#reading commentary

[crunchycrystals]

dracula is like pretty horrifying reading it through dracula daily like im gonna watch jonathan slowly lose his mind as he is prisoner in dracula's castle but then like i scroll down and dracula's doing sitcom shit trying to pretend like he has any servants and he's scaling the walls like a fucking lizard. 10/10 no notes

[trinketguy]

arthur: hm, a complicated and delicate situation..... sir gawain, go handle this

gawain: on it! [immediately beefs it]

[proseverence]

The hopeful trajectory of Noah's first chapter means the world to me.

It began with this burning shame clouding his art. Violent panic obscuring his incredible fondness of self-portraits and charcoal and the whites he uses to color his sister's eyes. His pride meant nothing in the face of survival, and he lost himself in black page after black page after black page, scribbling in a little cove no one else could find.

"I sit down and open my sketchbook. I black out a whole blank page, and then another, and another. I press so hard, I break stick after stick, using each one down to the very nub, so it's like the blackness is coming out of my finger, out of me, and onto the page."

Noah stresses over the parts of himself he keeps tucked away from the world, worried they'd be forced into the light—bare to the judgmental eyes of his father, of Zephyr, of Jude.

"I put all my effort in trying not to cry. A sickly ferret feeling is burrowing itself into every corner of my body as I pant my last breaths. And even if they don't kill me hear and now, by tonight everyone on the hill will know what just happened."

So he crawls into himself, time and time again. Pulls down the shutter between his secrets and the people around him. Unzipping the air and disappearing inside it.

“A Series: Boy Inside a Box of Darkness.”

... And then it ends with a sparkle of pride lighting up his mother's eyes. His shutters raised, his pride beaming, and he describes the warmth radiating from her as a pool of light, shining on all the hidden parts of himself and loving them indiscriminately.

“Self Portrait: Boy Dives Into a Lake of Light”

The chapter details how often Noah felt unseen, or purposely went out of his way to seem smaller, to disappear—but in a little café sat at the top of an art museum, he basks in the freedom of being known. He preens under a gaze he previously would've hoped no one caught—he volunteers to showcase his hard work.

“He winked at me. Like he knows. But it doesn’t feel bad. Not at all.”

I can't help but root for him.

[ngscoffeecupcommentary]

Katekyo Hitman Reborn! re-read

So...some time ago I found out that the Katekyo Hitman Reborn manga had it's english release run cut at volume 16...this makes my vol.1-14 collection quite rare.

I found this out when deciding if I should keep it or not and looked up prices for the rest of the volumes.

Vol.15 and 16. go for ridiculous amounts online. x_x

In some ways I find it amusing that I found out like this, since I bought my lot years ago, more than 10 years ago I think? Back when JustManga was operational. In the end I decided to keep them, especially since now I'm only missing 2 volumes, instead of the 28 I thought I did.

This is also what prompted me to go for a re-read. Now, I'm not much for  re-reads of re-watches (as apparent on my AniList lists...with some exceptions). When I'm back into a fandom I usually delve into fanfics instead of returning to canon.

With this I figured I might as well do it and decided to write some commentary for anyone who might want to read it. WARNING! THERE ARE SPOILERS HERE, ESPECIALLY SINCE IT'S A RE-READ

I will be posting single or multi chapter commentary as I got through the volumes again - mind you, this could be years lol, I'm not on KHR train atm I will be using READ MORE to hide my commentary, since I am commenting on a re-read!

these will also be posted on my AniList account first, so you can head over there for early access

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Vol.1  . ch1 . ch2 . ch3 . ch4 . ch5 . ch6 . ch7 .  

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[universejunction]

🎧 Rereading Daughter of Smoke and Bone and I was just struck by how specifically dated it is. Particularly "grainy cell phone video" and "the dead eyes of a jihadist"

[stygian-omadas-epic-chronicles]

Stygian reading commentary #6

It makes me so happy every time that a character from the chronicles of nick bunch appears on the main DH books.

I just waiting for Caleb to appear in the present day. I’ll be the happiest woman on earth then

[sully-s]

So I’ve been listening to the audio version of  Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe which is narrated by Lin-Manuel Miranda. And I figured he was narrating the book because he enjoyed the book (which so far it is pretty good)

That was in till Aristotle (the main character) was complaining about how he really didn't want to write an essay on Alexander Hamilton . . . . I see you Lin I see you...

[crunchycrystals]

are you telling me mark read a fucking poem about his dead wife and he didn't even know it was about his wife are you kidding me im gonna jump into the ocean im gonna be on the news and ill tell them its because of severance on apple tv and the stupid tie in book they published that made me feel actual emotions