#agnes petrella

[autoneurotic]

‘You can’t play the “gracious host” forever […] This is what you wanted, after all.’

[pidgeons-cliffbirds-love]

sorry agnes petrella and jane prentiss are on my mind. sorry. will happen again

[souji-upseta]

SPOILERS for "Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke"

can someone please just explain to me how agnes gouged her eyes out/killed herself with the antique apple peeler bc im watching videos of antique apple peelers and trying to see how that applies to a human head or how it would be able to gouge out eyes?? i'm not making the connection.

also lol did she eat her "baby"? like, was that the implication, harking back to the story about her aunt and the eggs?

im too autistic for splatterpunk as a genre, man. i need ANSWERS!!! i have so many questions, and somehow, "why did i read this?" is not one of them

[crushedmarigolds76]

I've finally gotten my hands on a paper copy of Things Have Gotten Worse and I'm so so excited over it and the hate online for it compels me more and more to make my own version/expansion for it out of pure spite and adoration

[kincalling]

Hey there. I'm Agnes Petrella from Things Have Gotten Worse. Adults only, and kids shouldn't read this story. Message me even if you're not kin! I'm looking for anyone who's read it.

🎧

[fluoxetinegreen444]

Things have gotten worse since we last spoke by Eric LaRocca

Back once again with another book review!

This time I read Things have gotten worse since we last spoke by Eric LaRocca. It was actually a Christmas gift and I read it under an hour since I was super excited about it.

The book discusses a fictional police case over Zoe Cross' involvement in the death of Agnes Petrella, two young women who meet and fall in love over the Internet. The two share an intense relationship before things go south and harmless talk turns into gory actions.

The entire book is composed of emails and instant chat messages, at the beginning a post on a Queer forum. It was an interesting format that kept me turning every page incredibly fast since I HAD to know what happened next. Usually I have an issue connecting with the characters in books with these kinds of formats but the connection and concern I felt for Agnes was instant. She's an incredibly relatable character and someone who the reader only wishes good for, but things turn slowly as the book progresses.

To be quite honest, I had expected more gore and more disturbing content. With that in mind, there were scene people can see as disturbing but in my experience they were quite mild compared to other things I've read or seen on screen. I had expected to be thoroughly disturbed but was only a little grossed out by a particular scene involving insects. I've heard people online name it "disturbing" and "crazy", which seems a bit extreme in my opinion. It was uncomfortable at times but nothing traumatising. In fact, it made me a bit disheartened as I've encountered similar themes in my own life.

Regardless, the book was an absolute joy to read and a strong recommendation if you aren't that sensitive to psychological thrillers. I'll probably re-read it and it will stay on my mind for a while. It gives off a weirdly safe feel despite the contents, that beings said, be warned and make sure to Google TWs.

[thethirdbear]

[autoneurotic]

still very really right for this one

[autoneurotic]

things have gotten worse since we last spoke but it’s a garish visual novel

[pidgeons-cliffbirds-love]

jane prentiss and agnes petrella are the same person.

[autoneurotic]

I think there is a small, quiet part of you that enjoys the misery I carefully feed you each day— as if it were the very thing keeping you alive.

[autoneurotic]

no one say anything to me about it for real but i just re-read THGW this morning with New Eyes (im letting someone borrow it today so i tried to read it like someone who hasn’t read it um. a couple times….) and it kills me. i can’t take it. i can’t take it. you spend your life thinking people who love you will hurt you because people will inevitably hurt each other, so wouldn’t you rather be hurt by someone who will hurt you less because they love you more? you think anyone else would be even this kind? to you? so you find someone who you love, you do, but they hurt you and you think it’s not okay, it’s not love, until you remember that someone else will certainly hurt you more than this, so it doesn’t matter. you’d do anything to keep them. because what else is there? what point is there?

[pidgeons-cliffbirds-love]

Agnes Petrella from Eric LaRocca's Things have gotten worse since we last spoke is invading my mind. it is voluntary i love her. Indecently a reference right there.

[pidgeons-cliffbirds-love]

Your posts about Things Have Gotten Worse Than We Last Spoke helped change my mind about the story and Agnes as a character, thank you

ofc ofc:)

[autoneurotic]

tfw when u just wanted to sell your cherished apple peeler and make rent :/

[autoneurotic]

you are my angel, come from way above to give me love…her eyes, she’s on the dark side, neutralize every man in sight love you love you love you love you love you love you…