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darling, darling. i live in you, and you would die for me. i love you so

prints!

another crop i liked + the sketch 💘

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hibiscus

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Andddd the indoor plants equivalent to my cat-safe flowers post haha.

(Cat-safe still means “won’t poison your cat” not “let them munch as much as they want” lol.)

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epic iii · and brother, you know what they did? they danced. » 25/?

{ patrick page & amber gray }

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Ami Thompson

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Nosferatu has been living in my head rent free for the past month and a half and I finally had the chance to draw them!

Not sure if it's out of my system though because I feel like I might have to draw Ellen in her bonnet at some point.

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Oh yeah btw fellow cat parents of Tumblr I made this little infographic-zine thing on Cat-Safe* flowers you can grow in your garden, for those whose cats will also try nibbling on anything once!!

(*Safe as in non-toxic. Cats eating plants in general isn't great for them and may make them vom or give them a tummy ache, but you don't have to worry about vet visits if cats get into these plants.)

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In my folk art era ✨ Some last unicorn art ✨

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carmilla and laura

(art prints)

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The Lair of the White Worm (1988) | dir. Ken Russell

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mircalla millarca carmilla

[ID: black and white digital fanart of carmilla from the novel by sheridan le fanu. wearing an 1860s style nightgown with her wavy hair loose, she stares steadily at the viewer. her eyes are red and her face, the front of her gown, and hands are all stained with blood. end ID]

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“You must come with me, loving me, to death; or else hate me, and still come with me” Carmilla, 1872.

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alight

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Fellow vampire enthusiasts! With @re-dracula's first episode of their Carmilla audio adaption out (and it's Great! Very much looking forward to all that is to come!!), I wanted to use this as an excuse to plug my favorite print copy of Carmilla and my favorite "explicitly queer" rewrite.

This is my fave print version of Carmilla. There's several nice editions out there--there's a lovely hardback version floating around in bookshops that I also own, for example--but this is my fave for a reread. This copy has a forward and footnotes by Carmen Maria Machado, as well as lovely black and white spot illustrations throughout. This is the closest to an annotated copy of Carmilla out there that I know of, and while Machado's notes are less academic explanations and more speculative musings, it's still a delight to read the words of a modern mistress of the gothic and horror on this text. Her forward, also, is really worth the read.

I also want to plug my favorite "rewrite" of Carmilla--SD Simper's Carmilla & Laura. It doesn't lose the gothic horror vibes of the original novel at all, but instead recontextualizes the horror within the frame of a consensual relationship between Carmilla and Laura--focusing on queer longing, female autonomy (or the lack of it in the story's time period), and the suppression of female/lesbian desire (and its revenge). The horror becomes doubled--there's still the "oh she's a vampire!" element, but there's also the dangerous enthrallment of queer romance in an unwelcoming time. I'm not actually typically a person for "rewrites" (the market is oversaturated with them in general right now), but I really like this book a lot. <3

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Lil garden ✨✨🍀🌱🍀✨✨✨