noah

the shadow over innsmouth but it's about how becoming a fish-man is actually pretty great

I love this book (and its preceding short story The Litany of Earth) because it takes the same classic mythos and goes “yes, you are an infinitesimal impermanent insignificant speck in a vast unknowable universe, and isn’t that comforting?”

gives you some good perspective on the real world

what's the most obscure thing you were way too into

in DREDGE you arrive at a gray island town that recently lost its fisherman under circumstances no one will tell you about. they give you a boat, and warn you to make it back before sundown when the fog rolls in. this is good advice.