Pearls and Vermin

"A heathen, conceivably-- but not, I hope, an unenlightened one" --Lord Summerisle. Travesty-Horror-Decadence-Excrement Charlotte (Chrome) || United States || b.1992 18+ AO3 Profile

[felixdeon]

A Fauns Conquest and A Knights Surrender. Two paintings in vintage style of the beauty of queer love. Available as prints in my Etsy shop.

A Faun’s Conquest, available as a print.

A Knight’s Surrender, available as a print.

[chromeedwardian]

The only live-action remake that has rights is 101 Dalmatians with Glenn Close, House, and the Dumb and Dumber guy

[jeremyjohnirons]

tangled gave us so much, but mostly it gave us the beautiful and intense love of a horse and the man he is chasing in order to imprison

[roach-works]

i personally believe that maximus was the former captain of the guard who was cursed into horse form pretty recently, and everyone’s having trouble adjusting to it.

like, he’s entitled to sick leave, he really ought to take a couple months to break the curse and come to terms with whatever the fuck just happened to him, but instead of embarking on a journey of self-discovery and healing he just keeps showing up to work. no one can get captain maximus to go on his fucking voyage of self actualization and fix the curse because he’s obsessed with catching flinn ryder. everyone really fucking hopes that when he finally catches this guy the curse might be broken anyway, but it isn’t.

he just keeps showing up to work. he glares at the stablehands until they saddle him up. everyone’s gone over the regulations a dozen times but there’s nothing there saying you’re not allowed to saddle and ride the captain of the guard if he makes you do it. his former second in command rides him around like ‘sir i really don’t know about this’ and he’s just like ‘are we going to catch some criminals or what.’

you can see in the movie that everyone in the royal guard defers to this horse. it’s absolutely because that’s their boss. and secondarily because now he’s two thousand pounds of percheron.

there is no evidence against this theory and you cannot prove me wrong.

[ekjohnston]

This is pretty much the only fanon idea I have ever decided to hold personally true. I love it. It is the best.

[marzipanandminutiae]

"oh I want a lady vampire to kidnap me to her crumbling manor and drink my blood!" yes well I'm having to cope with a housing market that means I haven't even ONE single imposing castle in which to trap a Gothic heroine under my corrupting sapphic spell so

in 2026 you may have to settle for being half of a two-income Gothic romance household

[chromeedwardian]

When I was a young shitty teen, I decided that instead of calling people jerks (either because I wanted to be UNIQUE or my mother didn't like me calling people jerks--both are equally plausible), I would use another insult that was a synonym of the verb, "to jerk" so that's how I personally invented calling people Yanks.

[bearsockz]

home cooked meal

[yvesdot]

I have seen a young lady with her table loaded with volumes loaded of fictitious trash, poring day after day and night after night over highly wrought scenes and skillfully portrayed pictures of romance, until her cheeks grew pale, her eyes became wild and reckless, and her mind wandered and was lost — the light of intelligence passed behind a cloud, and her soul was forever benighted. She was insane, incurably insane from reading novels.

-- an anonymous pastor in 1864, on the greatest threat to young women

[sebijy]

[kavalyera]

ventrues wear suits bc they actually want 2 be pulled around and their ties r their leashes hear my truth before they get m

[victusinveritas]

[nether-demon-warthog]

@entities-of-posts if you haven’t done this one yet, the desolation

[entities-of-posts]

Seconded

[ominous-signs]

Official ominous sign

[ominous-signs]

the need for blood is rising.

Official ominous sign

[theglitterking2005]

[ominous-signs]

Feel the blood on your skin

[undead-kiss]

INGRID PITT as Countess Elisabeth Nadasdy in Countess Dracula (1971), dir. Peter Sasdy

[toomuchhorrorfiction]

Early 1990s horror paperbacks by Kathe Koja

[aldo-n-canp]

[bitchesgetriches]

hey bitches! home-buying question for yall that feels a little silly but i haven’t found much helpful online: i know when it comes to buying a house (or apartment, in my case) you need to budget for a down payment and closing costs etc, and then there’ll be ongoing mortgage payments, but like…what other monthly/yearly costs do homeowners need to budget for? my grandparents died last year and i inherited uhhhh more money than i was expecting to, like down-payment-and-then-some, and it’s making buying my own place feel like a near-term possibility instead of a pipe dream, but i work a minimum wage retail job and i’m worried about buying a place and then not being able to afford to keep it. i know there’s obviously utilities, taxes, maybe an HOA fee, but are there other costs i should be planning for when figuring out if i can afford to buy a home? sorry this got super long haha, thank you guys for all the education you do here!

I'm sorry to hear about the loss of your grandparents, but I'm glad to hear that they've left you such a generous gift! They must have loved you very much.

The biggest unforeseen cost of homeownership is repairs. When you start the home-buying process, a home inspector will go through an evaluate everything, and they'll tell you about which repairs are likely coming your way sooner than later. Example: your hot water heater is 30 years old and those suckers usually only last 20. So depending on what the inspector says, you can figure out what you'll need to repair, when, and how much it'll cost. So you can gauge your emergency fund accordingly.

More importantly, you'll need to get home owner's insurance (the premium of which gets bundled into your mortgage payment). Find out how much your deductible will be in the event of an insurance claim, and add that to your emergency fund and don't touch it for ANYTHING ELSE besides home insurance claims.

I know you were hoping for a nice tidy number, but as always (say it with me now) personal finance is personal! We have a lot more details on this whole question below:

Dafuq Is Insurance and Why Do You Even Need It? 

Season 2, Episode 2: “I'm Not Ready to Buy a House---But How Do I *Get Ready* to Get Ready?”

You Must Be This Big to Be an Emergency Fund 

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[pmamtraveller]

John Collier, 'The Witch,' 1893

[clozaphim]

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