staring at the yellow wallpaper

they/she/he 20s Side blog mostly about queer horror. Vampires, gothic literature, baby bat, and a whole melting pot of stuff horror related. I like monsters. aroace genderqueer.

[kingbuffy]

A much shorter snippet from my early draft, this was actually the first scene I wrote. ...Well...half-scene, BUT it has major implications for the entire fic. I'm trying to lean in and be comfortable writing darker topics. Be warned that there's some child abuse implications here.

Nero heard Dante hiss from behind, “Dammit that smarts!”

“Are you incapable of walking in a straight line now too?”

“You pushed me!”

Nero rolled his eyes and turned to look at Dante, who was clutching his pinky finger and glaring at Vergil. There was a holy water font to his left. Nero could guess what occurred but he'd figure he'd mediate.

“What's happened?”

“Your heartless father pushed me into this holy water thingy! I could've died just like that!” Dante snapped his fingers on the last word. Vergil scoffed.

“If only.”

Dante's pinky finger was red and raw, not unlike a burn mark. Nero internally winced in sympathy, though figured his uncle was mostly complaining for show.

“You're such a drama queen man, holy water isn't gonna kill you.”

Dante looked away from his raw pinkie to Nero, a confused expression in his face, “Huh? Kid, yeah it will.”

“Holy water is the only thing that can defeat just about any demon.” Vergil supplemented, a strange look in his eyes.

“Super effective but a bitch to use on account of us being devils too. Makes me damn near flinch everytime I use it.”

“You flinch because you are weak Dante.”

“Oh you're asking for it you edge–”

“Wait a sec, what are you guys talking about? Holy water doesn't work like that on hybrids.”

“Kid yeah it does, you ever touch that stuff? Feels like boiling acid straight from God's tear ducts.”

“Yeah it hurts but it's not fatal.”

“Whu–” Vergil held a hand up in front of Dante and took a small step forward.

“Nero…how do you know that?”

“Uh…well you know–it doesn't because um, it wouldn't make sense…”

A crash through the stained glass windows at the far end of the hall revealed three Frosts quickly picking themselves up and charging towards the devil hunters. No time for chit chat, it's back to what they're more comfortable with, much to Nero's endless relief.

[lestatgothic]

this gothic princess omgggg

[coraniaid]

Anyway, I might be wrong but I think it's at least plausible we have David Fury to thank for the mentions of Kendra's old stake Mr Pointy after Season 2.

From memory, there are exactly two mentions of Mr Pointy in Season 3. In Helpless, a powerless Buffy worries about becoming "pathetic: hanging out at the Old Slayers' Home, talking people's ears off about my glory days, showing them Mr. Pointy, the stake I had bronzed." Then in Choices, Buffy talks about interrogating a vampire "before his aggressive tendencies forced me to introduce him to Mr. Pointy".

Those two episodes are both credited to David Fury. They are, in fact, the only two episodes this season credited to David Fury. Knowing a little bit about how the episodes were put together, that doesn't prove David Fury personally came up with either line -- in each case, it might have been somebody in the writers room before the episode was even outlined, or it might have been an addition by Joss Whedon while rewriting an early draft of the shooting script. But the fact it happens twice, in both of David Fury's scripts, and not in any other episode written by anybody else, at least seems to suggest that the simplest explanation is that David Fury himself came up with both these lines.

Mr Pointy also gets mentioned again in Season 4, in episodes written by other people, and in fact I don't think any of Fury's later scripts reference it. But these later references could just as easily be callbacks to the two times Buffy's stake is named in Season 3 as they are intentional references to the stake Kendra gave Buffy in Season 2: I think it's the Season 3 references that made it canonical that Buffy still had the stake Kendra gave her last year (or, perhaps, had another stake that she'd given the same name in memory of Kendra).

Now, do I think that David Fury wrote these two throwaway lines because he was thinking about how Kendra was the first other Slayer Buffy ever met and how her death in Season 2 was accompanied by dramatic narration about the inevitably of "big moments" that change your life forever which is never followed up on and how sad it is that Buffy never once mentions Kendra on screen after letting the vampire who murdered her leave town and giving up her chance to avenge her friend in order to save her Watcher? Well, no, not really.

But whatever his motivation -- or the motivation of whoever included those lines -- I'm glad they were written, anyway.

[bebsi-cola]

they really don't respect the time of disabled people. your application can take up to 12 weeks. the specialist waitlist is 3 years. your assessment will be any time within the next 6 months. let us know if you cannot attend this appointment you waited 7 weeks for and we'll reschedule next year. we've decided to assess you at this time and day and you have to be available or any support you dared to apply for is not going to happen. and in between these long bouts of waiting you have to survive the everyday

[rocktheholygrail]

Hannibal (2013-2015)

[butchniqabi]

see the thing about iwtv is that i will always believe louis no matter what unless claudia says something different. then i believe claudia. lestat could tell me that it's raining during a thunderstorm and id need a peer review.

[butchniqabi]

[shamebats]

"it's just stress" oh thank god, it's just the silent killer that slowly kills you, perfectly harmless, no need to worry

[deadbeatmaker]

every time I see people make casts for genderbent iwtv on tiktok they choose an actress for female daniel that’s significantly younger than eric bogosian I find it offensive give me an old woman now

[deadbeatmaker]

if milf molloy doesn’t have wrinkles and fully gray hair I don’t wanna see it

[lxvespxffy]

Buffy the Vampire Slayer ( 1997 - 2003 )

5.12 “Checkpoint”

[reginasphalanges]

Buffy the Vampire Slayer 6.19 Hell's Bells

[spikedru]

i just need to lock buffy and dru in a room to see how long it would take from them to start having sex with each other

[gondwana]

[spikedru]

malevolent architecture is some of my favorite kinds of horror and its so hard to define because its not exactly the same as a haunted house bc its not a persons spirit thats trapped in a place its the place itself that has become its own entity often because of the belief of people making it real its such a fascinating concept. the house hates you because you hate the house because the house hates you

[spikedru]

it fascinates me bc it takes a man-made structure and then imbues it with psychic power and the ability to hurt man back but its different than other man made items coming back to hurt us like robots bc robots are still humanoid and therefore their shape is understandable to us whereas a building or a place is an alien shape and if this alien shape is sentient its harder to conceptualize what its thinking/feeling and therefore harder to understand its motivations and harder to protect yourself. what does a house want?

[spikedru]

drusilla bisexual even if i dont think she would know what that is. she doesnt care. but she is.

[spikedru]

drsuilla you should get with a real freak like MEEEEEE

[spikedru]

interview with the vampire

[crabuncle]

quickly everybody make fun of the old british man

[spikedru]

listening to your heartbeat, to make up for the time your heart didnt beat at all