no cause gothic horror isn't solely about ✨the vibes✨ if you want your lavish haunted castle, billowing nightgowns, and brooding tortured suitor then you also have to acknowledge what makes the genre alluring, uncomfortable, seductive, and repulsive
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it's not a genre for everyone which is FINE and there's nothing grossly wrong with gothic horror-lite but you can definitely tell in certain stories when the things that originally made it so transgressive are stripped away
even gothic stories that aren't necessarily horror (jane eyre, wuthering heights, etc) are GENUINELY fucked up and make you raise your eyebrows up to the sun
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