Woe! Val Kilmer Is Dead.

Val Kilmer, my beloved. All gay vampires, all the time. Fuck Emily Wilson.

[zannolin]

it's a tragedy, like everything, but the sea is only waist deep.

"true love" | richard siken + caspeter

[7pleiades7]

Sleeping Bacchante (Alvó bacchánsnő) (1850-1855) by Károly Brocky (Hungarian, 1807 – 1855), oil on canvas, 46 cm (18.1 in) x 46 cm (18.1 in), Hungarian National Gallery

[destroysoil]

two egyptian fruit bats enjoying a yellow bell pepper

[lighthouseweeper]

I’m launching a new crackship, Marcilius. You can bet that Marius est in his horto

[velvetnightgallery]

Alphonse Mucha's Sketches

[pmamtraveller]

Sculpture by Volodymyr Tsisaryk

[salt-angels]

bird ladies

[sojka-scales]

Let a man like weird medieval horses... Prints and stickers featuring this creature will be available at upcoming conventions!! (Probably Warsaw Fantasy Fair if they accept us XD)

[helvarcult]

does anyone remember the amc show interview with the vampire? one of the greatest things television gave us in its era. heartbreaking that it ended after two seasons when those characters were so beautifully crafted. i really wish we could’ve had more.

[giadishere]

I am the meteor above it Writing your name in dust as I fall

[warmrainonawinterday]

To paraphrase well-worn criticism of TVL: "Lestat is the writers' favorite woobified blorbo and all other characters are essentially shafted now for his benefit."

I fully agree, and YET they are still fucking that one up! Because s3!Lestat has never been less complex or likable or interesting to follow! In a season supposedly all about him, he is actively stripped of agency and an actually detailed backstory, both of which were central to the source material. He is given trauma that is fully made up for the show (and in parts just cannibalized from other characters' stories, mostly prominently Armand) as if that inherently balances out the lack of care given to the flashbacks, because trauma=character depth shortcut that you as the audience just cannot argue against, I guess. Flaws and admitting (or denying) fault? That's for suckers, too - clearly, it's an external force as nebulous as Akasha's blood that is truly to blame!

And then there is the cringe memeification of his base speech patterns. Louis is defined by his reflective, lyrical monologues. Lestat, meanwhile, is "serving cunt".

The writers have royally screwed over all other characters in the service of absolutely fucking nothing of value.

[metamorphesque]

— Franz Kafka, Letters to Felice

[berlogauwu]

i need a heroo

[rosieandthemoon]

By Maxfield Parrish, 1913

[berlogauwu]

It's been a long, long time since I've memorized your face It's been four hours now since I've wandered through your place

[th-orne]

The Knight Raymondin and the Fairy Melusine (1894)

[bubert]

and I was carrying the weight of the universe...