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Category: Jess C. Scott

Killing animals to make a fashion statement = a sickening + cold-blooded vanity.

abuse, animal, animals, cruelties, cruelty, fashion, fashion-statement, love, lovers, murder, rights, stories, vanity

I knew what it felt like to have no say in who you were as a sexual being. It didn’t just strip away your dignity. It stripped away everything you were: your identity, your self-respect, your pleasure. Because it was all about the pleasure of the other person take, take, taking whatever they wanted from you, even if it was uncomfortable, or caused you pain. Even if you died from it, the other person still wouldn’t care, because it was all about them.

give-and-take, hate, hatred, jealous, jealousy, narcissistic-love, self-respect, selfish-love, selfishness

It was a soulless gaze, burning with a wild hatred that shouldn’t be there in anyone who could call themselves a parent.

crime, dark, disturbing, evil-twins, horror, parenting, parents, parents-and-children, parents-and-responsibility, psychological, serial-killers, suspense, thriller

The whole thing becomes like this evil enchantment from a fairy tale, but you’re made to believe the spell can never be broken.

abuse, abused, abused-women, anger, crime, crime-fiction, evil, fairy-tale, fury, murder, rape, rape-culture, revenge, seven-deadly-sins, vigilante, wrath

She was my black rose, a broken angel I could hug and drift away with into peaceful oblivion.

dark-fiction, darkness, oblivion, peace

But the insane need to do it was stronger than the sense of whether it was a wrong or right thing to do.

conscience, desire, right-and-wrong

The laws governed people’s happiness. To be lawless was to be happy.

anarchy, crime-fiction, criminals, happiness, lawless, lawlessness, serial-killers

People are sheep. TV is the shepherd.

dark-humor, entertainment, herd-mentality, humor, hype, mainstream-media, mass-media, media, mindlessness, pop-culture, sheep, sheep-mentality, sheeple, television

It reached a point where the paranoia was getting to me. Everywhere I looked, it seemed like people were hanging out, wanting to date, hooking up, wanting to hook up—it was relationships, relationships, relationships everywhere. Guys checking out girls, girls checking out guys. Dudes checking out dudes, chicks checking out chicks. Fuck! That’s what being a teenager was all about.

gender, gender-identity, hook-up, hooking-up, life, relationships, teen, teenage-angst, teenager

Boys don’t cry—or at least that’s what everybody’s supposed to believe.

boys, crying, emotional, expression, gender, gender-norm, socialization

I didn’t know if I should put my faith in God or Satan. Was there really a difference at the end of the day, when we were all going to be dead souls anyway?

dead-souls, devil, faith, god, questioning, questioning-religion, satan, soul

The words marriage and divorce were always used together, like they went hand in hand together.

divorce, life-experience, marriage, parents-and-children, postmodern, relationships