poor night bird, poor butcher bird

she/they • no minors

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- Little Red Riding Hood: Victimage in Folktales and Cinema

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HOUSE OF THE DRAGON (2022–) Season 2, Episode 1, “A Son for a Son”

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Art by Ruslan Onishchenko

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“In family-melodrama horror there is always one family member…trying to escape the confines of their limited existence, or an outsider coming into the narrative poised to steal them away. Their only social interaction…is with their siblings, but something happens that awakens them to the possibilities of the outside world. They may even make sincere attempts to escape, but as we have learned from a century of such films, the family always comes first, a reconciliation takes place, and the would-be escapee is forced to recognize their inherent nature and the fact that they belong with their family – especially when they are concealing a secret that would render them socially unacceptable to the outside world. They retreat to the familiarity of the only people who accept them for who they are. Again: traumatic bonding.”

— Kier-La Janisse, House of Psychotic Women: An Autobiographical Topography of Female Neurosis in Horror and Exploitation Films

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my childhood bf/ideal father/imaginary friend

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An illustration for George MacDonald 's : "Phantastes" by Arthur Hughes

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- Girls in Bonds: Prehensile Place and the Domestic Gothic in L. M. Montgomery's Short Fiction

[random-brushstrokes]

Isidoro Grünhut - Unwanted Advances (1891)

[orangerosebush]

"Mother and Child (a.k.a. Madonna)", 1908, Egon Schiele

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- "No More Than Ghosts Make": The Hauntology and Gothic Minimalism of Beckett's Late Work

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Allie X, Devil I Know x Alicent & Otto Hightower

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bought some folklore staples (morphology, the folktale, the uses of enchantment, etc) from thriftbooks as a holiday gift to myself. i've been able to read more thoroughly these past few days, and i hope it continues.

[lesbicastagna]

went down a rabbit hole of this subject.

Filippo Lippi, painter and carmelitan friar, and Lucrezia Buti, a nun, meet and fall in love while she poses as model for an altarpiece. Classic.

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- Sandra M. Gilbert

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he used to pray - alexis bates

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ALICENT HIGHTOWER + art (5/∞)

The Wedding Dress | Frederick William Elwell Interior Strandgade 30 | Vilhelm Hammershøi Bedroom. Interior, Woman at the Window | Vilhelm Hammershøi