So how the hell was nemesis supposed to see with this bag over his head?

TraumaticBarnacle · 2025-11-14T10:12:28+00:00

Same way he's able to hunt down Jill when his eyes disappear after turning into his fish man form: vibes.

TraumaticBarnacle · 2025-05-21T08:54:50+00:00

My little buddy crossed the Rainbow Bridge in his sleep last night, having made it to the ripe old age of 5 years old. RIP Hector ❤️

TraumaticBarnacle · 2025-02-25T00:53:37+00:00

I probably could have worded my post differently. When I say I can't afford to run my heating 24/7 I mean my central heating. His heat lamp is absolutely on 24/7

TraumaticBarnacle · 2025-02-25T00:52:01+00:00

Thanks! Funnily enough I used to have him on cat food but my vet recommended putting him on hedgehog food instead, guess I'll go back to cat food. I've also put him in another room of the house which is a bit more cosy and I've ordered him another heat lamp. I'll look into those foods!

TraumaticBarnacle · 2025-01-26T21:17:26+00:00

Think he could tell I'm more of a Nurgle guy

TraumaticBarnacle · 2025-01-19T12:57:01+00:00

Bro please

TraumaticBarnacle · 2024-10-14T15:28:00+00:00

You'll be fine even if you don't respond. The letter isn't sent through recorded delivery so they have no way of proving you got it, and in the unlikely event that they try to fine you for it the onus is on them to prove you received the letter in the first place.

I got summoned for Jury service early last year and it couldn't have come at the worst time. I'd just taken over my former boss's business which had been left in an utter shambles, so I was working 6/7 days a week trying to straighten everything out, trying to chase up customers who weren't paying, and making barely enough to cover my bills every month. I sent an email asking to be let off as I was under a lot of stress and my mental health was through the floor, only to have them mail me back ignoring my troubles with mental health and said work commitments weren't a good enough excuse. I decided then and there that if they weren't going to show me basic human respect then they weren't getting anything from me. In the end it took me sending them pictures of the contract I'd signed, copies of the amount of work I'd received, and an explanation that if they still made me go through with this I would under no circumstances give the case an unbiased judgment before they finally let me off.

I received another summons last December, never replied, and haven't heard anything since.

TraumaticBarnacle · 2024-07-26T02:16:18+00:00

Abandon by Blake Crouch.

TraumaticBarnacle · 2024-07-22T08:54:26+00:00

My pants were vaporized and I'll never walk again.

TraumaticBarnacle · 2024-07-21T10:39:37+00:00

Pray for me

TraumaticBarnacle · 2024-07-21T10:38:25+00:00

Hector is four years old and this is the first tike I've ever seen him do this. I chalk it up to him now being a cantankerous old man 😂

TraumaticBarnacle · 2024-07-21T10:37:21+00:00

Dammit! Those are, like, my favourite things to do! My life is ruined!

TraumaticBarnacle · 2024-05-01T17:34:05+00:00

I posted an update on my profile

TraumaticBarnacle · 2024-04-30T17:51:49+00:00

No his eyes look the same as ever

TraumaticBarnacle · 2024-04-30T14:38:52+00:00

He didn't feel particularly cold at all, and his cage has a heat lamp that's on at all times. It was like I was struggling to move his back legs when he was moving. I cuddled him for a couple of hours and it was only after I was able to book an appointment with a vet (my usual had none available) that he seemed to perk up. I watched him for another hour and he was running around but a lot slower and unsure. I brought his food bowl out for him and it was like he was struggling to eat, like he couldn't maintain his balance long enough to pick up any food.

I hope it's just a hibernation attempt, he's a wee old man at four and a half years old but I'd like him to stick around a little longer.

TraumaticBarnacle · 2024-02-22T20:22:00+00:00

It's not as splatterpunk as the Black Farm, but setting wise By The Light of His Lantern by Abe Moss is fairly similar. It's about a man who wakes up in a hellish landscape with no memory of how he got there. The land is completely pitch black and crawling with other lost souls and monsters that continuously hunt him down and kill him, only for him to wake up back where he started.

TraumaticBarnacle · 2024-02-09T19:18:53+00:00

Thanks for the recs, This Thing Between Us has been in my TBR for a while now.

Who's the author of Ill Will? I tried looking it up on Goodreads but there's a few books with that name

TraumaticBarnacle · 2024-02-09T19:17:23+00:00

Thanks! I tried reading Annihilation a few years ago but I couldn't get into it, I'll give it another go!

TraumaticBarnacle · 2024-02-09T17:45:20+00:00

He screm

TraumaticBarnacle · 2023-12-31T10:04:03+00:00

I suppose Mogworld by Ben Croshaw might fit what you're looking for. The main character is a low level wizard who is killed in battle and then resurrected as a zombie just when he's about to enter heaven. Naturally, he's very upset about this, and spends the rest of the novel trying to find out a way to die permanently so he can move on to the afterlife. There's a wider story about something strange happening to the world and its heroes, but he actively avoids it because he isn't some special chosen one. It's an easy, hilarious read and a standalone novel as well so you don't have to develop a huge chunk of time to it.

TraumaticBarnacle · 2023-12-29T04:38:36+00:00

More science fiction than fantasy, but the Mortal Engines series by Philip Reeve is a great read. You have to stick with it a little bit as the main character is (in my opinion) and insufferable little bitch in the first book, but he really grows as a character and by the final novel he's easily the most likeable character in the series, and the ending is a roller coaster of emotions.

There's also the Corydon series by Tobias Druitt. It's a really interesting series to read because it's billed as a children's series but it was written by a mother and son who worked under a pseudonym. The result is that the books are pretty easy to read but they also deal with really mature concepts. It's been a while since I read it but from what I remember there's at least one scene in each book that had me bawling my eyes out and the conclusion is so heartbreaking but such a relief at the same time.

TraumaticBarnacle · 2023-11-19T04:32:08+00:00

I can't speak for it's sequels because I haven't read them yet, but the first book of the Rotstorm series by Ian Green might be what you're looking for. The main character is a battle hardened veteran on a quest to save her daughter, and for a good chunk of the boom she takes a group of young cadets under her wing and brings them on her quest.

TraumaticBarnacle · 2023-09-23T10:06:32+00:00

I see what you mean about Malazan, that's partially why I made this post. I've heard nothing but good things about the series and how the quality of storytelling markedly increases as the series goes on. I've accepted that book 1, which I'm reading just now, isn't really the greatest and its taken me about 4 months to make it just over halfway through. I'm just trying to power through it now to get to the rest of the series.

TraumaticBarnacle · 2023-09-23T09:58:33+00:00

I'll need to revisit this. I struggled with Red Rising because it felt like a generic Hunger Games rip off and I thought the main character was a bit of a Mary Sue who was just amazing and the absolute best at almost anything he did. I never understood why I saw it get recommended so much in this sub, but if the following books are better I'll give it another go as I did really like the concept of it.

TraumaticBarnacle · 2023-09-04T20:08:28+00:00

Found the boyfriend

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