#is this where poe comes in

[jalapenobee]

Hahaha just thinking about how if Oda was alive he could've been the one person who could beat Fukuchi

[applepixls]

not quite sure where this originally comes from but i saw this picture and couldn't help but think of the permit office people-

[wolfboywarmachines]

i do not remember my life before you and i hope to never see one after you

the holy bible // supernatural (2005-2020) // "the fall of the house of usher" - edgar allan poe (1839) // bridgerton (2020-) // where things come back - john corey whaley (2011) // the addams family (1991) // antigonick - anne carson (2012) // the chronicles of narnia: the lion, the witch, and the wardrobe (2005) // the other boelyn girl (2008) // the parent trap (1998) // "brother, sister, rival, friend: the longstanding effects of sibling relationships" - joshua a. krisch (2019) // pride and prejudice (2005) // "song for sasha banks" - the mountain goats (2018) // it (2017) // "the reynolds pamphlet" - original broadway cast of hamilton (2015) // little women (2019) // "the secret of siblings -- the relationship between brothers and sisters has a degree of closeness - and distance - like no other" - erica e. goode (1994) // before i fall (2017) // unknown // succession (2018-2023) // unknown // stranger things (2016-) // the perpetual calendar of inspiration - vera nazarian (2010)

[canisalbus]

Was thinking about the earlier asks about machete being remembered in modern times and can't help but think that he'd be a goth icon like Edgar Allen poe and mary shelley to modern folks like maybe he'd be referenced in a goth song or two lol

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[rwby-confess]

Confession #166

[crossbackpoke-check]

Why I Am Not Coming In To Work Today [abridged], Jess Zimmerman

part one | part two

[calitsnow]

I can’t take this anymore

[karmicpunishment]

more soulmates stuff

atsushi and dazai have matching hawthorne flowers (symboling hope) where they first touched

atsushi and kyouka have a black and white sketch of a kitten and a bunny intertwined on their wrists

poe and ranpo have an inverse luck bond, meaning that they have contrary luck. if one has really good luck, the other has poor luck. unfortunately for poe, ranpo almost always has good luck. whenever they're together it all evens out though

the tanizaki siblings basically have a spidey-sense for when the other is in danger

jouno and tecchou have compasses that always point to where the other is (it's raised on the skin enough so jouno can feel it). when jouno was turned into a vampire, his arrow started to endlessly spin on tecchous wrist

[merriclo]

i adore Harukawa because she does not play when it comes to the beautiful gothic wives of bsd (akutagawa, poe, and bram)

[youre-drinking-embalming-fluid]

Someday I will manipulate tumblr into revealing the Edgar Allan Poe meme community, but for now I can only hear them through the floorboards or scratching at the inside of sealed tombs.

[spectordameron]

I also really love this bit because not only is it a great bit of foreshadowing for Tomasso's eventual death, it's also a great bit of foreshadowing to Zeva's — she never once questions that Zorii will follow in her footsteps, that she'll remain fully obedient to her mother's wishes, loyal to Zeva's cause, so she's ignorant to the conflict inside Zorii right up until the moment Zorii stands between Zeva and the boy who helped her realize she could be so much more than her mother made her.

[terpia]

I've never seen a cough transcribed in this way, but I suppose it works??

[daincrediblegg]

I fuckin love my poe students. Dude came in for Murders in the Rue Morgue with full evidence of the foundations of homoerotic tension in the detective tale (THAT POE INVENTED) and even brought in parisian cruising grounds to this. I love being in the room where that happens

[virtie333]

WIP WEDNESDAY

Coming soon!

[nomaishuttle]

its impossible for you all to understand how much of my thoughts r in sweeney references. like there is one person on this earth who understand and its my sibling who is similarly inclined...

[bhaalsdeepbat]

just to add:

Using Poe rather than any other Dark Romantic writer that was his contemporary to pull a quote from was such a good choice. Of his sotries, "The Tell-Tale Heart" was the perfect one for Astarion, but Poe very specifically believed stories should be written in a circular manner - like a snake biting its tail - which fits so perfectly with all the little ways Astarion's story and romance references itself.

Direct quote from my source:

Poe believed in “fashioning a tale like a kind of ouroboros, with its tail in its mouth, beginning with the final effect and working backwards to that the story’s beginning is a natural derivation of its conclusion.”

It's the setting up of the Romantic Astarion in act 1, finding out he's not as fine as he keeps insisting as the narrative swings into Dark Romantic territory, the paranoia starts to really come out (relating back to tell-tale heart), and then he is literally given a choice: continue the cycle or break free. The cycle of abuse is literally a circle here. He can take up Cazador's place in the ritual and step into his role entirely, reentering the ouroboros I mentioned earlier.

The "Thank you" when he first bites the player being referenced later when they see past his paranoia and how unreliable of a narrator he is about his own feelings and seeing that he doesn't want power. He wants safety in a world that he believes isn't capable of kindness or good.

I love how Astarion quotes The Tell-Tale Heart every once in a while. It's a rarer line, and initially I thought it was out of place (Neil is very well versed in theater, so I assumed it was a riff from him), but since reading an analysis of the work I think it was pretty purposeful.

The piece is all about fear and paranoia, things we know Astarion is plagued by despite how he might act. Similarly, the narrator of the story also tries to convince the reader that they are not as troubled as they seem. In the end, the narrator is consumed by the beating of the heart of the old man he killed and dismembered, the sound growing louder and louder until in a fit of rage he reveals the body to the police to absolve himself from the persistent beating.

Except the police never heard the heart beat, because it wasn't the old man's heart at all. The narrator was consumed by the sound of his own heart beating more and more rapidly in his chest from fear. He was the owner of the thing that forced him to reveal his true nature, he is the owner of the tell-tale heart.

And what happens with Astarion after you romance him? He realizes over time that, while he tried to deny his feelings and was initially only interested in manipulating you for his own means, he actually has grown to care for you. You have done something to his heart that hasn't happened in centuries, you have made it feel as if it has started beating again.

Therefore, his tell-tale heart leads him to admit his transgressions, which were committed out of fear and paranoia for his safety.

So the line is actually very, very apt. His confession during Act 2 is his own version of "Villains! Dissemble no more! I admit the deed! Tear up the planks! Here, here! It is the beating of his hideous heart!" Except, of course, it is his own heart that he is unearthing for us (and it's not so hideous, after all).