I feel like people in general want something happy right now, but I don't know if that's much help. Maybe something that works for holiday but isn't too *specific* to holidays, so they can keep enjoying it longer?

I think we need tonescape the Bronte scale xD From 'terrible' to 'apocalyptically bad'

My pleasure! I love what you're doing here 💖

I don't think I could grow a good one by tonight 😁

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You're welcome! I look forward to more BIPOC gothic works from the North (and everywhere else)!

She's even good in that Winchester house movie, which is not very good in most other ways.

I need to find more of her work, and I don't think she has a Bluesky account, but I would say EC Dorgan has some gothic sensibilities in with the folk/weird. And if she had an entire gothic book, I would break my keyboard ordering it. www.ecdorgan.com