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Let's go Cornelia what a baller so sad Nellie isn't in the book though. gonna miss her :c also Jessie sidenote I love your hair and dress in this video in particular so so pretty

I saw the title and was like "wtf" brb gonna go watch the rest first lol

I’m happy the algorithm brought me to your video. I’m taking a sociology course for college this semester. We talked about Marxist theory as one of our theoretical perspectives. This was a very fun and accessible way to learn ! <333

The algorithm has hacked my subconscious very specific grade A content 💯 The book covers are totally different now than the 90s editions

By the way, for anyone wondering about the puppy's name, I did try to look it up but found conflicting answers on whether it is offensive or not. 🤷‍♀️

I literally rediscovered this book after first reading it in the 90’s. This was a favorite alongside MD Spenser’s SHIVERS book The Enchanted Attic 👻

Second!

first!!!

Samantha Parkington and Anne Shirley Cuthbert are so similar in my mind, not just because they are orphans being raised by someone old enough to be their grandmother, but because of their curiosity and generosity, as well as their propensity for speaking out of turn and getting lost in daydreams, and their romantic view of everything around them.

This is truly what I want from life. Please take my thanks!

I'm pretty sure chickens are super low mantinance. Give them food and water and they will be good. Not a daily thing. More like weekly

Love that. I love dresses that can be overcoat bodices like that and they're so rare to find

Girl! That looks amazing!!! I love the pets helping a long the way❤️❤️

This is really impressive! What a great job you did ❤🤗

wow, the dedication! very well done and most importantly, judging by your smile, you love it too! what a fun original piece to flaunt

I loved your videos and missed you , love from India 🙏🏻

Your Instagram Account details pls

Really appreciate your review! I liked the convos re:colonialism in the book and the pace/ending of the horror aspect. I also loved the romance! I was very sad about the ending but also felt it was the right one.

Sharing this like crazy: Queer has been reclaimed for the longest and now is being labeled as a slur by transphobe. Keep it up.

couldyou do an astral projection tutoriel ?Thanks

Loved the neat presentation to lay out the context clearly!

What did you think of the movie?

I think this is reductive, especially the title. Queer is a slur because it has innately negative meaning, and its historical and contemporary usage heavily connotate that negative meaning with LGBT people. The truth is I'm not strange or odd for being transgender and a lesbian, and nobody else is strange or odd for not being cis-het, these are entirely normal things. Queer is different from other widely identified words in this sense. Gay never had innately negative meaning, neither did lesbian, bisexual, or trans; these aren't equivalent comparisons to queer. If you wish to reclaim it for yourself, that's genuinely fucking awesome. I love the reclamation of words used to hurt us. I call myself a tranny dyke all the time and it's empowering to embrace and shrug off the negative meaning that people try to attach to me with those words. And I love those that do identify as queer, the mere act of that is reshaping the word into something new and better. Queer is an incredibly powerful word, it blurs lines and defies rigid boundaries between labels on purpose, we NEED queer if we are to evolve and grow. But to say that describing queer as a slur is anti-trans because some dumbass TERFs have a problem with it is reductive. Queer IS a slur, and that's okay, we've long been able to handle a slur or two in our communities and we've been reclaiming them and changing them for the better just as long. Just as with any slur, don't call people it without their permission. I don't go around saying "The dyke community" when I talk about lesbians, or "The fag community" when I talk about gay and bisexual men, or "The tranny community" when I talk about transgender people, because I know that would be hurtful for some of them. In the same way I hope that others don't go around referring to all non cis-het people as queer. There IS a queer community, just like there are dyke fag and tranny communities, but they do not include all L G B or T people, only those who identify with the words.

Excellent presentation. I’ve really enjoyed this video. I hope there are more.

Great video please make more! I don't have access to this book and I left curious about did Josephine hurt herself with the trap or how was it explained? 😁 (Sorry for my english I'm from Finland)

Queer is a slur. Bitch, cunt, hoe and whore are sexist slurs. Terf is just an insult I get that. But queer is a slur. Just say your actual sexual orientation and please trans/nb people stop making everything ALWAYS about yourselves

is it okay if i don't feel comfortable calling myself queer because i have been physically abused while being called that word? of course this only applies for myself, meaning that I won't go around saying "don't use that word!!!", but i just don't want to use that for myself because it brings back memories surrounding heavy trauma.

Such a great review! It's on my tbr

I guess you don’t know what it’s like being called queer as an insult. Btw, witchcraft is fiction, so stop trying to be like Harry Potter.

Excellent video, thank you for your commentary

Hail Sam, just passing through and just wanted to tell you what a beatuiful Soul you have and your voice is really soothing too. you have my subscription blessings Halsa Valang

When I saw you'd picked Crooked House, I thought, "Oh, no. Of all the ones to pick..." (I do love Crooked House, but it's one of her darkest, and I know people who are offended she solved it in the way she did.)

I didn't know you wrote a book! I feel the criticism towards many witchcraft-related books so, so much! Also, I love love love the book cover!🥰

I really thought it was Sophia for the ENTIRE book until the last couple of chapters (I put two and two together with the real solution just before it was revealed). I really really thought I cracked it with this book, but Christie fooled me yet again. I also saw bookslikewhoa's video after finishing it, so with the knowledge that the murder is almost never a "Mary Debenham-esque" young woman, I likely would have ruled Sophia out much earlier! This is definitely one of my favorites from Christie that I've read!

I've watched all the videos you've talked about as well, hahaha! And I also started reading them as a child - my first one was The Mystery of the Seven Dials. Crooked House is pretty good imo. I don't think I got it right when I read it either, and I can't remember any other book of hers in which there was a child culprit. I remember at least one older teen, but no one this young... I think there was a short story that included someone telling a story about a child that killed a friend on purpose, but I don't remember much else. In any case, she didn't use child killers often, so it's kinda easy to overlook this suspect. edited: Spent a long time trying to find out which story it was, and it was an actual novel. :) The character is no longer a child in the book, though, there's just this story about their past at some point.

It's usually a mistake in an Agatha Christie novel to dismiss anyone as a suspect. :-) I really like this book. One part that stuck with me is what they said about the two sides of the family, that Aristide was dishonest but kind, and his wife's side are ruthless but law-abiding, but if you combine those two the wrong way you get someone with no respect for others OR the law, i.e. basically a sociopath. And from that perspective I think the murder makes sense.

I thought it was one of the two children! But I suspected that it was the other child in the wheelchair. For me when I think about an Agatha Christie novel I always think of the most absurd unexpected scenario that everyone else would dismiss so this time it was the kids.

Personally, I love the word queer. It’s older meaning is something like “strange” but not in a bad way exactly. At least that’s what it always seemed to be to me. I think that to identify yourself as queer is inherently anti-assimilationist because it says “yes, we are different from you, that’s why you hate us. Society *will* need to change to accommodate us” and to me that’s so powerful. Assimilation always seems to mean that some people are left out in the cold because it means creating space in the current societal framework for *some* queer people, wether that’s cis gender conforming gay people who want nothing more than to get married and have kids or straight gender conforming binary trans people. Not that there’s anything wrong with being either of those things, but we need to include everyone. I also like how it’s a label with so much freedom in it I think. It makes it hard for people to categorize you into their little stereotype boxes. I would love to use it for myself more (or at all let’s be honest) but I don’t have the confidence to claim that I belong under the queer umbrella even though I unassailably qualify and it would even help resolve some conflict I have with my current labels. I have a hard time believing that any people who are “straight with extra steps” are using it to invade anyone’s spaces.

btw every gender identity is in the trans community. If you're not cis, you're trans, that's what the colour white in the trans flag is. The white is the enby spectrum. Sooooo every identity that's outside of the binary is in the non-binary spectrum. If you're not cisgender, then you're in the trans community. Idk if you can research this, but I found this out from a bunch of lgbtqa+ accounts on Instagram. It's fun to learn about these things yk. Like I'm genderfluid, but I feel more trans masc most of the time. that makes me trans, but genderfluid is under the enby spectrum.

From another queer witch, thank you. For me, queer is the word that covers all the aspects of me. I don't have one single letter in the LGBTQIA+ that fits me, I'm not just the B, I'm also the A and the T (as an enby). So in group spaces queer is a word that embraces all of me, not those different aspects. It also means I don't have to go into detail with things that I might not be comfortable disclosing at that time. And to be honest, it's also a feeling of rebellion and community. We're here, we're queer, get used to it. Anyway, good video, well thought out and well phrased. Good job!

Incredibly well phrased and a wonderful contribution to the argument. Out of curiosity, do you think it makes sense to pair the word queer with other identifiers (kind of like how people can pair Buddhism w other religious affiliations? For example, queer and/or ace?