#i am Thonking about horror and queerness again. i am thonking real hard about the parallels | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

lifesver · 3 months ago

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anyway laurel is also explicitly an expression of queerness. is it a healthy one? absolutely not. it is, like his other murderverse personas, a very physical manifestation of a coping mechanism and it’s a way of creating a mental block between himself and the horrible things he ends up doing. laurel is a way of expressing things he repressed for a long time, things that don’t matter when you’re nobody, when you’re dead, when you’re in the dark with a stranger, and when you’re supposed to kill that stranger before the night is over.

#there is something there about … grappling with his own desires and his concepts of control. the general lack of control he has #in his situation. and his self-perception at the point where he’s already killed someone #i am Thonking about horror and queerness again. i am thonking real hard about the parallels #and the reason that queer people will and have so often seen themselves in monster stories #unrelated related but book richie IT relating to a werewolf as queercoding you will always be famous to me #there’s a ton of nuance to this discussion ofc but there is something subconscious there

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