@fictionfanxoxo: Woke up with this on my mind btw 🧍🏽‍♂️🫪 #gothicliterature #annerice #iwtv

dakota :

my favorite book is flowers in the attic. i just don’t talk to people about reading anymore

PLeATHERMØUTH 🔻 :

the discourse was in shambles when nosferatu came out 😭

annak :

harrie :

welcome to the AMC IWTV twitter fandom who act outraged when i say i’m looking forward to the show adapting Gabrielle and Marius 😭

dee :

I hate the phrase - “the character isn’t likeable?” Are you ok???

gabby :

nosferatu was a difficult time

envy :

my adoration of robert eggars nosferatu has had me almost in tears defending it to my friends

Roxy :

Wuthering Heights is my favorite classic. Yes the movie did irreparable damage to the way people react when I say that why do you ask

Jester under thetable🌬🌌🪸🍁 :

Literally the whole vampire chronicles

nagitothecowboy :

this is why when i found out about the interview with the vampire tv show i was a bit skeptical bc i knew that mass audiences wouldn’t see the nuance

zay :

everybody wants to see a haunted house but nobody wants to see why the house is haunted!!!

lanaasan :

idk about yall but my characters need to be morally questionable and kind of crazy for me to like them🤷‍♀️

Sethboi :

hillywantstoparty :

no fr I don’t know why people assume an author is in support of their character because that would be us consuming media devoid of evil which is there in relaotu

ཐི cipher ཋྀ :

crimson peak 💔

🦇Ghost🦇 :

The way people were cheering del Toro's Frankenstein as if he didn't take all nuance and morality greyness out of the story.

hose :

i fully believe that some people just aren't aware of what using a character as a thematic device is

Olly :

Me when someone says a novel is not a romance just because it’s also gothic. Like… that’s the point. It’s a GOTHIC romance. It’s not a run of the mill fairytale Jane Austen story.

💮 :

ppl not accepting lestat complex relationship with his mother

Рія/Ria✨ :

HELL YEAH! As an author, I'm starting to feel like when I release my books people will cancel me, because my characters aren't "good" people.. I mean😭 Perfect characters are boring and unrealistic

rwan :

depiction doesnt equate to endorsement 💔

J 🌺 :

People when the point of the story is that we’re all complex beings with flaws no matter how hard we try 🤯

🍰🐾🍓𝓟𝓪𝓼𝓽𝓮𝓵/パステル🍓🐾🍰 :

how it's portrayed, put into context, and what genre the author is leaning towards is so important. there's a different between writing out self indulgent fantasies and writing out horror/tragedies

phatty :

only point I want to add is that criticism of a character and/or just saying you don't like them isn't saying they shouldn't be written like that. i've on multiple occasions had to clarify that while I hate a character, that doesn't mean I think an author should change them.

⭒♱✮🦇🎀✮♱⭒ :

If every single character in a piece of media was moraly good, there'd be no conflict to start the story, no plot following it, no development, nothing to solve, no message to express, NOTHING!! Like genuinely nothing, it'd be 100-300 (for a standard book) pages or an hour and half of the characters going "heyy how are you :)" "good, thanks :)" and going to work. People need to realize that 1) moraly bad characters are necessary, and 2) they have to look at how the author portrays them and their actions