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the mods are asleep post the velvet goldmine gif

When Claudia is being fitted for the yellow dress, Madeline remarks on Claudia physique and Claudia tells Madeline the food scarcity during the war made her body small. Something that would have been common during that period so Claudia's attitude immediately makes more sense. She's seen the horrors and that checks out. From that moment Madeline realises Claudia isn't a child and sees her as a malnourished young adult and acts accordingly by cracking a joke about sex

Get yourself a girl who look at you like this while reading your diary with your victims last words

The gentle, encouraging nod Claudia gives Madeline when Santiago offers her the chance to renounce Claudia and join the coven just breaks me – not just because Claudia’s used to not being someone’s first choice and expects Madeline to take the offer, but because she loves Madeline and wants her to save herself. Claudia is a little older than Madeline, and has much, much more experience of horror and violence, and better understanding of what is about to happen to them. She gives her lover permission abandon her and save herself and smiles when she does it. When it comes down to it, nothing to be done and no way out, Claudia is willing to let the person she loves, the one person that’s hers, go and leave her.