I love your POTO thoughts!! I thought Raoul was a butthole when I was 12, bc I too, was also a proto-monster fucker. But I haven't read the novel!

I do really wish general fandom was more able to consider genre and themes. Consider the gothic romance will be a gothic romance! (Consider the sidekick comic book and the fantasy children's fiction is going to have kids doing dangerous things, consider the half hour comedy is going to continue to be goofy jokes. And so on.)

He's totally a siren!! Now I want to watch it again. (And read it?)