An Archaeologist's Guide to Vampirism

Brian Gossamer, the timid and scrawny history professor at Boston's Rosenthall University, has a secret. No, it's not that he has a soft spot for tea nor is it the fact he's a bit of a perfectionist; he's a vampire! Despite his unfortunate condition,...

[gojiro]

Fun Vampire Fact; the reason that Vampires traditionally cannot see their reflections in a mirror is because mirrors used to be backed with a reflective layer of silver — which, as the metal of purity, would not ‘interact’ with Vampires, who are the Devil’s work.

However, modern mirrors have used aluminum as their reflective backing for many years now — and aluminum is not a ‘picky’ metal at all. So Vampires are able to see their reflections in modern mirrors.

[roseate-rein]

All I can think about is a vampire used to not seeing their reflection in mirrors for centuries, and one day they are just walking along and unknowingly pass a mirror backed with aluminum and THEY NEARLY SHIT THEMSELVES.

[skysinger-musings]

[albino-bat]

Brian Gossamer’s finally done! It’s been quite a few years since I drew him and felt it’d be neat comparing the old way I drew him(the painting hanging to his left/our right) to his more updated look. And yes, the painting behind the portrait of Brian is also a portrait of him. He’s a little egotistical like that. If you were a professor at one of the most exclusive universities in New England then you’d be a little full of yourself, too. 

Background was done with watercolors while main figure of Brian was done with Copics. My scanner decided it would eat the grey in his hair and face and…well, pretty much all the greys. My scanner hungers for greys. 

[cowardlyvampire]

(So I’ve been away from the role play game for quite some time but I’ve felt my old muses leave me. Brian’s still a dull flicker, but I’m wanting to try some new ones out. Inspired a bit by a game I’ve been playing *coughFallout4cough* I decided to try and see how well I could make a detective character but set them in Brian’s world. I still wanna interact with you all and don’t want my writing skills to cease entirely so I present to you:

Vincent Stiehl. 

I made a promo thinger so...why I didn’t reblog that instead is beyond me. It’s nearly 1 am and I should be in bed, but alas. Keep in mind RPing a character like him is absolutely new to me. I’m more accustomed to the dweeby types.)

[classichorrorblog]

[classichorrorblog]

Dracula |1931| Tod Browning

[the-library-and-step-on-it]

Things just happen, one after another. They don’t care who knows. But history… ah, history is different. History has to be observed. Otherwise it’s not history. It’s just… well, things happening one after another.

Small Gods, Terry Pratchett. (via the-library-and-step-on-it)

[teaconjurer]

[bitchuser]

[discworldquotes]

The Bursar was, as he would probably be the first to admit, not the most mentally stable of people. He would probably be the first to admit that he was a tea-strainer.

Terry Pratchett, The Last Continent

[vintagegal]

“The absence of love is the most abject pain.” Nosferatu The Vampyre (1979) dir. Werner Herzog

[falling-through-autumn]

[wordsnquotes]

You are the night, and the night alone understands you and enfolds you in its arms.

Anne Rice (via wordsnquotes)

[vaultism-archive-blog]

Please like/reblog this if you're willing to roleplay with villain characters without acting like the mun is a terrible person.

[dogsenpai]

“hey i really like your oc can i draw–”

[thefalloutkid]

“Evil is a point of view. We are immortal. And what we have before us are the rich feasts that conscience cannot appreciate and mortal men cannot know without regret. God kills, and so shall we; indiscriminately He takes the richest and the poorest, and so shall we; for no creatures under God are as we are, none so like Him as ourselves, dark angels not confined to the stinking limits of hell but wandering His earth and all its kingdoms.”

[jellymonstergirl-deactivated201]

The Lost Boys (Joel Schumacher | 1987)

[cowardlyvampire]

“Your teeth…”

Brian gave the blond man a curious look as he studied him. There was a second’s sign of nervousness on the Englishman’s face before he adopted a courteous, tight-lipped smile. 

“What about them?” Brian inquired, playing as innocent as he could muster; he knew too well just what exactly Kirk meant. “Do I have something in them? Spinach perhaps?”

[egocentricgenius]

“Nothing like that,” Kirk paused to try to find the right thing to say. “I noticed that some of them are quite sharp-looking. Particularly your canines.”

[cowardlyvampire]

Brian kept the genuinely baffled facade in spite of his growing nervousness. Kirk’s attention to detail over the vampire had the red flags raised especially. He gave the man a slight shrug and returned to his book which he had been quite invested in up to the interruption.

“Perhaps you mistake the sharp teeth with the simple fact I practice good dental hygiene,” Brian said, not looking at Kirk anymore, “Something that too many people pay no heed to these days.”

[myancientworld]

To me, a wicked man who is also eloquent Seems the most guilty of them all. He’ll cut your throat as bold as brass, because he knows he can dress up murder in handsome words.

Medea, from Euripides Medea (via myancientworld)