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Mr. Brocklehurst: And how will you avoid Hell?

Ten year-old Jane Eyre: I must keep in good health and not die.

*uproar*

Ten year-old Jane Eyre:

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Huysburg Benedictine Abbey, Germany

Photos by Uwe Gaasch

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Detail “Venus Verticordia’ Dante Gabriel Rossetti,painted about 1863-68.

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i was meant to be someones spoiled and mischievous house cat

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Diversity win! Ancestral curse recognises non-biological parenthood!

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A fragment from this latest draft: “Did you think that when you kill a beast, all the life leaves its body at once?”

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Thames Estuary, 1994–95

Michael Andrews (1928-1995)

Oil and mixed media on canvas

Pallant House Gallery, Chichester

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menelaus and helen // rupert brooke

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The Diary of Anaïs Nin, 1934–1939

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drafted questions to send out to another interviewee

read more of Empty Theatre & Lud-in-the-Mist & started London: A Biography, which is phenomenal so far. Loving all of these but feeling the urge to take a break for a comfort-read. I’m excited about all the projects I’m working on that involve what I’m reading (interview, fantasy politics essay, novel research) & would read each book anyway, for fun, but sometimes the pressure of Needing to Know What To Think or Say about this can puncture the pleasure of just enjoying it. Maybe a quick break for The Thief or Peter Wimsey can cure that.

wrote so much! have almost filled up my notebook & typed up a couple thousand good words from it. novel is hovering around 36,000 including both storylines/sections which feels close to the turning point where you finally build up some momentum and power through the horrible muck of the middle of the draft. so fingers crossed.

wandered across a Lamy store while walking yesterday & M got me a new pen w/ a converter & some more new ink so I can use potted ink and cartridges now. i love the way it writes—it’s a bit less inky than my other fountain pen, which still might be my favorite, but has a nice feel to it/drag on the page & will be better on thinner paper. I’ve loved getting really into the physical act of writing again & as mystical as it sounds I think it’s unlocked something in my brain as words have just come flooding lately when I hand-write vs. how blocked I feel when I look at a typed draft and try to work from there

going to finish writing some letters this week and mail them to friends! I’m obsessed w/ the stationary I got & it’s felt so nice to try and exercise that long-dormant letter-writing muscle.

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the body snatcher is available on archive dot org for free btw! it’s a bit clunky in some parts but would highly recommend especially for the incredible lighting & ofc karloff’s performance

Ooh thank you, good to know!!

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there is a hart in forest and he holds the world in his crown

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“Yet Female Gothic is not only about victims. Just as significant, and driving, is the matter of women’s desire. And hence the great, enabling, ever-fascinating paradox of this form: what a woman most desires is what may kill her… and in fact it may be this very frisson of on-the-edge, risky transgression that she most desires.”

— Adrian Martin, Lady, Beware: Female Gothic Variations

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ELLEN HUTTER & THOMAS HUTTER NOSFERATU (2024)��— written & directed by Robert Eggers