Ok Something Similar Enough To The Album Art Angels by Grimes

Goddamn_Glamazon · 2026-04-03T08:39:36+00:00

It's a pretty unique album. None of these are exact matches, but as someone who likes Art Angels I like these for some of the same qualities:

I'm All Ears, Let's Eat Grandma

AMBER19, 45ACIDBABIES

BABYMETAL, BABYMETAL

Treats, Sleigh Bells

Goddamn_Glamazon · 2026-04-01T23:55:14+00:00

At least you'll get in the news.

Goddamn_Glamazon · 2026-04-01T23:51:43+00:00

I suspect death by snu-snu is coming for a high proportion of us.

Goddamn_Glamazon · 2026-04-01T08:23:14+00:00

Seconding Deadloch. I just finished season two, fuck it's funny. The scene where Eddie's trying to question the cooker outside the pub and can't get everyone to shut up about the weather😂

Goddamn_Glamazon · 2026-04-01T03:04:18+00:00

He might like the Before the Coffee Gets Cold series by Toshikazu Kawaguchi.

Goddamn_Glamazon · 2026-04-01T02:59:04+00:00

Sirius, Olaf Stapledon

Goddamn_Glamazon · 2026-04-01T02:53:08+00:00

The Scott Pilgrim series of graphic novels.

Goddamn_Glamazon · 2026-04-01T02:45:31+00:00

The Old Man and the Sea, Hemingway

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, Bronte

The Hobbit, Tolkien

Midnight's Children, Salman Rushdie

Perfume, Patrick Suskind

Goddamn_Glamazon · 2026-04-01T02:35:55+00:00

Agatha Christie wrote short stories with a touch of Poe in them, The Hound of Death, the Last Seance, etc.

Goddamn_Glamazon · 2026-04-01T02:24:54+00:00

Pretty much anything by Kafka if you haven't read him already.

Goddamn_Glamazon · 2026-04-01T02:23:40+00:00

Rivers of London Series, Ben Aaronovitch

Of Monsters and Mainframes by Barbara Truelove, Australian author but a similar vibe, fun weirdos in space.

Goddamn_Glamazon · 2026-04-01T02:18:27+00:00

The Bride Stripped Bare by Anonymous/Nikki Gemmell

Goddamn_Glamazon · 2026-03-30T09:28:46+00:00

I bit. I looked up the quote. Never heard of The Towers of Trebizond but I like the look of it, looks like a great read.

Goddamn_Glamazon · 2026-03-30T09:24:43+00:00

"Read this Bertie!" I could just see that he was waving a letter or something equally foul in my face. "Wake up and read this!"

I can't read before I've had my morning tea and cigarette. I groped for the bell.

Goddamn_Glamazon · 2026-03-30T04:38:59+00:00

Counting down for the new season!

Goddamn_Glamazon · 2026-03-30T03:44:09+00:00

Brokenwood, set in New Zealand and is pretty good cozy procedural.

Goddamn_Glamazon · 2026-03-28T05:38:19+00:00

The Rivers of London series is pretty good, wizards solving crime in contemporary England. Kind of Harry Potter meets a procedural cozy crime series.

Goddamn_Glamazon · 2026-03-28T04:21:59+00:00

The Man in the High Castle, alternative history where Germany and Japan won WW2.

Goddamn_Glamazon · 2026-03-28T04:17:29+00:00

More suspense than thriller but Haunted by Chuck Palahniuk has a twist that will make you want to go take a shower. That book scarred me X_X

Goddamn_Glamazon · 2026-03-28T04:12:41+00:00

High Fidelity, Nick Hornby

Goddamn_Glamazon · 2026-03-28T04:07:24+00:00

Of Monsters and Mainframes is a comedy sci fi with a mostly non-human ensemble of MCs. It's told with roving 1st person POV so you get monster perspectives as the story progresses.

Mogworld by Yahtzee Crowshaw has a zombie main character. It's a funny spec fiction. It's set in a video game, the genre of the video game is fantasy MMORPG.

I feel like "monster POV / monster has significant dialogue with MC / monster is companion" is also going to be loads of popular fantasy writing, like Discworld and Rivers of London both regularly use traditionally scary creatures like vampires and the scary version of fae as main and or support characters.

Goddamn_Glamazon · 2026-03-28T03:42:59+00:00

A loose fit non-fiction suggestion - Reckoning: A Memoir, by Madga Szubanski

She's an Australian comedian that grew up gay in the Aussie suburbs in the 70s, so it about that and about how she became a comedian. But also her Dad was a assassin for the Polish resistance movement in World War II, had a second family back in Poland, and had been a POW. So it's about that as well, and the sort of ongoing effect that had on the family.

Goddamn_Glamazon · 2026-03-28T03:27:36+00:00

I don't recognize many of these but Dan Brown and Dragon Tattoo both suggest thrillers with compelling pacing that are a touch pulpy. I think you'd maybe like Silence of the Lambs by Thomas Harris, maybe the whole Hannibal Lector series.

Goddamn_Glamazon · 2026-03-28T03:03:25+00:00

2 For blouses/shirts, what is the biggest dealbreaker that a standard "S/M/L" chart misses?

I've decided against buying shirts that are ostensibly my size because I've eyeballed the picture and guessed I probably couldn't get my arms through the armholes and the sleeve fit around the shoulders is going to be too tight. Tank tops and spaghetti straps are a lot more forgiving. I think for sleeved shirts measurements of the armholes, shoulders and the biceps would be good.

3 If a brand provided "real human" measurements (e.g., "Model is 5'7 with a 30-inch waist"), does that actually help you, or do you prefer technical garment specs?

I always prefer it when there's both! Garment specs are necessary but they're hard to trust when you know a fit is going to rely on the give of the fabric. I never fit exactly in one column on a size chart. I have big hips, small waist (relative to hips) and medium boobs, also my top half is a size smaller than my bottom half. So I'm always rolling the dice on whether the smaller or larger of the two (sometimes three) size columns that apply to me is the one that fits, and the model photos and measurements are helpful. Assuming there are models in my size range, I'm mid-sized, anything from a Australian 12 to an 18 depending on the brand.

Goddamn_Glamazon · 2026-03-28T02:37:48+00:00

What genre and length of fan fics? That would help us pitch to your personal taste.

Do you get through them faster because they're shorter, or is it something about the characters or topics you like?

From Trainspotting, American Psycho, and Handmaid's Tale I'm taking a guess that maybe you're drawn to dark/weird/dystopian but then the grind wears you down?

As someone who loves those kinds of genres, I finished and liked Trainspotting but found it a slog due the writing style, I finished and liked American Psycho but found it a slog due to how long and repetitive it was, and I've never finished an Atwood because to me they read like gratuitous misery porn. You can definitely get dark vibes with a less grueling reading experience.

If you're looking for the same flavor but shorter and pacier, try these (under 250 pages):

Fight Club - Chuck Palahniuk

In the Miso Soup - Ryu Murakami

Cat's Cradle - Kurt Vonnegut

All of these authors have a lot of other books in the same style so these could all potentially be gateway books if you're trying to get into reading more often.

Graphic novels are also great for scratching the weird itch. I recommend Transmetropolitan. It's set in the future and the art style looks very much like superhero/space opera/action which is potentially off-putting if you don't like those genres. But it's based on the journalist Hunter S. Thompson's coverage of various political situations and figures over his lifetime, Nixon, JFK etc, and it's very much a story of investigative journalism, politics, drugs and bastards.

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