(reupload from january because of a copyright issue with the music whoops!) i guess the youtube thing is sticking? maybe? the thought of being perceived on the internet petrifies me to a terrifying degree but i love making these but also people judging me based on a singular video on the internet. anyway. bad books and dead girls. what's new?
tldr; i yap a lot. and get sincere to a point that is almost unbearable. but i think sincerity is the best thing a girl can have! so if you think the ending is cheesy sue me. all girls live a full and earnest life and it would be foolish to forget that. riley sager my #1 opp.

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sections:
0:00 intro
2:47 survive the night? no. please rewrite.
8:40 who died and made you king of female suffering?
14:25 when will i stop writing about the dead girl?
29:04 we are all dead girls, or we will be someday

special thank you to:
chloe, margaux, maya, sofia, ruhee, susana, caelyn, sam, elyse, and declan! love you to pieces!!!

Music:
Ptolemaea - Ethel Cain
Romeo and Juliet Fantasy Overture - Tchaikovsky

Articles:
https://www.dailynews.com/2021/06/26/...
https://www.theguardian.com/books/sho...
https://www.theatlantic.com/entertain...
https://www.wsj.com/articles/these-gu...
https://jezebel.com/men-are-apparentl...
https://www.theatlantic.com/sexes/arc...
https://crimereads.com/writing-violen...
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-ra...

Essays:
https://lithub.com/why-we-love-and-ne...
https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2...
https://lithub.com/on-the-endless-par...
https://www.vqronline.org/essays-arti...
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/arti...

Academic Articles
https://www.jstor.org/stable/1343162
https://www.jstor.org/stable/26299649
https://www.jstor.org/stable/40003407
https://www.uwlax.edu/globalassets/of...
https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/17/article/9...

Books:
Dead Girls - Alice Bolin
Survive the Night - Riley Sager
Life of the Party - Olivia Gatwood
WHAT IS THIS THING CALLED LOVE - Kim Addonizio

Movies:
Rebecca
Scream
The Omen
Carrie
Psycho
Heathers
Rear Window
X
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me
Mean Girls
Ready or Not
Don’t Worry Darling
Midsommar
Hereditary
Jurassic Park
Pearl
The Shining
Ophelia
Malignant
Gone Girl
The Invisible Man
The Girl on the Train
Blonde
(500) Days of Summer
My Fair Lady
Shutter Island
The Virgin Suicides
Inception
The Dark Knight
Autopsy of Jane Doe
Believe Me: The Abduction of Lisa McVey
mother!
Watcher
Smile
Before I Go To Sleep
The Woman in the Window
Last Night in Soho
Luckiest Girl Alive
Dark Places
Black Swan
Nocturnal Animals
Promising Young Woman
My Girl
The Central Park Five
Everything Everywhere All At Once
Fences
Us

TV:
Criminal Minds
The Haunting of Hill House
Sharp Objects
Twin Peaks
You
Euphoria
Fleabag
Shameless
Shining Girls

p.s. gone girl is one of the BEST thrillers and utilizes the idea of the 'dead girl' in such a unique way that acts as both a critique of the 'perfect' white female victim while also creating this meta-narrative to invest the reader in the story before completing turning the trope on its head, in this essay i will-