the afterglow

20s | icon by jazmin quaynor | horror sideblog

[harrie-james]

the count of monte cristo x three colors: red

an edit i made a few months ago, this was inspired by @fayevalcntine's incredible web-weaving post.

[pasdetrois]

too many adaptations preoccupying themselves with the problem of albert not having a love interest; meanwhile, biblically accurate cuban tcomc remembers that this is, in fact, not a problem at all because every road leads back to mama

[snowbairdd]

Death is not the worst. There are things more horrible than death.

NOSFERATU THE VAMPYRE (1979) dir. Werner Herzog

[gael-garcia]

No Other Choice (어쩔수가없다, 2025), directed by Park Chan-wook

[starffis]

Season 1 Claudia outfits but as a 1920s fashion catalogue

process

[nevver]

Fuco Ueda

[sloppjockey]

crybby. gouache watercolor painting from 2018

[straycatj]

あまぞんぶらっくふらいでーで

ねこのオヤツ　かったですか

Hey landlady, have you purchased cats' treats at the black Friday sale by Amazon?

[ortut]

Pipilotti Rist

[phantom-threaded]

🧛🏼 VAMPIRES + SUNGLASSES 😎 Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1997) Twilight (2008) Only Lovers Left Alive (2013) Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992) Near Dark (1987) The Twilight Saga: New Moon (2009) The Hunger (1983) Wednesday (2022-) Interview with the Vampire (2022-)

[weepingwidar]

Rae Klein (American, 1995) - Untitled (2023)

[javarisx-fightingthosedemons]

[toiich]

Cemetery Man [Dellamorte Dellamore] (1994), dir. Michele Soavi

[shegos]

PRIDE MONTH CELEBRATION WEEK ☆ Day 1: Film / @creatorsofcolornet EVENT 15: Juneteenth ↳ MOONLIGHT (2016) dir. Barry Jenkins

[ilynpilled]

equating humanization with “apologia” and “manipulation” is treating the audience like they are morons. i want art to trust me enough to understand that i can reckon with characters not being black and white caricatures while sustaining my ultimate conclusion about them and their crimes

[ilynpilled]

“it gives ppl ammunition to…” i kinda dont care. sounds like a them problem. i see what is in the text and if the reality of the rest is also properly there that is what matters to me. i do think that what i want most out of fiction is for it to try to reflect truth, and then trust me to think for myself with it

[ilynpilled]

“but the audience are morons” well that is not my problem

[foreign-lawns]

All of this and the fact that most conclusions, judgments, statements exhortations about characters in narrative are solipsistic and empty (moral) sentiment meant not to create a discourse which brings those involved to a new understanding of the world and the various concepts within it (that is, to say something about, for instance, sexism), but to validate the multitude of projections (often derived from spectacle rather than discourse) a reader or viewer might overlay onto the work. One does not always have to brand a character (or a narrative in general) as "good" or "evil" because, like it or not, not only are those concepts are very amorphous, the judgment itself can easily be dismissed by asking, "So what?" When brought to an actual conclusion, such judgments fall apart, because they don't actually have a conclusion.

[fayevalcntine]

If someone wants to highlight the fact that misogyny is and was very much a consistent issue in Claudia's life in relation to the men around her (yes this includes Louis), then I think fans can be allowed to say "all the men failed her". I don't consider it in good conscience when people use it as a way to deflect actual criticism towards a specific man, but that doesn't make the statement any less true, and it doesn't not include Louis even if you consider him to be someone Claudia loved. At one point in her life she also cared for Lestat. None of her personal feelings towards these men can in any way alleviate the harm and danger they represented to her and her life and safety.

[through-a-historic-lens]

Man and his dog in a Photo Booth at Grand Central Station, 1943