#ethel cain will understand you

[girl-archie]

betty cooper you need to listen to this song so bad #blackhood #serialkillergene #bannedfromheaven

[twinsfawn]

the eroticism of brutalist architecture with ethel cain

[thesunoficarus1]

rocking back and forth in my bed, eye twitching, listening to sun bleached flies and quietly singing "but I always knew that in the end no one was coming to save me, so I just prayed. and I keep praying and praying and praying. if it's meant to be then it will be. so I met him there and told him I believe. singing if it's meant to be then it will be. I forgive it all as it comes back to me" while white knuckling my sheets

[ill3galalien]

AND I SPEND MY LIFE WATCHING IT GO BY FROM THE SIDELINES

[lesbianjudasiscariot]

tiktok has like ruined audience etiquette. like artists are people creating beautiful art and sharing their work with the world and yall are showing no respect for that. it is so disappointing to see.

[tippyinmyteacups]

Thinkin bout ethel.cain and abigail hobbs;I am near tears ,- o -,

[persimnon]

scrolling through radfem blogs doesn’t even make me angry anymore they just make me laugh. pity these poor lesbians who can’t decentralize men from their lives without resorting to bioessentialism. like awww. what a sad life you must live that the only solidarity you people can find is in one another when i find it among fags and dykes and trans people and queers and freaks every day whenever i go outside. you’re gonna look me in the eye and tell me you have more in common with a cishet woman than a trans girl when it comes to shared lived experience? it’s okay to be afraid of men but the delusion you’ve created for yourself because of that fear is a billion times worse!!

[duckiemimi]

why is it so hard for me to like villains fojghvpdfajb I understand the love for geto but I just can't help thinking he's stupid for having crazy ideals ugh

unfortunately, i like stupid men.

[running-with-kn1ves]

I am URGING EACH AND EVERY ONE OF YOU to listen to Ethel cains Ptolemaea if you like dark spooky shit/yandere stuff b/c it is absolutely wild!! THIS SAWNG... the story of this album is amazing too (roughly, cannibalistic psychopath kidnaps and kills a young teen-- Ethel cain) it really inspires me every time I hear it.

FORWARNING THO this shit can be triggering as fuck, the lyrics n fly sounds and intensity goes so mfing hard !!1!11!1!!

[girlfromnazareth]

“new ethel cain album is gonna weed out the fake fans” oh my god shut up who cares who CARESSSSS SHUT UPPPPP what happened to letting people just like music without being involved in any kind of fandom what happened to liking the music and not knowing shit about the artist

[neeturnal]

early season sam winchester would be an ethel cain enjoyer

[thesunoficarus1]

are you normal or did you also consider/follow through with turning back to religion after listening to preachers daughter

[fishandshesmygills]

when ethel cain said can i be yours? can i be yours? can i be yours? if im turning in your stomach and im making you feel sick...

[megkuna]

feeling the kind of neurotic that only comes from being cooped up inside during winter this long. should i make it worse by reading bataille

[mutilamb]

two drowning coals

won't ever light

but if i ask you to

you'll warm the night

and if i want you

like i said i'd never do

i would hold my breath, and sit down next to you

terrified you'll bite the hand that needs you, and right now i need you

i don't know what happened, i don't know what happened

i was young and sweet, and then something happened

something overwhelming, something everlasting

and i forgot what stop means, either i drink it or the boat sinks

it's easy for him to get out of me what i've been praying will get out of me

WILL I ALWAYS BE CRYING DURING SEX WITH YOU

AND ALL MY DREAMS TAKE PLACE IN HEAVEN WHERE IT'S QUIET

LYING NEXT TO YOU

HEAVY BREATHING AND SIGHS, BRUISES BETWEEN MY THIGHS

LOOK ME DEEP IN MY EYES LIKE I'M A RIVER WORTH WADING

AND IF I'M CRYING, IT'S BECAUSE I'M IN LOVE

[silverandebony]

i'm sorry. TAGGING SASKATCHEWAN CANADA AS KANSAS SOUTHERN GOTHIC AND APPALACHIA????

TAGGING SASKATCHEWAN CANADA AS KANSAS SOUTHERN GOTHIC AND APPALACHIA*

*i misremembered and the one tagged with appalachia&appalachian gothic isn't Explicitly saskatchewan (all of the pictures with location captions are apparently from saskatchewan so i'd be inclined to guess it probably is too, but there's no way to know for sure). so who knows!! i don't know what appalachia looks like! maybe it IS appalachia! in which case why is it also tagged saskatchewan

[Image ids: three cropped screenshots of 'regional gothic' style tumblr picture posts and their tags. The first picture is a truck at an empty intersection with a hazy yellow sky; the second is part of a building mural depicting a nature scene with canada geese captioned 'rural saskatchewan'; the third is of the edge of a town on a foggy day, with old, short buildings fading into the mist, captioned 'uranium city, sk'. Tags common across all three posts are: ethel cain, southern gothic, regional gothic, rural gothic, midwestern gothic, kansas, and midwest. Two of them are tagged with 'gibson girl'. Additionally, the truck picture is tagged with appalachia, appalachian gothic, twin peaks, and hayden anhedonia; the mural picture is tagged with small town usa, small town, small town america, small town canada, great plains, prairies, prairie, and prairiecore; and the foggy town is tagged with 'ghost town, liminal, liminal spaces, and foggy day.

End id.]

I also went back to the blog to see if those posts were still there so I could take better screenshots (they weren't; hooray reporting things for spam) but upon further scrolling I realized that every tagged post. Every. Single. Post. With Tags. all of them. Are tagged with southern gothic and kansas and saskatchewan. THESE ARE NOT THE SAME. WHY ARE YOU USING ALL OF THEM THESE ARE NOT THE SAME

*coughs* anyway. Among all of these, in all their spammy mistagged glory, there is one I would like to give a special shout out to, for in my opinion being the most wildly tagged:

[Image id: another screenshot of a tumblr picture post. This one is a picture of a small motel with a rundown fence in the foreground. A colour filter has been used to make the picture look washed out and fit the regional gothic vibes. This picture has been tagged with: gibson girl, americana, appalachian gothic, midwest gothic, preacher's daughter, regional gothic, rural gothic, southern gothic, hayden anhedonia, ethel cain, nebraska, kansas, motelcore, appalachia, southern aesthetic, saskatchewan, alberta.

end id.]

Take a moment to appreciate it. Bask in its questionable glory. Allow yourself the time to question why?

I think it's the 'alberta' tag that really makes it for me here. The 'nebraska' as well. The latter I assume is from the title of one of Ethel Cain's songs, which would explain... to some degree... how it got there. Why 'alberta' though? Why this picture, out of all of them? Is it actually from Alberta? (It could be; I've seen similar looking things) If it's from Alberta, why is it also tagged 'saskatchewan'? 'kansas'? 'appalachia'? 'southern gothic'? Do not each of these preclude all others? If it's Saskatchewan or Albertan, why is it tagged 'americana'?? Is it for views??? If you want it seen, it's already got the tags! Regional and rural gothic are fine! They'll probably get you a lot more views than tagging something with a Canadian province ever will! I just. I don't understand. why. why have you done this. please stop. i'm begging skfjjsjfjj

in conclusion: tumblr has tagging etiquette and i am begging the young aesthetic bloggers to take a moment to learn it. it will save you so much being reported for spam and having your posts and or possibly your entire blog taken down because of it. And now, if you'll excuse me, I have a blog to go report specifically because of this