#ecogoth

[ratcharlie]

i am once again on a mission to make ecogoth a thing seperate to but closely related to the scooby doo characters like yes! id love to mix sustainable fashion w goth fashion without looking like im in constant thorn cosplay

#ecogoth #eco goth #sustainable fashion #goth

[cleopatrachampagne]

#yellowstone #yellowstone national park #nature #nature photography #photography #naturecore #aesthetic #dark aesthetic #ecogoth #my photography #landscapes #mountains #forest fire #rebirth #dark #art #my art

[treeroutes]

botanical horror related books that i am absolutely going to read (ie. the tbr list that no one asked for) :

Otto, Eric C. Green Speculations: Science Fiction and Transformative Environmentalism. Ohio State University Press, 2012.

Meeker, Natania, and Antónia Szabari. Radical Botany: Plants and Speculative Fiction. 1st ed. Fordham University Press, 2020.

Dauncey, E. A., and Sonny Larsson. Plants That Kill: A Natural History of the World’s Most Poisonous Plants, 2018.

Bishop, Katherine E., David Higgins, and Jerry Määttä. Plants in Science Fiction: Speculative Vegetation. University of Wales Press, 2020.

Tidwell, Christy, and Carter Soles. Fear and Nature: Ecohorror Studies in the Anthropocene. AnthropoScene, 2023.

Parker, Elizabeth. The Forest and the EcoGothic: The Deep Dark Woods in the Popular Imagination. Springer Nature, 2020.

#ramblings #text #botanical horror #ecogothic #you can find most of those on libgen btw

[obeetlebeetle]

obviously the big critique of gothic horror in yellowjackets is the use of madness to blur lines between the horror of lottie being medicated as a child/institutionalized post-rescue and the horror of being trapped within the wilderness which manifests a 'supernatural entity' -- i think that this is hard to parse in s1 since it's just not a complete story -- but i also think that there is another thread to pull here, which is that american wilderness gothic is a specifically colonialist fantasy. the vast 'untamed' wilderness as a permissive and/or evil space, that is allowing 'true' human nature to evolve into violence and/or acting on humans in order to 'corrupt' or 'infect' them with violent desires -- see: all of doomcoming, prompted by both lottie's interpretation of reality and the consumption of mushrooms from the wilderness -- is an idea conceived by writers like brockden brown who were attempting to restage gothic horror through the 'frontier' presented within the american landscape. i dont have anywhere to take this thought yet (have to revisit some ideas from my thesis + read more ecogothic) but i do want to highlight it since we are so close to s2

#not to say both critiques dont exist -- in fact i think they inform each other! bc lottie's madness is in direct contact with wilderness! #but most of the interesting examinations ive seen of the show havent really acknowledged this #guy who is always thinking abt ecogothic: hey does anyone think that ecogothic is kinda relevant here #wildernessposting

[thesleepingstag]

ɪɴ ᴛʜᴇ ꜱᴏꜰᴛ ʟɪɢʜᴛ ᴏꜰ ᴅᴀᴡɴ, ᴀ ʙᴇᴀꜱᴛ ɪꜱ ᴀᴡᴀᴋᴇɴᴇᴅ

Lil beasties seen in Theodore Roosevelt Natl Park, part two

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#artists on tumblr #bison #buffalo #national parks #animal art #tatanka #ecogothic #illustration #surrealism #digital art #oil painting #contemporary art #thesleepingstag

[shestoodintears]

Maybe you will share in my excitement : I've been reading this since I discovered it yesterday! It explores the Capitalocene, the Plantationocene, and the Chthulucene, it talks about the Anthropocene as a geohistorical event as well as a literary object and how we use the gothic to talk about the gothic times we live in now.

The chapter on de-extinction written by Michael Fuchs is amazing, very exciting, can't wait to use this in my own work!!

This fantastic work on the ecogothic is in Open Access! Click here.

#i've been excited about this on my own since yesterday #i've talked about it to my supervisors and to my partner #but i don't think they're in on it yet #ecogothic #open access #the gothic anthropocene #dark scenes from damaged earth #ecocriticism

[flowers-all-around-me]

Sat down and picked up an actual book (non-fiction to be precise) and read a chapter after like. Two or three years of my brain being too mouldy to do so and lemme tell ya my fellow mould people. This reading shit fucks hard.

#flower rambles #i am a chapter in and it is good and my brain is already slamming itself against the walls of its enclosure in excitement #its called forest and the ecogothic and feel free to slide into my dms if you want me to talk about it :)

[generallygothic]

"𝕿𝖍𝖊 𝖉𝖊𝖊𝖕 𝖘𝖊𝖆 𝖎𝖘 𝖆 𝖍𝖆𝖚𝖓𝖙𝖊𝖉 𝖍𝖔𝖚𝖘𝖊: 𝖆 𝖕𝖑𝖆𝖈𝖊 𝖎𝖓 𝖜𝖍𝖎𝖈𝖍 𝖙𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖌𝖘 𝖙𝖍𝖆𝖙 𝖔𝖚𝖌𝖍𝖙 𝖓𝖔𝖙 𝖙𝖔 𝖊𝖝𝖎𝖘𝖙 𝖒𝖔𝖛𝖊 𝖆𝖇𝖔𝖚𝖙 𝖎𝖓 𝖙𝖍𝖊 𝖉𝖆𝖗𝖐𝖓𝖊𝖘𝖘." - Julia Armfield 🕯🕯🕯🕯🕯🕯🕯 There is a scene in a film I saw only once, as a child, that has stayed with me always. The film was about freediving and I think that it was French. In my mind, the scene takes place in a hotel bedroom. On the bed, one of the divers is suffering with the bends; on land he is haunted by the ocean. In a nightmare, hallucination, or visual metaphor for madness, the room fills with water. It is a suffocating, horrifically beautiful scene. It has the perfectly breath-halting oxymoronic quality created when horror and beauty serenely stand hand in silent hand. As I say, I saw the film only once and the scene I describe is as it remains in my mind. I am not sure I want to risk the enduring impression with the reality of a rewatch... 🌊 Instead, I celebrate in this same atmosphere created elsewhere. In adulthood I first found it in 'The Underwater Welder' by @jefflemire - a stunning graphic novel that I recommend highly. I found it next in @djdaisyjohnson's weird, watery tales of the 'Fen' - again I recommend, highly. 🌊 @my.dark.library recently tagged me to share my favourite first lines in fiction. I love the oppressive opening introduction to house as character in 'The Haunting of Hill House', 'Rebecca' and 'The Fall of the House of Usher'. Today, with the coastline close, I strayed only far enough from home to collect this highly anticipated read from the library. I am only two chapters in, but I feel that feeling rising in me - that same suffocating, drowning delight. According to our King @florence herself, 'Our Wives Under the Sea' promises to float "fluidly between horror story and love story, the gorgeous and the grotesque." What better book than @juliaarmfield to dive into this #pride🌈 ? ⚜ Have you read Our Wives? Where is your wife? Are they under the sea? . #juliaarmfield #generallygothic #ecogothic #bookstagram #horrorreads #lgbtqi #lgbthorror #predeceased #spookynerd #bookworm #bookrec #currentlyreading #ourwivesunderthesea (at Under The Sea) https://www.instagram.com/p/CerGTOyrgLm/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#pride🌈 #juliaarmfield #generallygothic #ecogothic #bookstagram #horrorreads #lgbtqi #lgbthorror #predeceased #spookynerd #bookworm #bookrec #currentlyreading #ourwivesunderthesea

[nkjemisin]

Hi! (Just to get in front of it, I'm not asking you for anything. I just wanted to let you know how much I appreciate your work and I SEE the decolonization in it. I'm definitely also neurodivergent, so forgive me if I over- or under-explain a point.) But I realize this is an Ask Me Anything... egad.

I'm working on a piece about Broken Earth for the Decolonizing the EcoGothic volume of the Gothic Nature Journal, and I just wanted to let you know that I am blown away by the way you tell stories. I was in a Gothic Horror (I'm really not that big of a Gothic literature nerd, I swear!) class while I was in graduate school last year and we read Toni Morrison's Beloved. That was the second time that I read that novel in particular, and the first time I read it I got hung up on Mama Suggs. Her character and her ceremonies in the clearing were very powerful, and I couldn't put a pin in why until I read Broken Earth. Something about the connection between Essun and Alabaster's bodies transforming as a result of their magic use and the utter negation and abuse and colonization of the black body in both stories and historic times of slavery (and the prison industrial complex today, let's be real). Reading Broken Earth helped me understand that. So thank you.

I'm sorry this is turning into a mini essay, but I also wanted to mention another connection I found between the two on my second read (a connection I formed, I'm definitely not trying to say that I know for sure what you were going for because of course there's a lot to the stories) was between that of the characters Nassun and Denver. Near the end of the novel, after Beloved's ghost has all but taken everything from Sethe, Denver begins to step off of the safe porch and enter into the unsafe world alone for the first time to try and find help. She finds herself recalling a conversation that she heard between Baby Suggs and her mother:

“Oh, some of them [white people] do all right by us,” Sethe said. Baby suggs responds,

“And every time it’s a surprise, ain’t it? Don’t box with me. There’s more of us they drowned than there is all of them ever lived from the start of time. Lay down your sword. This ain’t a battle; it’s a rout” (287). Denver then asks the memory of her grandmother what she should do, then. “Know it, and go on out the yard. Go on,” her grandmother responds (288).

What should Denver, or Nassun, do with the knowledge that they will never truly be safe? She has to accept it, but go on anyway. One foot after another, and so on. I felt a bit of this driving Nassun after her father takes her away from their home in Tirimo... and I dunno. You and Toni Morrison both write stories that stick with me, personally, and make me think. And think and think.

Oh I'm also not assuming you've read Beloved, either. I'm sorry! I this is turning into a mess. I think I'll stop there. Just, thank you. For your stories and for your characters and for the story of Syl Anagist. I loved the Inheritance Trilogy also, I'm just very stuck on Broken Earth because of this piece I'm working on. Thank you! Sorry.

No need to apologize! But I can't answer your question because I haven't read Beloved. Read and loved several Morrison novels, but not that one. (I keep meaning to, but my Mount ToBeRead is the size of Everest and growing.) Both books are inspired by the same historical event, and I think because of that, folks who don't know about Margaret Garner reasonably assume I'm riffing on Morrison rather than reality. But nope, the Broken Earth trilogy is just one of several creative works that are in conversation with the Garner tragedy. Any similarities you see probably come from the fact that Morrison and I share a racial and gender identity, and had a similar reaction to realizing just how much our current lives are impacted by hidden historical horrors.

Even if I'd read Beloved, however, I probably wouldn't be able to answer your question. Lit crit is best done by people other than the author, IMO. We're too close to our work to tell you very much about it.

#answered asks

[nonsense-aesthetics]

Ecogothic

(Central art by Magdalena Sołodyna)

#gothic #ecological #nature #gothic horror #whimsicore #art #photos #plants #moody #unreality #made-up aesthetic #nonsense aesthetic #aesthetic #aesthetics #aesthetic moodboard #moodboard aesthetic

[violetsdeadgarden]

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[spikeys]

tagged by @andrew3garfield — thank you 🩷 — to list 10 songs on my shuffle:

1. speak up - fightstar

2. are you the one - basement

3. sick of being sick - the damned

4. liquid state - muse

5. closer - veruca salt

6. ambulance - my chemical romance

7. zero - the smashing pumpkins

8. blood, sex and booze - green day

9. swap meet - nirvana

10. cheap vodka - acid bath

no pressure tag: @giaffa @hesitantalien2014 @ecogoths @stuckinthedeadlights @laydownursoul @gravegoth @gardenofpoison @bloodgutsandpussy @plasticguillotine @lavendernoise @thegothicsainteloiser

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[treeroutes]

love ur reading list post! sorry to come into ur inbox unsolicited, but if u haven't already read estok's the ecophobia hypothesis i would really recommend it -- i feel like ecophobia adds an interesting dimension to morton's theory of dark ecology that rly helps when reading ecological genre fic

you are absolutely allowed to send me recs like that! i have not read the ecophobia hypothesis but i will look into it immediately. thank you so much!

#asks #botanical horror #ecogothic #ecophobia

[obeetlebeetle]

the thing abt learning abt waste is that it is literally, literally everywhere. the makeup of the planet is microplastics and forever chemicals and excess carbon and my god the amount of fucking radiation. read any given wikipedia page for any given nuclear site and learn about the hundreds of thousands gallons of irradiated water that we've dumped into our rivers. and so it's interesting how upsetting it is to learn about ancient remains contaminated by microplastics, the remains themselves being a waste factor in their own right. not to say that all pollution is made equal, ofc, but just to point out that our contaminants cause a stronger affective response when they are entirely synthetically produced and therefore more apparently pervasive. shelley had it right with frankenstein: we are activated by horror when we witness our own ability to act outside of what we have determined to be natural laws.

#& we are in shock at the thought of our world becoming uninhabitable due to our own influence on it #& we are furious that the past is in fact corruptable #hm. not unlike the horror of what we consider transgressive human behavior . heres how ecogothic can still win--

[comingtoyoursenses]

I made a last.fm if u wanna be mutuals ..

#txt

[notcatherinemorland]

we r on tumblr again . ask meme

tagged by @lesbianlizzybennet :)

three ships: edelthea fire emblem, shadowgast critrole, wrightworth the gay lawyer men

first ever ship: sigh. sparxshipping winx club.

last song: dear fellow traveller by sea wolf (its the dnd anthem for me right now & im thinking about dnd again)

last movie: school of rock (bc its being taken off netflix)

currently reading: beloved by toni morrison (uni set text), several articles about the benefits of playing dnd (uni project), ecogothic by andrew smith (fun) and a 100k shadowgast fic (also fun)

currently watching: the library pick list dwindling as my coworker logs the requested books 

currently consuming: rooibos earl grey tea

currently craving: a twix from the library vending machine & another cup of rooibos earl grey

tagging: @medoisa, @coffeeacrossthegalaxy, @patricia-von-arundel, @dracolizardlars, @meggydolaon, @chiefskye, & anyone else who fancies it :)

#ayy thank u for the tag!! :) #this is big 2014 energy which. excellent. bringing it back. #if u dont want to do this then ofc absolutely no pressure! #if u do want to do this and say i tagged you then you have my blessing!! :) #this was a delightful way to put off all of the reading i listed up there :^) i am very productive :^)