not enough secret gardens and hidden passageways and bookshelves that open to a mysterious library these days. get working on that girls.
Virginie Géo-Rémy, L’éventail de Grand-Mère (1887)
there is a house in new orleans | carrie (1976); halloween (1973); haunted womanhood by heather harvilesky; house of 1,000 corpses (2003); a nightmare on elm street (1984); the fall river axe murders by angela carter; psycho (1960); the texas chain saw massacre (1974) bts cast shot; ghostland: an american history of haunted places by colin dickey; we must call a meeting by joy harjo
"If you did crack open Irene's head and asked her to give a monologue, I think it would be a lot of lies, honestly. [...] The only way to do it filmically, to try and let the audience slowly realize the subtlety of what's going on, is to drip-feed them these gestures. Hands, longing, how Irene perceives the world, the fuzziness of it, the unreliability of it, then of course the black and white, which is the biggest irony of all, because nothing is ever black and white." - Rebecca Hall
Ruth Negga as Clare and Tessa Thompson as Irene in Passing (2021). Dir. Rebecca Hall
genre swap: the 12 dancing princesses as a mystery, requested by anon
set in the 1930s, a noir style mystery about a detective to solve the disappearance of 4 dancers who have seemingly robbed & skipped town on their angry employer. the detective realizes patterns in the case similar to previous disappearances in the 20s & 10s. the detective follows the clues, becomes obsessed with these women and their pasts. determined to find them and save them from their wicked ways, he's in for an unpleasant surprise when he uncovers their lair in a literal underworld with the previous disappeared women. these women have found a way to dance forever without the judgment of men, and all they need to add more friends is a simple sacrifice every ten years. and what do you know, the detective is right on time.
Anonymous asked:
so glad to see your aesthetic edits on my dashboard again! i know it’s been hard but they also remind me of drew and i think it’s lovely
oh thank you! it reminds me of drew too. thanks for the support- it's weird as time goes on it gets both easier and harder, and support always means. lot.
genre swap: the 12 dancing princesses as a mystery, requested by anon
set in the 1930s, a noir style mystery about a detective to solve the disappearance of 4 dancers who have seemingly robbed & skipped town on their angry employer. the detective realizes patterns in the case similar to previous disappearances in the 20s & 10s. the detective follows the clues, becomes obsessed with these women and their pasts. determined to find them and save them from their wicked ways, he's in for an unpleasant surprise when he uncovers their lair in a literal underworld with the previous disappeared women. these women have found a way to dance forever without the judgment of men, and all they need to add more friends is a simple sacrifice every ten years. and what do you know, the detective is right on time.
Anonymous asked:
did u know theres a lunar chronicles animated series in the works? considering one of its main influences was sailor moon, it sounds like a good choice
i did know that! i also think it's a good choice. i hope it happens, i think it would be so cool.
Hello! Hope you're having a nice, peaceful day.
I was wondering if you've ever come across any good fairytale retellings of Rumpelstiltskin?
this is such an interesting question, because rumpelstiltskin is such a tough story to retell. i'm looking at it for a fairy tale final girl and whew.
i will of course direct you to the of slippers & spindles podcast with their dive into the story.
gilded by marissa meyer takes a gothic fantasy take on it.
i haven't read spinning silver by naomi novik but i want to! this is a jewish fantasy, which is so important because of so many of the antisemitic tropes that are present in the original tale.
i really like the rumpelstiltskin problem by vivian vande velde, which is a collection of short stories, all retelling rumpelstiltskin.
genre swap: the addams family as a high fantasy, requested by anon
the house of addams controls a small and unusual kingdom filled with monsters, creatures, and lots of black. they are a weird little kingdom, but their inhabitants and royal family are incredibly (un)happy and it's one of the wealthiest kingdoms in the empire. their neighboring kingdom of suburbia is struggling, due to the careless spending of their unpopular king hubert. hubert knows the addamses run a small and naive country, and he comes to their kingdom with the intention of overthrowing king gomez and his queen. he is warmly welcomed by the king and queen and he believes the coup will be simple, but is... unnerved by their unusual staff, psychic children, and the unbelievable power of their family. and the darkness, of course. the family seems to love the darkness, and worse- the darkness loves them back.
genre swap: the addams family as a high fantasy, requested by anon
the house of addams controls a small and unusual kingdom filled with monsters, creatures, and lots of black. they are a weird little kingdom, but their inhabitants and royal family are incredibly (un)happy and it's one of the wealthiest kingdoms in the empire. their neighboring kingdom of suburbia is struggling, due to the careless spending of their unpopular king hubert. hubert knows the addamses run a small and naive country, and he comes to their kingdom with the intention of overthrowing king gomez and his queen. he is warmly welcomed by the king and queen and he believes the coup will be simple, but is... unnerved by their unusual staff, psychic children, and the unbelievable power of their family. and the darkness, of course. the family seems to love the darkness, and worse- the darkness loves them back.
ai art is almost impossible to avoid when searching for images to make graphics. it makes me very angry!
Larkspur - Lucy Culliton , 2014.
Australian,b.1966 -
Watercolour, gouache on thick white wove paper , 56.0 x 76.6 cm.
Screwball Comedy Heroines
Claudette Colbert, It Happened One Night (1934) Myrna Loy, The Thin Man (1934) Katharine Hepburn, Bringing Up Baby (1938) Barbara Stanwyck, The Lady Eve (1941) Rosalind Russell, His Girl Friday (1940) Jean Arthur, The More The Merrier (1943) Carole Lombard, My Man Godfrey (1936)
shirley jackson’s we have always lived in the castle illustrated by thomas ehretsmann for centipede press