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"I kinda want the plot to get a move on and I don't care much about the politics (a bit like Spensa) but I'm pretty invested so it's not a slog." — Apr 03, 2025 09:54AM
"I kinda want the plot to get a move on and I don't care much about the politics (a bit like Spensa) but I'm pretty invested so it's not a slog." — Apr 03, 2025 09:54AM


“If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.”
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“Men always say that as the defining compliment, don鈥檛 they? She鈥檚 a cool girl. Being the Cool Girl means I am a hot, brilliant, funny woman who adores football, poker, dirty jokes, and burping, who plays video games, drinks cheap beer, loves threesomes and anal sex, and jams hot dogs and hamburgers into her mouth like she鈥檚 hosting the world鈥檚 biggest culinary gang bang while somehow maintaining a size 2, because Cool Girls are above all hot. Hot and understanding. Cool Girls never get angry; they only smile in a chagrined, loving manner and let their men do whatever they want. Go ahead, shit on me, I don鈥檛 mind, I鈥檓 the Cool Girl.
Men actually think this girl exists. Maybe they鈥檙e fooled because so many women are willing to pretend to be this girl. For a long time Cool Girl offended me. I used to see men 鈥� friends, coworkers, strangers 鈥� giddy over these awful pretender women, and I鈥檇 want to sit these men down and calmly say: You are not dating a woman, you are dating a woman who has watched too many movies written by socially awkward men who鈥檇 like to believe that this kind of woman exists and might kiss them. I鈥檇 want to grab the poor guy by his lapels or messenger bag and say: The bitch doesn鈥檛 really love chili dogs that much 鈥� no one loves chili dogs that much! And the Cool Girls are even more pathetic: They鈥檙e not even pretending to be the woman they want to be, they鈥檙e pretending to be the woman a man wants them to be. Oh, and if you鈥檙e not a Cool Girl, I beg you not to believe that your man doesn鈥檛 want the Cool Girl. It may be a slightly different version 鈥� maybe he鈥檚 a vegetarian, so Cool Girl loves seitan and is great with dogs; or maybe he鈥檚 a hipster artist, so Cool Girl is a tattooed, bespectacled nerd who loves comics. There are variations to the window dressing, but believe me, he wants Cool Girl, who is basically the girl who likes every fucking thing he likes and doesn鈥檛 ever complain. (How do you know you鈥檙e not Cool Girl? Because he says things like: 鈥淚 like strong women.鈥� If he says that to you, he will at some point fuck someone else. Because 鈥淚 like strong women鈥� is code for 鈥淚 hate strong women.鈥�)”
― Gone Girl
Men actually think this girl exists. Maybe they鈥檙e fooled because so many women are willing to pretend to be this girl. For a long time Cool Girl offended me. I used to see men 鈥� friends, coworkers, strangers 鈥� giddy over these awful pretender women, and I鈥檇 want to sit these men down and calmly say: You are not dating a woman, you are dating a woman who has watched too many movies written by socially awkward men who鈥檇 like to believe that this kind of woman exists and might kiss them. I鈥檇 want to grab the poor guy by his lapels or messenger bag and say: The bitch doesn鈥檛 really love chili dogs that much 鈥� no one loves chili dogs that much! And the Cool Girls are even more pathetic: They鈥檙e not even pretending to be the woman they want to be, they鈥檙e pretending to be the woman a man wants them to be. Oh, and if you鈥檙e not a Cool Girl, I beg you not to believe that your man doesn鈥檛 want the Cool Girl. It may be a slightly different version 鈥� maybe he鈥檚 a vegetarian, so Cool Girl loves seitan and is great with dogs; or maybe he鈥檚 a hipster artist, so Cool Girl is a tattooed, bespectacled nerd who loves comics. There are variations to the window dressing, but believe me, he wants Cool Girl, who is basically the girl who likes every fucking thing he likes and doesn鈥檛 ever complain. (How do you know you鈥檙e not Cool Girl? Because he says things like: 鈥淚 like strong women.鈥� If he says that to you, he will at some point fuck someone else. Because 鈥淚 like strong women鈥� is code for 鈥淚 hate strong women.鈥�)”
― Gone Girl

“Nothing?" Favonius cried. "The one you care for most... plunged into Tartarus, and you still will not allow the truth?"
Suddenly Jason felt like he was eavedropping.
The one you care for most.”
― The House of Hades
Suddenly Jason felt like he was eavedropping.
The one you care for most.”
― The House of Hades

“There's a reason you feel the need to blame yourself," he continues, "from all accounts you're a very careful girl. If you accept the blame, decide you took a rare misstep, you can reassure yourself this was not a random event. If you blame yourself you can believe you're still in control of your universe. You're not, you never will be.”
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