You’ll make me tender, by force.

parameters of ‘love of my life’

[gabriellelestat]

sam, she/he, tme, 23, south asian. gothic lit enjoyer. family abolitionist.

letterboxd | sideblog: @oedipalcomplexes

currently reading: gothic incest + gender, sexuality and syphilis in early modern venice + querelle

I post mostly about history and gothic fiction - wuthering heights, lolita, disco elysum and interview with the vampire are tagged.

I trigger tag as “tw x” and I'm happy to add any triggers I may have missed - just shoot me an ask!

DNI pertains mostly to terfs, nazis, zionists and others of the ilk.

[blackcoffeestudies]

Mutual fascination is always a risky business. Lacan suggests that it is the consequence of an imaginary identification in which the self strives to incorporate the other in an act as aggressive as it is loving. It is never clear who, snake or snake charmer, is mesmerized by whom.

Elizabeth Grosz, Jacques Lacan: A feminist introduction

[malibuklaus]

[userarmand]

mass healings in samssad nation 🫂 [source]

[blurays]

Phantom Thread 2017, dir. Paul Thomas Anderson

[oldbutchdanielmolloy]

Armand is the first single mother to have babytrapped himself

[loumandaniel]

The concept of growing up to be 6’0” and realizing you’re still not big enough to hit the old man back.

but, see, the tragedy of it all is he wouldn't hit him :( he became tall, immensely powerful, old - none of it matters because the thing keeping armand from striking marius was never size

[loumandaniel]

!!!!!!!!!!!

[gabriellelestat]

I feel lightheaded the christopher/assad height difference is just too much to sit with

[icantspellthings]

It's a sign, Loumand is endgame

[lioncourtz]

ASSAD ZAMAN & SAM REID at 'The Vampire Lestat' premiere

[kinkydorah]

i'm in love with these people

[jassadbrainrot]

WHO IS UP

[gabriellelestat]

I still have a ways left to go until I reach any material pertaining to robespierre and the terror unfortunately in the various books I keep shuffling through but oh well

[gabriellelestat]

I’m making allegations

[gabriellelestat]

it has to be said that there’s nothing people hate more than empathising with a character who was molested. either you’re not molested enough or you’re too pornographically molested for people with fragile constitutions to handle or you don’t behave like a good little victim who always lies down and takes it like a #realsurvivor does without ever lashing out badly. there’s no winning with you people

[saviorified]

"coachable" is sports talk for submissive and eager to please

[saviorified]

i regret making this post every single day if you're not tagging this with real life athletes then die