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Dr SpookyGoth @ghostingdani.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

There's a mysterious Black woman in her mother's carriage who has no explanation:

In this paper, I’m examining the mysterious Black figure that is reportedly seen travelling with Carmilla’s mother: “a hideous black woman, with a sort of colored turban on her head, and who was gazing all the time from the carriage window, nodding and grinning derisively towards the ladies, with gleaming eyes and large white eyeballs, and her teeth set as if in fury” (Le Fanu). Through this examination, Carmilla’s Black Body can be understood as a manifestation of miscegenationist fears following from the publication of Charles Darwin’s The Descent of Man, the contemporarily published theory for the explanation of racial difference,

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Dr SpookyGoth @ghostingdani.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

These towers should be parallel to one another, but the left one is jutting out over the water

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Dr SpookyGoth @ghostingdani.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

"Is that-" "A cast iron skillet full of double chocolate Guinness brownies? You bet your ass it is."

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Dr SpookyGoth @ghostingdani.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I'm pulling from memory so the details are not correct, but this is from Jerrold Hogle, editor of the Cambridge Companion to Gothic Fiction, and one of the most preeminent Gothicists of all time.

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Dr SpookyGoth @ghostingdani.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

This wasn't even clever when Emerson said it.

Do you disavow Hasan Piker?

Mockler: In what regard? I mean—

Piker: I disavow myself all the time. Every day I wake up, I’m like, “I disavow myself.”

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Dr SpookyGoth @ghostingdani.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Bart the Murderer! He's imitating Legs.

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Dr SpookyGoth @ghostingdani.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

There's a moment in Invasion on the Bunny Snatchers where Bugs says the word "gasp" in his Bushwick accent rather than gasping, and I do that.

Bugs Bunny using a magnifying glass to look at a label on a fake Elmer Fudd in Invasion of the Bunny Snatchers. He says "gasp" right after this.

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Dr SpookyGoth @ghostingdani.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I stopped updating it when I got a full time job but it can be this simple:

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Dr SpookyGoth @ghostingdani.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Monoculture vs splintered algorithm

Seinfeld finale has 76 million viewers in 1998

Game of Thrones finale had 19.3 million viewers in 2019

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Dr SpookyGoth @ghostingdani.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

It's a gimmick, but it's a very successful one.

A slice of cherry pie embedded in a chocolate cake

Half a chocolate cake with a cherry pie inside

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Dr SpookyGoth @ghostingdani.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

My response to yet another Talarico fundraising text

Until you explain why you decided to again trans Texans, apologize, and walk it back, you will not receive a single thin dime from me. Shame on you for abandoning my community and Texas children.

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Dr SpookyGoth @ghostingdani.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

It's decorative candy season motherfuckers.

A ghost holding a candy dish full of Snickers

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Dr SpookyGoth @ghostingdani.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Name a movie that fell apart in the final ten minutes: I loved this movie so much until the final Twilight-Zone-ass twist ending that makes a complete hash out of the strong theme being put forward.

2017's LIFE which is an ALIEN movie but bad.

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Dr SpookyGoth @ghostingdani.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

The plot of this Little Lulu cartoon has a distinctly different meaning in 2026.

Lulu sings "I'm Just Curious" after being scolded by her father, then she encounters a chicken hawk.

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Dr SpookyGoth @ghostingdani.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

In my ideal world it's still an analytical poem with a thesis statement and you can use it to do a rhetorical analysis, but you open the unit up with "How To Make A Dadaist Poem"

How to Make a Dadaist Poem
(method of Tristan Tzara)
To make a Dadaist poem:

Take a newspaper.
Take a pair of scissors.
Choose an article as long as you are planning to make your poem.
Cut out the article.
Then cut out each of the words that make up this article and put them in a bag.
Shake it gently.
Then take out the scraps one after the other in the order in which they left the bag.
Copy conscientiously.
The poem will be like you.
And here are you a writer, infinitely original and endowed with a sensibility that is charming though beyond the understanding of the vulgar.
--Tristan Tzara

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