I'm reading Wuthering Heights for the first time, and homeboy Lockwood just came unannounced and uninvited to Heathcliff's place knowing he dislikes people AND THEN COMPLAINED when people reacted poorly to it and didn't comply to his demands. Like mister, they are not the ones being rude right now.
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Wuthering Heights:
I find Heathcliff's treatment of Linton more appalling than his treatment of Isabella. Other readers often seem to view his abuse of Isabella as his darkest hour and not care as much about Linton because they don't like Linton. But to me, while of course what Isabella goes through is horrible, there's something more uniquely horrible about Heathcliff abusing his own mortally ill teenage son. It doesn't matter that Linton is an unpleasant person: he's still a dying teenager and he's still Heathcliff's own child. This more than anything else is why Heathcliff "stands unredeemed" to me.
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[Heathcliff] went down: I set him a stool by the fire, and offered him a quantity of good things: but he was sick and could eat little, and my attempts to entertain him were thrown away. He leant his two elbows on his knees, and his chin on his hands, and remained rapt in dumb meditation.
On my inquiring the subject of his thoughts, he answered gravely—‘I’m trying to settle how I shall pay Hindley back. I don’t care how long I wait, if I can only do it at last. I hope he will not die before I do!’
‘For shame, Heathcliff!’ said I. ‘It is for God to punish wicked people; we should learn to forgive.’
‘No, God won’t have the satisfaction that I shall,’ he returned. ‘I only wish I knew the best way! Let me alone, and I’ll plan it out: while I’m thinking of that I don’t feel pain.’
–"Wuthering Heights" by Emily Brontë, VII.
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tragic fictional siblings... save me...
tragic fictional siblings
save me tragic fictional siblings
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if you’re cold, she’s cold. let her in your window
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Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.
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emily brontë receives the first kill yourself anon in 1848
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Stories that would be improved by polyamory:
Dracula: it's basically a novel of kitchen-table polyamory already, but this way someone might actually kiss Jack Seward.
A Midsummer Night's Dream: just let them all have an orgy at the end. I feel like they'd be into it. Puck's invited too if he wants.
Bridget Jones' Diary: why force a choice between Mark and Daniel if there was the option to have both?
Any Arthuriana: less cheating, more honesty, fewer duels, more snogging, everyone's a winner.
Stories that would be made worse by polyamory:
Wuthering Heights: dear God do not give Cathy and Heathcliff a reason to drag more people into their terrible relationship than are already involved.
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kate bush photographed by barry schultz, 1979💐
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Emily Brontë, from Wuthering Heights originally published c. 1847
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knuckle tats that say YSIK YHMT (acronym for "you said i killed you—haunt me, then!")
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i hate you romantically involved characters who talk to each other like they’re in a couples counseling session, i hate you watering down of the word toxic, i hate you plot twists where the male love interest is actually a villain because see, silly girl? in the REAL world guys like that are DANGEROUS, i hate you relationship therapist breaks down movie couple’s relationship videos, i hate you “romeo and juliet were just stupid horny teenagers” “belle had stockholm syndrome” “wuthering heights isn’t romantic” hot takes, i hate you sanitization of romance in fiction
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He’s more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.
Emily Brontë / Wuthering Heights
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Zoë Lianne, "Erasure"
Mary Oliver, "Felicity"
Emily Bronte, "Wuthering Heights"
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