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OH MY GOD?!?!?!

i love isobel

’I was unconditionally and irrevocably in love with him.’

it’s not that deep

this is so ridiculous. unless he’s the Greatest Chef of All Time or some kind of mythical figure in that field or whatever, i don’t see how anyone (large publishing companies or not) would put up with that cooking lesson / contest(?) nonsense just to secure a book deal with him

’Terrified, In tears, the goddess called her mother, called
Her comrades too, but oftenest her mother;’

she’s just a girl :(((( and how perverse it is for modern retellings to bastardise the unconditional love they have. may those pea-brained freaks who paint her grieving mother as a villain rot in the hell they so adore. call me dramatic but this will always be a sensitive subject for me

‘Even the Sun, whose star-born radiance
Governs the world, became the thrall of love.
[…]he, whose fires set all the world aglow,
Glowed with new fire, and he who should observe
All things gazed only on Leucothoe
[…] Sometimes he rose too soon; sometimes too late
[…] and lingering
To look at her, prolonged a winter’s day.’

this nearly moved me, but of course, it has to be nonconsensual 😀

’His wife (his sister too)’

thank you for clarifying, ovid

prince philip(?) is half-ogre…?

’others had come
Out of Arabia’s desert coasts and sands:
So dark and ugly that they made
The children very much afraid;’

oh!

is the preface not enough. why do i have to see a post-cokerant about his critics too???? but also, if a male said this, ’I cannot put up with the callous way in which the Prince treats her—it makes me angry, and I would leave it out. I know it is part of the story, but that’s no matter.’ i suppose the excuse of it being only a product of their time isn’t entirely true???

i can’t believe i find the tale of griselda much more perverse than fifty shades of grey. this sickens me i’m not even kidding

’He had, it seemed, been happy to excess;
He now prefers to make himself unsure.’

lowkey me

barely a few pages in, and already he's on a cokerant against his critics; of how much his is better

’It is different with the moral of Griselda, which encourages them to put up with the behaviour of their husbands, and seeks to show that there is no husband so brutal and capricious that, through her patience, an upright woman cannot change his character.’

ok 😀 not a good sign…

this feels lowkey mid after such a strong strong start with the bloody chamber

i gotta hand it to bella, she wasn’t as dense as people call her out to be. she immediately caught on to his odd behaviour

this + my last read just put me on reading slump ˃̣̣̥᷄⌓˂̣̣̥᷅

this feels so contrived. bah

’Mrs. Waite, too long accustomed to seeing her most heartfelt emotions exposed, discussed, and ignored, had long since fallen into protecting herself by stating them as jokes, with an air of girlish whimsy[…]’

’At first I used to wonder what had put into that radiant head the detestable delusion that it held a brain.’ 😭

’Once more her terror was surmounted by the urgent desire to know what was going on, so close to her yet unseen.’

me probably

is this why goths literally paint their face white?! jk ’With the advent of this Gothic ascendancy and their extensive territorial power came the need for a legitimating cultural history, and so Gothic historians such as the sixth-century statesman Jordanes developed a myth of racial purity and migration.’

nnggghh everyone calling bella useless but im lowkey her??? at that age??? 😭😭😭 how embarrassing. i mean if you exclude her fixation with edward and all… (i haven’t reached the dangerous / fantastical parts yet so ntm im not that dumb) but i guess it kind of makes sense since this is a wish fulfillment fantasy after all?

holeringggg why do i fit their description. guess im a cullen now

’Every one of them was chalky pale, the palest of all the students living in this sunless town. […] They all had very dark eyes despite the range in hair tones. They also had dark shadows under those eyes—purplish, bruiselike shadows. As if they were all suffering from a sleepless night, or almost done recovering from a broken nose.’

look away, im doing this for the culture or whatever ok

i’m so tired of their bullshit. why am i doing this to myself

hmmm the writing here is highly reminiscent of ali hazelwood… lowkey giving self-inserts too… but we’ll see

’I knew that my profession had been invented by men, and that men were in control of both our worlds, the one on earth, and the one in heaven. That men force women to sell their bodies at a price, and that the lowest paid body is that of a wife. All women are prostitutes of one kind or another.’

’I realized that he had not really been in love with me, but came to me every night only because he did not have to pay.’

’Men impose deception on women and punish them for being deceived, force them down to the lowest level and punish them for falling so low, bind them in marriage and then chastise them with menial service for life, or insults, or blows. Now I realized that the least deluded of all women was the prostitute. That marriage was the system built on the most cruel suffering for women.’

’Ibrahim is a fine man, and a revolutionary.’

watch him turn out no different from any other man