Vekagupi

[vekagupi]

I need help finding a post

I saw a post some time ago discussing the gothic themes of vampirism and moral corruption in NBC's Hannibal. Honestly, I can't even remember if I saw it here on Tumblr or somewhere else.

It introduced the idea of Hannibal as the archetypical vampire, with his relationships with Alana and Will as transformative. Alana was then compared with the character of Carmilla, making further comparisons with her relationship with Margot as another instance of vampirism via moral corruption, e.g., the assisted murder of Mason.

Anyway, I just remembered it was a really interesting view of the show.

[drarryspecificrecs]

Thematic Rec Masterlist

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Timeline :

Book 1. Sorcerer’s Stone : Friends in early years of Hogwarts

Book 2. Chamber of Secrets : Draco has the diary

Book 4. Triwizard Tournament : Draco appears in the 2nd task  |  Yule Ball

Book 6. Sectumsempra : alternate scene

Book 7. Horcrux hunting : Draco with the trio

Hogwarts Era

Wartime

8th year   •   8th year Hufflepuff!Drarry

Draco’s birthday

Halloween

Christmas

Settings :

5+1 things

Bets & Wagers / Pranks

Breaking the Statute of Secrecy

Climate change

Clubbing

Coffee shops AU

Coming back to the Wizarding world   |   Leaving England

Different schools AU : Beauxbatons, Durmstrang

Disappearance / Missing

Everyone lives AU   |   Sirius Black Lives

Fairy-tale elements

Games : drinking games, party games,…

Historical AU

Magical theory

Muggle life   |   Muggle things

No Hogwarts AU (joining the Wizarding world later)

Non-magical AU (& high school, college/uni)

Politics

Pureblood culture

Quidditch

Sentient house / Hogwarts

Sorting AU : Slytherin Harry | Gryffindor Draco | Ravenclaw Draco

Time travel   |   Dimension travel

Voldemort wins AU   |   No Voldemort AU

Genres / Formats :

Angst

Canon rewrite

Case fic / Mystery

Dark fic / horror

Epistolary   |   Social media

Fluff   |   Fluff (Hogwarts era)

Humour

Hurt / comfort

Kid fic   |   Raising a child

POV Outsider

Serialized fics

Slow burn / slow build

Song fic / song-inspired fic

Relationship status :

A/B/O Dynamics

BDSM

Bodyswap

Bonding

Boss/Employee relationship

Casual relationship

Childhood friends

Counselling

Courtship

Domestic!Drarry   |   Pet names

Enemies (to Friends) to Lovers

Established relationship

Fake/Pretend relationship   |   Arranged marriage

Flirting

Friends to Lovers

Friends with Benefits

Infidelity

Marriage proposal

Misunderstandings / Miscommunication

Reconciliation

Roommates   |   Sharing a Bed

Secret identity

Secret relationship

Slavery

Soulmates

Stalking

Strangers to Lovers (with various AUs)

Teacher-student relationship / Tutoring

Ties switching

Unhappy ending (between H/D)

Unrequited love

Occupations :

Arts : artist, dancing, music, musician, pianist!Draco

Auror   |   Military

Breakup specialist!Draco

Chef

Healer!Draco   |   Mind healer

Matchmaker

Minister-for-Magic!Harry

Model

Pirate

Potions Master!Draco

Professor (at Hogwarts)

Prostitution / Sex Work   |   Stripper

Secretary / PA!Draco

Seer!Draco / divination

Unspeakable!Draco

Wandmaker!Draco   •   Wandmaker!Harry

Writer

Characteristics :

Chubby!Drarry

Dark!Drarry

Determined!Drarry

French!Draco

Insecure!Draco

Jealous!Draco   •   Jealous!Harry

LGBTQIA+ : asexuality, coming out, crossdressing, fem!Drarry, transgender

Manipulative!Harry

Master-of-Death!Draco   •   Master-of-Death!Harry

Oblivious!Drarry

Older!Drarry (+ divorced)

Pining!Draco   •   Pining!Harry

PoC!Drarry

Possessive!Drarry

Powerful!Draco   •   Powerful!Harry   •   Powerful couple

Protective!Draco   •   Protective!Harry

Reckless!Harry

Recluse!Harry

Sassy!Harry

Shy!Drarry

Silly!Draco

Snarky!Draco

Spy!Draco / Redeemed!Draco

Sweetheart!Draco

Tall !Harry

Troubled!Draco   |   Exiled!Draco

Magical / physical situations :

Abusive relationship

Age difference

Amnesia

Animagus

Captivity : Draco in Azkaban   |   Harry in Malfoy Manor

Creature!Drarry (vampire, veela, werewolf)  |  merman  |  phoenix

Dark Mark

De-age

Disability (+blind, deaf)  &  mute

Drunkenness / Intoxication

Ghost

Illness   |   Hanahaki disease

Injury

Internalized homophobia

Life debt

Love / Lust potion

Mental health issues / PTSD   |   eating disorders

Mpreg!Draco   •   Mpreg!Harry

Occlumency

Parseltongue

Patronus

Sectumsempra

Substance abuse

Suicide implied/referenced

Tattoos (magical)

Sexual details :

Bottom!Draco   •   Bottom!Harry   •   Switching

First time / Virginity   |   Awkward first time

Non-Con (Dub-Con) elements

Smut : (specialized) dildo, hate sex, hospital sex, ice play, piercings, praise kink, (semi) public sex, riding (Draco), sex toys, size kink, slut, wanking

Interaction with other characters :

Animals / Pets

Draco & his parents

Draco & Luna friendship

Draco & Ron friendship  |  Draco friends with Hermione/Ron first

Draco & the Dursleys

Draco & the Weasleys : Molly  |  George  |  Ginny & others

Draco has a sibling

Drarry & Scorbus

Drarry & Scorpius

Drarry & Snupin

Drarry & Teddy

Drarry & Wolfstar

Harry & Narcissa friendship

Harry & Pansy friendship

Harry & the Malfoys / Meeting the Parents

Harry & the Slytherins friendship

Harry has a sibling

Harry reconciles with his Muggle family

Matchmaking / Meddling from family, friends, professors…

Mentor!McGonagall

Mentor!Snape

Sex Ed class

The Golden Trio broken up

Misc.

+ podfic

uncategorized themes (aka Suprise me!)

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[vivelareine]

A selection of paintings depicting 17th century women as mythological figures by Joseph Warner.

[jeremieperin]

[ssfith]

<3

[nickisunshine-blog]

I can’t stop thinking about what these animations would actually look like “having sex”…

[whoa-bruh]

We’re not gonna talk about how smooth that hand slid in tho…

[alwaysbewoke]

hahahahaha y'all aint got no sense hahaha

[blue-pixiedust]

WHAT THE FUCK

[30-minute-memes]

I will have what she is having

[soravagemecrazy]

She enunicated this SO PERFECTLY and completely in a single tweet. A whole informed essay in a single tweet. Your fave could never!

[woodelf68]

I just heard the other day on the radio that the Boy Scouts of America filed for some sort of bankruptcy because so many sexual abuse lawsuits have been filed against them.

[sara-writes-deactivated20211015]

The Old Guard and Tropes: Caretakers Edition

The first of a yet-to-be-determined number of posts about The Old Guard and what it does with tropes.

I had planned to start with the Manpain trope because it’s such a huge, toxic aspect of action/comic book movies and The Old Guard deals with it beautifully. I’ve even written a big chunk of it. But there’s been a lot of talk about Booker, and it’s a vicious cycle of people talking about Booker so then more people talk about Booker in response, and it becomes this self-perpetuating thing where all we do is talk about Booker. So I’ll save that and do it later, after we’ve talked about some other people.

So. What does Trope Subversions: The Movie do with physical and emotional caretakers?

Keep reading

[captainpikeachu]

What I desperately want for The Old Guard sequel is a storyline focused on Joe, Nicky, and Booker dealing with the emotional fallout from the first film.

Obviously Andy, Quynh, and Nile should still have the main center and driven action of the story, but I really want a softer emotional side story driven by the men. Because men in action movies rarely get that type of a story.

We in this fandom talk a lot about how the film is subversive and how it switched gender roles in letting the male characters play caretaker roles and do the emotional heavy lifting. And I want that to continue in the sequel. Especially because the emotional fallout between Joe, Nicky, and Booker is the one aspect of the story that we never got to see fully addressed.

Nile was ready to let Booker back with an apology, and Andy has essentially forgiven Booker the moment she realized why he did what he did, so both of them don’t have any fallout to address when it comes to Booker. But it is Joe and Nicky who haven’t gotten that chance to truly verbalize their emotions, and it is Joe and Nicky who suffered the most because of Booker’s choices. So I want the sequel to address that, and I don’t want us as the audience to be robbed of what could be an emotionally satisfying and powerful story where male characters’ main narratives aren’t about might is right and punching things to defeat their foe, but rather one dealing with emotional pain and accountability and reconciliation and forgiveness.

So much of modern media, especially action films, are driven by male characters committing some sort of violent act, often retribution in an eye for an eye, and that’s suppose to be heroic and cathartic. But it’s not, it’s just this continued perpetuation that link men to violence rather than highlighting that men should also deal with emotions and feelings in a healthy way.

The Old Guard did so well in centering its emotional heart with male characters that I want to see it continue. I don’t want the story to ignore what happened and just go with “oh Booker is back now and everyone just moved on” because the plot requires it. I want this to be a story where the characters actually address their feelings, talk about what happened to them, and how they feel, and how they can find their way back to each other.

Look, I’m not expecting some sprawling expansive deep narrative exploring trauma and recovery and forgiveness in all its stages, I get that this is a 2 hour movie at best and there are limitations. So I’m keeping my hopes realistic as possible that we simply get some interactions between Joe, Nicky, and Booker where they lay out all their feelings on the table and come to a consensus, whatever it may be. Because there is a story there to be told, an important story that we so rarely see in action films with male characters, and we have all the pieces set up for that story to happen. It would be a shame to let that go by and not take even just a tiny part of a sequel to address it. Especially when the comics even give basis for that narrative to take place in.

If Booker gets taken and tortured by Quynh as it goes down in the comics, then Nicky and Joe planning the rescue (which they do in the comics) can have far more emotional resonance. They can discuss their anger at Booker while also affirming their care for him and desire to see him unharmed, because they are good people who wouldn’t wish upon that kind of violence for their worst enemies, much less someone they love. And they do love him, and you can’t tell me that walking away was somehow easy for them or that it didn’t hurt them or that they don’t miss him.

And I want Booker to fully recognize his own love for this family, for Nicky and Joe, for the bond they all share, and that they all also love him in return and that he is not alone as he might feel like sometimes. That he can choose to do right by them, be strong for them, stand up for them, look beyond just his grief, and atone for the wrong choices he made and accept that responsibility.

I want their reunion TO MATTER. I want it to hit that emotional satisfaction, not just they get him back and it moves on like nothing happened before and all is well now.

I want the three of them to talk, really talk, and address how they all feel and where they stand with each other and how they can move forward.

If they cry or hug then even better. Show men experiencing emotions. Show men having conversations about those emotions. Show men talk about trauma and grief and depression as valid human issues that DOESN’T make men weak. Show men giving each other affection and support. Show men loving each other. Show men deal with trauma and pain and grief and anger in HEALTHY NON-TOXIC WAYS WITHOUT VIOLENT RETRIBUTION.

Show men supporting each other through the good and the bad.

Show men holding hands in silent support when they need it.

Let men CARE about each other.

[ladeegcake]

i donnnt really remember if i posted my first yakuza & con artist au but anyways, here is more

[danasauurr]

Based on This

I love Dumbledore but i couldn’t resist

I should also be studying. Don’t be like me buds. Study

[pencilscratchins]

LOOK i couldnt stop drawing the skause and effect au i love it too much (continuation) 

[hardlynotnever]

Fox/Wolf Lance’s markings made my brain go down a TOTALLY DIFFERENT PATH and imagine them as scars from what could have been a muzzle :^)

I’m so excited for s6!! 

[daryshkart]

so i’ve been talking with @seventfics about silver fox Jaskier and i remembered this gif from Indiana Jones - with girl who’ve got “i love you” written on her eyelids - and i’ve got inspired to draw Jaskier  being a professor in Oxenfurt and being an absolute heartbreaker~

[hvmator]

dido & lucretia

[abdulraveman]

[yassmines]

im losing my mind….shes jus a lil baby…

[jenniferrpovey]

She’s oiling!

Sea otters have oil glands in their cheeks, and the vigorous rubbing is how they extract the oil, which then forms a layer on top of their fur.

(And yes, she is adorable).

[bastardizedmilk]

this bitch got a skincare routine! she is THRIVIN!

[berrycrisps]

Happy V-Day  ♡

[thechekhov]

Two cats, absolutely HAMMERED, discussing the best way to avert the apocalypse. 

[wizardnuke]

fake relationship but its a king and his concubine that was once an amazing soldier but he couldn’t go up the ranks for whatever reason so the king was like listen. hear me out. you can be my strategy dude. u just gotta be okay w walking around shirtless a lot. and soldier dude is like man that’s an UPSIDE and yknow they end up falling in love

[aethersea]

some idiot advisor: I can’t believe his majesty lets his boytoy attend these council meetings, it’s an insult to the noble institutions that uphold our nation, it’s an outrage—

a somewhat smarter advisor: you’re just mad bc he pointed out how dumb your naval attack strategy and no one laughed when you made a mean joke about him

[fieldbears]

Boytoy has gone from a top fighter who was well respected but in constant danger to wearing silks and eating grapes on daises. That fucked up rotator cuff was the best thing to ever happen to him

[mzminola]

Bonus points: at least half the other concubines are experts in assorted fields, the monarch brings them to relevant meetings to both play up a reputation for frivolity, and make sure at least one person there doesn’t have an outside agenda.

[aethersea]

my harem? 

did you mean: my chief strategic advisors

[kitten-kin]

The kingdom is an absolute monarchy but the harem has become a secret meritocracy. The nobles and official advisors kind of side-eye His Majesty because wow some of these consorts must have like…really good personalities. Kings of the past have had their own specific tastes of course; size, shape, age, color, et cetera. More than one ruler has interviewed consorts feet first and Ardwin the Adventurous’s obsession - God rest him - with snuffling armpits like a sow rooting for mushrooms is well known despite never being alluded to in polite company.

The worst part of it is that the new king takes at least part of his harem with him everywhere and it’s so embarrassing. The Counselors of War have never once met with His Divine Majesty without that hulking battle-scarred consort interrupting with muttered growls or scornful snorts. And the Ministers of Finance all flinch at the sight of that fox-faced one, rumored to have been rescued from the gallows because His Augustness took a fancy to his eyes or some such nonsense. General petition days are even worse, with practically the entire harem drifting in and out of the Grand Hall in turns, insouciant and smug like granary cats who know they’ve been given full run of the courtyards and barns.

It’s absolutely infuriating that the kingdom has never before known such a period of peace and prosperity under this ridiculous monarch.