#helpmeet

[moderntradwife]

I found this template online a few months ago. It comes in handy when you don’t know where to start. So far my house is spotless and I’m not stressing out.

#stay at home wife #homemaker #homemaking #trad wife #helpmate #helpmeet #modest dress #hoh #colossians 3:18 #ephesians 5:22 #cleaning #traditional marriage #tradfem #tradhusband #traditional femininity

[literary-illuminati]

Book Review 61 – Helpmeet by Naben Ruthnum

Okay first book of the year that’s surplus to reading list requirements. I put a hold on this because it got shortlisted by the World Fantasy Awards and then, well, totally forgot about it such that when my hold finally came in I had no idea what the book was or where I’d heard of it. Going in totally blind like this was, I think, the best possible choice – spending thirty pages thinking it was some kind of literary period piece definitely improved the gothic horror twist.

The novella is set in 1900 and follows Louise Wilk as she prepares to take her husband, a surgeon, away from Manhattan to his family cottage in the country before he dies of a gruesome and mysterious wasting illness contracted during one of his many affairs (and just ahead of the bank repossessing their house). Over the course of the preparations and travel the history of their relationship and of the disease’s progression are teased and hinted at, and it becomes clear that the disease isn’t anything so simple as syphilis – that really its less a disease and more an incubation.

The atmosphere and presentation feel very pure Gothic horror to me – and very well-done, too. Everything from the descriptions and atmosphere to the repressed and evasive relationships to Louis’ total ostraiza tion from her husband’s social scene even before he began to rot to the whole plot centring around sexual immorality leaving the Man Of Science literally rotting from within and helpless to cure himself no matter how much he scrapes and cuts away.

Of course, the ending turns all of that entirely on its head. The eldritch entity that births itself from Wilks’ rotting corpse is actually quite a sympathetic sort, and sorry to have put the pair of them through such trials. It offers to reunite them – or just unite for the first time, really. Pushing Louis into the husk of her husband’s body like an ill-fitting suit and suturing them together in a way that revives his consciousness around hers as both body and mind begin to synthesize into a single whole. With their help, the entity takes the woman who summoned and sought to enslave it as a host instead, and rides off into the sunset to leave them to make a happy new life in the cottage and the orchard around it. In the end, it’s really quite a sweet love story.

The book is beautifully written, and by that I mean it is grotesque and horrifying in the best possible way. The oblique descriptions of the doctor’s rotting body – how Louis walked in on him shaving away the last rotting flesh of his noise over boiling water, the difficulties of finding whole veins to inject morphine into, the way the gauze over his face turns red and yellow in turns so soon after its replaced – fill something like a third of the books wordcount, and even beyond that rot and decay and filth are everpresent themes.

Speaking of themes, really I can’t judge this at all objectively – the whole presentation of casting aside or stepping beyond conventional humanity as something painful and horrifying but still fundamentally transcendent is one I dearly love, and the book hit it very well. Incredibly happy to have read tis strange little book.

#book review #horror #helpmeet #Naben Ruthnum

[idrawweirddragons]

I read Helpmeet for a course in school last semester and drew the creature from it!! It was an awesome book!

#god that book was so weird (good) #I love character design #and I love body horror #my art #helpmeet #helpmeet book

[gtnandjj]

With or without music. But dancing to the beat of God’s heart. 

#worththewait #marriagegoals #godsent #helpmeet #marryyourbestfriend #godlymarriage #seekyefirst #relationshipgoals #hewhofindsawife #proverbs31woman #godlycouples #jesuschrist #divineheartcouples #manofgod #womanofgod #equallyyoked #godsperfecttiming #godisfaithful #dontsettle #quotes #love poetry #love quotes #gtnandjj

[daintyinsider]

Reading list:

Death by Living: Life Is Meant to Be Spent by N. D. Wilson

Joy At The End Of The Tether

Let Me Be a Woman by Elisabeth Elliot

The Art of Living by Dietrich von Hildebrand

#feminine #reading list #helpmeet #wife #womanly #traditional femininity

[lilyetherealdeath]

Part of my daily personal devotional study time, I'm making quotes and affirmation notes to place on my mirror for daily reflection while I get ready for the day.

#traditional femininity #anti feminist women #traditional values #pro patriarchy #domestic discipline #helpmeet #helpmate #traditional family #traditional gender roles #traditionalvalues #traditional catholic #traditional wife #traditionalism #trad wives #tradfem #tradgirl #traditional catholicism #traditional latin mass #traditionalgenderroles #tradwife

[betsy-the-eclectic-reader]

A word can have such force, and a name is an entire incantation.

– Naben Ruthnum, Helpmeet

#helpmeet #nabenruthnum #spilled quotes #horror fiction #poets on tumblr #booklr #quoteoftheday #writers on tumblr #readers on tumblr #spilled ink #quoteblr #literary quotes #literati #horror literature #book recommendations

[shortlesbian]

Helpmeet by Naben Ruthnum will crawl inside you and - no I shouldn't say

But if you liked the body horror parts of the locked tomb series and Paul, you'll really like Helpmeet

#helpmeet naben #helpmeet #naben ruthnum #horror #i said a thing

[hughmunculus]

Helpmeet by Naben Ruthnum has skyrocketed to my top read of the year so phenomenally fucking fast despite being under ninety pages long. It transforms from a quiet gothic body horror to something inexplicably beautiful and alien and queer in a way I am still processing. I want to read comics of this book, I want to watch a movie of this book, I WANT TO PAINT THIS BOOK!!!

I just have no other words. Please go buy this book if you can.

#helpmeet #horror #elliott's spookies #horror literature

[moderntradwife]

Let me be a woman by Elisabeth Elliot

#stay at home wife #homemaker #homemaking #trad wife #helpmate #helpmeet #modest dress #HoH #elisabeth elliot #women #feminine

[literary-illuminati]

Finished Helpmeet!

Simultaneously a rather sweet love story and a novella that devotes probably the majority of its wordcount to visceral descriptions of a man's body rotting away around him.

#helpmeet #naben ruthnum #sff #tht #horror

[geeklyinc]

Helpmeet Review: Tenderness as Terror

Helpmeet Review: Tenderness as Terror

Good horror is scary, but great horror is tender. It does not always speak at a scream, but tells you, very softly but very firmly, what is about to happen. It does not gloat, but likewise does not flinch. It is—inevitable. I wish that all novellas were as inevitable as Helpmeet, the exquisite new offering …

#Edward #Helpmeet #horror #Louise #Naben Ruthnum

[elianaodeleya]

“A man ruling his house is not misogynistic it’s Gods message!” #Dominion #Rulership #King #Kingdom #Marriage #Spouse #Helpmeet #IUIC #Israelites #Nathanyel7 https://www.instagram.com/p/Cm7awvfJP8K/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#dominion #rulership #king #kingdom #marriage #spouse #helpmeet #iuic #israelites #nathanyel7

[aetaten]

⁣ .⁣ .⁣ .⁣ .⁣ .⁣ #hansolo #help #helpme #helpme1kfollowers #helpmedecide #helpmeet #helpmegetfollowers #helpmegetto1k #helpmegrowmyaccount #helpmegrowtoo #helpmeheal #helpmehelpyou #helpmehemp #helpmeimdying #helpmekaar #helpmeloseweight #helpmenigga #helpmenow #helpmeplease #helpmereach1k #innerguidance #instagramhacked #intuition #lifeafterloss #mediumship #starwars #stressful #summertimes #texas #togo via @hashtagexpert https://www.instagram.com/p/CjQKfYFoktW/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#hansolo #help #helpme #helpme1kfollowers #helpmedecide #helpmeet #helpmegetfollowers #helpmegetto1k #helpmegrowmyaccount #helpmegrowtoo #helpmeheal #helpmehelpyou #helpmehemp #helpmeimdying #helpmekaar #helpmeloseweight #helpmenigga #helpmenow #helpmeplease #helpmereach1k #innerguidance #instagramhacked #intuition #lifeafterloss #mediumship #starwars #stressful #summertimes #texas #togo

[curiosityboughtthebook]

You ever just devour a story? 😜 I will post my review to my blog later, but this 69 page body horror/ Gothic story packs a punch! #horrorfanatic #nabenruthnum #helpmeet #bodyhorror #curiosityboughtthebook #horroraesthetic #gothicnovel #novelettes #bookrecommendations #bookstagrammar https://www.instagram.com/p/CfTydPxrP77/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#horrorfanatic #nabenruthnum #helpmeet #bodyhorror #curiosityboughtthebook #horroraesthetic #gothicnovel #novelettes #bookrecommendations #bookstagrammar

[linseedling]

I read some absolute bangers this year.

#somehow met my 55 books reading goal #I want to draw helpmeet fanart...maybe someday