[warning for discussion of abuse, intimate partner violence, stalking, ableism.

also, spoilers ahead for The Woman in White and A Long Fatal Love Chase.]

I have now finished Louisa May Alcott's A Long Fatal Love Chase (what a ridiculous title, seriously) on dangerousdame's recommendation and am still very overcome with it - it is an extremely intense ( Read more... )

I wrote this on tumblr in response to an irritating poem that people were passing around, but I think it stands on its own ( Read more... )

Belatedly, my Yuletide story.

Title: Still in the Realm of the Sun
Fandom: Code Name Verity
Character/Pairing: Maddie, Julie, Julie/Maddie
Summary: AU. Maddie and Julie find one another again.
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: Some descriptions of battle, psychological trauma, discussion of the after-effects of torture.
A/N: Written for natacup82 in Yuletide 2013.

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(I am cross-posting this from tumblr as part of an effort to keep more of my longer meta things on here. There will be more of this, all backdated.)

Trigger warning for discussion of abuse and coercion.

The other day I reread The Armless Maiden, which is a collection of stories and poems edited by Terri Windling in the ’90s, all of them somehow ( Read more... )

Title: Ioana
Fandom: Dracula (novel)
Character/Pairing: Mina, Dracula, Dracula/Mina, references to Jonathan/Mina and Dracula/Brides
Summary: AU. Dracula pursues the wife he once lost, but the process of winning her may prove more difficult than he expects. A dark subversion of the ubiquitous "Mina as Dracula's reincarnated soulmate" plotline.
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[This contains some spoilers for Tamora Pierce’s Battle Magic and Will of the EmpressI finished Battle Magic (the new Tamora Pierce book, for which I abandoned my responsibilities yesterday) and really want someone to talk to about it ( Read more... )

(warning for discussion of rape, incest)

I read Robin McKinley’s Deerskin for the first time a few days ago. It’s odd, actually, that I hadn’t read it before - fairy tale adaptation about healing from sexual violence? That is as much my sort of thing as it’s possible to get. I’d heard a number of other survivors talk about how meaningful it had ( Read more... )

A few weeks back, I mentioned the 2003 miniseries of Dangerous Liaisons on tumblr as one of my favorite film adaptations of a novel, with the note to myself that I should probably write a longer post on it. Teja responded that she’d like to hear more about it, and it’s taken me this long to remember to actually write something up. As far as I can ( Read more... )

In addition to continuing to complain about the NBC Dracula, I watched the Tim Burton Alice in Wonderland, which I had been carefully avoiding for the past three years. Alice is very dear to me, and Burton’s Sweeney Todd made me very angry, so I didn’t want anything to do with it. However, as we know, I have a thing for adaptations of stories I ( Read more... )

Dear Yuletide author,

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