#edgar poe

[marysmirages]

Annabel Lee (2023)

Illustration for the poem by Edgar Allan Poe "Annabel Lee"

Girl with a lantern by the stormy sea

#annabel lee #art #painting #marysmirages #edgar poe #edgar allan poe #victorian gothic #lantern #stormysea #ink

[atlantis-just-drowned]

Ok so I went to an old apartment we're renovating and started ripping the old yellow floral wallpaper

And suddenly, for a brief moment of my life I was the narrator of The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Gilman

#whispers from atlantis #edgar allan poe #edgar poe #the yellow wallpaper #weirdcore #dreamcore #vintagecore #abandoned #abandonedcore #urbex #you know what this makes me think about? #lenore #lenore nevermore #lenore vandernacht #nevermore webtoon #nevermore webcomic #nevermore #pluto nevermore

[freuleinanna]

I'm still confused about Verna.. I thought she was a demon?? Because why would Death be going around making a bunch of deals with people? After Verna told Pym she decided to go "topside" I thought she was some kind of crossroads demon since it implies she came from below (hell)

Oh! I feel you, and I struggled with that a lot too. She does seem a lot like a demon. I'm not saying I'm 100% correct in my thinking either, but here's why I personally think she's Death. Kind of a long post, sorry. I hope I make myself clear, but feel free to follow up!

So, Verna. An anagram for Raven, that much is established. Ravens are wonderful - symmetrical even - creatures. Bringers of death in a wide understanding. Bringers of good luck in many cultures. The duality is amazing. To me, that also leans majorly into the theme of death being a concept of duality: an enemy for some, a friend for others. Each greets her differently. I'm not talking about the characters here, but people in general.

There's a proverb I came across a while ago that reads 'Death is a great leveller'. Meaning, everyone's equal before her. You have no leverage or buffer against death, and it doesn't matter if you're poor or blindly, feverishly, grotesquely rich (like our folks here). Everyone pays the last bill. For everyone, there's a day of reckoning. It's a major theme with the show, at least. Verna also says 'Buy now, pay the bill later' - although it can still read very demonic, I agree.

She's obviously ancient, and I was leaning toward the demon theory based on all of her talking. Yet - she also keeps ranting about Egypt and pyramids and Cleopatras and such. What's the one thing with Egyptians everyone knows of? They honored death. Death may have been a bigger part of their lives than life itself. The Usher Twins' obssession with all things Egyptian, antiquities, jewelry, swords and such, plays a nice parallel here too, because they're just collectors. They have no grain of honor for the real thing, for what these things are tied to. Kind of a nice thought, I guess.

Anyway, back to Verna. She says on multiple occasions how intrigued she is with us, 'adorable little things'. She saw the pyramids, the expeditions, and she wanted to see what else we do, she wanted to see what Roderick and Madeline will do (in her own words). It's all an experiment to her. She makes an offer just to see what we, people, do.

Here's where my beef with a demon theory comes in. No demonic creature I could think of, be it an actual demon, a trickster, or something else, is that sincerely intrigued. Something something death loving life something something.

Demons, in my understanding, are most interested in winning the deal. They come up with incredible challenges, they enjoy torture, emotional or physical, they never let anyone win. Verna has never once expressed this. Quite the opposite. She gives everyone a chance to step back. Even when the ink has dried and everything's decided, each Usher sibling is conditioned to make a choice: push forward, or step back. Neither of them steps back. Neither of them takes a long hard look at themselves (except Tamerlane, both literally haha and figuratively, as she's the only one to have realized how lost she was in her way - just at the end, when it didn't really matter anymore, but still). Verna is kind to those she takes (sincere pet names, regrets of having to do it this way, making sure they know it's not personal, etc). She grieves with them, just before. Grieving - 'The Raven' being about an expression of grief and trauma - ravens as synonyms for death... you get the gist. Oh! Except Freddie - cause Freddie struck a cord. Infuriated her. So he doesn't get an expressed choice. And he would've blown it like coke anyway, so meh.

And then Arthur Pym. Oh, Arthur Pym. I honestly couldn't imagine a demon kneeling and thanking someone who's refused them.

About Arthur Pym, by the way. It's the one story I hadn't reread, and I should have, it turns out! haha Anyway, a few notes about his travels:

In the story, Arthur Pym is expressedly afraid of white color (North Pole, yada yada, white being the absense of colors/life, and the absense of life is death).

Verna enumerates the moments she witnessed of his travels. Someone getting left in Sahara. Someone getting shot in the Arctic. Something bad that was done to an Inuit woman. Why would she follow Arthur so closely? She didn't know him, he wasn't her favorite. I think it's because she came to collect those deaths. If she is death, she would've been exactly there, where people died. She would have also seen Arthur not partaking.

Aaaaaaaand it makes her 'You saw me' line sound better, because he had sure seen death along his travels.

I think the part about a place of out-of-time, out-of-space creatures and hollow Earth was a bit unnecessary, BUT I can try and tie it in this way:

It showed us how Arthur might have coped with what he saw, and he 'saw a lot', even in his 70s it's difficult for him to recall, and it made him think of humanity as a virus, literally;

He might have thought up that ethereal realm simply because he was in an expedition? Exhaustive conditions for both body and spirit? Traumatic experiences? If he saw Death, he might have cloaked it in his mind to cope with it, thus came his stories;

Verna going 'topside' may just mean that she had to go take a look herself, actually be willingly present for the events - to see the brave little humans conquer the earth. 'Topside', as in, 'visible, present, participating'. If Death exists, I doubt it bothers with our boring human realm but lives downunder, among all threads that weave the world.

So that's that on Arthur Pym.

A few other references my mind is too exhausted to tie in nicely:

Death takes Lenore. THE Lenore from 'The Raven' (mostly) and 'Lenore' (secondary). That happened. Also, death talking to a child of life? Regretting having to take her? Not very demonic of dear ol' Verna, in my opinion.

Her mourning veil, her last toasts to the Ushers at the cemetery? Demons don't tend to grieve their players. Demons don't respect and love them enough, and 'what is grief, if not love persevering'?

Death is the last threshold. Before death, we look upon our legacy (major theme with the show), we remember our losses and loves (Annabel Lee!!!!! love the poem, brilliantly done), we get heavy with regrets. We face death as an enemy & fight, like Madeline did. As a friend, like Arthur did. We confess, like Roderick did. All that is too significant to me overall.

And the last thing. It's Edgar Allan Poe. The whole Death tribute is a giant, incredible, thought-through-to-the-bits hommage to his literature where Death, figuratively and literally, takes the throne.

I hope I managed to express myself alright there. Thanks if you read it through, and as I said before, feel free to follow up or elaborate on some ideas. There are oceans to discuss. <3

#tore a few veins typing it out ughhhhh the poetry #asks #long post #the fall of the house of usher #tfothou #tfothou spoilers #tfothou tv #netflix #carla gugino #verna #meta post #the fall of the house of usher spoilers #edgar poe #edgar allan poe

[hihanki-ha-ha]

I decided to divide this series of works into a couple of parts, because I want to post something already ahaha so PART 1 OF DUOS IN CUTE ART STYLE

#akutagawa ryunosuke #atsushi nakajima #ranpo edogawa #edgar poe #nikolai gogol #fyodor dostoevsky #bungou stray dogs #bsd fanart #bsd #bsd illustrations #trying new style

[mimipuph]

New illustration and information on the Gakuen universe

#art #wth is this #bungou stray dogs #bsd #bungou stray dogs ranpo #ranpo edogawa #bsd ranpo #poe bsd #poe bungou stray dogs #edgar allan poe #edgar poe #bsd edogawa rampo #bungo stray dogs #bsd mushitaro #mushitaro oguri #bsd yokomizo #seishi yokomizo #bsd official art #gakuen bungou stray dogs #bungou stray dogs school

[gacougnol]

Edmund Dulac

A Demon in my View

Illustration for the Edgar Poe's collection "The Bells and Other Poems" 1849

#edmund dulac #edgar poe

[miyavanderboom]

Bungou Stray Dogs

Season 4 Episode 4

Edgar Allan Poe

#bungou stray dogs #bungo stray dogs #bsd #edgar allan poe #edgar poe

[jughza]

OMG A REDRAW‼️🗣️

#ranpoe fanart #ranpo edogawa #bsd ranpo #bungou stray dogs ranpo #bsd edogawa rampo #bsd rampo #rampo #fanart #bungou mayoi #bungou sd #bungou stray dogs #edgar poe #edgar allan poe #poe bsd #poe bungou stray dogs

[kapitosshh]

#bsd #art #bungou stray dogs #bungo stray dogs fanart #edgar allen poe bsd #edgar allan poe #edgar poe

[iffatara]

my pea sized brain could never think of this

#dazai #ranpo #fukuzawa #bsd #bsd manga #chuuya #chuuya nakahara #atushi nakajima #anime #edgar poe #poe

[marysmirages]

Annabel Lee (2020)

In the kingdom by the sea...

#annabel lee #edgar allan poe #edgar poe #gothic #ghost #ghostly #mystical #sea #lolita #marysmirages #art #illustration #painting #drawing #nevermore

[srvyxhi]

Current mood: obsess over swans!

In past reflections on its thoughts today the Swan remembers freedom, but can’t make a song from its surroundings, only take on the winter's ghostly hue of snow.

― Le tombeau d’Edgar Poe by Stéphane Mallarmé

#swans #swan #dark academia #dark academia aesthetic #animals #swans band #birds #nature #black swan #edgar poe #stephane mallarme

[best-fictional-cat]

Round 3 Group 7

The Black Cat (The Black Cat, E.A.Poe) vs Tom (Tom and Jerry)

#best fictional cat #polls #cats #competitions #tournament poll #the black cat #edgar allan poe #edgar poe #tom and jerry #tom

[chemicaldemiurge]

#ranpo edogawa #edgar poe #bsd fanart #bungou stray dogs #rampo edogawa #bsd ranpoe #ranpoe fanart

[unfortunatetheorist]

Quote Debunk 9: The Chamber of (Quote) Secrets (NCT)

"In the years since, I've inquired what became of the Brothers Poe." ¬ Lemony Snicket, The Bad Beginning

In The Bad Beginning, Lemony mentions the 'Brothers Poe' but more importantly:

"One followed his father into the world of banking. The other lives in a cave and talks to sheep."

Now, when Lemony says "Brothers Poe" he could be referring to 2 sets of brothers:

Edgar and Albert

Arthur and a SECRET brother

N.B. This wouldn't be the first time a secret sibling has been revealed by Snicket - Dewey was only revealed after Frank and Ernest; The White-Faced Women EVENTUALLY revealed that they lost their parents AND THIRD SISTER in a fire...

If he's referring to Edgar and Albert then we know their future, but if he's talking about Arthur and his brother, there's a whole lot more going on.

THEORY PART 1: Mr Poe's father was a banker, resulting in childhood negligence from his father (i.e. "Daddy issues").

This could be what he means during this dialogue:

"Don't you miss the vivid imagination of childhood?"

"I never had one."

"An imagination or a childhood?"

HE NEVER HAD EITHER - his childhood was too busy spent imagining that his father would show him more attention.

THEORY PART 2: Mr Poe's brother is an unmentioned islander in The End.

We know that on the island there are loads of sheep and it is entirely possible for there to be caves over there.

Ishmael's opiate + his father's negligence = submission to Ishmael + talking to sheep.

But that only applies if we interpret it this way - these could be All The Wrong Theories...

¬ Th3r3534ch1ngr4ph, Unfortunate Theorist/Snicketologist

#asoue #vfd #lemony snicket #a series of unfortunate events #snicketverse #asoue netflix #theory #mr poe #arthur poe #edgar allan poe #edgar poe #albert poe #brother #secret brother #ishmael #the end

[razumichinfan]

C. Auguste Dupin

#the murders in the rue morgue #auguste dupin #c auguste dupin #edgar allan poe #edgar poe