alia-andreth:

I can’t believe how none of the Southern/Midwestern/Southwestern/etc Gothic posts I’ve seen have mentioned exactly how dark it is in rural areas. You’re driving down a country road late at night and beyond your headlights the trees and sky are as black as the inside of a movie theater before the show starts. Not to mention the random creepy thing whose eyeshine gets caught in the headlights just for a moment. It’s probably a dog or a fox or a coyote. Probably.