So I finally started reading Almost Nowhere and goddamn shit this is so good. I was already having a fantastic time, and then there was Chapter XIII and then after that the bit where a character ynhapurf vagb gurve va-havirefr rkcynangvba bs ubj pbafpvbhfarff hfrf culfvpf va beqre gb jbex, which felt like it was pandering to precisely me in particular because that shit was my favorite part of Anathem which is probably my favorite book. Yeah I’m a nerd, fuck you, it’s great.
For over a year now I haven’t gotten much reading done because I keep picking things up and half-heartedly putting them down again because I’m not into it, and I was just thinking “huh, maybe I don’t enjoy fiction anymore?”, and then Almost Nowhere happens and it’s like falling in love again.
oligopspispopd-deactivated20221:
this is fainter praise than it should be, because i don’t read a lot of fiction, but i started and finished what’s current of Almost Nowhere in a few delicious sittings over the last few days; haven’t been dragged obsessively into a work of fiction like that in a long time
only part that even remotely dragged was the sex plotline; i feel like litfic and fanfic are united in finding sex/jealousy/etc all that much more emotionally interesting than i have in my own emotional repetoire, and AN despite its Eganish specfic core that has got me feverishly dreaming of boltzman brains has very strong fannish and (at the risk of slander) litficcy notes
almost nowhere is like if homestuck was good in exactly the same sense that floornight is like if NGE was good
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Chapter 20 of Almost Nowhere is up here
There’s another update, and I once again want to rec Almost Nowhere so that people who are smarter than me will read it and analyze it and leave comments with their theories about what the fuck is going on here, because every update is this new and tantalizing collection of hints and oblique answers and new questions about this thoroughly mind-bending situation.
if you, like me, enjoy when a work of fiction makes you go “WHAT” and “UHHHHHH” and “??????!?” on a regular basis, read Almost Nowhere, first chapter here
Anonymous asked: Would you say Car Boys is like Homestuck, in that it starts fairly slow, but once the plot kicks in it becomes something you could never have predicted?
babyionian-deactivated20200611:
yeah, i say that all the time. “Car Boys is like Homestuck” is what i usually say out of my mouth
I mean I gotta be honest, “It’s a Rob thing, you wouldn’t understand” is like 100% you
Precisely!
mechanicallyseparatedoctopu-blog asked: So out of curiosity, I decided to reread TNC while self-medicating severe depression with weed and amphetamines, from roughly midnight to 3 AM (with the lights out, naturally). Turns out doing leaves you in a state from which the separation as describe at least is visible, if quite far away. Made for an interesting time, though IMO more of the post-separation narrative and TNC quotes would have been fun, to see what happens to me, but oh well.
Huh, interesting!
I hope you are doing all right, or at least as close to all right as is possible under the circumstances.
wariowaretrans asked: "What a guy that guy" me about nostalgebraist
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