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  1. Public Bookmark 17

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    There are no more Napoleons.

    That's what Jay Waringcrane thinks. No one person can change the world—certainly not him, a college dropout from suburban Cleveland. Bitter, cynical, and disillusioned, Jay wants only one thing: to go to a different world, a world where he is the protagonist.

    Jay gets his opportunity when he meets a devil granting wishes in exchange for souls. One contract later and he's transported to Whitecrosse, a fantastic realm of knights, fairies, and monsters. Whitecrosse teeters on the brink of calamity; it's desperate for a hero, any hero, to shape its destiny. It's exactly what Jay asked for.

    But nothing's so simple. The real world, the world Jay left behind, isn't keen on letting someone escape its ironclad logical order. And the embodiment of that order, Jay's uptight and meticulous sister Shannon, will do whatever it takes to drag Jay back home—even if she has to follow him to the gates of Hell.

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    10 Aug 2022

  2. Public Bookmark 19

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    Terminally bored office worker Harper Praise chats with random people online to stave off her desire to die. By chance, she meets Van Der Gramme, a brashly egotistical pornographic artist who quickly becomes the sole interesting facet of Harper's nothing life. Chasing after him, she plunges into his online underworld of depravity and degeneracy, over which he presides like a spiritual guru—or a cult leader. Sex and art are the saviors he peddles, his medicine, his opiates, and Harper is desperate to surrender to them. But the real world—no matter how banal it seems—refuses to loosen its death grip so easily. By the end, everything will burn.

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    30 Apr 2022

  3. Public Bookmark 24

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    Z. Coulter's best friend Max is into some new thing called Homestuck. Like, freakily into it, and it's weirding her out. To get back on Max's wavelength, Z. engineers a road trip to a convention that Homestuck's creator, Andrew Hussie, will attend. But as they leave, a strange, permanently-smiling man begins to follow them...

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    16 Apr 2018

  4. Public Bookmark 50

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    A boy and his friends finish playing a game together and go home.

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    07 Apr 2018

  5. Public Bookmark 58

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    Kestrel is going to finish his education. Kestrel is going to be a law-abiding citizen. Kestrel is going to keep his head down, do what his family says, and hopefully not disappoint them too much in the process.

    Unfortunately, the pirate crew of the Nimble Fingers (collective bounty: 30,000 gold crowns) is in need of a new cabin boy.

    The story of a quest for an unspeakable treasure, stranger things in heaven and earth, the semantic differences between vivisection and dissection; and a bunch of total assholes being assholes to each other.

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    24 Aug 2017

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