Pushing Up Daisies

Cacoethes Scribendi Gothic with an affinity for the dead Mad Scientist/Doctor Enthusiast

[raviollies]

Carmilla

[goth-queen]

[vamp-orwave]

Instagram article from Fifty Shades of Gay

[ilovemesomevincentprice]

Vincent Price interview on the set of The Masque of the Red Death (1964)

[sncrlynwtms]

fandom etiquette as a whole died when people who didn’t grow up on fandoms became stans during lockdown, yes, but why am i seeing people openly mocking fics on twitter. why am i seeing screenshots of fics with captions like “bro what is this 😭.” why am i seeing people mock fic writers for not knowing how sports or theater or college or any other organization operates in the real world.

“college is absolutely nothing like this” “why are we writing four people on the team scoring a hat trick in one game” “so tech work is nothing like this, hope that helps!”

if you don’t like a fic, and if you can’t suspend your belief enough to enjoy a fic that exaggerates or ignores real-world orgs, you don’t have to read it. you don’t have to screenshot it and put it on blast for twitter. you don’t have to post a link to it in the replies. the back button is literally there on your phone. it’s not giving baby’s first fandom anymore, it’s giving entitled asshole and it isn’t as cute as you think it is.

[hangsawoman]

journeys end in lovers meeting; i have spent an all but sleepless night, i have told lies and made a fool of myself, and the very air tastes like wine. i have been frightened half out of my foolish wits, but i have somehow earned this joy; i have been waiting for it for so long. btw. if you even care.

[adorkastock]

heckin' WINGS 👼🏻✨

[artthatremindsmeofhannibalnbc]

Fábio Magalhães, Trouxa III (Allusive to Artur Barrio), 2013 Oil on canvas

[sourdough-seal]

most important part of the writing process actually is when you loop a single song on max volume and stare at the word document and imagine the characters doing things for 14 hours. this is known as getting in the zone

[aphractal2]

teeth?

im open to suggestions for more of these! i wish i had more time for the concept this week :/

[poetic-poltergeist]

“Sickness follows their every step, its blackened fingers grasping at their clothing and tugging at their lungs. Why aren’t they scared? Do they not see the bodies piling in the street?”

[poetic-poltergeist]

“The dead man was still sitting there, too, and in the sunlight now. How horrible that was! Such hideous things were for the darkness, not for the day.”

The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

[poetic-poltergeist]

Phantom of the Opera (1943) poster depicting a map of the Palais Garnier

[poetic-poltergeist]

“It was from within, apparently, that the foulness and horror had come. Through some strange quickening of inner life the leprocies of sin were slowly eating the thing away. The rotting of a corpse in a watery grave was not so fearful.”

The Portrait of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

[the1920sinpictures]

1916 Bushwick Avenue looking north to Powers Street, Brooklyn. From New York City-Vintage History, FB.

[poetic-poltergeist]

“Death stalks the bloody streets of your plague bound city. Yet, you pretend you cannot feel his rotting breath or icy grip.”

[the1920sinpictures]

1922 c. A young fisherman on the banks of the Thames River describes the size of his catch to a police officer. From Old London Photos, FB.