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on being raised on fairy tales in which you are the monster // a. m. h.

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The Secret History- Donna Tart/ Yellowjackets (2021-)

#yellowjackets #the secret history

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#sharp objects

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Sorry I applied a modern lens of analysis to your boyfriend. Yeah I've completely stripped him of historical and semantic context so that I could fit his story and tropes into my own moralistic view of the world. Yeah he's practically flavourless now. In fact this was the original boyfriend and you're a problematic historian for thinking otherwise.

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hi! i think i've seen you post ocassionally fragments from essays and academic papers about shirley jackson novels. do you have some sort of rec list of those you've read and think are good or interesting? asking you as my go-to jacksonblogger

i've mainly read literary criticism on castle and hill house, and a few other general papers, so this is by no means an extensive list, just the few that i particularly enjoyed (so honoured to be your go-to jacksonblogger)

"The Hero Is Married and Ascends the Throne": The Economics of Narrative End in Shirley Jackson's "We Have Always Lived in the Castle" Author(s): Honor McKitrick Wallace

The Establishment and Preservation of Female Power in Shirley Jackson's We Have Always Lived in the Castle Author(s): Lynette Carpenter

"I Am God": The Domineering Patriarch in Shirley Jackson's Gothic Fiction (in) Ed. Ruth Anolik, Horrific Sex: Essays on Sexual Difference in Gothic Literature Author(s): Bernice M. Murphy

Shades of Shakespeare in the Queering of Hill House Author(s): Graley Herren

The Empty Vessel: A Dissection of the Worth of Madness and its Cure in Shirley Jackson's The Bird's Nest Author(s): Brigit Young

“I'll Come Back and Break Your Spell”: Narrative Freedom and Genre in The Haunting of Hill House Author(s): Hilarie Ashton

House Mothers and Haunted Daughters: Shirley Jackson and Female Gothic Author(s): Roberta Rubenstein

"No proper feeling for her house": The Relational Formation of White Womanliness in Shirley Jackson's Fiction Author(s): Alexis Shotwell

if you're struggling to find links to any of these dm me and i can help

#to read #shirley jackson

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small swims ^_^

#illustration

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a wlw version of plato's allegory of the cave. #1 on booktok!

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online library so far:

margaret atwood

the brontës (the complete works is a MASSIVE file fyi)

anne carson

hélène cixous

bell hooks

clarice lispector

audre lorde

virginia woolf

compilations

feminist theory

academic writing (both books and articles)

everything here is in pdf format so you should be able to download and read it on any device. it’s slow going because i have a lot of epubs that i have to convert before uploading and the folders i’ve listed here are neither complete nor comprehensive, but it’s a start! 

#resources #book recs

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Obsessed with this Brazilian cover of The Picture of Dorian Gray

( 📸 by literatura inglesa)

#books #lit #dark academia #litblr #the picture of dorian gray #id in alt text

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Of all the parts of that response that annoy me, what gets me the most annoyed is this reframing of Demeter as “overbearing”. 

The idea that mother of a kidnapping victim whose pain and grief was so great that it manifested as the seasons changing for the worse is actually some annoying helicopter parent who won’t let her child live is disgusting to me, personally

#there's so many good stories about overbearing parents that could be adapted to wlw #eros and psyche are right here

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not a man or a woman but a secret third thing (dyke)

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totally biased and unhinged wlw book recomendations list

Happy Pride! I have over 80 books in my “sapphic” goodreads list and these are my personal favs…I don’t have the energy to type actual descriptions but here are the first things that came to my mind with some of them. enjoy. or don’t. to be clear most of these are NOT romances. that’s a different genre and I feel like sometimes ppl get annoyed that the queer sci fi book had more sci fi than romance…but it’s just how it is. ** **

Literature/misc 

Stone Butch Blues - Leslie Feinberg

REQUIRED READING FOR ALL

fictionalized history of a working class jewish queer person and their experiences with lesbian bars, transitioning, unions, and more!

extremely heart breaking but I learned a lot of history I didn’t realize I didn’t know* **Last Night at the Telegraph Club-Malinda Lo **

main character is a chinese-american lesbian coming of age in the 1950′s in san francisco

she forms a sort of relationship with a girl in class and they go to a lesbian bar secretly

can’t recommend enough!  

Her Body and Other Parties - Carmen Maria Machado

Carmen Maria Machado is the GOAT. Her writing is just incredible and some of these stories are haunting.

single handedly made me like short stories.

both Lucy Dacus and Phoebe Bridgers listed it as one of their favs. I Know the End is based on a story from this book.

contains a Law and Order: SVU fanfic which HAUNTS me* 

In The Dream House - Carmen Maria Machado

a genuinely heartbreaking book about abuse in queer relationships

semi autobiographical/looking at histories of abuse

Everyone in this room will someday be dead - Emily Austin

if you struggle with anxiety or/and depression and a fixation on death and/or illness, boy do I have the book for you.

Painfully relatable but also very funny. in a laugh at your own pain kinda way. and the main character is a lesbian in a relationship. I truly love this book and highly recommend.

I had it on my tbr for a year and when I finally started I finished it in one sitting. 

No One Belongs Here More Than You - Miranda July

definitely an acquired taste but one of my favorite books of all time.

a bunch of short stories focusing on loneliness

many queer characters in the stories

Continuar lendo

#book recs

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O Ateneu by Raul Pompeia would thrive in the dark academia bubble

#maddy reads o ateneu

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fashion history fans when there is one boyish woman in a movie with a cast of fifty women: :/ getting bad anti-femininity vibes from this. :/ why isnt she talking about the joys of wearing a corset

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The Secret World of Arrietty (2010). Animated By: Studio Ghibli

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I'm late to this convo but it's alarming that the definition of misogyny has been watered down so far that people will position 'misogyny' and 'sex trafficking women' as separate things, as if the latter isn't an expression of the former. confining misogyny to 'inconsequential' slights, lesser, unimportant internet wank, while treating the violence harming women as this clouded, unnamed mystery without rhyme or reason has done irreparable damage to discussions of misogyny among online leftists. from denying the patriarchal role marginalized men play within their own communities, to branding the violence against gnc women as a sign that men are oppressed for being masculine, to framing feminism and the trans rights movement as inherently antithetical each other, to the ridiculous notion that misogyny is the least serious form of oppression, it's like basic feminist points have completely flown out of the fucking window. if not anything else please love and care for the women in your life beyond quirky posts about your favorite female fictional characters #feminism