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I'm getting tired of "female rage" books where the woman is violent because of trauma. I want to read about women who are violent, sociopathic and cruel without the "she was raped/abused/cheated on" backstory. If we can have Patrick Bateman kill and torture people without needing to be raped and traumatized as a backstory, then we can have female narrators behave the same way. In some ways, I think that having trauma as a backstory is there for audience comfort and to preserve their idea that women cannot be naturally violent, dangerous or cruel and if one is, then there must have been some form of harm to make them that way, because they're behaving in a manner that is still seen as distinctly "unfeminine"

#femine rage #fuck this genre tbh #writing #books and reading #also i want violent women without a romance sideplot. Maeve Fly was basically a dark romance and that killed the book for me #and it also implies that a woman can only be a bad person if a man makes her that way

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I got a tiny sample of Toskovat's Inexcusable Evil perfume and I'm obsessed with it. It's impossible to describe. I want to bathe in it. I want to eat it. I desperately need to get a full sized bottle but it's sold out everywhere

#fragrance #frag posting #toskovat #inexcusable evil

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i dont trust anyone whos hostile towards city pigeons one bit & im being very serious about it

Every so often discourse around books like The Secret History pop up that are along the lines of "you shouldn't like these characters because they're bad people", which completely ignores the fact that a character in a story is, just like setting, a tool used to tell the story, and liking a character for being interesting and well written is not that different from liking a well composed photograph or painting. It does not always equate to "I like this character as a person" or "I like this character because we have the same values"

Saying you should only feel dislike for bad characters is a little like treating them like actual people, which is weird, and also skirts close to morality policing and the idea that liking "bad" or "problematic" characters/media is a reflection on you as a person.

Saying you like the Greek Class, or Patrick Bateman, or Tom Ripley or Hannibal Lecter, or the narrator in My Year of Rest and Relaxation, does not mean you like them as a person, or relate to them or agree with or endorse anything they do or say

#the secret history #american psycho #and we're going back to the fiction morality police #folks you know they're not real right?

the “I hate men” women always end up being the biggest pick mes

#girlblogging