#someone once said that baby's/elizabeth's lines towards william felt creepy due to how obsessed she is with her own father | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

astramachina · 11 months ago

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one thing you need to know about me is that everything i ever write has some nod or reference to the gothic. it's not always aesthetically, but there's always a theme or a motif hidden in there somewhere.

the mall? an entire island? a studio? they're stand-ins for the traditional "haunted house" in the way that what they harbor is dark and damp and rotting away and consuming the characters that move through them. the family secrets aren't always the driving force of the story but they haunt the narrative from beginning to end.

#texts.#even in fic! when i wrote He Who Holds the Devil i morphed it to 'fit the vibe' before i learned that vibes alone aren't what craft a gothi #it's one of the reasons why fnaf in particular latched onto my brain like a crane game because at its core #it's an american gothic. (technically an american folk horror but that's a whole 'nother thesis.)#someone once said that baby's/elizabeth's lines towards william felt creepy due to how obsessed she is with her own father #i nodded so hard i pulled a muscle. same goes for michael and william on the opposite side of the same spectrum.#but this is not a conversation this fandom will ever be ready to hear. BACK TO FIC THO.#in ACFD there's these very subtle undertones regarding the MC's/Ricky's relationship with William and it's not just the age gap.#you call it 'daddy issues' i call it something else entirely <3

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