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[sarea]

http://ap.alaskajournal.com/stories/state/ak/20041123/2605949.shtml

Here's the girl's LJ.



So frightening. I mean, I know people, teenagers especially, have issues with their mothers ... I certainly did ... but to bear your own mom that much hatred? Ugh, it's so creepy that she had an LJ. (Though the people who have been commenting there since the incident are terrible ... terribly funny. I know I shouldn't laugh, but some of them are so awful I just can't help it.)

And yet, in a blatant contradiction, Heavenly Creatures is one of my favorite films.

To lighten things up a tad...


Oscar Wilde: The Portrait of Dorian Gray. You are a
horror novel from the world of dandies, rich
pretty boys, art and aesthetics, and
intellectual debates between ethical people and
decadent pleasure-seekers. You value beauty and
pleasure but realize their dangers, as well.


Which literature classic are you?
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Comments

[kstanley.livejournal.com]

Sometimes those closest to you can seem very dangerous to your well-being. And if they abuse you over and over for years and no one does anything about it? And you have all those teenage hormones and insecurties running through you? I'm just surprised we don't see it happening more often.

I pity this girl. My God, I still don't get along with my mother completely (and I'm 35), but as furious as I was with her when I was a teenager (and boy was I), I'm so glad that I didn't take my rage to the next level. I wouldn't want to live with that guilt. This is going to crush this girl. She is going to need to be in some institution for years.

[colorfilter]

Eghs, it really is quite creepy as you so put it, to read her LJ. I'm trying to put the girl who makes typical teenage posts complaining about her parents and the girl who murdered her mother together- and the combination is just skin-crawling. I can't even begin to imagine plotting out to kill your own mother...with your friends, who actually carry it out, no less. Definitely makes me shudder. -_-

[unplot-me.livejournal.com]

hi! my name's danielle, and i'm a big fan of yours (though unfortunately i lurk most of the time)... i just started this lj for hp purposes (my personal one is elsewhere, which i'll reveal if you're interested)... just wanted to make sure that you're ok with my friendsing you =)

[sevenfourteen.livejournal.com]

i was just there over the summer =O

[sarea-okelani.livejournal.com]

Hi Danielle,

Thanks for saying hi! I don't mind at all. It's completely up to you whether you'd like for me to know of your personal LJ or not. Lots of people just have fandom journals, which I understand. :D

Cheers,
Sarea

[sarea-okelani.livejournal.com]

It's true; I have no idea what this girl's beef with her mother was. I mean, it probably wouldn't justify first-degree murder, but ... I admit I picture it going the way Heavenly Creatures did, where the mom wasn't a bad person, she was just a mom. Who could, yes, be annoying, and not understanding, and seem to be the bane of one's existence. But jeez, that's all moms, and it's hard to believe every single one of us hasn't felt that at one time or another. We don't go around plotting matricide.

I suppose my concern is that there's a level of psychosis here that goes beyond simple teenage rage. Most of us know where the line is and we don't cross it, wouldn't even think of actually crossing it. But this girl did, and unless there was a history of abuse (by which I mean, serious physical and mental abuse, which has not yet been revealed to be the case), I just can't understand how anyone could go there.

And I hope you are right -- that she feels some semblance of guilt for what she's done, true remorse for having committed such a heinous act. I could feel pity for her then. It's the ones who don't realize or care about what they've done who frighten me.

[kstanley.livejournal.com]

And I hope you are right -- that she feels some semblance of guilt for what she's done, true remorse for having committed such a heinous act. I could feel pity for her then. It's the ones who don't realize or care about what they've done who frighten me.

Well she is going to have the rest of her life to think about this. Even if it doesn't hit her in the next few months, it will eventually. She is going to get older--maybe she will marry and have children. What will she tell her children about their grandmother? How do you live with killing your own mother?

literature classic

[riding-pegasus.livejournal.com]

Hmm, I'm also Oscar Wilde, but there are only 8 choices. This one seems like the only one for adults with a fairly healthy social surroundings and a optimistic outlook to live. Also the ones being quite happy because they understood the balance between pleasure and work and gotten over most of their issues by the time they grew up.

Btw. I friended you - hope, you don't mind. Like your writing ... esp. the nice and sweet Ficlets with D/G. :)

Re: literature classic

[sarea-okelani.livejournal.com]

Ironic considering poor Oscar's fate, huh?

I don't mind at all that you've friended me, and I'm glad to hear you've enjoyed some of my writing. : ) I'll be posting the next part of a story I've been working on in the next couple of days or so, though I'm not sure it really fits under 'nice' or 'sweet'. <g>

[sarea-okelani.livejournal.com]

I know. It's quite chilling. If you've never seen Heavenly Creatures, I recommend it. It really gets into the psyche of the perpetrators (and is based on a true story).

[colorfilter]

Hmm, I've never seen it before- but I'll definitely keep an eye out for it. Thanks for the recommendation. :)