Happy Christmas Eve
BTS - Looks like a fun party!
did you know that 1/10 howl pendragon stans don’t know that he is:
a) welsh
b) a fucking asshole
Papercraft Howl (and Calcifer!) that I made for the con back in February!
Every time I make Howl, I experiment with a new way of depicting the argyle pattern of his jacket. This time, I tried a double layer method - cutting the diamond shapes out of a shimmery pink paper, and then placing those on top of the blue patten to form a unified whole. What do you think, lovelies? How should I approach the jacket next time I make Howl?
fuck it we ball. ohshc text posts (1/?)
Absolutely obsessed with these 60s covers. Recently added Wuthering Heights to the collection.
I wanted to draw Kate Bush from her Wuthering Heights vid ✨
another thing i’ve been thinking about re: wuthering heights vs jane eyre is relationships towards childhood and “the past” and how they’re kind of opposite in some ways:
in wuthering heights, childhood (for cathy and heathcliff) is mostly this kind of paradise where the rules of society don’t apply and you’re free to run wild with no boundaries and have an almost spiritual communion with nature and the Other, etc. like basically all of heathcliff’s actions once he grows up have the ultimate goal of or drive towards an attempt to reunite with that mythical childhood that was forever lost once the influence of adult society starts to rear its head. there’s a sense of wanting to return to the past and stay there forever (which, of course, is a state that both heathcliff and cathy do attain in the end as ghosts haunting the moors together.)
jane eyre is almost the exact opposite, since it’s a story that is in many ways about jane desperately trying to escape her childhood and finding freedom in adulthood (and adult society.) like, whereas cathy and heathcliff are off running around on the moors as kids, jane is cooped up behind the curtain in the house of an aunt and cousins who hate her and who won’t even let her read books to mentally escape. and when she leaves her aunt’s house to go to lowood school, she is still confined, humiliated, and miserable, though ultimately she finds solace in her work and in her independence which ultimately leads her to leave the scene of childhood again to go to thornfield. and then, when the past (though not necessarily jane’s specifically) rears its head in the form of bertha mason, she leaves once again, abandoning her entire identity (for a time) and relying on her own independence and adult professional skills.
i think what’s notable here is that, for jane, the past and childhood are usually things that she is trying to escape (which, granted, is something she usually is not entirely capable of doing) but they are also things that she actively does not want to really ever define her.
in contrast, heathcliff and cathy (and most of the other characters of wuthering heights tbh) are caught in this kind of eternal recursion, always trying to grasp that mythical past that is constantly out of reach, except in death.
i guess, to conclude, i’ll leave you with these two quotes:
“I wish I were a girl again, half savage and hardy, and free; and laughing at injuries, not maddening under them! Why am I so changed? why does my blood rush into a hell of tumult at a few words? I’m sure I should be myself were I once among the heather on those hills.”
–Catherine Earnshaw, Wuthering Heights, Chapter 12
“I remembered that the real world was wide, and that a varied field of hopes and fears, of sensations and excitements, awaited those who had the courage to go forth into its expanse, to seek real knowledge of life amidst its perils.”
–Jane Eyre, Jane Eyre, Chapter 10
illustrations by skip liepke for wuthering heights
