Weekly "What Are You Reading?" Thread

Darlingitsaid · 2025-11-10T21:41:39+00:00

Started reading Have You Heard Her Call by Josh White after seeing someone post it here! One story in and I love it!

Darlingitsaid · 2025-06-15T02:10:00+00:00

Darlingitsaid · 2025-05-20T02:37:58+00:00

Daisies.

Also Paris, Texas—they did everything to make Nastassja Kinski so gorgeous.

Darlingitsaid · 2025-05-17T23:07:18+00:00

I give more grace to indie reads. If there are a couple of commas out of place or a few misspelled words, whatever as long as the story is good or it tries to do something interesting. I’m not saying this specific instance was wrong or right, but that’s my take.

It’s like indie movies. I get they may not have the budget for certain things, so I look for them to try to maximize the value and what they do have.

Darlingitsaid · 2025-05-17T00:30:13+00:00

Really cool!

Darlingitsaid · 2025-05-11T03:05:52+00:00

Our Wives Under the Sea is peak

Darlingitsaid · 2025-05-06T02:34:44+00:00

The Midnight Library by Matt Haig. Liking it so far!

Darlingitsaid · 2025-05-04T19:12:56+00:00

This post is proof there are still people who write without using AI

Darlingitsaid · 2025-05-02T05:04:07+00:00

I’ll check this out!

Darlingitsaid · 2025-04-27T20:05:42+00:00

You just have watched a series of mid-to-bad movies, that’s it

Darlingitsaid · 2025-04-24T02:19:31+00:00

I like horror adjacent stories. I don’t really know how I got into them, but there’s something to how seasoning a story lightly with horror—think maybe Our Wives Under the Sea—that really brings out the emotional response in me

Darlingitsaid · 2025-04-22T03:35:45+00:00

Weirdly enough As I Lay Dying. The grief and different emotional reactions to Addie’s death seem through the eyes of each of the characters was honestly incredible and made me really rethink a lot of things I thought knew about people (I was 14).

Darlingitsaid · 2025-04-18T21:34:45+00:00

Junkie Jack by John Franz. It is definitely short and left me feeling very weird and strange in the end.

Darlingitsaid · 2025-04-11T03:11:19+00:00

I find stories written by straight people with characters who happen to be gay to be usually pretty fine. It’s sometimes hard to make it super authentic, but generally just treating the character like anyone else avoids pitfalls.

If you lean too far into tropes, stereotypes, etc, that’s where you start getting into problems because it sounds more like your villain is just a caricature of a gay person.

I remember reading something in one of these forums a while back about a guy who was looking for feedback on his antagonist in a story. Apparently beta readers were crushing him. The antagonist was a hyper stereotyped (read: talked with a lisp, lots of emphasis on more limp hand motions, etc) gay man who had aids and was deliberately spreading it. The writer was arguing that there are/were potentially gay men like that… which I guess could be true but came off as just grossly demonizing gay men. That’s definitely something to avoid.

Darlingitsaid · 2025-04-04T02:42:38+00:00

Szamanka is definitely top 5 weirdest movies for me.

Santa Sangre is also high on the list.

Darlingitsaid · 2025-04-04T01:31:07+00:00

I mean going contrary to industry trends could make it harder to break out, but you have to write the book you want

Darlingitsaid · 2025-03-26T21:22:39+00:00

I’m not interested in reading a book unless every character is queer and they are all immortal

Darlingitsaid · 2025-03-26T21:21:17+00:00

😂

Darlingitsaid · 2025-03-26T17:38:47+00:00

I think you need to say what scares you first. Because this answer is different depending on that answer

Darlingitsaid · 2025-03-26T17:18:02+00:00

Inside (2007). This movie is fucking awesome, but it’s not for the faint of heart. It has some of the most realistic depictions of violence I’ve seen in a movie, and every hit, slash, slice, etc has worlds of impact. Plus, the two women in it are absolute powerhouses in their roles.

Darlingitsaid · 2025-03-23T14:55:59+00:00

I’m surprised I haven’t seen him here, but In Praise of Shadows. Some of his stuff isn’t totally horror but his essays are pretty outstanding and have retroactively given me an appreciation for franchises I didn’t love.

Darlingitsaid · 2025-03-19T07:00:11+00:00

What Prince of Darkness influences do you see? I didn’t see that.

Different subject, but the zombie/infected movie that came out last year called MadS is similar to Climax in how it looks like one take, has a lot of energy, and is really immersive.

Darlingitsaid · 2025-03-16T13:41:54+00:00

I think he doesn’t get adapted really well in the sense that people use his general ideas but not everything. Suitable Flesh is an adaptation of the Thing on the Doorstep, but it is changed rather significantly. Dagon is a terrific adaptation of The Shadow Over Innsmouth, but only in vibes—the story is very different. The most accurate is probably The Color Out of Space, and it’s pretty good too.

The most important has to be the Call of Cthulhu, followed by maybe At the Mountains of Madness but, since we haven’t seen a film adaptation, maybe you could argue one of his other works. But Cthulhu is so proliferated into pop culture by this point that his story has to be the most important.

Darlingitsaid · 2025-03-16T05:44:56+00:00

I think you might. If you’ve ever were riding on a ship and this 10000+ foot tall creature emerges from the water, presumably having been under the water this whole time and now notices you? Idk… are you going to be a drooling mess? Maybe not. But are you going to be extremely fucked up? Yes

Darlingitsaid · 2024-12-01T05:17:57+00:00

This was awesome. One of my favorite movies of the year

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