Shadow Dream Girl - A Bennet the Sage Psychological Horror Tale

[VoiceOfReasonPast]

So he can only sleep when he doesn't want to?

[pibbs]

So he can only sleep when he doesn't want to?

I would say that it allows for whatever the plot demands, but there is no plot.

[rabidtictac]

It's also gay how this guy is losing perception on reality and having things randomly burst into flames or turn into zombies but 1)he still goes into his unimportant retail job everyday and 2)him being not cool is his biggest trouble.

Yeah, you'd never catch a Lovecraft protagonist acting faggy like this chode.

[JL Unlimited]

It's also gay how this guy is losing perception on reality and having things randomly burst into flames or turn into zombies but 1)he still goes into his unimportant retail job everyday and 2)him being not cool is his biggest trouble.

Yeah, you'd never catch a Lovecraft protagonist acting faggy like this chode.

Isn’t Ian the type of bitchmade character that Ben always complained about on Anime Abandon?

[VoiceOfReasonPast]

It's different when he does it.

And speaking of AA, I wonder when we'll get a mouthbreathing weeb who wants to rent Akira or Violence Jack.

[Complicity]

Isn’t Ian the type of bitchmade character that Ben always complained about on Anime Abandon?

Either Benito is punishing Spoony for wanting to play games with Brad-kun, or he's a Spurdo with no self-awareness.

[Kugelfisch]

Remember Memento? Cool movie. It caught your immediate attention with a mystery that the protagonist wasn't aware of himself. You really wanted to find out what's going on.
This is the fucking opposite. It's such a jumbled mess of movie worship that you already know the resolution is going to be the same as some movie.

Fucking Hell, pulling off the cliché "half burned photo hiding a character" that is too played out for even film school students but in a book is 110% hack!

[pibbs]

Update: I hope to finish this "book" this weekend. This time of year is our busiest time of year and I haven't had a chance.

In other words: the Power Rangers book reviews has no set schedule. Videos The book reviews are done when they're done and will be released when they're done.

[RedLine]

Take all the time you need, Boss. Monkeypox recovery is no joke.

[pibbs]

The DHI Autistic Book Club

Shadow Dream Girl
by Bennet “The Sage” White
Chapter 14: This Chapter is Hell
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Um... right. Burning nurse in Dr. Jew Luke's office.
Like I said before this is a long, long ass chapter. It is 10% of the book. So, I'm just going to hit the highlights.
Let's get this shit over with.

Obligatory over-descriptions, and Ian whining in his head.

He's falling. He lands. He's in Stan's apartment. That took three pages of describing the apartment before Stan entered.
Ian has been asleep on Stan's couch for three days.
Stan didn't call an ambulance, because as he put it, “what would I tell the EMTs? That he just fell asleep?”
Yes, you fartknocker, that's exactly what you tell them. No explanation how Ian didn't die of dehydration, but Stan gives him a salty salami pizza.

Damn, this is so stupid. Oh, it's a dream or some shit, so there's nothing of consequence until the big reveal of whatever the fuck is going on. I forgot for a second. Stan inquires about Ian's bowel and bladder situation. He doesn't need to potty.

They discuss pizza for a couple of pages. I'll drop this, in case it's significant.
The pizza place calls their salami pizza “Diavola.” It means deviled. SYMBOLISM? FORESHADOWING? RED HERRING? Who gives a fuck.

Stan gets a beer. No drinks are offered to Ian. Mmk.

They now start talking about hell.


Stan uses the typical athiest creed that hell was just something to scare people to be good, but after seeing Ian's terrified ass he put that aside. Whatever the fuck that means.

Stan thinks Ian might be better at the video rental biz than himself.

Hey, remember the flaming ghouls? That was fun, right?

He thinks the customers suck and doesn't know how Ian deals with them.
PSYCHOLOGICAL HORROR!!!!
Stan couldn't do the job if Ian wasn't there.
Stan gets back to the idea that people in hell don't know they are in hell. People are the heroes of their own story, see? And they make excuses for their terribleness. And that's what hell is, a bunch of self-absorbed assholes who can't get over themselves and spend eternity wallowing in the misery of their own creation.

*applause, confetti falls from the ceiling, Bennet wins smartest man ever award

Ian takes back saying Stan is an elitist snob about movies. *sigh
All this chapter is so far is talking, and bullshit of no importance.
Stan admits to stealing DVDs from Millie's. They giggle.
Ian stands and, for the second time this chapter, scans Stan's apartment with paragraphs of description about he movies, movie posters etc etc etc
He also stole the posters.
Because the posters are of Herzog and Kubrick Ian calls him a movie snob. We're back to this shit. Stan calls him an asshole.
My gawd, DHI. The fuck am I doing here? I'm literally wasting my life on this awful book.
Stan asks why he hit a Brian in the head with a DVD. Because Ian was jealous because he looked happy.
Ian asks for a beer. Stan be like, “what about 'muh meds, no booze?'”
Ian needs it.
Also, the Brians have each other, and Ian is soooo alone.
Another beer.

Ian recaps all the fire crap, the sense of time repeating and how he somehow used to know Lisa.
Ian insists he MUST be in hell.
Stan asks how his date with Lisa went and Ian freaks the fuck out. NO! IT couldn't have happened. That's impossible!
Ian curls up into a ball on the couch and cries. He let's out an inhuman wail.

”Talk to me,” Luke pleaded.”

End of chapter.

85% of book completed