under a larger, kinder sky

the style of writing is not the problem, not the genre, not the subject matter, not even the words themselves. the SINGLE defining issue with the “Tumblr Prose” style i was trying to tackle is that it’s front loaded with imagery and metaphor and completely lacking in sense, reason, symmetry, motion, conveying information. i agree that plenty of writing can sound good and feel good to read when it’s all metaphor and visceral images but it needs to have a baseline that can carry it through or else the tail wags the dog and it’s all cool “quotable” lines and no substance, nothing to read between the lines, no character

i think the Most Fucked Up Event For The Main Character in a book series needs to not happen in the last book. i need to see the aftermath

god reading old feminist theory is wild because you'll be nodding along and then they break out the old "lesbians doing bdsm is misogyny because that's man stuff" chestnut

ladies is it patriarchy when women fuck each other

Women being described as handsome >>>>>>>>>>>>

"My beautiful princess with a disorder" and they're referring to a man

WAIT, everyone reblog this with YOUR beautiful princess with a disorder

Someone tagged this with a male character, everyone go home

fucked up how no matter how much literature you read there’s always literature that you haven’t read. and in fact there’s literature that you CANT read because it’s “only published in a language you don’t read” or “it is translated but every translation is straight up bullshit” or “it’s no longer extant” or something stupid like that and so it’s always going to be literature you’ve never read. you can’t read it all. sick n twisted