Making It Wyrd
@makingitwyrd
A scholar putting a gothic spin on pop culture. Books, films, music - we're making it wyrd 👻 Check out our blog:
Taylor Swift and Female Rage. This was our first blog post - have you read it? Find it here: makingitwyrd.wordpress.com/2024/07/11/g...
Dead Silence by @authorstaceykade.bsky.social explores the physical and psychological fallout after a luxury space cruiser is rediscovered following its mysterious disappearance. Corruption, contamination, guilt and ghosts... this book asks who has power and what does it cost?
It's that time of year again where my favourite psychological horror is on TV: Love Island! What better time to revisit one of our first blog posts? I examine how the contestants of Love Island live in a manufactured reality filled with gothic doubles. makingitwyrd.wordpress.com/2024/08/09/s...
With its child protagonist navigating a dark and distorted world, body horror, violence and gore, and chilling mysteries 'Little Nightmares II' becomes a fairytale for the modern moment. Human presence in this world only leads to pain and suffering... seem familiar?
We have some Shirley Jackson fans over on instagram. Follow us on instagram and tiktok @makingitwyrd if you want to see what we do with a visual medium 👻👀
A recent addition to our fiction rec list, Bunny is a surreal and gruesome exploration of loneliness, creativity and femininity. It asks how can women do wrong when they are so cute? makingitwyrd.wordpress.com/fiction/
Been thinking about temporal pandemonium and gothic repetition in video games recently. What game does it best (and why is it @undertale.com)?
A tale of murders, secrets, cults and floor plans... Strange Houses is contemporary urban gothic out of Japan and is the perfect October read!
episode 2 of our Pop Girlies and the Monstrous Feminine is here! Today we look at Charli xcx and the Abject. Do not despair, this is the introductory episode on Charli - we have more to say!
We are very excited to hear @icysedgwick.bsky.social and @stonelands.bsky.social speaking about folklore on Friday in Lincoln! We couldn't track down Richard's bluesky but we are very excited to hear from him too!
A little snippet of what we get up to on tiktok. Here is ep 1 of our Pop Girlies and the Monstrous Feminine - Sabrina Carpenter
What connects these works? Correct guesses get a warm feeling of a job well done 👻👻👻
All this Wuthering Heights talk has us thinking about adaptation. What is the purpose of an adaptation? Can (or should) we expect adaptations to be faithful to the original work? 🤔
Who has spotted our new header? Tag yourself - are you disco ghost, book ghost or movie ghost? 👻👻👻
Did someone say rebrand? 👻👻👻 Check out our fresh blog: makingitwyrd.wordpress.com
This episode of @americanhysteria.bsky.social has got me thinking about the role of the babysitter in horror. She is a figure of dichotomy: the virgin/temptress, domestic/public, precarious employee/authority figure. She is seen through the male gaze with often violent consequences
The Ballad of Wallace Island includes multiple gothic tropes: obsession, toxic nostalgia, isolated location, old Manor house, dead wife, 'backward' rural community. But its positive undertone keeps it from falling into gothic depair. It is almost anti-gothic
Let the Best Gothic Novel Ever competition begin! The first round will be 13/3. Use #LGGbestgothicnovel for predictions and discussions!
While perhaps not traditionally gothic, Piranesi engages with a variety of gothic tropes. It is full of mystery, the occult, ancient powers, and, of course, the ocean. An excellently crafted tale of how humans relate to the world around them.
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A silly and over-the-top body horror from M. Knight Shyamalan which (SPOILERS) explores the corruption of Big Pharma and anxieties of the loss of humanity in the process of scientific advancement.
A pick from our podcast rec list: The Folklore Podcast (@folklorepod.bsky.social)! While this podcast covers a range of folklore from around the world, interviewing experts along the way, we had to highlight this episode on Lincolnshire folklore as the imp is close to our hearts.
The official Best Gothic Trope Ever is... Setting as Character! Thanks for voting and sharing your thoughts on the different tropes in the competition. Share your fave example of Setting as Character below and I might just examine it in an upcoming blog post!
Christmas reading 🎅💀 While this book echoes or maybe shadows The Secret History, it stands on its own. Interesting characters, suspenseful story, and beautiful writing - this is a joy to read.
Meet the trio: Scarlett Butchers @scarlettbutchers1.bsky.social is a PhD student exploring landscapes in the works of David Rudkin. Research interests inc folk horror, ecogothic and monstrosity. Either listening to spooky audiobooks or songs by Lorde as she runs LGG's 🦋 and X accounts.
Another pick from our fiction rec list. Angela Carter's retellings of various fairytales are brutal, brilliant and, of course, bloody. An easy read but with plenty of depth. Probably the perfect stocking filler, really.