How to vandalize a shitty children's book with Dostoevsky and Derrida

Here is a bit of stangely satisfying masochistic read: Vandalized "Detective Pony", a shitty children's book, enhanced by grim nihilistic irony and complete with references to Plato, Dostoevsky, Derrida, and others, "cathartic, in all the worst ways possible". An eager Homestuck fan, adept at literature, decided to expand a passing joke and made it real.

The thing itself

About the thing

Edit: Finally finished reading it. Fuck, it really is cathartic.

Exactly the thing I like in comedy: simultaneous dead [un]seriousness, like quantum superposition of both extremes.

It is a study of violence/power/control [over oneself], layered over a backdrop of crazily wound up cycle of [re/de]construction, shoehorned into an insanely ridiculously silly story.

Now I doubt that it belongs to the memes subreddit and not the main one...

Posted Jul 3, 2018, 9:24 AM UTC · edited

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