#bluebeard's wife

[pesky--dust]

Honestly, to this day I'm incredibly amused by the fact that Will is called Hannibal's husband, bride, and wife, and he is most outraged by being called Hannibal's murder husband.

I understand that he was called a bride and wife in private, and the text about murder husbands was published in the media, so he has every right to be outraged about the slander, but it's still so funny.

[daily-rayless]

finishing old art: Bluebeard's wife

[katlimeart]

Mario girls cosplaying as Bluebeard's wife from various animated sources

Sophie (Manga Sekai Mukashi Banashi/World Fairytale Masterpieces/Tales of Magic)

2 - 5. Josephine (Grimm's Fairy Tale Classics)

[stromuprisahat]

Started reading The Bloody Chamber, love how the girl's like:

I wanna fuck this old man!

Yeah , give me gothic heroine, who's allowed to be innocent, young and horny af!

His three wives died, he wants to marry me only few month after the last one did? So what? Do you have any idea how frustrating is he keeps teasing me and won't bed me?! And once he does, he leaves for work!

[howifeltabouthim]

No one had ever been interested in her for herself, as the vibrant, fascinating woman she knew herself to be. In the mirror Beaumont held up to her, she was beautiful, alluring, amusing, and bewitching.

Anna Biller, from Bluebeard's Castle

[zoirohs]

BLUEBEARD'S EIGHTH WIFE (1938) — dir. Ernst Lubitsch

[kiwicidios]

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[thegoatsongs]

#he's the pale rider he's the angel of death he's fire and ice

#backing up a bit he's also STRONGLY PARALLELED by Renfield who also dies [in his place] #also early death flags / mortality coding when he talks about the Ghost of Hamlet's Father #(the deadest guy in the mortality play) #and Scheherezade #(the prisoner under sentence of death who prolongs her life with narrative) #he's also the Sleepiest Boy and Sleep = Death

hdu hide those in the tags

But yes psychopomp Jonathan Harker

and if I could edit reblogged posts

🏴 Strongly paralleled by Renfield and Lucy

🏴 Progressively resembles Dracula, a man who should have been dead

🏴 Likens himself to Hamlet, like Lucy likens herself to Ophelia

🏴 Faints as much as Lucy sleepwalks, Sleep is Death's twin

I wanted to do a list of death flags that each Dracula character had, minus "doomed by the narrative" Lucy, but once I started with Jonathan it already got too long despite trimming it... So here's a list of how death-bound Jonathan is, will make a different one for all the others

J Harker's Mortality-coding

🏴 “The first [letter] should be June 12, the second June 19, and the third June 29.” I know now the span of my life. - He extends his life span beyond June 29, when he was supposed to die.

🏴 Dracula, a dead man, wears his clothes, bringing death.

🏴 I determined that if Death came he should find me ready.

🏴 Becomes the chief mourner of his father figure, later of his wife.

🏴 Dracula took lives on land and sea because of his actions.

🏴 I would sell my soul to do it.

🏴 May God judge me by my deserts, and punish me - He's the only one who asks for divine punishment for his actions.

🏴 Physically "transforms" into an old man overnight.

🏴 I said farewell to Mina, a parting which neither of us shall forget to our dying day.

🏴 Vows to follow Mina to eternal undeath.

🏴 The only one shown writing his Will, the only one whose Will we know the contents of.

🏴 Described while hunting as dark, cold, silent- while the men with him are called fervent, lively, and excited.

🏴 Declares We should stand or fall by our act - and that he is ready to face the gallows.

🏴 Mina: It took all my courage to say good-bye to my darling. We may never meet again.

🏴 Returns to the place where he was condemned to die, on a boat on a dark river.

🏴 Three times he writes goodbye, three times heading to his likely death.

[summertimenoir]

Bluebeard's Eighth Wife (1938) - dir. Ernst Lubitsch

[anony-geist]

Jonathan Harker and Doomed Bride imagery:

-Lenore (May 4th-5th): Directly referenced ('Denn die Todten reiten schnell') on the carriage ride on St. George's Eve, when evil surfaces. Jonathan, covered with flowers and a crucifix, rides with his own disguised Death all night to arrive at his octagonal room and bed, like Lenore who is supposedly led to her marriage bed, which is actually her tomb. Death and the maiden.

-Shahrazad (May 7th-8th): Jonathan, after engaging Dracula in telling him his history, says that his diary resembles the beginning of Arabian Nights. The story's heroine, Shahrazad, is the new bride of a cruel vizier who kills his own wives (on their wedding night). She distracts his wrath and delays her own doom by engaging him in storytelling. She is meant to be the next victim, once he is done with her.

An obvious parallel is May 8th, but that night it's Dracula who speaks. Jonathan is the one who normally tells stories every night, until dawn. “Why, there is the morning again!” Dracula says. Jonathan says that this nocturnal existence has been taking a toll on him.

One thing is for certain. Like her, Jonathan is next.

-Bluebeard's Bride (May 7th+May 12+May 15): Not directly referenced in the novel, however, Jonathan bears a strong resemblance to Bluebeard's new bride being warned by her lord husband to never open a forbidden room in his mansion. She disobeys and enters it. She finds the corpses of his old brides, like trophies, which he had killed. She, again, is meant to be next.

Jonathan gets warned three times and indeed disobeys, opens the room, and finds (un)dead women who the Count once loved. We find out he is to be the fourth eternally entrapped victim in their company.

Two of these stories feature a powerful noble with a brand new wife he intends to kill, like his previous ones. In both stories she delays her fate by being diplomatic and playing along for survival. Two have the theme of execution on their wedding bed. As intimate as a bite on the throat on their final night.

[bu99erfly]

KAZUHA UNFORGIVEN, 2023

[nalyra-dreaming]

Hello. I was reading some folktales and came across Bluebeard, the story of a rich man named Bluebeard who kidnaps/marries a young woman and gives her his castle, forbidding the access to only one room. She goes into the room and discovers the corpses of all the previous wives of Bluebeard. When he comes back he tries to kill her but she uses religion and pray as her last wish, and then is saved by her older brothers. She survives and marries a man she actually loves.

Am I… am I the only one who finds the similarities to Lestat and Magnus’ story creepy asf? Especially since she managed to survive Bluebeard’s attack through religion and the love of her brothers, while Lestat was left by both…

I know the story. It IS creepy AF.

And... no coincidence, I bet.

Also - in the story, she finds Bluebeard's previous SIX wives... Lestat was held for a week in the show (aka the seventh) - and Lestat was also the seventh son.

I... would not be surprised if the show would take these connections up, visually, too. I mean, we have seen the "dungeon"... and the manacles.

I wouldn't be surprised if it will be a lot more... graphic next season.

[prophetmutual]

im being so so serious. this is the most important shot in breaking bad. to me

[rearranging-deck-chairs]

13 comparing yaz to river is actually so funny when you think abt it bc yeah she has been treating yaz like theyre married: flying the tardis together, disappearing repeatedly and never knowing when youre gonna see her again, waiting until the last possible moment when you already know one of you is gonna die to let you know she likes you back. like yaz has totally been getting the spouse treatment. unfortunately being the doctor's wife fucking sucks