lowkey played with coyo at copenhagen 2019

https://www.twitch.tv/wand00m/clip/BombasticBlushingFishFunRun-gwf7ndGuxu12HM-A

i only just got on study leave so i am yet to fully get on my christmas reading grindset but i did read a couple things i guess

book of dust vol3 by Phillip Pullman made me very happy and very sad. His dark materials was the first time litterature ever really made me feel something (the end of the amber spyglass really fucked up 9 year old wandum) and the northern lights is (probably) my favourite fantasy book of all time. I am deeply attached to Lyra as a character and getting to spend time with her again for as long as this book was is such a privilege. I know the book is getting mixed reviews of people not liking the end etc but i also think its literally impossible to give her an ending everybody would be happy with. For what its worth, i enjoyed my final return to the universe. I will miss lyra and pan a lot.
The City and its uncertain walls by Murakami is kinda like a sequel but also just a reimagining of Hardboiled Wonderland and the End of The World. I read the latter earlier this year cause Murakami is someone who I can just kinda read without having to super lock in but looks like i felt little enough about it to not actually include it in my last post. This book is a more boring, more "normal" version of that story. I think Murakami feeling the need to add a 3 page justification of why the book exists in the first place is reason enough to say that you should only really read this if you REALLY fuck with Murakami.
Blood Meridian by Cormac Mccarthy. I read this book because my old roommate watched the 5 hour wendigoon video about it and has been begging me to read it ever since. I think it is objectively well written. It is also the most reddit "zomg its so dark and edgy wow" book i have ever read. I dont get it. If you like reading a book about people being beheaded in graphic detail then sure i guess this is the book for you. I know reddit loves the judge and has him on all of those "top 10 scaries villains ever" lists. But like genuinely. What the fuck. This is actually the most *tips fedora* book ive ever read. Thank you so much for the reddit gold kind stranger.
I plan on spending a good amount of time reading real books this christmas (like wuthering heights! (unfortunately my very legally aquired copy on my kindle has 50 pages of prefaces)) so hopefully i can necro this thread again in like 2 months with real books

in like 2014 i found a guy with a homebrew trade bot that could be fucked with a bit to just give me all of its inventory for free
i stole like 9 keys worth before i felt bad and then when the owner of the bot added me i talked to him for like 5 mins and then blocked him out of shame :(

how the group of 15 year olds feel joining the games of random 2 viewer twitch streams and saying the n word a bunch (i didnt watch ur video but its removed for hate speech so i give it a 95% chance)

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https://www.twitch.tv/irppa/clip/AbnegateSpunkySrirachaPRChase
irppa losing high grand finals

might not be as serious as what youre looking for but theres a bit in here
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7K8D22whOk

top 5 worst thread derails

My father-in-law is a writer. It is difficult to get his attention in a magnificent shitpost because he is lost in wonder. We were reading the b4nny isekai together years ago and I asked him what it would cost to write it today. I will never forget his answer… 'We can’t, we don’t know how to do it.'

did this once (allegedly) to get out of handing in a report for a subject where i had already been graded and was eternally thankful to showstopper for saving me an evening of my life

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its like fnaf

necro!!
i havent been reading with the same frequency that i used to but here u are

The Emperor of Gladness by Ocean Voung is one of the best books I have ever read. The writing in this book is unreal. I think the first chapter of this book might be the most perfect, well written 8 page description of middle america I've ever seen. I finished this book on the train the other day and had to accept that I just kinda had to ball my eyes out in public. Read this. Ocean Voung is so unreasonably articulate (like listen to this interview with dua lipa, what the fuck???) I could listen/read to this guy talk forever. He even somehow manages to make his Oprah interview a genuinely pleasant and interesting experience.

Playground by Richard Powers had me hooked from start to finish. The Overstory is another of my most favourite books, and in Playground Powers manages to play with the format in such a unique and creative way that I think it might surpass The Overstory in quality.

Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Zevin Gabrielle feels like a book my mum would have bought me cause she saw that its about video games. I think this book does a perfectly adequate job at telling its story, but I can't get rid of my inner edgy 16 yearold self that felt really pandered to, and ultimately also misunderstood as someone who likes video games. Maybe this book isnt actually for me.

Fish Have No Feet by Jón Kalman Stefánsson is another banger from one of my favourite authors. Although this is originally written in icelandic I find that his work translated to danish is still some of the only danish literature that manages to not sound like shit. I found the story in this book to be less compelling than it's twin novel (About the Size of the Universe), but a very nice emo read while going through some personal shit earlier this year.

I love the way that Benjamin Labatut has decided to carve out this strange niche of writing historical-semi fiction about scientists, and The Maniac feels very much like a natural successor to the proof of concept that was When We Cease to Understand the World. John von Neumann is such an interesting character, and this book does such a cool job building and working with the mythology surrounding him.

I also read This Other Eden by Paul Harding like 2 years ago and I remember vaguely enjoying it, but I left like no notes on my goodreads besides a 4 star review so idk lol. It was good (i think).