reading BODICE RIPPERS so you don't have to (but you definitely still should)

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  • čas přidán 2. 07. 2024
  • this one goes out to all the johanna lindsey fans of the world 🫶😔 the girlies that the get it and the ones that dont dont
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Komentáře • 313

  • @soph7156
    @soph7156 Před dnem +664

    Reads the title….Oh dear….

  • @queenwednesdayart
    @queenwednesdayart Před dnem +177

    The age gap discussion in this video is so timely for me; last night I was watching Sense and Sensibility, and I stopped to read a Reddit thread about Marrianne and Col. Brandon, because it's never sat right with me that he's 35 and she's 17. What I've gleaned is that you're not supposed to look at relationships like this from a modern lens, but I think that's unfair, because not only did Jane Austen make it a point to include Col. Brandon's discomfort about the gap in the book, relationships like this were reserved for high society, and so most people thought it was strange even at the time.

  • @xomegmegxo
    @xomegmegxo Před dnem +181

    I used to play a game with my friend where we'd buy each other romance novels with ridiculous names and we'd have to read and review them. One that I got was called Mad, Bad, and Dangerous in Plaid 😂😂

  • @NixanAmbrose
    @NixanAmbrose Před dnem +207

    bless the shitty book club gods for a video that i can binge during my pain treatments o7 thank you for your service

  • @dontmindmev
    @dontmindmev Před dnem +192

    When the world needed her most, she returned

  • @Claeleth
    @Claeleth Před dnem +70

    On the switching horses. Your horses would rest and then be returned home by your groom or you come back later to get it. However this system was mostly used by the government (especially the postal system), so the horses belonged to the company and would be changed at post stations.

  • @ShortForMitchel
    @ShortForMitchel Před dnem +81

    You should make blackout poetry with the racist one. That's what I do with books I don't respect. I tear out their pages and use their words for something better in either content or the fun I get out of the project. Or send it to me so I can use it for blackout poetry lol

  • @Amanda-ki7pg
    @Amanda-ki7pg Před dnem +44

    Re: the consent issues in so many romance novels. It was very much A Thing that "good girls" couldn't say yes. It was their duty as "good girls" to say no. But as long as they said no, it wasn't their "fault" tas they liked it. Like, in the 50s when Georgette Heyer was publishing, it wasn't an issue because the main characters would kiss once and then get married. But then books started to have actual depictions of sex in them but we can't let the impressionable women think they can just go around saying yes to sex, so this ridiculous work around where the sex was explicit but the virtue of the heroine remained untarnished because she said no. It started to tail off in the 80s and 90s but yeah, it was a whole, very gross thing for a very long time.

  • @edithw-k7946
    @edithw-k7946 Před dnem +22

    As a little sister, i have personal experience of thinking my older brother was attractive. i even have an extremely cringe memory from when I was about this protag's age of saying out loud to my friends, "If he wasn't my brother I'd want him", and then later being told he over heard me and felt really uncomfortable. With that being said, I don't think there's a chance in hell i would have thought that about him if he had been abusive towards me.

  • @skeletized
    @skeletized Před dnem +114

    YEAHH PERFECT TIMING. i needed something to listen to while drawing

  • @prismspheres
    @prismspheres Před dnem +814

    honestly the obscure-ish horse breeding obsession is the personality trait we all need

  • @gracesmiley3364
    @gracesmiley3364 Před dnem +172

    There was literally NO good reason for the horse fucking subplot like

  • @MilkyWay_0113
    @MilkyWay_0113 Před dnem +129

    as a woman with brothers who has known other women with brothers, i can confirm that thinking your brother is the hottest man on earth is NOT NORMAL ... SDDGDSGSD

  • @aurorarose6678
    @aurorarose6678 Před dnem +490

    as myself a lesbian who enjoys reading straight women erotica, i find that the reason a lot of straight women enjoy the overbearing/cocky/“mean” archetype in men in fiction (not usually in real life, although obviously occasionally) is because it makes them feel Desired. women are not often allowed to

  • @deeboop
    @deeboop Před dnem +155

    lesbian 🤝 aroace: being absolutely bamboozled by straight romance 😂

  • @keirabyrom7168
    @keirabyrom7168 Před dnem +74

    It’s concerning that she’s still 17, but believe me - the age of majority in this era, in England, was actually 21 💀

  • @elainagilbert7663
    @elainagilbert7663 Před dnem +123

    6:08

  • @Ekami-chan
    @Ekami-chan Před dnem +310

    First the almost furry interest in horse breeding and then "he was more handsome than my brother which I didn't think possible" What's with this writer?! 😂 IT GOT WORSE WITH HORSE BONKING TURNING HER ON, WTF 😂😂

  • @serapekkala8238
    @serapekkala8238 Před dnem +63

    When they mentioned at @

  • @poofyforever-xl3to
    @poofyforever-xl3to Před dnem +84

    Ur reading taste is completely different from mine but the compulsion I feel to consume your videos is unstoppable.