This made my little heart leap! 🐇 You've put so much thought to these choices, I love it so much - the tiffany blue/non-fic is inspired, as it the cheesemaking. Absolutely loved watching this - thank you so much for sharing your TBR (and joining along 🩳🩳) 🎉🎉 Bert xx
Booktube Super Bowl!!! 😅👏❤️ Ooh an Irish book + Irish music is such a good idea!! Also I LOVE the look of this fermentation book!! I'm so impressed you're going to make your own vegan cheese - this is my dream!!! Let me know how it goes - maybe I'll give it a go too! This TBR is banging ❤️❤️
I'm glad you had a (mostly!) good time with the books you read! Thank you so much for joining in with Giallo July! Hope you enjoy some more movies when you get chance 📺😊
Totally agree with having that trust in Juan and Juan's writing. I feel like that's an important thing in transgressive art as a whole - intention, awareness. What a guy. Congrats on a successful Giallo July! Woohoo 🎉🔪✨ Bert
@@pastorytime2683 very well said! I don’t think I have the fortitude to read any extreme horror that has not been at least thoroughly vetted by friends first 😅 thank you!!!! 💛 🔪
Weird about the hot sauce. The US Is definitely more into their hot sauce than we are, and it wasn’t really until the last 15 years or so that you could buy anything other than Tabasco here, but in Melbourne sauces like sriracha and cholula etc are common in supermarkets. Happy belated birthday ❤
Thank you!! 💚 There's sriracha and cholula in supermarkets here as well! Tabasco is the only Louisiana style hot sauce I've seen in the shops but I much prefer Crystal. This is truly a niche Louisiana thing to care about I think haha
Just read this today. Even though I'm an avid horror fan... I thought it was just ok! I dunno, I love the concept and the idea of having it all told through emails and messages. But it felt really rushed, I wish it'd been longer. Or even just spaced out the story to give their relationship some time to develop before getting to the gross stuff. Because like... you've known her for less than a week and you're already losing your job over her?? Girl lol. I've had some strong internet relationships too but damn. I will say I appreciated the unique titles for their dynamic! D/s relationship stuff can feel so cookie cutter
@@aveyclub Hi! So...I recently realized that there are some really interesting ties between Oedipus Rex and Things Have Gotten Worse: 1. The relationship between Zoe and Agnes is extremely similar to the situation to the prophecies in Oedipus Rex: In the play Oedipus Rex, the city of Thebes is cursed by a plague that is a punishment for the death of the former king Laius. The only way it can be stopped is by revealing Laiu's killer and expelling them from Thebes. Meanwhile, Oedipus is dealing with he own prophecy: he is doomed to kill his father and marry his mother. Zoe and Agnes have an abusive relationship that is also a Sub/Dom dynamic. However, each one has a different idea as to how they want this dynamic to work. Agnes wants Zoe to be her partner and to have a symbolic child with her (Her kink is a way of healthily processing childhood trauma). However, Zoe wants a Sub/Dom dynamic where Zoe is a Mommy Dom (she takes on a maternal role while Zoe is "baby." ) When Agnes tries to bring up her idea of having a "child" with Zoe, the dynamic becomes incestuous, and Zoe lashes out by brutally punishing her symbolically (ex: commanding Agnes to crush a symbolic child with a rock...which Agnes didn't have to do, but is still compelled to do anyway do to her desperate affection for Zoe). Agnes is Oedipus, and Zoe is Jocasta (Oedipus's mother and wife with whom he has several children). Zoe is also the curse, giving commands to Agnes, who blindly follows them. 2. Do you deserve your eyes: during the climax for Oedipus Rex, Oedipus is trying to figure out the cause of the plague, while at the same time ignoring the warning signs in denial that it was him who caused all of this. In despair, once he was forced to face the reality of the situation, Oedipus gouges out his own eyes. Its only after doing this that he accepts reality for what it actually is. Meanwhile, in Things Have Gotten Worse..., Agnes is repeatedly asked "Do you deserve your eyes?" The situation between Agnes and Zoe is very complex in that while we know who Agnes is (a vulnerable woman who was badly abused as a child, and who desperately wants some kind of loving relationship and a chance to have a healthy family), but we don't know who Zoe is. Their emails are all online. For all we know, Zoe may not even be a woman. They may be a guy fetishizing Zoe for being a lesbian, and is pushing his fantasies on her (the crushing of the bug (crushing fetish) and the tapeworm (bug catching fetish)). Its also highly possible that Zoe may really be the real deal, but doesn't really believe that Agnes is actually obeying Zoe's commands in real life (its all just online roleplay). Agnes is so desperate for a connection for love from someone else that she degrades and self harms just to keep Zoe's attention. Eventually, Zoe realizes the situation is real and actually affects a real person, and abandons Agnes...but Agnes doesn't. Agnes is so blinded by desperation and madness that she still keeps responding to Zoe long after they are gone. In despair, its suggested that Agnes crawls into her closet with their "child" (Oedipus' fulfilled prophecy), and gouges out her eyes with her apple peeler. It's then that the audience faces the answer to Zoe's question: Doe's Agnes deserve her eyes? Does a character who is blind to reality deserve to bear witness to it? Or is it better to be blind, and yet live with the despair that is reality? We the reader don't get to decide: Agnes does, and apparently, she believes she doesn't believe she deserves her eyes. However, unlike Oedipus, who accepts his reality and finds peace in it, Agnes also decides that she can't live with reality either. So there's my Ted Talk for today!
@@user-tr9pi6fv6u what an incredible interpretation, I love this!! Thank you so much for taking the time to write it all out. It’s been a while since I’ve read either text now and this definitely makes sense to me to view it as this classic tragedy. I’ve never heard this interpretation from anyone else!
Hi from a new subscriber 👋🏻 I've read The Love of a Bad Man by Laura Elizabeth Woollett in 2019 and really liked it. I really have to read something else by her.
You definitely need some warm layers!!! I rec HeatTeach underlayers from UNIQLO and fleece-lined gloves from Aussie Disposals. Get yourself warm!!! (I struggle with cold fingers and toes too, especially when winter camping.) You can also get bean-bag-sized rice sachets (don't know their name) which can re-heat over and over in the microwave as pocket/hand warmers.
I think my heattech must have been in the mail while I was recording this vlog. I've been wearing it every day now 😂 I need to get lighter weight gloves for sure; I only have my north face subarctic ones that look like they're for like, summitting Everest lol
My most disappointing (absolutely loathed it) is Amelia by AW Rene. I read it just after filming my worst video so it didn't make it in but it is truly dreadful. Also, so happy to see West Girls was one of your best! I just got it from the lib at your rec and will be reading it for Aussie August! xx
Oh gosh and it seems so highly rated too? That's a shame. I really hope you like West Girls! I feel like it's polarizing because there's a lot of unlikeable characters but I love that.
Oh I hope you like it!! 👁️ Isn't the cover good? The Australian cover is neat too but I don't think conveys the tone as well as the American cover does.
Heyyyyy! Found you via Bert & Siân (and I think you and I follow each other on Letterboxd). I’m in Melbourne. Definitely tipping isn’t a thing in Australia. Sometimes you can in hospitality situations, but it’s up to you (if you receive good service), and not a mandatory thing. Tipping in any other situation like haircuts isn’t something I’ve ever done or heard of. If you have a regular hairdresser for example you might buy them a gift at the festive season or tip them at that time of the year - but that’s your choice. We’re pretty easy going here! Love getting to know you via your channel 😸
Aw, I love Bert and Siân and you're such a good letterboxd follow 🥲 That's a good idea about the year end gift! It's an adjustment how easy going some things are but definitely for the better overall!! No tipping is definitely a step in the right direction for a host of reasons. Thanks for reaching out; always love a chat 💚 Cancel Reply
I discovered your channel through this video. I hadn't heard of Giallo July, but I recently participated in the Horror Mayhem reading event. Happy Reading! 😎📚👍
Oh do I follow you on letterboxd!?? Will have a look 🕵️♂️ (edit: checks and of course we follow each other!) props for the giallo eyeshadow! (this is the kinda commitment I admire) 👁️👁️ I love End Play, thanks for this reminder! Saw it a few years ago but it's due a rewatch 🎬 Happy giallo/birthday July! X Bert
Thank you!! I love a fun makeup to lean into my clownlike tendencies 😊 Unfortunately, it seems that Ozploitation went a different route than giallo where we don't get too many movies like that. I do have an Aussie neo-giallo on my watchlist as well but it's supposed to be pretty bad 🙈 (and I think like proper bad and not the bad we love)
You’re so kind! The only Sodergren I’ve read is The Forgotten Island so I’ll have to get to this one. Absolutely My Year of Rest and Relaxation. It’s definitely a favorite vibe for books so I’m happy to have a new one recommended. 💚
We’ve officially launched Booktube Slay.0 with this video! I am actually interested in The Membranes now. I need hyperpop vibes in my dystopian scifi. On top of Waif, John Dollar by Marianne Wiggins. It’s about a group of girl scouts who cannibalize a dude on an island. Female liberation is so beautiful.
I read this today and hooo boy. What a ride. I agree with you that it's not inherently exploitative of the LaRocca to write a horror story about queer women! I feel like a lot of people who read this book saw "oh, lesbians?" and picked it up without any regard for it being extreme, dark, horror, so they bounced off of it and blamed that on the book rather than their tastes. I do wish there was *slightly* more clarity on how we got from Agnes's last email to the Author's Note at the beginning, but the more I think about it, the more I think that's intentional.
Totally agree! It could have been cool to get more stories from that corner of the web but I’m happy to get a weird little mood of a story in any case.
Hello from Greece! There is a sigil on the bathroom floor.The same thing is happening everywhere around the town-they released an entity that makes everybody to play out their true feelings-evil. Have a good day, bye!
Its lovely to hear from you 😊 I enjoyed Friends and Dark Shapes too. I like the sound of all of Laura Elizabeth Woollett's novels but still havent read one! Maybe I'll start with West Girls.
I just finished watching the movie, i didn't get the ending, but overall decent if confusing. Im so excited to find out there's a book! I'll check it out next!
Just grabbed Minority Report from the library for shorty september. I've never made it through a Phillip k dick... but I used to love this movie so 🤞🤞🤞 lots of interesting books here! Happy reading!
I’ve never read that one, that’s probably the one I should read too!! I don’t think I’ve seen the movie in over a decade so it’d be worth a revisit too. Happy reading to you as well 😊
We misssssed you, Olivia!!! Such a joy to see you again. This is a flippin' brilliant tbr, so many translated works - oh, and Siân likes the cover for I'm Not Hungry etc 🤔 weird, huh? - Pedro Paramo is a GEM! Straya September sounds so good.. I might see if I can sneak something Australian into the month 👍 thanks, buddy. Bert 💛
I missed me too tbh!! Pedro Paramo is the one I’ve picked up first and might even finish. Dare I say 30 books in 30 days…… probably should not 😬 Thank y’all for giving me something to look forward to in my previously least favorite month of the year 🥲
