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[gothicseverance]

A good portion of the ‘Gothic-ness’ to be found in a text is represented not by dungeons and shadows and dark secrets, but by the petty tyrannies imposed on a quiescent populace to keep it conformist, and by the foolish, blind and often senseless acceptance on the part of particular characters in Gothic texts of an apparently common frame of reference.

—Poe and the Gothic of the Normal

[severance-official]

Tag yourself.

[Image ID: A high resolution recreation of “Eagan Bingo” written on ink-stained blue paper. In a four-by-four grid of squares, reads the following items “wax tears, monocle, monogrammed pen, picture of child with rickets, prominent wax bulge, ‘erection’ used in construction sense, lumon referred to as ‘she’, nine core values, four temples referenced, lumon will save the world, unexplained eagan death, lock of old hair, eagan depicted with halo, dueling, ‘goodliness’ referenced, and passive aggressive shit talking of ambrose” End ID]

[gothicseverance]

The imprisoning house of Gothic fiction has from the very beginning been that of patriarchy, in both its earlier and its expanded feminist senses.

—The Oxford Book of Gothic Tales

[gothicseverance]

Fathers become obscure fantasy figures.

—Gothic Fantasy and Female “Bildung”

[gothicseverance]

Humoral theory was one of the central principles in Western medicine from antiquity through the 19th century.(…) The human body was thought to contain a mix of the four humors: black bile (also known as melancholy), yellow or red bile, blood, and phlegm.(…) The humors were also used to refer to four individual psychological temperaments: melancholic, sanguine, choleric, and phlegmatic.

—Humoral Theory

[explodinggirl]

[gothicseverance]

The Uncanny is anything that is familiar to us but somehow off.

—TVTropes

[gothicseverance]

The formula for the Gothic novel functions at the level of particular more or less obligatory scenes.

—The Coherence of Gothic Conventions