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[kristopolis]

"Am I hideous, Jane?"
"Very, sir; you always were, you know."
-from charlotte brontë's jane eyre

i finished last night!
i still like heathcliff more than mr. rochester, but brenna is right; you pretty much forgive the novel all of it's sexist, racist, western-centric faults & weird religious overtones because jane is so cool.

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[kristopolis]

i dunno, brenna. i watched the movie "wuthering heights" today, which my mom kindly brought back to me in my drug-induced state. from where i was sitting i still, you know, liked it a lot. but i also was sitting on a lot of anesthesia so my judgment wasn't exactly sound (the first thing i did when i was led out of the operation room was demand my heart-shaped sunglasses, which i refused to take off for hours...)

but i will say that jane is way more interesting & fun to read about than cathy. also, my mom was all like "OMG KRISSY HEATHCLIFF IS A JERK" & i was like "what? oh wow he totally is. hmmm." i want to read agnes gray now, & reread wuthering heights with my critical feminist eye. also, i cannot read persuasion. i mean, i am going to & i have been but it already makes me so freaking sad it's not funny. maybe it's the painkillers making me cry every other page but MAYBE IT'S NOT.

p.s. let's make an interesting comic version of the sisters brtone. we can just make shit up! we could make them be bff with jane austen. totally historically accurate.

[me2fat2gradu8]

Haha, Charlotte and Emily Bronte are like the Brenna & Krissy Feminist Avengers of Gothic Literature. I am Charlotte and you are Emily. Whenever the other one tries to talk they tell her to shut up.

Also, Persuasion totally made me cry, but I wanted to cry the most at the end when I was like "NO JANE AUSTEN I CAN'T TAKE THESE LIES THERE IS SO MUCH TRUTH IN THIS STORY BUT ALSO SO MANY LIES PLEASE JUST STOP IT"

[kristopolis]

does this make eliza anne? poor littlest bronte.

i have been boycotting persuasion & watching made-for-tv sci-fi movies instead because they do not make me upset, i am just like woooah that is a lot of blood.