thank you so much for tagging me @littletroubledgrrrl <33
first fandom:
pokémon
three ships:
manznor (marilyn manson x trent reznor), rypete (ryan ross x pete wentz), schmelly (vanessa afton x mke schmidt)
last song:
nine inch nails — discipline
last movie:
blue sky (1994)
currently reading:
skyclan’s destiny (warrior cats super-edition)
currently playing:
i’m absolutely horrible at video games because of hand-motor difficulties, so i mainly just watch playthroughs! i love doing that, though. um, i think teh last game i played was yahtzee, though!!
currently writing:
i’ve got tons of bandom wips right now!! manson girls au, tamaraverse, and a rypete and gabilliam collab.
go-to café drink order:
any bottled soda pop or juice if they have it!! i can’t stand coffee or tea, lol. i do also love hot chocolate (and i ask them to make it less hot) and hot apple cider.
They won’t free the few remaining imprisoned Black Panthers but grant freedom to a white woman murderer who tried to frame Black people and evoke a race war with Charles Manson?!
I don’t care if she was used or since been changed… she killed innocent people because her leader said so. She followed orders.
She laughed in court during testimony about her victims!
Why do I do this to myself? I pick out a book I know is going to scare me and yet I read it anyway. If you couldn't tell by the title or the picture, this non-fiction book is about one woman's time she had with the Manson family. Now, before we start judging, let's get some things straight. She was not involved in the murders, she is a victim of childhood abuse, and she was a 15 year old child when she first joined the group. I ultimately believe that her childhood trauma really impacted the choices she and her family made. This book is great if you want to get to know an individual's side of the Manson story. I enjoyed this book, however, I do have to give out some warnings that I wish I had before I started this book. The first part is basically her childhood and about the choices her parents made (which would ultimately end her up with Manson). There is a lot of talk about sex abuse going on, as well as some description. It's brief but it's disturbing. Around part two, her parents are doing drugs and offer her some. She takes it, our main person is around 11 years old at the time. The rest of it is her time with Manson and all the stuff he did and said to her. This does include physical abuse, emotional, and sexual abuse. It's just a horrific book about mainly growing up in cult life when you don't realize that it's a cult. Her parents basically abandoned her at this point (they were into the hippie lifestyle as well). It's just such an interesting and disturbing book. I liked how the author compared herself to the other girls in the group. I thought it was interesting because she was aware of what kind of girls Charles Manson went after. It also shows how aware she was and she stayed. As much as I enjoyed it, I don't think I will be reading it again soon. Honestly, I had to close the book a few times because I thought I was going to be sick with the descriptions of some of the events that occurred . It's good to see that something good came out of her time in the Family and how she became her own person after that (after years of therapy and forgiveness). My final thoughts are don't join cults and don't tell your children it's okay to go off with strangers. Leave me your thoughts below, because I love to read your comments. Would you read this book? Let me know below.
whatever the outcome of this madness you call a fair trial or christian justice, you can know this: in my mind’s eye my thoughts light fires in your cities.