#gothicmuses

𝕲𝖔𝖙𝖍𝖎𝖈 𝕸𝖚𝖘𝖊𝖘 🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️ The beginning of the Gregorian year seems to me like the perfect time to return. Customarily, it is a time when people evaluate themselves, deciding upon ways in which to improve. My intended improvement is the return of the Generally Gothic. On the 21st day of the new year I am, as per usual, late. Perhaps next year I shall strive for promptness. For now, any form of return is enough for me. 🕯️ In what remains of January, I shall be continuing to explore the foundations of the gothic; a journey begun in years past under the title 'Gothic Muses'. Expect Ancient Classics & Shakespeare. Expect a post or 2, if you dare! 🕯️ I hope that your start to the year has been whatever you wanted it to be. Tell me tales down below. 💌 🕯️ #gothicorigins #gothicmuses #shakespeare #classics #gothicfiction #gothicnovel #darkacademia #gothicacademia #bookstagram #bookworm #spookynerd #blackmetalcover #gothic #generallygothic #literature #greekmythology #antiquebook #hardbackbook #oldbooks https://www.instagram.com/p/Cnr0ljwNC-j/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

“Are you unable to keep up, or are you yet to take this seriously?” He cheered, before--Crash! His run came to an end as he collided into something. Or someone? 

"𝕳𝖊𝖑𝖎𝖔𝖘' 𝖉𝖆𝖚𝖌𝖍𝖙𝖊𝖗, 𝖗𝖆𝖎𝖘𝖊𝖉 𝖔𝖓 𝖘𝖙𝖔𝖗𝖎𝖊𝖘 𝖔𝖋 𝖇𝖗𝖊𝖆𝖐𝖎𝖓𝖌 𝖙𝖍𝖊 𝖜𝖔𝖗𝖑𝖉." - Madeline Miller 🕷️🕷️🕷️🕷️🕷️🕷️🕷️ Since the beginning of time and the birth of Kronos, death, dreams & nightmares, the supernatural, divinity, monsters, madness, and conflict have all found a home in Greek mythology. Living around 2500 years ago, the Ancient Greeks shared stories remarkably gothic in theme, long before the genre was conceived of. In an attempt to explore the 'gothicness' of the Greeks, this month I'm reading Madeline Miller's 'Circe', and you're all invited to read along with me! 🎞️: I'll share the book blurb in stories & more readalong info soon. In the meantime, let me know👇if you'd like to join me! To read of the Greek deities whilst flying amongst the clouds felt appropriate, and poetic... and explains the delay in posting (I was busy soaring through the sky, and then sleeping it off!). 🤔: What's your favourite place to read? What is your most synced book-to-location reading memory? . #circe #madelinemiller #greekmythology #mythology #classicalgreek #ancientgreece #gothicmuses #gothicliterature #englishliterature #spookynerd #bookstagram #bookish #books #flying #readalong #generallygothicbookclub #bookclub #bestseller #bookworm #booknerd #gothic #generallygothic #milehighbookclub #history #literarycriticism https://www.instagram.com/p/B66sffbA91l/?igshid=b7x67p03b0de

𝕲𝖔𝖙𝖍𝖎𝖈 𝕸𝖚𝖘𝖊𝖘 🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️ The beginning of the Gregorian year seems to me like the perfect time to return. Customarily, it is a time when people evaluate themselves, deciding upon ways in which to improve. My intended improvement is the return of the Generally Gothic. On the 21st day of the new year I am, as per usual, late. Perhaps next year I shall strive for promptness. For now, any form of return is enough for me. 🕯️ In what remains of January, I shall be continuing to explore the foundations of the gothic; a journey begun in years past under the title 'Gothic Muses'. Expect Ancient Classics & Shakespeare. Expect a post or 2, if you dare! 🕯️ I hope that your start to the year has been whatever you wanted it to be. Tell me tales down below. 💌 🕯️ #gothicorigins #gothicmuses #shakespeare #classics #gothicfiction #gothicnovel #darkacademia #gothicacademia #bookstagram #bookworm #spookynerd #blackmetalcover #gothic #generallygothic #literature https://www.instagram.com/p/Cnr0FPtN4Bt/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

𝕲𝖔𝖙𝖍𝖎𝖈 𝕸𝖚𝖘𝖊𝖘 🕯🕯🕯🕯🕯🕯🕯 Bonjour, 2022! This year, my aim is to get back to monthly themes with the odd random post when the mood strikes. Who knows whether this will increase my activity, but I'm looking forward to diving deep again. 🌬 Two years ago, I identified 12 subsections of the gothic - one for each month. There's much left for me to discover and share with you within those same 12 gothic subsections... but I am also keen to reassess them. Is there anything I'm missing? Anything that you're keen for me to explore? (As a theme itself or within one already established.) 🌬 This month, I will be looking back to the muses that inspired the gothic. I finished Shakespeare's Hamlet just before the year's end, and am carrying my current obsession with classical civilisations (currently ancient Greece) along with me into the new year. The roots of the gothic are apparent in both places. Exposing these ancient roots will be my mission this month; the theme is Gothic Muses. 🌬 ⚜What are your booksta plans for the year? ⚜What would you like to see on Generally Gothic this year? Let me know and I'll do my best! . #gothic #generallygothic #gothicmuses #bookstagram #books #2022 #gothicorigins #academia #darkacademia #spookynerd #themedivider #shakespeare #Hamlet #classicalcivilisation #ancientgreece #classics https://www.instagram.com/p/CYOwGQggSC9/?utm_medium=tumblr

𝕲𝖔𝖙𝖍𝖎𝖈 𝕸𝖚𝖘𝖊𝖘 🕯🕯🕯🕯🕯🕯🕯 Bonjour, 2022! This year, my aim is to get back to monthly themes with the odd random post when the mood strikes. Who knows whether this will increase my activity, but I'm looking forward to diving deep again. 🌬 Two years ago, I identified 12 subsections of the gothic - one for each month. There's much left for me to discover and share with you within those same 12 gothic subsections... but I am also keen to reassess them. Is there anything I'm missing? Anything that you're keen for me to explore? (As a theme itself or within one already established.) 🌬 This month, I will be looking back to the muses that inspired the gothic. I finished Shakespeare's Hamlet just before the year's end, and am carrying my current obsession with classical civilisations (currently ancient Greece) along with me into the new year. The roots of the gothic are apparent in both places. Exposing these ancient roots will be my mission this month; the theme is Gothic Muses. 🌬 ⚜What are your booksta plans for the year? ⚜What would you like to see on Generally Gothic this year? Let me know and I'll do my best! . #gothic #generallygothic #gothicmuses #bookstagram #books #2022 #gothicorigins #academia #darkacademia #spookynerd #themedivider #shakespeare #Hamlet #classicalcivilisation #ancientgreece #classics https://www.instagram.com/generallygothic/p/CYOvsLrg8w8/?utm_medium=tumblr

"𝕿𝖔 𝖉𝖎𝖊 𝖜𝖔𝖚𝖑𝖉 𝖇𝖊 𝖆𝖓 𝖆𝖜𝖋𝖚𝖑𝖑𝖞 𝖇𝖎𝖌 𝖆𝖉𝖛𝖊𝖓𝖙𝖚𝖗𝖊..." J. M. Barrie 🕯🕯🕯🕯🕯🕯🕯 If you don't know the true-life tragedies behind Peter Pan's creation, the eternal youthfulness of the tale's protagonist is an innocent charm... I suggest you dig a little deeper. Rather than blow the candles out on that tale, I'll submerge you less spoilery darkness today. Here is part II to yesterday's post, on the Victorians & their fairies: 🧚‍♀️ Upon Victoria’s death, dark, stuffy, and decidedly gothic drawing rooms were abandoned. King Edward, her successor, swooped in and flung the windows open so wide that all manner of things were let in. Amongst these windswept things was childlike wonder, which manifested in an obsession with whimsy apparent in the art and literature of the time. Fairies were no longer depicted as inhuman. Instead, fairy tales danced around perverse interactions with, and the innate malevolence of, the natural, human world. Stories with grim undertones, and overtones, were written for children: tales of childhood. Haunted with images of death, destruction, a child executed, hanged, swinging from a tree, they once again were undeniably adult. Contrary to popular belief, tales of fairies usually are… 🧚‍♀️ 📸: 1. 'The Fairies of Serpentine' and 2.'They will certianly mischief you, both Arthur Rackham (1906), 3. 'Fairies', Bartolomeo Giuliano (1896), 4. 'Fairies in The Dream', Pierre Puvis de Chavannes (1883). . #gothicmuses #gothicliterature #fairytales #darkliterature #spookynerd #darkaesthetic #victorian #victorianhistory #childrenshorror #arthurrackham #peterpan #jmbarrie #bookish #bookstagram https://www.instagram.com/p/CKXJ4OlgHPN/?igshid=paejvx4p5536

"𝖂𝖍𝖊𝖓 𝖙𝖍𝖊 𝖋𝖎𝖗𝖘𝖙 𝖇𝖆𝖇𝖞 𝖑𝖆𝖚𝖌𝖍𝖊𝖉 𝖋𝖔𝖗 𝖙𝖍𝖊 𝖋𝖎𝖗𝖘𝖙 𝖙𝖎𝖒𝖊, 𝖎𝖙𝖘 𝖑𝖆𝖚𝖌𝖍 𝖇𝖗𝖔𝖐𝖊 𝖎𝖓𝖙𝖔 𝖆 𝖙𝖍𝖔𝖚𝖘𝖆𝖓𝖉 𝖕𝖎𝖊𝖈𝖊𝖘, 𝖆𝖓𝖉 𝖙𝖍𝖊𝖞 𝖆𝖑𝖑 𝖜𝖊𝖓𝖙 𝖘𝖐𝖎𝖕𝖕𝖎𝖓𝖌 𝖆𝖇𝖔𝖚𝖙, 𝖆𝖓𝖉 𝖙𝖍𝖆𝖙 𝖜𝖆𝖘 𝖙𝖍𝖊 𝖇𝖊𝖌𝖎𝖓𝖓𝖎𝖓𝖌 𝖔𝖋 𝖋𝖆𝖎𝖗𝖎𝖊𝖘." - J. M. Barrie 🕯🕯🕯🕯🕯🕯🕯 I've departed a little (okay, a lot) from the Shakespeare I promised. I find myself instead in a world of fairytales. But there is a connection, I promise! To explain, I'm drawing from a small piece I wrote for the wonderful @yogurtculturezine 'Fairies' edition last year🖤. Take a read 👇, have a swipe 👉, and check out Yogurt 🥛. 🧚‍♀️ First appearing in the medieval folklore of Western Europe, fairies - the fae - have a long and rich history. Nowadays, fairies are often thought of as delicate creatures, flowerlike, with papery insect wings. They take inspiration from our own natural world, but exist in a fantasy parallel. We imagine them leaving sparkling trails and inhabiting tales to delight children. This, however, was not always the case… 🧚‍♀️ At the turn of the 20th century, life in Britain had experienced many great advancements in science and industry under the rule of Queen Victoria. Domesticity, tradition, and progress were at the centre of Victoria’s reign and, whilst many profited greatly, preoccupations were all rather grown-up and formal. The fairies of the era came from Shakespeare. They were sometimes beautiful, sometimes devilish, often devious and deceitful. With childlike features they were humanesque yet remained inhuman; like the Victorian image, they too were adult. 🧚‍♀️ Part two tomorrow... 🧚‍♀️ 📸: 1. ‘The Fairies are Exquisite Dancers’ 2.‘Fairies Never Say “We Feel Happy”’ - both by Arthur Rackham in 'Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens' (James Matthew Barrie, 1906), via Wiki Commons. . #fairytales #gothicliterature #gothicmuses #fairies #peterpan #jmbarrie #victorianliterature #victorian #rackham #victorianhistory #zine #bookstagram #darkaesthetic #books #shakespeare #literaryhistory https://www.instagram.com/p/CKUs9lkA8eq/?igshid=b2lx0yl5jtww