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Do you guys remember how kidnap fantasies were popular on wattpad because young girls and queer teens were both made to feel shame at the thought of their own sexualities, so the fantasy of being kidnapped totally against their will was a way for them to engage with a romantic or sexual fantasy without feeling morally in the wrong for doing so? Added bonus that the fantasy involved being whisked away from repressive environments like home or school, right?

Finding out that Bram Stoker was in a sexless marriage and that scholars believe that he very likely was closeted gay puts the entire book into perspective as to WHY it reads EXACTLY like a self insert wattpad Dracula kidnap fic:

“I TOTALLY love my wife and would never do anything that an upstanding Good Straight Working Man wouldn’t do but oh nooo, big strong man with broad back and strong enough arms to carry me back to bed like a princess trapped me and claimed me as his, completely against my will 👉👈 But he protects me against the bad evil sexual women (who I assure you, I am TOTALLY sexually attracted to, as any straight man with a choice would be) but trust me, I do NOT want ANY of this. What’s that? The Count is not capable of feeling love? Would be a shame if I had the special ability to change tha-”

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Cannot Stress Enough how important it is to read Howl’s Moving Castle written by Diana Wynn Jones immediately after watching Howl’s Moving Castle directed by Hayao Miyazaki. When he made the movie he was of course upset with war and thus included it in the film, but you gotta understand. You really Gotta Understand. Every time in the movie where Howl turns the door dial black to travel to an absolutely hellish warscape? You know where that same dial takes him in the book? The Real World Country Of Wales

#howl's moving castle #Yeah #Really liked it

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list of medieval literature with links to read.

i’ll continue to update with more texts, better scans, & different editions. enjoy!

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there's a german version on ebay for like 32 dollars.... but my german is crap

Dying for real omg 😭

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Dying for real omg 😭

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However, there is also the interesting thing coming out from all of that.

This idea that paleolithic civilisations were driven by women is something use by both men and feminists but for totatlly different reasons. This then leads to them perpetuating false informations for their own personnal goals.

By this I mean that on one side we have men stating that women were in charge for so long in previous civilisations and that they managed to take the power and therefore are the rightful holder of the current power, especially when it uses the false idea that men were oppressed by women. This basically is used to justify their power right now and why they should keep it.

On the other hand, we have women coming and saying that hey, if they were in charge before, during a time were civilisation was at its beginning and a lot of tools and concepts were created, then it means that 1) they managed to deal and lead a civilisation perfectly fine before men forcefully took over and 2) they therefore should rightfully be given their power back.

And while nowadays it calmed down, the beginning of feminism did use that and well... it's kind of bad.

And this is why archaeology is important and should be studied like any other science : without giving in your personal point of view.

The interesting things in the part about matriarchy is that most of the books were written by men and speak of how paleolithic civilisations were most likely lead by women and how men were trying to create life too, like women were, and doing so by drawing.

And you can't stop but wonder about the veracity of it all.

Were those civilisations really lead by women? Or are those just men talking and complaining and using a very cisman's lense?

Most of the texts are rather old and while they do list and describe a lot of things, I can't stop but wonder why the heck the author used those examples in his books?

If really he just wanted to list all the problems from earlier paleolithic studies, he could've done so in a much shorter manner than what he did here.

#La Caverne Originelle

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There's also the fact that the author himself say that no one ever managed to prove that there were indeed martiarchies during prehistory so like...

Why bother that much to list all those theories if htey're 100% based on bullshit?

The interesting things in the part about matriarchy is that most of the books were written by men and speak of how paleolithic civilisations were most likely lead by women and how men were trying to create life too, like women were, and doing so by drawing.

And you can't stop but wonder about the veracity of it all.

Were those civilisations really lead by women? Or are those just men talking and complaining and using a very cisman's lense?

Most of the texts are rather old and while they do list and describe a lot of things, I can't stop but wonder why the heck the author used those examples in his books?

If really he just wanted to list all the problems from earlier paleolithic studies, he could've done so in a much shorter manner than what he did here.

#La Caverne Originelle

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The interesting things in the part about matriarchy is that most of the books were written by men and speak of how paleolithic civilisations were most likely lead by women and how men were trying to create life too, like women were, and doing so by drawing.

And you can't stop but wonder about the veracity of it all.

Were those civilisations really lead by women? Or are those just men talking and complaining and using a very cisman's lense?

Most of the texts are rather old and while they do list and describe a lot of things, I can't stop but wonder why the heck the author used those examples in his books?

If really he just wanted to list all the problems from earlier paleolithic studies, he could've done so in a much shorter manner than what he did here.

#La Caverne Originelle

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I'm sorry but fhkasjdfdsa ????

Rough translation

Examining the decorations of the Cougnac's cave, Lagot suggest then that men, "living oppressed by women", had wanted "to benefit too from the moonshine and give birth to the animated, to create life too, without dying, and therefore also share the magical power of women

Like idk but men wanting to be women and to give birth sounds kinda like... queer to me?

The subchapter is about women-led societies and the theories that men wanted to get free from the control of women, and having the author look for a line like that is... interesting...

#La Caverne Originelle

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“The story tells you what happens” acceptable, expected, standard fare.

“They story never tells you what happens but the implications are there” losing my mind, chewing the drywall, punching patrons on the bus, throwing myself in the river

#Erik L'Homme with Phaenomen #the end fucking destroys you like that

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thinking about how the world would be better if more people understood the differences between 'the author failed to tell the story they wanted to tell' and 'the author told the story they wanted to tell, but they told it badly' and 'the author told the story they wanted to, and they told it well, but it wasn't the story I wanted to read'

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Fabrice Colin stp jvais mourir

#Les étranges sœurs Wilcox #Les étranges soeurs Wilcox

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damn, I remembered about les étranges soeurs wilcox and now I'm thinking about that one book with Merlin taking in a young apprentice but it turns out it's a girl and not a boy but he keeps her bc welp, he's in it now and she does have potential

I'm also thinking about a book with the philosopher stone?

and there's a weird one with djinns in there

anyway lmaooo mostly books I've read thanks to the lilbrary but never finished for whatever reason

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Thinking about how in the entirety of the A.N.G.E universe (a series of books written by Anne Robillard), we have the freaking antisemitic belief that the world is actually controlled by lizard people.

Like girl could've chosen anything to build her world upon and she decided on this freaking antisemitic shit.

#Blabla

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Bonkers to see that pinoy mythology has so many moon-eating creatures like damn

Also a freaking werehorse

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113 years ago maurice leblanc posed the question “what if i made your oc and my oc wrestle on a boat 😳and they could perceive one another’s very souls😳” to which arthur conan doyle answered “i hate you. never say this to me again.”

and now look where we are. who had the last laugh, doyle? was it you. or was it the man who decided herlock sholmes and arsene lupin were going to have a nice meal at a restaurant and wrestle on a boat

#likes cleansing #arsene lupin #maurice leblanc

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Any book by Claude Ponti is a gem, really.

Anyone who can read french, go look for them, you won't regret it.