Tag: edith cushing

zombeesknees:

#the framing of these poses kills me every time  #his hands are up technically in surrender or supplication but they’re in her space  #and they’re covered in blood  #and she’s BRANDISHING A PEN AS A WEAPON  #so his hands are in her space and hers are in his and they’re pivoting around their bloody hands like dancing  #(and that pen is not ~accidentally symbolic AT ALL)  #(GdT explicitly says the pen represents her power through her writing)  #(which she stops doing when she gets to allerdale hall)  #(and is only seen writing again by writing her name just before she fights back)  #(yah so i’ve been listening to the commentary and getting emo about gothic archetypes how’s your night going)

zombeesknees:

#the
trick is not falling into the trap of thinking del Toro’s love of
monsters means ‘super nice good folks who look monstrous’  #listening to the director’s commentary on CP and the monsters in this aren’t only the nice ghosts  #thomas and lucille straight up murder people  #and he still loves them as embodying the concept of the monstrous  #and it’s not about a syrupy victorian super-happy redemption when edith realises she really does love thomas  #even after she KNOWS he facilitated her attempted murder  #and the actual murder of several others  #it’s not about forgiveness or changing or absolving – it’s just love  #like when he says in interviews love is not about changing someone it’s about accepting someone  #which – hi most gothic fiction – can make love horrific and melancholy as well as beautiful  #(as opposed to solely being healing and healthy)  #sometimes love is monstrous  #lucille’s love and thomas’ love AND edith’s love  #del Toro’s love of monsters isn’t just hellboy and that nice fishman  #he loves the kaiju that killed mako’s parents and he loves the sharpes  #and whatsmore he loves that edith loves thomas when it’s (in his words) ‘too late’  #the
point of this is i worry about the current love-fest from the united
states re: guillermo del toro turning sour the way it usually does  #like ‘we liked u when by monster u meant the ugly duckling’  #‘but now that u actually mean monsters like ‘horrifying behaviour’ we need to throw u on the trashpile’  #i mean like and dislike whatever you want but GdT’s thing is right there on the label and he’s not shy about it  #idk i can see him being accused of being a Rochester Apologist after his next gothic romance and like can we pre-emptively Not

zombeesknees:

#the framing of these poses kills me every time  #his hands are up technically in surrender or supplication but they’re in her space  #and they’re covered in blood  #and she’s BRANDISHING A PEN AS A WEAPON  #so his hands are in her space and hers are in his and they’re pivoting around their bloody hands like dancing  #(and that pen is not ~accidentally symbolic AT ALL)  #(GdT explicitly says the pen represents her power through her writing)  #(which she stops doing when she gets to allerdale hall)  #(and is only seen writing again by writing her name just before she fights back)  #(yah so i’ve been listening to the commentary and getting emo about gothic archetypes how’s your night going)