![]() A PSA about domestic abuse had a child's drawing where the kid himself was a tiny figure with no arms and no mouth, and his father was a huge, monstrous figure with enormous hands and big, sharp teeth.Also related to Troubling Unchildlike Behaviour. Sometimes, it fails to get Nightmare Fuel itself, and comes off as cute, stupid or laughable at worst, devolving this trope into Nightmare Retardant Coloring Book.Ĭompare Room Full of Crazy, Entertainment Above Their Age, Nightmare Fuel Station Attendant, and Troubled Toybreaker. If it's the Monster of the Week the child has been drawing, expect the Nightmare Fuel Coloring Book to come in handy when the heroes come along - after all, now they've got a wall full of pictures of their enemy. If a Creepy Child or Psychopathic Manchild draws pictures, they will be this trope. It gets extra points if the suburban mom decides to hang it on the fridge rather than call a child psychologist or an exorcist. Thus, the combination of a disturbing image rendered in a crude, childlike style is a powerfully scary one in and of itself, but just as unsettling is the window into a child's view of sex/violence/Cthulhu that it gives us. There is something profoundly disturbing about the idea of innocence being exposed to things it finds frightening, or things it can't understand. Whether it's parental abuse or a run-in with the Monster of the Week, the child ends up traumatized and left with a creepy tendency to draw whatever it was they saw over. There are a lot of writers who like to subject kids to them anyway. ![]() There are a lot of things that are Harmful to Minors. I shouldn’t have bought magazines because I own some unread ones, but I couldn’t pass up these topics.- The Residents, "Pictures from a Little Girl" Scientific American Mind special issue on The Sexual Brain New Philosopher: Technology and Your Brain supporting my growing interest in comics. by Sana Takeda Delilah Dirk and the Turkish Lieutenant by Tony Cliff by Steven Cummings, John Rauch, and Tamra Bonvillain Monstress, #1 by Marjorie Liu, illus. I enjoyed the anime of this series and though I know everything, I’m still excited to read these. I was curious about mangas so I picked these up and now I’m hooked on the format. both of these mangas are by Hiromu Arakawa. Here is a review of Enchanted Air on the Vamos a Leer blog. Their giveaways are hosted monthly and to enter, all you have to do is comment on one of their posts during the month that the giveaway is for. I won this in a giveaway hosted by Vamos a Leer. Giveaway winĮnchanted Air: Two Cultures, Two Wings by Margarita Engle The novel is slated to be published in June. I Almost Forgot About You by Terry McMillan Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory by Caitlin Doughty The Rise by Sarah Lewis The Cuckoo’s Calling by Robert Galbraith, aka JK Rowling The Chaos by Nalo Hopkinson The Templeton Twins Make a Scene by Ellis Weiner, illus. I’m looking forward to that sequel to You and I grabbed the grammar book because it’s $5.98. Hidden Bodies by Caroline Kepnes Easy Guide to Grammar Since I am interested in reading this series and I previously received the third book for free, I thought it best to gift myself this box-set.Ĭolor Me Crazy by Peter Deligdisch, aka Peter Draws The School for Good and Evil series box-set, which includes books 1 & 2: The School for Good and Evil A World Without Princes Some I bought, some were gifted, some are giveaways, and some are ARCs. So here are all the books I acquired for my birthday. Then I sat outside for a bit, enjoyed the fairly nice weather, and watched the sun set and planes fly by. Once up, I glided to the book store - yes, glided because I daydreamed the whole way - and afterwards treated myself to a burger because I craved one that whole week. I just went with the day and spent it how I wanted to - relaxed. To celebrate, I spent my birthday relaxing and doing nothing except rolling around and around in my warm, soft bed until noon or 2 pm or whatever.
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