#about horst

[schadenfreudich]

Man, I want the tiny little Austrian man back. At least he was kind of cute.

[bogcreacher]

CHALLENGING YOU TO DRAW THE BUG DRAGONS

on it boss o7

[lezball]

now why’d he grab her hoodie like she’s a cat

[thedevilscarnival]

i forgot how every other page of book 4 is just "i miss johannes :/" "i wish johannes was here :/" "i miss sleeping in a cramped clothes chest because it was in the same room as johannes :/" like, dude. you literally attempted a murder suicide with him. do you have something you want to share with the class.

[surfinthehighway]

Ok I finished The Fear Institute….. O_O

what can I say other than the last arc of that book did not slow down and gut punched me several times.

[ryeeatsbread]

I'm toooo in love welllllpppp

Watch out, there's loads of gushing in the tags

[link-sans-specs]

The Comedy vs. The BRomance

Mythical Society

Rhett & Link Extras- Inside the Three A**holes

[gregdotorg]

The 1972 Horst photo of Kenneth Noland's NYC apartment, with the most hateful lighting a painter could ever imagine, installed by socialite designers Chessy Rayner and Mica Ertegun and happily published by Vogue, apparently, led me to chase down the most random Wikipedia reference about 1980s/90s menswear designer Alexander Julian making Noland-inspired sweaters. Results are so far inconclusive.

[jula483]

The Quest For The Brown Diamond - Commentary SPOILER

you guys. WE WON.

[opheliaintherushes]

That "is your fave author a Jew...sorry a 'Zionist'" list is hilarious, because 1) step a toe into the wide world of reading books by authors who have no use for you! Now you know what it's like to be a Jew! 2) Salman Rushdie?! Amazing.

[acgames]

Me putting Anna as living in town of Albany only for Albany to get blown up by French and Assassins in the storyline...

On one hand I probs should finish the game first before making OCs, but on other I think French and Assassins obliderating the town Anna made into her home, would both push her to aid templars (and british) more and to return to her professional ass beating ways at full swing...

[schadenfreudich]

We finally gave the two... not quite people actual names, we could stop just describing them every time.

And while with Horst is was, yeah, that sounds like a fitting name, with Anton it was more of a "I think his name's Anton" which implies things that I will just not think about.

[bogcreacher]

bunch of them 👍👍 info dump under the cut

Fir is Wolf’s dad (his name is a reference to the fact that Wolf’s name was Pine in 2018). He is a well-meaning guy but very much a product of the environment he was raised in (extremely uptight and competitive IceWing family). He raised Wolf as best he could but the toll of his wife’s death and infidelity (Wolf was born of an extramarital affair) lead to him becoming closed-off and prone to lying for convenience - a trait he accidentally taught to Wolf.

Flash is Wolf’s half-brother, (his name was Shard in 2018, a name that has since been adopted by the current IceWing king). Although they were known to fight, as kids Flash and Wolf had each other’s backs, being each other’s only sibling and confidant. They often bonded over their shared dislike of chores and conspired to prank the adults at fancy dinners. As a dragonet, Flash despised the stifling and cut-throat culture they were raised in, something Wolf was less privy to as the family’s black sheep. As adults their relationship soured a little as Flash’s intense ambition started bleeding into his relationships with his loved-ones.

Stygian is Haunted’s brother from the same clutch. He is almost her complete opposite - a powerful seer and mind-reader, but physically small and unable to fly. Stygian struggled socially for most of his youth, with peers and mentors alike finding him “confusing” and “difficult”. His one real friend was Haunted, who was the only dragon who afforded him the understanding and patience he deserved, despite being the only dragon in their community who couldn’t literally read his mind. He was abducted at the start of the story, and it’s Haunted’s sole quest to find him.

Hover (mentioned briefly in Leap of Faith) was Red Kite’s childhood best-friend/rival, and the dragon that took a chunk out of her ear. He was a deeply insecure kid and took it out on those around him; Red was the only dragon in their class that was unable to ignore his name-calling and as such they frequently got into whatever the dragon equivalent of fist-fights is. Their rivalry eventually mellowed into a (still fiercely competitive) friendship and the pair became thick as thieves throughout their later education. They lost touch as adults, Red still thinks of him from time to time.

Tenrec is a RainWing spy. They have physically altered themselves in order to blend in amongst other tribes, including removing their frill and parts of their ears. He rarely changes colour based on emotion due to being trained to maintain a “poker-face” when undercover. Current employer and deployment status is classified.

[nightmarecountry]

With naught but a localized gust of wind as forewarning, Horst brought his considerable strength to bear with a Fist™ to the Nightmare's jaw.

Eye for an eye, bitch.

ignoring the fact that the narrator is reusing the same icon for the billionth time, the corinthian--second of its kind--is left to pick itself up from the dirt, frowning as it spits out a tooth. something about the gap it leaves in his gums feels familiar, unsettling--but the tooth is replaced nearly instantly, and the corinthian is left to wonder what the hell it did in its previous life to deserve this.

it's not like he can't guess, though. from what he understands, his predecessor only really had three kinds of interactions with other people: killing, fucking then killing, or ignoring them completely.

[profound-mystery]

I want a Johannes Cabal/ Mechanisms crossover.

[surfinthehighway]

Some rambling, but I actually only got back into fiction as an adult recently. Last year I followed along with a Frankenstein Weekly mailing list (the first fiction book I’ve read since high school), then took a break from fiction for half a year before impulsively borrowing the audiobook for Our Hideous Progeny, a spin on Frankenstein with women and dinosaurs. I ended up loving that and I’ve been engaging (not exclusively) with a lot of Frankenstein-adjacent media since.

WHAT’S FUNNY is that as much as Johannes Cabal resembles my beloved Victor Frankenstein, I actually found JCtN on an old Reddit thread for books with similar vibes to the Addams Family sitcom. The resemblance to Frankenstein (obsession, preoccupation with death, introversion yet devotion to loved ones, restoring life, basically medical fantasy, et cetera) was a happy surprise