[pmilkshake]

(after all these years I just found out that emily blunt played a toxic yuri character)

[movie-gifs]

If you leave me, I’ll kill you. My Summer of Love (2004) dir. Pawel Pawlikowski

[toxicgaysource]

If you leave me, I'll kill you... and then I'll kill myself. MY SUMMER OF LOVE (2004) dir. Paweł Pawlikowski

[thatartblog]

heartstrings I (2013) by selma alaçam

[yourgothicheroine]

The Handmaiden (2016) and Fingersmith (2005) parallels side by side

She moved her tongue. ‘I have a tooth, I think,’ she said, ‘with a point that cuts me.’

‘Let me see,’ I said. I took her to the window and she stood with her face in my hands and let me feel about her gum. I found the pointed tooth almost at once.

[...] She looked at me, then opened her mouth again and I put the thimble on my finger and rubbed at the pointed tooth until the point was taken off. I had seen Mrs Sucksby do it many times, with infants.— Of course, infants rather wriggle about. Maud stood very still, her pink lips parted, her face put back, her eyes at first closed then open and gazing at me, her cheek with a flush upon it. Her throat lifted and sank, as she swallowed. My hand grew wet, from the damp of her breaths. I rubbed, then felt with my thumb. She swallowed again. Her eyelids fluttered, and she caught my eye.

— Fingersmith, Chapter IV

[yourgothicheroine]

soo happy seeing people's comments on my fingersmith gifs 🤧💞💞 i promise i'll make more gifs of susan and maud because i have like 400+ highlighted quotes from the book that make me lose my mind lol

[yourgothicheroine]

She moved her tongue. ‘I have a tooth, I think,’ she said, ‘with a point that cuts me.’ ‘Let me see,’ I said. I took her to the window and she stood with her face in my hands and let me feel about her gum. I found the pointed tooth almost at once. [...] She looked at me, then opened her mouth again and I put the thimble on my finger and rubbed at the pointed tooth until the point was taken off. I had seen Mrs Sucksby do it many times, with infants.— Of course, infants rather wriggle about. Maud stood very still, her pink lips parted, her face put back, her eyes at first closed then open and gazing at me, her cheek with a flush upon it. Her throat lifted and sank, as she swallowed. My hand grew wet, from the damp of her breaths. I rubbed, then felt with my thumb. She swallowed again. Her eyelids fluttered, and she caught my eye.

— Fingersmith, Chapter IV

[yourgothicheroine]

I had never seen her naked, I was embarrassed. Today I can say that it was the embarrassment of gazing with pleasure at her body, [...] I washed her with slow, careful gestures, first letting her squat in the tub, then asking her to stand up: I still have in my ears the sound of the dripping water, and the impression that the copper of the tub had a consistency not different from Lila’s flesh, which was smooth, solid, calm. I had a confusion of feelings and thoughts: embrace her, weep with her, kiss her, pull her hair, laugh, pretend to sexual experience and instruct her in a learned voice, distancing her with words just at the moment of greatest closeness.

— My Brilliant Friend, Chapter 57

[yourgothicheroine]

North and south & Pride and Prejudice parallels : ending scenes

“Oh, my Margaret - my Margaret! no one can tell what you are to me! Dead - cold as you lie there, you are the only woman I ever loved! Oh, Margaret - Margaret!”

— North and South, Chapter XXII

“In vain have I struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you.”

— Pride and Prejudice, Chapter XI

[yourgothicheroine]

North and south & Pride and Prejudice parallels : first meet

(...) But there is one of her sisters sitting down just behind you, who is very pretty, and I dare say, very agreeable. Do let me ask my partner to introduce you.”

“Which do you mean?” and turning round, he looked for a moment at Elizabeth, till catching her eye, he withdrew his own and coldly said, “She is tolerable; but not handsome enough to tempt me.” — Pride and Prejudice, Chapter III

And what is your correspondent, Mr Thornton, like?' (...)

'Oh! I hardly know what he is like,' said Margaret, lazily; too tired to tax her powers of description much. And then rousing herself, she said, 'He is a tall, broad-shouldered man, 'About thirty - with a face that is neither exactly plain, nor yet handsome, nothing remarkable - not quite a gentleman, but that was hardly to be expected.' — North and South, Chapter VII

[mournfulroses]

Charles Baudelaire, from a letter to Caroline Aupick featured in The Selected Letters of Charles Baudelaire

[mournfulroses]

Emily Dickinson, from a letter to Susan Huntington featured in "Open Me Carefully: Emily Dickinson’s Intimate Letters to Susan Huntington Dickinson,"

[justpassingbys-stuff]

[ala-chrisgoods]

Day 5-Cassandra

[willsilvertongue]

Thornton smiling at/about Margaret

“Margaret liked this smile; it was the first thing she had admired in this new friend of her father’s; and the opposition of character, shown in all these details of appearance she had just been noticing, seemed to explain the attraction they evidently felt towards each other.” (Chapter X, Wrought Iron and Gold)

[luzelms]

AUBRI IBRAG as LIZZY ELMSWORTH in The Buccaneers 2.04 𐙚 "Ice Cream"

[yourgothicheroine]

North and south & Pride and Prejudice parallels : first meet

(...) But there is one of her sisters sitting down just behind you, who is very pretty, and I dare say, very agreeable. Do let me ask my partner to introduce you.”

“Which do you mean?” and turning round, he looked for a moment at Elizabeth, till catching her eye, he withdrew his own and coldly said, “She is tolerable; but not handsome enough to tempt me.” — Pride and Prejudice, Chapter III

And what is your correspondent, Mr Thornton, like?' (...)

'Oh! I hardly know what he is like,' said Margaret, lazily; too tired to tax her powers of description much. And then rousing herself, she said, 'He is a tall, broad-shouldered man, 'About thirty - with a face that is neither exactly plain, nor yet handsome, nothing remarkable - not quite a gentleman, but that was hardly to be expected.' — North and South, Chapter VII