#gilian flynn

[vulpinae]

gillian flynn janet fitch sylvia plath

[feminine-fever]

“Men always say that as the defining compliment, don’t they? She’s a cool girl. Being the Cool Girl means I am a hot, brilliant, funny woman who adores football, poker, dirty jokes, and burping, who plays video games, drinks cheap beer, loves threesomes and anal sex, and jams hot dogs and hamburgers into her mouth like she’s hosting the world’s biggest culinary gang bang while somehow maintaining a size 2, because Cool Girls are above all hot. Hot and understanding. Cool Girls never get angry; they only smile in a chagrined, loving manner and let their men do whatever they want. Go ahead, shit on me, I don’t mind, I’m the Cool Girl.

Men actually think this girl exists. Maybe they’re fooled because so many women are willing to pretend to be this girl. For a long time Cool Girl offended me. I used to see men – friends, coworkers, strangers – giddy over these awful pretender women, and I’d want to sit these men down and calmly say: You are not dating a woman, you are dating a woman who has watched too many movies written by socially awkward men who’d like to believe that this kind of woman exists and might kiss them. I’d want to grab the poor guy by his lapels or messenger bag and say: The bitch doesn’t really love chili dogs that much – no one loves chili dogs that much! And the Cool Girls are even more pathetic: They’re not even pretending to be the woman they want to be, they’re pretending to be the woman a man wants them to be. Oh, and if you’re not a Cool Girl, I beg you not to believe that your man doesn’t want the Cool Girl. It may be a slightly different version – maybe he’s a vegetarian, so Cool Girl loves seitan and is great with dogs; or maybe he’s a hipster artist, so Cool Girl is a tattooed, bespectacled nerd who loves comics. There are variations to the window dressing, but believe me, he wants Cool Girl, who is basically the girl who likes every fucking thing he likes and doesn’t ever complain. (How do you know you’re not Cool Girl? Because he says things like: “I like strong women.” If he says that to you, he will at some point fuck someone else. Because “I like strong women” is code for “I hate strong women.”)” ― Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl

[im-tempted]

I love the part where Adam said "it's eviling time" and then eviled all over the place ( linked ringside by Julien baker)

Just for this ask you get the quote I almost linked with it

Sometimes if you let people do things to you, you're really doing it to them. Know what I mean? If someone wants to do fucked-up things to you, and you let them, you're making them more fucked up. Then you have the control. As long as you don't go crazy.

Gilian Flynn-Sharp Objects

[killpilled]

now YOUR top 5 novels pls 🌚 also your top 5 poetry books.

well well how the turn tables have turned..

regarding poetry i have to out myself as a noob bc i don't really read poetry 💀

regarding books hmmm definitely > wuthering heights, even though it's one of those classics people won't shut up about! i don't care i love it! very messy, very mean, but very true. feels right. and has this dark chthonic quality, includes so much pain and suffering, but at its heart it's very human. The ending is so peaceful, i cry everytime

>the bloody chamber by angela carter. I like all of the short stories but especially the erl king bc it's so silently creepy and seductive and displays such an interesting concept of nature through the titular character. all of the stories have this notion of primitive human sensuality combined with very clean sterile gothic locations which works so well with the fact that they're all fairy tales/beauty and the beast-stories

uni brought me back to this one so >das parfum by patrick süskind which is also very, very mean. grenouille is a mean little fucker and i would say this one is a lot darker than the others bc it's very cynical, BUT grenouille as this non-human thing that also happens to be the artistic genius of a century makes for a very intense reading experience

i cannot defend this but >Der Steppenwolf by Hermann Hesse bc my man hermann had a lot of problems but he also got his head entirely fucked by c g jung and nietzsche so. reads like it was written during one long coked-up existential crisis

>sharp objects by gilian flynn. a lot of stuff about the corruption of motherhood and daughterhood/womanhood and childhood/generational trauma

[wannabe04]

I have a kindle and Im reading more which is good. I bought a Gilian flynn collection and oh boy

Im reading in release order so Ive finished sharp objects and have just started dark places.

[aphrodisiacal-nyx]

I have never read something so honest.

I think women like to read about murderous mothers and lost little girls because it’s our only mainstream outlet to even begin discussing female violence on a personal level. 

Female violence is a specific brand of ferocity. It’s invasive. A girlfight is all teeth and hair, spit and nails — a much more fearsome thing to watch than two dudes clobbering each other. And the mental violence is positively gory. Women entwine. 

Some of the most disturbing, sick relationships I’ve witnessed are between long-time friends, and especially mothers and daughters. Innuendo, backspin, false encouragement, punishing withdrawal, sexual jealousy, garden-variety jealousy — watching women go to work on each other is a horrific bit of pageantry that can stretch on for years. Libraries are filled with stories on generations of brutal men, trapped in a cycle of aggression. I wanted to write about the violence of women. […] I particularly mourn the lack of female villains — good, potent female villains…I’m talking violent, wicked women. Scary women. Don’t tell me you don’t know some. 

The point is, women have spent so many years girl-powering ourselves — to the point of almost parodic encouragement — we’ve left no room to acknowledge our dark side. Dark sides are important. They should be nurtured like nasty black orchids. 

— Gillian Flynn, “I Was Not a Nice Little Girl”

[zaburzonyswiat]

Gillian Flynn - Ostre przedmioty

[cleavingtolilac]

But it is obvious that the values of women differ very often from the values which have been made by the other sex; naturally, this is so. Yet it is the masculine values that prevail. Speaking crudely, football and sport are 'important'; the worship of fashion, the buying of clothes 'trivial'.

- Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own

I waited patiently - years - for the pendulum to swing the other way, for men to start reading Jane Austen, learn how to knit, pretend to love cosmos, organize scrapbook parties, and make out with each other while we leer. And then we'd say, Yeah, he's a Cool Guy. ― Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl

[my-random-box]

Cool girl

Men always say that as the defining compliment, don’t they? She’s a cool girl. Being the Cool Girl means I am a hot, brilliant, funny woman who adores football, poker, dirty jokes, and burping, who plays video games, drinks cheap beer, loves threesomes and anal sex, and jams hot dogs and hamburgers into her mouth like she’s hosting the world’s biggest culinary gang bang while somehow maintaining a size 2, because Cool Girls are above all hot. Hot and understanding. Cool Girls never get angry; they only smile in a chagrined, loving manner and let their men do whatever they want. Go ahead, shit on me, I don’t mind, I’m the Cool Girl. Men actually think this girl exists. Maybe they’re fooled because so many women are willing to pretend to be this girl. For a long time Cool Girl offended me. I used to see men – friends, coworkers, strangers – giddy over these awful pretender women, and I’d want to sit these men down and calmly say: You are not dating a woman, you are dating a woman who has watched too many movies written by socially awkward men who’d like to believe that this kind of woman exists and might kiss them. I’d want to grab the poor guy by his lapels or messenger bag and say: The bitch doesn’t really love chili dogs that much – no one loves chili dogs that much! And the Cool Girls are even more pathetic: They’re not even pretending to be the woman they want to be, they’re pretending to be the woman a man wants them to be. Oh, and if you’re not a Cool Girl, I beg you not to believe that your man doesn’t want the Cool Girl. It may be a slightly different version – maybe he’s a vegetarian, so Cool Girl loves seitan and is great with dogs; or maybe he’s a hipster artist, so Cool Girl is a tattooed, bespectacled nerd who loves comics. There are variations to the window dressing, but believe me, he wants Cool Girl, who is basically the girl who likes every fucking thing he likes and doesn’t ever complain. (How do you know you’re not Cool Girl? Because he says things like: “I like strong women.” If he says that to you, he will at some point fuck someone else. Because “I like strong women” is code for “I hate strong women.”) ― Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl

[irracjonalne-zmiany]

"- Jesteś taka pełna nienawiści

- Uczyłam się od ciebie. "

Gillian Flynn - Ostre Przedmioty

[itsafricana]

So I’m reading Gone Girl and Nick really isn’t making it easy for me to sympathise with him. Like he couldn’t do (1) sensible, non-self seeking thing??????

[welove-b0oks]

Objetos Cortantes, Gillian Flynn.

[aurithemoon]

I'm reading Gone Girl and I've seen the movie a while back, so I know what happens more or less, but... I'm kinda still falling for Amy's journals and I can't help but hate Nick... a lot. He's such a jerk! I'm not saying he deserves to be manipulated and sent to jail, but I won't lie that I enjoy watching him panic after barely caring that his wife went missing.

Anyways Gilian Flynn did a great job writing these characters, they feel 100% real and all of their actions and reactions make total sense tbh.

[books-and-cookies]

Sorry if you've been asked this before, but what are your top 5 favorite books? (Top 5 authors too if you're up for it? :) )

Ooooh, i haven't gotten this question in a looong time! Let's see 🤔

1. Illuminae by Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff

2. A Court of Mist and Fury by Sarah J. Maas

3. This Savage Song by Victoria Schwab

4. The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien

5. Daughter of Smoke and Bone by Laini Taylor

And favourite authors:

1. Victoria Schwab

2. Jay Kristoff

3. Gilian Flynn

4. Samamtha Shannon

5. Sarah J. Maas

Thank you! ❤🤗

[misskittysmagicportal]

Was it good ?

oh my God! It was so freaking good! My favorite part was Tommy and Nidge as police officers. 🤣 Also Sam "Jamie Young" Keely is in it! oh! And Petra from Fortitude. And a small little cameo from Fran from season two and three of Love-Hate.

It was super twisted. Reminded me a lot of the Gilian Flynn novel: Gone Girl and Sharp Objects. The ending was like "what the fuck! What the fuck!!" 

[moondustis]

do you have any reading recs besides normal people? can't wait to readyour next fic if u publish it <3

hmm i have recently read no longer human by osamu dazai but it's not a happy book at all, it's very sad but it changes you afterwards. 

other recs i have are:

- The Silver Linings Playbook, by matthew quick  - Trust Exercise, by susan choi - Sharp Objects, by gilian flynn - Valley of the Dolls, by jacqueline susann - The Seven Husband of Evelyn Hugo, by taylor jenkins reid - The Nobodies, by liza palmer

i'm also very excited for you to read it!!!