Vampyr

 Leyre | She/her | The legend of zelda, old movies & videogames, goth and vampire lover |

[sanguine-sanctus]

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[galacticgoldfishart]

My final project of all of college was to do an adaptation of an excerpt from Bram Stoker's Dracula

[scholarofgloom]

[thespian-wallflower]

Merrie Melodies: "Hair-Raising Hare"

[glavilio]

Tauber Viktor Isaevich

[gotankgo]

[duskodair]

I got absolutely fucked when I was reading the 26th of July Dracula the other day and read the following from Mina

I think dear Lucy is counting the moments till he comes. She wants to take him up to the seat on the churchyard cliff and show him the beauty of Whitby

What do you mean the entry that introduces Lucy's sleep walking contextualises it with Lucy wanting to take Arthur up to the churchyard and she's only restless at night because she can't wait to show him something she loves? What do you mean that she goes to the place she is attacked because she is dreaming of a marriage she will not live to see. It's love that kills her, and love that's not strong enough to save her

[barghesthowls]

Dracula transforms into a wolf.

The Whitby residents believe it is just a huge dog to catch.

Wolves are extinct in England, they aren't familiar with wolves. Only dogs.

Just like how in England the old powers, the supernatural, are believed extinct.

Only rationality and dry science in their modern age. The wild has been tamed by man there for too long to remember it.

[thisisnotmyhomeplanet]

Bela Lugosi having a break during the filming of Dracula (1931).

[omnia-mors-aequat-nstrwa]

Mourning rings (17th-18th centuries)

[talesfromthecrypts]

The Lost Boys (1987) dir. Joel Schumacher

[goblins-riddles-or-frocks]

anyway hi hello I am back on my soap box that is addressing the sexual violence that is intrinsic to most vampire texts

[wizzard890]

repeating myself from the comments here but I think this atrophy is in part due to the fact that vampires are now seen in genre culture (derogatory) to Be About Queer People, when they are in fact an extremely flexible literary device that can be About many things, but especially rape.

so because Vampires Are Queer Now, writers are either morally against making that conflation with sexual violence, or are afraid of being read in bad faith if they do anything else with the idea. which turns both vampires as symbols and the conversation around them into sludge.

anyway

[vampiremood]

personally I'm a big fan of the moment a vampire gets Embraced being a metaphor for a sudden, irreversible trauma. maybe you thought you knew what it would be like but you couldn't have understood the actual enormity; maybe it was an accident or something completely out of your control. either way this event happens to you and you are changed forever

now your emotions are unstable. your anger is all-consuming, your fear takes your body away from you, and always always always you are a danger to others if you can't control yourself from what you want and need. you can no longer be in the daylight living a typical life, so your social world completely changes and so does the environment. you might be stuck now with cold empty streets and buildings. you might cling to clubs and bars are the only places where you get to be around people living their lives. in some severe cases, you can't even look at yourself anymore, or perhaps the figure in the mirror is someone you don't recognize. your past identity and way of being has been taken away, permanently

you do what you have to in order to survive. and your new way of surviving, the only way you can exist, is something society finds disgusting or fetishizes. it doesn't matter what other people think because it's all you can do anyway. your new "community", those who most understand what you're going through, are themselves traumatized and suffering, in a constant state of victim and perpetrator. maybe they want to help you but maybe they want to use you. maybe you want to be kind but now your very nature makes real consent and honesty difficult, so in some ways you are a user and abuser too

do young vampires think about their last "normal" day? was it perfectly mundane, with no warning that it would be the last one? if they could have that day again, would they try appreciate all the little details like the warmth of the sun and the taste of lunch better this time? or would they try desperately to change their fate and avoid what's coming for them? well. you can't change the past. you can only do what you can with what you have now

[nigelgraz]

🦔🦔🦔

[horrorfixxx]

Universal Monsters: Dracula (2023, #2)

[fontana-michael]

Horror is so important to me because it embodies the lived female experience but also I sometimes just want to watch Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee try to kill each other.

[wovencorpse]