whatâs the recipe for something you love eating to feel nurtured at the moment? do you have a dish thatâs a family recipe youâd never give away? and which creature/exhibit is your favourite to visit in an aquarium? đ€
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1: chickpeas with slow-cooked (but not always) peppers are my absolute beloved..... it's the one thing i can always eat and the one thing all my kitchen staples revolve around (i have never measured of any of this and just go by eye or what i feel so this is a VERY rough estimation but anyway!!):
2 large onions
olive oil
2 or 3 bell peppers (i try to always include a green one bc they're slightly less sweet and add a nice balance to the yellow and red ones)
Heat the oil in a small pot.
Chop the onions and peppers and add them in that order (shake the pot a little to disperse and/or avoid sticking but don't stir).
Let it cook / simmer over a low heat until the the onions are translucent and the peppers have softened slightly (now you can stir).
Stir in ground garlic and ginger (measured generously w your heart--that said, ginger should be added in increments bc it adds a nice kick of heat which i love but if you want to be more cautious then just taste as you go along and add accordingly), and a bit of cumin.
Stir in the tomato puree (again, i'm a measure by sight gal, but a tablespoon at a time until you get the right taste / colour should do it).
Add a little water -- not enough to cover the contents but enough that it combines with the puree to get a thick pasta-sauce consistency. Add salt to taste
Increase the heat and cook until all the foam has gone. Add salt to taste
Drain your can of chickpeas, rinse them, and add them into the pot at the very end. Turn off the hob and let everything cook with the residual heat and done!!
Best way to eat this in my opinion is by putting spoonfuls while still warm onto toasted bread with goat's cheese đ
2) not a dish per se but my mother's version of a tomato pesto (which is less to do with not wanting to share it full stop but more with the fact that if shared it has to be shared in person, in the moment, in actually making it (or attempting to lol) with someone â€ïž)
3) i haven't been to an aquarium in SO long but i love love LOVE the little seahorses and jellyfish!!! i woulod visit exclusively for them!
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hiiđ€ I went to an exhibition today with dali sculptures and one of the artists featured alongside them was charles billich â please look at this detail from his work titled chrystal chandelier !!!
felt you would appreciate it as much as I didđč
OH I LOVE THAT!!!! <333 the phantom of the opera vibes are AMAZING!!!!!!
professional vibe diagnosis: madi @dearorpheus đ€
KEY TERMS: gothic heroines, final girls, bluebeard narratives, death & the maiden, monster theory, dangerous appetites, antiquarianism, sawbones & their history, perfumery, poison bottles, cursed jewels, blood vials, soft & warm light, morbidness & coziness intertwined, with more than a dash of elegance & sophisticated taste đ€
media recommendations under the cut!
(a sidenote: i did not include a lot of obvious choices, such as angela carter or helene cixous or anne carson or any gothic 101 authors, since i know for a fact youâre already familiar with them. to be perfectly honest, youâre one of the most well-read people iâve ever met, so i wouldnât be surprised if you were already familiar with most of these, but i did my best!)
Severance: Stories, Robert Olen Butlerâtalking heads! literally!
Fairy Tales for the Disillusioned: Enchanted Stories from the French Decadent Tradition,
The Leopard by Giuseppe Tomasi Di Lampedusa (for some truly exquisite prose),
Imaginary Lives by Marcel Schwob (oh, Schwob is criminally underrated; also, these tales remind me of early Borges)
speaking of Polish movies: Cold War (2018) & Ida (2013) are also a must!
Arthur Machenâs short stories, and especially The Inmost Light,
M. R. Jamesâ short stories, of course, but especially Count Magnus,
The Lottery and Other Stories by Shirley Jackson; the entire collection serves as one of my favourite retellings of the Daemon Lover ballad, although itâs not a very straightforward oneâThe Man in the Blue Suit (slash James Harris) is at most a peripheral figure, and his status as a supernatural entity is up in the air, since most of the stories are uncanny instead of explicitly supernatural (and yet, whenever he enters the stage, something shifts in the atmosphere & things go... very wrong, very quickly). I especially recommend The Tooth!
speaking of daemon lovers, hereâs an academic analysis of this motif: Demon-Lovers and Their Victims in British Fiction (an extended excerpt is available on Google Books)
still speaking of daemon lovers: The Book of Tobit! and, specifically, the story of Asmodeus and Sarah of Media, who might or might have not inspired the line about the woman wailing for her demon-lover in Coleridgeâs Kubla Khan. also! this... retelling of sorts: (x)
The Song of the Sun: Collected Writings by Leah Bodine Drake (her poems of fantasy are quite wonderful; hereâs an example!),
speaking of fantasy-themed poems... these anthologies are very good indeed (& beautifully published!): Monster Verse / Dead & Undead / Killer Verse / Bewitched & Haunted,
Het Lied van Heer Halewijn (a proto-Bluebeard story, and the Dutch equivalent of Lady Isabel and the Elf Knight)
speaking of... these are some of my favourite transformative works dealing with this ballad: (x) (x) (x) (once again, itâs fanfiction, but itâs quality fanfiction, cross my heart & hope to die)
german-language musicals! goodness, theyâre some full-throated, pulpy, gothic extravaganza. hereâs my favourite scene from Tanz der Vampire, and hereâs the english lyrics, and hereâs the english-language demo (it is... not as good as the original, alas). i also recommend Elisabeth & Rebecca! speaking of pulpy musicals: can we talk about the riddle from the scarlet pimpernel? because it has no business being this catchy.Â
alright, iâve covered some lowbrow musicals, so letâs talk highbrow now: The Great Comet is based on a tiny excerpt from War & Peace, but good god. it /feels/ monumental in scope. this song is... yeah. yeah. itâs also sung-through (like Les Mis, or Evita), so youâre not missing out on anything, even if you only listen to the cast recording!
speaking of songs with great Madi energy... Take This Waltz by Leonard Cohen (based on a poem by Lorca!) definitely reminds me of you!
also. Memorial by Susanne SundfĂžr. itâs the drama! and Kate Bush, obviously, especially Hammer Horror (even more obviously) <3 and this rendition of Memory!Â
i donât know whether you own ps4, or even consider yourself someone keen on video games as a medium, but madi. madi. madi. bloodborne is practically tailor-made for you, and iâm not even exaggerating. dubious medicine! secret cults! victorian architecture! blood, blood everywhere! eldritch abominations beyond human comprehension! iâm going to fly you to poland just so you can play it.Â
on a related note... netflixâs castlevania is. well, i genuinely cannot say whether itâs good, but itâs fun, and its aesthetic is basically gothic on steroids. very explicit, that is to say: sex and murder usually take place simultaneously.
some academic books of interest that were not already included in my previous masterpost:
The Ring of Truth: And Other Myths of Sex and Jewelry,
the Devilâs Advocates series,
The Work of the Dead: A Cultural History of Mortal Remains,
Dark Banquet: Blood and the Curious Lives of Blood-Feeding Creatures,
Rabid: A Cultural History of the World's Most Diabolical Virus,
Severed: A History of Heads Lost and Heads Found,
The Science of Monsters +Â Science of the Magical.
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Thelma, A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night, American Mary and Penny Dreadfulđ„°
1. thelma:
Nah | havenât seen yet | didnât like/gave up | like it | love it | highly recommend.
a reason why: repressed lesbians?? sign me up.
2. a girl walks home alone at night
Nah | havenât seen yet | didnât like/gave up | like it | love it | highly recommend.
a reason why: can you believe? iâm not even sure why, i followed the release of this movie and everything.
3. american mary
Nah | havenât seen yet | didnât like/gave up | like it | love it | highly recommend.
a reason why: what is there not to love in this, from katharine back to horror to the makeup and absurd characters. perfect. i truly need to rewatch asap. and i cannottttttt wait for their next movie oh my god.Â
4. penny dreadful
Nah | havenât seen yet | didnât like/gave up | like it | love it | highly recommend.
a reason why: iâm honestly so lazy when it comes to (life) shows but i have seen some of it on my dash thru the years.
