#that barnabas is fed on the blood of the poor; the criminal; the sex worker; the itinerant;

[widowshill]

sometimes I do just say things

#now that I’ve finished the show I need to go more long winded into why I actually care about this damn thing #➤ ooc. ┊ she’s nauseous，she’s hysterical，and she’s exhausted. #it’s so American. it’s SO about America; which makes it flavorfully distinct from the gothic lit that serves as a lot of its foundations. #(there’s also American lit I think being used but for the most part it’s English) #but it’s not a story you could transplant to England without changing the fundamental meaning. #it isss about what our ideals of a household are after the war; how the late 60’s are in resistance of that; how womanhood in the 60’s #is in resistance to that. #the atrocities that America is committing and burying while the show is on the air. #the disfigurement and deforming we were committing in the name of preserving these ideals of Normalcy (economic; political; gender; sexual) #the monsters that we make and inflict on each other #that barnabas is fed on the blood of the poor; the criminal; the sex worker; the itinerant; #(not a uniquely American horror; but still) #we repeat and repeat and repeat — the uselessness of the legal system and the way it condemns the innocent. #the violence of Christianity permeating the apparatuses of power. #the family — bastion of Normalcy; Christianity; capitalism — is liable to corrupt. #the family is violent; incestuous — the family lock each other up in the rooms of the domestic space to die. #god.