Comping is hard but it must be done! Let's see if I can't explain these a lil.
First, Level 16. For those who aren't familiar, it's a YA movie about girls raised into a 'school' that teaches them to be obedient, clean ladies. The comparison here is in the slow discovery of the truth behind their captive upbringing, the comraderie and familial bond between the girls, and their eventual defiance in the face of their captors. I used a screenshot from this movie in my webweaving about the found family element of my books!
The Umbrella Academy is an obvious one! Bunch of kids raised to be superheroes/soldiers by one british asshole who might not be human? All traumatised beyond belief and dysfunctional af and also some of them are trans?? Yup, I gotcha.
Night Game by Christine Feehan is actually the book which initially inspired the Truth Saga characters! It's... super fucked up and I definitely shouldn't have been reading her books as a young teen XD
Basically, the Ghostwalker series is a series of adult romance novels about genetically engineered military men trying to save and protect the genetically engineered supersoldier women who were part of a fucked up experiment. I was inspired by the supersoldier aspect and the way the characters had to learn to trust and love each other through their trauma, and so my books have those elements to them (but without the hetero forced breeding programme and excessive erotica XD)
Finally, we have Rainy Day by Ice Nine Kills. LET ME TELL YOU ABOUT THIS FUCKIN SONG. So it's about Resident Evil, right? I've been lightheardedly making comparisons between the Truth Saga and Resident Evil as there's some coincidental similarities between some of the characters and themes (in book 2 I actually gave the villain a line from one of the villains in the games, as an easter egg).
So when this song comes out I'm super excited! I love INK and they wrote a song about a video game franchise I love??? Then, halfway through, I get jumpscared by this fucking line:
"Become a soldier for the controller"
SO YEAH. Besides being thematically appropriate, that fuCKING LINE. Also "Don't save the truth for a rainy day"
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Night game between the Tigers and Indians at Cleveland Municipal Stadium, 1950
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bill cipher is alive, david tennant is the doctor, new supernatural season might come out, homestuck is updating, mcr and fallout boy will headline a tour together, dan and phil are gay, ian and anthony are making smosh vids again, mcu loki has his own show, new scott pilgrim show used the same cast as the movie, josh hutcherson is being thirsted after
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