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if you make fun of ppl who write fanfiction, remember that the brontë sisters created magical realms, put real-life historical figures into them, and wrote stories about them. and this is basically considered by scholars to be early fanfiction LOL

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Haworth looking great in the snow. The beautiful village of Haworth, West Yorkshire-childhood home of the Brontë sisters. 📚Haworth is a small village located in the Pennine hills of West Yorkshire

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What was I created for, I wonder? Where is my place in the world?

Shirley by Charlotte Bronte

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Portraits of famous 18th and 19th-century Gothic fiction writers.

Horace Walpole (1717 - 1797) // Ann Radcliffe (1764 - 1823) // Matthew Gregory Lewis (1775 - 1818) // Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1797 - 1851) // Edgar Allan Poe (1809 - 1849) // Anne (1820 - 1849), Emily (1818 - 1848), and Charlotte Brontë (1816 - 1855) // Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900) // Bram Stoker (1847 - 1912)

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always thinking about wuthering heights

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/Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights

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more rambling thoughts about wuthering heights now that i've finished my re-read

1 wuthering heights is basically the looney tunes if the looney tunes were goth. 90% of the novel is people arguing, dying, and running around threatening to kill each other, and often all three of those at once.

2 love how it's filled with dark humor. "he's such a cobweb, a pinch would annihilate him" is such a camp thing to say about the terminally ill child you abhor and who you spend weeks trying to set up on dates with your dead lover's child so you can steal her property when your son finally dies. heathcliff lecturing his son on Seduction 101 right in front of cathy 2.0, trying ridiculously to play cupid and compel them to fall in love with each other before giving up and just kidnapping her instead... surely he's the most insane brontë man?

3 i can't remember what i had for dinner last night but nelly dean can remember what the weather was like on any given friday twenty years ago (love her and her snarky comments)

4 love how after nelly finishes telling the story to lockwood she's like "any way. so you know cathy 2.0 is single right ;)))" and then cathy 2.0 shows zero interest in him. so then he's like "oh i just remembered i have somewhere to be :/" then fucks off to london for nearly a year then when he comes back nelly is like "nvm as it turns out cathy and hareton are actually soulmates lol who knew! gee, it's a good thing she didn't like you!" and he's just silently suffering. emily was just fucking around here. hindley was the only linton/earnshaw/heathcliff who was wild enough to marry someone who didn't share either his gene pool or his neighborhood.

5 i imagine joseph to look like smeagol from the lotr films but taller

6 [heathcliff, after stabbing his alcoholic arch nemesis and then pushing his servant into the puddle of the blood] "Wash that stuff away; and mind the sparks of your candle—it is more than half brandy!” LMAO

7 this opinion list is just turning out to be a list of the most insane heathcliff moments but truly the novel should've just been called "heathcliff"

8 heathcliff's weird paternal feelings for hareton, saving hareton's life, him saying he would truly love him if only he wasn't hindley's child, basically giving hareton his blessing to love cathy 2.0 toward the end... so oddly endearing

9 heathcliff walking out just before the "i am heathcliff" part of her speech. why WHY

10 hindley protecting isabella from heathcliff before she flees was nice and i wish we saw more of their dynamic around the heights. honestly aside from the child neglect (which is par for the course in wuthering heights) hindley is a pretty sympathetic character; his rivalry with heathcliff was fueled by both sides and truly the fault of their father for pitting them against each other by letting heathcliff usurp hindley's place of favoritism as a boy. hindley's gambling and drinking, his general dissipation and failure to secure his son's future, are all tragic.

11 i think hindley/edgar/heathcliff are all interesting foils for each other; they each lose the women they love and are left to be single fathers, and each responds to the task totally differently. if we include mr. earnshaw, all the fathers in the story essentially fail their children after all the mothers die. hindley and heathcliff have a special parallel through their lifelong brotherly competition, the women they love both dying in childbirth, and in their own deaths. hindley slowly kills himself while ignoring everyone around him; heathcliff also kills himself, but only after trying to systematically ruin the lives of everyone around him. they also say that they want to kill each other but fail when they try; heathcliff nearly kills hindley but ends up saving his life at the last minute.

12 heathcliff jr. is so terrified of heathcliff sr. and so traumatized and petrified by fear and he doesn't deserve the hate he gets for being annoying. he's been sheltered his whole life, his mother just died, he was sent to his uncle/cousin only to be immediately torn away from them to be abused by a stranger who treats him horribly, he's terminally ill, he's still a kid, he's threatened into marrying someone he barely knows, etc.

13 if any of you have seen the british comedy show "the young ones" that's literally hindley's household in wuthering heights when joseph/hareton/hindley/heathcliff/isabella all live together. the filth, the slop for dinner, the petty games, the violence, the fierce hatred yet weird loyalty to each other, etc.

14 i really wonder how cathy would have reacted to heathcliff's treatment of everyone else if only she had known the full details (ie his harsh abuse of isabella, his son, cathy 2.0, etc.)

15 heights was my first brontë novel but i think i like jane eyre and tenant better now that i've read them all back to back! next on the list is likely agnes gray. anne, my underrated queen!

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The modern Gothic Heroine is running down the stairwell with her phone flashlight turned on.

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Forever trapped between the atmosphere of the Romantic era, where I stand in the middle of a fragrant garden, dressed in a tea dress, full of hopes and dreams, like one of the heroines of Jane Austen's books, and the atmosphere of the Victorian era, where I sit in solitude in my room while a black raven knocks on my window, and I think about the darkness and the transience of life, and nothing more.

#period drama #gothic novels #gothic fiction #gothic heroine #jane austen #1800s #victorian #romantic era

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I always knew that saving posts to a second blog was a good idea. I'm starting all over again.

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Sharp Objects AU

“Safer to be feared than loved.”

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Mirror, mirror… on the wall what…

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Dreams, dreams. I walk them; I live them. I delude myself with them. It’s a wonder I can spot reality anymore

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mood : to read

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Black Swan

© Helena Polansky

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Me : * looks in a mirror*

I’m still :  you again