Midnight Pals: Mexican Gothic (Patreon)

Silvia 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