"Lngua Portuguesa", Olavo Bilac (1915)

"Língua Portuguesa", Olavo Bilac (1915)

1700's medical illustrators be like "hey boss can I put a rhinoceros behind this anotomically correct sketch of the human skeleton" and the boss be like "only for the books being published in these specific european countries" and then they high-five and go out for drinks

as something holy

Danez Smith, The 17-Year-Old & the Gay Bar

Jorge Luis Borges, The Meeting in a Dream

Jeanette Winterson, Written on the Body

Hozier, Take Me to Church

Radclyffe Hall, The Well of Loneliness

John Keats in a letter to Fanny Brawne, c. October 1819

Tosca, Ho Amato Tutto (trans. from Italian)

Richard Siken, Litany in Which Certain Things Are Crossed Out

Lord Alfred Douglas, Two Loves

Zolita, Holy

Ethel Cain, Sun Bleached Flies / @toothachebench​

Mabel (2016–), Episode 22: Eternal Return

Fall Out Boy, Church

Sarah Kane, Phaedra’s Love

Sappho (attrib.)

Richard Siken, Saying Your Names

Dante Émile, After Abel

Mary Lambert, She Keeps Me Warm

William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

Natalie Diaz, These Hands, If Not Gods

Danez Smith, The 17-Year-Old & the Gay Bar

frankenstein is so inherently queer. victor’s raw *need* to be validated by the men in his field, by men that share his passion for biology and sense of wonder at the human condition.

the moment he meets walton on the boat and the way that he describes victor the whole time, a “brother of his heart” and the “growing affection” for his guest. my god.

don’t even get me started on the way he expertly crafted adam to be a beautifully formed man with no prospects of having children of his own. just say you want to keep him for yourself victor, good lord

Where are my fellow Gothic Fiction fans? Surely some of you ended up in here somewhere. Come out I need you.

I want to draw them more, please feel free to suggest scenarios. I feel like they need to interact. Let the fanfiction begin!

I even made a reference sheet for them and everything. I just need to practise some more. Let’s just pretend they’re my OCs.

my toxic trait is bookmarking every ao3 fic i’ve ever read