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maydainsula · 3 months ago

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*bursts into your asks, desperately trying to be Casual and Normal but also Really Fucking Failing* DO YOU STILL LIKE THE EXISTENTIAL ALIEN MONKEY ROBOT BOOK ⁉️⁉️⁉️

Hello I'm so sorry idk how to answer asks privately BUT yes I still like the book!!!!! It was a neurodivergent special interest of mine so it still lives in my heart. I was the same way you are for like a year, I was trying SOOOOOO hard to get ANYONE to talk to me about this book and fuckin no one did (edit: one friend let me ramble at him but it's Not The Same). I still think about it all the time even tho I recently was able to start reading other books (seriously my special interest in AART/ABFE made me incapable of reading anything else for several months omfg).

I want to reread the Carl duology actually so that I can make a proper criticism of it because while I loved it so so sos ososososososososo much, it felt like the author refused to make the final leap in logic when it comes to power structures. Hank Green is a capitalist so he wasn't about to call out capitalism itself as the issue that needs to be dismantled, instead treating it as something that can be reformed. It really does the characters and the message of the book a disservice and made the ending feel somewhat dystopian to me as a Socialist.

BUT!!!!!!! I still love the series so much holy shit, the way my brain exploded when I found out that it had GAY WOMEN and the way my brain exploded again over how relatable April May is........... like I hate to say "she's so me!" but she's so me... the ADHD of it all, the "hating carefully-crafted internet personas was part of my carefully-crafted internet persona" of it all, the INSANE GODDAMN TWISTS (grape jelly really fucking got me), the way the characters are genuinely unlikable at times just like real people, Carl inhabiting a fucking monkey and speaking through an Alexa, like........ obsessed, OBSESSED, it's such a good series. It actually inspired me to write an entire 200-page fanfiction and then I went off and made my own story with a couple of side characters inspired by the question "what if Peter Petrawicki had a midlife bisexual crisis"

ANYWAY... Tell me about it, tell me ur thoughts about this series, I'm so here for it. I think I have my discord openly listed on my main profile @astronomeys so feel free to hmu (respectfully only if ur over 18, I am 29) (edit: it turns out I don't have it listed but it's arc1008 I think)

#an absolutely remarkable thing #a beautifully foolish endeavor #AART #ABFE #asks

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maydainsula · 3 months ago

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24.3.2025

#arc #it's literally just a self-portrait #I got high and was listening to disco records in my living room and the protective screen over my windows causes rainbows #and it was magical and I got inspired to draw and started drawing a random thing and then it turned into a random me (:#legit haven't made art since I both started teaching and joined a socialist org... sad world #also please listen to CUPID'S GIRL by MARINA she's so fucking back

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maydainsula · 1 year ago

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6.1.24

April convinces Maya to interview Carl (: Based on this video posted by Youtube user Maya

#maya #april may #carl #an absolutely remarkable thing #a beautifully foolish endeavor #anything could have happened in those 19 days in hiding at the fancy apartment #who knows...............

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maydainsula · 1 year ago

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5.10.24

#really important picture I drew in May #April MAY #an absolutely remarkable thing #I'M STILL OBSESSED WITH THIS DUOLOGY HELP MEEEEE #brain worms I just have a head filled with brain worms #If you see this even if it's 5 years after I posted it please talk to me about these books #Anyway April is a bit of a whore... lovingly

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maydainsula · 1 year ago

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4.11.2024

#april may #an absolutely remarkable thing #a beautifully foolish endeavor #Yes I'm still obsessed with this book!!!!!!! I'm on my 3rd read now!!#autistically obsessed over a book #should i tag carl as well #carl

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maydainsula · 1 year ago

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The light now poured out of the doorway along with the final words of Rick Astley's “Never Gonna Give You Up.” In that door stood a small person […] so full of “fuck the world” energy that there was absolutely no one else it could possibly have been.

-Hank Green, A Beautifully Foolish Endeavor, 2020

#An Absolutely Remarkable Thing #A Beautifully Foolish Endeavor #April May #I'm sooooooooo obsessed with this series I'm on my second read in a row lmao #Opal is really hard to draw?!?!?!??!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!??!?!?!?!?!#This is spoilers but like there's no one in this tag it's fine #Anyway if anyone happens to see this PLEASE read this book series it's so good #I was literally like yelling flapping hyperventilating while reading it #It has everything!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Gay women!!!! Commentary on humanity!!! Morally corrupt yet relatable main character!!#A monkey also!!!!!!#And Carly Rae Jepsen #The second book was truly killing me with how good the gay women scenes were. Like I know Hank Green is just some guy but he must have #gotten a LOT of feedback from gay women because the way their love was expressed in the second book was so ... complete #And it made me feel very happy (:

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maydainsula · 1 year ago

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