𝒄𝒉𝒂𝒐𝒕𝒊𝒄-𝒎𝒆𝒔𝒔

[notesfromchaos]

“women who read dark romance have unrealistic expectations”

meanwhile the same men saying this consume fantasies so aggressively curated that entire industries survive off manufacturing them.

sinners judging sinners for sinning differently really is one of society’s favorite hobbies.

[notesfromchaos]

“Sometimes it hurts, it really hurts, for no other reason than the fact that our skin doesn’t feel like it’s ours. Sometimes we panic, because the bills need paying and we have to be grown-up and we don’t know how, because it’s so horribly, desperately easy to fail at being grown-up.” - Fredrik Backman, Anxious People

[notesfromchaos]

people will genuinely watch characters get dismembered for 8 seasons straight and still act like smut is where literature loses its integrity.

very fascinating cultural priorities we have there.

[notesfromchaos]

Eren: *breathes wrong*

Levi: Tch

Eren: What did I do??

Levi: Existing loudly.

[notesfromchaos]

maybe the reason attack on titan's ending hurts so much is because it forces you to consider a possibility most people spend their lives avoiding:

what if you never get to see the final result of everything you're fighting for?

what if you're the bridge, not the destination?

[notesfromchaos]

levi ackerman really said "i have neither the time nor the patience for this conversation" and then proceeded to be the most competent person in the room.

[notesfromchaos]

some fictional couples break your heart because they fall apart.

mikasa and eren break mine because they never really got the chance to exist in the first place.

[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?