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redbreastedbird · 2 days
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hello oh my goodness you're on tumblr 😭😭😭I don't really know how to convey how HAPPY your books make me feel. I re-read mmu books one through five for christmas and I intend to re-read the rest before mua three is out!
arkjdmsb I don't even know what to say except a huge big massive THANK YOU for creating this amazing universe where anyone and everyone can be gay and solve crimes. nuala holds a special place in my heart as we're both bespectacled autisic irish people. every time she speaks irish I gain like three years of life expectancy. I love hazel to pieces as well. when I was younger, she felt like a friend to me, like I had just accidentally picked up her casebooks and solving crimes alongside her and daisy (and of course the junior pinkertons!)
I will never forget reading the last chapter of the body in the blitz and coming to the realisation that like. almost everyone in this room is queer. and this is a kids book in an era of draconian book-banning legislation, and there are just queer characters right there. just being people, really really good people, existing almost a hundred years ago. neurodivergent, poc, disabled, queer and trans characters. yes!
I am just rambling oh my god 🤦love you lots and keep up the incredible, ground-breaking, joyous work <3
This is so nice?! Thank you so so much. And yes, this is everything I wanted to do with my books.
Sarah Waters has a line about how she writes historical novels about queer women because she wants to show her readers that queer women have always existed, and I really internalised that. It matters so much to be able to show that none of this is new - that humans have always been every identity they are today, it’s just that mainstream culture never wanted to admit it. I’m trying to put the reality back into history - honestly, I’ve probably underestimated the diversity, if anything.
I know I have said this a lot, but I grew up under section 28 in the UK, in a time when you basically could not show queer characters in a children’s book (the only queer characters I remember seeing were the angels in His Dark Materials), and so it took me a long time to really trust that I was allowed to put queer characters in my own books. Making Daisy on the page queer was one of the scariest things I had ever done, and I still sort of cannot believe I did it. But it means so much to me to just be able to put on the page now that oh, George has a boyfriend now, and for it to be a basically unremarkable thing. And also to create a trans character with Anna, who transitioned before the novel and is now just living her life!
I really hope that there’s a generation of authors coming up now who have grown up with books like mine and who will do this kind of thing even more readily than I have been able to. The world is such a scary place for people who don’t fit into the norm, but there are so many of us, just out there living our lives, and books help us see that.
Long story short: be gay solve crimes. ❤️
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adrasteiax · 1 year
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(...) soon it'll be spring, and everything will look different then, (...)
Sarah Waters, from The Little Stranger
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lottieurl · 1 year
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sarah waters, fingersmith
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derangedrhythms · 11 months
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Do you like it, that there’s always someone longing for you, in the night?
Sarah Waters, from ‘The Little Stranger’
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adaptationsdaily · 2 years
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Where I come from, it's illegal to be naive.
THE HANDMAIDEN (2016) dir. Park Chan-wook
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thoughtkick · 8 months
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I felt that thread that had come between us, tugging, tugging at my heart―so hard, it hurt me.
Sarah Waters, Fingersmith
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surqrised · 5 months
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I felt that thread that had come between us, tugging, tugging at my heart―so hard, it hurt me.
Sarah Waters, Fingersmith
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lillyli-74 · 10 months
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What a punishing business it is, simply being alive.
~Sarah Waters
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orkbutch · 5 months
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Something I completely forgot about until now is this drawing i did after rereading Tipping The Velvet for the billionth time. Nan King is to this day my fictional butch icon, the ultimate slutty anti-hero lesbian fuck boy, comically tripping her way through her life slapstick style while being extremely fuckable and queer. I love her and all of her weird fucked lovers
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resqectable · 4 months
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I felt that thread that had come between us, tugging, tugging at my heart―so hard, it hurt me.
Sarah Waters, Fingersmith
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vickythestrange · 1 month
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Mommy issues iceberg, Sarah Waters edition
From top to bottom: Susan Trinder, Frances Wray, Caroline Ayres, Margaret Prior, Maud Lilly, Selena Dawes
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antigonick · 1 year
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The subliminal mind has many dark, unhappy corners, after all. Imagine something loosening itself from one of those corners. Let's call it a—a germ. And let's say conditions prove right for that germ to develop—to grow, like a child in the womb. What would this little stranger grow into? A sort of shadow-self, perhaps: a Caliban, a Mr Hyde. A creature motivated by all the nasty impulses and hungers the conscious mind had hoped to keep hidden away: things like envy and malice and frustration...
Sarah Waters, The Little Stranger
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adrasteiax · 1 year
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Last night I heard noises. I thought there was something at the door, something scratching, wanting to get in. Then I realised that the noise was inside me, that the thing that was scratching was inside me, trying to get out.
Sarah Waters, from The Little Stranger
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gayamulet · 4 months
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Mr. Haynes…
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amatesura · 2 years
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Fingersmith (2005) | dir. Aisling Walsh
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grrrenadine · 1 year
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Since Spooktober has rolled around again, I wanna give a shoutout to a project that @snailontheslope and I made two years agp. We watched and reviewed 13 Irish movies in various subgenres of horror, and the end result is a fully illustrated zine available for $1+ on Gumroad (link in source).
These are all the illustrations featured inside. Enjoy and happy reading!
@zine-scene
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