Charley

28 ♤ bibliophile ♤ scorpio sun/scorpio rising ♏ ♤ left-handed artist ♤ sometimes I write ♤ RN 🩺♤

[scorpiowithabook]

Going to work as an introvert means waking up and facing my fears every day

[scorpiowithabook]

https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTd7vArcW/?k=1

[taylorswift]

It’s been one year since we escaped the real world together and imagined ourselves someplace simpler. With tall tall trees and salt air. Where you’re allowed to wear lace nightgowns that make you look like a Victorian ghost every day & no one will side eye you cause no one is around. It’s just you and your imaginary cabin and the stories you make up to pass the time. To say thank you for all you have done to make this album what it was, I wanted to give you the original version of The Lakes. Happy 1 year anniversary to Rebekah, Betty, Inez, James, Augustine, and the lives we all created around them. Happy Anniversary, folklore. 🌿

https://taylor.lnk.to/thelakesoriginal

[tessasclockworkangel]

Sometimes I think that I could be the beautiful sword wielding girl with a dark past then I have the misfortune of remembering that I'm a fucking nerd who uses books as escapism.

[thegothicalice]

Summer vamp 🧛🏼‍♀️🥀 Hat by Blackwood Castle, shoes by Strangecvlt, everything else thrifted.

[valtsv]

anxiety is so stupid it's like your brain went hey how would you like to experience what it feels like to be a terrified prey animal. you can never turn this ability off btw.

[thegothicalice]

🧚‍♀️🌸💐

[dismembered-narrator]

so ive been reading frankenstein and thinking about how victor's physical state emaciates as he creates the monster, which is kind of like him giving his own life to create another, BUT his appearance could also be deteriorating so he looks more and more like the monster, and i want someone to make a movie or tv show where, by the end of it, we can hardly tell victor and the creation that he so despises apart

[homunculus-argument]

Apparently people who don't have executive dysfunction think that actually working on something is the hardest part of doing something. And that's why they get mad that you call the rest of the project "easy" after you've finally worked through doing the plan and know what to do when you're working.

So when you're through with the epiphany of how to make it physically possible to make the thing you're making, and you're sharing the plan with excitement, because the hard part is over, and now you only have to get your hands moving and do it, they get mad at you like

"it's not that easy! It's a lot of hard work! >:C"

they mean it, because

to them, working is the hardest part.

They don't have to fight their brains to get started. They don't have to fight their way through making the choices, making the plan, making yourself make the thing. People who don't suffer from executive dysfunction think that the hardest part is actually doing the thing.

[jumpingjacktrash]

when you have executive dysfunction, it’s like... you’ve just clawed your way up a long steep embankment of loose gravel, and you flop exhausted into the construction site, and you’re like “oh thank fuck, time to lay some bricks, i absolutely could do this all day” and the guy who drove to the site goes “what’s wrong with you man bricklaying is hard graft!”

not as hard as crawling up the gravel mountain bro

[roach-works]

there’s also good hard and bad hard. doing the thing might be hard, but at least you’re doing it; it’s good hard. just getting to the thing in the first place is hard and it’s fucking miserable. executive dysfunction puts so many bad hard things in your way before you can get to even the good hard things.

[thegothicalice]

Another day of glamour with no event to go to 🔮Everything vintage.

[liliumsmangacaps]

[bebx]

my forever mood

[anxietyproblem]

[book-with-stories]

Houses, like people, are apt to become rather eccentric if left too much on their own; this house was the architectural equivalent of an old gentleman in a worn dressing-gown and torn slippers, who got up and went to bed at odd times of day, and who kept up a continual conversation with friends no one else could see.

“Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell”- Susanna Clarke

[thehauntingsource]

Kate Siegel photographed for The Haunting of Bly of Manor (Elle Magazine, November 2020)

[atreides]

“Crimson Peak, and Edith herself, originate from books. Books, in particular, written by women. Young women. Girls, almost – girls like Edith. Mary Shelley, Ann Radcliffe, Daphne Du Maurier, and of course the Bronte sisters; Gothic romance has, since its conception, been the arena of female imagination. Of course men have written in the Gothic mode, but they tend to write a different type. In fact, scholars of the genre consider the line between Gothic romance and Gothic horror to be a gendered one. Where women tend to write stories of social oppression and interpersonal horror, men write ones where the supernatural is actually real, and actually the sinister force at work. There are many theories as to why this is the case. I favour a simple one: women have long had a great deal of very real things to fear; they do not need to make up ghosts and monsters to menace them.”

— Jacqui Deighton, “I Don’t Want To Close My Eyes: Edith Cushing, Crimson Peak, and Gothic Girlhood” on Shakespeare and Punk. Keep up with her column, GIRLisms, here.  (via shakespeareandpunk)

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