![]() ![]() ![]() Starling is one of the true icons of late 20th-century horror. Characters change, but Clarice Starling wasn't just a character to me. Still, in hindsight, it was very strange to be a teenage girl who loved this dark story, reading as it jumped the shark in real-time. Rowling's transphobia understands this all too well. Every person who's struggled to deal with their Harry Potter fandom following J.K. ![]() The rose-tinted glasses of fannish frenzy shatter and you're left to reconcile yourself with the cold light of reality. And then it got to that scene, and things quickly fell apart.Įveryone has that moment in their lives when they realize that the stories or pop culture that they love is not perfect. For hours, I sat on the top bunk in the bedroom I shared with my sister, hunched over the book as if I was protecting it. My school didn't have it, but the local library did, so I checked out this beautiful doorstop of a hardback with a rich red cover and jumped right in. Having devoured Red Dragon and The Silence of the Lambs, I desperately needed to get my hands on the third book, simply titled Hannibal. I was 14 years old and had become wildly enamored with the Hannibal Lecter books thanks to a surprisingly violent selection of titles available in my high school library and my parents' delightfully relaxed attitude to the pop culture my sister and I consumed. To this day, I keenly remember the exact moment and what I was doing when Thomas Harris f***ed over Clarice Starling. ![]()
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