Someone asked me why I have violent, nasty stuff in some of my books (Mexican Gothic, Untamed Shore) kind of wondering if i liked having that stuff in it and if I didn't like it why include it. No, in real life I like birds, old films, laughing, not looking at pics of murder scenes. David Lynch- - ThreadSky

silviamg.bsky.social • 33 days ago

Someone asked me why I have violent, nasty stuff in some of my books (Mexican Gothic, Untamed Shore) kind of wondering if i liked having that stuff in it and if I didn't like it why include it. No, in real life I like birds, old films, laughing, not looking at pics of murder scenes. David Lynch-

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darksimz.bsky.social•20 days ago

I watched Twin Peaks as a teen too and it captivated me immediately and felt so...understood ? Like it were my darkest dreams being shown on TV. Our VCR broke and I had to ask a friend to tape it for me. I had to watch it at hers after that, with their bewildered parents 😅

darksimz.bsky.social•20 days ago

I didnt watch the movie until much later. In art school we watched Eraserhead and I was even more sold. I did my end of year essay on Fear and David Lynch. I did a lot of video art inspired by him as well and photography as well. I do see him in your work as well which is probably why I like it so

maxashermiller.bsky.social•33 days ago

I'm growing to understand this seemingly willful misunderstanding of literature as a core component of a fascized society. 1984 was on the money with this. Fascist citizens deliberately close their minds off.

mikeb23.bsky.social•33 days ago

Thanks for sharing that. I enjoy your books tremendously, but not so much the violence as opposed to the characters, history, lifestyles, etc.

fridalamaldita.bsky.social•33 days ago

Mexican Gothic is literally a gothic novel, what did they expect to find in its pages?

cuckmulligan.bsky.social•33 days ago

Why not Mexican Nice-family-in-nice-house-in-thriving-community?

jetinski.bsky.social•33 days ago

I LOVED LOVED LOVED MEXICAN GOTHIC.

cuckmulligan.bsky.social•13 days ago

Wild thing to ask a horror author.

tjanielsen.bsky.social•33 days ago

I don’t ask why you write violent, nasty stuff, I ask why you had to ruin mushrooms for me.

silviamg.bsky.social•33 days ago

is probably one of the most useful ways to explain this. When I was a teen I watched Fire Walk With Me. I got it at the video store, had not watched Twin Peaks. What ensued was 2 hours of some confusion, some nightmarish visuals but also a deep sense of understanding. I wasn't anything like Laura --

silviamg.bsky.social•33 days ago

Palmer yet I felt Lynch had dissected some of the terror of being a teen. That horrific feeling that suddenly I was visible to dangerous men, that I might be fragile and in peril. I wasn't chased by a supernatural fiend, but every time I took the subway at night I feared someone might follow me

silviamg.bsky.social•33 days ago

One night someone did follow me until I ran as fast as I could. While waiting for a friend one afternoon outside at a restaurant a pushy businessman who must have been my father's age who wanted to take me on a date, shoving his number in my face. The teen boys who whistled outside the pool hall if

claudiaputnam.bsky.social•33 days ago

Horror has always been a metaphor for… life

silviamg.bsky.social•33 days ago

I walked my while running an errand and wore a skirt. I also had my share of adventures where there was mischief and lightness and all the stuff I got up to with my young friends, including talking with strangers on those group friend chatlines and giggling and hanging up when boys

silviamg.bsky.social•33 days ago

wanted to meet in person, or even venturing into a sex shop and scaring all the men there, a small group of teen girls pointing at the magazines and boobies until the owner shooed us out.

silviamg.bsky.social•33 days ago

Anyway, Fire is harrowing to watch but it also thrums with a sense of realness that gives it that extra spark. We feel either we knew a girl like Laura, or there was a bit of Laura, and maybe we weren't crazy and there are monsters in the shadows. Plenty of other movies gave us nice, happy teen

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