false names, cold flesh: the consequences of the dead girl (reupload)

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I was just gonna ask u why u took this one down but yay its back!!!!! <3

i'm so glad to have found your channel (via the being a hater vid)! who says being a hater doesn't bring good things forth xx

I think you're looking for logic and depth in a genre that isn't really conducive to it in the first place because the readers simply aren't looking for it. I know tons of girls that adore books like these and even though they would never react like them in real life, the female characters' actions seem perfectly acceptable within the purview of the pages.

I read Final Girls by Sager last year, I've unfortunately read some worse books since that, but Final Girls is absolute garbage and I'll never read another book by him again. Loved the video, thanks!

i discovered this channel just today... but WOW. these videos are so very well articulated and researched. an absolutely fantastic watch.

really liked this whole video. interesting that i saw promising young woman completely differently. i found it refreshing we werent subjected to brutal flashbacks of nina's SA (except audio of bo's character observing it) or her death. we also get other peoples perspective of nina besides cassie's; nina's mother explicitly tells cassie she is wallowing in nina's memory and forgetting what the real person would have wanted. to me nina is significantly less exploited by the camera's gaze than laura palmer for example, and charitably i would say this was fennell's intention that the character is actually allowed to rest in peace. but youre right that it is easier to accept that a female creator was trying to be sensitive about these topics while male creators fall into the traps you mentioned. great video, made me think!

AMAZING. Thank you

These "thrillers" are a laugh in the face of feminism

now i know why this video popped up when i searched for tchaikovsky's romeo and juliet

this reminded me of this movie i watched about a teenage girl that was trained to act as bait for serial killers, and then kill them. it was an overall mediocre movie, but it really rankled me anytime the movie showed HOW the seriall killer teenage guy and his seriall killer friends got their victims. like, what tennage girl goes on a first date with a guy she barely knows, there are 3 guys she's never seen before in this date, and then he asks her to go into his car with these friends so they can go to a different party? A party that, when she asks where it is, he says "it's a surprise :)"?? all of this at night??? whqt girl is doing that??? what girl is not freaking out, pretending to get sudden diarhea so she can hide in the female restroom???

Wow this was amazing! You made me cry

This is precisely why i love Twin Peaks so much! The show was created, in part, to subvert the dead girl trope and put a face to the often faceless violence on contemporary tv and in the media as a whole. Laura is given actual agency in the story and the show carries so much empathy for her not as a victim but as a person first and foremost. We see who she was and who she is. God I can't help but yap about the genius of this show 😭

so glad i found ur channel and omg this is amazing ♡ nearly made me cry T T

Thank you so much for this.

nell from the haunting of hill house mention rahhhhh! the choice to have nell's wedding be a point of return in thohh gets me everytime because it's nellie!! she loved luke and her cup of stars and arthur and she's so angry at steven and theo and confused and one of her final actions is in fact a giant assertion of her bravery (to return to the house, which under any other circumstances that weren't the house actually being haunted would have been great). she brings the siblings back together in the end and is excited that there are horses for luke's rehab center and reassures theo when she finds out she's a lesbian. even olivia, dead girl no1, is made so vividly within the show imo, or maybe I'm just a sucker for thohh

This is edited so incredibly well

Came to ask, do you have any psychological or cosmic horror book recommendations

does anyone know if she takes followers on goodreads?

so is ur name alihsha or what

could listen to you yap about books forever 🙌

This was an amazing watch! i geniunely loved your interpretation of the dead girl.. you are right we all will be dead girls. Thank you so much for writing and creating this video! If you take suggestions I think it'd be interesting if you reviewed ORV. <3

This video is so good. The dead girl is solely floating in the river, never taken out, never placed in. stuck floating, in the endless swift pull of the main characters tragedy that leads them to their manic pixie-ness. RILEY SAGER MY #1 OPP !!!!!

The end of this video gave me goose bumps. The dehumanization of girls, especially post-mortem, is extremely prevalent in our media. They are given this saint-like image, completely neglecting the complexities of their personas. The dead girl is almost infantilized, whose death transforms her into a pure being. Her faults are romanticized and largely ignored, the idea of “she was troubled” almost feeding into her allure. As a woman, this video has been an extremely moving and eye-opening experience. I hope you continue to bring up literary taboos that no one speaks on, you are doing an incredible job.

Couldn't really understand your voice in the first part of the video, had to keep rewinding to understand what you were saying.

Your channel is incredible and provides such a unique perspective.

just watched the three videos that you have up right now and i absolutely love what you have to say, as a woman i can say that this encapsulated a large portion of my thoughts on womanhood. i look forward to any future content :)

i can affirm that i, as a young, college-aged woman, would rather die than do what charlie did.
i'm really enjoying your videos so far, and can't wait to see more!

So happy I found your channel! Your videos are amazing!

Just watched all of your videos and you are definetly now my top 2 content creators right beside hbomberguy. Your style of editing, your research and the way you present topics are so beautiful. Thank you for making content!

this was great! never had a video essay make me feel so passionate. your channel is going to grow a lot with how good you are at these!

you give some real good advice among your pointed critique here

that ending was straight up poetry ngl

🎶 like Natalie Wood… 🎶

your so real! this video is so thoughtful and researched!

ugh i'm so glad i found ur vids i love ur videos

Amazing video. You perfectly articulated some thoughts I've had for years about the character assassination death girls go through in media. A lot of writers reduce girls to a concept, to a tragedy or even a cheap motivation...

Thank you for making this video, I'll definitely be checking a non fiction book or two to educate myself about the topic, it's definitely something I've been interested in but never really looked up, I just like learning about the ways sociocultural biases shape the way we write stories.
I feel like I'm not explaining myself as well as I want to so I'll just applaud you again for this video, the amount of research and editing that was put into this is admirable, I really liked the format as well, i feel like you didn't miss a beat, and while I personally can't relate to that footage sat the end, it was very important and perfectly juxtaposed women's actual emotions with the ugliness of how pieces of media exploits female suffering for a narrative's sake, it really got to me
Thank you for putting your time into this, I hope your work receives the praise it deserves 🌟

fantastic video as always queen 💗 though i wish you would’ve spoken about twin peaks/laura palmer more since you used a few clips in this - would love to hear your take on how lynch uses/subverts the dead girl trope. hope you post another video soon <3

you are one of the best video essayers i've ever watched.

Loved this video. BUT I have to say, the thumbnail being Laura Palmer made me expect something very very different because I genuinely think Twin Peaks is the opposite of this garbage pattern in thrillers. I've never seen another story of "a beautiful girl gets murdered" that is so wholly about the girl, who she was, what her loss does to the community, and how important and complicated and living and breathing she was, rather than being about the killer or about making her a perfect symbol that ~represents something but removes her humanity in turn.

I originally put this video on as background noise while I studied but the points u made were so profound that I ended up listening to everything u had to say. 10/10 video and analysis+critiques on the "dead girl" trope! I'm so happy I found this ❤

One of the best books I've read that uses the Dead Girl so well is Sadie by Courtney Summers. It's a super in-depth novel and I think anyone would enjoy how it never simplifies or uses pain for a narative.