[ghostofharrenhals]

Vampires are by nature creatures of deep sensuality. Their origins in literature can be primarily traced back to Carmilla (a story where vampirism is used as a metaphor for homosexuality) and Dracula (a work that reflects the xenophobia of the later Victorian era and forbidden desire). They were literally created to be alluring in a creepy way. Hence I struggle to comprehend why there’s people shocked by the fact that the new Nosferatu is rooted in eroticism.

[forlorngarden]

'you are not serious people' is a phrase that has done so much. thank you logan succession

[ghostofharrenhals]

Random but as someone who doesn’t consider TO to be canon, I am wondering whether any fellow tvd!only originals enjoyers have any interesting theories for what drove the final separation between Klaus and Elijah? Because the show does hint at the drift starting due to Katherine but there eventually being some kind of final breaking point (I don’t think that it just entirely being due to Katherine is realistic). Furthermore, in the 1920s flashbacks, Klaus tells Stefan that he has forgotten what it feels like to have a brother, which makes me question for how have Elijah and Klaus been at odds with one another?

[whoreallyevenknowsanyway]

it's even canon in tvd that he told Elijah he killed the other mikaelsons and thats why they fell apart. and there was the tvd canon ep where the mikaelsons(Klaus&Elijah technically) go to New Orleans it canonises them there[Season 4, Episode 20] so, honestly, it feels really canon and fitting for Klaus to only have lost Elijah for like a year, plus tbh, I think he saw Ripper!Stefan as a Kol Replacement not Elijah. so his decade or so daggered(plus the almost century of more anger than brotherhood would intern that) Additional issue of him seeing Elijah as an equal/elder as much as Just a Brother, in fact has the weird kinda parental-figure/enabler. So, thats just my opinion on that point.

But as Kol and Ripper Stefan seem to be more fitting as connections. Because no one can tell me 20's Stefan is ANYTHING like Elijah. Broody 'goody two shoes' Stefan maybe. But ripper stefan is much more a Kol connection.

[ghostofharrenhals]

I know that Klaus told Elijah that he dropped the rest of the family in the ocean! I am just wondering what exactly drove him to say that. And what has their dynamic been like for centuries after the whole Katerina fiasco?

I disagree with the Elijah as a parental figure point, as it seems more like a TO retcon to me rather than anything else. He never played that role on TVD. Firstly, he arrives in MF intend on luring Klaus out with Elena in order to kill him. Secondly, he leaves right after it’s revealed that Esther’s words of reuniting their family are a sham and in s4 he only makes an appearance with the cure and he chooses to give it to Rebekah and doesn’t really GAF about what happens to Klaus lol.

[cancerian-woman]

I’m going to sleep but if tvd aired in this era Klaus and Tyler would’ve been a queer enemies to lovers arc…

[ghostofharrenhals]

Random but as someone who doesn’t consider TO to be canon, I am wondering whether any fellow tvd!only originals enjoyers have any interesting theories for what drove the final separation between Klaus and Elijah? Because the show does hint at the drift starting due to Katherine but there eventually being some kind of final breaking point (I don’t think that it just entirely being due to Katherine is realistic). Furthermore, in the 1920s flashbacks, Klaus tells Stefan that he has forgotten what it feels like to have a brother, which makes me question for how have Elijah and Klaus been at odds with one another?

[tendertenebrosity]

So I just finished Some Desperate Glory and Avicenna is so fascinating and awful. And there's a core... tension, trauma, whatever you want to call it, that I find so interesting, and bits and pieces of it I've kind of wanted to write myself but never found the right way.

It's like... You are everything your culture despises. You possess none of the things you were raised to see as strengths, and your strengths are things everybody around you sees as weak or worthless. And you hate that, and you hate them, and you seethe with how much you hate it all and any day now you're going to escape.

And yet. And yet.

You are still OF this culture. It's still part of you in a way you can't escape, maybe don't want to escape.

And so you try to achieve the goals they have always held as the highest thing you could possibly aspire to. But YOUR way. You're going to achieve what they always wanted, and you'll do it using the tools they despise, BECAUSE you are what they hate. And you'll do it BETTER than them.

And you're not stupid enough to think this will change their minds, or that they'll like you better afterwards. But you'll do it anyway.

[sevenoffeathers]

(op's tags:) #he's just this bitter nasty traumatised omnicidal terrorist asshole#and there are moments when you can see him falter or have second thoughts or feel bad about it#I just think he's neat

[saccharine-dreamer]

Ralph Lauren 2025 Ready-to-Wear Collection

[ghostofharrenhals]

The new prison break reboot is looking good 👍

[parlapina]

My favourite literary genre has to be pretentious college students committing murder while having codependent and queer-coded friendships ｡ꪆৎ ˚⋅

[rawcunningmaster]

[altivyx]

[toastyydoodles]

Mercy

[stuckinapril]

Noticed that your soul rots inside of your body and you lose the ability to properly express yourself when you don’t read. Does anyone else know about this

[forafricans]

“I don’t know how to get people’s attention on this app but I’m going to try. Because I believe in a world that doesn’t care but people that do. If you care about me, please read about what’s happening in Sudan. Literally just type it in google. Please share the links and resources you scroll past. I’m smiling thinking about the last time I was in Sudan. The joy on the faces of my family as I waved my camera around to document these moments. I’m hurting thinking about that joy being robbed from them and replaced with utter fear for their lives. I don’t really have the words. Or the capacity. The country will be okay, the country doesn’t even really matter, I just want my people safe.”

Seen in Sudan by Nadra Widatalla

[ghostofharrenhals]

November moodboard

[wovi]

[snow-nose]

ID: a poem titled "asking about you" by eloise klein healy. end ID

transcript: instead of having sex all the time i like to hold you and not get into some involved discussion of what life means. i want you to tell me something i don't know about you. something about the day before that photograph in which you're standing on your head. i want to know about softball and the team picture. why are you so little next to the others? were you younger? were you small as a girl? what i want most is to have been a girl with you and played on the opposite team so i could have liked you and competed against you at the same time."

end transcript.

[coffincoitus]

"That's how you get deathless, volchitsa. Walk the same tale over and over, until you wear a groove in the world, until even if you vanished, the tale would keep turning, keep playing, like a phonograph, and you'd have to get up again, even with a bullet through your eye, to play your part and say your lines."

Deathless, Catherynne M. Valente