Jun 21
while i am here the more i see of the romanticisation (the ethelcainisation) of southern gothic/appalachian aesthetics online often by europeans and white people does make me wonder if any of those girls realise that the source of southern gothic horror for white people is The Sins of Their Fathers. Yes, the suffering haunts the land and surrounds us now, but where did the haunting come from? The horror from their perspective is what they're responsible for. For the rest of us, it's something else. I would even argue it just doesn't belong to them the same way. Which, yes, it doesn't belong in the same way to nonblack poc southerners either, but maybe what I mean by the same way in regards to white southerners is not really much at all.
#also i do feel strange about non-us southern white people getting obsessed with it at all but whatever#also i am writing this as someone who had ethel cain in my top 5 punish my top 1 like.. this is not hate#nor saying white people cannot explore those themes. but i'd like to see more aware exploring...#also nothing funnier than normal roads 2 you being tagged like Hell's Mouth Is Open And We Are Standing Inside It by people#who have apparently never seen a powerline before#anyway stream (read) tdwd (when it exists) (in one william years)#noa.txt
