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sir yes sir *aims revolver at own head, misses all 6 shots, walks away dejected*

PRIDE AND PREJUDICE (2005) + Joe Wright’s DVD Commentary

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Somehow, Little Mushroom has made it so that there is a comfort in anonymity, that by virtue of being unnamed, the survival of this character amongst all the mass death becomes more possible. Achievable. 10,000 people were killed in a catastrophe, but 2,000 lived, and maybe amongst those unnamed 2,000 is the lab assistant who was left behind when resources were rationed or the child who had just graduated to military training, or the colleague a nemesis had briefly attempted to befriend. And the story validates this! It happens with Tang Lan, with Colin, and with Pauli, all characters who for all intents and purposes should have been dead but were instead gifted names way after their initial, anonymous introductions. Without that anonymity, though, your fate is certain. Mr. Shaw has a grave. The Poet has a grave. Bai Nan has a grave. The xenogenic’s little Bai Ye has a grave. And there can be nothing less ambiguous about it.

—Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, Carmilla

Carmilla & Laura 🩸

Robert Eggers you must make a Carmilla movie next

carmilla (stone) lithograph | prints here

“You must come with me, loving me, to death; or else hate me, and still come with me” Carmilla, 1872.

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