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I got 42/50 and here are my top 3 villains, 2 from list and 1 outlier. Snow White is my ride or die Disney Princess because of her dark hair but it scared the shit out of me and gave me nightmares about accepting food from strangers, Annie in Misery shows us all that psychopaths hide in plain sight and Emperor Palpatine preyed on the emotionally weak and got strong enough to wreck a universe. I invite anyone who sees this to play too #TLT

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TheBookHippie My sister had nightmares for weeks after we saw Snow White in theatre- but still she loved it. 4mo

mcctrish @TheBookHippie the first time I saw it was at the cottage community centre one summer evening, my parents left me with the group. I left during the movie and walked home alone down the back lane b/c I was more scared to stay and watch then walk home alone in the dark 4mo

TheBookHippie @mcctrish I get it!!!!!! 4mo

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dabbe And that movie was made in 1937! I think the queen is still one of the most evil Disney villains ever! Thanks for playing and sharing! 🩶🧡🩶 4mo

mcctrish @dabbe isn‘t it crazy?! 1937 🤯 also I should have added #bellingshit as a villain worthy of the screen 4mo

dabbe @mcctrish 😂😂😂 4mo

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BarkingMadRead

Ruth | Elizabeth Gaskell

Ch 35: nooooooo #ripruth #thatsallihavetosayaboutthat #hashtagbrigade

BarkingMadRead @librarybelle @ruthiella @currentlyreadinginCO @amor4libros @bookwormjillk @catlass007 @mcctrish @indoordame @rubyslippersreads @thebookhippie @dabbe @crinoline_laphroaig
@clare-dragonfly @julieclair @aimeesue @quietjenn @kao @bklover @alldebooks @jewright @cuilin @willaful 4mo

willaful Soooooo depressing! Damn Victorians! 4mo

rubyslippersreads I knew it was coming. There was no other way Ruth could atone for her “sins” in a book written during this era. 😠 4mo

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Cuilin @rubyslippersreads yep!! 4mo

Bookwormjillk So the man recovers and the woman dies after committing the same sin. Got it. (edited) 4mo

mcctrish But #bellingshit gets to live #motherfucker Victorian morals are ridiculous #ffs 4mo

rubyslippersreads @Bookwormjillk @mcctrish Boys will be boys. 🤬 4mo

mcctrish @rubyslippersreads argh that saying infuriates me 4mo

AllDebooks Not the ending we hoped for, but all saw coming. 🙄 4mo

Clare-Dragonfly 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭 4mo

rubyslippersreads Someone needs to write fan fiction where Donne dies a horrible death, but not before being publicly shamed. 😏 4mo

dabbe See? Just like Puritan philosophy. You died, so you must not be a witch. I mean whore. Whatever. I wish she had done to Donne what Tess did to the D'urberville dude. 😭 4mo

BarkingMadRead @dabbe @rubyslippersreads 💯 4mo

Aimeesue @rubyslippersreads Yep. Still made me very sad though. 4mo

julieclair Yup. Gaskell went there. As we all suspected she would but hoped she wouldn‘t. 😭 4mo

IndoorDame I was so mad about the sermon at her funeral! She can be absolved and go to heaven, but only after she‘s died to pay for her crimes!? (and spent a dozen years living a ridiculously saint like life). WTF is that!? 4mo

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mcctrish

Ruth: a novel | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

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I was reading my chapter for tomorrow & realized there was only one more so I went ahead and finished. What. An. Ending. So thankful to @BarkingMadRead for leading the #hashtagbrigade and pointing me in the direction of books I probably wouldn‘t pick up on my own & creating a community to share them with. There was so much yelling, swearing, absolute fury from me for some of these characters #bellingshit will not be forgotten #dontthrowthekindle

Cuilin Perfect review!!! 4mo

willaful 😂 I couldn't make it through the Brothers, so I'm glad to have shared in this. 4mo

mcctrish @willaful oh them bros, I can‘t believe I made it through!!! This is the second EG I‘ve read with #hashtagbrigade and I have to say I really do like her ( even if she makes me gnash my teeth ) 4mo

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mcctrish Thank you @Cuilin that ending #nospoilers 4mo

Cuilin @mcctrish I couldn‘t sleep last night so I finished it too 😑 this is my #nospoilers emoji 4mo

mcctrish @Cuilin perfect 4mo

Bookwormjillk @Cuilin that sums it up 🤣 4mo

BarkingMadRead I read the last 5 chapters all at once! 4mo

TheBookHippie My book sailed across living room daily it seems. 4mo

TheBookHippie @willaful the bros was 😵‍💫😵‍💫 I can‘t believe I did it🤣 4mo

mcctrish @BarkingMadRead like ripping a bandaid off 😆😆 4mo

dabbe #bellingshitandthebros #oytotheultimatevey 😂 4mo

mcctrish @dabbe 😆😆😆 4mo

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BarkingMadRead

Ruth | Elizabeth Gaskell

Check out this creepy AI image that came up on Google!

Ch 34: drama! #jemimawantstogototheocean #ruthconsidersit #drdavissaysdonnecaughttheplague #hisgroomsmanistheboyhesavedfromdrowning 😳 #didntseethatcoming #ruthwantstonursehim 🙄 #shetellsthedochesthebabydaddy #ohhhh #docwantstoadoptleonard #wtf #staytuned #hashtagbrigade

mcctrish What could go wrong? Doc says no to her nursing but then yes but he‘s pulling her out before #bellingshit notices her ( we know how that will go) and finally a brief mention of the name change explained ( property acquired and probably a scam) 4mo

Clare-Dragonfly “Never to meet in this world again?” MRS GASKELL DON‘T DO THIS TO ME. 😱 4mo

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Clare-Dragonfly Also, Mr. Davis is such an ass! He says he wants Leonard to be his apprentice (does he have to adopt him for that to happen?) in the worst possible way, and refuses to take no for an answer. Does it not occur to anyone to ask Leonard what he thinks? I‘m sure Ruth would, but now that she has to be all self-sacrificing again, she won‘t have a chance. 4mo

AllDebooks NOOOO! Ruth has just escaped the plague at the hospital, now she's going to look after #Bellingshit 🫣 That's very irresponsible considering she has Leonard to care for. It's also a very Ruth thing to do. 4mo

IndoorDame @AllDebooks I know! She could at least make her mind up about school/apprenticeship/tutoring and and leave explicit instructions about who should take care of Leonard if something happens to her so he doesn‘t end up with #bellingshit especially now that she‘s let the cat out of the bag 4mo

Cuilin I can‘t with this drama!!! I think there‘s a fine line between selflessness and abnegating your own responsibilities. Leonard should come first. 4mo

Ruthiella Ruth is just too much of a martyr to be believed. The sacrifice is not worth it. 4mo

dabbe @Clare-Dragonfly Oh, yea, mini-heart stop at these words. 😱 4mo

dabbe @AllDebooks I love that you just turned the word RUTH into an allusion. 🧡🩶🧡 4mo

dabbe @Ruthiella 🎯! 4mo

Bookwormjillk I almost threw my kindle 4mo

dabbe @Bookwormjillk If only Ruth could have done more of that (using objects other than Kindles, of course!) 😂 4mo

willaful @Clare-Dragonfly I KNOW!

I admit, I was kind of expecting an infuriating happy ending where #bellingshit has a sickbed conversion and they get married but THIS IS WORSE! (I'm assuming from that phrase. 😭) 4mo

AllDebooks @dabbe 😊 4mo

julieclair This is off the rails. Ruth is too good for her own good (and Leonard‘s). 4mo

rubyslippersreads @Ruthiella @julieclair I agree. (edited) 4mo

rubyslippersreads @dabbe @AllDebooks I don‘t think Gaskell chose Ruth‘s name arbitrarily. 🙁 4mo

dabbe @rubyslippersreads I keep hearing in my head, “Whither thou goest, I will go ...“ The name Ruth is a common female name of Hebrew origin that means “friend,“ “friendship,“ or “compassionate friend.“ 😢 4mo

rubyslippersreads @dabbe Plus the word “ruth” means compassion or pity for another, sorrow misery about one's own misdeeds or flaws, sorrow for the misery of another; pity; tenderness. 4mo

dabbe @rubyslippersreads 🎯. That was our Ruth to a tee. 😭 4mo

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mcctrish

Ruth: a novel | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

What could go wrong ?! #bellingshit #hashtagbrigade

TheBookHippie Word. 🤦🏻‍♀️ 4mo

dabbe WTF? 😱 4mo

willaful I love how he has his own insult hashtag. 🤣 4mo

mcctrish @dabbe for every one step forward in Ruth‘s small life, this douche bag causes multiple steps backwards 4mo

dabbe @mcctrish I just finished it. #douchebagdonne #bellingshit AUGHHHH!!!!! 4mo

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BarkingMadRead

Ruth | Elizabeth Gaskell

Ch 11: Benson calls his sister #wasthiswise #bensonisaminister #thisexplainssomuch #faithisverynononsense #willsheacceptruth #wellshedoes #untilruthishappyaboutthebaby 🤰 #andyetshecomesupwiththeplan #williitwork #staytuned #hashtagbrigade

BarkingMadRead @librarybelle @ruthiella @currentlyreadinginCO @amor4libros @bookwormjillk @catlass007 @mcctrish @indoordame @rubyslippersreads @thebookhippie @dabbe @crinoline_laphroaig

@clare-dragonfly @julieclair @aimeesue @quietjenn @kao @bklover @alldebooks @jewright @cuilin @willaful 4mo

mcctrish Well there‘s no question now what Ruth and Bellingham were up to 🤣🤣🤦🏻‍♀️ Faith is going to have her faith and judgment tested 4mo

TheBookHippie #nonsenseindeed #idontlikethesister 4mo

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TheBookHippie @mcctrish took me way too long to go OHHHH. 😵‍💫🤷🏻‍♀️ yes. Now we know. 4mo

mcctrish @TheBookHippie it‘s hard to go against the patriarchy when they call all the shots but maybe Faith will turn the tide 🤞🏼 Ruth needs all the help and people in her corner she can get 4mo

TheBookHippie @mcctrish 🤞🏻🤞🏻🤞🏻🤞🏻🤞🏻🤞🏻 4mo

IndoorDame Sooo… Just how long were they at that inn? I mean these days we need about a month to confirm a pregnancy, but just how far along would a petite teenager have to be for a doctor to see a pregnancy back then? 4mo

Ruthiella @IndoorDame I think this is a doctor who serves the plot over the patient. 4mo

BarkingMadRead @IndoorDame I wondered the same, I didn‘t think they were there for more than a couple of weeks, but where were they before that? I‘ll have to check the timeline 4mo

mcctrish @IndoorDame so now I am thinking, remember when Bellingshit said he wanted to take Ruth to her family home but didn‘t want to take his carriage cuz he‘d miss their ‘walks‘ maybe walk means shenanigans?! 4mo

IndoorDame @mcctrish ooo, sneaky! On his part and the author‘s. That never occurred to me, but if it‘s true her loosing her job that day isn‘t quite as much of an overreaction as I thought 4mo

IndoorDame @Ruthiella definitely a possibility! 4mo

BarkingMadRead @IndoorDame @mcctrish I consulted the Google and apparently they were at that inn for “a number of months” 4mo

mcctrish @IndoorDame exactly what I‘m thinking #noinnuendotohelpmewiththisbook 4mo

mcctrish @BarkingMadRead so Bellingshit knew a bun in the oven had to be a possibility sooner or later and he‘s cutting his losses on purpose 🤬🤬🤬 4mo

BarkingMadRead @mcctrish oh, for sure, and why not? Mum will take care of everything 🙄 4mo

mcctrish I am further enraged 4mo

TheBookHippie @mcctrish I‘m thinking WALKS in a whole new light. @IndoorDame I too was thinking short time in Inn. 4mo

TheBookHippie @mcctrish @BarkingMadRead 😭poor girl 4mo

IndoorDame @mcctrish 🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬 is right! 4mo

TheBookHippie @mcctrish I wasn‘t thinking this devious but of course… 🤦🏻‍♀️ (edited) 4mo

mcctrish @TheBookHippie he knew she‘d be ruined on multiple levels ( did it anyways) and now he‘s too tired to deal 4mo

IndoorDame @TheBookHippie @mcctrish we must start to be much sneakier in our thinking as we read this. Like a mystery novel. Nothing anyone says is to be trusted! 😂 4mo

mcctrish @IndoorDame I actually just thought “I have to think harder with this book than a mystery!” 4mo

Clare-Dragonfly @BarkingMadRead Months?! Was Ruth never suspicious that they were in Wales, not London and Europe like he said he had to go to? Sheesh. I wish someone had taught this child something. 4mo

Cuilin I‘m having a hard time with all the faith discussion of “Ruth‘s sin” like she did this alone. WTF?? @mcctrish #Bellingshit lol 4mo

Cuilin @IndoorDame 🕵️‍♀️ 4mo

Aimeesue @mcctrish Absolutely yes about crossing the patriarchy when you‘re swimming in it with no real way out. A lot of time people don‘t even realize they hold ridiculous sexist beliefs until they confronted with a situation that forced them to think deeply about it. 4mo

Aimeesue @Cuilin The “boys will be boys” trope goes deep. It also sets women up as the force responsible for upholding morality, and that hasn‘t even ended today. #MeToo made a dent, but it‘s still everywhere. 4mo

Cuilin @Aimeesue I hate when people say, girls mature quicker than boys. No you‘re just holding them to different standards. 4mo

mcctrish @Cuilin thanks to shit like this girls have to mature quicker aka understand all the fuckery afoot or they lose 4mo

currentlyreadinginCO Hoping that Benson's sis's plan works but suspecting that it won't and Ruth is going to be one tragedy after another like our girl Tess. Interesting discussion today , Im also viewing the previous innuendo in a new light🧐 4mo

Aimeesue @Cuilin Yep. It‘s ridiculous. But effective, because it sets less powerful people above the power holders in a single aspect which was seen as significant at the time. Double edged sword because it‘s also a method of control if any female steps out of bounds, like Ruth. 4mo

Aimeesue @mcctrish And then they call us manipulative! 🙄 4mo

mcctrish @Aimeesue I‘m watching the latest season of Bridgerton and Colin and Penelope have had a falling out right before the wedding and he says he‘s going through with the wedding cuz he‘s a gentleman and they‘ve been intimate, although she could have planned that to entrap him! OH MY GOD! 4mo

Aimeesue @mcctrish Yeah, dude, sure. 🙄 4mo

willaful I like how Faith is written. You can tell she's good people because when she realizes she's in the wrong she doesn't get defensive and convince herself she's right after all.

And she kind of represents what girls like Ruth are up against, because she's not a cruel person but is a part of her culture (as are we all.) It takes someone like her brother to be able to see beyond the usual. 4mo

Bookwormjillk I got a late start today and now that it‘s confirmed I‘m questioning everything. And I want to read Tess again and the rest of Gaskell‘s books. 🤯 4mo

TheBookHippie @mcctrish UGHHHHHH. 4mo

TheBookHippie @IndoorDame I was reading this with too much innocence!!! LOLOLOLOL 4mo

TheBookHippie @Aimeesue UGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH. 4mo

TheBookHippie @Aimeesue Power and control. The evil twins. 4mo

mcctrish @willaful me too 4mo

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