You’re referring to this post, which carries my darling heart Sus’ (aka @harrietvane) tags. And since those are her tags, I’ll leave it to her to explain fully, if she so wishes.
Heyyyyy so if you’re into this: that Rochester reference in my tag-rant about Crimson Peak and GdT was me being flippant about gothic tropes and fandom, not any actual real discourse (disclaimer: Rochester discourse I’m pretty sure is An Actual Thing, but fun fact, I deeply, deeply don’t care). In the context of Crimson Peak I was just noticing that this site is very very into Guillermo del Toro right now, and the way that happens is everyone gets all in a lather about how great and organically grass-fed non-problematic a creator is, then a few months later someone finds A Receipt about a Wrong Opinion They Have, and it’s on like donkey kong. Passive aggressive tea-sipping gifs are flying, and it all gets super boring in about 8 seconds. My flippant prediction was that if the love of GdT around here is based on the concept of The Monstrous being ‘actually just a super sweetheart, they’re just misunderstood!’, then this shit is about to go downhill fast, because that 100% is not what he seems to be into, by his own admission. The man is into the full monster spectrum, from what tumblr would call Good People (hey Frankenstein’s creature! or a finger-biting river god! Hellboy!), to Bad People (Mako’s flashback kaiju, fascist wind-up clockwork assassins, or serial murderers Lucille and Thomas Sharpe). The key for me is he’s not ever trying to make the Bad People column fit into the Good People column – he’s just genuinely just …into all of them. It’s not even ‘they’re all the Good column!’ – he’s not keeping labelled columns about which ones he’s allowed to like, it all just seems like Monster Mash to this guy. This site however loves to work itself into a froth about Gothic-lit style monsters that are put in the Bad People column (the big ones being MCU Loki, the Beast from BatB (any version tbh), literally anyone in Wuthering Heights, or Edward Fairfax Rochester, or Han and Leia’s nightmare progeny, etc), and the struggle over which column they belong to, Officially™, and ‘what exactly IS the correct bad childhood to homicide ratio anyway?’ And like, I’m exhausted even just turning my mind in the direction of that discussion at all tbh.
TL;DR: Lucille Sharpe and Thomas Sharpe totally murderised multiple vulnerable people, and had zero excuse for killing a woman in a wheelchair, but GdT doesn’t try and give them one – he knows they’re awful, and just loves Lucille’s jealous, neurotic, serial-poisoning self as-is, and Thomas’ self-interest and weakness and outright blatant lying self as-is. Like, he’s aware they’re gross, and he loves them. Not a mutually exclusive thing. If he gives some interview in future about a Gothic-style Horrible Person in popular media and is like ‘yeaaaah i love that gross trainwreck!’ and i see posts about how GdT is cancelled? I’ll make myself a rose-infused gin and tonic and kick back in my chair, wondering where my fucks went.
These pumps, crafted by Mexican designer Lucita Abarca, caused quite a stir at a recent Sixth Borough fashion show. These crystalline high-heels were grown by Wyrm’s Pass artisans, deep below the Rocky Mountains, using a mixture of firebird ash, waters from the springs at Paradiso, and a variety of secret ingredients, rumored to include Australian fire opals and powdered moonstone. The result of using the firebird ash become immediately recognizable when the heel of the shoe is dragged backward across any dry surface, as it creates an impressive streak of magical fire which can be accurately aimed with a little effot. Ms. Abarca said she wanted a shoe that made a statement, and that statement was “Any bastardo brujo catcalling me on La Plaza de Sangre better be ready to dose his huevos, you know?”
“When i was a kid, whenever i’d feel small or lonely, i’d look at the stars. Wondered if there was life up there. Turns out i was looking in the wrong direction.”
I watched a lot of the Highlander TV series growing up, mostly because my mom had a terrific crush on the lead, Adrian Paul (the wet one). I was always a bigger fan of Methos (the grassy one), but then again, I’m partial to unusual noses. Let’s be honest, though. Maybe there can be only one, but given the chance I’d take both.
watching regular starfleet people try to adjust to how things work on ds9 is so funny. worf shows up and nearly has a conniption because yOU GUYS KNOW THIS GUY IS ENGAGING IN CRIMINAL ACTIVITIES, WHY ARE YOU JUST LETTING IT HAPPEN. and literally everyone, security chief included, is like “lol that’s just quark”
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