#down a dark hall

[fanofspooky]

Scream Queen - Isabelle Fuhrman

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DOWN A DARK HALL (2018) - Directed by Rodrigo Cortés

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[saint-starflicker]

About the options: These are all Dark Academia but with girls, or related to that. (My definition of Dark Academia because really anything gets tagged that: as a genre fiction piece it must be dark and it must be academic. Dark, meaning involving death or themes of oppression or evil in the human heart; Academic meaning there is a focus of study, recurring reference to a subject of study, or more simply that most of the story takes place at a campus or schoolhouse of some sort.)

Wide Sargasso Sea is—apparently—a 1960's feminist and postcolonial retelling of boarding-school-girl-turned-governess Jane Eyre, but this time told from the point of view of Bertha Antoinette. (I have just finished reading Jane Eyre and wondered about what other works with which this book is already in a sort of literary "conversation". I have not read this book.)

Down a Dark Hall is a 1974 young adult gothic story about—judging from the movie—five girls sent to an exclusive boarding school where supernatural experiments in ghost possession are done on them. (I recently watched the movie and have not yet read the book.)

Picnic at Hanging Rock is a 1967 historical fiction story that takes place in the year 1900 in southeast Australia, also has mystery and—it seems, depending on how many chapters in the edition—science fiction elements. (I recently watched the 1975 movie and the 2018 miniseries, and have not yet read the book.)

Cracks by Sheila Kohler is a 1999 novel that takes place in a girls' boarding school in 1960s South Africa. (I only watched the movie, which set the story in Britain in the 1930s instead and eliminated the 1990's flashfoward. I have not yet read the book.)

I have already both read The Moth Diaries by Rachel Klein and watched the 2011 movie adaptation, and I recommend both if you like Dark Academia that's about girls—even though, be warned, The Moth Diaries contains a lot more blood and death and intensely feelbad themes than the average Dark Academia book or movie.

[sleepycoffins-and-benhargreeves]

gonna rewatch marimite because yuri feels babie

i should make a cross over of marimite and down a dark hall

[tctmp]

Drama  Fantasy  Horror

[fridaydevils]

DONT BE AFRAID, I DIDNT MEAN TO SCARE YOU…. SO HELP ME, JESUS…

[drawbauchery]

Part 2 ✌️

screaming part 2

guys. everyone. look

[wikitpowers]

anybody remember this? because i do :’(

(my heart is breaking just a little… okay a lot)

[varilien]

Not a horror movie, but SOMA is a really good game that could work for a heartbreaking Trigun AU. For an actual movie rec, Dark Water (2002) is a good one.

okay forgive me because i've seen the remake of dark water from 2005 n while i imagine there are some significant differences between iterations, i'm gonna say i get the gist of it, but.

so i realize i've never actually spoken at length about my own trigun college au over here and since the fic is in my drafts indefinitely this is WILDLY out of context but like. i never actually landed on a backstory for vash and knives, i figure that true to canon vash has a lot of holes in his memory and knives won't fill those in for him so this sort of thing wouldn't really come up in the story, and as far as vash is aware life might as well have started when rem adopted them

it's nicer than knowing, anyways

[joelletwo]

[Collapsed on my desk] 70 file edits by myself while half of our system was down and i was hunting down a rogue fax number. Finally caught up

[historyartthings]

Tumblr has sabotaged me and utterly ruined the timing of this by not allowing you to upload two videos at once, so I’m forced to just link it

But this:

Immediately reminded me of this (if you skip to 45 seconds in):

[ravhjarta]

for a child— if one allows the awareness of such entities as guardian angels to be true, then the child MUST, as it is contingent, allow for evil to be real as well. For the sublime world of the good and miraculous necessitates the dark, scary walk down the hall each night.

Jenny Boully, from The Body: An Essay

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Me: (trying to explain Rise of the Brave Tangled Frozen Dragons and SuperWhoLock to somebody)

My Brain: If We Were Bare Poets Fraternity Cyclone Moth History Club

Me:

[polysyndetonaddictsupportgroup]

holy fuck, this gives the zenin so much more lore than what we got in the manga. like the potential is right there to have this great inter-clan generational dispute and cold war but gege just breezes past it and then gets rid of it completely.

with all this cool new shut we’re getting about them, im almost glad that megumi was born a boy. like could you imagine just how much worse the zenin would have been to him if he was a girl? they already have the whole misogyny thing going for them and then their version of jesus pops up and it turns out that it’s a girl who wields their prized technique?

god, i can’t imagine just how much more controlling they would be towards megs, although im still not sure if the whole training until ur bones fall off would still happen. i feel like naoya would be different towards megs but we also know that the zenin are totally okay with incest so i hate where that would go.

It would have been bad.

See, I think the entire training until your bones fall off thing would still happen, but there would be an added layer of cruelty towards it. Because megumi was a little boy who was being trained in a way that even adults couldn’t have handled, so of course he spent a lot of time getting hit and a lot of time crumpling under the pressure and exhaustion. There are very, very few instances where he remembers actually leaving the training room on his own two feet. He usually was pushed until he collapsed and woke up later in the room they kept for him. But if he was a little girl in the same circumstances? They’d make every “failing” about her sex. They’d blame her being a girl for it and constantly use it as a source of sneering superiority.

It would also be bad because she would very much be seen as a source of descendants. Boy Megumi wouldn’t necessarily be exempt from that, but it would happen sooner for girl Megumi.

Bloodline is very important to the Zenin. Inheriting power, techniques—they want to continue the flow of power through the generations. And most of the Zenin clan (and the wider jujutsu world) believe that Megumi is the most powerful Zenin alive right now, if not Gojo’s equal, and the only reason why hes being graded as a Grade Two sorcerer is because gojo’s purposefully sabotaging his development. Like. Mindset is a huge amount of jujutsu ability. Yuuta went from getting beaten up by normal high schoolers to having some combat ability but needing inumaki to handle a semi grade one to being the second most powerful person alive in the span of a few months. He absolutely blitzed the previous second most powerful person alive when he would have lost that same fight a few hours previous. There’s a lot of people convinced Megumi’s on Gojo’s level but he’s been keeping him on a leash since childhood. But the powers still there in his blood.

That’s power the Zenin want to pass on, regardless of gender. But as a boy, Megumi’s got a little bit more leeway—men are accepted as warriors first in the clan, and age won’t affect his ability to procreate. If megumi was a girl? She’s got that goddamn biological clock ticking down. As the ten shadows, I think the Zenin would still expect her as a warrior, but they’d also have a fucking quota she needs to fill before the clock hits zero. And they’d have some very proprietary concerns about making sure no one outside of the clan has a chance to become involved with her. They’d want her to stay within the clan with her partners. And they’d be absolutely creepy and weird about how they went about it. It’s a little bit of a mercy that Megumi’s a boy.