“when a monster stopped behaving like a monster, did it stop being a monster? did it become something else?”

elle, 22, she/her. cannibalism thesiser. really normal about final girls. skills include bullet journaling and accidentally shadowrunning various college organizations. sometimes goes on twitter at 2 am and ascribes the phrase ‘rat bastard’ to various historical figures."elle you continue to put thoughts out into the world" -Bankston
“who is this radical tenderness person... oh, it's elle” -Marija
"a nightmare to wake up to" -Charley about texts i send

Review Policy

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Book Recs

adult fantasy
the fifth season nk jemisin, jade city fonda lee, vicious ve schwab, spinning silver naomi novikadult sff/specfic
this is how you lose the time war amal el mohtar & max gladstone, long way to a small angry planet becky chambers, skin folk nalo hopkinson, freshwater akwaeke emezi, magic for liars sarah gailey, the murderbot diaries martha wellsadult more
in the dream house carmen maria machado, the seven husbands of evelyn hugo taylor j reid, m butterfly david henry hwang, red white & royal blue casey mcquiston, if we were villains ml rio, the sympathizer viet thanh nguyen, less andrew sean greer, little fires everywhere celeste ng, circe madeline miller, don't call us dead danez smith, you will know me megan abbottya sff/specfic
wild beauty anna-marie mclemore, sawkill girls claire legrand, the apocalypse of elena mendoza sean david hutchinson, never contented things sarah porter, jane unlimited kristen cashoreya fantasy
six of crows leigh bardugo, mirage somaiya daud, graceling kristin cashore, queen's thief megan whalen turner, crier's war nina varela, the cruel prince holly black, the gilded wolves roshani chokshi, daughter of smoke and bone laini taylorya more
and i darken kiersten white the weight of the stars k ancrum, with the fire on high elizabeth acevedo, foolish hearts emma mills, release patrick ness, girl made of stars ashley herring blake, allegedly tiffany d jackson

Media

music worth your time
crushing julia jacklin, magdalene fka twigs, punisher phoebe bridgers, ceremonials florence, clean soccer mommy, historian lucy dacus, about u muna, be the cowboy mitski, when my heart felt volcanic the acestelevision worth your time
person of interest, fleabag, the good place, little fires everywheremovies worth your time
moonlight 2016 dir. barry jenkins, everything everywhere all at once, the favourite, also knives out 2019

Writing