the scheme of things

Confirmed creature post

Moderne Motive für die Kleinmusterung der Gewebe - c.1898 - via Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Dresden (SLUB)

by divindk

The Bear and the Wild Cat Kazumi Yumoto Komako Sakai

White Dwarfs in Globular Cluster NGC 6397 by NASA Hubble

The Hermit Thrush, Thomas Wilmer Dewing

St. Paul de Vence. Early 1980s

“Small Horned Owl on Maple Branch under Full Moon” (1832) by Utagawa Hiroshige

Collared peccary (Dicotyles tajacu/Pecari tajacu) “Javelina aka Collared Peccary” by Larry Lamsa, CC BY 2.0 (x)

Orchard at Louveciennes the English Pear Tree (1875) by Pierre-Auguste Renoir

kansas, 2008

amateurish first effort

But also. The clash between Merricat and Charles is obviously about which of them is the rightful owner of the Blackwood house. And so it's also about whose worldview will win out, because Charles is the rightful owner in his and Merricat in hers. By treating Merricat as a twelve-year-old, even if he does it in an attempt to assert control, Charles is adopting an element of Merricat's worldview, based in magic and ritual and symbolism. And by accepting that she is twelve, he's also accepting that she can, by her actions, freeze time and keep things in stasis. Even while he attempts to establish himself as patriarch, he's ceding ground to her in a way he doesn't realise, and letting Merricat and Constance determine an element of his reality. It's an early sign that Merricat is stronger and more unyielding, that her worldview is superior and her faith in it more intense, and that she's going to win.