#and a place as free as summerisle? goodness i’m sure its young people had a better coming-of-age process than anywhere on the mainland

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it has been said and said again but rowan morrison really did do it beautifully. never was she just a damsel in distress NOR was she just bait. she was an absolutely vital part of the rite, start to finish. the perfect actress in the perfect plan, set exactly to inflame the uptight, myopic puritan-fool whose virile-fertile blood boiled so much over the idea of a virgin sacrifice that he forgot his own inexperience. the power she is afforded is incredible— not that you’d expect anything else from his lordship, but she’s the only child allowed to watch the immolation. summerisle’s fierce veneration of its women-goddesses ran right to its roots…. hail the queen of the may

#Oh she’s fantastic. howie was so enraged by the concept of a female virgin sacrifice and his christian-male illusions of such a thing that #he never caught his own punch-masked reflection in the windows he passed #the wicker man #and a place as free as summerisle? goodness i’m sure its young people had a better coming-of-age process than anywhere on the mainland #when ash buchanan went to willow’s window as a young man i don’t think his lordship would have forgiven himself if he went there clueless— #or god forbid scared. summerisle is a place forever ahead of its time— there’s a comfortability in oneself taught from the first day #‘i’m surprised you don’t.’ if only howie had been a child of summerisle— and not so frightened by what he thought were the shadows #of witches and jezebels at his doorframe that were really just willow inviting him for a nice time