the princess saves herself in this one

by Amanda Lovelace and ladybookmad

[layawaydragon]

Deeply impressed with the
➜content,
➜message,
➜strength,
➜courage.
➜Love how it’s broken into different parts and the whole is an empowering story.
➜Connected and understood a lot of the pain as I’ve been in similar situations throughout my life.


It’s not going to be for everyone, and that’s okay. I’m no fan of certain overhyped classics. It is what it is.

However, complaining it’s “Tumblr poetry” is insulting, dismissive, and frankly, stupid.

“It’s so angsty and emo, lol. We used these for MSN statuses!!”

yeahhhh, right, sure. Did you have justifiable reasons for being hurt, angry, upset, and are scarred from those reasons? Has it altered your life?

As an abusive victim, fuck you all for being so dismissive as if abuse is just emo bullshit crying for attention from a crush. I just...what is wrong with ya’ll?

Poets have played with the formatting since forever. It’s constantly changing, ffs.

If CAPS, makes you read it as shouting. If italics, bolding, periods.between.words, ellipses...between...words, if allthewordstogether, makes you read it differently, then how can you argue against page formatting?

How many of you complain about indie books and LACK of formatting, saying it’s unreadable? Of course formatting makes a difference!

It’s not just “pressing enter after a couple of words”, it’s deliberate breaks, white space, and word choice.

If you don’t like it, can’t relate, whatever. Fine. But how fucking dare you dismiss someone’s heart and soul on the page as “not art” and “not real poetry” because of line breaks.

I think complaining the title gives it away is also stupid. And let’s face it, most of those people are going to be hypocritical jackass who don’t call out other books doing the same thing, like Whatshisface Dies at the End. Were you hoping the princess died or got saved by someone else? If so, fuck you again with that bullshit. Why assume the princess cannot save herself and it’s such a surprise she did? Stupid sexism.

I’m so, so tired of bullshit. I’m done.