#rotters

[toynbeetile]

im the only person who rides for rotters not even the author fw it anymore

[mysslyss29]

be the angel that comes down and picks up my heart

stella ( @scattered-vernal hiiii :3 ) and wyatt

13/02/2025 (redraw of piece from 17/11/2023)

[himepups]

attacks i did of @toynbeetile's versions of foley and joey from rotters. bless up

[just-a-little-frog]

does anybody else ever wonder what daniel kraus’s dad did to him. it cannot be a coincidence that so many of his MCs have intense daddy issues

[haveyoureadthishorrorbookpoll]

Have you read...

Rotters by Daniel Kraus

Yes, I liked it

Yes, I had a neutral or complicated opinion

Yes, I didn't like it

No, but I want to

No, I have a neutral or complicated opinion

No, I don't want to

No, but I have consumed other media for it (movie, show, etc.)

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Voting ended onDec 22, 2023

note: If you did not finish but feel you read enough to form an opinion, you may choose a ‘Yes’ option instead of 'Partly' (e.g., Yes, I didn’t like it). Similarly, if you’ve never heard of a book until now but formed an opinion from this post, you may wish to select a “no” option e.g., “No, but I want to.”

Grave-robbing. What kind of monster would do such a thing? It's true that Leonardo da Vinci did it, Shakespeare wrote about it, and the resurrection men of nineteenth-century Scotland practically made it an art. But none of this matters to Joey Crouch, a sixteen-year-old straight-A student living in Chicago with his single mom. For the most part, Joey's life is about playing the trumpet and avoiding the daily humiliations of high school.      Everything changes when Joey's mother dies in a tragic accident and he is sent to rural Iowa to live with the father he has never known, a strange, solitary man with unimaginable secrets. At first, Joey's father wants nothing to do with him, but once father and son come to terms with each other, Joey's life takes a turn both macabre and exhilarating.      Daniel Kraus's masterful plotting and unforgettable characters make Rotters a moving, terrifying, and unconventional epic about fathers and sons, complex family ties, taboos, and the ever-present specter of mortality.

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[pepiis-dump]

who would win

[irreplaceable-spark]

Did you want to see it used by whining rotters who never rouse themselves to any effort, who do not possess the ability of a filing clerk, but demand the income of a company president, who drift from failure to failure and expect you to pay their bills, who hold their wishing as an equivalent of your work and their need as a higher claim to reward than your effort, who demand that you serve them, who demand that it be the aim of your life to serve them, who demand that your strength be the voiceless, rightless, unpaid, unrewarded slave of their impotence, who proclaim that you are born to serfdom by reason of your genius, while they are born to rule by the grace of incompetence, that yours is only to give, but theirs is to take, that yours is to produce, but theirs is to consume, that you are not to be paid, neither in matter nor in spirit, neither by wealth nor by recognition nor by respect nor by gratitude - so that they ride on your rail and sneer at you and curse you, since they owe you nothing, not even the effort of taking off their hats which you paid for? Would this be what you wanted? Would you feel proud of that?

Francisco d’Anconia, Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand, Page 420

[autisticheadcanons]

Joey Crouch from the book, Rotters (by Daniel Kraus), is autistic. When he gets upset/anxious/etc in the book, he does what is described as "specifying," focusing on the small details of everything around him.