2020

it is a universally acknowledged fact, that many of our beloved gothic heroes and villains are, more or less, queercoded.One can observe queer subtext in novels like The Castle of Otratranto (1764) or Dracula…

My name is Mary Katherine Blackwood. I am eighteen years old, and I live with my sister Constance. I have often thought that with any luck at all, I could have been born a…

This is a multi-part essay series, examining Tolkien’s depiction of heroism within The Lord of the Rings, and whether it is possible to say that he was influenced by the Aeneid, the Iliad and the Odyssey. Respectively, each section looks…

this article includes advertisement. hey children of the moon, friends of the literary and lovers of the forest. I hope you’re doing well.Chances are, that you, reading this very lines a) consider yourself dark…

hey to another episode of Emily, fourteen, writing semi intellectual articles she’ll definitely be ashamed of one day. however, this day is yet to come so I will continue murdering my keyboard like the…

Before I started creating videos, questions flooded my mind…“Where do I start?”“How do I create an audience?”“How do I come up with ideas?” “What if my videos are bad?” “What if everyone hates them?”…

I believe everyone has a vision of an ideal self. The person you’d like to be or the person you used to be. When we grow up we seek to be this person, or…

Though sympathy alone can’t alter facts, it can help to make them more bearable. Dracula, Bram Stoker A literary villain can be understood as an antagonist who is defined by intelligence, immorality and malice,…

hello friends and enemies, and welcome to yet another round of Emily, too idealistic for this world as it seems, failing to understand aestheticism.aestheticism not aesthetic, you read right. aestheticism is defined, by the…

a few months ago, @herlibaryofspells suggested I should post an “art gallery of the month” as a — monthly — event on my little corner of the internet. This idea really spoke to me…