Sad Little Monster

20-something menace to society

[trans-pickles]

you don't need to write a dark deconstruction of Peter Pan where he's willing to kill people and his state of eternal childhood makes him morally ambiguous, JM Barrie already wrote one and it's called Peter Pan

[sawasawako]

hold on a second man…

[vee-not-afraid]

@insect-p0sitivity tags peer approved

[earhartsease]

oh this reminds us of a poem we saw in the seventies that was something like

you

me

you

me

you me

us! us! us!

you me

you

me

you

me

[weaver-z]

The naïve part of me thinks there should be a "Best Young Actor/Actress" Oscar or other recognition of achievement for performers under 18, because holy hell, some kids have given insanely riveting performances in recent years. That being said, this should also absolutely not happen, because I can only imagine what evil that award's existence would unleash on child actors the world over.

[nedlittle]

it drives me bonkers the way people don't know how to read classic books in context anymore. i just read a review of the picture of dorian gray that said "it pains me that the homosexual subtext is just that, a subtext, rather than a fully explored part of the narrative." and now i fully want to put my head through a table. first of all, we are so lucky in the 21st century to have an entire category of books that are able to loudly and lovingly declare their queerness that we've become blind to the idea that queerness can exist in a different language than our contemporary mode of communication. second it IS a fully explored part of the narrative! dorian gray IS a textually queer story, even removed from the context of its writing. it's the story of toxic queer relationships and attraction and dangerous scandals and the intertwining of late 19th century "uranianism" and misogyny. second of all, i'm sorry that oscar wilde didn't include 15k words of graphic gay sex with ao3-style tags in his 1890 novel that was literally used to convict him of indecent behaviour. get well soon, i guess...

[dancinggrimm]

I saw a review of The Tenant of Wildfell Hall that said 'I can't believe people think this was a feminist book'.

Like, do you know how swooningly, outrage-causingly shocking it was that the main character slammed her bedroom door in her abusive husband's face? Do you have any idea how unthinkable it was that she denied him access to her space and her person? She was supposed to submissively look away while he turned their son into an alcoholic for his own amusement and seduced innocent young women! It was revolutionary in 1848; when Bronte (Anne) wrote it, she had to do so under a male psuedonym because publishers wouldn't accept works by women unless they were harmless pap, which was all that was thought suitable for women to read lest their mild and gentle minds be corrupted.

The reason these groundbreaking books of history seem to tame and understated now is because they worked. They raised the bar, pushed the agenda forwards, cleared the path for the next writer. They did exactly what they were supposed to. Time is linear. History moves forward. We make progress.

When you are old, if things happen as they ought, a future generation of teenagers will read The Hate U Give and Simon and the Homo Sapiens' Agenda and Speak and think to themselves 'why did anybody ever think this was contraversial? Why did they ban them? These are just things we talk about, these are things we deal with like normal people. What was the past like, and how do we stop from backsliding into a place where these things are considered shocking again?"

I really hope that's how it goes.

[svengooliecat]

First rule of literary analysis: the analyst cannot judge a past work by modern standards or ethics. Doing so leads to faulty comprehension, straw man fallacies, and lazy logic and analysis. We must always consider the work within the broader frameworks of the history, culture, and events that shaped it.

[dreamertrilogys]

literally die

[certifiedlibraryposts]

Certified Library Post

[elierlick]

We need billboards like this in every city.

[amygdalae]

Me: damn this situation I'm in sure isn't ideal, what am I gonna do about this

Suicidal Ideation Man who lives in my brain: perhaps I have a suggestion ☝️🤓

[amygdalae]

[pale-grunge-dark]

[wifehaver103947]

mutuals do this!!!!

[nyahkennay]

u can lift it bunny

[stephensondheim]

I hope its ok i painted your bunny

[fuckyeahdavidandyonatan]

Are teens really anti-social and non-conversational and stuck on their phones or are you just trying to form a conversation while asking them about stuff like their school curriculum (a tedious repetitive thing they at best suffer and at worst suffer from) while dissmissing them whenever they attempt to talk about their interests?

[the-real-numbers-deactivated202]

Nothing fills me with rage quite like seeing "no overnight visitors" on an apartment advertisement, like, who the fuck do these random landlords think they are, to deny someone the ability to host a friend or a sibling for the night, to even feel comfortable dictating the terms of a paying tenant's sex life, like seriously fuck off all the way to hell

[yourebatz]

hex your shitty landlord and watch their life crumble into pieces

[the-real-numbers-deactivated202]

There's a very effective hex called a "tenant's union" and you can learn the sinister rituals through covens dedicated to the craft. <|:)

[ladychlo]

I wish you all very good sex. if you don't like sex, I wish you a very good romance. if you don't want either of them. I wish you a very good bowl of soup and some bread, mate.

[weirdbooksifind]

[hometoursandotherstuff]

[valtsv]

self-proclaimed body language "experts" are so frustratingly hilarious because they seem incapable of understanding that people can lie to you

[valtsv]

[depsidase]