Midnight Pals: Mexican Gothic
Added 2023-08-20 19:49:52 +0000 UTCSilvia Moreno-Garcia: Submitted for the approval of the Midnight Society, I call this the tale of the big gothic house
Moreno-Garcia: in Mexico
Moreno-Garcia: you might even call it
Moreno-Garcia: mexican gothic
Moreno-Garcia: so there's this debutante from Mexico City
Moreno-Garcia: and she has to visit her cousin who's married this weird english guy
Moreno-Garcia: and now lives in this big creepy house in the boonies with his weirdly english family
Moreno-Garcia: being weirdly english
Moreno-Garcia: so the mexican woman from the big city has to deal with these weird secluded in-bred white people
Lovecraft: what kind of topsy turvy world is this
Lovecraft: up is down, black is white
Lovecraft: i just don't know what to believe!
Moreno-Garcia: these english people, let me tell you
Moreno-Garcia: they love to just sit around, being mopey, eating shitty english food, refusing to mix with the locals, formulating weird race science theories
Lovecraft: i really don't see the problem
Mary Shelley: sup fuckers
King: oh mary you're just in time, silvia was telling a gothic story
Shelley: oh she's gonna tell a gothic story eh? you hear that fellas
Ann Radcliffe: i hear that
Matthew "Monk" Lewis: is that so
Shelley: my original goths will be the judge of this
Shelley: you think you're gonna do some gothic? that's cute
Shelley: has the family patriarch got a dead wife?
Moreno-Garcia: he's got two
Shelley: oh damn i take it back
Shelley: that IS gothic
Lewis: that's hard core
Radcliffe: TWO dead wives?!??!
Moreno-Garcia: and there's a family plot that's got marble busts of the dead wife
Shelley: oh hell yeah that's the way to do it
Lewis: you gotta have the busts
Radcliffe: oh yeah definitely you gotta have em
Shelley: how about this protagonist? pale, likes to faint, right?
Moreno-Garcia: no she loves to party and smoke cigarettes
Shelley:
Lewis:
Radcliffe:
Shelley: damn what a twist!
Lewis: i never considered that angle
Radcliffe: a whole new grid