something about gothic deaths… sickness that lasts for weeks and ends with blood stained sheets, days and days of being shut away from everyone that loves you. drowning (perhaps even by choice) in the waters you played in as a child. heartbreak so deep, so sudden, so chilling that it stops the blood flowing in your veins long enough to begin cardiac arrest. mysteriously found stabbed in a haystack. impaled on the spiral tower of a mansion you found on a foreign moor. hypothermia in the woods in the middle of winter, starvation in the streets of an English ghosttown, cut to death on the thorns of a hedge maze, struck down by a monster of your own making. idk. i just think they’re neat
I literally forgor 💀 You can read my whole 15,000-word Obra Dinn-ssertion about Pope's use of the virtual dead body as text, as a game, and a Gothic medium in Return of the Obra Dinn on muh website. WOE. cadaver nerd essay be upon ye.
New Pretties via Torch & Arrow! Darlings! Each of these pieces are all one of a kind, so if it isn't there in the shop, it has sold, so go forth and secure your treasure! This is the ONLY TIME all year I run a 20% off sale (anything above 24.99 qualifies, anything over 35 gets free shipping!) I have cuff-links, tie chains, pendants, pins, Gothic delights, Edgar Allan Poe portrait pins, necklaces & medals, as well as Steampunk medals, Neo-Victorian fancies, restored antique accessories, Doctor Who themed goodies, art and of course, books!
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