spooky!

"You are mine, you shall be mine, you and I are one forever."

[bumps-in-the-night]

Copter - she/her - 20 - lesbian - EST

“Welcome to my house! Enter freely, go safely, and leave some of the happiness you bring.”

Blog for gothic horror, vampires, etc. I also love TTRPGs, writing, nature, classics, fiction podcasts, and video games.

Favorite book: Dracula by Bram Stoker

Currently reading: the Aeneid book 4 (in Latin) (I’m translating) (please help)

Last watched: Nosferatu (2024)

My posts are under the tag #she speaks

[postpunkjunk1963-deactivated202]

[superinframan]

[bumps-in-the-night]

Logged back into this act after my years of slumber

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Something I really like about the solo journaling game Thousand Year Old Vampire is the way it deals with memory loss. And I get that that’s the point of the game, but still. Humans don’t have unlimited memory, most people forget large chunks of their life as they age. It makes sense that vampires, just to the left of humans, would also only have limited memory.

And memory loss in humans is often associated with trauma; why should it be different for vampires? If you’re a semi-immortal being who has lifetimes to live, naturally you’re going to go through some major trauma. It’s a part of both life and unlife. It has such unique potential for tragedy. You’re thousands of years old, but only the last three centuries or so are able to be recalled with any sort of clarity. Who were you back then? Do you have any way of knowing? Your childhood? That’s totally gone. Before you were turned? May as well be a different person.

[shaamelie]

The memory system has helped me develop some truly amazing scenes when answering prompts. Forgetting a rival and then meeting them, a vampire who started out kind forgetting their morals and goals.

Chefs kiss narrative device

[bumps-in-the-night]

You get it

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I took her to the vampire museum and I freaked it

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She’s visiting me this summer so maybe I can take her to the vampire museum

[charonnyxtides]

Carmilla and Laura by Abigail Larson

[bumps-in-the-night]

I took her to the vampire museum and I freaked it

[dravenxivuk]

The Carmilla shenanigans continue on Bluesky

[lasarusbird]

Laura in half of Carmilla (1872)

[charonnyxtides]

I love Carmilla when she's putting on masks and gleefully lying and playing people like a fiddle to get her way, when she's stealing hearts to crush them, when she's snobbishly dismissing peasants, when she's shamelessly seductive and gives maidens new desires at her parties before giving them death. When she's obsessive and in manic love and aware of its selfishness but not stopping, even if her beloved may eternally hate her.

But what I love especially is when she is also pathetic. Revealing those glimpses of herself drowning in sorrow and existential pain. When she says death is better than life but turning her face away from the death she has caused. And soft. Lying in Laura's lap in the garden in a summer breeze, and there, just for a while, holding her hand tight, she is peaceful, loving every single little thing that makes her feel human. Smiling her infinitely melancholic smile.

[theswisscheeserag]

Making my femme girlfriend hold my army surplus jacket while I test products at Sephora bc all is not always as it seems

[annabelle--cane]

vampirism poses the question "what if there was a fundamental, horrible, unending well of want in your soul that, if truly satisfied, would lead to great pain for all those you hold closest and, in turn, their absolute and total revilement of you?" and naturally as a person with no problems I don't relate to this in any way at all.

[annabelle--cane]

vampirism also poses the question "what if someone you loved, through no fault of their own, needed something from you, and giving it to them and seeing them happy provided you the greatest joy, and you were the only one who could do it, but at the same time it was slowly draining all your life out of you?" which is also a completely unrelatable idea to me because I'm a normal person with no issues.

[annabelle--cane]

"ugh this is not what vampires are about :/ you've been poisoned by contemporary vampire romance"

VAMPIRES WERE BEING SEXY BEFORE DRACULA WAS EVEN A GLINT IN THE MILKMAN'S EYE

NEVER LET THE HATERS TELL YOU THAT VAMPIRES SHOULDN'T BE SAD AND HOT

#SEXYVAMPIRESFOREVER

[bumps-in-the-night]

It was so cool of Carmilla and Laura to invent lesbianism

[wiliecoyotegenius]

Thinking about how by putting Mircalla Karnstein's portrait into her room that night, Laura invited Carmilla into her room. For three months, Carmilla had never entered Laura's bedroom at night.

Thinking about how Carmilla reacted to this in melancholy, speaking in sobs of Laura dying for her, and kissing her under the moon (which Laura says happily that it looked exactly like when they first met). Whispering to Laura, this is our last night like this.

[vivi-mire]

Me when a song has honestly nothing to do at all with a character but I played it a lot while thinking about them

[dioptre-hertz]

nosferatu (2024) is so fucking funny. they did this joke twice