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“You must come with me, loving me, to death; or else hate me, and still come with me” Carmilla, 1872.

#carmilla #vampire #lesbian #sapphic #gothic #fanart #gorgeous art #sapphic books #sapphic art

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Rewatching Crimson Peak & Things of Focus and Notice:

As a child at her mothers funeral, Edith wears butterfly/moth earrings

Is the pen her father gifts her the one she later uses to stab Lucille? He describes the importance of having “The right tool for the job,” is that foreshadowing for gifting her the tool to begin her escape from Crimson Peak?

Is Edith wearing a butterfly hair clip when she dances the waltz with Thomas?

Lucille’s iconic crimson red gown is so detailed, so beautiful. It represents the skeletal ghosts with its spinal column along the back, crimson peak itself in color, the carapace of a bug on the sleeves and structure, and the upper bodice has trim that blooms outward (present similarly in her blue gown) but is bisected by buttons…creating a familiar shape…a moth?

The candle they hold during the waltz is held at the same level Edith holds her iconic candelabra, a subtle parallel

The trim on the collar of Lucille’s black dress references the spikes and trims of gothic architecture - which is very heavily featured in Allerdale Hall

Lucille says that: “At home we only have Black moths, formidable creatures but they lack beauty.” Knowing the parallel between her and moths, it implies that she sees herself as a survivor and powerful, but something no longer beautiful because of it

Lucille places the butterfly she holds directly into the ants, an action that’s brutal but quick. Is it foreshadowing to her execution of Edith’s death? Something quick for such a beautiful thing, done by her hand?

The LOOK Lucille gives Thomas when they realize Edith’s father knows their past. THE LOOK (JESSICA CHASTAIN YOUR ACTING)

“You seem the more collected one my dear” Lucille is called this. She always holds the mission undetered in her mind, as opposed to Thomas who seems more easily swayed by emotions

When Thomas breaks Edith’s heart by ripping apart her book. He says: “What do you dream of? A kind man? A pure soul to be redeemed? A wounded bird to be nourished?” He is telling her exactly what he is. None of those things, none of the dreams she has built of him in her mind. Not with a past and life such as his.

The significance of gramophones and wax cylinders: it is what plays when Edith’s father is murdered, it is also what saves her from meeting the same fate

I want to know more about Lucille!! Her character is so rich, so so complex, she needs more screen time!!

Need a prop replica of the ring NOW

[the house] “is a privilege we were born into, one we can never relinquish” METAPHOR ALERT METAPHOR ALERT metaphor for the cycles of abuse and trauma they could not break

HOW THE FRICK did I MISS the fact that Thomas’ workshop is in the attic when that was where him and Lucille were locked up as children. SO MANY IMPORTANT SCENES HAPPEN THERE. So many significant to their past we never see, so many ghosts not visible but are so real and present to have caused this

The trail of smoke like red essence that emanates from the ghosts as they walk, like they are still bleeding

Lucille’s hair looks black in darker lighting, but a dark brunette in others. It’s provides a black, dark shroud when she’s in America, and catches more light when she’s in Allerdale Hall

“I like to think she can see us from up there. I don’t want her to miss a single thing we do.” UM MA’AM

“…in time, everything will be right” LUCILLE QUEEN OF FINAL OMINOUS STATEMENTS IN SCENES

The amount I WISH to explore this set. To pry apart each detail and pick apart each piece, so much of it had to be handcrafted pieces for the movie or vintage pieces sourced for it. LET ME IN

THE LIGHTING MUAH

The ghost in the hallway has a rope dragging behind her…is this a gory detail, or an allusion to how she may have died (if not by poison)?

The ghost in Edith’s dream is pointing, though it is never shown to what. Is it to the exit, her warning to leave as all the other ghosts try to do?

The children’s laughter after the presumed scream of their mother’s ghost as she is stabbed, is it just for creepy effect, or did Lucille and Thomas actually laugh after they murdered her?

The scar on Lucille’s lip? Never noticed it before!

Not the first time I’ve noticed it, but the act of her clutching hot steaming food with her bare hands is chilling every single time

Were the bodies of Thomas’s wives left in the vats of clay? I don’t know HOW I didn’t make that connection before, originally i thought it was merely for creepy effect.

Many people villainize Lucille and try to make Thomas out to be solely a victim. But as stated in the wax cylinder, he was fueled by his desire to pay for and make his machine. Him and Lucille are both complacent in using their victims money for their own gain

We need to bring Chatelaine’s back into fashion. That is all.

The scrape of the spoon over the porcelain cup, it screeches and is a subtle way that shows Lucille act of caring has a harshness to it, an unpleasant sound resulting from an otherwise pleasant action: tending to Edith

Such an interesting camera choice to have the camera focus in a circular inwards and outwards

also also Lucille has a temple scar on her forehead?

The small amount of glee Lucille takes saying Edith “thought [she] was was a writer” as she throws the pages to her novel in the fire.

The absolute deadpan, matter-of-fact-ness Lucille has to Edith when she signs the papers “you have nothing to live for” & “mercy killings.” This is a familiar repeated cycle

“Sign your name! Sign your bloody name!” Bloody is not just for emphasis. Edith’s name is soon to be nothing but blood

Lucille’s night gown sleeves as she flies down the stairs in pursuit - like a moths wings fluttering towards its prey

Lucille and Edith fought each other with bare feet on the stone and in the snow

Lucille is the only one of the two who knows how to start Thomas’s machine, because she was the one who witnessed it working

It is only the stab wound on Thomas’ face that bleeds and smokes when he is a ghost, perhaps because it is the wound that bears his betrayal by Lucille, reminiscent of tears of his lingering pain

Edith now has a facial scar, gifted to her by Lucille, who bore ones of her own. It is a passage, a continuing of the cycle, but it is its finale. It is Edith’s souvenir from Lucille, who took her own souvenir (her hair) from the other like a prize

#crimson peak #crimson peak meta #crimson peak fandom

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Ever Wanted to Tour Allerdale Hall?

Well now you can! I highly recommend headphones to get the full experience!

#crimson peak #allerdale hale #crimson peak set #why yes #yes I have wanted to

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leaving out the piano section of Valse Sur Une Berceuse Anglaise on the Crimson Peak soundtrack changes the meaning of the scene in which it appears, because Lucille's underlying musical "voice" (stylistically similar to Lullaby Variation, which we're meant to understand that she arranged herself) belies the notion of the scene being just about Edith and Thomas. since music is such a huge part of her life and she's not a very outwardly expressive person, it acts as a proxy for the emotions she doesn't show, an undercurrent to remind the viewer of her presence even when she's not on-camera. thus the waltz is, in fact, a dance between all three main characters

in this essay I will

#crimson peak #meta #crimson peak meta #this is genuinely brilliant #i love this so much #lucille sharpe #thomas sharpe #edith cushing #edith sharpe

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#crimson peak #lucille sharpe #edith cushing #thomas sharpe #edith/lucille/thomas #crimson peak fanart #my ot3

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Not (at the time of my reposting) my man Dean Fogg with less than 1%!!!!! He’s such a badass. But also not me acting surprised because someone has to have the lowest percentage and damn this was a hard choice for me too. A very hard choice.

#the magicians #Henry Fogg #dean fogg #fandom polls #character polls

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There’s something extremely meta and 3rd-wall– breaking about the fact that so many people seem to consider Thomas Sharpe an innocent Woobie who did nothing wrong, or at least who is worthy of redemption where Lucille is not

Because. That’s his role in the Bluebeard plot, the Poor Lost Soul that YOU, lonely woman, might save with your love. That’s what he spends all his time convincing people that he is. He has a whole speech to Edith where he’s covertly trying to warn her, to pull aside the curtain and reveal what he truly is. It can be taken as a speech to the audience, too, and yet

So many people still fall for it

#crimson peak #meta #thomas sharpe #lucille sharpe #justice for Lucille sharpe #respect for Thomas sharpe #he’s every bit as active a participant as Lucille and Lucille is every bit trying to survive as Thomas

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the aloto tag lately is just

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post from an ofmd fan telling ofmd fans to watch aloto

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jesslupe fanart (hell yeah)

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#a league of their own #aloto #OFMD fans really should watch aloto though #these bots are out of control #these bots are getting a little too bold for my liking

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The grip that 'Crimson Peak' from Guillermo del Toro has on me needs to be studied, I saw this movie when I was fourteen and got obssessed

The waltz from the movie was what I used in my quinceañera

#crimson peak #guillermo del toro

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they hate to see a girlboss (lucille sharpe) winning (fucking her brother and killing anyone who bothers her)

#crimson peak #its the truth #sad truth #lucille sharpe #lucille should’ve been allowed to have it all

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CRIMSON PEAK (2015) dir. Guillermo del Toro

#oh how beautiful #horroredit #crimson peak #horror movies #gothic horror #gothic romance

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Hiya there! Do you...are we... going to be blessed with the other versions of Izzy pestering more people? Thank you!!

Oh, most definitely. Here's a quick one w/ Frenchie for a start. (Ty for asking!! ^^)

#ouizzy #frenchie ofmd #izzy ofmd

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beautiful dreamer --- awake unto me

⤷ s4e10 all that hard glossy armor

#the magicians #this episode of the magicians was a masterpiece even by the standards of the magicians #eliot waugh #hale appleman #entering the scene like this let me know it was gonna be a good one #i mean look at him #margo hanson #summer bishil #was a powerhouse

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Eleanor Cushing decides that, instead of warning Edith, she should just use her ghost powers to go back in time and Loving Parent the potential trauma-spawned evil out of the Sharpe siblings

is that anything

#it’s not nothing #crimson peak #I’d like to know more

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season one of the magicians does so much work toward margo/alice it's criminal that they don't follow through

#the magicians #Glad it wasn’t just me #Their first interaction had me wondering #Then again I thought Margo and Fen had something that could’ve been something #and perhaps the show saw it to because one of Fen’s vlogs had her outright stating attraction to Margo #so maybe I was just primed to ship Margo sapphically? #No. I’ve thought about it and there was definitely groundwork for Margo/Alice and Margo/Fen

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Tragedy! You set out to read a negative review of a piece of media you dislike, only to find that the critic is being completely unfair to it and making a bunch of bad, unsupportable arguments.

#i feel this #can relate #This also applies to overarching interpretations/reads I agree with #but arrived at via a totally different route than someone else #and I don’t like the route they took and now feel compelled to argue- even if only in my head - about the reasonings #behind our shared conclusions. #Though sometimes it can be fun. sometimes. #Additional emphasis on sometimes. #fandom things #ofmd fandom

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🌹🎶

#I love them #i love them together #ouizzy #izzy x frenchie #frenchie x izzy #ofmd frenchie #ofmd izzy