#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

[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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[hedyylamarr]

Bluebeard's Eighth Wife (1938)

- dir. Ernst Lubitsch

[branwinged]

so. jon being canonically trapped in a bluebeard narrative as bluebeard's final wife, i.e. jonah's final archivist —

Excerpts from The Bloody Chamber, by Angela Carter and MAG 167 // MAG 1 // MAG 92 // MAG 125 // MAG 127 // MAG 158 // MAG 160 // MAG 67 // MAG 40

[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

[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

[wanna-bee]

sakura 🌸 through the eras