clinging onto sin [hiatus]

You'd think it's impossible but I've found a lesbian dark academia novel fundamentally stupider and more poorly written and somehow more egregiously racist than A Lesson in Vengeance.

Ahmed Saadawi just shared and liked my book review of Frankenstein in Baghdad HOLY SHIT?????

The Lambda winners for lesbian writing this year were so ass I'm not going to lie. Derivative Carmilla retelling which does absolutely nothing to address the fraught class politics of reworking a Gothic classic in a "feminist" way against the backdrop of the Industrial Revolution (while *not* centering the working class) Mom vs really shoddily written, genre mishmash lesbian histrom that goes wildly off topic mid-novel, and ends up becoming an inheritance quest (centering primarily male characters) Daughter. We used to have winners like Tipping the Velvet and Trash and Her Body and Other Parties.

Is Instagram glitching?

Every time some white person on here uses the words "the inherent eroticism of xyz" you just know they'll follow it up with the most lukewarm literary/cultural analysis ever

Everybody who told me Cocktail 2 was going to be a lesbian film owes me money