#Morgan's shit-post

[vanitas-vanitatum-mortis]

My The Owl House phase is back

And as always, Lilith being my favourite character of the series kicked me the strongest

[drownthehatch]

[dragoncall]

So it’s been 15 years since S1 of merlin was first airing and here I am, unemployed, reblogging merlin content on tumblr and the Merlin twitter has randomly come alive again

life has come full circle

[hyperactivewhore]

Why does no one ever edit 1930 Klaus.

Have y'all seen his outfit? His hair? His rings?? Maybe it's me the weirdo who has an obsession with men wearing rings but I just have an obsession with the Mikaelson family especially Klaus.

[equus-cowboyus]

bro i can't finish anything rn i have like five billion wips so take tumblr screenshot redraw on tumblr

also ik that arthur always says john is the favourite and he probably was but like through out all of rdr2 dutch was fucking pissed at john 😭 like mean passive aggressive pissed. please understand my brain

[cosmichorrorlesbians]

what's your dissertation about? you mentioned it in the siltcord and i'm really interested

oh my god hey I'm so happy you're interested! broad strokes because I've only been working on it for a few weeks but: the current theme is 'resistant landscapes' (both man-made and natural) in the later writing of Shirley Jackson!

Essentially, my main thread is that Jackson had two parallel strands to her work, which as far as I can tell began kind of interrelated but then diverged quite significantly? She's probably best known now for The Haunting of Hill House and to a lesser extent We Have Always Lived In The Castle, which are these. weird surreal psychological horror novels, engaging explicitly or implicitly with the supernatural, and centred around introspective, strange and sometimes deeply misanthropic female characters from isolated social units with dysfunctional, possessive relationships to each other.

Aaaaand then on the other hand she was known for being a 'happy housewife' who wrote these whimsical, quasi-autobiographical stories about all her children and how hopeless her husband was. These were popular too. Betty Friedan called her out in landmark 1963 feminist manifesto The Feminine Mystique for essentially spreading patriarchal propaganda.

The interrelation between the two is really jarring, because in one family is a source of horror and tragedy and in the other it's a source of, like... laundry. And Jackson's home life wasn't everything those stories made it out to be-- her marriage was unfaithful, her mother could probably be fairly called emotionally abusive, and as I talked about on the siltcord, she developed severe agoraphobia which often left her housebound.

So, yeah. My plan is to explore the depiction of families as constructed social units in dialogue with the environments they are constructed in in that work. Obviously a lot of that is relation of house to family, in the context of which Hill House is especially rewarding to consider, but I also want to look at relationships with nature and urban environments (especially in the context of settler colonialism and how that has had an enduring legacy in Jackson's particular part of New England), xenophobia (largely in regard to class, though racism and anti-Semitism are presences in her writing), domesticity and the idea of the housewife, and how horror relates to All Of This. The ideal of making a home within a hostile environment and of that environment turning on you, essentially.

I don't yet have particular areas of focus within that broad umbrella, but I might update with bits and pieces about it as I work? I don't really talk about academic stuff on here but I am very much Critical Literary Analysis Guy and I do also post relentlessly about haunted houses as a concept so if people would be interested in it maybe I will

anyway if you've read this far I recommend Horror in Architecture: The Reanimated Edition (2024) by Joshua Comaroff and Ong Ker-Shing which is a book about how horror movie tropes can be mirrored in built environments! I'm reading it right now and it's conceptually fascinating plus fairlyyy comprehensible by academic standards (if a little dense) if you, like me, are a Fool who knows nothing of architecture. very good also for getting to look at pictures of some of the most Fucked Up Buildings (affectionate) you've ever seen.

[morgansplace]

mutuals who see me and go "lasko🫵" you will always be famous to me

[iknowwhereyousnoozeatnight]

an embrace in the garden

meronia event prompt(s): flower | heaven

[ironman-tonystark]

I'm hoping I can convince Morgan to leave whiskey with the cookies for Santa tonight because dairy really does not agree with me anymore.

[carsweirdness]

me and my sis started the anthrax ep on criminal minds yesterday. jj's going through it, the army took over the bau offices, shit's crazy.

[vanitas-vanitatum-mortis]

As far as I am not a fan of watching anime in English / any other language than Japanese (tho I must say that I love French dubbed Vanitas no Carte for some strange reason) I decided to make a rewatch of one of my fav series - Hellsing Ultimate - in, well, English (Integra's VA slayed ok?) and uhh... I forgot that I shouldn't watch first episode without headphones on. Or actually, entire series.

Please, Seras, I know you are in very bad situation bUT WHY ARE YOU MOANING, STOP IT.

I mean, there is few series that have very good ENG dub

For an example, I couldn't watch Great Pretender in JP because when they used English it sounded horrible. And in ENG version we literally have a moment when characters have Japanese lines from JP dub and everything else is in English that isn't so unnatural.

As far as I remember Baccano! is very nice in English.

Black Lagoon would be nice if not the fact they cut off the translation part in 2nd season? You know, Rock translating things when Balalaika negotiated etc.

SK8 the Infinity in English is just iconic.

There's probably more I just can't think of, lmao.

OHH AND YUUKOKU NO MORIARTY IN ENGLISH. That's some good stuff.

Tho I still prefer JP for their acting.

[bagelboys-withcreamcheese]

theayetrain on tiktok, not mine

[star-streaks]

Oh ourthur,,

[clamsjams]

anyone else get sad when ur reading a fic and koby is there but not helmeppo? like i know ur doing an au where koby joined luffy or whatever but like. that’s his buddy. do not separate

[hauntedtrait]

3rd trimester begins + baby shower time!