houk’s Reviews > The Belles > Status Update
houk
is 74% done
everyone wants to be the secret history so bad it's embarrassing. you people need to move on and put whatever mangled and diluted understanding of "dark academia" to rest! you are not and will never be That Girl i'm sorry.
— Dec 04, 2025 11:48AM
2 likes · Like flag
houk’s Previous Updates
houk
is 49% done
if i may be honest, i am EXTREMELY tired of books that posture as having something ~dark~ to say about women and femininity being ~dangerous~ when in actuality, the book ends up having next to nothing (if anything at all) worth saying, simply regurgitating "disturbing" plotpoints and aesthetics of dark academia or "unhinged women" types without being good enough to cement itself in any genre at all.
— Dec 03, 2025 01:50PM
houk
is 2% done
ok so yeah maybe i'm reading novels based almost exclusively set at universities as of late. no reason for that. not at all! it's not destroying me to be away from formal academia no i'm normal ,
— Dec 02, 2025 09:20AM
