#with apologies to horace walpole &c &c you know the deal
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‘he was the darling of his [mother], who never showed any symptoms of affection to [her eldest son]’
#em draws stuff#the flight of the heron#francis aveling#lady stowe#Suspend Your Disbelief And Pretend That The Castle Of Otranto Was Published Perhaps A Cool Decade Or So Earlier#that's where I've borrowed the (surprisingly relevant) background passage and sort of collaged the caption from#as well as my idea that that would be something these two would genuinely enjoy when it does come out#on that note. does 'someone's child dies horribly and then they do not care in the slightest#but instead jump fairly quickly to attempting to seduce said child's fiancée' sound like a familiar narrative shape to you#I have more interesting uses for my time so I shall not edit myself into the pepe silvia meme but that's what you should picture!#with apologies to horace walpole &c &c you know the deal
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