#slugproclaims

[sluggishgoreman]

*Goes to the pissing myself off account*

*looks inside*

*gets pissed off*

When will I learn to stop doing this

[sluggishgoreman]

First ever concert and I'm weak in the knees

[sluggishgoreman]

I love it when people put a space in the word myself because it makes you so. Hyper-aware of the word's meaning?

Yeah I have to drive my Self home. Sorry man I can't do that to my Self anymore. I just wanna be by my Self. Like It's a physical thing I'm carrying around on a leash.

Mmy Self #MySelf

[sluggishgoreman]

I've made a reference to the cask of amontillado before in the past but it really is my favorite poe short story just because it's so fucking fascinating. Montresor is such a creature. He hates Fortunado enough to kill him but then he also still calls him his friend when he recounts the tale 50 years later (and seems to think there's respectable aspects about him?) and has all these ambiguous moments of hesitation near the end, where you can tell that fortunado sounding sad and hopeless and unlike himself plus then not responding fucks with him a little, but never fucks with him enough to not go through with it.

I like it because it makes Montresor feel strangely human despite the fact he's literally burying a guy alive, and the entire story speaks to the fact that he's cold and calculating in exacting his revenge but then things like these still get to him despite everything. The fact that he has those human moments makes it honestly more disturbing.

The part where he tries to outscream fortunado really has me thinking for some reason. I don't know if this was the intended interpretation? but it feels to me almost as if he can't allow fortunado to have even this one moment of expressing his anguish outwardly because he considers his own more important. It feels like it's him going mask off and expressing his true resentment for a moment, and he quite literally silences fortunado by doing so.

It's literally never said what Fortunado did, it's implied to be bad to cause such a vendetta but for all we know he could have just insulted montresor's furniture or something (because well. Murderers don't tend to have very proportionate reactions in the first place and Montresor is an unreliable narrator). Which makes it all the more morbidly funny to me but also speaks to what is very much part of the point, that Montresor's murder of this man is far from justified and was always going to be.

Something I also like is the many MANY opportunities Montresor gives the guy to turn back that he denies, which he is in part giving because he is a prime user of reverse psychology (he does this with his servants too technically) but in part because giving those outs falls under his revenge, because he wants to make Fortunado dig himself further into his own grave and make him feel like an idiot for his arrogance.

This man is such a resentful little hater. I love the telltale heart too for the same reason where the protagonist is just the worst most un selfaware individual.

[sluggishgoreman]

I just sent an email

[sluggishgoreman]

Oh I'm so going to yell at this man when class is over

[sluggishgoreman]

I'M DONEEEEEEEE

[sluggishgoreman]

I went to the hairdressers today and the woman doing my hair parted it so diagonally and for a second there the thought

"oh fuck she's prepping the Henry Ledore cut"

Flashed through my mind