#I FORGOT CARMILLA

[miraculan-draws]

Ok so. You aren't gonna get Activism Bonus Points as a knight in shining armor for condemning the intersection of horror/and romance. People did it with Hannibal, Interview, Killing Eve, you can go as far back as Wuthering Heights and see the same shallow and lukewarm takes. Which is what Gothic Romance is—its horror and romance. It's not like. An aesthetic. It's not Romance but with black lace. Decrying it with every new story doesn't make you look righteous. it makes you look illiterate.

We have BEEN discussing. The psychology behind this sort of romance since FOREVER. Women and queer men (really the whole queer umbrella) are known to gravitate towards these kinds of love stories because culturally and historically that desire is "something to be ashamed of." So how do you justify wanting, when your kind of wanting is condemning? Worth shunning? A secret?

Take YOUR want out of the equation. Make the story about someone wanting YOU so badly that they don't take no for an answer, a "no/never/I won't give in to you" that can be given for propriety's sake as a verbal alibi. But it takes agency to toss ASIDE ones agency in the first place.

It's the same people clutching their pearls about pulp monster stories. With "bodice ripper" stories. (Same basic principle behind CNC in kink spaces honestly) And REALLY it's fitting that the centennial reproduction of Nosferatu is what started it back up because above ALL OF THESE—is the mack daddy of them all, vampire literature.

There is a line in Nosferatu 2024: "I am an appetite. Nothing more." And it took my breath away because THAT'S WHAT IT'S ALL ABOUT BABY. Vampire stories are never JUST a creature feature. They are never face value. They represent something, and it's mercurial—I believe Rolin Jones referred to vampires as "a dark mirror" to human wants and appetites, and how if you repress something hard enough it'll always rot and turn ugly and cruel.

"I am an appetite." You can read between the lines better when you're not shaking your head no for the imaginary social media jury.

And if this is something you routinely cannot catch on to, can't relate to, makes you uncomfortable beyond what you can tolerate, then there's no shame in just avoiding the genre altogether. (Fantasy/Adventure with romance as a side plot will probably be closer to something for you. Even Dark Fantasy will probably scratch the itch if you keep finding yourself starting and quitting gothic romances)

[frogoru]

1800s toxic vampire yuri goes crazy

[oilith]

WHY DOES THIS SHOW HAVE SO MANY PRETTY WOMEN I CANT-

[marronje]

If you're reading this and you ship togachako

Go read Carmilla

You can watch the movie of course, but don't waste your time on Carmilla (2019), it doesn't even start to cover the original plot

You can try the Terror in the Crypt (1964), it's kinda old, but the story is close to the og one

But if you have the time to read the 1872 novel you better go read it (it's only 16 short chapters)

[see-arcane]

Re: Carmilla episode 3, We Compare Notes, thoughts:

CARMILLA O'CLOCK BABEY

Méabh de Brún could read the ingredients off the back of cereal boxes to me and I would be enraptured. God, what a voice

Love the subtle soundscape shift as Laura enters the room given to Carmilla. Despite it being a room in her own home, the delivery of the lines and the undercurrent of the music feels as if she's stepping into someone else's territory, like an otherworldly pocket grafted into place.

Carmilla beating Laura to the punch with the 'recognized you as the pretty girl from a childhood nightmare' tale sounds so impressively insidious in this. With the hindsight of knowing where this story goes, or as someone new to the tale, the fact that she has this much of the script planned out for her act with Laura really hits here. Carmilla sounds believable, not just as someone playing a role, but playing it so well that nobody expecting a budding horror story (like Laura) would suspect anything. It never struck me how deeply premeditated this exchange was until hearing it play out; the faux fainting act post-carriage? Sure. But she kept the memory of her first dreamscape attack on Laura from twelve years ago locked and loaded with a counter-narrative to guarantee innocence and ~connection~ rather than just feigning ignorance. Something uniquely eerie in that.

“If you were less pretty I think I should be very much afraid of you, but being as you are, and you and I both so young, I feel only that I have made your acquaintance twelve years ago, and have already a right to your intimacy; at all events it does seem as if we were destined, from our earliest childhood, to be friends. I wonder whether you feel as strangely drawn towards me as I do to you; I have never had a friend—shall I find one now?” She sighed, and her fine dark eyes gazed passionately on me.

Carmilla: "Ha ha we had such a weird dream when we were kids~. I would be So Scared if you weren't so hot and that I had an intrinsic right to your intimacy, ha haaa~. We should be soulmates friends with benefits about it." 👁️👁️

Laura: "Normally I'd be hesitant what with the lingering horror, but I'm very lonely and you're voiced by Méabh de Brún, so we'll roll with that"

[zerana]

Personally I think Stolas (Bryce Pinkham) just barely beats out Lucifer (Jeremy Jordan) but I’m curious if that’s what others think too!

[mediumsizedart]

Carmilla - J. Sheridan Le Fanu

[love-3-crimes]

Day 27: Night

"But Mina's gaze seems to be over Carmilla's way..."

Allan approves! (ignore Dracula 😒)

[alieliscious]

Some Hazbin kitties

[cathyartie]

[WIP] I’m actually doing something about those posts. Here’s a sneak peak of 27…or 30 yo. Angry Laura.

Seriously, we don’t know for sure how old exactly she was when she was writing her story. We know in the beginning that ‘Carmilla’ was written after 8 years of the actual incident, but once we dive deeper into her story, she fucked up her calculation and the number changed from 8 to 10. Girlll use your calendar or something smh

[forensicfabulist]

went on arementalkingtoomuch.com to see how hazbin hotel would do and. oughhhhh

i only did the first 4 episodes rip. if you wanna double check these or do the other 4, tag me pretty please

EP1

EP2

EP3

EP4

[inkycyanide]

When I say I want friendship

This is what I mean

[twilightxsun]

If super hearing applies to the vampires in this game, do you think Carmilla hears everytime we bring our lovers back from a date 😭

Carmilla resigned herself to the LP’s romantic antics the moment she saw them swing between Alexis and Raven in the exploration. She’s reluctantly accepted that you may have six dates with six different people in a single night and that she will be uncontrollably aware of every one of them (and all the things she hears you say to them as you drop them off).

[bigpimpingwhore]

My faggotry knows no end when it comes to well written powerful women

[deaddcas]

just went through my old clothes and look what I found

a throwback to my carmilla days

[razberried]

list of the mechs and their mechanisms but i dont really know any of it

jonny: heart (i think) ashes: lungs nastya: blood brian: body (probably) tim: eyes toy soldier: uhh dude i dont think it was ever human raphaella: wings (?) ivy: brain (probably) marius: i have no idea, like hand or something