𝒄𝒉𝒂𝒐𝒕𝒊𝒄-𝒎𝒆𝒔𝒔

[notesfromchaos]

erwin smith and the cruelty of almost

there’s something unbearable about a character who spends their entire life chasing an answer…and gets close enough to feel it… but never close enough to hold it.

[notesfromchaos]

gothic literature looked at a monster and said "that is a monster."

modern dark romance sometimes looks at a monster and says "okay but he's protective."

and i think that's a far more interesting conversation.

[notesfromchaos]

finished a fantasy romance and now i'm exhausted because apparently i fought in that war too.

[notesfromchaos]

gothic romance or fantasy romance? omg idk do i want my red flags in a haunted mansion or on a dragon.

[kaviesbox]

men will literally encourage female hypersexuality until it stops benefiting them personally. then suddenly it becomes pathology, degradation, daddy issues, lack of self-respect, trauma, etc. they’ll consume sexualized women constantly, glorify them, fantasize about them, profit off them, even build entire cultures around them. but the second a woman embodies that sexuality too openly, too honestly, or outside of male control, she’s “damaged” now. like suddenly the thing they were rewarding becomes proof there’s something wrong with her like what?

[notesfromchaos]

Fascinating how quickly fantasy turns into disgust once autonomy enters the room.

[rvnesque]

my taste in men? fictional. preferably dead.

[notesfromchaos]

Not me imagining Lord Byron rn.

[rvnesque]

“stop quoting dostoevsky and explain yourself” but ma'am how am i supposed to explain myself without quoting dostoevsky?

[rvnesque]

rip robert browning you would've loved will graham.

[notesfromchaos]

Elizabeth Barrett Browning watching Will Graham like: girl maybe I judged Robert too hard.

[rvnesque]

love when their love language is stabbing <3

[notesfromchaos]

Girl... When are we?