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marzipanandminutiae · 2 years ago

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I remember when I first saw the movie (in theatres) and thought "ahhh, in the past the Transgressive Romance would have been gay, but that's not considered bad anymore so they made it incest instead! so clever!"

turns out I was underestimating both the gay subtext levels of Crimson Peak and the incest levels of classic gothic fiction

I spend so much time thinking about various combinations of how Edith and Lucille can do Gay Things

And I think I am not only correct but also sexy for this

#I still WANTED it to be gay; I just assumed I was reading too much into it #now having read more behind-the-scenes content...#no it's gay this is gay the Gay is coming from inside the rotting haunted house #incest mention #(also. Wuthering Heights. Fall of the House of Usher. Matilda- the one by Mary Shelley not the children's book. VERY different)#(Frankenstein has adopted siblings/bio-cousins in love)#(even Laura and Carmilla are technically distant cousins through Laura's mother)#(although that's a level of relation that wouldn't even raise eyebrows nowadays)

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