chasing shadows

grace, phd student, gothicist

[criticalsorcery]

I fear for Peppermint Preston

[marshmarrows]

I just really need everyone to see Emily's reaction to Murph's deception check

Oh and these pictures

[criticalsorcery]

I fear for Peppermint Preston

[tommyswiseau]

[criticalsorcery]

What a large goon you are.

[criticalsorcery]

What a large goon you are.

[elizastrange]

I've decided this is my new triology of favorite period dramas.

[midgelenny]

nothing surpasses the comedy of the entire aftermath of the emma (2020) ball scene. NOTHING. knightley running after emma. frank churchill red-faced and sweating from carrying harriet. “on account of the scissors.” frank wheeling harriet around in his arms like he’s training for the shotput event in track & field. knightley’s face when he realizes how close he is to harriet’s face and to emma and he’s like “YIKES abort abort.” knightley failing miserably to come up with a reason for being at emma’s house other than sexual frustration and pining. harriet moaning suggestively enough to visibly startle knightley. knightley going through the five stages of grief when emma asks for frank to stay. and to top it all off, bill nighy hop-running in like some sort of meerkat to exclaim “is she dEAd?!”

not to mention that none of them have slept because it was definitely the morning hours when the ball ended, so these idiots definitely just pulled an all-nighter and are basically using one brain cell at this point? truly peak cinema. no i will not accept criticism.

[thoodleoo]

what you’d think classics academia is like:

professors in tweed discussing philosophy, serious debates about the latin and greek languages, thoughtful discourse about ancient history and the importance of studying the classical world

what classics academia is actually like:

[bloomsbury]

i only have two emotions:

p&p 2005 and emma 2020

[mygothicheroine-deactivated2023]

the sheer level of galaxy brain jane austen was on when she wrote “if i loved you less i might be able to talk about it more”

[kyloren]

EMMA. 2020 | dir. Autumn de Wilde

[dailytvfilmgifs]

EMMA 2020 | dir. Autumn de Wilde

[amarguerite]

Oh my God I’m not sure of the accuracy of this scale but I made one anyways.

1: Jane Austen. Theoretically Romantic, mostly a clever satirist more interested in the novel as the perfect vehicle for social commentary than in poetry for capturing emotion. Very little chance of swooning and/or dramatic death. A very safe spot on the Romanticism scale.

2: Dorothy Wordsworth: Actually a Romantic, though not excessively so! Enjoy your long walks in the country. Keep those diaries. Your brother can mine them for publishable material until people consider them finally worthy of academic interest a century or two later.

3: Wordsworth. May result in later becoming annoyingly conservative but mostly harmless. Go ahead and wander lonely as a cloud. Gaze upon that ruined abbey.

4: Charlotte Turner Smith. Recover that English sonnet and transform it into a medium that mostly expresses sorrow! Help establish Gothic conventions! Have what Wordsworth called a true feeling for rural England! Die in penury and be forgotten by the middle of the nineteenth century!

5: Blake. ?? Who even knows man. Talk to angels. Create your own goddamn religion. Confuse all of your contemporaries.

6: Mary Shelly. Go ahead and run off with that unhappily married poet who took you on dates to your mother’s grave, but this may result in carrying your husband’s calcified heart around in a fragment of his last manuscript the rest of your life. But also, arguably inventing sci-fi as a genre… so that’s some consolation.

7: John Keats: listen to that nightingale but be forewarned: you will die of TB in Rome and everyone will mock you for dying of bad criticism instead of, you know, infectious disease.

8: Coleridge. May result in never finishing a poem and a severe opium addiction.

9: Percy Shelly. May result in being expelled from Oxford and in premonitions of your own death by drowning.

10: Full Byron. Never go full Byron.

[artsandantlers]

✨RPG Astrology✨

Here it is, finally!! I’m super proud of how this project came out now that all 12 designs are finished and printed! This is the RPG Astrology series, which I’ve been working on for the past few months. They are 4x6 gold foil embossed prints that we’ll be selling during ECCC at the @kamira-studios table (right now, postponed until August). But they are also currently available on the Kamira Studios Storenvy (link in bio). This set is a series of illustrations featuring the 12 main RPG classes, paired up with one of the 12 Astrological signs. Each design features a weapon illustration, with a personality description and flower based on astrological sign. 

Reblog with which one you are. Do you feel the description suits you? If not, which one are you most drawn to?  ✨

[esther-sinclair]

She’s just a bass player and no one wants to hear the bass play solo.

- Emily

[basic-lich]

ally beardsley in the chat, folks