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FIC PRINTING #10: The Changeling & the Armistice Series by @annerbhp

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Best read/lovingly petted while listening to “Zombie” by the Cranberries.

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“Dracula and Lisa” : Netflix : C A S T L E V A N I A Season 4

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I’ve been preparing this for 2 weeks

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A Lady's Boudoir

Paintings by Delphin Enjolras

French, 1857-1945

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tea and berries 🍓

master-painters

William Frederick Ritschel

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the big scary vampire man and his tiny doctor wife finally had a happy ending. 🤧

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Castlevania 4.06. “This is how they get us, Hector. They convince us that there is no future. There’s only an eternal now… and the best we can do is survive until dawn and then do it all again. That’s no way to live.”

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Can we talk about how Castlevania has a healthy representation of masculinity?

Usually masculinity is defined in opposition to feminity. That is, putting down women or “girly” things, aversion to emotions, etc. But the male leads treat Sypha like an equal, and nothing is super sexualized. Even if there are hints of her and Trevor, it is a mutual thing, and not the guy taking the lead over the woman. There was also none of the “we must protect Sypha cuz she a woman”. Instead, all three of them fight together, and try to protect one another if possible.

The main guys aren’t unnecessarily violent or cruel. They are fighting for a goal; it’s not just violence for the sake of violence. And we have Alucard breaking down and crying, which is big no-no for a male lead (strong men don’t cry).

Collaboration is also a thing. In many series, it boils down to the main guy taking care of most of the battle, and you wonder why the other two characters are even around. In Castlevania, anyone of the trio contributed an equal part to defeating Dracula. In the sense that each character’s skill was used to defeat the final boss, and no one was overshadowed. Also, screen time is shared equally.

The guys acts homoerotically friendly to one another. Which is great, because it portrays men as actual decent humans, with feelings and all. And both male leads have depression to some extent. Mental “weakness” for my male leads? What? And the solution is to open up about it. And accept help and empathy from other people.

Even the main “antagonist”, Dracula, is severely emotional: he wants to destroy humanity for love. But his feelings are not portrayed as bad, in the sense that his love for his wife was not wrong. It’s cruel and undeserved punishment he wants to inflict upon humanity that is wrong.

Other cool male representation this season had: Hector is autistic. Trevor is thicc/bara. Alucard is feminine. Isaac is guided by passion and love, and possibly gay.

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Update 1: Some people were confused, and thought I was saying masculinity is bad. I was referring to how the type of masculinity we see in shows is toxic masculinity. It was mostly about the behavior of characters, not their looks. So nothing wrong with a character being manly or muscular, that is, physically masculine. Also, when it comes to behavior, nothing wrong with “masculine” traits. Although I would argue it is wrong to consider some traits as masculine, and other traits as feminine. But that’s another issue. Masculinity is bad when it becomes toxic, which is what me mostly see in shows. Castlevania managed to introduce good male characters. That’s all.

Update 2: When I said each character in the trio contributed equally to defeating Dracula, I didn’t mean that the expectation was for a mortal to do as much as a vampire. What I was trying to say was that the entire journey leading to Dracula had all of them contributing based on their abilities. So Sypha moves the castle. Trevor fights while she is busy with the spell for moving the castle and Alucard is trying to fix the mirror. And when they finally reach Dracula, Alucard being a vampire takes the bulk of physical fight. Basically not one guy running the entire marathon, but different tasks for different characters. I wouldn’t expect it to be exactly the same screen time. But you can tell the creators tried to give each character a good share of the spotlight. Always within the limitations of what a character can do. If all of them contributed equally to defeating Dracula all the time, it would feel forced.

Update 3: The homoerotic part was meant to be a joke on how male characters are supposed to act detached to one another, or else they are gay for each other. The range of emotions male characters can show is so limited, that we start thinking something homoerotic must be going on, instead of considering they are acting like wholesome human beings.

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i wish someone would look at me like hector looks at isaac

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Random forgehusbands headcanons for upcoming fics part 1!

Hector:

Absolute Himbo. Like he invented the himbo.

Loves it when you play with his hair but doesn't know how to ask. He's resorted to dumping his head in Isaac's lap. Isaac usually gets what he wants, if not Hector will subtlety guide his hand to his hair.

Kinda scary when angry? Pls do not piss him off, he's got this glare that could scare Satan back into church.

Very, very, very shy. He actually hid behind Abel at the sight of newcomers once. (For your own sake, do not mistake this for weakness, Hector can and will shank you.)

Also very, very, very affectionate. (He will cuddle you whenever and wherever he can. Just ask Isaac who he is currently wrapped around.)

Cries during sex. (Shut up, after all he's been through this man is clearly traumatized. Isaac also stops and holds him until the tears stop coming.)

Makes animal houses for fun...when he's not making more pets. Isaac has given him a limit of undead pets he can have at once. The limit is 42.

Isaac:

A cat in the body of a man. ( lounges around eating fruit like 80% of the time, pet him and see how he lashes out, hates everyone but loves Hector )

Stoic as a statue but really very soft inside.

Will stare into your soul like it's the void if you bother him or pester him while he works. The only way to get him to stop is by walking away, do not attempt to win that battle. You will lose.

Sings when he's alone. (Hector caught him once and was rebuffed when he brought it up, to this day Isaac still denies all. He does not sing, Hector was hallucinating.)

Will mother your face off. ("Hector, did you eat today?" "Stop leaving all your tools out dearest, they'll rust!")

Makes jokes that no one but Flyeyes understands. Hector insists he isn't funny, Isaac insists that he just doesn't understand him.

Shy as hell in the saddle, like he reverts into a pure maiden. He blushes and hides behind his arms or pillows, Hector thinks it is the most adorable thing ever and will kiss every inch of him until he finally peeks out.

Bonus!Abel:

Is basically Isaac on crack.

What you expect: Tall, dark, handsome, brooding demon. What you get: an actual five year old the size of Hercules.

Mischievous AF. He will hide your shoes if you anger him and Isaac won't let him murder.

Flies upside down sometimes because why tf not?

Can understand you but acts like he doesn't.

Is judging you.

Murders anyone who makes Hector uncomfortable. If Hector doesn't like you then neither does Abel.

Telepathic sass master.

@astriferaas this one's for you fam 👌 (it's not a fic yet but we'll get there!)

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"you've changed..."

"i believe you have as well."

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"sex scenes have no narrative purpose" is such a funny take on so many levels. people will really believe that the whole human experience is valuable to portray artistically except sex, which of course has never held emotional weight or significance for anybody

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We were both mistreated by the human world. We were both admirers of Dracula’s intellect. We both saw something bigger than ourselves in him. We both wanted to see the world punished. We can do more than that.

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With Dracula’s castle and the Belmont estate resting solely in his hands for now, Alucard keeps watch over the centuries of secrets both halves of his families have collected. Once in a while, the deeper corners of lost libraries will catch a glimpse of happiness when he smiles— suddenly warm again...

CAT IN A SUNBEAM - 11 x 17 - CASTLEVANIA’S ALUCARD - FANART PRINT

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