Uzumaki (3-in-1 Deluxe Edition) (Junji Ito)
"I was debating if I should just do the first volume but three in one horrors sounded great to me. So Uzumaki is largely about spirals, to put the most obvious reasoning first. That's that Uzumaki translates to, after all. Spirals begin enveloping this small town, causing supernatural events. But the madness side of things comes as quickly as the spirals are there. You see it first in completely opposite ways with Shuichi's father and mother, with one becoming obsessed with spirals to the point of madness and eventually becoming one himself and the other being so terrified of spirals that it turns into its own psychological torment as she tries to remove spirals from her life and eventually realizes that those spirals are part of her naturally, causing her to try to take apart those aspects of her as well. Over chapters, characters become warped and characters succumb to the madness of spirals. Some fear the spirals, while others embrace them. Escaping the spirals is proven futile, and through that, it is also proven how out of sync the town is from reality as a whole, with time being sped up. Also, it has a labyrinth at this point, built by those suffering from the curse, so I think the Spiral would love that. In the end, the spirals are proven inescapable, and the two main characters warp together into a spiral of their own. The curse seems to end here, but really, it's a never ending cycle, and a curse which will never go away. The curse and the madness it brings won't fade."
The Yellow Wallpaper (Charlotte Perkins Gilman)
"The story is written as a collection of journal entries narrated in the first person. The journal was written by a woman whose physician husband has rented an old mansion for the summer. Forgoing other rooms in the house, the couple moves into the upstairs nursery. As a form of treatment, the husband forbids the journal writer from working or writing, and encourages her to eat well and get plenty of air so that she can recuperate from what he calls a "temporary nervous depression – a slight hysterical tendency", a common diagnosis in women at the time. As the reader continues through the journal entries, they experience the writer's gradual descent into madness with nothing better to do than observe the peeling yellow wallpaper in her room." Link to Project Gutenberg
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You seem to like horror. What movies and books do you recommend?
Ooh! I do! It depends on what you like.
Movies:
Skinamarink if you're into vibes
Eraserhead if you're into David Lynch stuff
I also really enjoyed His House, Rosemary's Baby, and Spree.
Books:
Natural Beauty by Ling Ling Huang
The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones
The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires by Grady Haddix
The Upstairs House is on my to-read list.
If you're into graphic novels, Uzumaki by Junji Ito is one of the most unsettling things I've read in my life.
And then my specialty, literary short stories:
"The Yellow Wallpaper" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman (which I've been talking about a lot lately lol)
"Young Goodman Brown" by Nathaniel Hawthorne
"Good Country People" by Flannery O'Connor
"Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?" by Joyce Carol Oates
And honorary mention: the poem, "Annabel Lee" by Edgar Allan Poe (which is where I got my URL)
I think I mostly like horror where people are kinda trapped--where their surroundings are changing and it's not a monster or demon threatening them. It's very Romantic. I live nature as an antagonist. But I do like other types of horror as you can see from the list!
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GET TO KNOW THE MUN
what’s your phone wallpaper : This art of Nightingale from F/GO and my lock screen is some fan art of MF DOOM
last song you listened to : True Faith by New Order
currently reading : Uzumaki by Junji Ito
last movie : Tombstone (1993)
last show : Caught up with last week's AEW
what are you wearing right now : Foreigner t-shirt and black shorts
piercings / tattoos? : None of either
glasses ? contacts? : I have prescription glasses from Hugo Boss cause I'm nearly blind
last thing you ate? : Ice-cream from a local shop that makes their own flavors.
favorite color(s) : I love blues, purples, and greens.
current obsession : Myself cause I have a fat ego
do you have a crush right now? : Nah, I'm a little too traumatized from my last relationship.
favorite fictional character : Oh god this is a tough one. I have a lot of faves, so I can't really narrow it down.
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