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Blog of Dark Shadows and Randomness. I reblog Dark Shadows posts and occasionally post art - Header banner by @blairslamb(acc unavailable)

[portiafitzsimmons]

[radioactive-earthshine]

You've heard of multi-shipper now get ready for multi-headcanoner: where multiple interpretations of the same character coexist in your head and they are all great.

[barnabas-collins]

Adam

[tortoisesshells]

Something I hadn't grappled much with before, but now am thinking about in my second Shadows watch, is how important Vicki's attachment to and relationship with Josette's ghost is to both her character, and her narrative weight on the show - and how those things are a casualty of Barnabas emerging from the family crypt. By moving into the Old House, Barnabas literally replaces Josette as the spirit of that House and the most important supernatural power there! It was Josette who appeared to Vicki before her anticipated death, telling her "Don't be afraid,", it was Josette's voice repeating Bill's posthumous charge against Matthew (a life for a life), and it is Josette who will be David and Vicki's greatest champion against Laura in the Phoenix arc. I'm not sure where I'm going with this, but I'm appending it to my usual list of "ways Barnabas's arrival did Vicki's character dirty": making Vicki's connection to the Collins's ancestral past irrelevant.

[barnabas-collins]

Ben

Started this like 2 months ago and finished it just now😭

[portiafitzsimmons]

selection of dramatic zooms (non-comprehensive)

[barnabas-collins]

Dark Shadows convention in germany when😞🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

[milesedwardobrien]

headphone warning

[barnabas-collins]

I have yet to see Julia merch

[gravelgirty]

Dark Shadows Fan Art: The Onyx Mirror

The Onyx Mirror is a much darker version of events, if the Leviathans won. Still, I hate Jeb Hawkes so I killed him off quit. Now the Leviathans are fighting amongst themselves for power. Unfortunately for Barnabas Collins and Nicholas Blair, they're usually the only adults in the room when decisions have to be made and actions committed. Here Barnabas is reversed because he's looking through a mirror at the warlock looking very put-upon and probably just a little tired of all the nonsense.

[barnabas-collins]

Barnabas art

[tortoisesshells]

actual dialogue from episode 93. would i lie to you.

[inspired by @boltlightning's post: same story, different fandoms, and all are, etc.]

[guiltfactory]

the "my favorite character did nothing wrong" mindset is completely unappealing to me because i love thinking about all the things my favorite characters did wrong

[barnabas-collins]

Barnabas

[meghalsey]

House of Dark Shadows (1970) Dir. Dan Curtis

When we fell in love my Josette and I, I was as you are Willie, but when this curse was put upon me, there was only one way I could have her. I went to her that last night and offered her eternal life, eternal love. This is when she found out what our marriage was to be. She ran from me.

[sights9]

[barnabas-collins]

Thank Queer Barnabas🙏

[sights9]

I love making DS slop on the clock

[barnabas-collins]

I just thought about something:

I want a person who has never heard of Dark Shadows to draw the characters purely based on the description, after that, they're gonna watch the show (on silent so you don't hear them say the names) and guess which character is which based on their drawings