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TJ MIKELOGAN’S HALLOWEEN 2023 EVENT: day fifteen - your favorite horror TV show

Penny Dreadful (2014-2016)

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Penny Dreadful: a type of 19th-century British fiction publication with lurid and sensational subject matter.

I love the first season of Penny Dreadful; I don’t think I ever saw the third season, and don’t remember much of the second, though I suppose I shall rectify both of those things soon enough.

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Please do not fear for me. I have no fear myself. The old monsters are gone. The old curses have echoed to silence. And if my immortal soul is lost to me, something yet remains. I remain..

PERIOD DRAMA APPRECIATION WEEK DAY 6: Favorite Character ↳ EVA GREEN as VANESSA IVES | Penny Dreadful (2014-2016)

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“My heart is its own destructive. It beats out the poisonous rhythm of the truth.”

— By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept, Elizabeth Smart

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So count yourself lucky. You’ve cheated the game and won without even knowing it. 

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Bad luck to kill a sea bird.

The Lighthouse (2019) dir. Robert Eggers

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Joker (2019)

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“The worst part of having a mental illness is people expect you to behave as if you don’t.”

— Arthur Fleck, Joker

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I am fascinated by the idea that our civilization is like a thin layer of ice upon a deep ocean of chaos and darkness

Werner Herzog (via drakontomalloi)

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My mother always tells me to smile and put on a happy face. / I used to think that my life was a tragedy, but now I realize, it’s a comedy.

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It’s possible to argue that depressive realists are cursed with the kind of consciousness that isn’t automatically guarded against the horrors of life - that their consciousness sees a meaningless universe for what it is and apprehends the struggle of daily life with the jaws of death in the end. In other words, depressive realists may not be eccentrics or party-poopers but people who are born without the common anti-horror filter, who discern hopelessness - with all manner of denials produced against it - as our unavoidable lot. Their perception may not be due to clinical depression projected outward, but to an all-too-naked perception and understanding of what life holds.

Colin Feltham, Keeping Ourselves in the Dark, P. 74 (via blackestdespondency)

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Years ago, I was still a little boy. A stranger came to us. He looked as if he’d been in the war. Didn’t talk much.

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I think things, no matter how abnormal or strange they seem to us, happen for a reason. Who are we to play God? What’s past is past, but you live in the here and now. Who knows what the future will bring. 

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Your role in all this is much greater than you think.

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REBECCA (1940) dir. Alfred Hitchcock

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JOKER (2019) dir. Todd Phillips