#academia gothic

[fursasaida]

i love having two email addresses because sometimes an evil publishing conglomeration has incomprehensible, time-limited policies for verifying that you should be allowed access to their stuff, and if you go wrong at any point you cannot start over or receive any help, so. boop. hello I am someone else now yes this is my real moustache--

oh great I just got told my literal job offer letter isn’t sufficient proof. we live in hell

[daily-spooky]

[mollybeenoel]

Source: poeticalphotos

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Art by Essi Välimäki

[becomingvecna]

— David Cronenberg, Consumed

[vanalex]

[landsccape]

[ur-daily-inspiration]

[120daysofsodomm]

[diaryofaphilosopher]

"The shift from the Afro-Caribbean zombie to the U.S. zombie is clear: in Caribbean folklore, people are scared of becoming zombies, whereas in U.S. narratives people are scared of zombies. This shift is significant because it maps the movement from the zombie as victim (Caribbean) to the zombie as an aggressive and terrifying monster who consumes human flesh (U.S.). In Haitian folklore, for instance, zombies do not physically threaten people; rather, the threat comes from the voduon practice whereby the sorcerer (master) subjugates the individual by robbing the victim of free will, language and cognition. The zombie is enslaved."

— Justin D. Edwards, "Mapping Tropical Gothic in the Americas" in Tropical Gothic in Literature and Culture.

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[spookyasmr]

[fursasaida]

Dr Majed Halawi, who I have cited a lot, apparently read my very first real conference paper, from my MA, like from 2015, that's up on academia dot edu and I'd like to formally enter into the record that not only that website but in fact the whole internet was a mistake

[daily-spooky]

[mollybeenoel]

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Wounds of the Earth

— by xis.lanyx

[becomingvecna]

Art by The Unclean