It’s always good to support the original publisher and encourage local libraries by reading a hard copy, so I could never endorse piracy, even for people who can’t get their hands on a physical copy. Even though it’s true that both libgen and annas-archive have ebook copies of this particular book (and can easily be found via google), I could never in good conscience direct anyone to such a site.

Literally Tolkien’s perspective on worldbuilding. Authors are “subcreators”, doing little versions of what their creator did, having been made in his image.

this improved my mental health

got any pictures of turtles wearing ferretnecks?

It’s a fictional diary entry, from The Prestige. The next entry is 2 months later, when he’s fallen in love with a different woman.

But Larry, you don’t have any hair. Why do you need a hairbrus–auuugh bears why are there bears

I think xeelee’s joke might have been that you have no idea what the inside of a car’s engine looks like, and are therefore a cartoonist