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https://www.quotev.com/quiz/16726569/What-Gothic-Kids-Play-Sburb-troll-are-you

Gothic kids troll quiz

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Me after building a positive reputation for myself and now I have to deal with ppl venting to me because they think I care when I’d rather pour acid into my ears than listen to them cry abt their trauma for the 12th time.

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People love characters with low / no empathy or are apathetic about everything until they actually meet someone like that. Suddenly the person in question is horrible and abusive.

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"i love you" until i unmask

"i wanna know the real you" until i unmask

"you can be yourself with me" until i unmask

"you can unmask with me" until i ACTUALLY unmask

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my dawggg my homie my twin @devilsp3rm 🪲👈👈👈🐛

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Slavic Eridan and Vriska!!!!!!!!

Based on a slavicstuck troll designs I saw on Twitter (made by @/nexally)

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Grow thorns on your vines, be invasive. Be indigestible.

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More traditional art :33

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im so done with seeing articles about kids and screen time that doesnt mention parent behaviors even once. “kids are always on their phones” so are the parents! which the kids look to for how they should behave! ipad babies didn’t chose to only play on their ipads, thats what their parents gave them!

an anecdotal example: when i was a kid, all my parents would do in their minimal free time was watch tv and then they would be surprised when in my sister and i’s minimal free time we would also only watch tv/play video games. they scolded us for not reading books, but they never read books. they scolded us for not going outside but they never went outside.

“kids are always on their damn phones” my mom is in her 60s and opens up candy crush anytime she’s sitting — it isnt just the kids

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Do you have any gothic novels that you can recommend off the top of your head? Especially to people who want to try their hand at the genre? I've hit a wall in my project and I need to get some fresh inspiration, but I don't know where to start and the book side of tumblr failed me the last time I tried asking them for recs

Hell yeah! I made some old posts for this a while back, but it's good to look at it again with my more recent taste! Let's see...

Classic Gothics

Dracula: The one, the only. Often imitated, never equalled.

Frankenstein: Short, sad and world changing! Can get a little slow at parts, but definitely worth it. (True story, my parents read this to me as a fetus to calm my kicking, so it's part of my personal mythology!)

The Case of Charles Dexter Ward: The most gothic of Lovecraft's work, and possibly my favorite. Novella length, usually found in collections.

The Picture of Dorian Gray: Sinister, sexy, philosophical, with a main character I want to punch in the face!

Carmilla: Another novella, about as lush and swooning as vampire stories get.

The Hound of the Baskervilles: A very readable gothic mystery.

Confessions of a Justified Sinner: This one isn't as action packed, but if you have big religious issues like me, it's incredibly haunting.

The Monk: Like the above, but sleazier and crazier!

Northanger Abbey: A gentle parody of early gothics, starring an adorable proto-goth girl.

The Italian: I'll be honest, I find Anne Radcliffe kind of a slog, but if you liked Northanger Abbey and want to read what Catherine Morland reads, this is probably the most accessible.

A Long Fatal Love Chase: This starts as campy and then takes a plunge into gut-wrenchingly intense. The book Jo March was always trying to write!

The Strange Case of Doctor Jekyll and Mr. Hyde: Another novella, and Stevenson is one of the best writers out there for excitement!

The Werewolf of Paris: Gothic monster as serial killer, still scary today.

Rebecca: The foundation of all gothic romance to come afterwards. A ghost story without a ghost, with an ending that's still debated as happy or sad!

Jane Eyre: The other foundation of all gothic romance to come afterwards. I bounced off the child abuse-heavy beginning a few times, but I'm very glad I finally read to the good stuff!

The Castle of Otranto: Considered the first gothic novel, a goofy b-movie in written form.

Modern-ish Gothics (post-1950 or so)

The Dark Descent of Elizabeth Frankenstein: Fuck the haters, I love this book.

Mexican Gothic: Genuinely scary, genuinely romantic, genuinely creative. A favorite.

Blackwater: A southern gothic saga of a family in a flooded town, whose scion marries a woman who isn't quite human. A whirlwind ride!

A Bloodsmoor Romance: Another family saga, this one northern gothic, with sisters whose lives all go off the rails in different supernatural ways. Give this a try before writing Joyce Carol Oates off entirely!

The Silver Devil: A nasty, problematic bodice ripper where you'll cheer for the heroine to bring the hero down low!

Interview with the Vampire: To be honest again, I'm not super into Anne Rice, but this is a page-turner, and every vampire book that has come after it has had to respond to it in one way or another. Read the next two Vampire Chronicles books if you like it!

A Taste of Blood Wine: My own preferred sexy vampire romance!

The Bloody Chamber: The ultimate dark sexy fairy tale work, accept no substitutes.

Haunted Castles: Contains the brilliant novella Sardonicus, as well as some other campy gothic stories!

A Great and Terrible Beauty: Many millennials were introduced to the gothic genre via this, Fear Street Sagas, or A Series of Unfortunate Events. This is my favorite of the three, though the sequels are a bit of a letdown.

Gormenghast: This series is a throwback to the pseudo-medieval, Otranto-style gothic, but much better. Don't read Titus Alone.

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Digital version of my first drawing I did of my trollsona :P

He looks veiny here

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His eyes make him sense people's intentions even when he doesn't want it. This helps him with his empathy deficiency...

BTW, I didn't notice that his eyebrows match his horns!!! And how his hairline has the form of his sign! You have a good vision for patterns 👁 👁

What do you guys think about this lad. His name is Arseny Lorkan. He is me. I am him. I have yet to finish the digital translation of the first image.

Info dump below line (CW: Shitty Person, Similar to: Cronus Ampora, Aranea Serket (kind of) )

Arseny is a very weird troll of ceruleanblood. A hopebound; one that resembles more to a Rage player. A Bard of Hope.

His typing quirk is adding random w's and v's to v's and w's. He also has the Serket quirk that changes B's to 8's. And words that end similarly to 8 like flagellate = flagell8.

He shows sociopathic features; not having empathy unless trying to, not thinking about consequences, manipulating people (which is kinda like the norm for ceruleans), but He is nice to people whom he likes.

He likes Astrology and hates when people say it's false. He infodumps on anyone who shows even the smallest interest on it. He always asks people for their wriggling days.

Another interest is Nine Inch Nails and Big Black.

He also tends to say contradicting stuff for the sake of being contrary. But then cries when someone questions his astrology belief.

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every person ive ever suggested to that going through your partners phone not only invades their privacy but also the privacy of all the people who have possibly texted very personal things to them have acted like they genuinely never thought of that before

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What do you guys think about this lad. His name is Arseny Lorkan. He is me. I am him. I have yet to finish the digital translation of the first image.

Info dump below line (CW: Shitty Person, Similar to: Cronus Ampora, Aranea Serket (kind of) )

Arseny is a very weird troll of ceruleanblood. A hopebound; one that resembles more to a Rage player. A Bard of Hope.

His typing quirk is adding random w's and v's to v's and w's. He also has the Serket quirk that changes B's to 8's. And words that end similarly to 8 like flagellate = flagell8.

He shows sociopathic features; not having empathy unless trying to, not thinking about consequences, manipulating people (which is kinda like the norm for ceruleans), but He is nice to people whom he likes.

He likes Astrology and hates when people say it's false. He infodumps on anyone who shows even the smallest interest on it. He always asks people for their wriggling days.

Another interest is Nine Inch Nails and Big Black.

He also tends to say contradicting stuff for the sake of being contrary. But then cries when someone questions his astrology belief.

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“It’s too bad that stupidity isn’t painful.”

― Anton LaVey

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thinking again about vampirism as disability