Current Reads! (I Can’t Control Myself)
Current reads! (I can’t control myself)
Wherever You Go, There You Are: Before bed and morning read, I found it in a little library. It’s helping me get into meditation and mindfulness again. Easy to read with short chapters.
Positive Pagan: Found her at my local occult/ metaphysical shop. My brain has been very negative so I’m excited to learn as much as I can. I already made the gratitude alter she described!
The Great Gatsby: This is a reread from high school except this time I actually like it. I read this when I cannot stomach reading house of leaves.
House of Leaves: a strange, disturbing book. Can’t read it when I feel disassociate-y or else I start mildly freaking the fuck out. It’s really good!
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Me and Little My are championing this message
everything is too pretty!! i need homely supremacy. normalize being a little ugly. i don’t think the emphasis needs to be that everyone is beautiful in their own way!! i mean of course they are, but that’s not the point. the point is that ur appearance shouldn’t have any relevance on ur worth. not everything needs to be pleasing to the eye to be worthwhile. i’m sick of women giving into the little man in their brains telling them they need to arch their back the right way when they’re home alone doing laundry. no more aesthetics!!!!! let me do what comes naturally to me and be pudgy and sticky and unladylike and don’t talk to me. i’m going to start biting picnic tables at parks so everyone knows i was ugly and i was there.
As your Goth Auntie is apparently in the grips of Goth Nostalgia ...
Three books that were good examples of the mood of 90s goth:
Actually written in the 90s: Lost Souls by Poppy Z. Brite. Content warning: if you're someone who is uncomfortable with taboo themes in fiction, give this a pass.
Not written in the 90s, but set then and captures the mood: In the Blood by Miranda Luna. It certainly has writing flaws, but definitely hits the Goth Nostalgia button for me.
Also not written in the 90s, but damn, all of us wanted the goth club in this book to exist. Gothique by Kyle Marffin. The writing is clunky in places (and has one plotline too many, IMO), but it's still a nostalgia rush.
All three of them are, yes, vampire novels, and I would put content warnings on all three for people who want to avoid taboo themes or unhealthy relationships. (If you are one of those folks, I suggest avoiding vampire fiction altogether, but that's a different discussion.)
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