Status Updates From The 120 Days of Sodom

i’ll stop constantly updating i swear but why did duclos just randomly come out as a lesbian i hate to say it but she’s kind of a diva (if you ignore the Horrors)

ok. in the words of the protagonists, they were said to be treated as slaves. the only reason they're marrying the girls is because wives are described as "more submissive" as compared to mistresses.

the "severest punishments were prescribed for her who should take it into her head to not comply to any of the conditions whereunto she was subject" line is irking me. going into this blind, i'm so fucking scared.

the duc and curval need to die. what the FUCK.

just fully processed that the ‘simple passions’ are 2/3 of the book and have already devolved into shit and shit only i can’t believe he’s making me WANT to skip to the torture part

no

gonna need him to stop calling the men “our heroes” please and thank you

it’s kind of hilarious how much philosophical and narrative scaffolding is in the introduction, it’s quite literally insisting upon itself needlessly despite how plainly obscene the narrative is already