Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-31736782-20170414095009/@comment-31736782-20170418064635

John500 wrote: Whatever you do, DON'T SEARCH IT UP ON DEVIANT ART. Too late... the points this brings up about adolescent female sexuality, gender, and the whole eros/thanatos thing is FASCINATING... actually a lot of this sort of reminds me of Sarah's relationship to Jareth in the Goblin king, where he's clearly the locus of adolescent erotic impulses but is also a figure of fear... then again we live in a society where every initiation into womanhood is considered to be marked with blood in one way or another... and like anxiety around sexuality is a huge coming of age thing for young women, the gender stuff is really interesting though because these figures are repeatedly depicted as androgynous... as well as inhabiting the liminal space between the terrifying/repulsive and the erotic.

Also the number of poorly written stories that have become classics interests me... I think in some cases the bad writing actually makes them more effective rather than less, evoking the urban legend or folkloric quality of a lot of adolescent mythology.