bites you and bites you and bites you

emily | adult | white | side-blog 🧛 | free palestine

[ajcrowlor]

big tshirt that says MY INTERPRETATIONS MUST HAVE A STRONG BASIS IN THE SOURCE MATERIAL on the front and THIS IS FUN TO ME on the back

[horrorgifs]

BYZANTIUM (2012) dir. Neil Jordan

[bangelgifs]

Death and the Maiden | Marianne Stokes [1908] Buffy the Vampire Slayer | Surprise [1998]

[k-i-l-l-e-r-b-e-e-6-9]

Gothic Romance Covers

[notedchampagne]

every book marketed as 'adult sapphic romance' has a synopsis that goes like Auber Crombie is a 27 year old divorcee, free of her comphet marriage and ready to start a new life in the big city... until her car breaks down in the middle of a small town and shes forced to stay with an old fling-turned flame until the snowstorm stops blocking her from her dreams. And Delilah Hay had recently proclaimed herself date-free and living the single life, happy with her small-town mechanic job and working on her part-time queer romance novel - that will be finished once she gets over her years-long writer's block.

When the two of them talk dreams versus fiction over some warm campfire soup...sparks fly, and suddenly Auber doesn't know if she has it all figured out. Delilah is stubborn, but nothing in her life ever goes to plan. Could they get their heads out of their asses? Can they generational trauma found family ren faire plan their way out of love, or are they on a highway to heartbreak hell? Find out in this hilarious enemies to lovers hallmark spicy slowburn sapphic romantasy with Whipped cream, Whiskey, and Whites.

and the title is something like Kobolds Koffee and Kegels

[thegothicalice]

“Little girls, this seems to say

Never stop upon your way

Never trust a stranger friend

No one knows how it will end

As you’re pretty, so be wise

Wolves may lurk in every guise

Now as then, ‘tis simple truth

Sweetest tongue has sharpest tooth” 🐺

Acrylic on wood, quote from “La Petit Chaperon Rouge” by Charles Perrault. Painting without reference is something I haven’t done in a long time but wanted to keep it stylized ✨

[guelwaar]

whose definition of "graphic violence and torture" ? do we think maybe those conceptual boundaries depend on factors like the speaker's prior ideological commitments? have we ever read a censorship policy?

at what age does a child cross from innocent pre-exposed object to sullied brain adult? what is the normal age to experience or witness violence? where does that leave those who experience and witness violence at younger ages? who may never have lived a 'violence-free' existence?

do we actually think that children are ontologically incapable of being interested in violence, or are we merely so threatened by the idea they could be that we refuse to even speak the possibility?

is it the worst thing in the world to pick up a book and then decide its subject matter is unappealing, frightening, or overwhelming? is that such a foreign fucking concept? did anything scary ever happen to you as an 8 year old? did it have an instant off-switch as effective as 'close the cover and pick up something else'?

what kind of violence? is all violence the same? do all depictions of violence have the same literary merit, political meaning, or emotional effect?

[1000-life-hacks]

[archeologist-prophet]

Lovely to see we have spaces where you can gain access to so much literature!

[quicktimeeventfull]

i'd also like to add on: the japan foundation

the queer liberation library (US only, doesn't verify your location however) literature translation institute of korea

[tzikeh]

I'm sure it's been added a million times, but that's not how you spell Gutenberg. Here's the correct link to Project Gutenberg: https://www.gutenberg.org/

[currentlycryingaboutlancelot]

it’s just crazy to me when feminist retellings particularly of like ancient or mythological characters manage to have less complex and interesting portrayals of women than the source material. because to be so honest it happens a LOT

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BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER | Buffy vs. Dracula (5.01)

[maybemayii]

Jacob Anderson talking about the icons that shaped his Louis — Grace Jones & Eartha Kitt (Part ll)

[sherrickmads]

historians would say they were very good friends 🦇 (but you know better)

[rimonoroni2]

my general opinion on what people should be "allowed" to portray and what topics they should be "allowed" to explore in fiction is that you can make whatever art with whatever themes you want but i'm also allowed to think the way you handled it was tasteless and should've been done differently. my negative opinion on your handling of sensitive topics is the price of admission for publicly showcasing your work. this is not a pro-censorship stance because i am not The Government

[rimonoroni2]

this is getting really popular so i’d like to add the important caveat that your criticism of a work is no more unassailable than the work itself. just as one is entitled to be critical of something someone else is entitled to disagree with that criticism. i add this because some of you pretend to give a fuck about thoughtful analysis and then when someone points out flaws in your argument you declare that all criticisms are valid. this is untrue. the status of a hater is no more sacred than that of a liker. get off your high horse and engage in the thoughtful discussion you pretend to believe in or perish by my blade

[talesfromthecrypts]

I pinky promise you that I'm not gonna let anyone hurt you.

Melissa Barrera and Alisha Weir as Joey and Abigail in Abigail

[yvesdot]

I have seen a young lady with her table loaded with volumes loaded of fictitious trash, poring day after day and night after night over highly wrought scenes and skillfully portrayed pictures of romance, until her cheeks grew pale, her eyes became wild and reckless, and her mind wandered and was lost — the light of intelligence passed behind a cloud, and her soul was forever benighted. She was insane, incurably insane from reading novels.

-- an anonymous pastor in 1864, on the greatest threat to young women

[2productive]

[patrickredactedbrewer]

The fact that there is no source on this hurts my research brain.

From "Research As Leisure Activity" by Celine Nguyen, written for Nguyen's Substack Personal Canon

[verminfang]

Thinking about a vampire dude bro who won't drink girl blood- because he's afraid it will estroginise him soy products style- getting trapped in a mental cage when he learns vampire dude who only bites other dudes reads as gay