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i’ve been going jstor dumpster-diving a lot so here’s a collection of articles: haunted house edition <3 i’ve put them all here, but let me know if anything doesn’t work and i’ll fix it!! 

contents: 

- Emma Liggins, The Haunted House in Women’s Ghost Stories: Gender, Space and Modernity, 1850–1945 - Richard Pascal, Walking Alone Together: Family Monsters in the Haunting of Hill House - Amanda Bingham Solomon, Haunting the Imagination: The Haunted House as Dark Space in American Culture - Roberta Rubenstein, House Mothers and Haunted Daughters: Shirley Jackson and Female Gothic  - Cristiana Pugliese, What Does a House Want? Exploring Sentient Houses in Supernatural Literature  - Elizabeth Jean Hornbeck, Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?: Domestic Violence in The Shining - Emma Zimmerman, “Always the same stairs, always the same room”: The Uncanny Architecture of Jean Rhys’s Good Morning, Midnight - Emma Short, ‘One Is Somehow Suspended’: Elizabeth Bowen, Katherine Mansfield and the Spaces in Between  - Anthony Vidler, The Architectural Uncanny: Essays in the Modern Unhomely  - Elizabeth Wilson, Haunted Houses - Aspasia Stephanou, Helen Oyeyemi’s White is for Witching and the Discourse of Consumption

#to read #the gothic

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this too shall pass

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Instructions for how to download a Youtube video using VLC on Reddit

Instructions for how to navigate the underworld on an Orphic gold tablet

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man with excellent self restraint dismayed to realize that not wanting anything is more likely a depression symptom than a carefully honed skill that atones for other aspects of his character

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oh anne we’re in it now

#words #lazarovden moment ‼️ (i am an atheist)

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various sacred hearts (damien hirst; tim tate; antique ex-voto; 19th c. french religious card; 19th c. french reliquary; repousee antique; carved wood frame c. 1890-1920; unknown painting)

#art

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When people get a little too gung-ho about-

wait. cancel post. gung-ho cannot be English. where did that phrase come from? China?

ok, yes. gōnghé, which is…an abbreviation for “industrial cooperative”? Like it was just a term for a worker-run organization? A specific U.S. marine stationed in China interpreted it as a motivational slogan about teamwork, and as a commander he got his whole battalion using it, and other U.S. marines found those guys so exhausting that it migrated into English slang with the meaning “overly enthusiastic”.

That’s…wild. What was I talking about?

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passed by the church in the park and saw a single candle flickering so brightly and sporadically through the purposefully-obscured windows it hurt. while listening to step by vw

think i understand the totebag girlies now

#whatever. night walk by franz wright i guess.

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Lucan’s Pharsalia, trans. Jane Wilson Joyce

#pharsalia

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walking around with the fucking. translation contest totebag and a giant baguette sticking out. so this is what life is

think i understand the totebag girlies now

#as bloodsucker dayoffs said the gloves are off the wisdom teeth are out...i feel it in my bones... #honestly in awe of the tote's ability to fit everything perfectly witout things budging an inch. the reason why i'd never tried one before #was because i expected everything to be constantly jumbled #there's walnuts in there also. one thing about me is that i will eat bread and walnuts.

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STOP!!! being in other countries. I wanna! Hang out >:(

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think i understand the totebag girlies now

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found the sequel to this image in a random cardboard box full of secondhand books left on the pavement

this image is doing. IRREVERSIBLE. IRREPARABLE. damage to my gender. i have been staring at it for at least five minutes now .

#this HAS to be by the same artist

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which is definitely not an omen

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Hey guys, I have a priority fundraiser rotation for you:

Fadi & Shahed: 2,044 USD out of 62.5k

Sana'a & Sujood: 12,016 £ out of 50k

Mahmoud Qassas: 9,994$ out of 200k

Ezzideen Shehab: 10,296€ out of 32.5k.

Hussam Aburamadan: 16,374€ out of 148k.

Hamdi Hijazi: 1,511$ out of 25k.

Suheir Hojok: 16,897 AUD out of 70k.

Madleen Abu Jayyab: 29,005$ out of 70k.

I have personally verified every one of these campaigns listed here.

As Mona's campaign nears completion I'm preparing for you this list so we can show these families the same amazing and unbelievable support we showed Mona and her family. The invasion of Rafah grows nearer everyday. Please understand the urgency of this campaign.

Version date: April 25th 2024.

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Solar Eclipse Shadows

These solar eclipse shadows form due to the distance between the sun and the leaves on the trees. The distance and the proximity of the leaves to one another cause for a "lensing" type effect, making the eclipse shadow clearer to the human eye.

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yes girl I think it’s incredibly sexy how indecisive you are about every single decision in your life. I also love how you haven’t let anything go since you were 12. can we make out now