#little women novel

[twodimensionalboyfriend]

the best part about reading little women is when you remember that among the many themes, this really is a story about going from girlhood to womanhood. even though this was written 156 years ago i can recognize moments in the book that i’ve had in my life like burning off my sister’s hair with a curling iron

[inkskinned]

how odd, to watch the creative writing exercises of angry men in the comments of instagram. you noticed it first in the comments of conventionally attractive women - but then it started appearing everywhere else, too.

a young man talks about what lunch he's packing his wife. there is a little story under it, with 300 likes, fabricated from nothing. "this is pointless. if you treat her like this, she will take the lunch to her office and fuck her boss and divorce him and take all his money."

you scroll. a young woman talks about what lunch she's packing for her husband. it is always uglier when the subject of the video is a woman, you've noticed. "you sit on camera and you smile and you are cheating with the neighbor and then you're going to lie about being sexually assaulted by your husband and -"

you stop reading. it has 567 likes.

where did this even become a thing? people making up stories in their head, disgusting long-winded assumptions about intention and sexual disgrace. the evil twin of fanfiction.

like - it's just a lie. it's a lie that they are telling, baldfaced and assumptive. the undercurrent is of course misogyny, but the trouble is that they're so fucking certain. that's what makes the hairs on the back of your neck rise. there is this pervasive, inventive desire for them to be right. that they must be right. all women are cheating, lying, gold-digging bitches. no exceptions.

in the reverse, when women say i'd rather meet a bear in the woods than a strange man - men funnel in from the sides. they defend each other with a vibrance and capacity for empathy you wish applied to like, the other half of the population. a man could be saying i absolutely did kill her and these creatures in the comments would rise up with king shit. she made it happen. they love each other to the point of this sick strange self-gaslighting, a fervent and unhinged cognitive distortion. all men are good, wonderful people. all women are terrible, conniving, seditious, annoying.

and when did it become okay to just, like... say that kind of a thing? at one point, you find yourself typing out a witty and snappy retort. why are you spending so much time fantasizing about other people babe. but as you stare at the screen, some part of you pictures this man in public, saying these things to your face. his soapbox, high and mighty. his mirrored sunglasses and his empty life: tired and lonely.

what a sad and horrible loop he's locked in. he is terrible to women, so women don't talk to him, which he uses as an excuse to act more terribly. he blames this "failure" on women, rather than on his behavior. it cannot be that he is the problem (that the solution is to just put his ego down and accept women as equals) - he begins to invent a sculpture to replace the flesh frame of each person he sees.

it isn't just a woman posing on the beach. it is now a slut with a desperate need for each person to crave her body. it isn't just a woman yelping with surprise during something upsetting. it is a hysterical, unhelpful cretin who will probably make things worse instead of better. it isn't a person.

someone's very sweet wedding vows get moderate attention on instagram. in the comments, a man says good fucking luck you'll waste your life providing while behind your back she's absolutely fucking the best man. this will be so cringe in 2 months when she walks out on you.

you think - is that what you need to be true? is that what you need to happen, for the world to make sense to you?

[flowerytale]

Louisa May Alcott, from Little Women

[tavina-writes]

I'm not exactly sure how I want to phrase this yet, but I think a lot of the utterly weird takes I see sometimes float by me on our cursed blue hellsite (esp when it comes to mdzscql fandom) is coming from a refusal to meet the genre where it's at.

Like, why are we trying to interrogate classism in MDZS society, MDZS is a romance, the societal worldbuilding is just enough to support some general big ideas and the provide context for the romance. We can't get ANY kind of read on general classim/sexism/anything else from. this source material. if you think you can get granular when your sample size of characters from various social and gender strata are so small and we don't know how the vast majority of people in here live you are making stuff up.

Like, meet the story where it's at: it's a romance novel.

[lolitafan1997]

She was a Daisy fresh Girl.

[cantagirldrawinpeace]

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(Click for better quality pleeeaaasee 😭😭)

[stayuntilthefoglifts]

them: You seem different.

me: I started reading a new book/watching new series and accidentally (not really) took on the personality of my favorite character.

[logophilist1982]

[wonder-worker]

"[Elizabeth Woodville's] piety as queen seems to have been broadly conventional for a fifteenth-century royal, encompassing pilgrimages, membership of various fraternities, a particular devotion to her name saint, notable generosity to the Carthusians, and the foundation of a chantry at Westminster after her son was born there. ['On other occasions she supported planned religious foundations in London, […] made generous gifts to Eton College, and petitioned the pope to extend the circumstances in which indulgences could be acquired by observing the feast of the Visitation']. One possible indicator of a more personal, and more sophisticated, thread in her piety is a book of Hours of the Guardian Angel which Sutton and Visser-Fuchs have argued was commissioned for her, very possibly at her request."

-J.L. Laynesmith, "Elizabeth Woodville: The Knight's Widow", "Later Plantagenet and Wars of the Roses Consorts: Power, Influence, Dynasty"

[neptunezo]

I can’t even lie, if i’m dating someone who doesn’t like any form of literature besides graphic novels, instant break up.

like babe what do you mean you don’t like to read? you literally do it everyday!

what do you mean you think sense and sensibility, picture of dorian gray, the Iliad and the odyssey, any George Orwell books, Percy Jackson, Harry Potter, edgar allan poe, oscar wilde, jane austen, wuthering heights, and little woman sound boring?

nothing wrong with graphic novels but when thats all you read, you aren’t reading to read

[bookguide]

“I want to do something splendid… something heroic or wonderful that won’t be forgotten after I’m dead… I think I shall write books.”

— Louisa May Alcott, The Inheritance

[walmart-miku]

ORV rereading liveblog chapters: 15-18 (all of episode 4)

He's so baby girl

AAAHHHHHHHHH FORESHADOWING MY BELOVED OMG THATS REAL SNEAKY SING-SHONG

ITS HER!!! JUNG HEEWON!!!!

Kim Dokja ready to THROW DOWN

Kim Dokja: Orphan Adopter, Designated Parent, The Cool Dad That Leaves to Get The Milk (but always comes back)

Also I love Lee Gilyoung so much he's so baby

Kim Dokja is loosing the IDGAF war so badly. He cares so much :')

Idk how to explain it but this breaks my heart

Is there is there something u wanna share with the class kim dokja?

I love his little internal monologue, it give us such insight into how he thinks.

THEM!!! Gilyoung-ie is so bby duck coded. He just imprinted on Kim Dokja

I like my women filled with the rage of a thousand sun's and full of righteous fury

[flowerytale]

Louisa May Alcott, from Little Women

[chronotopes]

jo wanted a gay relationship and laurie wanted a lesbian relationship… through this brave invention of failt4t they settled instead for failmarrying other people

[thesagekissoftime]

Hello, my dears ♡

I recently went to stay with my grandparents, who very kindly took me to an antique shop and a record/vhs/dvd/cd/book store. I thought a few of you might like to see what I bought. (Little Women 2019 dvd, Sense and Sensibility 1995 dvd, Lorna Doone by R. D. Blackmore, Tchaikovsky LP vinyl, Kodak camera from 1962, and a chair from the 19th century that goes perfectly with my bureau)

I hope you all have a good day ♡

love you x

[recently-reanimated]

One of the downsides to reading classic novels is that even though the prose is beautiful you sometimes have to look up a word that you've never heard before and you see this above the definition.