• Mog_Pharou [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    5 months ago

    I thought the whole Johnny being incapable of walking two feet without a beautiful woman offering him sex was going to be revealed as a bit of unreliable narrator. But no, I guess sleep deprived starving tattoo assistants losing their grip on sanity are just hot as fuck.

    • Diuretic_Materialism [he/him]@hexbear.net
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      5 months ago

      But no, I guess sleep deprived starving tattoo assistants losing their grip on sanity are just hot as fuck.

      As a former member of the Philly punk scene, this isn’t inaccurate based on my experience.

    • Lerios [hy/hym]@hexbear.net
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      5 months ago

      was that not the implication? i mean, certainly some of it probably happened, but i did just assume that johhny (drunk madman) was not having the greatest times regardless of whatever he might say.

      i figured that the sickening, unnerving, body-horror esq way that the woman with the Pekinese was described was closer to what was actually going on. i figured all these girls were somewhere between absolutely average and just having the worst times of their lives, like johnny, but we were getting his tilted/exagerated perspective - only one of these encounters was actually confirmed to have happened (as much as anything is ever confirmed in this book lol).