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Marauder

Gay and Depressed in Prison

3rd place entry in Corgi's Gaybellion Contest

In this game, you play a very familiar character from the previous Gay and Depressed stories, who is now in jail. You used to be a side character in other people's stories, but now the spotlight is finally yours in this Gay and Depressed spin-off!

If you're interested in some more Gay and Depressed story games, check out the original by queenlatifah04, Gay Old Time by Darius_Conwright, Gay and DepressedER!!! by fresh_out_of_the_oven, and Gay and Depressed: The snow bunny society by Benholman44. All of the "gay and depressed" stories are stand-alone stories, so each one can be read separately, but I highly recommend you check these stories out!

The Impostors

unpublished

Superhero CYOA If you can't beat 'em, join 'em

It's Christmas Eve, and the shops are bustling with activity as people scramble to get their last minute gifts in. Meanwhile, the air is chilly for most of you(or as chilly as it will ever get where I live, which is a cool 70 degrees), cocoa is warming the hearts and bellies of people smart enough to stay inside, presents are hopefully piled up under your tree, and there is a feeling of jolly in the air. What are your plans this Christmas?

My guess is you enjoyed Where the crawdads sing and Gone Girl

This is a tricky one. I am going to guess that you enjoyed Catcher and disliked Lolita.

This one is an easy one. You loved Gideon the Ninth and disliked the Rig. I remember you recommending Gideon the Ninth sometime ago in one of the reading threads, plus, it's a cool book about outer space necromancers, so what's not to like?

1st set, you enjoyed a scandal in Bohemia and hated from Russia with love 2nd set you enjoyed the Iliad and disliked Hamlet. I feel like you're more likely to read the Iliad on your own since it's so big, while you probably read Hamlet in school, so maybe it wasn't as fun as the Iliad.

The first one is a bit too easy. Long Walk is the one you like, fantastic book and in my opinion the best of the Bachman books. As for the second, I'm going to take a gander and say you liked Scythe

It was the opposite for me. I really loved the Metamorphosis because it spoke to me on a deep level. I feel like the brilliancy of Gregor Samsa's bizarre transformation is that you can derive multiple meanings from it. For me, at least, it felt like it could be a metaphor for someone going through some deep mental health struggles, like maybe depression, anxiety, or even ADHD. The transformation of a cockroach is a symbol for the person becoming something unrecognizable, and to outside observers, "ugly". I also liked how Samsa did his best to fight it as long as he could, holding on to hope, and even if the ending wasn't happy, I still felt like the story was meaningful. And at first, people do try and care, but eventually they lose some of their empathy and just want the whole ordeal to be over. The family's reaction after Samsa died was really brutal, and I feel like it's common for caregivers and family members of the person suffering from the disease to feel some aftereffects, but in the story, they only saw the event as an unpleasant experience that they had to overcome. I also think the story makes a really poignant point about how people can sometimes only be valued for the money they bring in or external things that they do, so I liked the story a lot. The Stranger was thought provoking and a good piece of existentialist fiction, but I hated it because I feel like life isn't absurd or meaningless, it has inherent meaning. And I have heard the interpretation that maybe Camus was trying to make a case for positive existentialism, that since life is inherently meaningless, that frees one to pursue whatever they desire, but the story didn't really convey that for me, because the main character is disaffected, lonely, and anti social, but I didn't see his thoughts and feelings towards how he is. Like, maybe if we got some indication that he wants to change that, or he questions why he is the way he is, I would have liked it more, but as it is, I found myself growing increasingly frustrated because I think the point of existentialism is that since life doesn't have just one meaning, we should find our own meaning, so it should ideally be freeing and a call to progress. But instead, the protagonist surrenders himself to the vagaries of life, and sort of just rides the waves. I wish the epiphany at the end comes during the middle of the book, since I actually liked that Mersault finally felt a sense of freedom upon fully accepting that the world doesn't care about him and life is meaningless, but I wish he did something with that epiphany. I like the concept of optimistic nihilism, where it energizes someone and gives them freedom, rather than being a little depressing.

Go on the long long rant Liminal! I'd love to hear it!

What does T-T mean?

Lol. I thought I was the only one who disliked Tom Bombadil on CYS. Glad to see a fellow Tom Bombadil hater. But I did plan to reread the books at some point, after a recent conversation I had where I'm now curious to see him again through a different lens.