. #startrek #strangenewworlds #scifi #tv
"Majella lives a quiet life caring for her alcoholic mother, working in the local chip shop. She wears the same clothes each day, has the same dinner each night, and binge-watches old DVDs of the same show from the comfort of her bed." Mostly in a chipper, but not very chipper. #booksky #ireland
Dragonsclaw: Cry Wolf #powermetal
"(...) when a tragic accident ruptures the family, Jas' curiosity warps into a vortex of increasingly disturbing fantasies." Farming Stimulator 2K18 (feat. Hitler, spincters, incest, animal cruelty, Bible, and much more!) The Sickening Saga, vol. 1 (see vol. 2 - My Heavenly Favourite) #booksky
Dragonsfire: Speak of War #heavymetal
When you haven't had sex in a long time, it feels like the worst thing that is happening to anyone anywhere. If you're living in Germany in the 1930s, it probably isn't." The Teleportation Inceldent: What if Pynchon, but funny? #booksky #historical #scifi #fantasy #humor #romance
Reinforcer: Ice and Death #powermetal #epicmetal
"Contains the answers to all the big questions in life, like: What's the secret to happiness? Is Jimmy wearing a wig? What happened with that tax thing? What's the meaning of life? Is Jimmy's laugh real? Can those teeth bite through vibranium?" Quick and easy, like your mum. #booksky #memoir
Naevus: The Dead Don't Sleep #doommetal
The Primal Hunter 10: All-Multiverse Top Teams, The First 50 Chambers of Shaolin, Dungeon Master's Guide to Dungeon Design and Mastering Dungeons, Managing Minaga, Time-Wasting Annoyances, Joint Superfriends Soiree, Malefic Twitch Stream, Dirty Cheats Done Dirt Cheap #booksky #litrpg
Viral: Oceans #heavymetal
"Blending myth, fable and allegory, Doris Lessing's astonishing visionary creation both reflects and redefines the history of our own world from its earliest beginnings to an inevitable, tragic self-destruction." I expected sooo much, but all I got was... maximum tedium. DNF #booksky #scifi
Clairvoyance: Blood Divine #deathmetal #poland
"Part millennial social comedy, part psychedelic horror, and all wildly entertaining, A Touch of Jen is a sly, unflinching examination of the hidden drives that lurk just outside the frame of our carefully curated selves." Jen Buddhism is a harsh mistress. Unbearable into bonkers. #booksky #horror
Sarastus: Gravelust #blackmetal
"Boschwitz wrote The Passenger at breakneck speed in 1938, fresh in the wake of the Kristallnacht pogroms, and his prose flies at the same pace. Taut, immediate, infused with acerbic Kafkaesque humor." Ticket to Ride: Nightmare Edition A remarkable discovery โญโญโญโญโญ #booksky #historical #holocaust
Car Bomb: Blindsides #mathcore
The Great Pyrenees Experience #dogs #dogsky #greatpyrenees #pyrs
The Primal Hunter 9: Termite Bullying, Shop Till You Drop (Into a Succubus), Careless Waspers, Daddy, Where Everybody Knows You're Thane, The Social Event of the Season, Baby Shower, Mythic Monument for The Ages, You Must Gather Your Party Before Venturing Forth, Demure Dryad Druid #booksky #litrpg
Goya: In the Dawn of November #sludge #stonermetal
Target's new "cheap-chic" strategy for arty shoppers is paying off.
"Bilboโs Last Song is considered by many to be Tolkienโs epilogue to his classic work The Lord of the Rings." On the other hand, some might say the song below really encapsulates the essence of the work: ๐๐ฐ๐ข๐ฎ ๐ช๐ด ๐ธ๐ฉ๐ช๐ต๐ฆ ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ธ๐ข๐ท๐ฆ๐ด ๐ข๐ณ๐ฆ ๐จ๐ณ๐ฆ๐บ; ๐ฎ๐ช๐ญ๐ฌ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ฎ๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ฆ๐บ ๐ช๐ด ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ธ๐ข๐บ. #booksky #poetry #fantasy
Vermilia: Veresi #epic #pagan #folk #atmospheric #metal
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds S03E07: Drowning in the Shallows of Their Deepest Thoughts... In the Style of a Bad Life Insurance Commercial #startrek #strangenewworlds #scifi #tv
Dear Daily Mail, should I be worried?
Why is this book so tedious, boring, monotonous, uninteresting, unexciting, dull, dreary, uninspired, unvaried, lifeless, flat, drab, tiresome, wearisome, tiring, laborious, irksome and thesaurus-like even to someone like me who agrees with the vast majority of it? #booksky #science #philosophy
Phosporus: Frail Grasp of Broken Hands #blackmetal #postblackmetal
The Primal Hunter 8: Mushroom Dungeon, Orange Man Bad, Smol Muad'Dib, Chow-Hulud, Tedious Skill Evolving While The Real Action is Elsewhere, Nuking Unique Life Forms From Orbit, World Domination Achievement Unlocked, All My Beast Friends, Mo' Harem Mo' Problems, Push for Perfect C #booksky #litrpg
Haxprocess: Where Even Stars Die #progressivedeathmetal #technicaldeathmetal
Short, but still overstays its welcome. While we're asking ourselves what we are reading (Stepford? Bluebeard? Beauty and the Beast? The Menagerie?), it's mildly interesting; when we get the reveal (halfway through the novella), the rest is a disappointing slog. #booksky #horror #fantasy
Crystal Skull: Stormbreaker #heavymetal #powermetal
"(...) a wide range of scientific and philosophical concerns: artificial intelligence, higher mathematics, science vs religion, the nature of consciousness, and the impact of technology..." Advanced Dungeons & Maths. Much less advanced prose and characterization. #booksky #scifi #shortstories
Shadecrown: The Art of Grieving #melodicdeathmetal
Conquer the Phantom Zone, General!
The Primal Hunter 7: Freshman Secrets, OMV Cribs, Elf Slave Girl, Vampire Clearance Sale, Golden Keys, Blessed are the Snakes, Family Feud and Loathing in Las Vegas, Hookup in Paradise, Clone Panther, Prima Guide to the Universe, Sliding Doors, Sim-Jake, Bamboozled, Back to School #booksky #litrpg
Fell Omen: Dungeon Metal Punks Besieging Digital Castles #blackmetal #punk #eldenring
"By the time the book is done, weโll know exactly how to act in every conceivable situation (...) We will be perfect, and all our friends will be jealous." ๐๐ท๐ฆ๐ณ๐บ ๐ต๐ช๐ฎ๐ฆ ๐ ๐ฉ๐ข๐ฅ ๐ข ๐ฑ๐ณ๐ฐ๐ฃ๐ญ๐ฆ๐ฎ, ๐ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ธ ๐ข ๐๐ฐ๐ญ๐ฐ๐ต๐ฐ๐ท ๐ค๐ฐ๐ค๐ฌ๐ต๐ข๐ช๐ญ, ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ฃ๐ฐ๐ฐ๐ฎ, ๐ณ๐ช๐จ๐ฉ๐ต ๐ข๐ธ๐ข๐บ, ๐ ๐ฉ๐ข๐ฅ ๐ข ๐ฏ๐ฆ๐ธ ๐ฑ๐ณ๐ฐ๐ฃ๐ญ๐ฆ๐ฎ. โ Jason Mendoza #booksky #ethics
...and Oceans: Prophetical Mercury Implement #symphonicblackmetal #experimentalmetal #industrialmetal
"(...)quantum computers, the physics of time travel, the comprehensibility of nature and the physical limits of virtual reality, the significance of human life and the ultimate fate of the universe." DNF The chapter โDavid and the Crypto-Inductivistโ cured me of the will to live. #booksky #science
Euphrosyne: Funeral Rites #melodicblackmetal #doom
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds S03E06: Craptain Kirk Reporting For Doody #startrek #strangenewworlds #scifi #tv
The Primal Hunter 6: Underwhelming Auction, Family Ties, Hunger of Hadar, Termite-Nuclear Reaction & Snakewarts School of Snitchcraft and Lizardry #booksky #litrpg #fantasy #scifi
Deafhaven: Magnolia #blackgaze #blackmetal
"(...) blurs the boundaries of the real and fantastic, offering intricate and surprising insights into human nature." As these things usually go, a mixed bag, and in that bag... some stories to remember & some I forgot while I was still reading them. #booksky #fantasy #horror #scifi #shortstories
Unreqvited: The Antimatter #postblackmetal #ambient
They don't make them like this anymore
And the Oscar for Best Original Screenplay goes to... #filmsky
Porn name generator malfunction
"When Leah finally returns after a deep-sea mission that ended in catastrophe, Miri thinks she has got her wife back." Hear the rime of a contemporary mariner, and her wife who stayed home, and their invisible upstairs neighbours whose TV is always on much too loud. #booksky #horror #queer
Innumerable Forms: Impulse #deathmetal
I hated that the two battles took 400+ pages (or it just seemed so), but I also applaud the audacious/bad decision to make them so ridiculously never-ending. They were almost Malazan-level. Sadly and unsurprisingly, by duration only.
The Primal Hunter 5: Duel on Planet Ravenloft Vampire-themed treasure hunt world event: one epic raid boss battle and one anime-style duel seem to take up half of the book. They go on for-fuckin'-ever. I had to chug four rare stamina potions to make it to the end. #booksky #litrpg #fantasy #scifi
Grima: Skull Gatherers #blackmetal
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds S03E05: Leap of Dumb Another one where elite Starfleet officers act like the idiots from "Prometheus." #startrek #strangenewworlds #scifi
"(...) a story of unshakable hope that crosses literary lines to give us a world rebuilding itself through an endless capacity for love, resilience and reinvention. Wonderful and disquieting, dreamlike and all too possible." How High We Go in the Dark? Not very high. DNF at 2%. #booksky #scifi
Amorphis: Dancing Shadow #melodicdeathmetal #folkmetal
"While driving through the mountains during a snowstorm, a recently divorced woman experiences bizarre electrical problems, leaving her with little choice but to place her trust with a charismatic truck driver." Mothman vs. Patronizer. Whoever wins... we all lose. #booksky #horror #novella
Havukruunu: Tavastland #pagan #blackmetal
Shit-Flinging Monkeys, UN General Assembly, Fungal Cleansing, Elven Golem, Sadist Sultan, Birb Covenant, Aura Bullying & the Gearing Up for the Treasure Hunt. Thankfully, the worst of the grind is now elided. A bit of self-awareness and humor helps. #booksky #litrpg #scifi #fantasy
Void: Return of the Phantom #thrash
If you don't mind the literary-guy-tries-to-write-an-airport-novel vibe, you might enjoy this one. It's a delicate balance to strike. It's not literary enough, and trying to make it a genre page-turner makes it worse. C. Whitehead's "Zone One" is a rare success in that space (literary zombie novel).
"(...) ingeniously blends crime, fantasy, sci-fi, and thriller as it plumbs the mysteries surrounding a Paris-New York flight. (...) A virtuoso novel where logic confronts magic." Dua Oulipa: or If on a winter's night a French guy writes a mediocre Netflix series script #booksky #scifi #thriller
Ba'al: Well of Sorrows #blackmetal #atmosphericblackmetal #postblackmetal
"(...) explores the depths of the human psyche, questioning consciousness, free will, the value of relationships, fear, and the limitations of solitude." I'm thinking of panning things. I was hoping for weird and literary, but I found it just gimmicky and not even middlebrow. #booksky #horror
Abigail Williams: Still Nights #blackmetal
The Primal Hunter 3: Hawk Two-a and Getting That Huge D Grinding levels in fighting and alchemy, palling with birds and gods, warcriming fungi & some light city management. After 2000+ pages, one would expect a slight improvement in writing. It's still F-grade. #booksky #litrpg #fantasy #scifi
Weald & Woe: This Vale of Tears #melodicblackmetal
Time for some in-the-body experiences.
"In a locked ward of a psychiatric hospital sits a man who insists that he is Dr. Nicholas Slopen, failed husband and impoverished Samuel Johnson scholar. Slopen has been dead for months, yet nothing can make this man change his story." โช ๐๐ฆ๐ต ๐๐ถ๐ต๐ต๐ข ๐๐บ ๐๐ณ๐ฆ๐ข๐ฎ๐ด, ๐๐ฆ๐ต ๐ช๐ฏ๐ต๐ฐ ๐๐บ ๐๐ข๐ณ๐ค๐ข๐ด๐ด โช #booksky #scifi
Sweeping Death: To The Absurd Night #heavymetal #progressivemetal
"Two time-traveling agents from warring futures, working their way through the past, begin to exchange lettersโand fall in love." This is How You Get Ants (In Your Pants) โ an ePistol-ary novel of wuthering inter-agency sapphic romance... in multiple timelines! #booksky #scifi #romance #queer
Rwake: The Return of Magik #sludge #doom #experimental
'The Night of the Hunter' is such a weird film, mostly about the dangers of cosmetics and the endurance of little children. #filmsky #thriller #religion
The author seems to think AKA means i.e., which is also very amusing.
In the interludes, we also see that some other people are also awesome and hellakewl, but we get a sense that our guy can beat them. On the other/same hand, the writing is hilariously bad.
UltraOP loner spends billions of points in a shop, bathes in poison, returns to Earth as a Lord Progenitor Gigachad, founds a city, grows wings, and, most importantly, finds someone to do all the boring stuff (city building, laundry, having human emotions...) for him. #booksky #litrpg #fantasy
Opia: The Fade #gothicmetal #doom
"Angel knows a lot about pain. His mother died in this room. He's researched its history. He's come back today to end it, no matter the cost, once and for all." โช ๐๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ช๐ง ๐บ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ณ ๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ข๐ฅ ๐ฆ๐น๐ฑ๐ญ๐ฐ๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ด ๐ธ๐ช๐ต๐ฉ ๐ฅ๐ข๐ณ๐ฌ ๐ง๐ฐ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ฃ๐ฐ๐ฅ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ๐ด ๐ต๐ฐ๐ฐ ๐'๐ญ๐ญ ๐ด๐ฆ๐ฆ ๐บ๐ฐ๐ถ ๐ฐ๐ฏ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ฅ๐ข๐ณ๐ฌ ๐ด๐ช๐ฅ๐ฆ ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ธ๐ฐ๐ฐ๐ฎ. โช TW: yes #booksky #horror #splatterpunk
Floating: Still Dark Enough #deathmetal #postpunk
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds S03E04 Sadly, the most entertaining Season 3 episode until now is an 'Elementary, Dear Data' clone, complete with the holodeck prompt AI exploit. Still, "The Last Frontier" scenes were hilarious, especially Maxwell Saint's over-the-top Legally-Not-Shatner. #tv #scifi
"The Circle tells the story of a normally quiet community, plunged into the kind of surreal nightmare only Bentley Little can deliver." It started weird and interesting with butt-diamonds but fizzled out hard into discount-Stephen-King banality after that. #booksky #horror #novella
Wytch Hazel: Healing Power #heavymetal #folkmetal
"At first glance, Phil Pendleton and his son Adam are just an ordinary father and son. Some might say the father is a little too accommodating, given the lack of discipline when the child loses his temper in public." Won't somebody please think of the parents? #booksky #horror #novella #children
Amorphis: Light and Shadow #melodicdeathmetal #folkmetal #progressivemetal
Dorothy: But it wasn't a dream. It was a place. And you, Kick-Ass, and you, Villanelle, and you, Voldemort, were there... and Brexit was there, and Covid, and Agincourt, and Teletubbies, and prog-rock, and bullet-time... #filmsky #horror #zombies
"A cynical fixer for a silent-film studio must confront the shadows behind the bright lights." It started strong as Old Hollywood's Ray Donovan encounters a supernatural mystery, but quickly fizzled out with the Mrs. Hope ex machina ending. #booksky #horror
Iron Spell: Black, Hot & Heavy #heavymetal #chile
"Nearly a year after a botched job, a hitman takes a new assignment with the promise of a big payoff for three killings. What starts off as an easy task soon unravels, sending the killer into the heart of darkness." Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Go Culting #filmsky #horror #folkhorror
"A determined young woman and a damaged occultist risk their lives and souls to perform a dangerous ritual that will grant them what they want." A magical misery tour with a powerful, cathartic ending. #filmsky #horror #occult #religion
"A small research team went down below the surface to find out what secret the world's deepest borehole was hiding. What they have found turned out to be the greatest threat in history. And the future of humanity is in their hands." Superderivative Superboring Superbad #film #horror #scifi
"When her husband dies unexpectedly, Maggie Royal is struck with sinister visions that foretell danger for her and for her five-year-old daughter. She must uncover the meaning of her visions before her candle is snuffed out." As they say, the game is not worth the candle. #booksky #horror
Amon Amarth: We Rule the Waves #melodicdeathmetal
That escalated quickly. Not sure if there's a point to it beyond 'war is hell' and 'this is *exactly* how that crappy event happened... in real time!' No context, no special insight into characters... #film #war
I have seen the cosmic horror and it is going to Jacques Derrida High. 'The Empty Man' is overlong, but it's eerie, atmospheric and worth watching. #horror #cosmic #lovecraftian #film
Thunderstorm! Finally!
Gothic, Slavic, French, romantic, tragic, stylish, creepy, queer, and, somehow, funny story about duty, history, family, loved ones, and the undead monsters who drink their blood. #film #horror #fantasy #vampires
