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Currently Reading:

Perdido Street Station by China Miéville, tagged #blobdido street station

Tomie by Junji Ito, tagged #blobbie

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Really feels like Miéville wanted to write about blind bug art and trippily sliding across dreams and wretched slimey citiscapes and was forced to build a plot around that, which i support wholeheartedly

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the first tomie chapter felt really strange, it didnt feel like many characters were rendered uniquely, but i still love it,, like "girl who everyone is obsessed with and Needs to obey or kill..." is SO potent.

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Im 2 chapters into tomie and shes already my bestie

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Chapter 11 felt necessary to show the extent of issacs 'cruelty' and scientific ambition, but overall not too interesting. Its been a nice slow roll out, but youve sorta been able to feel this person under the surface for a while. Also fun little Issac Lin details, like hey maybe its for real not safe for them but it does feel like the portion of issacs mind thats constantly on his theories thats getting in the way here.

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Kinda enjoying how pausing on purpose to sort thru my thoughts has made me want to pick this book back up more often. Normally id forget about it in my bag but now its in my more conscious mind :3

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Motley continues to be fun to read, so does Lin, both sort of stuck up in their weird eccentric ways, and like "correct" enough that idk if either of them are gonna change much.

Also two people back to back who do their work behind them, in ways they cant really see, the scientist using a clumsy set of mirrors but the artist doing it by feel and doing it better? idk where this parallel is going, and i hope it goes somewhere, but its interesting!

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Hmmmm mixed thoughts on chapter 9. I love the descriptions we get of the city at large, but having Issac talk to ONE guy who can contact the entire underworld and beyond... maybe its supposed to make Issac and this guy feel powerful but tbh its just made the city seem suddenly so much smaller, and not in a cramped way either. LOVE a long post-based bureaucracy scene tho, the very tactile descriptions of all the inner workings of the city feel Great. The way the city is described in the intro and then this chapter serve to position the city as like, definitely the more important character, everyone else is just extensions of what it creates :3

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Love the payoff of Issacs wild hypocrisy in Derkhan being like "yeah...its bad... dod you expect something else???" and then issac being like "well time to go deeper!" like girl. This wont be thematically relevant to your journey at all.

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Lin and Issac have such a like,,, middle class relationship? idk. Neither seems like that discontent at going to a fair to oggle at Specimens, but i guess it makes sense since Lin has pushed herself "up" (her thoughts) from her peers and Issac is an academic..

As i thought, Issac seems more interested in the physical nature of flight and any cultural implications are an afterthought, something he'll enquire after but not pay for.

Also wait does this mean all the little interludey bits are narrated by Yagharek? Love how they gave him maybe the most poetic thoughts, even vs an artist and up-himself academic, v fun.

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Okay so Yagharek like raped someone or something right? id heard sthg like that happening but also the language was so specific. That aside, real cool character, felt like he was painted very quickly, all the little details adding up to a picture of someone really coloured by shame and a want to make up for it. Guessing we're gonna be able to compare him, Mr Motley, and maybe some other characters thematically? the Remade (?) feel central to this but we dont really Know any yet i think?

Issac feels like such a relatable kind of asshole tho, instantly berates himself for not knowing about the Cymek(?) but i got the impression he was now only interested in them physically, unless his weird 100 year old textbook has Actual cultural information n not just weird physical stats, so idk if hes doing anything to remedy that deficiency.

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Okay Mr Motley is sick as fuck, I heard a lot of people talking about this book in a horror context and im glad im really getting to it! PDS has set up a bunch of potential ways in which someone like him could exist already, alongside the implications of his theory that the other races are things joined together, so his existence gets to be a fun mystery for a bit!

Oh wait even his house is multiple stitched together! right beside the bones of a creature no one understands; he does love a specific set of themes.

Really hoping we get an insight into Lin's artistic process, purely bcus i think itd b cool to read and it seems like Miéville can conjure characters concretely enough to make it compelling.

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Also realising that SO much of the bones of Wildsea are just like,,, in here. Cool 'Races' that arent just humans with different ears but are actually alien in fun ways, cramped streets full of very individual experiences, big leviathan bones that seem to make everything around them sorta worse, a scientific approach to a world that we see as fantastical, and im not very far in!

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ALSO SPECIFICALLY THE BUG AND CACTUS PEOPLE

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Also realising that SO much of the bones of Wildsea are just like,,, in here. Cool 'Races' that arent just humans with different ears but are actually alien in fun ways, cramped streets full of very individual experiences, big leviathan bones that seem to make everything around them sorta worse, a scientific approach to a world that we see as fantastical, and im not very far in!

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Perdido Street Station is starting out Fucking Strong tbh, the prose in the intro is So fun i love how grimy everything is.

Sorta hoping that this isnt setting itself up to be About Culture and is more just like, heres one hot bug lady's experience of a specific culture tho, purely personally idk if i can deal with an 800 page fiction book About Culture TM