#carter’s words

[mournfulroses]

Angela Carter, from The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories; “The Erl-King,”

[shisasan]

Angela Carter, The Company of Wolves The bloody chamber, and other stories

[foldmorepaper]

[asoftepiloguemylove]

I WANNA BE HAUNTED / I WANNA BE LOVED

Richard Siken Wishbone // とつくにの少女 The Girl From the Other Side: Siúil, a Rún wr. Nagabe // Marina Tsvetaeva // Shirley Jackson The Haunting of Hill House // Fatima Aamer Bilal being unwanted is a language // Angela Carter The Company of Wolves // pinterest // Fariha Róisín How to Cure a Ghost // Morrissey in an interview with David Thomas // pinterest // Hanya Yanagihara A Little Life

[badstargateimagines]

Hehehe that is SO me when I hehehehe

[thoughtkick]

People like you hold their loved ones above ideals. They’ll do anything to protect them, no matter what it costs.

Aimée Carter

[grackleshells]

In the midst of all this amazing and highly anticipated Agatha hype; I feel it’s important to acknowledge another marvel character who also possessed intense homoerotic tension with her rival and neighbor,,, the og girl kisser herself,,, Dottie Underwood 💄

[turtleofdamascus]

Corporal K. Reitveld and Nurse Ghafa, 1917

Inspired by the beautiful fic save the undone years by Whitherward @whatanybodygets

" ... she only sits beside him on the wall, and looks out at the scrubby grass, and the birds, and the grey clouds, while he smokes his fill. And then she helps him get upright, and hands him his crutches, and walks beside him in watchful silence as he limps his way painfully back to the ward."

Saw this pic of nurse and soldier actually months ago in May and decided to draw it after beautiful chapter 2. Let's ignore that Kaz is supposed to be in pajamas. He looks great in uniform.

Bonus: process

[thehopefulquotes]

I think I want to be in love with you but I don’t know how.

Angela Carter // The Magic Toyshop

[perfectfeelings]

I will tell you what she was like. She was like a piano in a country where everyone has had their hands cut off.

Angela Carter

[mournfulroses]

Angela Carter, from The Collected Stories; "The Lady of the House of Love,"

[shisasan]

Angela Carter, The bloody chamber, and other stories

[perfectquote]

People like you hold their loved ones above ideals. They’ll do anything to protect them, no matter what it costs.

Aimée Carter

[euphoric-deadlights]

Sam and Jack - seeking comfort 🫂

[quotefeeling]

I think I want to be in love with you but I don’t know how.

Angela Carter // The Magic Toyshop

[vilecemetery]

I know the shadow and bone netflix show is packed with shitty stuff and dwelling on stupid little details is futile, but there’s a small rewording that really bothers me for some reason, and it’s in the “bathroom scene” when inej asks kaz what his tell is.

in the book, he says “I’m a cripple. no one bothers to look for the others.” but in the show, instead of saying cripple, he says “my limp, my cane.” and ik that’s probably just because the show writers were worried about ~cultural sensitivity~ and didn’t think dropping the slur would be a good idea, especially not from the mouth of a man who is not disabled, but it gets to me anyway. I’ve been surrounded by that word a lot growing up—I’ve seen my mother being called crippled (along with retarted and way worse) plenty of times, including by my own father, had friends and family make jokes containing that word if they got hurt or something, and seen it used wrong in media and the like.

when kaz said “when people see a cripple crossing the street, leaning on his cane, what do they feel?” I got that. when the ice court prisoner was saying “hey cripple. crip” but kaz was like he needn’t have bothered, he knew the word in plenty of languages, I felt that. so when he says “I’m a cripple, no one bothers to look for the others.” it’s not just that he’s saying a broken leg and walking stick=weakness in a way I think a lot of able bodied people think it is. he also has this understanding of how people see him because of his disability that goes way beyond the physical disability that’s super important to me. and idk, his ‘tell’ being reduced to just the limp and his mobility aid (physical impairment and stick he needs to walk with instead of a deeply ingrained cultural notion that people undermine him because of) shows in another smaller way exactly how the show writers see kaz’s disability—edgy character trait with quirky cool accessory. I think it just reminds me of how much of kaz’s identity the show stripped away with having this 30 year old able bodied man playing him and I’m just so so angry. like they do not get him at all.