Oohh very interesting. For once, the algorithm works! Here's for more!

Ah Finally. A sea shanty about vomit. 🤢🤮 Keep up the grand work.

This is exactly how mine works! The Obi-Wan example is what I get when I try to imagine a broader image. If I try to focus on a specific part, it becomes slightly more clear but everything around it just turns to black.

Wow, the framing part is so playful! <haven't watched further yet, still just wanna share a random moment> The Little Prince has so many frames The pilot opens/adds intermittent context/closes all the stories told by the Little Prince of the planets he visited on the way to earth. And the Little Prince frames stories of people from those planets. And those people frame stories about the planets. But wait, now, remembering with this newly learned concept... Is it a step too far fetched to interprete that those planets framed the Pilot? I.e his inner world

I have a friend who is an avid reader, but she can't visualise at all, she sees in words. But she is extremely creative, does lots of arts and crafts and writes poetry!

Excellent. Very interesting. Never knew these things had names. 🥰

I tried to read this book when i was really young and i got very bored, but this makes me want to read it!

What a lovely review. I might even have to read it. 😀🥰

I have true aphantasia and I enjoy reading fiction very much. I had no idea that I had aphantasia for most of my life I didn't really start to notice that I was different until my late 20s early 30s. I have a really good memory it's just that anything from my brain just comes as straight info no pictures. Like I can do the look at these objects for 60 seconds close your eyes and then tell you what the objects are no problem but when I close my eyes I don't see anything just blackness. When I think back to a memory all the information is there just no picture. I have heard that many people with aphantasia don't like reading fiction but I certainly do. My favorite books are science fiction and fantasy. I don't dream either or if I do I don't remember them. Has never had a negative effect on my life that I am aware of, other than being a little jealous of people and their mind pictures LOL.

I hope people realise it's not cats that see it It's cats you can see it in Calicos have this, because it's their x chromosomes being with dominant or regressive Calicos are only girls Women are stripey

Cat tax works!

Ahhhhh Meow indeed! 🥰

I mostly read stories with pretty men. Or when mostly worded books maybe imagine my favorite characters in that story or be happy that I’m reading it.

I would start at the beginning, The Fionavar Tapestry (actually 3 books, but they are often collected into one very large book). It's actually older, his first series of books, but it's more in the vain of Tolkien's work. It's no coincidence, as Kay worked on the Silmarillion with Christopher Tolkien (in many ways it is Kay's response to Tolkien's epic, embracing more Celtic themes of religion, and some of the more human and less idealized aspects of those kinds of stories and what happens when people step into myth. It's also a portal fantasy, which you don't see as often anymore.) There's spice, but not a great deal of it, and it's pretty central to the themes of the book instead of just for entertainment (a note of warning, there is an aspect of the plot related to SA. To my recollection it's not very detailed, but it isn't simply alluded to either, and it's important enough that themes of it run through a majority of the later parts of the story for particular characters. Ymmv on how that affects your desire to read it). Some other works I quite like are The Lions of Alrassan, and the Sarantine Mosaic duology, where he begins to play around in his fictional history (covering the Reconquista and the beginnings of the Byzantine Empire, respectively) where he creates a historical world "just to the left" of ours, with a touch more magic at play. As it is in the vein of history, there are times when there is a great deal of violence, and other horrific happenings (usually based on an actual occurrence in our history) but he handles these subjects with care, and it's never just darkness and horror for the sake of drama. He has many more works that continue in this "almost earth" setting, going from the Byzantine era, to the late renaissance, and another pair of books that take place in a fictional China (but annoyingly not on the same almost earth for some reason), and like all of his historical works they are meticulously researched (he usually spends some time living in the place he's fictionalizing). As to the character adopting a disguise in this book, I think that while doing so to simply profit off of another people's culture, either as a caricature in some performance, or to exploit a niche or some kind of cultural experience, is unethical and problematic to say the least, changing one's appearance simply for the purpose of disguise is an entirely different ethical situation, especially if one's life is on the line. And regardless, I don't know that the author is obligated to condemn the character's actions as a display that he knows it's not something acceptable to his audience. There's a fair amount of killing in the book done even by the protagonists, among other things, and I don't think we would take away that the author is in favour of that. Just my two cents. I hope you enjoy further works of Kay's, and I *think* you will find less that bothers you in his other works (to my recollection, this and to a lesser extent A Song for Arbonne were his attempts to break into more of the mainstream of that era of fantasy, something he never really tried again).

It's great to meet a female British booktuber. From your accent i presume.

My reading imaginatiom jumps between hyperrealism and anime.I just can,so clearly visualize things like action and large, ever expanding vista's. Likely developed from years of living in that imagination through writing 😂

Super fascinating!!! Thats opened up loads of questions too. Inner perception.. never even thought about the fact its individual, but of course it is! My brain plays books like a Super complex film. If anything I'm overwhelmed with visuals. Doesn't take much of a description and I've pretty much textured and coloured a whole scene. Its always interesting to see others points of view! The brain is amazing!! Bonus Perdy a wee delight!!