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Are there any fictional characters who are not conventionally attractive, but that YOU still find attractive?
Are there any fictional characters who are not conventionally attractive, but that YOU still find attractive?
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Are there any fictional characters who are not conventionally attractive, but that YOU still find attractive?
Are there any fictional characters who are not conventionally attractive, but that YOU still find attractive?
Yes
No
Thomas Ligotti cover art
Let us not forget the Italian cover of The Conspiracy Against The Human Race. It is a still of an Olivier de Sagazan performance.
Had to screenshot this for the beautiful caption:
JUST SITTING WITH CLIVE BARKER AS HE DOODLES MONSTERS. NO BIG. MEET YOUR IDOLS. DO QUEER SHIT.
I feel like, as a problematic villain fave community, we are sleeping on Christopher Carrion.
Who is Christopher Carrion? He’s a villain from The Books of Abarat, Clive Barker’s young adult series. (Did you know Clive Barker had a YA series? This too, is tragically slept on.)
Points in his favor:
He is unattractive. Like. Straight up Not Hot by any conventional standard. This makes him perfect for us freaks.
He has a large translucent bowl around his neck, where his nightmares slither out of his brain and swim around like snakes made of smoke and lightening in the liquid it holds. When they brush his skin he relives his nightmares. Amazing. 10/10.
His lips are scarred from where his grandmother sewed them shut when he mentioned the word "love" once as a child. Fucked up family history? A necessity.
He was in love with/obsessed with a princess, and when she rejected him he sent a dragon to kill her and her love interest. And succeeded! Love us an unhinged romantic. (I know this come off as cliche, but this is Clive Barker: he makes cishet romance into true horror. So, the obsession is creepy in the best way.)
The protagonist of the books is a teen girl named Candy Quakenbush (seriously, read this series), who maybe reminds Christopher Carrion of his now-dead princess. He responds...normally. (This is a lie.) Star crossed lovers in the worst way possible. Makes me gleeful.
He's a powerful magician. He can summon a giant moth from bones and talk to the dead. Which is all I really want from a man.
He's manipulative. Of course.
I loved his character arc. I mean, your mileage will vary, but I thought it rocked.
His name is Christopher Carrion.
Anyway. I love this man, and in a world of shadow daddies and villain romances he deserves so much more love and attention. I mean, the whole series does. The world of Abarat is cool as fuck. Candy is kind, smart, and kick-ass, my favorite combination.
Tumblr user, even if your fixation fades, do not delete your sideblog. Someone out there just as obsessive as you is going to be deeply sad about losing that archive of material
Tom Hooper directed the pilot to His Dark Materials the same year he dropped Cats & i really wish he had used the same technology for the dæmons. Just a naked furry human Pan following Lyra around all the time
#evil but funny#I wonder if this is how the greeks imagined their daemons back in the day
If you want an honest answer, it's that most of the concept of dæmons was inspired by Renaissance paintings of ladies with odd animals in their lap.
Socrates had some sort of divine/daimonic sign he sometimes saw indicating what he shouldn't do - at least that's how it's described in Plato's Apologia. It's unclear how it manifested but it likely wasn't animal-like at all. Dæmons or Daimons in Greek myth is mostly an alternative title to god, which was used for gods such as Aphrodite. Plato later sort of solidified that to a specific type of divine entity that was between the gods and humans, but it's still a type of divine entity. The concept of every mortal having one may have been tied to the idea of fate.
This is brought to you by a guy who thought digging into the old Greek sources will be helpful for figuring out Jewish views of dæmons. It was illuminating and interesting, and led me in a number of curious directions, but in the end the connection between Pullman's idea and the ancient Greek concept is tenuous. Though if the Greeks ever visualized it, it would've been a regular human, maybe a Golden Age human or something. Not really anything animalistic.
has anyone here read Clive Barker's "Abarat"?
just curious.
heated rivalry fans, if you want another good filmed adaptation of a book by a queer creator, may i suggest hellraiser by clive barker
Hello my name is Clive Barker this is the villain for my very weird kink exploration horror movie He is a gorgeous Italian man whose first scene is him leaning in a doorway drenched from the rain He Is irredeemably evil and is going to hell👍
The greatest minds of this generation are putting all their creative energy into writing pornography for 50 hits on ao3
It's thinking about Chris o'clock
Doodle
Pilfered some charcoal from an unused room. The ear is wayyyy too far into the face but for a highlighter doodle I scribbled over in a medium I have no idea how to work, I think this is a half decent prince of nightmares
happy halloween but especially to clive barker and his diseased mind
