I mentioned not too long ago that if you’re not reading Coilhouse then you should go check it out. While assembling a list of the Dark Queens of 2009, it occurred to me that one of their staff would make a great Queen of Darkness. Unfortunately, I had some trouble choosing between what I assume are the three co-founders: Nadya Lev, Zoetica Ebb and Meredith Yayanos. Like Wurzeltod, they are purveyors of alt culture. All of them do cool things like photography, music, and of course, writing. Choices, choices, choices. In the end, an animal mask sealed the nomination.
Besides contributing to Coilhouse, Zoeteca also has her own blog, Biorequiem dot com.
Zoeteca has an Animal Mask
I can hear the moaning from my attic lair already. “Luna Lovegood!?!” you ask? Well to be honest, the choice was between Luna Lovegood and Bellatrix LeStrange. Let’s talk about the finer points. Bellatrix is crazy, dangerous and loves to scream about how she killed this or that person, and that’s fine. She also cuts a great pose with her mad eyes and crazy hair.
BUT…
Luna Lovegood has an Animal Hat
I know. I know. She’s about 200 years too young for me, but let’s be serious: Luna Lovegood is Really Weird. She has a name that really belongs to the deadly romance interest in a James Bond movie. She sees things that other people don’t. She doesn’t freak out at the sight of blood. She talks about weird things all the time. (Hm. She’s sounding a lot like all my exes.) To Harry Potter and the world, she is a secret sharer and an anchor in that dark place where nothing makes sense. She also has an animal hat and looks like a fairy. MMMMMMM. Yes, sometimes that marginalized strange girl who “sees things” turns out to be right in the end.
Besides, those funny glasses make me confused and excited. Hey lady, why don’t you look my way? Have you seen too much with those x-ray eyes?
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OK OK you regular readers must have seen this coming a mile away. If I’m going to name my top nine dark ladies of 2009, isn’t it natural that the lovely Other Mother make the list? I mean, I’ve basically built an Internet Shrine to the lady monster. Not only is she beautiful, but she gets more and more beautiful as the movie progresses. Add to that her collection of children’s souls, and some magical powers, and BAM! you’re talking about a couple handfuls of lady monster. Yes sir.
Sadly, No Animal Hat - Chicken Mitt.
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If you aren’t aware of Wurzeltod, a name we suspect has something to do with carrots and death, you’re in for a treat because Suzanne G., a.k.a. Wurzeltod has been amassing an online collection of the odd, grotesque, and wonderfully black for at least as long as the internets have moved though tubes.
Wurzeltod has an Animal Hat
I don’t actually have much else to say here because the very breadth and depth of “Giving Taste a Bad Name Since Kindergarten” is quite enough. Although I do have to say that if you’re short on time, you can just follow the WurzelTumblr. It’s AWESOME!
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I first noticed Ghostella when she was the pale and frightening host of “Ghostella’s Haunted Tomb of… Horror and… Terrible things” or whatever it was that episode. I didn’t care. I was just waiting for her to turn the creepy music on. MMMmmmmm. With enough makeup, Ghostella can pass for a living person, under which guise she pretends to be Heidi Martinuzzi, founder and editor of Pretty Scary dot Net, a blog “For Women in Horror, by Women in Horror”. Our favorite episode of Ghostella’s Tomb was Noir D’Ivoire.
Little did this prepare us for her truly terrifying 2009 role in a movie by Stacy Ponder, (a.k.a. Final Girl) titled “Deadly Dress 4: Never A Bride“. Her role as a crazy lady in a pink dress who menaces the bride and then later meets an untimely death at the hands (or should we say hem) of a haunted wedding dress really made us sit up and pay attention. Wow. Like Nabokov writing Lolita in his third language, Ghostella is able to play a normal person playing a modern day witch in a pink dress with a horrible blond wig and kill it! If I was Paula Abdul, I’d be dancing.
Finally, Ghostella has an animal hat. This will make sense later, trust me.
Ghostella's Animal Hat
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