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Cinder Maid's Dad is a Pushover

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Final blog of our 10 posts in one day extravaganza! And it was exactly as stressful as I thought it would be! But a bunch of stress now means slightly less stress later, like balancing a check book of bad decisions and stupidity mixed with a healthy dose of mental illness. This time I read through a bunch of short stories all revolving around magic and girls of obscene beauty but very questionable family relationships. I feel like there was supposed to be a moral there but I didn't really get it, it just seemed like if you're gorgeous, kindly old magic creatures will make you look even better but usually with a stipulation cause that kind of magic can only last so long. Going into it, I had some idea of what to expect but I did not realize magical forces were so generous with their time and effort, they help these girls out a minimum of three separate times so they can marry rich because that's what attractive people do apparently. Though if I was attractive, I'd
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Salmon is for desire

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I want to put something witty and funny here, but I'm still reeling over the fact that our main character's fiancee left him for his great uncle. Like, this presumably desert creature, left a frog, for a prehistoric fish. Or maybe I'm just running on questionable amounts of sleep and it all makes perfect sense. Who knows? Not me. Right of the bat it was rather evident that the Aquatic Uncle would focus on generational gaps between traditional and seemingly more progressive generations with the story being an allegory for the seemingly constant divide between the old and the new. I'm like crazy tired, so I was really following this story up until the point where I wasn't. It seems like the frog was happy living a progressive life, and he figured his fiancee, so far the epitome of evolution in this story, would be the same. Then she meets the great uncle and seems to actually enjoy talking and arguing with him on certain points. And then she progressively starts
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Catching intergalactic rides? In this day and age?

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I'm prefacing this one up front, nothing I type or say can ever be as inherently interesting as the actual source material cause I have yet to ascend to that level of wittiness. Or maybe I have, but that's as unlikely as me finding a backwards 2 symbol, I tried, and none of them looked right. The funny stuff! After that last downer, some satire is honestly really appreciated. Of course to anyone reading this, there probably isn't much of a time difference between you reading that post and then this one. And surprise, it's cause there isn't. But talking about the state of affairs of things I actively think about stresses me out and gives me health problems, so we're gonna just shove that feeling painfully deep down and keep going! You know, I'm not sure why I'm doing the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, when the best slice of media I've ever seen, Red Dwarf is totally a viable option. Actually you know what, I'm talking about Red Dwarf
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Hewlett Packard and the Warlock's Monolith

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You know, nothing really compares to that feeling of watching items get crossed off your to do list. Love me that small rush of dopamine of knowing I've completed something, no matter how insignificant. Harry Potter! Honestly I could probably just end this post right there because everyone seems to have an opinion about the series and I'm just really late cause my mother was convinced of the "witchcraft" inherent in the books. But had I been allowed to get into it earlier in life, it would probably have had the same impact on me the way Abarat did and that's really saying a lot. So Harry Potter is so renowned that summarizing like half of the first movie just makes me look a fool. It felt really strange watching it though because while I knew that the kids were separated into houses, it didn't really click just how strong the divide was. Something in the movie cemented to me that being in a house other than Gryffindor really wasn't that great.
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Level 1 Monster Boyfriend: For Beginners

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Look, we actually have a movie entry for once! And it's the quality movie adaption for Interview with a Vampire by Anne Rice and boy howdy, we all know I'm about monsters. Even if vampires are entry level but whatever! No one cares about my opinion on the internet and that can be really great sometimes. The movie follows the general newfound "life" given to Louis by the vampire Lestat and their ensuing years together as a couple along with their "adoption" of a girl named Claudia. The three spend 65 years together seemingly at relative peace but Claudia mentally begins to outgrow her child like body, resentful at Lestat for having changed her so early in her life as well as keeping secrets of the vampire world hidden from her and Louis. After an ensuing fight, Louis and Claudia part from Lestat to Spain. As someone somewhat resentful of puberty's effects on me, for a brief moment I wondered if I would feel for Claudia and in the end I really did. No
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Cold Murder Hills

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Honestly, I think my winning selling point is how great my titles are for blogs. Like I'm not saying they're the best, but they're pretty damn good. So the Hobbit! The only Lord of the Rings related novel I will ever read despite adoring worldbuilding. So the basic premise of the Hobbit is pretty much just the heroic journey with Bilbo Baggins as our hero and how he gets dragged into helping some dwarves steal back their gold from a dragon. But like damn, he starts off so unwilling to go out of his comfort zone and he's supposed to be our everyman. You know in retrospect, I tend to find most main characters un relatable but I digress. A wizard shows up at this man's door promising adventure and wealth beyond imagine, a well respected wizard too, and the man just says no. Closes his door on his face and acts like he's not home. Like yeah he might die potentially, but it's not like he has anything else important going on his life. After a good hearty din
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Body Horror 2: Electric Boogaloo

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Right, we're half way through our wild rush to finish these blogs cause I love making life for myself far harder than it needs to be. Especially in schoolwork. So, Frankenstein by Mary Shelley. Everyone's seen enough movies that reference Frankenstein to know that some scientist creates life out of mashed together body parts, nothing crazy or outlandish nowadays. But after reading Frankenstein, what always strikes me is how wrong the depictions of the monster are now. Henceforth I'll be referring to the monster as Adam because he felt the name suited him and I think it does as well. So Victor and his rich self strolls into university trying to do alchemy and his professors wisely tell him that science is the new wave and he would be great if he applied himself. And Victor, thinking he's hot shit tells his professors he knows what he's doing and proceeds to start grave robbing and accidentally brings life into this world like an irresponsible teenage parent, whic
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