The Dump

what i find absolutely incredible about flowers in the attic is how thematically tight it is. like, the incest isn't in there for shock value, it's literally the founding myth of the family: malcolm is possessive of corinne to the point of it being clear that there's something sexual about it, even before you know the full backstory and olivia's religious obsession is arguably a reaction to her husband's attraction to their daughter. you have corinne and chris senior's original sin, obviously. even when chris and cathy are children, it's clear the boundaries with their parents are somewhat muddled and their mutual attraction, at least on chris' part, is influenced by his own unresolved oedipical attraction towards corinne. cathy immediately makes their father a martyr and hates corinne in a textbook helektra complex. part of the tragedy of it is that they would have probably never developed an incestuous relationship if they hadn't been forced to step in as parents to their younger siblings. the narrative closes in on them inexorably and it's all there, from the very first pages!!!

"I'm just a girl☺️🥰💖💞💅🌺🌷🦄" when you were eight and the teacher said she needed some strong boys to carry something you used to be furious, and when you convinced them to let you help, you carried twice as many chairs as the boys with the righteous anger of a girl who knew she was just as capable as them. Where did that go?

the horror zine quite literally NAMED “the horror zine” having such stringent restrictions on submission content is stupid as fuck. What do you mean I can’t submit horror with political or religious themes? Are we playing pretend where the entire structural foundation of horror as a genre is just a lie?

Hey, Tumblr. You like non-stereotypical depictions of autism? What about ✨ neurodivergent protagonists ✨ ? Yes? What about asexual neurodivergent protagonists that go on chapters-long rants about their special interests? You want gay characters that are important to the plot too? Then I've got the book for you! The author is gay!!! American Psycho, by Bret Easton Ellis, is