† ℱestina lente

"And I will live forever" Semi-selective. Semi-hiatus/very low activity. Indie Dracula for Van Helsing.

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† Semi-Hiatus (Dec. 2022 - March 2023)

After a lot that has happened over the past two-ish months (the good/bad/ugly) it is more than obvious that I need to put RPing on semi-hiatus/low activity status. As many of you know, I have a lead role in a musical that will be running three weekends in March 2023 and I have to be off book for lines before the new year. Also, because I am a lead, I will have pretty much ZERO time in the evenings/weekends anymore until the show actually opens. And I also work pretty much full-time.

My hope/goal is to do RPing on some weeknights when I am not busy or wiped out, and of course on weekends that do not have rehearsals or other RL happenings. 

My definition of this semi-hiatus is this: sporadic, very limited writing. Replies will be written based on muse gravitation towards threads/muses. When I am around I will write at the most half a dozen replies. Also, I haven’t been, and will continue to not be around the dash very much, so contacting me via the IMs will result in slow/late responses from me. Please, if we are mutuals, do ask me for my dis.cord information as that will be a speedier way of contacting/chatting with me.

If we are friends/get along nicely, you are more than welcome to ask for my Insta.gram! As rehearsals begin and as I do more things in my life (because my insta.gram is SUPER boring at the moment and I hardly update because my life is boring?), I will be adding to my account much more often with stories/reels/posts. Maybe you can see/hear me during rehearsals, making new friends and just having fun doing something I love so much.

I love you all. Thank you for your unending patience with me. I do miss writing, and all the good things and feelings RPing entails, but I am so excited to be back on stage singing and performing after a long, involuntary absence!

(My standard pinned post is here.)

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//Ya'll I miss this blog and Vladdie soooo much </3

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lil' update~

//Hi Loves. OOF first time being on here on my laptop in months (everything MOVED AND CHANGED tumblr srsly STOP). Anyway I'm not fully ready to comeback yet, loves. I recently accepted a more permanent job than substitute teaching (yay) so I have that to prepare for.

Also, I have been BUSYYY. I went to go see Disturbed (they had Break.ing Benjamin as their opener and a Ukranian metal group that was pretty sick). I head banged so hard and lost my voice from screaming. Every chord and vocalization was a baptism, a holy transcendent experience. Not kidding, the child in me that listened to Disturbed and all those "nu metal" bands was appeased that night. Like FUCK it was almost an out of body experience, like it was my SOUL there not me (also I was....inebriated so XD).

Then this past Sunday I saw Les Miserables on tour. FINALLY GOT TO SEE A PROFESSIONAL PRODUCTION OF ONE OF MY FAVORITE MUSICALS. Then this Saturday I'M SEEING BEETLEJUICE THE MUSICAL AAAAHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!

Once I'm settled into my new job and everything, which should be by the end of the month, I hope to be back into the swing of it here. I also am toying with the idea of moving Vlad to a whole new blog (ya'll this one is NINE YEARS OLD) since I've lost essentially all my tags and my whole organization system here. We shall see.

Much love ya'll

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Watching Van Helsing (2004) and it seems I remembered correctly, the plot is to be bisexual and have fun

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Van Helsing has yet to beat the divorce allegations first brought up in 1879

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Clarice Lispector, from Água Viva

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Commission for @leatherfaceologist

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//I mean WOW I've been gone long 💔 Hi everyone. I want to write again even though I'm in another show, I have some more time.

Anyone interested?

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//Hey y'all. Just checking in. I finished my first week of rehearsals on Friday and I am still so pumped! I've only had four rehearsals last week and we have already covered so much material. I am constantly reviewing notes in my script and going over music. However, I only have two rehearsals this week, so I hope to find time to write!

Miss you all. Thank you for your patience as I try to find a rhythm between rehearsals, work, home life, and here 💚

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Halloween mode, You know...

Marishka, Verona ando Aleera, from VanHelsing Movie

Enjoy it!🦇🎃

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pyramultimuse​:

Gabriel had full intention of only sharing some kissing with the stripper he had gone home with. But the tender kissing didn’t last long at all. They were in the privacy of Vlad’s apartment, the need to hold back gone. In their right mind taking things slow was the best course to make sure that this wasn’t just a fling, unfortunately they were thinking with their other heads at the moment.

When Vlad moved to straddle his lap he eagerly pulled the other man close, holding him chest to chest as their lips melded together. One of his hands sliding down to cradle Vlad’s ass, no longer having to hold himself back from touching the very desirable man. 

This was supposed to be a friendly, romantically casual night to just be each other without any pretenses. To share the heart’s desires and secret aspirations while sitting on the couch until the hour would chime on the church bells a few blocks away, announcing the end of the resplendent evening. 

It started with soft, exploring kisses, tasting the man that had thoroughly captivated him. The first night upon seeing Gabriel, Vlad couldn’t help but feel a tug of lust in his veins...and that Gabriel had expressed a deeper interest in him! Astounding! For all of Vlad’s confidence in himself, he secretly clung to hope that this would not end in tears and heartache.

An audible inhale plunged into Vlad at the strong hand grasping his rear, Vlad curled and arched his back, dragging himself over Gabriel’s lap in response to the touch. “Mind where those hands venture, hm?” Vlad murmured against Gabriel’s ear, playfully chiding him but he had to be the tease he was and gently trace the lobe of Gabriel’s ear with the tip of his tongue.

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//I have a feeling I will be archiving/dropping some threads with ya’ll. I will contact any of you if I need to drop any threads through next week. I think that will help me have a clean, fresh focus as I have been absent so much. But, I will do my best with pumping out replies to what I have in my tracker first THEN those that I do not have muse/inspiration for will be put into the archives.

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vyrulent​:

Virginia’s smile was beaming. She was like that of her more youthful form, before the cold shiver of death had fallen over her. Such a smile was a rarity – it was simply a ghostly visage of the girl she’d once been, such a sight only known by a few vampires. Now the Count could consider himself in such a small minority. 

“I love your home. Certainly a lot better than some of the hovels I’ve hidden within in the past when my outfit was still small and on the fringe of society.” The red haired vampire had made a life out of creating chaos, creating anarchy for the powers that be. Anarchy had always started on the outside, on the fringes of good society. “But you should take a walk outside your halls. I can promise that I’ll not let a few new walls harm you in the night.”

Virginia does enjoy both the gentle and not so gentle teasing of the Count. It’s a strangeness to meet one’s personal heroes and to find such friendly terms, even in her gaze of respect and admiration. 

“It’s whatever you want it to be. Wear as you wish. Though, I’d remind you that most of these people find distaste in the rich and lavish.“

Vlad stood with a proud lift to his chest and a delicate slant of his head -- the creature was particular and took great pride in the lavishness of his properties like any bird would of their nest assembled with only the best materials. “Ah, but my halls are exquisite! Why should I seek out lesser halls? I understand what you mean, dear one,” Vlad intoned through a smile. He had gotten comfortable with his surroundings, having clung to the familiar shadows and the sound of silence only interrupted by the lament of the wind.

“I shall remind you that my riches and position have all been earned. True, my family was a defender for the Church and was the Emperor’s left hand by lineage, however I fought to keep it without whoring---” Vlad stopped himself with bow of the head and a thin smile.

“It is all history, is it not?” His interjection was a frail attempt at keeping the memories at bay. “Where shall your little dinner party be, Ginny? What shall they say, seeing you with the one and only Dracula?”

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Van Helsing has yet to beat the divorce allegations first brought up in 1879

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@pyramultimuse​ ;••••; asked▬

Gabriel responding to the attractive and deadly gifset: "I've been asking myself that about you since we've met. Still don't have the answer to why, you just are."

“Me too...” Vlad sighed, sounding rather despondent that he had all this charm and sex appeal and he was at odds at what to do with it all. 

“I am that I am, am I not?” Vlad smiled, slipping with ease into his usual demeanor of suave and sensuality. “Designed by God, made by the Devil, wouldn’t you say?”