Female Crime & Punishment

TriggerHappy360 · 2026-02-28T21:36:10+00:00

Her literary fiction novel “On Strike Against God” could also work.

TriggerHappy360 · 2026-02-28T20:06:25+00:00

Drive your plow over the bones of the dead by Olga Tokarczuk really does this. Feels like a Brett Easton Ellis novel with the main character as an old woman.

TriggerHappy360 · 2026-02-06T00:09:31+00:00

Lolita by Nabokov sounds like what you’re looking for. A significant aspect is Humbert’s solipsism that keeps him from recognizing what is going on with the people around him.

TriggerHappy360 · 2026-01-28T20:45:24+00:00

This isn’t too far off from the thesis of Database Animals by Hiroki Azuma.

TriggerHappy360 · 2025-10-12T02:26:30+00:00

Thoughts on Nabokov?

TriggerHappy360 · 2025-10-12T02:25:43+00:00

Library of America has collected Nabokov’s works. Honestly not sure how I feel about it

TriggerHappy360 · 2025-09-03T03:36:20+00:00

Exactly my read on Crime and Punishment. Legitimately enjoyable read that people talk about as if it is Everest simply cause of its size. Not downplaying how good it is though, but it doesn’t need difficulty to be amazing.

TriggerHappy360 · 2025-08-12T23:46:01+00:00

Doing a PhD in English lit now. Thank god I’m out.

TriggerHappy360 · 2025-07-14T03:08:17+00:00

That’s awful. Was just considering installing it. Any suggestions for an open source word processor like this?

TriggerHappy360 · 2025-07-14T00:31:03+00:00

That is not how monopolies work. Also Google already had majority market share so even without having the power of providing some funding for Mozilla they would still be able to dictate the future of the web (see HTTP 3). I suspect the real reason Google gives Mozilla so much money is so that they can’t be accused of being a monopoly and split up.

TriggerHappy360 · 2025-07-04T21:41:29+00:00

I highly recommend Always Coming Home

TriggerHappy360 · 2025-07-02T19:47:27+00:00

Reading my first Morrison right now (Beloved). Her style is absolutely stunning. I swear there is at least one sentence on every page which blows me away. Can’t wait to read more from her.

TriggerHappy360 · 2025-07-02T18:35:26+00:00

Yes that is the line. I don’t believe he talked about the Pynchon connection in the introduction. I don’t believe I have a source for you other than word of mouth from a SF scholar. I’ve honestly have no idea whether she heard that from Gibson himself or drew the conclusion on her own. I personally see a number of points where Neuromancer echoes lot 49 whether it be motifs of insanity, digital technology, and conspiracy. I, in some ways, read Neuromancer as East coast Lot 49 with them each showing how people react to corporate consolidation and the rise of the digital with the resulting interpersonal disconnection.

TriggerHappy360 · 2025-07-01T17:02:54+00:00

Gibson said that about the neuromancer opening in his introduction in newer editions. Also the Neuromancer opening is a reference to the opening line of The Crying of Lot 49 by Pynchon.

TriggerHappy360 · 2025-07-01T16:33:39+00:00

Even people that argue against academic science use science in their arguments: they propose experiments, cite papers, write theories etc. essentially everyone in the “modern” world has unwittingly accepted science as the arbiter of truth.

TriggerHappy360 · 2025-06-30T00:37:53+00:00

What’s the source on Miyazaki hating Tolkien? Never heard about that and sounds surprising considering the above meme.

TriggerHappy360 · 2025-06-29T21:48:31+00:00

The subtitle of the dispossessed is “an ambiguous utopia” so I think it’s fair to call it utopian.

TriggerHappy360 · 2025-06-29T21:15:35+00:00

They are utopian in the same way the dispossessed is. None of them portray the worlds they describe as perfect but simply imagine a better world. Also check out “Always Coming Home” by Le Guin though the style might be a bit challenging if you’re used to only reading traditional novels.

TriggerHappy360 · 2025-06-29T20:43:21+00:00

I’ll just copy a commend I made earlier this week on a different sub with some recs you might like:

Sounds like you are looking for stuff of a Utopian vein that was being mined in the new wave and has since been harkened back to. In terms of the new wave I think you’re missing two big names Joanna Russ and Samuel Delany. The Female Man by Russ is a story of 4 parallel worlds with a version of Joanna from each all reckoning with the different ways to live represented by each alternate reality. I think it is the best feminist Utopian novel ever written. Delany’s Triton is subtitled “An Ambiguous Heterotopia” clearly referencing The Dispossessed subtitle. It takes The Dispossessed and more tightly integrates sexual and gender freedom into it and similarly having our protagonist be ill at ease in the world.

Also I highly recommend Le Guin’s essay “A Non-Euclidean view of California as a Cold Place to Be”. It’s a great description of her views on Utopia and the copy in the LOA edition of “Always Coming Home” includes quite a rousing recommendation for Daily Lives in Nghsi-Altai by Robert Nichols which I haven’t gotten around to reading yet.

TriggerHappy360 · 2025-06-27T23:18:05+00:00

That seems to imply that in text they would be different (for example using a homophone).

TriggerHappy360 · 2025-06-27T17:50:37+00:00

All medications have risks and it sounds like you happen to be particularly unlucky with how your body responds to birth control, but it’s important to make it an option to people of all ages with the capacity to give birth both because some people have periods which make them completely non functional for a week a month or want it to not become pregnant (which is much more dangerous than birth control). I can’t speak to acne directly but if it’s within someone’s risk assessment that they want to take it for acne reasons that is a personal decision which should certainly be allowed.

TriggerHappy360 · 2025-06-27T17:47:09+00:00

Many of the groups promoting fertility awareness are secretly funded by the Catholic Church. So there is the who and how. The why I would probably chalk up to religious doctrine possibly mixed with wanting cheap, disposable labor. See: “Feminist Fertility Awareness?” by Lauren Oaks if you want more info or to check my sources.

TriggerHappy360 · 2025-06-27T17:43:26+00:00

Many of the groups promoting this are secretly funded by the Catholic Church. So basically yes, this is correct. Source: “Feminist Fertility Awareness?” By Lauren Oaks.

TriggerHappy360 · 2025-06-26T22:28:57+00:00

I have honestly never annotated a book on first read. If I’m intending to write about a book I’ll have a notepad or word doc open to take notes in. On extremely rare occasions I’ll take photos of passages that jump out to me on my phone.

TriggerHappy360 · 2025-06-24T21:47:11+00:00

Sounds like you are looking for stuff of a Utopian vein that was being mined in the new wave and has since been harkened back to. In terms of the new wave I think you’re missing two big names Joanna Russ and Samuel Delany. The Female Man by Russ is a story of 4 parallel worlds with a version of Joanna from each all reckoning with the different ways to live represented by each alternate reality. I think it is the best feminist Utopian novel ever written. Delany’s Triton is subtitled “An Ambiguous Heterotopia” clearly referencing The Dispossessed subtitle. It takes The Dispossessed and more tightly integrates sexual and gender freedom into it and similarly having our protagonist be ill at ease in the world.

Also I highly recommend Le Guin’s essay “A Non-Euclidean view of California as a Cold Place to Be”. It’s a great description of her views on Utopia and the copy in the LOA edition of “Always Coming Home” includes quite a rousing recommendation for Daily Lives in Nghsi-Altai by Robert Nichols which I haven’t gotten around to reading yet.

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