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bitterkarella · 2 days

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Midnight Pals: the beard is blue

Anna Biller: submitted for the approval of the midnight society, i call this the tale of bluebeard's castle Mary Shelley: sup fuckers? Shelley: you telling a gothic story here? Biller: it's not gothic, it just uses classic story telling elements of gothic Biller: it's its own original thing Shelley: oh yeah yeah i'll be the judge of that Shelley: seein' as i invented gothic and all Biller: it's not gothic, it just uses classic-

Biller: it's not like angela's bluebeard story Biller: very different Biller: but let me explain angela's story in detail Biller: blow by blow Biller: for pages

Biller: this woman goes to a spooky secluded manor Biller: like daphne du maurier's rebecca Biller: with a brooding aristocratic husband Biller: like Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights! Biller: and she has a sweet heavenly voice Biller: like urkel!

Biller: this part of my story is a reference to Jane Eyre Biller: you guys might not have heard of it, its pretty obscure Biller: don't worry, i'll just grind the story to a halt so that i can describe jane eyre Biller: and this bit is a reference to dracula Barker: oh my god its like gothic ernest kline Poe: clive, be nice

Biller: anyway eventually she kinda just putters around until her brooding husband poisons her Biller: and there was nothing she could do to avoid it Biller: real girl boss hours

Shelley: what, she just gets poisoned? Shelley: couldn't be me Shelley: if i was there, i would have shivved that bastard but good Biller: UM no actually Biller: that wouldn't work! Biller: there's a whole concluding chapter about how stupid you, the reader, are for thinking she escape Shelley: rip to her but i'm different

Biller: so what do you think? Mary Shelley: i like the bit where you just repeated angela's version Poe: clive Poe: no wait i mean Poe: mary Angela Carter: no no i can see why she might like that part

Biller: the important thing about my work is to know that women and men should stay in their lanes and follow the strict rules of their gender Patricia Highsmith: poison's a broad's thing Biller: excuse me?! Highsmith: that's how a dame does a murder Highsmith: a real man does a murder with his hands Biller: Highsmith: or a boat oar

Highsmith: see, my ripley- Biller: oh god again with the ripley Biller: always with your OC patricia! we're all tired of hearing about your OC! Shelley: no patricia's right, killing a guy with a boat oar is cool Shelley: poison's sissy shit Shelley: i like how ripley does all those murders Shelley: fucker's got style Highsmith: that's what i've been saying!

Anna Biller: see, Bluebeard's castle is all about how men are men (evil) and women are women (stupid) Biller: as opposed to the love witch, which was about how men are men (stupid) and women are women (evil)

#midnight pals #the midnight society #midnight society #edgar allan poe #clive barker #mary shelley #anna biller #patricia highsmith #angela carter

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soracities · 2 years

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Angela Carter, The Magic Toyshop

[Text ID: “October, crisp, misty, golden October, when the light is sweet and heavy.”]

#q #lit #quotes #october #autumn #angela carter #the magic toyshop #autumn dreaming #seasonal #reading #typography #m #x

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derangedrhythms · 8 months

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Angela Carter, Unicorn: The Poetry of Angela Carter; from 'Unicorn'

#angela carter #unicorn the poetry of angela carter #unicorn #poetry #excerpts #o

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flowerytale · 8 months

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Angela Carter, from “The Lady of the House of Love”, The Bloody Chamber & Other Stories

#angela carter #the bloody chamber and other stories #short stories #lit #literature #fragments #typo #typography #words #haunted #haunted house #fave #*

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llovelymoonn · 7 months

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@werewolfest // angela carter unicorn: the poetry of angela carter

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yvain · 7 months

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Stoker (2013) dir. Park Chan-wook and "The Lady of the House of Love" by Angela Carter

#stoker #mia wasikowska #park chan wook #vampires #horror #angela carter #gothic literature #comparatives #the lady of the house of love #ignore the fact that i've already made this exact post with pearl #*

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shisasan · 7 months

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October, crisp, misty, golden October, when the light is sweet and heavy. Angela Carter

#angela carter #october #literature #words #quotes #academia #dark academia #quote #lit #books #books and libraries #reading #quote of the day #bookworm #book quotes #prose #booklr #bibliophile

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petaltexturedskies · 7 months

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Angela Carter, from The Lady of the House of Love in “The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories”

#typography #angela carter

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araekniarchive · 3 months

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eve, after the fall (auguste rodin; bronze, 1883)

Mark Twain, The Diaries of Adam and Eve // Hozier, From Eden // Angela Carter, The Bloody Chamber // Frank Bidart, The War of Vaslav Nijinsky // Eagles, The Last Resort // Anne Sexton, Words for Dr. Y

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elishanelsonfanacct · 1 year

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i love you / i fear you / i need you

mary renault, the national, white oleander, maggie nelson, heathers: the musical, margaret atwood, nikita kadan, jenny holzer, margaret atwood, ida aplebroog, simone weil (tr. arthur wills), richard siken, unknown, unknown, angela carter, the sopranos, mary oliver

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galaxy-flowergirl · 8 months

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The female rage of it all

Ptolemaea - Ethel Cain // The Witch (2015) // The Bloody Camber - Angela Carter // Yellowjackets (2021) // The Hand That Feeds - The Crane Wives // Daffodil - Florence and the Machine // Ready or Not (2019) // Midsommar (2019) // Family Tree - Ethel Cain // The Lighthouse - Halsey

#web weaving #female rage #ethel cain #florence and the machine #halsey #the crane wives #yellowjackets #the witch #midsommar #angela carter #ready or not #horror #horror movies #music #quotes

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bitterkarella · 4 months

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Midnight Pals: Muse

Anna Helen Crofts: submitted for the approval of the midnight society, this is a little story that me and howard wrote together Barker: you and howard? how'd that happen? HP Lovecraft: oh we've been looking for a project to do together for a while

Edward Lee: bro you hanging with anna helen crofts now? Lovecraft: yeah Lee: bro Lee: sonia greene, winifred jackson, hazel heald Lee: how are you pulling all this quality tail? Lovecraft: i don't know, i'm just being myself Lee: Lee: bro that doesn't make any sense

Crofts: ok so this story is about a woman who reads a poetry book Crofts: and she has a dream that the gods themselves appear to her Crofts: and they're all 'babe, we got some great news for you' Crofts: you're so hot that you're gonna fuck some inspiration into the world's greatest poet

Crofts: the gods are all 'check it out' Crofts: 'you know Dante Alighieri? William Shakespeare? John Milton?' Crofts: 'morons!' Crofts: 'the guy you're gonna fuck is SO much better'

Angela Carter: a woman's just there to be a muse for a great man, huh? Carter: why can't a woman be a poet herself, I ask you? Crofts: no angela you don't understand Crofts: this chick is SO hot Carter: that doesn't figure into it Patricia Highsmith: naw i think it does

Crofts: me and howard wrote this story together Barker: oh did you now? Poe: clive Barker: i can tell, cuz it's definitely got all the usual hallmarks of a howard story Poe: clive Barker: i bet howard really contributed a lot Poe: clive

Crofts: wouldn't that be great to be a muse Crofts: a poet looks at you, he's all 'this chick is SO hot' Crofts: 'i can't NOT write the world's greatest poem' Crofts: if you think about it, howard Crofts: that's kinda like you and me, don't you think? Lovecraft: yeah i guess

Crofts: something wrong, howard? Lovecraft: no Lovecraft: no it's nothing Lovecraft: its just Lovecraft: that isn't really the direction i thought our collaboration would take Crofts: what's wrong with it? Lovecraft: it's just kinda mushy

Crofts: ok howard well next time we'll write what you want to write Crofts: in fact, here Crofts: why don't you use my beauty as inspiration Crofts: i'll be your muse Barker: ah ha ha Barker: oh honey Barker: oh sweetie Barker: have you read any of howard's stories?

Crofts: write me, howard, write me like one of your squid girls Lovecraft: [sweats] ok um so Lovecraft: [sweats] so in this story there's this girl, ok Crofts: what's she like Lovecraft: indescribable Crofts: Barker: ah aha ha Barker: nice save

#midnight pals #the midnight society #midnight society #clive barker #edgar allan poe #hp lovecraft #angela carter #patricia highsmith #edward lee #anna helen crofts

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words-and-coffee · 6 months

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There are some eyes that can eat you.

Angela Carter, The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories: The Erl-King

#Angela Carter #The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories #quote #quotes #lit #literature #book #book quote #book quotes #The Erl-King

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derangedrhythms · 4 months

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Midwinter – invincible, immaculate.

Angela Carter, The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories; from ‘The Snow Child’