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dollkisses05 · 3 months

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I need him PLEASE

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lolitafan1997 · 1 year

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What is your favourite hairstyle for Lo?

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doloresdisparue · 1 year

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head in my fucking HANDS

#lolita novel #vladimir nabokov #those include pin up photos of a real molested 14 yr old #and illustrations that are trying their very best to look like csem #if you were wondering #the cover designs are so fucking vile

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cherries-in-wine · 1 month

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Lolita rant because why not:

WHY DO SOME PEOPLE STILL CALL IT A LOVE STORY WHEN THERE'S LITERALLY A PART WHERE DOLORES ASKS FOR THE NAME OF "the hotel where you first raped me" LIKE EXCUSE ME WHAT PART OF A 12 YEAR GIRL GETTING RAPED AND ABUSED IS ROMANTIC TO YOU??

I cannot stress this enough LOLITA IS PSYCOLOGICAL HORROR. Humbert Humbert is an unreliable narrator that's manipulating and charming YOU into believing it's a love story but it's your responsibility to read in between the lines and realise what's actually going on. How lolita is just a 12 year old girl named Dolores who is isolated, raped and abused throughout the entire book by Humbert Humbert and has no voice in his story.

Even the people behind the lolita movies did not get this they still think of lolita as some sort of seductress which is just disgusting.

I think the reason why people sometimes interpret it as a love story is because of how beautifully it is written. The way Humbert Humbert writes about Lolita is very dreamy and poetic but that's literally the point of the book it's a cautionary tale.

Some people turn Vladimir Nabokov into the villain for writing a book like this when in reality he was victim of child sexual abuse himself. He called lolita his "poor little girl". He wanted the cover of the book to be an American landscape and especially NOT that of a little girl because he wanted lolita to be faceless. It's so heartbreaking to see the author's wishes be blatantly disrespected.

I love psychological horrors/thrillers with unreliable narrators like lolita and killing stalking but they get misinterpreted so often it's sad.

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nymphetdreamgirl · 2 months

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. ݁₊ ⊹ . ݁˖ girlhood . ݁₊ 𐙚

#nymph3t #nympette #lolita #lolita novel #the virgin suicides #lo #dream girl #girlhood #lolita1997

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21stcenturyophelia · 3 months

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Lolita is not 'pro grooming content'. I stg reading comprehension is dead

#coquette #girlblogging #lolita novel #vladimir nabokov

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this-world-of-beautiful-monsters · 1 year

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Reading the Lolita novel I don’t think I was prepared for how much I would...platonically love Lo as a character. She’s so smart and funny and reckless, she’s crass and weird and messy in ways that Humbert fucking hates and I absolutely adore.

I just wanna take reach into the page and set her free to be as bright and beautiful as she already is. She’s trying so hard to survive and keep her sanity, and people find it so easy to judge her based on that.

She’s trapped in a truly horrendous situation, there’s no getting around that if you have an ounce of reading comprehension and she’s by no means a perfect victim, she’s on edge and traumatized and rude and angry and quietly crying for help in ways that people either can’t or aren’t willing to put in the effort to see. She’s a little girl going through hell.

And even then, even through Humbert’s extremely narrow, objectifying gaze, Lo’s personality shines through, stuff that you never get from an aesthetic post about her. She has an IQ of 150. She’s a baby bisexual. She loves comic books. She dances just for herself. She wants to be in the school play. She fixates on pop culture and kitsch as a coping mechanism. There are scenes with her where I could swear I’m reading a description of a 50′s understanding of a character with ADHD.

She forms relationships with other kids, away from Humbert, despite his efforts to control her every move, and even though those relationships are so often stunted and suppressed they’re there, they’re real, she’s real. For all that Humbert tries to control the narrative, Lo still exists as her own person, even if there’s so much of her we’ll never get to see.

I don’t know, I just didn’t really expect for Nabokov to go so hard giving Lo complexity and depth, both as a young female character and a child enduring horrifying, sickening abuse. I wish Lolita was remembered for that instead of the “tragic love” and “coquette” shit.

#lolita novel #lolita #female characters #complex female characters #russian writers #vladimir nabokov #abuse survivors #csa mention #abuse mention #rape mention #noncon mention #child abuse #adhd #neurodivergent characters #dolores haze is adhd to me now

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enigmatic-echo · 7 months

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I was discussing Vladimir Nabokov's novel 'Lolita' to my coworkers the other day, about to fret over the fact that some people view it as a romance novel, when the self-proclaimed himbo in our thrift store's book section (a fairly apt self-description I'll admit) mentioned that he had put out that very novel the previous day. In the romance section. Because "It looked like some sort of erotica". Needless to say everyone was shocked upon my reveal of what the novel was actually about. I wonder if Vladimir Nabokov rolls in his grave.

#its always interesting at the thrift store #vladimir nabokov #lolita novel #literature #dark academia #books #flabbergasted

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lolitafan1997 · 11 months

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This poster says it all.

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doloresdisparue · 4 months

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if you use the tags "dolores haze" and "daddys little f_cktoy" on the same public post on tumblr dot com i hope all of your fingernails fall out and you step on a rusty screw once a month.

#lolita novel #dolores haze #girblogger #coquette #lana del rey #because its ALWAYS you bitches #collect ur trash

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elainiisms · 1 month

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#I AM DONE WITH YOU THOUGHTLESS IDIOTS #SHUT YOUR MOUTHS #lolita #lolita novel #dolores haze #girlhood #literature #vladimir nabokov

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cherries-in-wine · 28 days

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It's so fascinating to me that the books that were supposed to be cautionary tales are now being used almost like an instruction manual.

Take lolita by Vladimir Nabokov for example, it's a Gothic horror novel written from the perspective of an unreliable narrator (the pedophile) but many people (wayyyyy too many people) see it as a love story. Especially on tumblr lolita is romanticised a lot. How people manage to call a book where a 12 year old girl is consistently abused romantic is beyond me.

Another example is 1984 by George Orwell however this one is more subtle. 1984 is about a dystopian reality although now it seems more like a prophecy. There are so many parallels to ingsoc (the philosophy 1984 follows) in our current reality. The book was also banned in several countries and states (you know you've written a great dystopian novel when the government starts banning it).

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impunkster-syndrome · 3 months

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One sentence in and I wish to murder Humbert Humbert.

#lolita novel #blackbox thoughts #'fire of my loins' sir that is a twelve year old

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nymphetdreamgirl · 1 month

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cause you and i

we were born to die

#born to die #born to die summer #summer aesthetic #summertime sadness #nympette #lolita #coquette #lolita novel #nymph3t

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