#lotesseflower

I did not have any columbine photos when you asked for them months ago but I did not forget and now I do!

dropping in just to say, oh Mendanbar. what a good character.

Yes please!

EXTRA SPICY GINGER COOKIES

Preheat the oven to 350 F and combine:

3/4 cup of butter 1 cup of brown sugar 1 egg 1/4 cup of molasses

Once these are well-mixed, add:

2 1/2 cups of flour 2 t of baking soda 1/4 t of salt 1 T of ginger 1 t of cinnamon 1/2 t of nutmeg 1/2 t of cloves 1 T of cayenne pepper 1 T of vanilla

…the hero we need @ anghraine have you seen this?!

This is an interesting question because one could interpret “female gothic” in two ways - gothic works created by women, or generically “female gothic” works in the Kate Ferguson Ellis sense. I went with the latter, curious to see how much the two meanings overlap. The answer appears to be - not so much!

For those who aren’t familiar, the broad division between ‘male/masculine’ or ‘female/feminine’ gothic in this framework is paradigmatically the division between The Monk and The Mysteries of Udolpho - narratives about cursed outcast wanderers versus narratives about confinement and dread. Yes, if you were wondering - this does make Dracula a feminine gothic and Frankenstein a masculine gothic.

Have an odd list:

 In the Dream House: A Memoir, Carmen Maria Machado (2019)

Hannibal, seasons 1-2 (2013-14) [I’m counting season 3 as masculine gothic]

Get Out (2017)

The Changeling, Victor LaValle (2017)

Penny Dreadful (2014-17)

Honorable mention to Robin LaFever’s His Fair Assassin YA trilogy, which I am not a big enough fan of to include, but which is impressive in how many 18th century gothic tropes it packs in. I debated about including Grady Hendrix’ My Best Friend’s Exorcism, but decided it wasn’t gothic enough. Ask me again after I’ve read The Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires.

lookslikeelsie replied to your post “To top off this truly stunning clusterfuck of a...”Dude, I am so sorry. Will you be able to be there...

Thank you both. No, I won’t be there in person, although there’s (hopefully) going to be a virtual memorial service.

my grandparents have a scottie (name: Sir Harry Lauder) bc of these books lol

...tossing in Schiemann for valorisation almost feels like trolling >< And Relatable Oof on cherished works of childhood being, in retrospect, Really Awful on both a moral and academic level.  It's a super uncomfortable feeling and I hate it! but I love the idea of the Pastwatch, and now I'm wondering if Kage Baker's Company stories in any way have some Comment on this ...   ..the whole time-travel-historian-ish thing has so much potential and I want so many versions! But probably not Card's ><

Yeah the idea of Pastwatch is AMAZING and I want someone other than OSC to write about it, sigh. I haven’t read Kage Baker’s Company series, have you? Are they worth reading?

@gostaks replied to your post “Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus”

Man I remember reading that book during my osc phase. Idk the only thing that really stuck with me is the scene where the guy pierces his penis and then notes that at least he had an analgesic                    

yup that sure was a very memorable thing that happened! I’m glad I didn’t have too much of an OSC phase, I mostly just read this and the Alvin Maker books which even at the time I recognized had Problems.

@lotesseflower replied to your post “Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus”

I feel the same way now about Speaker for the Dead ... all the sfnal interest in diversity ect that drew me as a young reader is revealed as the flipside of a focus on white messianic masculinity that poisons the entire enterprise. what an imagination to mourn :(