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i know what some words mean

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Night of the Lepus | 1972 | dir. William F. Claxton

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“What if I write it and it’s bad-”

WHAT IF YOU WRITE IT AND ITS GOOD? WHAT IF YOU WRITE IT AND ITS EXACTLY WHAT YOU WANTED? WHAT THEN????

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Morgan Dante, Providence Girls (2023) / John William Waterhouse, Miranda (1916) / Simone de Beauvoir, a letter to Nelson Algren (1949)

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before the teeth

(nature chews on me)

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Everyone clap for non consensual body modification everybody loves a character whose body has been altered against their will

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haha. yeah

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Eye movement during MRI

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Acrylic painting by Wilqkuku

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Night Terrors, illustration by Justin O’Neal on Instagram

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me, struggling to write: hmm, this part is a little difficult. maybe i should check my planning document, which i created as a helpful tool for my writing process!

the planning document:

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Ah, fuck the hollow faced girl is back. She hangs around the cemetery in Newington sometimes. She makes my skin crawl.

You can see straight through her face into a well shaft of darkness falling and falling away to a spark of light far in the distance

She never speaks, just eyelessly stares. And if you're not careful about staring back that little spark can catch your eye

and you too will be falling and falling in that endless black towards a spark that never grows any bigger just falling and falling and

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Laura and her vampire, from the Carmilla Illuminated Edition, by hirosemaryhello

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Joseph Hémard (1880 - 1961)

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writers be like; anyone gonna write this story? and then not wait for an answer. and then not write it either

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Quick Hint for how to engage with Gothic Horror

Don't judge the characters for their actions. Like, just don't. You'll end up in a moral swamp if you do. You'll start measuring the bad and that's not great.

Judge the characters for their justifications. Judge them for their ability to change.

Gothic literature asks you to explore the psychology and macabre of humanity. Horror asks you to explore the darkness and limits of it. Together they ask you to explore the darkness and limits of our minds, and the horrors that live there.