be handed a letter by your maid, break the wax seal, read it with dawning understanding and then slowly look up into the middle-distance with an ominous smirk. order your carriage to be prepared at once.
When you’re observing me, who do you think I’m observing?
Portrait of a Lady on Fire (2019)
— dir. Céline Sciamma, cinematography by Claire Mathon

Ring with unicorn, heart, lady, and clasped hands. Made in Germany or Italy, c.1550-1600 (source)
Those links for all asking
Deadly history of women using perfume as poison
-Girlhood, medusa and female rage
-The allure of gothic horror
-Essays and thoughts on girls in horror
-Why girls get hungry in horror
-Mothers and witches
-Women in horror
-The female poisoner
-female werewolves
-Monstrous women - Catherine Lundoff
-Female cannibals and consumptive horror
-Horror films directed by women
-Women, killer plants and annihilation
-Female identity within the gothic genre
-Women in horror - the vvitch
-the vvitch, female sexuality in horror
-Angela Carter - The beast is female sexuality
-Body horror/monster reading list
-Consumptive horror
The beginning of the end of the end of the beginning has begun.
if i could swing a really big sword it wouldnt even matter if anyone loved me or not