Hello there, my name is Rosemary. I use she/her pronouns.
This is a dark kink side-blog for curating content that reminds me of typical pulp gothic romances with historical, supernatural and psychological horror elements. This blog will include disturbing themes and imagery, so please block and leave if you are uncomfortable or disapprove. You are responsible for your own experience on Tumblr. If you don't want to engage with these topics, leave this blog.
This is a side-blog, so my features are limited.
CW List, Tag Directory and Links after the cut.
SENSITIVE TOPICS & DISCLAIMER
blood
cannibalism (tagged as #devour)
death
violence and assault
gore (tag includes instances of violence that imply injury and gore)
kidnapping
emotional and psychological abuse
familial abuse (incest)
supernatural monsters and elements
unhealthy + toxic relationships
swearing
mild nudity
torture
animal death
this is a non-exhaustive list and may include other similar topics (judge at your discretion)
Although I engage with these topics, I DO NOT approve/condone them in real-world settings, in "reality".
If you recognise me from outside of Tumblr, please do not reach out to me about this blog. You cannot solely judge me based on my posts; you must also consider my actions and choices in real-world settings that directly impact individuals ("offline"). My posts do not decide my moral credibility.
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TAG DIRECTORY
#actual advice — Constructive advice to help those emotionally troubled. If gothic literature highlights human flaws and twists virtues and strengths, these ideas can be similarly twisted and turned into prompts.
#art — Artwork depicting the aesthetic.
#analysis — Serious insights into tropes and stories. Independent reviews and academic excerpts.
#board — Collages, moodboards, web weaves and gif sets.
#characters — Inspiration for stock characters and their interactions.
#clutching pearls — Posts about moral policing and purity culture toward fiction.
#costume — Fashion that fits the aesthetic.
#gothic heroine shit — Active and Angsty female leads. Byronic She-bastards. Ideas of self-discovery and independence.
#gothic pulp — Artwork from the Paperback Novel Women-Running-Away-From-Houses era of Gothic literature and film. 1940s to the 1970s.
#holy — Religious themes and imagery. Typically Catholic but ideas touch on the concept of faith, piety, guilt, suffering as something noble and repentance.
#ingenue things — Ethereal and feeble female leads. Heroines who symbolise innocence, naivety, inherent goodness, kindness and sympathy. Damsels who get victimised by obsessive, possessive brooding brutes. Ideas of corruption.
#mine — My own posts… both serious and silly.
#people — Figures that fit the aesthetic. Stock characters and monsters.
#places — Images of various estates, castles, forests, churches and other similar scenes that fit the aesthetic.
#poetry — Various quotes, translations, blurbs and poems.
#prompt — Ideas for plots and stories.
#prose — For longer literature. If the post contains a real plot with a journey with a beginning and ending, it goes in this tag.
#recs — Recommendations for me to check out.
#wed to woe — doomed bride characters
#writing help — Advice to write a better story or characters.
#yearning — Shitposts that poke fun or idealize the aesthetic.
FOOLERY
🌘 a pearl from the pile: a random post from this blog
🌘 rosemary and thyme: fun facts about me, through asks and quizzes I've played
🌘 lamplight's glow: how to navigate tags on desktop & how to use tumblr search operators
hey guysss so unfortunately the rumors are true and im leaving the narrative. Buttt the good news is my absence will create such a gaping hole in your lives that it will become a sort of presence itself, and so in a way it will kind of be like i never left! But i am. Leaving just to be clear.
one the secret sauces of the silt verses is that it's deeply grim and pessimistic about systems and society at large but it's still remarkably kind and optimistic when it comes to people. a person can always change, they have reasons for being the way they are and if their circumstances shift then most people will want to be merciful and good if and when they can, and the actual Difficulty is that society is structured around making violence as easy as possible and mercy as dangerous as possible.
I love you “unlikeable” female characters I love you rude girls I love you mean women I love you girl interpretations of the “Asshole with a Heart of Gold” trope I love you women who get labeled Cold and Unfeeling I love you girls who lash out I love you women who lie I love you female characters who make people mad just by existing
You're one of us
You're a part of the night
You're one of us
Say goodbye to the light
— Nosferatu (2024), Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1992), The Return of the Vampire (1943), Horror of Dracula (1958), Dracula (1931), Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror (1922), Nosferatu the Vampyre (1979)
lowkey i want more "problematic" aromantic and/or asexual representation. i want aro/aces who are unhappily married or in romantic relationships that they abandon for entirely selfish and not necessarily sympathetic reasons. i want aro/aces who are bitterly jealous of their friends' romantic partners for making them happy in ways they never could. i want aro/aces who are corrupted by power because they can't find satisfaction in other people. and i want romantic relationships that are ruined by friendships or even the allure of isolation. i want love to lose.
i want a character in a romantic relationship to sincerely feel like they're cheating on their partner with their friend(s) or their work/quest/whatever. and i want them to break up about it with the same degree of drama and grief that would have happened if they'd actually been having an affair.
I can't get over how Sinners is such a rich text on assimilation and whiteness and the dangers of "civility" and music as a way to look both forward and back
And it's also a phenomenal vampire movie where a lot of hot people get covered in blood and there's a B plot about eating out girls
