Pretties!! - Blog Posts
various jrwi doodles i don't want to put as their own post + wips i'm. probably never gonna finish!
may revisit some of these wips at a later time, but for now they shall rest here.!
PRETTIES by SCOTT WESTERFELD (A REVISIT)
quickly: after being captured and brainwashed by her government, a girl makes a second attempt to free herself physically, mentally, and spiritually (criminal activity is cool / blood cults are lit / designer mansions / animated tattoos / hot air balloon rides / best friends are the worst enemies / social experiments / evil scientists / two pills in a pod / nature as the cure / forest guardians / invisible fences / colonial conquest disguised as scientific exploration / questioning ‘god’).
My re-read of the UGLIES series continues, and so far has not disappointed me.
If you wake up tomorrow and realize you’ve been living in a simulation your whole life, what do you do? Do you continue living within a dream world, or do you wake up and take responsibility for your existence? Hidden in the pages of this dystopian teen sci-fi novel is a beautiful existential exploration of what it means to ‘be’.
★★★★
"Everyone in the world was programmed by the place they were born, hemmed in by their beliefs, but you had to at least try to grow your own brain. Otherwise, you might as well be living on a reservation, worshiping a bunch of bogus gods."
Scott Westerfeld, Pretties