lacrimosa

I want to learn more exclamations that aren’t strictly just religious stuff. “Jesus Christ” this, “oh my god” that, nah I want something fresh.

@chekhovs-tantrum

Haines offers a perspicacious application of Freud's "Mourning and Melancholia" to both sisters. If melancholia is failed mourning - the inability to accept and adjust to death or other loss - then the melancholic idealises the lost object (be it person, belief, fetishized commodity, and so on). Compounding the problem, the idealised lost object reproaches the melancholic, because the melancholic cannot live up to the lost object as perfect example. Ironically, the melancholic's self-accusations are introjections of the depressive's denials of what the lost object really was. Haines considers the possibility that Merricat is not melancholic because it is not her parents that she wants to preserve, but rather the just deserts they withheld from her. By killing them, she takes over their agency and sets the situation aright. By using their clothing, household utensils, and personal effects in her magic rituals, she makes their power work for her - she makes happen what they prevented: her coronation as princess of all that she surveyed. She acts the way they should have. In so doing, she makes them atone for mistreating her, then absolves them, and then rehabilitates them.

when someone dislikes an acclaimed movie i love: you just enjoy being a contrarian

Couple + Sibling/relative third wheel is honestly an S-tier trio dynamic and I wish we saw more of this in media.

Bonus points if the non-related half of the couple is just as committed to keeping the third wheel around as the related half.