Wonderland Gothic

There's something about Alice that just brings out the worst in people. If Lewis Carroll's whimsy isn't being broken on a rack of inarticulate violence (as in The Looking Glass Wars) then someone's gone 180 degrees in the opposite direction and created something like this.

From a design standpoint, the Wonderlost images are not bad. They're really rather pretty. But it's impossible to look at them and not realize that somewhere they're undoubtedly being worshipped and adored by 16-year-old wannabe Goth girls with posters of Emily the Strange on their bedroom walls and copies of Edward Scissorhands DVDs watched and rewatched so often they're scratched beyond all repair.

And yes. I was one of those girls. Sans the ability to look Goth, of course.