#Morgan Sylvia

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The Withering Hours by Morgan Sylvia

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"Our bones don't taste as you planned And our dreams are dark and decadent."

-"We," Morgan Sylvia

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musings on June

1.anne sexton ("the truth the dead know"), 2. anne sexton ("suicide note poem"), 3. mary oliver ("august"), 4. l.m. montgomery ("anne of the island"), 5. morgan parker ("the black saint & the sinner lady & the dead & the truth"), 6. found poems: sylvia plath / peter k. steinberg ("percy key among the narcissi") artwork by hugo grenville

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— every oc list got

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putting the list under the cut bc it got long lol! here’s the blank template

heterosexual

ines (dragon age: origins)

maniac

órlaith (bloodborne)

venera (mortal kombat)

elenore (far cry 5)

nora (fallout 4)

not even a human

desdemona (fallout: new vegas)

silly

kennedy (mass effect: andromeda)

yawen (mortal kombat)

margo (far cry 5/new dawn)

mental illness

venera (mortal kombat)

andrea (tomb raider)

mallory (life is strange: true colors)

fallon (dead by daylight)

lgbtq+ community

literally everyone except for ines LMAO

got bullied in school

fallon (dead by daylight)

girlboss

venera (mortal kombat)

war criminal

sylvia (call of duty: modern warfare)

morgan (call of duty: modern warfare)

rhea (fullmetal alchemist: brotherhood)

levi (call of duty: modern warfare)

exhausted

emily (far cry 5/new dawn)

teddy (far cry 4)

most likely self insert

amara (infamous: second son)

mallory (life is strange: true colors)

daniel (far cry 5/new dawn)

fallon (dead by daylight)

andrea (tomb raider)

just a dude

kieran (mass effect: andromeda)

levi (call of duty: modern warfare)

daniel (far cry 5/new dawn)

silas (cyberpunk 2077)

warren (far cry 5/new dawn)

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My WIPs

This is just a collection of my wips, drop an ask in my inbox if there are any that you want to hear more about <3

Personal wips:

Sam winchester x lawyer!reader - after a long night you represent Sam and Dean in the police station, the only thing is you recognise one of the men in front of you from your time at Stanford [posted]

Sam winchester x angle!reader - based on the unrelased hozier song 'nobody's soldjer', plan to have it written on the release day of the song (August 16th)

Luke alvez x reader - you and luke were in the army together but you leave after following orders got people killed, luke thought he'd never see you again that is untill you're called in to advise on a LDSK case due to your expertise as a army snipper.

Requests:

Derek morgan x fem!reader - Derek's team thinks he's acting strange, they know he's acting strange. He's rejected evey women at the bar tonight and there has to be an explanation. They just didn't realise that the reason was messaging Derek all night and is meeting them in the bar very shortly...

My requests are currently open so feel free to send some in <3

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unpopular opinion but people in their late 20’s/30’s that post chronically about celebrities online to the point where it rules their life is weird. ESPECIALLY WHEN THEY’RE POSTING ABOUT SAID CELEB’S KIDS ‼️‼️‼️‼️

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[b4byblu3s]

I've been a bad, bad girl

I've been careless with a delicate man 🍒

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RESIDENT CLOWNS OF 141 (X.)

lauren, jamie, and amelia belong to @loriane-elmuerto <33

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Andrés Legacy💟

Meanwhile in San Myshuno~

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1924 reckless romance by Al Q

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sylvia plath, robin morgan

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What I'm trying to say is, I hate performative and pretentious depth so much. And it's always white authors, especially in the Gothic/dark academia genres. Whatever had to be said has already been said around the late 90s-early 2000s by actually inventive writers, and now white authors are just milking the contemporary fandom fascination with ships like Loustat and Hannigram (that are actually well written and complex in their respective works), stripping them of their essence completely, diluting them to empty hollows like "toxic queerness" and "the intimacy of violence" and "cannibalism as a metaphor for all-consuming desire" with a splash of Catholic imagery and witchcraft and tarot and smut and poetry that is losely marketed as something like "a bloody sumptuous feast of hedonism and queer desire".

It's not even disaffected in a halfhearted way like Donna Tartt, no, every axis of (supposed) oppression milked by these books is 100% serious and self-absorbed. You got the completely unironic Anne Rice and Sylvia Plath and Oscar Wilde worshippers and the tired, FLACCID endless poems about pomegranates and dog metaphors and knives and stigmata like stop stop stop REINVENT RETHINK BE ORIGINAL it's so overdone it's dead it sounds like regurgitated tumblr metaphors it's accumulating flies just stop!!!!!

No wonder we get those tweets fifteen times a day about how "x line sounds like it would be from the Bible but it's actually from tumblr"– followed by a line/quotation that actually sounds exactly like it's from tumblr. STOP overdoing the metaphor to the point of insincerity!!! stop turning once-novel things into edgy marketable words about bloody girlhood and erotic desire and religious passion!!!

And to take a break from negativity, here are a few books I really, really enjoyed that handled a mix of grimdark, gothic, horror and/or queer themes with originality and substance:

**The Wicked and the Willing by Lianyu Tan: a historical sapphic romance set in 1920s Singapore that examines the "Carmilla" vampire motif from a postcolonial lens.

**House of Hunger by Alexis Henderson: a very short, very eerie sapphic gothic romance (?) story, examining race, class and gender discourses through the allegories of vampirism and a centuries-old hunger.

Mexican Gothic by Silva Moreno Garcia: a historical gothic horror story about a 1950s Mexican heiress who discovers the hideous history underlying the family estate of an aristocrat English family; this is a genuinely disturbing but also great work of postcolonial horror (heavy eugenics storyline be warned).

**Providence Girls by Morgan Dante: a Lovecraftian retelling of two women in 1950s New England who discover love while battling the horrors both monstrous, cosmic as well as societal. genuinely beautiful, disturbing and a wonderful exploration of grief in horror.

**Walking Practice by Dolki Min: a shapeshifting alien stranded on earth lures victims via dating apps and seduces people of both genders before killing and consuming them. translated from Korean and a disturbing, funny (but also tragic) and dark satire about trans bodies, queerness in 21st century South Korea, violence and alienation. PLEASE read this.

Tender is the Flesh by Agustina Bazterrica: in an alternate history where ethical cannibalism has been legalized globally, and humans are bred as livestock, a narrator grapples with ethics when he rescues a live female "specimen" from his meat factory. super disturbing, satire of the author's experience under the Argentinian dictatorship.

**Chlorine by Jade Song: a Chinese-American girl in 1990s USA grapples with sapphic crushes, adolescence, trauma, racism and her immigrant identity while taking part in competitive swimming and dreaming of mermaids. absolute fever dream masterpiece of a debut novel combining teenage queer sexuality and body horror, with a narrative that challenges norms of beauty and gender a lá Julia Ducournau films.

(?) Bunny by Mona Awad: psychedelic, colorful, pop neon horror satire about an all-female MFA creative writing cohort at an elite arts college, and the lengths they go through to achieve their literary success, as observed by the outsider loner girl. this was such a direct, targeted and brutal parody of dark academia/ femcel unhinged women books lmfao??? but also witty and disturbing without sounding condescending.

**= explicit LGBTQ rep. there is a question mark before Bunny because it has– neither explicit rep nor queerbait– but a secret third thing, schrödinger's representation.

Also first person to write "let people have fun" should donate 30 dollars to my kofi promptly

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descended-from-fairytales​:

Stiles smiles as he sees Nova come in the front door, Bash close behind her, and then Perry very poorly hidden behind him. He chuckles and shakes his head slightly, his eyes lighting up with excitement. “You’re actually here!”

Perry smiles brightly. “Surprise! I wasn’t sure with work if I was actually gonna get the time off, so I didn’t want to say anything until I was. And by that point it just seemed like more fun to keep it a surprise.” They rock back on their feet awkwardly, almost unsure of themself now that they’re here.

Stiles rolls his eyes and pulls them into a hug. “Well, consider me surprised. It’s good to see you.”

Perry hugs him back tightly to hide the blush creeping up their cheeks, but they relax into it, the initial anxiety of thinking he might not actually want them there starting to fade. “It’s good to see you too.”

Bash clears his throat and looks at the rest of them with a grin. “Anybody else feeling like a third wheel here?”

Nova laughs at Bash's question and mock raises her hand. Morgan rolls her eyes and heads towards the kitchen.

Sylvia notices. "Hey, M, don't kill me--"

"You can just say Morgan," Morgan interrupts, "How bad is the damage to my pantry?"

"She told them in the car," Nova explains.

"Morgan!" Sylvia scolds.

"What?! 3 said they thought we should do it!" Morgan yells back from the kitchen.

Sylvia goes silent.

"See, I KNEW you trusted their judgement better than mine!"

"At least 3 eats! When's the last time you sat down and ate a proper meal without being dragged to the table like a cat being dragged into a bath?" Sylvia finally retorts. "Of course I trust their judgement!"

There's silence at that. Nova rolls her eyes and shakes her head as she looks around at the others.

Then Morgan pokes her head in, throws a bag of marshmallows at Sylvia's head with a hiss, and goes back to whatever it was she was doing.

[cherryvampyre]

feminist literature;

i tried to make it online/no download no login as much as possible; a "⚘" means its beginner friendly/good place to start

first wave;

her protection for women - jane anger, 1589

declaration of the rights of women and of the female citizen - Olympe de Gouges, 1791

a vindication of the rights of woman - Mary Wollstonecraft, 1792 ⚘

letters on the equality of the sexes - sarah grimke, 1837 

the times that try mens souls - maria weston chapman, 1837

what time of night it is - sojourner truth, 1853

the destructive male - elizebeth cady stanton, 1868 ⚘

Sex Slavery - Voltairine de cleyre, 1890

woman church and state - Matilda jocyln gage, 1890 ⚘

second link for WC&S (easier to read)

the womans bible - Elizabeth cady Stanton, 1895

the hypocrisy of puritanism - emma goldman, 1911

the second sex - simone de Beauvoir, 1949  ⚘

women as a minority group - Helen Mayer Hacker, 1951

second wave;

the bell jar - sylvia plath, 1963 ⚘

the feminine mystique - betty Friedan, 1963 ⚘

no more miss america - robin morgan, 1968 ⚘

scum manifesto - valerie solanas, 1968 ⚘

sexual politics - kate millet, 1968

the church and the second sex - mary daly, 1968 

redstockings manifesto - 1969  ⚘

women and the myth of consumerism - ellen willis, 1969

liberation from eros - mitsu tanaka, 1970

for the equal rights amendment - shirley chisholm ,- 1970

the bitch manifesto - jo freeman, 1970 ⚘

the dialectic of sex; the case for feminist revolution - shulamith firestone, 1970 

the female eunuch - germaine greer, 1970 ⚘

the liberation of black women - pauli murray, 1970

the first sex - Elizabeth gould davis, 1971

the feminization of society - yoko ono, 1972

what educated women can do - indira gandhi, 1974

when god was a woman - merlin stone, 1976

third wave;  

black feminist thought: knowledge, consciousness and the politics of empowerment - patricia hill collins, 1990

the sexual politics of meat - carol j. adams, 1990

men, women and chainsaws; gender in the modern horror film - carol j glover, 1992

naree - humayun azad 1992

the war against women - marylin french, 1992 ⚘

ecofeminism and the sacred - carol j adams, 1993