The Gods are watching over me

There are years that ask questions and years that answer | Sandra T | Surrealist

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How to tell you’re in a @blackvenvs novel: tagged by @guulabjamuns

I’m just now seeing this tag 😭😭

You’re alt (a part of an alt subculture) in some sort of way

You’re black woman

A woman

Lesbian/bi

You have a complicated relationship with your parents

Haunted by trauma

Deals with the affects of generational trauma

Working class/or rich no in between

You are both the protag and antag of your own story

Believe in ghosts

A helpless romantic

Loves the color red and/or black

Obsessed with anatomy

I tag @butchniqabi @fluoresensitive and all my other writeblr followers

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does your WIP deconstruct any tropes? if so, which ones and how? 

Definitely the themes of regression and dealing with trauma/mental illness. In horror, it’s shown as the main antagonist without any criticism, but I want to show horror as normal and how outside forces can be more of an evil than the illness is. Yes, Elin goes through a change, but it’s not she becomes something horrible but (spoiler alert) makes cower within. It’s way more complicated than I’m making it

[blackvenvs]

🍉, 🍒and 🍇!!

how to the themes of your WIP tie into, or contradict, each other? 

So for Norwegian Goth the themes of healing from trauma and the doppelgänger comes from the fact that she assumes her being haunted by her past self is a way to get over the trauma of her dysfunctional upbringing (but of course it’s more than that), and so with the appearance of the woman she assumes the same but the woman is the antagonist and because of that and among crazy shit that happens this is where regression plays a role

does your WIP avert or subvert any tropes? if so, which ones and how?

I can’t really say this because it’s a spoiler lol

does your WIP have any subtle/implicit themes that are perhaps up to interpretation? if so, what are they? 

Definitely what exactly the woman is up for interpretation. It’s implied what she is, *I* know what she is, but it’s never explicitly said. She’s definitely more than simply a doppelgänger otherwise I would’ve not mentioned the doppelgänger trope so up front 😈😈

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themes, tropes and symbolism writeblr game

🍎: describe the main themes of your WIP 

🍇: does your WIP have any subtle/implicit themes that are perhaps up to interpretation? if so, what are they? 

🍉: how to the themes of your WIP tie into, or contradict, each other? 

🍊: are you writing your WIP within any particular context (be it thematic, socio-political, or trope wise)? if so, how does your WIP fit into the context? 

🍋: does you WIP have any symbolism? if so, briefly describe it and its intended purpose. 

🍌: does your WIP have any hidden symbolism? if so (and if willing), describe it. 

🍐: does the symbolism in your WIP draw from or refer to any other sources or media? if so, what are they? 

🍑: list out the top five tropes that appear in your WIP. 

🍒: does your WIP avert or subvert any tropes? if so, which ones and how?

🍓: does your WIP deconstruct any tropes? if so, which ones and how? 

🥝: are there any secret or spoiler tropes in your WIP? if so (and if willing), describe them. 

🥑: what is your favourite theme, trope and symbol from your WIP?

[blackvenvs]

NORWEGIAN GOTH: AN INTRODUCTION

GENRE: Gothic Horror, Metaphysical Horror

Elin, now 30, has been haunted by apparitions in the form of a her child self and teenage self. It seemed, she thought, to be an act of God to help her get through the passing of her parents, but that doesn’t quite explain the appearance of the woman. The woman who is her, but not exactly. In more ways than one. And she begins to question the existence of these supposed ghosts.

THEMES: Doppelgängers, Healing from Trauma, Racism, Colorism, Regression

STATUS: first capter done

TRIGGER WARNING: Gore, Psychological horror, acts of hysteria, explicit depictions of bloood and murder

Link to first chapter is right here!

@fluoresensitive

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BLACKVENVS: AN INTRODUCTION

Hello, my name is Sandra and I am a poet and editor. I’ve been writing since I was 18 and I mainly focus on gothic horror, surrealist horror, and experimental works. I am making this introduction because most people know me as an editor and I want it to be know that I am a writer as well!

THINGS THAT I AM WORKING ON:

Black Woman As a Surrealist: it’s a collection of poems on the topic of blackness and how it informed the surrealist movement and focuses on misogynoir in the literary field.

Norwegian Goth: is a novella a part of a trilogy about a woman who is haunted by her past selves.

Gallow March: about a girl, Reina, still grieving from the loss of her friend, finds solace in a misfit named Raoul

I also have a poetry book out titled The Sun Weakens Beneath the Skin and I as well have a collection of short stories coming out next month with yah yah @fluoresensitive titled Multitude of Visions: Liminal Spaces in 3D

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Birth Of A Mother By Imogen Freeland

[blackvenvs]

I saw @guulabjamuns do this tag and I thought it would be fun simce I rarely do tags like this!!

RULES: drop the last seven lines you’ve written and tag seven more people to do the same.

And from that shift shuffles in a new slaughter and the previous unsuspecting body sits bloodied and becomes the dirt— a circle broken six ways, forcefully connecting one dead soul to a sad Other

The heads, the bodies, the stories, the spirits

for I lost the will to live

With the name “exhausted spirit” branded in gold thread

She was thunder thighs and a hail of wine skin

Are you not uncomfortable being in this house, especially with what happened with your parents?

A kiss deeper than a light touch of lips, but sweeter than a kiss muddled with sexual deviations.

I hope I interpreted this right?? I just the last lines of seven works that I worked on, some poems and some short stories, and some manuscripts!!

[blackvenvs]

God is good

God is great

Let us thank him for the food we are eating

Let us thank him for the lives he’s given

For the lives he’s taken from us

For the lies he’s given us

For the lies we’ve given others

For the centuries of hurt, trauma, of burdened psyches, of displaced Gods, of displaced bodies, of stand-in saints

Of Santeria, Hoodoo, Voodoo, and the survival of the blackness

Let us thank the lord above for giving us such strength

For season salt and sassafras, for decoctions and elixirs

Of the ability of the mind to soak in SO MUCH and excrete even more

— Mama and Papa Legba had a baby, Sandra T

[blackvenvs]

Sandra, if you don't add me to the tag list for Gallow March RIGHT NOW I think I may scream in agony.

Definitely will now haha lol

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Need supply co. | Spring 16

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                                                  “Te Amo”

Original Characters Reina and Raoul by @blackvenvs I Inspired by @11thsense artwork found here

[blackvenvs]

Reina | Raoul | Gallow March

The body pauses for a moment and moves closer to the other. She reaches up for him to come meet her halfway, whispers, “Raoul” against his lips before she kisses him.

A kiss deeper than a light touch of lips, but sweeter than a kiss muddled with sexual deviations. This was a kiss of pure love. This was a kiss that said, “Te Amo”.

—

Gallow March is my new wip a dark academia novella set in Madrid, Spain— the main character is a chubby spanish born somali girl named Reina and the three most important characters in this novella is Reina, Raoul, Elena and Ximena:

Reina misses Ximena. Misses her flare. Misses her childish extravagance. Misses her advice. Miss her spontaneity. Misses her face. And mostly missed the fact that she didn’t tell her she was in love with her before she took her own life

Entering college out of filal obligation, never did she think she’d fall in love with someone again. Never did she think she’d say the words, “Te Amo” in her lifetime and not to the type of person in high school she would’ve never crossed paths with. Never did she think it would be a man named Raoul.

And not to mention, she never thought in a million years she would see Ximena again in the form of a woman named Elena.

Artwork done by @11thsense

[blackvenvs]

“Grief

Was still a phenomenon that plagued every aspect of my being. Grief is what created these beings. Or should I say grief is what catapulted these beings into consciousness. Before it was stars and blue but silent bodies.

But these invisible beings had words and a lot of them. And just as grief caused them, death helped them settle.”

— Self-Portrait, Distorted, Sandra T

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“I was someone desperate for a sense of normality given that the years prior all I had experienced was death, sauntering at my side filling my head with riddles and equations about who could be next—”

— Self-Portrait, Distorted, Sandra T

[blackvenvs]

“Oh for the black girl who is neither dead or alive to be seen as a girl

Oh to be seen as a child— to be seen as the innocence she is

Stuck in the bottle”

— A Black Woman As A Surrealist II, Sandra T

[blackvenvs]

“What can this black body do in this diorama in which they are the spectacle and the source? Of the art in which the surrealist uses to roam through dimensions?”

— A Black Woman As A Surrealist, Sandra T