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"How the heavens collapse is first hand knowledge. How the heavens’ tears kiss the earth is first hand knowledge. Falls from the sky in a million instances, falls like unanswered prayers." A mother seeks revenge.
- in the winds over ayemenem (a fanfic)
obsessed with the way that gothic horror is about horror but never directly. it’s not horrific because there’s a haunted house and that’s scary, it’s horrific because the monster inside isn’t a monster, it’s your grief, your loss, your pride, your desire, your fear. the monster skulking in the shadows, the darkness at the edge of the woods, the haunted house that is too broken to be a home—those are manifestations of events that grabbed onto the fabric of time in a fit of abject horror and clamped down so tightly that they couldn’t keep moving forward toward resolution and eventual dissipation like they were supposed to. it’s all about the scared child and the mourning mother and the hunger in your gut and the little emptiness in your chest at the end of the day. those things are all little horrors but you can’t approach them directly to understand them, so gothic horror gives us these little metaphors and says “here play with these for a while and see what you find.” and all of those metaphors need someone to go back to childhood to release them. you have to care, and be curious and clever, and look for a way to heal the hurt. you have to be so achingly human to survive in gothic horror
Still Star-Crossed 6th Anniversary || Favorite Character: Rosaline Capulet
Lee Pace as Brother Day
FOUNDATION | "In Seldon's Shadow" | 2.01
One of my fav quote of all time 🖤
Depollute me, gentle angel
And I'll feel the sickness less and less
Come and kiss me, pretty baby
Like we'll never have sex
small pencil portraits to pass the morning
Still Star-Crossed Six-Year Anniversary | Favorite Ship - Rosaline x Isabella
STILL STAR CROSSED SIX YEAR ANNIVERSARY
Favorite ship : Rosaline Capulet & Benvolio Montague
That person who helps others simply because it should or must be done, and because it is the right thing to do, is indeed without a doubt, a real superhero.
Miles Morales in SPIDERMAN: INTO THE SPIDER VERSE (2018) and SPIDERMAN: ACROSS THE SPIDER VERSE (2023)
Spiderverse really said "Your grief was not necessary. It served no purpose. It did not make you better or kinder or wiser. It did not make the world better. You did not need to suffer to do good. You should never have had to suffer the way you did. Grief is so strong and so painful that you had to justify it to yourself in order to accept it. You convinced yourself you are better because of it. That the good things you do are because of your grief, instead of in spite of it. You needed to believe it in order to move past the pain. But the moment you believe your suffering was necessary, you begin to believe the suffering of others is necessary. And when you believe the suffering of others is necessary, you begin to be complicit in it and eventually begin actively and purposefully causing it."
and it was so real for that.
description of we have always lived in the castle by shirley jackson (popular library edition)
