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clit-a-cola · 4 months ago

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Back to reading Blood of the Vampire!

I'm about a third of the way in so I can't say for certain what views/lessons the author may express by the end of it all, but there is a very fun passage where resident hater Miss Leyton starts saying some based wisdoms

#blogging #blood of the vampire #It's difficult to say who is meant to be sympathetic vs villainous yet.#Miss Leyton is judgey as hell and immediately takes dislike to a young woman she just meets.#But then said young woman turns out to be violently racist.#But this violent racism is not commented on.#And (spoilers) this violent racist is set to be revealed to be biracial by the end #at which point the book could veer into many directions with her character.#Will it be depicted as something kinda tragic and fucked up? Or will her biracial-ness be Proof of Her Moral and Overall Inferiority?#I'm not one to give my fellow white people the benefit of a doubt especially not the ones from 1897 BUT #this is fiction.#If it takes the sympathetic angle then Miss Leyton could be a very good (possibly intentional) depiction of the proto-feminist women #of her time.#Fully aware of her value as a person and frivolity of (at least some) sex rolls #but unable to extend it to those of lower social standing or different races.#However I guess if this young biracial girl isn't depicted as sympathetic/tragic #Miss Leyton would still be a good example of that.#Just with the downside of the author saying she's right to be that way :/.#We shall see!

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