#milk-fed

[phaedraismyusername]

Happy International Lesbian Day! Here's some super brief book recs to celebrate

Books dealing with love, loss, longing and abandonment

This is How You Lose The Time War is a short but beautifully written epistolary novel between two agents on opposite sides of a time war as they slowly fall in love.

Our Wives Under the Sea is one of the most beautifully written debuts I've ever read about a woman whose wife comes home wrong after they thought she'd died at sea and how it feels to grieve the loss of someone who's still in your home.

Lucky Red is a western novel about a young girl working in a brothel who meets her first female gunslinger and falls head over heels for her, and the consequences that come with loving dangerous people.

Body horror galore

Camp Damascus is about a young woman living in a super conservative christian town built around the worlds most successful conversion camp and the horrors that are uncovered there when praying the gay away fails.

To Be Devoured is about a woman whose fascination with the local vultures turns into obsession and the urge to know what carrion tastes like overtakes her life and leads her down stranger and stranger paths.

Chlorine is about a girl whose entire life revolves around being a competitive swimmer, and how abuse, neglect, and obsession with being the best takes its toll on the young women caught up in these destructive cycles.

Flawed character studies

Big Swiss is about a woman who has a kitchen floor reset in her 40s, moves away and starts a new life as a transcriber for a sex therapist and becomes obsessed with one of his clients before inserting herself into this poor woman's life.

The Seep is a speculative sci-fi set in a future where there's been a quiet alien invasion that has given people the ability to make almost any changes to their own bodies and what that world feels like to someone who doesn't want to partake.

Milk Fed is about a woman in therapy who feels cut off from almost everything until she meets another woman who triggers in her a melding of sex, hunger, and religion and where that takes her. Huge trigger warnings for ED content. It gets tough, y'all.

Fantastical wlw books

Bitterthorn is an amalgamation of fairytales retold as a slow burn sapphic love story between a sad young girl from a cursed land and the evil witch who takes her as a companion in the latest of the generational sacrifices made to appease her.

All the Bad Apples may be set in contemporary Ireland but it is a fairytale following a young girl as she travels across the country looking for a sister she refuses to believe is dead and the people she meets along the way.

Gideon the Ninth needs no introduction on this site but for the sake of formatting - lesbian necromancers in space who find themselves in an isolated murder mystery plot. It's not a romance but it is a love story and this series will change your life if you let it.

Translated novels

Boulder is a short character study following a free spirited woman when she accidentally settles down with the woman she loves and how love and resentment can take up the same space in your chest when life doesn't turn out the way you hoped it would.

Notes of a Crocodile is a cult classic coming of age story about queer teens in Taipei in the 1980s. It was written in the 90s so please keep that in mind if you choose to read it.

Paradise Rot is about an international student studying in Australia and her growing obsession with her housemate as they share a space that allows no privacy. I've never read anything that feels stickier.

[liliesbythewater]

oh, mother

Jeff Buckley, "So Real" | My Chemical Romance, "Mama" | Safia Elhillo, "Mama" (from Home is Not a Country, via @feral-ballad) | Silas Denver Melvin, "Twenty" (from Grit: Poems) | Greta Gerwig, Lady Bird | Michelle Zauner, Crying in H Mart | The Shins, "The Rifle's Spiral" | Melissa Broder, Milk Fed

[patroclusdefencesquad]

i always think i know how iconic damen is and then i reread some part of captive prince again and holy shit no he really is That Bitch

[justseventeen]

September 1997. 'We followed designer-actress-filmmaker Sofia Coppola on a non-stop shop-fest at L.A.'s hottest spots.'

[softpoetrygf]

yes babe you’re so bunny a certain hunger my year of rest and relaxation boy parts the pisces gone girl milk fed nightbitch the bell jar the virgin suicides earthlings pizza girl vladimir and ily for it

[sukibenders]

Me: Hey, can I please have content for the poc characters on The Boys universe? Especially MM, Victoria, and Marie?

Tumblr:

[becomingabeing]

what did i say 🤣

[unknownhyperial]

What if I leave him a saucer of warm milk just outside my door. Or perhaps some kibble

/silly

He'll then proceed to steal anything else easily accessible outside your door and then run away. You're also definitely not getting that saucer back-

[frenchnewwaves]

Sofia Coppola wearing a Che Guevara top

[transmutationisms]

I'd be interested to hear more of your thoughts on Melissa Broder's milk fed

i thought it was so lacklustre. like for a book that sets itself up as a work of psychological realism there's almost no attention to rachel's actual thought process as she moves through the (extremely linear and teleological and clinically approved) steps of 'recovery'; instead what we get is literally a timeskip after which she tells us she's been 'eating normally' for some weeks. like lol ok. her restriction itself is given a singular and hackneyed explanation---mommy issues---and miriam literally only exists as a fat lampshade for rachel to temporarily transfer her feelings onto instead. we don't even get any suggestion that miriam had, idk, any kind of erotic or sexual interest in rachel's eating behaviours, which would have been the obvious place to go imo. there's just not any new ground being tread here---anorexia makes rachel('s life) smaller because it's how she controls herself to try to gain maternal approval. wow where could i possibly have heard that one before.

i tjink a fundamental problem with a lot of anorexia in fiction is that people think anorexia is more interesting than eating, but they also think they have some kind of social responsibility to make their characters 'recover' out of anorexia, which means essentially that they've trapped themselves into writing a story that ends boringly. 'milk fed' opens with passages that do a decent job of capturing the repetitive and compulsive nature of rachel's anorexia, but still hold reader attention. there's no corresponding passage for her 'recovery' or refeeding or weight restoration process, because broder is uninterested in these or perhaps squeamish about portraying them as being at all unpleasant (see again: assumptions about social responsibility). so, as 'milk fed' progresses, we get less and less of rachel's interiority (clichéd as it was) and more and more moments that only make sense on the assumption that the reader already knows the dsm diagnosis and can fill in the gaps themself.

i don't necessarily want to read realist fiction about recovery; it sounds roughly as boring to me as realist fiction about anorexia itself. but the asymmetry in broder's treatment of the two is extremely noticeable and makes the book read like an episode of a medical soap. it's insane to me how much hype this book got as boundary-pushing or what the fuck. make rachel fat or give miriam some opinions or something idk. most people who write about anorexia are the last people who hve anything interesting to say about it because they're attracted to it as a form of writing a personal confessional and then shoehorned into writing a recovery story around the embrace of psychiatric normality. worst possible combination of obvious self-insert ana characters who then undergo a magical transformation conveniently just off-page and return to us Happy™️ and Healthy™️ like some kind of total system re-code of their every desire. which is also why 'milk fed', despite making gestures toward a political situating of eating and body weight, is ultimately unable to conceptualise either of these things through any lens other than (the barest outlines of) rachel's individual erotic desires.

[sukugo]

sukugo baby would 100% have super gourmet taste, both their parents being foodies and with extremely refined tastes, meaning they grow up used to always eating the best foods

but also im imagining it something like erina from shokugeki no souma:

except, in this case, gojo's milk is delectable. and they hate bottled milk. it takes satoru so MUCH to wean them off him. him and sukuna have to get like crazy expensive milk powders that their kid actually agrees to drink. (let's ignore the fact that baby milk is already hella expensive girl. what are these prices) (sukugo are lucky gojo's rich)

[jangmi-latte]

Sudden thought: fae are more 'potant' than humans, it just cancels out with fae+fae. But fae+human? Be ready to have quadruplets. Lilia visits Sebek at NRC during his final year and he's just got 5 babies with him. One on his back, one strapped to his front, 2 in a baby carriage, and one in a sling by his waist. He acts like there's nothing abnormal about this at all.

/EPISODE 7 SPOILERS

general lilia "i hate children" vanrouge suddenly outnumbering baul zigvolt's kids/grandkids by default like it's a competition between these two like hey how many kids you got? oh lol just a daughter. anyways meet leylani and christian and this is victoria—

fae+human relationships are soOo complex you're suddenly ATTACHED to one another + fae loyalty is off the charts and then suddenly you lost count of which is adopted and which is not like lilia sweetie are you CERTAIN and SURE you did not steal edward from the afterglow savannah.

and then there's sebek seeing his...nieces and nephews perhaps?? and then he remembers his own parents who are also fae+human like oh boy here we go again

[hungryfictions]

Melissa Broder, Milk Fed

[saayatsumu]

tsum collab card preview (spoiler warning ?)

i have said it a million times and i’ll say it a million more—

THE MOST BEAUTIFUL MAN ANYONE HAS EVER SEEN. i am in shambles i love him so much i am going to explode

also

currently feeling:

[embarrassinglovesong]