Jun 08, 2023
You cannot begin to understand how I'm emotionally damaging reading this book has been. It was literally like being transported back to my lack of social life as a child and it hurt in a way that I cannot describe.
Which is what makes the book so awesome.
I think it really takes if not skill a lot of emotional energy to write a story like this because it draws on memories of something that can be particularly painful. It's nice to know that you've done it in such a way that incorporates it as a shared experience that is had by anybody regardless of race or class or sexuality or gender. I think that's what's going to be the great thing about this story is it's that it's going to be one that incorporates a life experience that we all share without going into the sickeningly sweet pride month marketing style hopeful stuff.
I really love this book.
I do have one gripe though. The fact that Ogden and friends will play Warhammer because they're not as bad as Wizards is astounding to me. Both games workshop and Wizards of the coast are soulless creatively bankrupt behemoths, and we should bring down capitalism.
I think that's the true moral of this story.