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So regretfully I dug myself into a hole and I had to write this as a result. Hope y’all enjoy.

Finally I can go back to writing dashingfrost

#ao3 #ao3 fanfic #tiktok #tiktok umg #universal music #umg #fanfic #fanfiction

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REBLOG if you are old enough to remember what a VCR is.

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Often I think that I’m very short because all the people I know personally are either my height or half a foot taller than me.

Then I remember everyone I know is a fucking freak of nature because I come online and all my friends are like 4’11, 5’0, 5’1 and I’m like… suddenly 5’6 isn’t that bad holy fuck.

#height difference #what the fuck #I’m like average for an AFAB dude I think?

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Thinking about Edith’s relationship to the pen as a writer and overall tool. Her father gifts her a pen, which she accepts with love, but then voices her preference for the typewriter. Specifically to make her writing more handsome and not tied to her recognizably “feminine” handwriting.

But in the end, it’s that very pen that is her escape, her emancipation from Crimson peak as she stabs it into Lucille. Lucille had intended the use of that pen to be an ironic, sickly final word on Edith’s life as she signed it away. A tool of creation, Edith’s love of writing and future ambitions, instead used as one of destruction for those very dreams. But instead, it because of that tool, used by her feminine hands, that gave her that split second chance at freedom.

Edith used the pen to get the metaphorical and literal final word.

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Irl it’s very very known that I love crimson peak. If you know me for longer than a day you’ll know I absolutely adore that movie.

I die internally every time I remember my dad has, indeed, watched the trailer to that movie because he, in his words, loves me and wants to look into my interests.

Thanks dad, love you too, but if you watch that movie I will never be able to look at you again, for a multitude of reasons.

#crimson peak #my stepdad will occasionally text me to say he’s started watching his crimson peak #that’s him saying that he’s just rewatching a movie he’s seen a lot

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I don’t care how awful he is. I want to hug him and tell him it will be okay, daddy issues be damned

#goro akechi #akechi goro #persona 5 #loki laufeyson #honourable female mention- Lucille sharpe #thomas sharpe #blackbeard #edward teach #our flag means death #crimson peak

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I just got this charm from @nobledemons and it’s absolutely perfect and gorgeous.

I definitely remember checking out their shop, they have so many cool items there.

#crimson peak #thomas sharpe #edith cushing

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Thanks for this mate. I’m also obsessed with this movie, going so far as to freak out when I haven’t watched it once a day. I’ve only just now decided to open tumblr and interact here I guess.

Anyways thanks! :)))

Do any crimson peak fans on tumblr have any input???

I got confused with the ages so I did some digging and I could be wrong because I couldn’t make out the newspaper

It looks like 1879 to me but I could be wrong and that’s my whole basis on their age.

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I love Lucille, I think her character is so interesting and has a lot of depth. The fandom plays their relationship to be a lot more toxic and make Thomas a lot more sympathetic than needed.

The relationship is still toxic however, “Thomas was abused” isn’t a wildly valid argument. Both Lucille and Thomas were abused and from what the movie tells us, Lucille got it worse.

Thomas isn’t innocent. He’s done horrible things to innocent women even if he didn’t do the ‘dirty work’ he still lies and manipulates them to their grave.

My issue with saying “Thomas is forgivable and Lucille is not?” Is because, Lucille doesn’t try to change, she doesn’t care and she stays a villain to the end of the movie. She’s a sad, heartbreaking character driven by her love and loneliness but she’s still a villain.

I say that Thomas earns forgiveness because he tries to save Edith at the end. He dies trying to protect her and even protects her in death. He tries to be better and he protects our main protagonist, telling her not to drink the tea at one point and then confronting Lucille about it.

Thomas doesn’t deserve complete forgiveness, he’s still responsible for the deaths of innocent women. However Lucille doesn’t deserved total damnation for what she did. She was driven by trauma and she had motives for why she did what she did.

On that note, I will say the Lucille hate is a lot more unnecessary than it needs to be. She’s an interesting character and we love her for it.

(Also idk if you’ve done so but I’d be so interested for Lucille headcanons)

i like your history posts but i could genuinely listen (read) to you talk about lucille all day

Thank you! I'm so normal about her! :)

Seriously, I think part of her interest to me is the fact that a vocal subset of the fandom DESPISES her. Highly correlated with Hiddleston adoration outside of the CPeak sphere, though that's not always the way it goes. It strikes me as interesting that you have this male character who actively states onscreen that he's not an innocent wounded bird who just needs to be redeemed by the love of a good woman (not directly, but I believe he's talking about himself in that moment)- but because he's pretty and sad, part of the fandom falls just as hard for him as the female protagonist does. Charming people into trusting him when he is eminently untrustworthy is what Thomas does, to the point where it even breaks the fourth wall. Fascinating.

On top of that, those same people WANT to hate Lucille so badly and completely that they'll just plain make things up. I saw someone admitting that they imagined a larger age gap between the siblings than the canonical two years, purely because they wanted the relationship to be even more toxic on Lucille's part. The freaking official movie novelization changes large swaths of the action to make Lucille seem worse and Thomas more sympathetic. Crimson Peak Cosplay TikTok is chock full of Sharpe siblings videos set to the same sound implying that Thomas wants to "get rid of" Lucille from his life despite no indication thereof in the movie (Never Getting Rid Of Me from the musical Waitress). It's wild.

Also, "he's an abuse victim" seems to be a valid excuse for Thomas' sins to be totally forgiven, but not Lucille's? To the point where some people just...seem to forget that she was horrifically abused, too? Not by someone who loved her, like Thomas was by her, but then he didn't spend six years in a hellish asylum. They both have unique abuse experiences that shape their actions and personalities. They're both victims- but they're also both grown people in their mid-30s who definitely Did That, regardless of the psychological reasons.

So we have a dark female character who both the actress and the director worked to make nuanced and compelling, who gets flattened into the sole villain of the piece by certain vocal fans (with what seems like a side order of quintessential Fandom MisogynyTM because her male counterpart gets the Oh Poor Innocent Lamb treatment), who's gay-coded and sympathetic in many ways and Victorian and absolutely gorgeous.

Marzi catnip, truly.

...also I will happily dispense Random Lucille Headcanons upon request just saying

#crimson peak #lucille sharpe #thomas sharpe #edith cushing

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i think the “we’ve been dead for years” means the necessity of their togetherness is dead. the necessity to be each other’s only as a means of survival is no longer serving either of them, it’s only holding them back. killing them.

Also a valid interpretation!

(I mean, there are no wrong interpretations unless you ask GDT directly what he meant AND consider that canon. I'm just curious about how common the two biggest ones are, and what other ways people might interpret it.)

Personally I hear it as "this isn't living. we're just eking out an existence from day to day, with nothing changing or improving. I've found a way out and I need you to come with me because...we're dead. we can't go on like this."

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I know we all love Crimson Peak but everytime I think about that movie I remember the time I was sitting in an eye doctors office waiting for my glasses, and the only other person waiting was a little old man, and the doctor had put Crimson Peak on the tv for us to watch. like. in the middle of the day, didn't ask us or anything. 10/10 watching experience I hope the old man liked the movie

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Lucille Sharpe truly is one of the characters of all time

she's a lost girl. she's a monster. every single thing she does is motivated by love and loneliness. she has destroyed innocent lives and feels no remorse for it. she should get to heal from her trauma and be happy. she should be hanged for everyone else's safety. she would die for the person she loves most, but she wouldn't stop manipulating him and trapping him in the darkness with her. she loves beautiful, fragile things so much she has to kill them about it. she's Probably Queer but would never admit that. she's the Victorian "angel in the house" archetype, but an angel of death.

and of course her aesthetic sensibilities slap

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This looks so fuckin cool

Crimson peak redesigns for class!

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Do any crimson peak fans on tumblr have any input???

I got confused with the ages so I did some digging and I could be wrong because I couldn’t make out the newspaper

It looks like 1879 to me but I could be wrong and that’s my whole basis on their age.

#crimson peak #thomas sharpe #lucille sharpe #edith cushing #I’m great at detective work #tom hiddleston

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you ever think about how fandral is the most annoying motherfucker in the world and is probably the worst to live/work with bc i think about that and laugh about it every goddamn day

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That’s literally so real. This whole time I’ve been sitting here like “who’s gonna give gammafrost some love…”

I’m curious

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No. It’s not.

Lokius is always the winner of these polls and there are so many more interesting ships than Lokius. I’m not saying all the ships I put are more interesting, I’d take Lokius over sylki, HOWEVER.

Where is the fun is Lokius always wins. It’s boring. Let’s give other ships a chance.

I’m curious