Awaken the princess from her sleep?

What a cruel thing to do! For what if the princess wishes not to receive the kiss of awakening, but rather to continue to sleep forever?

[undeadkitty]

little red riding hood is about rape. sleeping beauty is about rape. Alice in wonderland is about rape. those of us which have eyes to see understand

[deathly-maiden]

The Stolen Kiss by John Frederick Harrison Dutton, 1904

[punkrock-bottom]

I’ve seen you people thirst after men I wouldn’t even feed to my creature

[arthistoryanimalia]

For #WorldGoatDay 🐐:

Statuette of a [pregnant!] Nanny #Goat

Greece, Hellenistic period, c. 120-100 BCE

Bronze; 30.5 x 31.1 cm (12 x 12 1/4 in.), 6.577 kg (14.5 lbs.)

On display at Cleveland Museum of Art (1990.32)

“Goats were among the earliest domesticated animals and figured prominently in Greek art and mythology since at least the 8th century Bc. This example with its powerful stance, curly beard, and horns is not a ram but an expecting doe with swollen flanks. The subject is rare and its meaning unclear. Possibly she was part of a group dedication to a goddess.

The sunken areas at the tail and hips and her open mouth, indicating heavy breathing, are signs that she is ready to give birth.”

[thoodleoo]

starting to think pliny and i have different definitions of a "good plan"

[thoodleoo]

mixed reviews on this one

[enchantedbook]

'Other Lovers' by Norman Lindsay, 1924

[frostedmagnolias]

Lover's Eye Bracelet

c. 1860

Watercolor on ivory set in a gold bracelet

probably British

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

[cor-ardens-archive]

Christabel 160-1, Samuel Taylor Coleridge

[dykecinema]

We need more media about a younger woman psychosexually obsessed with an older woman

[treasures-and-beauty]

Gold and mother of pearl decorated box 1744/1746                

[treasures-and-beauty]

Charles Boutet de Monvel. Necklace 1900. 18k yellow gold, silver, opal, glass, ruby, Pearl, Diamond:

[chromaticabrasions]

what if you were a vampire and you were killing some victim and they fucking bit you and sucked your blood. all you wanted was a snack and now you got this fuckass fledgling

[chromaticabrasions]

more vampire stories should play with the idea of the vampire’s blood being sucked against their will. the violation that is usually caused by the vampire being turned on it. or the violation that created it being repeated in undeath. some vampire fanatic tracking down a vampire and drinking its blood to become a vampire themself. awesome awesome awesome

[chromaticabrasions]

vampire who is of the tortured, self-loathing variety and thinks of vampirism as a curse. vampire obsessed freak who becomes infatuated with it and wants nothing more than to be turned and live out the centuries together. you could get really freaky with it

the human kidnapping the vampire, locking it up and starving it so that when they slice their wrist and shove the wound into the vampire’s mouth it can’t help but drink. the sick satisfaction of the human and the horror and repulsion of the vampire. even better if it’s a vampire who avoids human blood.

and once the vampire has been forced to suck the blood, just as it was forced to suck its sire’s blood way back when it was turned, then the human cuts into the vampire’s chest and the vampire is victim once again.

besides the physical violation, can you imagine the mental and emotional toll? the vampire, who had done so well not to hurt anyone, not to spread its horrid disease, has created this thing. a thing that reminds the vampire constantly that it created it.

“i put my wrist in your mouth, but you’re the one who kept it there. you drank from me with pleasure. it’s in your nature. it’s in our nature. everything you are, so now am i. your blood flows within me. we are one, and will live together for eternity. you wanted this. you wanted me.”

just. think about this with me. a vampire, a creature who has been victim before and never wants to hurt anyone in that way, not only reliving the violation of having the blood sucked from its body, but also having to face the fact that it has begotten another creature of darkness into the world

[meanvictoriann]

🕷️🕷️🕷️

[2headedtrout]

[the-cinder-fields]

Philip Burne-Jones, The Vampire, 1897

[thatsbelievable]

[awildwickedslip]

vampires are the key to everything… [from: the reproduction of evil: a cultural and clinical perspective by sue grand]