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THE COMPANY OF WOLVES (1984) + winter

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"God closed my eyes so I could see only the real Gwynplaine." Mary Philbin as Dea in THE MAN WHO LAUGHS 1928, dir. Paul Leni

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Wedding night (OCs)

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More medieval dyes for y'all!

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EMILY BADER My Lady Jane (2024) I Episode 7

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You've cut the wrong foot, my love.

The Ugly Stepsister Den stygge stesøsteren (2025), dir. Emilie Blichfeldt

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sometimes you need dialogue tags and don't want to use the same four

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Truth is like fire; to tell the truth means to glow and burn.

— Gustav Klimt

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MAY I BURN. MAY YOU SEE IT; DEVOTION THAT SWALLOWS YOU WHOLE

George Bataille // @inbredlamb // Richard Siken Litany in Which Certain Things Are Crossed Out // Olga Koroleva with grandfather // unknown // Richard Siken "Planet of Love," Crush // Otto Künzli Ring for two people / Brooch for two people // Ada Limón "The Good Fight," Bright Dead Things // Phoebe Bridgers Scott Street

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Celtic houses

Medieval Dreams

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Grandmother's Love Letters - James Carroll Beckwith

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Miss Brown's Imaginary Worlds has been deleted from Royal Road. Mostly because I have had personal problems this year and was not able to advance. But now that I have a beta reader for it, I have decided to pull it out so I can polish it and publish when it's finally done. Thank you to my few readers. And I will waiting for you for my next short story and for the second edition of this novel.

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"Ghosts are real. This much, I know. There are things that tie them to a place, very much like they do us. Some remain tethered to a patch of land, a time and date, the spilling of blood, a terrible crime. But there are others, others that hold onto an emotion, a drive, loss, revenge, or love. Those, they never go away."

CRIMSON PEAK 2015 | dir. Guillermo del Toro

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gothic fiction delicacies 

one. byronic hero

intense eyes; solitary wanderings; brooding silence; haunted gaze; dark charisma; tragic allure; veiled mystery

two. madness

fractured reality; psychological torment; deranged mutterings; whispering shadows; eerie obsessions; unraveling sanity; labyrinthine mind; feeling trapped

three. isolation

cut off from the outside world; trapped in a remote location; abandoned footfalls; neverending empty corridors; calling out and not hearing back

four. ruin

shattered windows; statues that gaze back; freshly-cut gardens despite rusty gates and moss-covered stones; feeling time standing still

five. the uncanny

familiar made strange; sense of unease; unblinking eyes; whispering portraits; distorted reflections; unseen presence; sense of odd terror

six. death and mortality

empty coffins; silent graves; sound of a raven; cold tombstones with faded names; creaking of an old casket lid; flickering candlelight; chill of marble; pervasive smell of freshly turned soil; watched by unseen eyes

seven. forbidden knowledge and power

secret manuscripts; silent incantations in forgotten languages; rough aged parchment of old scrolls; metallic taste of a casted spell; musty odor of ancient libraries; overwhelming compulsion to delve deeper into mysteries

eight. attraction and repulsion

ominous elegance; pale skin contrasting with dark attire; soft seduction laced with danger; heartbeat racing in a quiet room; hushed conversations amidst tension; electric sensation from a fleeting touch; bittersweet flavor of love

nine. dark and unexplored places

flickering torchlight in endless narrow passageways; shadows dancing on walls; cold stone beneath fingertips; brush of unseen cobwebs against the skin; faint scent of charred wood

ten. family secrets

locked doors and hidden rooms; stains on letters; a key to a long-forgotten lock; fragile papers tarnished with old secrets; bitter flavor of betrayal and deception; tension at family gatherings

part one.

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