florizels

[florizels]

there are a lot of things that make the locked tomb series so appealing, like yeah lesbians with swords, bones, deeply fucked up and compelling dynamics etc, but fundamentally possibly the most enticing aspect of it is the sheer amount of pathetic women in it. we are living in an age of DROUGHT of pathetic women in media; the Girlboss trope, in its most stereotypical and mind-numbingly basic interpretation, reigns supreme. the female silly little meow meow is ENDANGERED. but not in the locked tomb series! in fact there are several of them here and they’re all pathetic in different special ways, which doesn’t prevent them from also being badasses and strong, skilled fighters, but CRUCIALLY they are also losers!! and that’s what makes them so great!!!! like we have the self-sacrificing butch lesbian jesus-figure with a hole in her chest and the most pathetic case of Simping in history, canonically known as the ‘saddest girl in the universe’, the evil stick feral kitten lesbian nunlet with a bone fetish that everyone for some reason is obsessed with (no actually it’s understandable), the super tall ghost-looking ‘problematic’ lesbian with a bone arm who loves to cause problems on purpose, her even taller and more insane twin sister and her deeply repressed constantly half-dead crush who’s pretty much always having the worst time out of everyone in a series where everyone is always having the worst time. oh and of course the eldritch horror dressed up as a barbie doll

#the locked tomb

[florizels]

I think if I could tell someone everything, every single thing, inside my head, then I would be gone, and not existing any more, and I would sink away into that lovely nothing-space where you don't have to worry anymore and no one ever hears you or cares and you can say anything but of course you wouldn't be any more at all and you couldn't really do anything so it wouldn't matter what you did.

—Shirley Jackson, from Hangsaman

#shirley jackson #hangsaman

[florizels]

This house hates/loves you to a destructive degree

john masefield, the haunted / mexican gothic / haunting of hill house / mexican gothic / morris kantor / ash, tracey k. smith / courtney love prays to oregon, cementine von radics / the uninvited (1944) / mexican gothic / haunting of hill house / crimson peak / mabel podcast / house of teeth: on anatomy, dante douglas / introduction to hill house, laura miller / mexican gothic / anatomy, kitty horrorshow / night-time solitude, holly warbuton / john masefield, the haunted

[florizels]

mystic winter

#photography

[florizels]

Sometimes, with a vast aching heartbreak, the great, badly contained intentions of creation, the poignant searching longings of adolescence overwhelmed her, and shocked by her own capacity for creation, she held herself tight and unyielding, crying out silently something that might only be phrased as, “Let me take, let me create.”

—Shirley Jackson, from Hangsaman

#shirley jackson #hangsaman #quotes

[florizels]

anatomy of a comet by oscar woodiwiss

artist site

#art

[florizels]

This desire and promise let all my specters loose. A desire without a horizon, for that is its luck or its condition. And a promise that no longer expects what it waits for: there where, striving for what is given to come, I finally know how not to have to distinguish any longer between promise and terror.

Jacques Derrida, from Monolingualism of the Other: or, The Prosthesis of Origin

#quotes #jacques derrida #monolingualism of the Other

[florizels]

inside languages there is a terror, soft, discreet, or glaring

Jacques Derrida, from Monolingualism of the Other: or, The Prothesis of Origin

#quotes #jacques derrida #monolingualism of the Other

[florizels]

Gekijōban Shōjo☆Kageki Revue Starlight Hikari Kagura

[florizels]

[florizels]

On how to love well: Instead of embracing a romantic ideal, you must confront the meaning of every great love that has shattered, shard by shard.

Qiu Miaojin, from Notes of a Crocodile (trans. Bonnie Huie)

#quotes #qiu miaojin #notes of a crocodile #bonnie huie #queer literature

[florizels]

There are some sorrows so great that they are unspeakable, taking hold in the body and leaving a void after the fact. There are some depths that love can never again reach. The mind anoints every fossil with significance in an attempt to preserve it—but in time, they all invariably turn to dust.

Qiu Miaojin, from Notes of a Crocodile (trans. Bonnie Huie)

#quotes #qiu miaojin #notes of a crocodile #bonnie huie #queer literature

[florizels]

— Edna St. Vincent Millay, from a diary entry written c. August 1911

#quotes #Edna St. Vincent Millay

[florizels]

I am having a crisis, she thought. I suddenly feel a new, fragile sense of myself in the world, and it is unbearable.

Meg Wolitzer, from The Interestings

#quotes #meg wolitzer #the interestings

[florizels]

I disapprove of most book changes but making hotd a lesbian divorce drama is the best adaptational change in the history of adaptations. give me all the milf on milf violence

[florizels]

So even if my love for you leads me to ruin, don’t pity me. The Handmaiden (2016) dir. Park Chan Wook

#the handmaiden #films

[florizels]