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Am I a Bad Subject?
✦ not participating is not the same as failing ✦
✦ ᛉ ᚨ ᚷ ᛟ ✦
I start wondering if this is on me.
Maybe I’m doing it wrong.
Maybe I’m trying too hard.
Maybe I should relax harder.
That sentence alone feels suspicious.
Everyone else seems to “get it.”
Drop.
Float.
Go somewhere.
I stay.
Awake doesn’t feel wrong.
It just feels…
intact.
Maybe I’m not a bad subject.
Maybe I’m just not a subject.
✦ᛉᛋᛇ✦
What the Gothic does is to take the ordinary stuff of our ordinary lives – our clothes, books, houses, toys, bodies, and so on – and overwhelm us with them by giving them uncanny life, making them seem hateful and wrong: the ordinary made ominous. This is the menace of the Gothic, as well as its profundity: It asserts that the world is not some passive substrate to be acted upon by human beings who are in control of everything; instead, the Gothic shows us the thing-power and place-power of the world.
—Gothic Things
Peter Rehberg - Liminal States
“Specter Bridegroom” narratives in folk ballads (…) generally serve as warnings against either being tricked by spirits or letting one’s grief lead to one’s own death.
—The Gothic Library
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Gothic animals can be made more uncanny with taxidermy, and apart from purely aesthetic uses, they are a common expression of the Beast side of the Man-Beast dichotomy of human nature.
—TVTropes
