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mugwot · 2 months

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consider this ask a free space to reccomend a piece of media that you love but would usually consider too niche or strange to reccomend out of pocket. gimme your oddities, big or small.

oh! oh, this is a fun question! The Gray House (though i read it as "Дом, в котором...") was like The Book for me. Its a solid Brick of a book, but the shit got me through high school, haha. Its a kinda surrealist magic realism novel about disabled kids in a boarding school. the narative is split between the past and the present to contrast how things in the house and its kids have changed. the plot is mostly about the graduation, a mystery of what happened at the old one and a question of how they will handle theirs (spoilers, Not Great). though that comes way after we get to be Immersed in the Vibe of the place. its really quite something, i dont know if it hits as hard if you are not grappling with the fear of change, but the characters are Great.

#i'm usually pretty enthusiastic about sharing stuff #this and homestuck gave me my first blorbos #real 'i will be daydreaming about studying them like bugs instead of listening in class' type of deal #discussing the book with my friend was my first 'these bitches gay' moment #im not saying the book is queer media #but i am saying that the pov character cant not comment on whether other guys around him are attractive to save his life #the vaguely homoerotic psychoanalysis conversation in the bathroom lived rent free in my mind #as did the vaguely homoerotic 'us the only two sane people have to stick together' conversation in the dark #ramble tag

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