this post was submitted on 15 Sep 2024
696 points (98.9% liked)

Curated Tumblr

5082 readers
4 users here now

For preserving the least toxic and most culturally relevant Tumblr heritage posts.

Here are some OCR tools to assist you in transcribing posts:

Don't be mean. I promise to do my best to judge that fairly.

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
 
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] tanisnikana@lemmy.world 13 points 8 months ago (1 children)

“The Savage Mouth” by Komatsu Sakyou, which involves

Tap for spoilerA man eating himself in a locked hotel room and relishing every bite. Very body horror, much terrifying, cops rule it a homicide

Or “Cogwheels” by Ryuunosuke Akutagawa, which

Tap for spoilerends abruptly with the author’s real-world suicide. Story is the thinnest veneer of fiction, and at some point I think he just stopped writing a story and was trying therapy on a page, then gave the fuck up on everything.

[–] tanisnikana@lemmy.world 12 points 8 months ago

Tap for autocannibalism, I guess