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boy, girl, neither, both and inbetween// any pronouns// soooo incredibly normal// 2007

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currently rereading the secret history and how did I not pick up on how funny this book is?? Richard is just yapping about how much better he was than everyone in his hometown, this guy would 100% drink matcha and carry a tote bag if it was set today

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Wait lowkey why was Roland Barthes onto something

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I’m so sherlocked out

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why do US patriots think they own "red white and blue" there's a lotta red white and blue flags out there. "i stand for the red white and blue" yass me too let's go costa rica 🇨🇷🇨🇷🇨🇷🇨🇷 let's go laos 🇱🇦🇱🇦🇱🇦🇱🇦 fuck it up liberia 🇱🇷🇱🇷🇱🇷 nepal get triangular with it 🇳🇵🇳🇵🇳🇵

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one of my favourite parts of the Sherlock Holmes’s books is when Sherlock starts being sexist out of nowhere and Watson immediately has a go at him. like yeah man I’m thinking “what the fuck Sherlock” too

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currently reading the Sherlock holmes series and they were not kidding this shit has homoerotic undertones

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AO3 DOWN 😟😟😟

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currently at a very Shirley Jackson time of my life

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it’s been a week or so since I finished American psycho and I genuinely can’t remember what happens at the end, like it’s fully wiped from my memory

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blood work? i sure hope it does

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i dunno man it’s kind of fucked up that the new year starts straight after this one finishes. can’t we have a break. why does it have to be so relentless

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whoever wrote wicked the musical really took the book as a suggestion because genuinely is this the same narrative???

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every time I hear a new part of what’s happening in the US, I’m both not surprised and fucking sickened. I hope each and every one of you who chose to and continue to choose to support that pathetic excuse for a president understand this you are the modern day equivalent of those same people you judge harshly for supporting Nazis or any other dictator. there is no excuse for anything that is happening. There is no excuse for ice’s actions, or the actions of anyone in power. I hope they all fucking rot

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The best way I can describe American psycho is that its fucking amazing from a technical standpoint, but from a readers perspective it’s absolute hell

the obsessive amount of brand mentions did get so dull, as did the massive amount of description of seemingly arbitrary routines. HOWEVER, as a method to represent the obsession with appearances and the way America/ success in America is almost entirely defined by brands and appearances, it’s perfect. I mean, even though the book was published in 1991 before all this shit happened, it conveys how America has turned into extremist capitalism so well. You can’t escape brands, everyone is surrounded by advertisements- from tv adverts to now undisclosed ads in influencer content. And yet, even in the top rings of success, even above it all, you can’t escape the constant reminder that the system has failed most people, and you’re just profiting on it. Les mis and its messages haunts the narrative, through every homeless person he mocks to each prostitute he mutilates. The fact that he, as the upper class, as pretty much the non-monocracy version of the ruling class, is a perpetrator of a class system he benefits from, and one where he is enemy to most. The book is called *american* psycho, of course.

despite Batemans reception as the typical “alpha male”, he seems to be, in some respects, so far from those people’s ideals of masculinity. Yes, he’s rich, he’s powerful, he sleeps with loads of women, he’s at the gym all the time. All of which does align with the aspirations of toxic masculinity. However, batemen also spends half of the book talking about how he’s on the verge of tears, how he’s crying because he’s not being listened to, how he wants to be loved. He may be one of the most immoral/ evil characters in literature, but you can’t deny he’s emotional as hell and is in touch with his emotions. I don’t know where I was going with this point, but I just thought it was interesting.

the gore was sickening, naturally, in a way that I haven’t felt from other books with gore in them. I managed perfectly fine through blood meridian, but I nearly threw up many times at this book. It was jarring and depraved and again, not sure where I’m going with this point, but I couldn’t yap about this book and ignore the heinous shit he gets up to.

Patrick Bateman is almost a parody of the kind of man hes representing. I know the book is largely inspired by the authors own experiences with a lack of fulfilment despite being rich, but there’s surely more to it. He (patrick Bateman) is a satire of masculine ideals at its worst. Now I’m not saying men are inherently bad or whatever, but the way a large amount of men are socialised- due to the media, gender expectations, role models, bad behaviour not being given consequences- does lead to gender influenced crime, such as seen through Bateman character. His actions almost take on a dystopian approach: pick a societal issue and amplify it to highlight its danger. For example, obsessively consuming porn have lead to cases of violent behaviour against women due to the violent nature of the content. This also links to the fetishisation of lesbians. Both of these issues are seen, and amplified, in Batemans character, to the point where (due to how graphic it is) the issue is impossible to ignore. The issues of the wealthy (especially wealthy men) getting away with crimes due to their privilege is amplified through him.

also a quick note at the end before I finish this yap, very very interesting how he’s violently prejudice towards gay men but not towards lesbians. Something something, viewing others only as methods for his own pleasure. Something something many homophobic men are threatened by gay men because they worry gay men will treat them how they treat women. Something something there is definitely something homoerotic about Batemans character.

anyways, all in all, incredibly well written book, awful reading experience. I will never touch this book again <3

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FINALLY FINISHED AMERICAN PSYCHO!!! IM FREE!!!

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okay so after posting a lot of bullshit for many years, I’ve found you silly people in my phone fuck with my secret history posts and my American psycho posts the most. uhhh something something overly glamorised books that are satires of their genre featuring characters with questionably terrible morals

anyways Henry winter vs Patrick Bateman who would win

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”do you take AmEx here?” NO NO NO NO GET AWAYYYYY