just dropping in to vent that my rereading of Gender Trouble has caused me to conclude that wearing women’s clothing [in the environment I’m currently in] constitutes cheating on my boyfriend and I’m fucking mad because I only brought three items of clothing that aren’t paint covered rags and all of them are women’s clothing.
I go to all these lengths—literally—to avoid being a slut that shows its ankles and shoulders but that’s just not fucking enough I guess
Having mixed feelings about the enormous nazi flag in my grandparents’ attic (calm down, it was a war trophy. You’re thinking of my dad’s side of the family. womp womp.)
Because on the one hand I’ve gotta see if the holocaust memorial wants it for an exhibit background or some shit (and I don’t really see why they would? It’s not like that stuff is rare).
But on the other hand it’d be fucking sweet to burn it at a demo sometime.
It’s just odd because to my grandparents and their kids it still reminds them in a POSITIVE way of my grandmother’s father, who hauled down the flag when he was appointed military governor of an occupied village in Bavaria. When my grandparents are gone it will lose those vibes and become 100% embarrassing to own instead of 95% embarrassing.
I Am Coming To Your Wedding
Oh, thank you, Horace! Where do you want to sit?
I Am Eating The Cake And Than I Am Leaving
This is what Fat Log looked like when we brought her home from the shelter ;_;
not to get too deep on main but did anyone else have such deeply rooted issues with their self worth for so long that they thought as a kid/teen that their only redeeming feature was being “low maintenance” and now as an adult you give yourself guilt pangs asking for any more than the barest minimum in virtually any relationship because asking for things might negate your only good quality which is just “doesn’t ask for things”
Isn’t it crazy how women are supposed to be in their 20s their whole life.
Not even 20s, early 20s. I’m already training myself to accept that I’ll be (justifiably) traded in for a newer model in the next four years, and then it’s my job to disappear from public life I guess? I don’t have the courage or the money to start taking testosterone so hag in the woods it is.
I know German likes to take English words but when will yall realise shit like “gegoogelt” and “gechillt” sounds genuinely awful
Ich wurde outgecalled:(
knuckle tats say FOUC AULT
knuck tats saying POST, and on the other hand, having transcended the limitations of the form, STRUCTURALIST
I searched for frog ink drawings while doing research for an assignment about a Korean Folktale and stumbled upon this masterpiece… and I am OBSESSED with the design
also he needs a name
Masterpost of Free Gothic Literature & Theory
Classics Vathek by William Beckford Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë The Woman in White & The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins Carmilla by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu The Turn of the Screw by Henry James The Monk by Matthew Lewis The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux Melmoth the Wanderer by Charles Maturin The Vampyre; a Tale by John Polidori Collected Works of Edgar Allan Poe Confessions of an English Opium-Eater by Thomas De Quincey The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Radcliffe The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson Dracula by Bram Stoker The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Short Stories and Poems An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge by Ambrose Bierce Songs of Innocence & Songs of Experience by William Blake The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge The King in Yellow by Robert W. Chambers The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Pre-Gothic Beowulf The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri A Journal of the Plague Year by Daniel Defoe Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus by Christopher Marlowe Paradise Lost by John Milton Macbeth by William Shakespeare Oedipus, King of Thebes by Sophocles The Duchess of Malfi by John Webster
Gothic-Adjacent Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen The Wendigo by Algernon Blackwood Jane Eyre & Villette by Charlotte Brontë Lyrical Ballads, With a Few Other Poems by Coleridge and Wordsworth The Mystery of Edwin Drood by Charles Dickens The Idiot & Demons (The Possessed) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky The Man in the Iron Mask by Alexandre Dumas Moby-Dick by Herman Melville The Island of Doctor Moreau by H. G. Wells
Historical Theory and Background The French Revolution of 1789 by John S. C. Abbott Shakespearean Tragedy: Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth by A. C. Bradley The Tale of Terror: A Study of the Gothic Romance by Edith Birkhead On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History by Thomas Carlyle Demonology and Devil-Lore by Moncure Daniel Conway Ancient Pagan and Modern Christian Symbolism by Inman and Newton On Liberty by John Stuart Mill The Social Contract & Discourses by Jean-Jacques Rousseau Feminism in Greek Literature from Homer to Aristotle by Frederick Wright
Academic Theory Introduction: Replicating Bodies in Nineteenth-Century Science and Culture by Will Abberley Viewpoint: Transatlantic Scholarship on Victorian Literature and Culture by Isobel Armstrong Theories of Space and the Nineteenth-Century Novel by Isobel Armstrong The Higher Spaces of the Late Nineteenth-Century Novel by Mark Blacklock The Shipwrecked salvation, metaphor of penance in the Catalan gothic by Marta Nuet Blanch Marching towards Destruction: the Crowd in Urban Gothic by Christophe Chambost Women, Power and Conflict: The Gothic heroine and “Chocolate-box Gothic” by Avril Horner Psychos’ Haunting Memories: A(n) (Un)common Literary Heritage by Maria Antónia Lima ‘Thrilled with Chilly Horror’: A Formulaic Pattern in Gothic Fiction by Aguirre Manuel The terms “Gothic” and “Neogothic” in the context of Literary History by O. V. Razumovskaja The Female Vampires and the Uncanny Childhood by Gabriele Scalessa Curating Gothic Nightmares by Heather Tilley Elizabeth Bowen, Modernism, and the Spectre of Anglo-Ireland by James F. Wurtz Hesitation, Projection and Desire: The Fictionalizing ‘as if…’ in Dostoevskii’s Early Works by Sarah J. Young Intermediality and polymorphism of narratives in the Gothic tradition by Ihina Zoia
staff: snaked
water: bloodied
frogs: out
lice: itching
beasts: wild
cattle: diseased
skin: boiled
hail: flaming
crops: destroyed
sun: hidden
heirs: killed
we are finally escorted out of egypt
You: I got a call from a military recruiter. They liked my ASVAB score
Me, an intellectual: A recruitin segeant came our way from the inn near town at the close o’ day. Said, my Johnny, you’re a fine young man, would you like to march along behind a military band with a scarlet coat and a fine cocked hat and a MUSKET AT YOUR S H O U L D E R
BRUH DID YOU SEE THEY ARE RECORDING AN ALL SEA SHANTY ALBUM
hello???
“If you don’t like raw aggression you shouldn’t be working at build a bear.” Might be one of the most chaotic things I’ve ever had the misfortune of reading
