#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-

[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 😒)

[consistantly-changing]

Zestmilla week day 2: scars

Zestial is old and he sure didn't become an overlord without a couple scuffles, I think he has fewer scars in number than Carmilla but they're a lot larger than hers because Carmilla was mostly fighting with angelic weaponry, where getting hit means you're probably gonna die, whereas most of Zestial's fights happened before angelic steel so he didn't mind tanking a hit or a few because he knew he'd be able to heal them.

From personal experience working with metal and machines I think Carmilla has a bunch of small scars on her hands and arms from when things went flying (and she has stretch marks because I said so) and Zestial loves that about her. He loves that Carmilla taught herself how to work with something as dangerous as angelic steel and loves to kiss the small scars on her hands, he also loves to kiss her stretch marks, particularly the ones from her pregnancy because they're proof of how hard Carmilla fought for her daughters even before she became an overlord.

[alieliscious]

Some Hazbin kitties

[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

[carmillatism]

mechs headcanon otd: carmilla just straight up forgot to tell the mechs that they're disabled, and it took them just. so long to figure it out

[krikeymate]

top 5 fictional characters. RANKED!

RANKED?! Why would you hurt me like this. Oh boy. Oh man. Ok. I was only joking but this was actually very hard.

Sam & Tara Carpenter. They're just one character to me, sorry about it.

Catra, She-Ra.

Marceline, Adventure Time

Clint Barton, Hawkeye.

Lexa, the 100.

[irene-dimension]

laura never appreciated danny GIVE HER TO MEEEEE