#LOLITA

[griddleharkbrainrot]

I want to marry your sexy brain prev, God tier tlt take. Brb I gotta go reread Lolita and compare it to tlt, I have so many more analyses to do now!

I’m currently thinking about how John and Co. refused to call Alecto by her name. They named her fury and vengeance but could not acknowledge what made her thus. They call her Annie Laurie, reducing her to her looks, those so inhuman and frightening yet beautiful all the same. John gave her the name Annabel Lee, naming her existence as a tragedy in that she was his love lost. In both instances the literary references reduce the woman mentioned to nothing but set dressing for the man of the story and it truly betrays John’s thoughts on Alecto for as much as he claimed to love her, he sees her only as the stepping stone for his own story. “For John so loved her that he had made her she. For John had loved the world.” And that is the crux of the matter, John had loved the world but she is not the world, she is its fury. John wanted her to be calm beaches and lapping waves, he wanted a wife, sister, mother, and daughter all in one, but instead, he got 7 million silenced voices crying out in agony, furious at the injustice done to them. I think subconsciously he understood that when he named her Alecto, fury of wrath from Greek Mythology. But even if he had called her Gaia she would still be furious, for was it not Gaia who gave her children the scythe to kill her husband? Was it not Gaia who roared and shrieked to the depths of Tartarus when her children were torn from her arms? The first bearer of prophecy was forged from the grief and rage of an anguished mother; the earth has always been furious. John’s fatal flaw was that he could not comprehend that the rage was for him. He who promised love and safety but cut and stripped her soul stole her children and butchered her corpse. John could never truly comprehend that what he deemed his perfect creation could resent him the way she did. He took her away and reforged her into something she could never be. John denies the resentment Alecto feels for him and we can see this reflected in how he refers to her. John is the sort of man who thinks that if he sees a woman as nothing but her looks, he can make her lesser. To him, she is Annie Laurie of beautiful bust and a personality nonexistent; To him, she is Annabel Lee, a woman so pure and lovely that the angels stole her away from him. Subconsciously, the lyctors have adopted this as well, calling her these names out of fear and not realizing the implications of what they are doing. Even in writing, she is A.L. to them because somewhere deep down they know that to name her wrath is to invite it and invoke it. John believed that if he could compress the Earth into a beautiful shell then he could control it. The Earth has been around for far longer than he could ever truly comprehend, and she is furious.

For @commanderbabygirl thoughts?

I did not realize just how many opinions I had on this until I started typing

[pokemonlolitaproject]

Our next coord is inspired by Pokemon #269 Dustox

[j-fashion-wearer-otd]

Today's J-fashion wearer is Candy Swirl from Cafe on Crepe Island! She wears sweet girly and sweet lolita!

[lovecraftian-lolita]

My outfit from last night! 🍓 🍫

[butterflyangel2002]

They’re so cute!!!💕🌸🥹 🐇

bunny-chan knitted hair accessories (2009)

[colinarmistead]

the new madoka lolita dresses are so crazy cute, had to draw them in their respective dresses

[naturalbeautygaines]

[animentality]

[whizpurr]

[aishabellasbigblogofeverything]

Prev tags by @bauliya. Excellent addition! Couldn’t have said it any better myself! 🤗

she’s dead and she’s seventeen. that’s all we know about her before and after him: dead, seventeen, killed on christmas day. she’s survived by a baby girl (similarly dead) and the story of the man who abused her. we feel bad but we open his book again and again and again to force her to die again and be born again and live again, splayed out in excruciating detail, a creature to marvel at and for the better of the readers, to pity, not to save. aged twelve to seventeen. that’s all that exists of her. that’s all she’ll ever be.

[arrowmarrow]

Watch my 9mm go BANG! 🎶

[j-fashion-wearer-otd]

Today's J-fashion wearer is Charlotte from Crush Crush! She wears gothic lolita!

[homeofdoll]

ID: 951636790

[cadaverette]

a milk chan png i made for u all to enjoy

[corpsedoll111]

𝗴𝗼𝗿𝗴𝗲𝗼𝘂𝘀 𝗚𝗮𝗯𝗯𝗿𝗶𝗲𝘁𝘁𝗲𝘀 𝗯𝗶𝗿𝘁𝗵𝗱𝗮𝘆 ༯❥༯ ⚰︎

🍷🕸️🍴🦇

[euniearts]

🐻 Molly in lolita fashion! (for anon)

( like what you see? i've got commissions open! )