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charlottenewtons suggested: an underrated film/tv show/ship/character.

I wasn't sure what I was going to talk about for this post, but then I found a film on Shudder that I hadn't heard of before and thought actually, I will make this a post about horror lesbians (as is on brand for me!) and talk about Sweet, Sweet Lonely Girl.

Sweet, Sweet Lonely Girl (2016) is a Shudder original, which tend to fly under my radar, but this one drew me in with its poster (monochrome, retro, with a girl hunched over as she walks towards a Gothic revival mansion and the tagline "evil loves the lonely"). Adele (Erin Wilhelmi) is the lonely girl in question, a teenager who is sent to take care of her housebound Aunt Dora. One day, while Adele is buying groceries for Aunt Dora (some particularly grim-looking sardines and wafers), she sees and becomes smitten with a hippie bombshell in the neighbourhood, Beth (Quinn Shepherd). Beth seems to want to help Adele escape the boredom of her aunt's house, but Beth has more history with the house than Adele realizes. This kind of feels like if Jennifer and Needy from Jennifer's Body were characters in It Follows, and it has a dreamy, melancholy atmosphere that really works for me. It's all very wistful and yearning, and Erin Wilhelmi is note-perfect as Adele, filmed in these bruised-looking Alice in Wonderland blues and yellows. It also has some nicely spooky moments in the second half of the film (rocking chairs have always been creepy to me since The Woman in Black). It's a bit short and slight-feeling at 76 minutes run time, but it scratches the same itch as a really good short story, and I was surprised by how much I liked it.

Belatedly, here is my year in review of all the (new release) horror films I watched in 2022, sorted in roughly ascending order.

( Includes some minor spoilers for Dashcam, Blonde, Men, and Pearl )

So yeah, that was 2022 for me! Other horror films from this year that I missed but want to check out soon are Crimes of the Future, Incantation, Resurrection (YES REBECCA HALL), and Candy Land. Tell me your favourites, tell me your recs!

Getting this in under the wire at NYE, I would like to do the January talking meme next month! Something that I've found really freeing and helpful on Tumblr is getting used to casually rattling off opinions, so give me a topic to discuss for any of these days and I will give it my best shot.

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I was extremely blessed with four (!!!!) gifts for Chocolate Box, and wanted to rec them here as well!

In a Lonely Place, (Twin Peaks, Audrey/Cooper/Laura), a pre-threesome series of encounters that are surreal and hot and insightful, and play with a fractured timeline to great effect.

hungry hearts (The Locked Tomb, Harrow/Ianthe), hot and relentless Harrow/Ianthe with an incredible use of multiple orgasms as character development.

Atelophilia (Black Swan, Lily/Nina), a moving and immersive and totally fantastic Nina Lives AU.

light's so much brighter there (Last Night in Soho, Ellie/Sandie), gorgeously-realized dreamsex in the Rialto that's heady and sad and horrific in all the right places.

All of these are just incredible, and I can't recommend them enough. <3333

( Black Swan (2010), Last Night in Soho (2021), The Locked Tomb Series, Twin Peaks )

* Last night I watched Censor (2021), a new British horror movie set during the "video nasties" moral panic of the late eighties/early nineties. I really liked this as a period piece and a very serious and unnerving kind of meta horror - the main character, Enid, is a censor for the BBFC, and one of the most stomach-clenching moments in the first half of the movie is a scene where you see her scanning other passengers' newspapers as she takes the train home from work, reading headlines about rising crime rates and "nasties to blame" like she's braced for a blow. I particularly loved the dreamlike, gummed-up feeling of a scene that comes later in the movie, where Enid visits the set of a horror movie during its production, and struggles to explain herself to the other people on set while the movie scene around her becomes more and more graphic. Would recommend to anyone who's interested in this kind of A24-esque arthouse horror.

* I also finished reading Harrow the Ninth this week (after reading Gideon the Ninth earlier this month). This series is absolutely killing me: the characters, the aesthetic, the offhandedly-decadent prose. I love that Harrow is too ascetic and repressed to drink water with lemon in it, and I love that Ianthe will ( spoiler for GtN ). I scream inside every time Gideon gets chivalrous. I'm extremely into all the possible variations on Harrow/Gideon/Ianthe after HtN made Harrow/Ianthe so very scaryromantic4scaryromantic. Also, now I want some kind of The Perfection AU for Harrow/Ianthe, or at least ( spoiler for HtN and The Perfection ). (I also think a Locked Tomb/Twin Peaks fusion would absolutely slap. Cooper could be a cavalier or necromancer for the Ninth House, and Audrey could be as a scion of the Third or Seventh who is threatened with getting sent to Drearburh as the in-universe equivalent of a Bulgarian convent.)

( The Haunting of Bly Manor, The Queen's Gambit, Twin Peaks )

( Crimson Peak (2015), The Lighthouse (2019), Midsommar (2019), Twin Peaks )

I'm a contributor for this year's

fandomtrumpshate auction! If anyone is interested a charity commission, my listing is here. I'm offering fic for Hannibal, Little Women (2019) and Twin Peaks, but definitely ask if there's anything else you'd be interested in me writing, I'm open to other fandoms that I've written for or talked about.

I feel a little ridiculous posting this, because I'm such lurker, but: it's the holidays, and I do like love, and I have a thread at the love meme, if anyone wants to check it out!

holiday love meme 2019
my thread here

It's almost time for Trick or Treat author reveals, and I'm still totally dazed at how incredible my gifts are. I got:

What I See (Black Swan, Lily/Nina), a fabulous missing scene that perfectly captures how Lily can make a ballet studio feel like a wilderness.

crescendo (Black Swan, Lily/Nina), the wereswan kink this movie always deserved. Incredibly hot and generous to Lily and Nina, with an ending that makes me want to grin for days and magnificent body horror.

Black and White and Red All Over (Black Swan, Lily/Nina), an achy, jagged, understatedly mournful look at Lily after Nina. Sheer perfection as a character study for Lily and an elegy for Nina, with a luminous, haunting, white-hot scene of them together between dances and a beautiful, gently devastating ending.

Here You Come Again (The Favourite, Abigail/Sarah), a delicious, post-canon scene of Abigail and Sarah living their best (and bitchiest) lives out in the country, with gorgeous banter and atmosphere.

snakeroot, hemlock, nightshade, oleander (The Favourite, Abigail/Sarah), a burningly hot Came Back Wrong AU set around Sarah's poisoning. Sarah is the most exquisitely menacing demon lover ever, and the whole fic is lush and swoonworthy in the exact way that a snakebite should be, full of beautiful characterization.

Fealty (The Favourite), a brilliant, bone-dry look at Abigail through the years, from her ascendancy-through-poison to her last days at court, all of it spare and delicious.

Pinned Down (Twin Peaks, Audrey/Cooper), an illustration of Audrey and Cooper at One-Eyed Jack's. Hot like a fever dream, with a beautiful, hypnotic balance between the eroticism and dreaminess. I CAN'T STOP STARING OKAY.

I love them all so much, and can't believe how lucky I've been. <33333

( Black Swan (2010), The Favourite (2018), Mulholland Drive (2001), Twin Peaks )

( Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, Dead Reckoning (1947)/Gilda (1946), Penny Dreadful (TV), To Catch a Thief (1955), Twin Peaks )

( Crimson Peak (2015), Penny Dreadful (TV), Twin Peaks )

( Smut Swap Exchange Letter 2018: Crimson Peak (2015), Penny Dreadful (TV), Twin Peaks )

( Dear Yuletide Writer, 2017: Penny Dreadful (TV), The Red Shoes (1948), Twin Peaks )

( DYW, 2015: Crimson Peak, Fallen London, From Dusk Till Dawn, Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell )

( SAPPHISM EVERYWHERE - but most notably, in: ASOIAF, Crossovers (Shakespeare), Hannibal, Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell, Snow White and the Huntsman, Swan Lake )

( RarePairFest 2015 - Hannibal, Crossovers (Shakespeare), Mad Max )

( RarelyWritten 2015 - Arthurian Mythology, Daniel Deronda, Fallen London, Swan Lake )

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