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another layer that makes emerald fennels wuthering heights so hard to swallow is that it makes a complete mockery of a novel that sits firmly in the historic achievements of women writing fiction.

a novel written by a woman in the 1800s under a pseudonym due to the prejudices against female authors at the time. a gothic tale that deals with themes of racism, classism, and generational trauma.

and now, by popular association, a novel that is going to be likened to a 50 Shades of Grey, booksmut type fiction.

necrophilimaniac

if emerald fennell REALLY wanted a blond cathy falling in love with a white man, she could just have used cathy 2 and hareton, wich would have made her adaptation unique since fucking nobody adapts the second generation. but alas

my-deer-friend

Ah yes, Wuthering Heights, the "greatest love story of all time" where [checks notes] an orphaned boy endures so much abuse, ostracisation and bigotry that his hatred overcomes him and he enacts cruel revenge on multiple generations of his own family, in the aftermath of getting rejected by the girl he trauma-bonded with during childhood and whose premature death so deranges him that he digs up her corpse multiple times, stewing in loathing, misanthropy and alienation that eventually drive him so mad that he starves himself to death.

That love story?

charlemane

all of us on February 14th, 2026

eroticlamb

kate bush featured on top pop (tv), march 1978 ꩜

koschtism

what if instead of heathcliff he was called 𝓯𝓻𝓮𝓪𝓴𝓬𝓵𝓲𝓯𝓯 and he got 𝓯𝓻𝓮𝓪𝓴𝔂

bitchreads

I really don't get why the Brontës get put in competition with Jane Austen so much. They weren't contemporaries. They didn't even write the same genre. This is the definition of pitting women against each other.

bitchreads

I really don't get why the Brontës get put in competition with Jane Austen so much. They weren't contemporaries. They didn't even write the same genre. This is the definition of pitting women against each other.