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I got some more work done on my applications! Now I'm drinking vodka and rereading Little Men for the fiftieth time. Life is a pretty sweet fruit.

--oh god, I forgot that there's a part in this book that includes the passage, "Suck it," ordered the Doctor. Like with that capitalization and everything. I can't complain that this is sullying my childhood, because I ship Dan/Jo so clearly I have sullied myself just fine without any help, but...dang. (Shipping Dan/Nat doesn't count as sullied because I have never not shipped them, even when I was six years old. The crossgen pseudo-incest took me a little longer, though.)

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[lotesse]

HOLY SHIT DAN/JO. I ... had never thought of that before? But now I can't stop thinking about it?

However, on the topic of Lou Alcott and crossgen incest - have you ever read the Eight Cousins books? They were always my favorite, possibly because they do canon cousinshipping which pings my sibcest kink - but the last time I read them through I got totally hung up on Rose/Uncle Alec, reading Rose as a substitution figure for her dead mother, who Alec had an unrequited Thing for back in the day. It was fucking disturbing.

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Motherless teenage boys/older women is my #1 weakness, so...yeah. Plus oh gosh they're just so--their special relationship! Taming the Colt! "I wish I was your boy"! I am helpless.

I have actually never read any other Alcott at all, aside from an abortive attempt at Little Women when I was of the usual age for it. Oh, and a few years ago I skimmed through Jo's Boys and then wished I hadn't. I should try some other stuff though, I love the narrative voice. Maybe not the one with the creepy uncle.

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I was talking with bookgirlwa on the phone just now, and she's rereading Little Women. I love that you're both rereading different Louisa May Alcott books at the same time.

On the subject of Wrongness, how are you on middle-aged men asking their prepubescent students to whip them?

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THAT WAS WEIRD. I mean, I was deeply compelled by it when I was eight years old, though even at the time I had this instinctive awareness that it wasn't quite what I was looking for. But it was weird.

[vass]

I just started flipping through it and realised something. I always wondered before why the cook's name was Asia. I just figured it out: Ayesha.

[surexit]

DAN/NAT FOR FUCKING EVER.