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Strange Pictures was published by YouTuber Uketsu in 2022 and translated into English in 2025. The book is about multiple drawings connected to different murders and the interlinked story connecting them together, told through simple writing and hand drawings.

One way to take this book into perspective would be to call it "telegraphic horror", I suppose. The first chapter starts with an epistolary form and it's obvious to see that it's meant to be simple enough to engage readers and hook them in without any purple prose or complex sentences.

The diary entries and minimal storytelling reminded me of those exciting times as a kid when I used to read creepypastas and every mystery seemed like a larger than life puzzle that felt like it could be solved and which kept me interested even when I took a break from reading them.

That's the kind of charm Strange Pictures started with and moving forward it does demand more from it's readers in terms of attention to sustain the allure of its mystery, it felt earned because I wanted to figure out what the drawings meant and why the second chapter started out in such an unrelated fashion.

One minor criticism would be that it's marketed as a horror book for Jungi Ito fans but I never found that abyss like horror of human nature and I wouldn't say the book goes that far in it's character's mind, therefore to me it's still a better mystery and suspense novel with pictures then a new horror addition to Japanese canon but I guess it comes close.

Anyway, if you're going through a reading slump and would like to read something fast and exciting and mysterious and have had any interactions with reading creepypastas as a kid then I would wholeheartedly recommend this unique experience. I loved it

4/5***

Review by @Legendsofanus@lemmy.ml

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Israel’s advocates fear that its conduct of the war has cost it the support of an entire generation of U.S. voters.

By David M. Halbfinger Oct. 12, 2025

The war in Gaza may finally be ending, after two years of bloodshed and destruction. But among the damage that has been done is a series of devastating blows to Israel’s relationship with the citizens of its most important and most stalwart ally, the United States.

Israel’s reputation in the United States is in tatters, and not only on college campuses or among progressives. For the first time since it began asking Americans about their sympathies in 1998, a New York Times poll last month found that slightly more voters sided with the Palestinians than with Israelis.

https://archive.ph/IQyCK

Israel’s advocates fear that its conduct of the war has cost it the support of an entire generation of U.S. voters.

By David M. Halbfinger Oct. 12, 2025

The war in Gaza may finally be ending, after two years of bloodshed and destruction. But among the damage that has been done is a series of devastating blows to Israel’s relationship with the citizens of its most important and most stalwart ally, the United States.

Israel’s reputation in the United States is in tatters, and not only on college campuses or among progressives. For the first time since it began asking Americans about their sympathies in 1998, a New York Times poll last month found that slightly more voters sided with the Palestinians than with Israelis.

https://archive.ph/IQyCK

by Ranjan Solomon
October 15, 2025 at 2:55 pm

In debates about Palestine, one recurrent Western refrain is that “terrorism” and “militant violence” automatically disqualify any actor from legitimacy. Such a position is intellectually dishonest and legally unsound. It erases the foundational principles of international law, sovereignty, and democracy that apply equally to all peoples. The case of Hamas, in this light, is not an aberration but a reflection of the Palestinian right to resist occupation and assert self-determination. No foreign power has the moral or legal right to veto the will of Palestinians—least of all those whose governments have sustained and armed the very occupation that necessitates resistance.