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2008hondacivic · 9 months
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Yellowjackets nation have I got a book for you to check out during hiatus
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hangsawoman · 8 months
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i shouldn’t be on instagram i should be completely obsessed with reading mary maclane under angel’s trumpet until my clothes and hair smell of it and my pupils blow up and i’m more carcass than body and i eventually die of poisoning
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romantic-musings · 1 year
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Plain Bad Heroines by Emily M. Danforth
Gothic | LGBT | Historical Fiction
Our story begins in 1902, at The Brookhants School for Girls. Flo and Clara, two impressionable students, are obsessed with each other and with a daring young writer named Mary MacLane, the author of a scandalous bestselling memoir. To show their devotion to Mary, the girls establish their own private club and call it The Plain Bad Heroine Society. They meet in secret in a nearby apple orchard, the setting of their wildest happiness and, ultimately, of their macabre deaths. This is where their bodies are later discovered with a copy of Mary’s book splayed beside them, the victims of a swarm of stinging, angry yellow jackets. Less than five years later, The Brookhants School for Girls closes its doors forever—but not before three more people mysteriously die on the property, each in a most troubling way. Over a century later, the now abandoned and crumbling Brookhants is back in the news when wunderkind writer, Merritt Emmons, publishes a breakout book celebrating the queer, feminist history surrounding the “haunted and cursed” Gilded-Age institution. Her bestselling book inspires a controversial horror film adaptation starring celebrity actor and lesbian it girl Harper Harper playing the ill-fated heroine Flo, opposite B-list actress and former child star Audrey Wells as Clara. But as Brookhants opens its gates once again, and our three modern heroines arrive on set to begin filming, past and present become grimly entangled—or perhaps just grimly exploited—and soon it’s impossible to tell where the curse leaves off and Hollywood begins.
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jennamacaroni · 6 months
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Top 5 books you’d like to see as movies!
these are the first ones that popped into my head but i could absolutely name a lot more
plain bad heroines by emily m. danforth
the priory of the orange tree by samantha shannon
the locked tomb series by tamsin muir
the masquerade books by seth dickinson
a little life by hanya yanigihara
(some are series but whatever)
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chaoticmiserablelover · 5 months
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Have you ever read a book, and once you were finished, you just knew that the author's mind was hot? Their intellect was extremely attractive—the most exquisite thing you've come across in a while. Just me? Fine.
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thefiresontheheight · 4 months
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A very minor, minor thing but it’s extremely funny to me in modern lit when we’re supposed to feel sorry for the celebrities/kids of presidents/the kids of the rich/royals/literal emperors because they get bullied for being gay or bi or dykes or whatever. It’s like….you’re literally among the most powerful people on Earth, stop feeing sorry for yourself. Especially when the “people being mean to me” thing is solely online.
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sendme-2hell · 11 months
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always thinking about the Plain Bad Heroines/Yellowjackets parallels it’s insane
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priestessamy · 2 years
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It was both a great and terrible idea to put up all my sapphic books in a row to stare judgingly at me while I write. Great inspiration, great inadequacy.
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honey-from-hell · 8 months
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Books to Read if You want to Look/Feel like a Literary Snob
AKA dark academia and literary novels that’ll make you look smart but are also enjoyable (in my option).
Carmilla by J. Sheridan Le Fanu, Edited by Carmen Maria Machado
This is the OG vampire novel and also the OG toxic queer romance novel. Published in 1872, this book predates Bram Stoker’s Dracula by 25 years. The story follows Carmilla and her increasingly possessive relationship with the protanganist, Laura, following a carraige incedent. So, yes, this is a classic, and I know these arn’t always the easiest to read. But is it less than 150 pages, it is queer, and Carmen Maria Machado’s commentary is hilarious and also helps with the reading process.
The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller
I feel like everyone knows this book, and it is for sure popular—and for that reason alone, I debated not adding it to this list—but I’m not sure if I would consider it overrated. It is one of the prettiest books I have ever read and it is objectivly good. It is a retelling of the Trojan War told from Patroclus’ point-of-veiw and focuses on his relationship with Achilles. And for sure, if you get one of the pretty editions, you will look like a snob. 
The Atlas Six by Olivie Blake
This is the most pretenious novel I have ever read. It has its issues, don’t get me wrong, and its preteniouness is one of them. Regardless, it is quite the compelling novel with an interesting cast of characters and a solid twist at the end. TAS is about a group of six young adults who are in the process of becoming part of a secret society that protects the suposidly burned contents of the library of Alexandria. Their intiation process consists of eleminating one of the chosen six. 
Plain Bad Heroines by Emily M. Danforth
This 600+ page book is not nearly as prentious as it appears, but I imagine if you’re just wanting to look like you’re into literary horror, this is the book for you. It follows two different timelines and is a bit trippy to think about. It is a book about a book that is in the process of being made into a movie based on real-life events. It is mildly creepy, very well written, and gloriously feminist and queer. 
Slewfoot: A Tale of Bewitchery by Brom
I havn’t read many feminist books written by men, but this one does a solid job, and I’m kind of mad about it. This wonderfully atmostspheric tale takes place in 1666 Conneticuit. It is full of magic, witchcraft, demons, and staight white bible-thumpers getting what they deserve. Also, yes, we are all into the goat man. It’s okay.
These Violent delights by Micah Nemerever
Listen, it's bleak, but in a way that's fascinating and intriguing, and you don't want to put it down. It's about two boys who are the smartest people in the room—one alienated, grieving, and awkward, the other popular, personable, and easy-going. Their friendship turns towards an intense relationship where their toxic sensibilities take a turn for the violent. The question: can they get away with it?
These are not peak snob, but they are the ones I have read/listened to that I would recommend if you're in the mood for something a bit pretentious.
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scify65 · 2 months
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soap-1233 · 3 months
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"Of course, Readers it could not keep on like that forever.
Of course, Readers Elenor Faderman could not keep on like that, either."
Im feeling obssesion with this book raising
I'm on page 52 and Eleonor speaks to me
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lisiprom · 8 months
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I'm halfway through Plain Bad Heroines and I'm torn on this book. On one hand it can be really creepy and I like how slow it is. The beginning of story in 1900s is atmospheric and brings the promise of some potentially super creepy story. Premise is also interesting with story going twith past when "curse" happened at school and present when a film crew is trying to make mobie abou the curse.
On the other hand narrator can be super insuferrable, telling the story like it was written by some pretentious 17 y.o. on tumblr 10years ago. Footnotes rarely bring some cool stuff instead they're annoying and hard to spot on page. Also characters are just kind of there, with exception of Merritt who's such an absolute fucking asshole and bully that I'm seriously looking forward to her getting the spook of her life in cursed school so maybe she can become less insufferable ( I also don't get why she's so spiteful toward Audrey when they first met? is it some kind of fucked up jealousy thing or what?) There is also too little acrual horror and too much relationship drama with what feels like three different lesbian love triangles; and that drama could be interesting but charas are so bland that I really couldn't care less about who ends with who and who will end up with their heart broken. I'm also dissappointed that we learn so little about Clara, Flo and Eleanor. They feel more like vehicle to just kickstart the plot than real heroines. And I was really looking forward to reading some backstory of theirs.
Overall I'll finish it 'cause I'm really curious about how things will play out but I'm also kind of tired of this book (it's about 600p. long and so kinda hard to read comfortably tbh).
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The fact that saying sapphic gothic fiction is difficulty and clunky to say is homophobic to me personally as a lesbian who wants to tell irl friends about sapphic gothic fiction but keeps getting tripped up by her own tongue
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alegriavida · 1 year
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Plain Bad Heroines || Emily M. Danforth
My bright smile haunts no one. I shoot no opaque glances from my eyes, which are not like the sea by any means. I have never eaten any viands, and my appetite for what I do eat is most excellent. And my voice has never yet, to my knowledge, been full of tears. No, I am not a heroine.
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