#geek love

[jessaerys]

katherine dunn, geek love

[bookishfreedom]

do you ever feel sad when you find a prettier cover of a book you already own?

cuz yeah that was me finding this adorable copy of Geek Love. The copy I own is just… solid orange with blue text. This is so much better. plus it gives fall vibes, which feels perfect for this book

I originally read Geek Love in college, and it’s definitely one of the best books I’ve had to read for a class. If you’re looking for some litfic with a hint of horror for spooky season, I highly recommend it. (even if you get the worse cover)

[haveyoureadthisbook-poll]

[daisywtf]

ガッツ , Guts, Gattsu

Berserk tattoo

[airitree]

Geek Love by Katherine Dunecover re-design. A book about a carny couple who experimented with drugs to breed their own freak show. Normal stuff :- )

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[because the original cover... Yes the orange one... was not my favorite and I am pissed cuz it could have been more... lets just say that]

[imjustheretomooch]

Shakespeare was so right when he said there’s something delicious about a main character who, completely through choices they made on their own and often with good intention, ruins fucking everything. 

Touraine fucking everything up in a futile attempt to protect the Sands in The Unbroken. Misaki choosing tradition and family and marrying Takeru only to put herself in a deep depression for 2 decades and never really love her sons until it was too late in The Sword of Kaigen. Ouyang destroying the only person he loved out of deep resentment and self hate in She who Became the Sun. The Binewskis’ self destruction as the psychopath children each try to chase their own happiness to the detriment of the others in Geek Love. Harrow and Gideon’s whole relationship in The Locked Tomb. Literally the entire plot of in The Traitor Baru Cormorant. 

[elfminstersfromagerie]

[rob-is-not-a-deer]

Cus this is my blog and I can post what I want I’m gonna start talking about reading, I got back into reading starting last year, this is all the stuff I’ve read (I read quite slow please don’t bully me) (bottom ascending order) most hardcore horror lol. Haven’t finished the books of blood yet if you can’t tell

edit: if you are interested in any of these please look up the content warnings as they all deal with extreme things

[maryacore]

Thinking about how, in ‘Geek Love’, Olympia’s entire life past-tragedy was permeated with Arturo. She saw him in Miranda, with her repeatedly reiterating how she looked so much like him it made her alert to her every move just like she was while with him. She saw him in Mary Lick with her practice of mutilating people to set them free and the way that in the end she genuinely loved her as a friend despite hating her. In Miranda’s tail dilemma, there was truly no way for Olympia to win: had Miranda not followed through with the operation, she would be forced to have a relationship with a live embodiment of the place Arturo used to hold in her life and would never know a day of peace again — and had she gone under the knife, Olympia would be stuck living with an all-consuming guilt that by letting her do this, she let her family down and betrayed the ideals that Arturo instilled in her. And this is what makes her character so tragic, because really it wouldn’t take a lot for her to leave the past in the past and start a completely new life, but due to all the ways she was messed up by her upbringing she just couldn’t fathom it. And so she kept holding on to her family as it was poisoning her life — “I cannot run from my family” — and she didn’t register as she turned into Arturo herself, bitter and desperate to keep Miranda to rot in the remains of this legacy along with her, still deluding herself that by being a freak, she was superior to others — “becoming the dragon”. And the only way for her to truly escape all that was to die. Katherine Dunn the woman that you are

[srkrause90]

Preview teaser of some upcoming new dolls. 🥰🐝🦋🎢🔎🧬. Stay tuned.

[popping-your-culture]

[yesgabsstuff]

Do you think Katherine Dunn knows that losers (me) are making normie pop diva playlists for Artie?

[hedestroyedherimage]

thinking about Geek Love by Katherine Dunn...... Arty was a thalidomide child right? the symptoms line up, the line about the twins being proper freaks but him an 'industrial accident'... and I guess the timeline mostly matches up with the scandal. maybe I'm crazy but I also think I'm so right. and that would explain why he feels SO inferior because there's millions of kids just like him, he just happened to be born into the right family

[jessaerys]

a megalomaniac charismatic cult leader brother with no arms or legs and an albino hunchback dwarf sister with a pathetic crush is something that can actually be so personal.......

[daisywtf]

大介 次元，Daisuke Jigen

Lupin tattoo

[bubervitch]

unfortunately i do agree with johnny depp that 20 years ago he would have slayed as arturo binewski 😔 i just know a tim burton Geek Love would have been one of the best movies of its time