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CMOT Diablerie @strangelibrary.com · 01/10/2026

slate.com/culture/2022... Stephanie Burt, do not slander that man like this.

It’s hard to characterize McKuen’s fame, with its mix of books, music, and TV, in a contemporary context. “It would have been some combination of Rupi Kaur, Jimmy Kimmel, and Ed Sheeran,” said Stephanie Burt, a poet and critic who teaches at Harvard. “He was really that level of everyone knows who this person is.”

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CMOT Diablerie @strangelibrary.com · 27/09/2026

Ominous abstract macro shot from my camera roll take 2

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CMOT Diablerie @strangelibrary.com · 25/09/2026

That long slender twig in the center is the cherry tree. Sorry the side yard is visually noisy

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CMOT Diablerie @strangelibrary.com · 23/09/2026

I mean, say what you want about Murakami, and you can say a lot, but this quote goes hard as fuck, especially if you're fourteen.

"God only exists in people's minds. Especially in Japan, God's always been a kind of flexible concept. Look at what happened to the war. Douglas MacArthur ordered the divine emperor to quit being a god...and he did, making a speech saying that he was just an ordinary person." - Haruki Murakami

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CMOT Diablerie @strangelibrary.com · 16/09/2026

...I am now painfully and embarrassedly aware that I went on a rant about "where are all the good surreal first-person adventure games" and the answer is staring up at me from my Steam library like "am I a fucking joke to you"

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CMOT Diablerie @strangelibrary.com · 13/09/2026

Fucking hell has Beyond Sunset got it.

Your mom with text underneath reading "THE FUTURE BELONGS TO NO ONE"

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CMOT Diablerie @strangelibrary.com · 07/09/2026

Oh. Yeah. This is some good shit, by the way.

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CMOT Diablerie @strangelibrary.com · 03/09/2026

Fucking hell does Lantern of the Laughless Saint have the juice.

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CMOT Diablerie @strangelibrary.com · 02/09/2026

"...this...is a pill...for the world...that gives odes...to dead girlfriends!"

Bruce McCulloch as the guy who gives worms to ex girlfriends

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CMOT Diablerie @strangelibrary.com · 28/08/2026

I can't tell if this book is incoherent or if I'm stupid. I wanted to read a more put together, more conventionally deranged novel after the sprawling family tree of love and death that was Sailor and Lula. I have made a mistake.

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CMOT Diablerie @strangelibrary.com · 23/08/2026

Post a perfect album from the 2000s (2000-2009)

at the drive-in

relationship of command

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CMOT Diablerie @strangelibrary.com · 23/08/2026

Post a perfect album from the 2000s (2000-2009)

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CMOT Diablerie @strangelibrary.com · 21/08/2026

This game's vibes are immaculate and I hate that people don't talk about it, probably because a lot of them couldn't figure out how to play it.

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CMOT Diablerie @strangelibrary.com · 21/08/2026

Also ended up picking up this.

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CMOT Diablerie @strangelibrary.com · 16/08/2026

www.youtube.com/watch?v=XL54... Same energy.

"Sorry Zack Polanski, this long hot summer is not the apocalypse— it's like a gloriously long holiday in France...with village green cricket thrown in for good measure"

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CMOT Diablerie @strangelibrary.com · 15/08/2026

I don't consider this a series of novels. I consider it one sprawling eight hundred page southern gothic epic about serial murder, mobsters, divine causal intervention, petty crime, and some of the most gorgeous scenery and ma ever put to page.

The cover to the expanded edition of Sailor and Lula

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CMOT Diablerie @strangelibrary.com · 04/08/2026

15. Recommend/review a book. Slasher Summer by E.L. Chen is perhaps one of the cruelest examinations of slasher media, tying it directly to the inability to escape who we are when we come home, and the idea that (shout out to Bambara) no one ever leaves their small hometowns. Ending's meh, but.

The cover to Slasher Summer by E.L. Chen

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CMOT Diablerie @strangelibrary.com · 04/08/2026

6. In the past month: Not many because I'm averaging 2-3 a month, but: The Shards by Bret Easton Ellis, Darkvoid Deathship by @spookhouse.bsky.social, Dangerous Angels by Francesca Lia Block, The Nightly Disease by @interrobangbus.bsky.social ,and a ton of stuff for work. Check my media tab.

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CMOT Diablerie @strangelibrary.com · 04/08/2026

2. In no particular order: The Neverending Story by Michael Ende, Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury, Fool on the Hill by Matt Ruff, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep by PKD, and Master Li and Number Ten Ox by Barry Hughart.

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CMOT Diablerie @strangelibrary.com · 04/08/2026

1. The Talisman by Stephen King and Peter Straub. Since I was ten, I read the book over and over again. I'd take it out repeatedly like once or twice a year. Eventually, I bought it and my dad, who put me on to the book in the first place, went "Don't you have it memorized?" Unfortunately, no.

The hardcover of The Talisman by Stephen King and Peter Straub

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CMOT Diablerie @strangelibrary.com · 29/07/2026

I feel like you need to see this

An account muted for being a "debate lord"

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CMOT Diablerie @strangelibrary.com · 26/07/2026

Current read. Fuck trying to understand Gen Z, THIS is the shit that makes me feel ancient.

The cover to Dangerous Angels by Francesca Lia Block

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CMOT Diablerie @strangelibrary.com · 26/07/2026

If sword and sorcery is having its day in the sun, the Peter Weir-esque wave cresting upon the horizon of that sunny beach is the psychotronic sword and sorcery heralded by @spookhouse.bsky.social and @goresorcerer.bsky.social. Darkvoid Deathship bangs. A couple of pacing quirks, but solid fun.

The cover to Darkvoid Deathship by Jonathan Raab

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CMOT Diablerie @strangelibrary.com · 25/07/2026

If you see this, I implore you to post a picture from your device without comment

A title card from the classic DS9 episode "One Weyoun Too Many"

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CMOT Diablerie @strangelibrary.com · 17/07/2026

Hideo Kojima's collaborative projects might have gotten out of hand.

The cover for T. Kingfisher's adaptation of Metal Gear Solid: Snake Eater

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CMOT Diablerie @strangelibrary.com · 15/07/2026

This passage hit especially hard this week. Can't possibly tell you why.

Long before generative AI, I watched doctoral scholars critique entire texts on the basis of a phrase or paragraph taken out of context. I attended scholarly talks and read celebrated works in which the theatrical performance of deep understanding obscured the presenter’s lack of even basic familiarity with the subject.

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CMOT Diablerie @strangelibrary.com · 11/07/2026

Lestat? The tat is what I need! The tat is the whole point of this. I'm not just jonesing for some hot blonde vampire, with or without tat. I need the tat!

Brent Leroy, whose iconic rant about coffee I paraphrased here.

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CMOT Diablerie @strangelibrary.com · 03/07/2026

Post a random picture or everything else will go bad in July.

The Grim Reaper and a man who is tired of your shit try their hardest not to look at each other or you (whose shit they are tired of, seriously, stop posting) while Lucifer looks on above a German castle, clearly done with all of this and especially you

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CMOT Diablerie @strangelibrary.com · 02/07/2026

He lived long enough and was involved enough in technological circles he had to have at some point, right? But also, here's a taste of the work Amano did outside of JRPGs:

Two Amano covers for Eternal Champion books

"Erekose and Ermhazad" by Yoshitaka Amano

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CMOT Diablerie @strangelibrary.com · 29/06/2026

One of my favorite memes I've edited. Low-effort, but effective

A guy yells "I like thing" and gets a response of "ok"

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CMOT Diablerie @strangelibrary.com · 25/06/2026

This softbank guy misspelled goots

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CMOT Diablerie @strangelibrary.com · 23/06/2026

26. The Extremist by Peter Milligan and Ted McKeever - A woman puts on a gimp mask and murders people with a katana for a secret society of fetishists while searching for her husband's murderer. Might also be about identity, superheroes, and self-annihilation. Whatever it is, it's bleak and nasty.

The cover to The Extremist issue 1 by Peter Milligan and Ted McKeever

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CMOT Diablerie @strangelibrary.com · 23/06/2026

25. Tales Designed to Thrizzle by Michael Kupperman - An absurd "comic magazine" anthology where a kids' section tells you how to mix drinks for your parents and Picasso threatens to chop people into little cubes. Still some of the funniest stuff I've read in any medium, period.

The cover of Tales Designed to Thrizzle issue 1, promising that there are no snake-happy she-dames of Wogga-Wogga Island inside.

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CMOT Diablerie @strangelibrary.com · 23/06/2026

24. Tekkonkinkreet by Taiyo Matsumoto - A slice of life urban fantasy about two "stray cats" named Black and White who live together in a city called Treasure Town slowly gains darker and darker elements as new threats force them to grow up emotionally. Fantastic art, weird plot, and a gutpunch.

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CMOT Diablerie @strangelibrary.com · 23/06/2026

23. Hyperthick by Steve Aylett et. al. - Aylett brings his "brand new sentence" style to a vintage-style crime anthology comic where strange existentialists break into houses and men punch tigers on fire escapes for incomprehensible reasons. You cannot read Aylett and stay reasonable.

A hyperverbal page from Hyperthick. I cannot summarize everything said in it

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CMOT Diablerie @strangelibrary.com · 18/06/2026

Kinda sad what happened, though

An article about a thirty four year old potato fantasy and William Hurt getting gutted by some guy named Fire

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CMOT Diablerie @strangelibrary.com · 16/06/2026

22. Like A Velvet Glove Cast In Iron by Daniel Clowes - People will consistently use the word "Lynchian" to mean "spooky" or "weird" or "has a diner." Velvet Glove is truly Lynchian, a dreamscape made of kitsch, horror, strange encounters, and a sense you're never fully awake.

The cover to Like A Velvet Glove Cast In Iron by Daniel Clowes

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CMOT Diablerie @strangelibrary.com · 16/06/2026

21. Achewood by Chris Onstad - A hyperliterate, surreal comic first appearing on the web before being collected into books, written on the very DNA of everyone who used the internet in the 2000s. Simplistic but beautiful, hilarious but elegaic, terrifying but tender. The great American graphic novel

The cover of Achewood's A Momentary Diversion on the Road to the Grave collection by Chris Onstad

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