Passive, All-knowing, Non-interactive Narrators Are All Good, But Hear Me Out,

passive, all-knowing, non-interactive narrators are all good, but hear me out,

yandere narrators

their views twisted, but not all lies.. talking about everybody and everything as monsters and dangerous. and they talk about themselves in third person, painting themselves as heroes to their darlings. they’re the only good ones in this. 

even better, when the reader doesn’t know they are yanderes. everything seems so wonderful. they’ve rescued their darling from the heinous world. they’re together at last. when, at last, when the darling, who has always been so happy here, who they rescued, finally screams and cries, and tells them they hate them, that they hate it here. screaming pursues and it’s the end. 

next thing you know, the ‘hero’ has a corpse and blood on their hands. they panic, unsure of how their darling died. everything that happened after they snapped isnt written, and the entire story is based off their memory.

wouldn’t that be so cool?

Hi I'm gonna go on a completely unsolicited and spontaneous rant:

Lolita IS a love story.

It IS. One hundred percent.

It is a love story, not between a man and a girl, but from a man, about a girl.

It is a love story, but it is not a healthy love story. It should not make you feel warm and fuzzy. It should make you realize that love can mean different things to different people, and sometimes those people have bad intentions.

The concept of love, through Lolita, is purposefully twisted by the author to make his reader feel a sense of unease-- just as Humbert twists Dolores's sense of dependency, desire, and reality.

For example, remember that there exists a range of both positive and negative coping mechanisms in life. Negative coping mechanisms are still coping mechanisms. They WORK, that's why people USE THEM, but they do not work in a POSITIVE OR HEALTHY way. Similarly, not all love stories have to be shining examples of humanity and health to still be considered love stories.

The message and impact of Lolita only work because the story is a love story. That's the whole point.

To say Lolita is not a love story is to disregard any and all subtextual and thematic intention by the author, and therefore whittle the book down to a grossly surface-level, performative understanding. Don't do that.

So for God's sake, don't romanticize Lolita. But acknowledge that it is a love story, and that it is a horrible love story, and that that's what it is meant to be.

I swear to God Im about to just-

Having a crush is nice

But have you ever had a crush on that one male english teacher who was already married but is childless because of some complications with his wife so he sees his students as his children but has lately having an unhealthy and inappropriate fixation with you because you reminded him so much of his childhood lover who he had to let go of because she died?

No?

You're missing out then

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