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goryhorroor · 11 months

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transcendental horror + that look

the lighthouse (2019)

beyond the black rainbow (2010)

hereditary (2018)

videodrome (1983)

the vvitch (2015)

mandy (2018)

apostle (2018)

altered states (1980)

in the mouth of madness (1994)

midsommar (2019)

#ari aster & robert eggers love this ending i swear #horror #horror movies #transcendental horror #the lighthouse #beyond the black rainbow #hereditary #videodrome #the vvitch #mandy #apostle #altered states #in the mouth of madness #midsommar #moviesedit #horroredit #filmedit #cinema #tw: blood

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lollytea · 7 months

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It makes me sad that we know next to nothing about Perry but I always think about his response to his son being expelled is to put on his news reporter voice and declare "Breaking news! Augustus Porter is grounded!" Like objectively speaking, this man must be hilarious. But imagine the shit Gus puts up with on a regular basis

#youd think when he puts on that voice that hes being silly goofy #but then Gus asks ''are you mad?''#he's like ''haha. yeah im furious actually.''#the hereditary autism

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fruitageoforanges · 1 year

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i think one of the things i find compelling about rhaegar is that he’s a very good example of how selfish and destructive a martyr complex is. from what we know, it doesn’t feel like his obsession with the prophecy was overtly egotistical — less ‘i’m great ergo i’m the prince that is promised’, more ‘oh fuck, if this is true then unless i do these very specific things everyone and everything i know is doomed’.

and yet. there’s still something selfish about that. about assuming you have to be the one to solve the world’s problems. even when it eats you up, even when it isn’t some glorious purpose but a terrible shadow hanging over you. to assume you’re the only person who can do something — and, ironically, in trying to fulfil the prophecy and prevent the destruction of everyone he lover, he doomed pretty much all of them.

#asoiaf #asoiaf meta #rhaegar targaryen #to be clear this is just my interpretation #but i find it so interesting #and a very good example of how self-destructive behaviours are still selfish and destroy other people #i think the proverbial coin teetered more towards madness in his case #and by that i mean a combination of hereditary mental illness #general ominous narrative fuckery re: summerhall #and having aerys as a father #created a unique cocktail of awful that was destined to end somewhere tragic #also to be clear: not at all interested in rhaelya. that’s not fucking romantic. it’s creepy.

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thevampirearchive · 8 months

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I'll say something that may be controversial but I was dissapointed that the battle scene in Breaking Dawn was a vision. Because to me, Stephanie would have been the most hated author of all times but also the most insanly bold and brave one. Imagine if that was how Twilight ended? everybody just dead except for the dog and his child bride? Now that would have been something!

#I'm in a big “some of yall are going to be mad at me but this must be said” mood #so l #it would have outsold so many movies and books #IMAGINE ? it would have held the same energy as the final like 20 min of hereditary ngl #carliles poor head!#twilight #breaking dawn

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talesfromthecrypts · 1 year

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My best friend sends me a text with one of those “the greatest cult film ever is now on shudder” about Possession asking me if I’ve seen it and I’m acting like I’m normal about the 1981 horror film Possession

#I’m not but it’s fine #she’s still mad at me cause ‘hereditary was very fucking scary’

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bunnyb34r · 3 months

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It's rare that I sleep "walk" lately but I did today after trying to nap (and only getting maybe an hour at most)

I got up, turned on my light, and was swatting at the space by my bed where my storage shelf thing is, CONVINCED there was 50 or so fruit flies buzzing in one spot. I was swatting and I was like looking in my drinks when I came to, SURE they were somewhere (since i couldn't see them anymore). Finally came to, figured out what happened, and was like "what the FUCK was that???"

This is second only to the time I got out of bed, walkee across the room to my dresser, and tried to feed my STUFFED cat (who was still on the bed) because he was hungry and I couldn't find his food bowl. He doesn't have one. Since he's a TOY.

Usually it's just me waking up and thinking I'm looking for my phone charger or earbuds on my bed, convinced they're lost

Fucking wild experience man. You see what you're dreaming, but you're also seeing the real world. Hate it

#marquilla #at least the cat food one was bc of my medicine and once i stopped it i only have had them every once in a while #but like i didnt take ANYTHING before my nap so what the fuck was that man #maybe there was a buzzing sound like a bug or the TV that i thought was a bunch of bugs?? idk #i was really just mad it woke me up bc i knew i couldnt fall back asleep after like ffs #i know it's bc it's hereditary but like fuck man can you not brain???

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lenjaminmacbuttons · 1 year

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does anyone have any woman's relationship with her mother leads her to descend into madness movie recs

#talkyllama #I was initially kinda craving/thinking about seladon darkcrystal but I don't have that kind of time tonight #maybe just the one episode where she comes out in the skeksis dress...#nah I want a movie. like maybe hereditary? Is that kind of what hereditary is about?#We were gonna watch fire walk with me today and I know laura palmer has a) a relationship with her mother b) a descent into madness #but I don't know how crucial or direct a is to b #and I'm. in a specific mood.#My mother is an emotionally mature adult who is good at handling conflicts and processing her emotions. And I am mad about it.#so im feeling the need to watch someone else go crazy to catharsize how strongly I feel like going crazy. or like I've already gone.#anyways apparently my dad canon confirmed has seasonal affective in addition to mom's canon confirmed adhd and her family history of #bipolar disorder and whatever the heck is going on with the brains on dad's side of the family #so uh. as deeply joyous and grateful as I am to have been given the gift of life. why the hell did my mother and my father think it was a g #good idea to put their genes together #I gotta trail off here I'm gonna go draft those bomm posts I thought of this morning. legit looking for recs if anyone has some though mwah

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bitterblight · 1 year

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doctors are like the boy that cried wolf in the sense that they keep telling you everything that's wrong is because you're fat but they say it so much that the one in a million times it's actually true you just won't believe them

#it's literally the first (if not ONLY) reasoning they'll give you no matter what's wrong #what you have could be hereditary and instead of going oh well yeah since your grandma has it that's ut #they go 'have you tried losing weight?'#one even tried to get me to take diet pills 🤨 how about you shove those up your fucking ass #and sometimes the doctor telling you this is fat themself! fucking mad that is

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thefiresofpompeii · 1 year

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just watched kier-la janisse's 3 hour documentary epic about folk horror as a mode of interpretation and understanding of vastly different styles and eras of genre cinema and despite everything the fact remains that most "horror" "fans" and creators are cowards who firmly stick to their guns regarding their ingrained assumptions and prejudices about cultures/beings/identities that are seen as the other, continuing to proliferate these damaging harmful narratives without questioning which parties may benefit from a version of the story being told from this particular point of view. what ends does the instilling of fear, the most powerful, potent, galvanising in some cases emotion, serve for an audience? (obviously this is the case with any other genre and in actuality just a far wider problem sort of inevitable in a regime that instructs which ideas are to be spread to the masses) but again, it's vital to consider this issue specifically within the realm of horror, since nothing inspires scapegoating, hatred and self-righteous violence quite like blind fear of a phenomenon that the required effort has not been put into comprehending

#anyway the documentary itself SLAPPED i am still reeling from how all-encompassing and wonderfully cohesive it was. standing ovation #can you tell i'm mad about hereditary again. stop touting it as the pinnacle of modern horror or whatever. nobody around me gets it #ari assturd SUCKS he is literally example A of what i'm vagueing here #folk horror #kier la-janisse #woodlands dark and days bewitched #film #jamie.txt #horror

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suffercerebral · 2 years

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i think toni collette is so terrifying to me because that's exactly how my mom gets when she's angry

#that one scene in hereditary...the Everything about her getting mad in little miss sunshine #like Wow that's terrifying to me

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cebothelover · 2 years

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*capitalists are crying*

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getvalentined · 8 months

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HEY TUMBLR! I DESPERATELY WANT TO DESTROY SOMEONE IN AUSTRALIA!

SOMEONE STOLE MY BEST FRIEND'S $2000 EBIKE IN BROAD DAYLIGHT AND GOT AWAY WITH IT

HELP THEM GET A NEW ONE

The details: One of my best friends in the entire world, @takenbynumbers, has been having a rough time lately. Their birthday is on the 10th, but the last couple months have been complete hell—and then today someone stole their ebike from where it was locked up right outside their place of work, in the lot, in front of the doors, in broad fucking daylight.

Nobody saw anything. All that was left was their extremely hefty lock, which was sliced to nothing, and their helmet.

They need this bike to get around, first and foremost, but also it's an integral tool in retaining their literal physical mobility, as it's a low-impact exercise that helps stave off the deterioration of their hips due to a hereditary condition. A police report has been filed, but that's not likely to go anywhere—these things are never recovered.

If you're going "wait a second, didn't one of your friends have an ebike stolen a couple years ago?" you are correct! This is the same friend! Last time someone broke into the locked secure storage cage at the apartment complex where lived and stole it in the middle of the night—they got a lock to make sure that couldn't happen again, and THIS TIME SOME JACKASS USED BOLT CUTTERS!

I AM SO FUCKING MAD BUT I AM IN THE WRONG HEMISPHERE TO ENACT REVENGE

If we can raise enough to get them a new one it would be the best birthday present in the world. External links deboost posts all over the net, so PLEASE signal boost this if you can. Everything helps.

#signal boost #fundraising #donate if you can #please #this is one of my favorite people on earth #i'd buy them a bike myself if I could #but I can't #so please #everything helps

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vintagegeekculture · 1 month

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The Evil Little Hairy Cave People of Europe in Pulp Fiction

From the 1900s to the 1940s, there was a trendy theme in occult and horror stories that the explanation for widespread European legends of fairies, brownies, pixies, leprechauns and other malicious little people, was that they were a hereditary racial memory of the extremely small non-human, hairy stone age original inhabitants of Europe, who still survive well into modern times in caves and barrows below the earth. Envious of being displaced on the surface, these weird creatures, adapted to the darkness of living underground and unable to withstand the sun, still mean mischief and occasionally go out at night to capture someone.... usually an attractive woman....to take to their dark caves for human sacrifice.

Displaced by the arrival of Indo-European language speakers at the dawn of the Bronze Age, these original, not quite human stone age people of Europe were driven deep underground into caves and barrows below the earth, where they went mad, adapted to the darkness and acquired a fear of daylight, became extremely inbred, in some cases acquired widespread albinism. It is these strange little people who gave the descendants of Europeans a haunting racial dread of places below the earth like mines and caves, and it also is these strange, hairy troglodytes who originally built the uncanny and mysterious menhir, fairy rings, and stone age structures of England, Scotland, and Ireland that predate the coming of the Celts and Romans.

In some cases, these evil troglodytes are usually identified with the mysterious Picts, the pre-Celtic stone age inhabitants of the British Isles. In some cases, they are identified with the Basque people of Spain, best known as the inventors of Jai Alai, and the oldest people in Europe who speak a unique language unrelated to any in the world.

The original codifier of this trend was Arthur Machen, a horror writer who is less remembered than his contemporary, Henry James, but who may be the best horror writer in the generations between Poe on the one end and Lovecraft/CL Moore/Clark Ashton Smith on the other. His story, "the White People" from 1904 (a reference to their strange cave albinism) was a twisted Alice in Wonderland with a girl who is irresistibly attracted to dark pre-Roman stone age ruins and who is eventually pulled underground.

In addition to being a great horror writer, Arthur Machen was a member of the Hermetic Society of the Golden Dawn, an occult organization, and was often seen at the Isis-Urania Temple in London. Many of his works have secretive occult knowledge.

H.P. Lovecraft in particular always pointed out Arthur Machen as his single biggest inspiration, though he combined Machen's dread and occultism with Abraham Merritt's sense of fear of the cosmic unknown, seen in "Dwellers in the Mirage" and "People of the Pit."

Another and scarier example of this trend would be "No Man's Land," a story by John Buchan, a Scotsman fascinated by paganism and horror, who often wrote stories of horrific discoveries and evil rites on the Scottish moors. He is often reduced to being described as a "Scottish Ghost Story" writer, a painfully reductivist description as in his career, Buchan wrote a lot of thrillers, detective, and adventure stories as well. In later life, he was appointed Governor General of Canada, meaning he may be the first head of state to be a horror writer.

It was Buchan who first identified the cave creatures with the Picts, something that another Weird Tales writer decades later, Robert E. Howard, would roll with in the 1920s.

Howard is a very identifiable kind of modern person you often see on the internet: a guy who talks tough, but who was terrified to leave his small town. He created manly man, tough guy heroes like Conan the Barbarian, Kull, and El Borak, but he himself never left his mother's house. It's no wonder he got along well with his fellow Weird Tales writer and weird shut in, HP Lovecraft. With 1920s Weird Tales writers, despite your admiration for their incredible talent, you also can't help but laugh at them a little, a feeling you also apply to a lot of Victorians, who achieved incredible things, but who are often closet cases and cranks who died virgins ("Chinese" Gordon comes to mind, as does Immelmann).

With Howard, his obsession with the Picts and the stone age cave dwelling people of Europe started with an unpublished manuscript where at a dinner party, a man gets knocked out and regresses to his past life in the Bronze Age, where he remembers the earliest contact between modern humans and the original inhabitants of the British Isles, the evil darkskinned Picts. This is a mix of both the "little cave people" story and another cliche at the time, "the stone age past life regression novel," another turn of the century cliche.

Still with the Picts on his mind, Howard would later create Bran Mak Morn, a Pict chieftain, who predated Kull and Conan as his Celtic caveman muscle hero. Howard was of Irish descent and proudly anti-Colonial and anti-British, with his Roman Empire and Civilized Kingdoms as a stand in for the British and other Empires, which he viewed as rapacious and humbug, a view shared by his greatest inspiration, Talbot Mundy. His "Worms of the Earth" gets to the heart of why these little cave people scare us so much: they remind us that we live on land that is impossibly ancient and we don't fully understand at all.

It was another Weird Tales Writer a decade later who wrote one of the last stories about the little hairy cave people of Europe, though, Manly Wade Wellman in 1942. Wellman was mainly known for creating the blond beefcake caveman hero Hok the Mighty set in stone age times, and for his supernatural ghost stories of Silver John the Balladeer set in modern, ghostly Appalachia (like many ex-Weird Tales writers, he made a turn to being a regional author in his later career, in the same way Hugh B. Cave became a Caribbean writer), but Wellman also had a regular character known as John Thunstone, a muscular and wealthy playboy known for his moustache who used his great wealth to investigate the supernatural and the occult. Thunstone had a silver sword made by St. Dunstan, patron of Silversmiths, well known for his confrontations with the Devil.

Most John Thunstone stories featured familiar stories, like a demon possessed seance and so on, but one in particular featured a unique enemy, the Shonokins.

The Shonokins were the original rulers of North America, descendants of Neanderthal man displaced by American Indians. This fear that the land we live is ancient and unknowable and we just arrived on it and don't know any of its secrets is common to settler societies, who often hold the landscape with dread, as in Patricia Wrightson's fantasies of the Australian Outback. It was easy enough to transport the hairy cave people from the Scottish Moors to North America. I suspect that's what they are, a personification of a fear shared in the middle class, that in the back of their minds, that everything they have supposedly earned is merely an accident of history, built by rapacity and the crimes of history, and that someday a bill will come due.

A text page in the May 1942 issue of Weird Tales gives strange additional information on the Shonokins not found elsewhere:

Since then, there have been too many examples of evil cave people who predate Europeans. Philip Jose Farmer's "The All White Elf" features the last survivor of a pre-European people who live in caves. A lot of other fiction of course has featured the Picts, but according to our modern scientific understanding, which describes them as much, much less exotically, as a blue tattooed people not too different and practically indistinguishable from the Celtic tribes that surrounded them, and which they eventually blended into.

#pulp fiction #horror #pulp novels #stone age #picts

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prismatoxic · 26 days

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(this post features transmasc chilchuck! if that's not a headcanon you enjoy you may look the other way)

chilchuck returns to kahka brud after laios's coronation, but as he'd somewhat suspected, things with his wife don't work out. returning to merini, he reunites with laios, and without a party to compromise and no existing romantic relationships for either of them, they finally confront things they've both been feeling for a while.

chilchuck never did anything drastic to prevent himself from conceiving more kids after puckpatti was born, and as he and his wife's relationship grew distant, sex wasn't an active factor anyway. so he's maybe... not as careful as he should be, when he and laios fall into bed together.

winding up pregnant, chilchuck finds himself unwilling to get rid of it, and just as quickly finds that laios doesn't want him to either. scandalous though chilchuck is sure their relationship would be to the kingdom, laios seems unconcerned, and is far more invested in being with chilchuck.

fentripp is larger than any of chilchuck's girls were, but to laios, he seems so small. chilchuck frets about him being late to all of his developmental milestones, but to laios, he's meeting them all earlier than he thought kids did. he's small for a tall-man, but big for a half-foot; his senses are sharp, though, and his mana pool is reasonably deep, so he did get some benefits from both.

fentripp is two years old when laios proposes, taking chilchuck entirely off guard. having an illicit relationship (and half-breed child) is one thing, but officiating it...? making chilchuck his spouse and fentripp his successor? chilchuck is baffled by the choice, but to laios, it's the most natural decision to make in the world.

as he ages and discovers his aptitude for magic + grows ever closer to his doting aunt falin (whom he idolizes), fentripp decides he wants to be a mage. like falin, he uses the gnome magic system, going so far as to turn up his nose when aunt marcille tries to teach him anything from the elven side. spirits are his friends, not his tools; it's very important to him.

laios's curse isn't hereditary, and fentripp can freely interact with the kingdom's monsters. it may not be what laios had always dreamed of for himself, but seeing his son adopt his enthusiasm for monsters is deeply heartwarming, all the same. (chilchuck wishes fen would maybe be a little more careful, but at least if laios comes running, the monsters scatter.)

he's a beloved child, cared for deeply by all of laios and chilchuck's friends and family. he's also, frequently and with little remorse, a handful--but in a soft, friendly way that makes it hard to stay mad at him. (chilchuck tries. the kid needs some discipline. but he's got laios's eyes, and does a great impression of laios's kicked puppy face, and "a troll will get you" doesn't work so well when his half-sisters have been fondly referring to him as a troll since they met him.)

#chilaios #toxart #dunmeshi spoilers #here you go anon i finally got to it #i hope you like him #oh shit he needs an oc tag lmao #detox oc: fentripp touden

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starryylies · 3 months

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Hi !!! Idk if you've done this already but can you do my angel boy Gaz and Ghost with a girl who love scary movies ??? I feel like they'd totally have the mentality of "I gotta comfort her when she's scared" but Gaz specifically flinches and I think Si would like "brace" if that makes sense like wincing his eyes. I dunno if you've done something like that but your emo story reminded me of me and it made me so happy I'm a metalhead and I was gonna ask for more but it was already in there and that just mad emy day ilysm already okay bye -🫀

Simon n Gaz watching a horror movie with s/o

HELLOOOOOOOOOOOO!!! Again so sorry (I’m sorry for saying sorry sm) but like Omg I love this cuz I love horror smmmm!!! Insidious,suspiria,Bwp, conjuring you name it I love them omgggg.

So thank you so much for the awesome ask and I hope you enjoy it 🩷🩷🩷

Also I used the movies sinister and lights out for the references :))

SIMON-

♰ he thought watching the movie sinister will be fun cuz he thought he could protect you from the jumpscares

♰ he needs to be protected from the damn movie tho (okay this movie is fucked up tho and it’s totally normal to be scared)

♰in the beginning he thought it will be some poorly made movie with shit ass jumpscares but boy was he wrong

♰ when the scene of the family hanging themselves comes on he was taken aback and he lets out an audible wince shutting his eyes

♰ he genuinely finds the movie scary and gory, cannot help but find himself wince and shut his eyes whenever he thinks there will be a jumpscare

♰ as the movie progressed and the other tapes were revealed he just couldn’t take it anymore, his limit broke off when the mowing scene came

♰ but you seemed to be enjoying the movie, anticipating what the next scene will reveal

♰ he shut the tv before he could see further, it was too much for him

♰ “fuckin hell love this movie is a fuckin nightmare” he groans

♰ “noo It’s a well made film :( plus I enjoy a good scare ya know”

♰ god how could you be so chill with it, he can’t tell if he should admire you or keep his distance

♰dw he admires you :)

♰ keeps on ranting about how he’d never do such a stupid fucking thing

♰ says Ellison was a stupid fuckin idiot for getting his family there and curses him for the rest of the day

♰ asks you your opinion on the movie and who you think is recording the tapes

♰ ends up going on the net to see how the movie ends cuz he can’t let it go

♰when he finds out the ending he has an ‘aha’ moment.

♰ tries watching the movie again but ends up stopping in the beginning itself cuz he can’t handle it.

♰ probably doesn’t want kids after this movie

GAZ-

♰ Awh this poor guy just wanted to watch a scary movie with you to hold you when you’re scared but it kinda ends up being the opposite

♰ you both decide on watching lights out (I wanted to pick hereditary or mother but too much cuz I’m writing this at 3am)

♰ see lights out is a Pretty chill film but Diana is creepy as hell and sadly gaz became a victim to Diana’s jumpscares

♰ when she killed the dad gaz visibly flinched like on the edge of the sofa hoping the dad would survive

♰ but boom the bitch killed him :/

♰ felt really bad for the brother (Martin)

♰sympathised with him a lot by saying he’s a good kid and that he’s really strong.

♰ surprised on how you’re not getting scared or anything

♰ thinks that you have watched this film before

♰ gaz got shit scared during the scene where Rebecca and her boyfriend came and Diana creeped around them

♰ the end made him tear up just a lil :(

♰ you ended up comforting him holding him close cuz he felt bad about their mom

♰ thinks it’s adorable how you give lil facts about the movie from time to time though.

♰ cursed Diana for the rest of the day,

♰ if you take any medications, don’t worry you’ll never miss them now cuz gaz will make sure you eat yours on time

♰ keeps the bathroom and living room lights on that night

♰ will search for movies like lights out

♰ will never watch them though

♰ is proud that he got closer to you tho

♰ will definitely hold you the entirety of the movie

♰ will never have a horror movie date again tho

♰ but will watch a horror movie with you if you ask him cuz how can he say no to you :))

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arabriddler · 5 months

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Some notes about Oswald’s depression.

Tw : for slight discussions/hints of alcoholism and ED

a big part of his depression is hereditary— The Kapelputs were very traditional in a sense. He came from a rich family, and because they often had to wear societal masks and confine themselves into shackles, there was a lot of depression going around. Some had gone mad and rejected by the family. Some needed a push to go mad like his mother, and some just lived with it. The point is. The sorrows were a constant companion to the Kapelputs. His mother, Gertrude, escaped the family, and she and her son didn’t have to live in that same confinement, but Gotham is a hard place to grow up in, and the trauma from balancing different jobs, often bad ones, and taking care of his mother took their toll on him.

Oswald’s depression translates to hunger. It’s a special type of hunger that can never be satisfied. He drank and smoked a lot, to numb the sorrows and quiet the demons, but they were still there. his hunger also translated into desire. He desired distractions, things to care for. If he has something to care for, to love, then he’s alright. He can’t think of a life where he has nothing to take care of. It was his mother, then the city, eventually he met Edward who was a man who needed attention and care, he started keeping birds when he stopped drinking, adopted Martin, and so and so. He’s always looking for something to care for.

another thing is that, despite it all, sometimes the depression takes its toll on him. He often wore very strong scented perfume because sometimes he’d go without a shower for weeks and he was too ashamed of it. He needed to mask his smell somehow. His body was riddled with stretch marks because his appetite was always affected by it. He grew white hair at a young age because of all the stress and sadness, and he’s just tired most of the time. thankfully, the things he grew to care for grew to care for him as well. The depression and the sadness are here, and he’s not really sure if they’ll go away or not, but at least he knows when he feels too sad, Edward would give him a nice bath, help him dress up, and encourage him to eat. He’s sad, yes, but he’s alright.

#Oswald cobblepot #the penguin #riddlebird #bee's art #Nahlaverse

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