This winner of the Newbery Medal and the National Book Award features Stanley Yelnats, a kid who is under a curse. A curse that began with his no-good-dirty-rotten-pig-stealing-great-great-grandfather and has since followed generations of Yelnats.
Now Stanley has been unjustly sent to a boys' detention center, Camp Green Lake, where the warden makes the boys "build character" by spending all day, every day, digging holes five feet wide and five feet deep. It doesn't take long for Stanley to realize there's more than character improvement going on at Camp Green Lake: the warden is looking for something. Stanley tries to dig up the truth in this inventive and darkly humorous tale of crime, punishment, and redemption.
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“I felt like I was looking into the future . . . and the future looked really messed up.” —Black Hole, Charles Burns
Touching on themes of companionship and alienation, sex and drugs, and coming-of-age in a world that is all too frightening, Charles Burns’s cult classic stands the test of time as one of the most “frighteningly brilliant” (The Boston Globe) graphic novels ever inked.
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and what if I cried. huh. what if I cried.
Like is he calling HIMSELF a monster here ???
I need him to explode (affectionate)
(edit) Additionally:
Euclydia seems to be the name of Bill's home dimension, as stated by the Time Baby, this is what I got when I looked it up on the site
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trans Túrin Turambar for @constellationqueer
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You know that romance novels where the MC is kidnapped by aliens and asked to marry the alien prince
And the alien prince looks like:
That's what I thought when I saw how Thrawn is drawn for the book covers
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Her eyes were like a black hole. There was absolutely no room for light, but that didn't mean I wouldn't fall into it.
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I drew some art of Bill’s ex a few months ago, before she officially became canon. Still really like how this turned out
@ckret2
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kissin kate barlow has the best villain origin story ever put to paper. if i fell in love with a sweet man who just wanted to sell onions and show of his sick carpentry skills and they killed him for being black i think i would also snap and kill everyone involved in the most ironic way possible.
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idk how to say this without sounding like a cantankerous old man, but i have to stand in my truth here and say that i find it insufferable when Queer Books feel the need to explain each character's identity to me before i've even heard them speak. every time i encounter a line that's like "i watched my queerplatonic genderfluid partner nova run down the hall towards me with their pansexual pin proudly displayed on their chest" i lose a few years off my life
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