Severance is Gothic

🏳️‍⚧️🖤🏳️‍🌈 An enby in their 40s reading Severance as a gothic text & Mark as a gothic heroine.

[burneddownthegym]

Sleeping With the Lights On: The Unsettling Story of Horror, Darryl Jones [x] Severance (2022-) horror + the aesthetics of abjection

[damejudyhench]

This show has the smartest most insightful fans, bravo op

[gothicseverance]

The female figures fleeing through dark passages and hiding or being imprisoned in the underground vaults of Gothic castles and monasteries generally emerge at some climactic point in the story to reveal the full extent of their creative or destructive powers.

—The Return of the Repressed

[gothicseverance]

The Past itself is persistent; it erupts and deranges the Present, no matter how much the latter wants it forgotten and gone. Ghosts are one of the most enduring elements of the genre because they are the perfect metaphor for this particular view of the Past and its relationship with the Present.

—TVTropes

[aphyllon]

this blog is so perfectly aligned with the gothic potential i see in Severance i gotta self-promote my fic about ghost-dream-gothic-monster Helly haunting gothic heroine Scoutie (and then they fuck): real life is a rumor. mark scout being haunted by the man he could have been and the man Helly still sees him as iktr!!! thank you gothic severance blog owner

[maiw-zine]

Hello,

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[maiw-zine]

Meet Jessie | Writer

Tumblr: @gothicseverance  

Jessie works in the Canadian film industry, adores sickfic, and is hyped for top surgery this winter.

[gothicseverance]

It seems that if you want to live a life free from family curses or tragic destinies, you’ve got to leave your old ancestral home behind. In fact, might as well burn it down for good measure!

—The Gothic Library

[gothicseverance]

The Gothic villain’s greatest weapon, and his source of weakness, is his mouth.

—Devouring the Gothic

[gothicseverance]

The Gothic reiteration of the ‘unspeakable’ stresses a world of felt experience existing beyond the threshold of consciousness signified by words.

—The Return of the Repressed

[gothicseverance]

An imprisoning place does not have to be a literal castle — any labyrinthine man-made structure (...) would do, as long as it conveys the emotions of isolation, alienation, and extreme duress.

—TVTropes

[gothicseverance]

Black texts (...) look at the institutions that marked them as savage, look at the reasons for the hiding and the historical moment of silencing.

—African American Gothic

[gothicseverance]

The Gothic generally explores personal, psychic encounters with the taboo.

—American Stories of Cultural Haunting

[gothicseverance]

The mere sight of her mother is an ‘indulgence’, a satisfaction which connotes childish pampering, but also suggests that this glimpse can satiate the emotional want created by the absence of a mother. The sight of the mother becomes her food, it becomes her fantasy.

—Devouring the Gothic

[gothicseverance]

Starvation gothicises the body as it exposes the body’s interior, its bones, veins and premature decay.

—Devouring the Gothic

[gothicseverance]

The male cannibal is empty inside; he is a void.

—Devouring the Gothic

[gothicseverance]

Growing out of the ancient tradition of the ghost story, Gothic novels emerged with the development of the urban-industrial world; they serve as a kind of anthropological time-line, suggesting how young this type of social organization is, how long the more dangerous, precarious hunting and gathering life lasted, and how the past continues to shape the psychic realities of the present.

—The Return of the Repressed

[gothicseverance]

Would you ever consider doing a project like Gothic Alien 1979?

This is SUCH a flattering question and it gives me lifffffe. I tried recording something but my computer choked on the file, but it was fun to do! Thank you for the prompt! 🙌🏻

I still owe you a bingo card from back in the day! Thank you for THAT great prompt too!

The gothic is notoriously hard to pin down in a definition and usually people end up just listing key ingredients lol. Here are my main ingredients! I’m not sure where the tipping point is, but I always like looking for it in works of fiction.

I tried to differentiate between form (in italics) and content to make this bingo card less of a jumble of nonsense phrases. I also roughed it up to make it look old and distressed FOUND it. Hopefully it’s legible. The words are really struggling to get past the crumples. Very gothic of them.

EKS = Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick

CB = Chris Baldick

[gothicseverance]

Characters in Gothic stories are like figures in our dreams; they embody and act out conflicting, subconscious psychic energies.

—The Return of the Repressed