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Today is Dante's day and I've 2 euros with him in my wallet🙆🏻‍♀️🙆🏻‍♀️

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Ok do y'all want to know what I'm tired of?

Mafia AUs

I'm just so tired of people romanticizing something so hurtful and that is the fucking curse of my country. People need to fucking learn that mafia kills, mafia hurts, and that all those people who died and suffered because of it would fucking throw up in your fucking face. Mafia it's not "uwu, my big bossy dominant super rich boyfriend is so strong" it's more like "my family and all my town can't fucking live peacefully because of these bosses" it's more like "my country is so corrupted by these guys that it's impossible to live in. Politics, schools, public jobs, are corrupted by it"

Can y'all just fucking educate yourself?? Bc it's seriously SO IRRITATING learning so much at school and also outside of school about it, and then seeing it so fucking romanticized on the internet.

Just stop. It's disgusting.

And I'm also leaving here some people that fought against it in case someone wants to know more

Giovanni Falcone e Paolo Borsellino

Giuseppe Impastato

Rita Atria

These are just the most famous ones, so please, learn at least their story

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In a near future I'll visit the Caravaggio exhibition here in Rome, so excited

Even if I feel closer to contemporary art than modern art, I'm so ready to be inspired by Caravaggio even if I don't have time for drawing

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seeing someone reading the vc series and realising that marius is actually an interesting and likeable character (which goes against what they thought he'd be like originally) just shows you how fandom has effectively spun this giant web of misinformation about him that too many people fall for.

basically, i feel vindicated. don't take ANYONE'S words about something at face value. find out for yourself instead of jumping on the hate train.

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Armand in Venice (and Riccardo, and Albinus, and Guiseppe, and Vincenzo...)

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Interview with the vampire + text posts I’ve saved to their Pinterest boards part 4

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A short story titled "Under the Vine" illustrated by BELNE - published in June magazine (Issue No. 2, 1982)

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quick doodle loosely based off this tweet cause it’s such a cute concept….

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Special mention to Quinn, Mona, Petronia and Arion, love you guys

I made a character sorter for The Vampire Chronicles!

Please let me know if you have feedback or if there are characters you wish me to add!

(I didn't include characters from the crossover books and the last trilogy because I haven't read them yet... My sincere Apologies)

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Gilbert y Serge (Kaze to Ki no Uta)

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"Gilbert Cocteau, you were the greatest flower to ever bloom in my life. In the faraway dreams of youth, you were a bright red flame, blazing so fiercely…"

had some free time for a little tribute to this manga series

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Serge and Gilbert as featured on the cover of the 1987 special issue of June Magazine - June Aesthetic Illustration Museum

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アウフ・ヴィーダーゼーエン / Auf Wiedersehen by Keiko Takemiya (1978)

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そばかすの少年 / Freckles (1979) illustrated by Keiko Takemiya

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I saw a post using the fact that Marius is called de Romanus as a way to say that if show writers wanted to change his race they would have changed his (last) name too

I would like to explain a little something, not to go against anyone but to explain how Marius' ethnicity is not connected to his "last name".

1. Romans weren't just white. Everyone under the Empire was a Roman citizen.

2. Marius is born from a Keltic woman and a Roman man, we don't exactly know if in Rome or somewhere else.

3. He gave de Romanus as a sort of last name to Botticelli without thinking. It does just mean he's a Roman/from Rome. But in Marius' optic "from Rome" doesn’t mean from the city of Rome, but from the Roman Empire.

For this reason Marius' ethnicity can change from canon even if he's still called de Romanus. Most of all because his original story has his parents coming from two different ethnic group and he took a lot from his mother. So it can't be impossible to swap places and put his origin in North Africa or East Europe. It doesn't change the fact that he's a Roman. At the time there weren't racial discrimination like we have now, some Roman Emperors were POC down modern points of view. To Romans discrimination was towards the other cultures, skin colors didn't matter. They felt superior because they were Romans not because they were white and this frame of mind was common in other populations different from Romans too.

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Marimand is...

Tragic

Passionate

Tender

Brutal

My rollercoaster of emotions