twoletterladies

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i think some of you dont like narratives or stories or characters i think you just like fanfiction tropes

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Remembering the one Hades and Persephone fanfic retelling I read where the author had clearly never eaten a pomegranate in their life and just had the character in the Persephone role take a bite out of the side like an apple

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your unreliable narrator fucking bit me

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told my roommate dracula was an epistolary novel because it’s made up of letters and she was like. of course it’s made of letters it’s a book

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Every body hates me because my body is made up from mis matched corpse parts and i make scary noises.

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Dracula by Bram Stoker

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They in their haters era

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lolita haunts me so much because the general premise of the novel genuinely contributes to the discussion of csa in a way very few works are able to. which is not to say lolita should be the ONLY work about this topic with this kind of cultural prevalence... it really shouldn't be, but it does deserve its place among major works on it.

abusers craft narratives about their actions and their victims all the time. in fact, these narratives are so embedded into our culture and the way people at large react to abuse victims. the enabling of abuse, the sympathy for abusers, the dismissal and vilification of children who have been abused - yes, even really young ones - predates lolita. abuser narratives are always upheld to a higher standard than their victims's, to the point where it's even reflected in the way some of these cases turn out in legal contexts.

it's extremely important to have a book like lolita where you're told from the get-go that the abuser telling this story is a horrible man and a liar (it's literally the prologue) so you know, going into it, that everything he's saying about lolita and why he is what he is or why he did what he did is a LIE. you're supposed to discern the lies from the truth - which is that he abused a little girl (and according to some interpretations he very likely killed her mother and lied about it being an accident, because she just happened to die the moment she was about to tell people what he was) and ruined her life.

but he is trying to groom you, the reader, into accepting what he did and seeing the little girl he abused the way he does... even amidst details of dolores crying herself to sleep constantly, bleeding after the SA, and saying straight up that he raped her. the way many abusers tend to do, tthe way even our larger culture tends to do. it actually makes perfect sense to me that lolita got so misunderstood and twisted the way it did. lolita did not invent the "nymphet child" myth. it already existed to begin with, and still does.

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LOOK??? LOOK AT HOW THEY STAND??? Just like their older brothers <333

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bella was lucky she didn’t have a cell phone of any kind because you know ya boi edward would be blowing up that phone 24-7 going “saw a snail today…. effervescent” or some shit equivalent

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The last line of book one of Lolita is about her sobbing in his arms because she has nowhere else to go.

And yet some of y’all still think it is a romantic story, or even more inane, that the book does not examine how Humbert is a monster.

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“Oh DaRrY’s StOiC”

“Oh DaRrY cAnT hAvE fUn”

“Oh DaRrY iS uNCaRiNg”

Darry is a 20 year old man who works two jobs and still tickles Pony out of bed every morning, eats chocolate cake for breakfast and calls Pony honey. Tfym

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PRIDE AND PREJUDICE 2005 | dir. Joe Wright

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Far away from Tulsa