#La furie des Vampires

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Patty Shepard (as the Countess Wandesa Dárvula de Nadasdy) in "La noche de Walpurgis" (1971), directed by León Klimovsky.

[nemonclature]

GUYS. I HAVE A THEORY. IT’S SUCH A GOOD THEORY. ACTUALLY IT’S THE BEST. Actually I’m just gonna go ahead and call this canon. I’m staking my entire identity on it.

So, I was gonna do an in depth art post bouncing off this excellent bit of research. I was expecting some thematic hints a la Hannibal and much fun to be had.

I decided to start with this:

Francis Bacon’s Three Studies for Figures at the Base of a Crucifixion, which hangs on the wall in the Dubai apartment.

Let’s sidestep the Christian connotations of the crucifixion* IMO the Christ bit is misdirection (mostly. We’ll come back to that)

Armand: Witnesses to Christ’s agony. Mr Bacon also referred to these as the Three Furies.

Who are they? The Furies/Erinyes are Ancient Greek Goddesses of vengeance. "The Erinyes, that under earth take vengeance on men, whosoever hath sworn a false oath" ... They are traditionally depicted as … preoccupied with avenging patricide and matricide by hunting down and killing violent criminals ... Their task is to hear complaints brought by mortals against the insolence of the young to the aged, of children to parents, of hosts to guests.” (wiki)

Kinda on point for a vampire that tried to kill his maker, no? Or for a vampire that’s abusing the guests in his home? Or an old man shit-talking two much older vamps. (lol jk not you Danny boy, you trash them all you want bb).

Armand: We’ve received an aggressive offer for the Bacon triptych.

Louis: Oh? I didn’t know we’d made it available.

Armand: It’s a new name, so I’ll have to run due diligence.

Hmm, who could possibly be being setup to enter late season under cover as some innocuous buyer? Who would Armand let into his theatre home in order to wreck it? Who’s presence/interest/existence would he keep from Louis? Who better to complete Bacon's intention and provide the crucified final figure of the set, but...

YES! Our favourite victim of patricide. The ultimate Daddy Vampire. Lestat de fucking Lioncourt.

Guys there’s a reason I’ve been calling him White Vampire Jesus and it’s not (just) because I find myself hilarious.

Real Rashid: The lawyer for the buyer is ready for the teleconference.

Not a massive deal, rich people make lawyers do things for them. But so do VAMPIRES WHO DON’T WANT TO BE IDENTIFIED.

But yeah, lets’ get into that phone call. Mr Philips, the lawyer, is introduced to Mr du Lac (like, in case anyone was wondering how Lestat knew it was Louis who owned it, just fucking use your real name Louis, sure.) The buyer wants it for her husband (GUYS. HE WANTS IT FOR LOUIS).

This is episode 2.03 and, guys, Lestat is EVERYWHERE in this episode. We get Armand opening up, but not about his full past, just about his past with Lestat.

Dreamstat dogs Louis’s footsteps

Louis admits to Armand that Lestat was his maker in this episode.

And the scene directly before the lawyer calls?

Louis and Claudia are talking about Lestat, it moves on to Bruce, but it starts with Lestat.

We could also talk about how, this season, as the focus has moved away from Loustat to Loumand, the action has moved away from the main room with the Triptych, to the tree room and the dining room.

Lets start with the tree room, where Armand (the clinging vine) reaches, but never touches Louis (the tree).

"For woman is a branching tree, and man a clinging vine. And from your branches carelessly, he’ll take what he can find."

(Let no man steal your thyme, trad)

Too much? Then how about the dining room of equally symbolic paintings. (and, side note. Paintings have been IT this season. This is the Armand season, the Amadeo season, the Louis photographer season, the breaking into museums to look at or steal art season. If S1 was music, S2 is art).

The dining room where we find the Ron Bechet, Transformation (A TREE AND VINES FFS), representing Louis (or Loumand) and the (stolen - can we take a moment to appreciate the hilarity that is Louis and Armand dressing up as police officers to carry out one of the biggest art heists in recent history?) Rembrandt, Christ in the Storm on the Sea of Galilee representing Daniel (Fear and Faith).

You can see them more clearly in the S1 scene where Dan and Louis are at either end of the table, each before their own painting.

But also in S2 in combo with the Marius christ-and-demons, representing Armand (or representing Armius?? Lol do they have a ship name? kill me now). I find it very interesting how Armand is sometimes framed with Dan's painting behind him and at other times with Louis', almost like he's being pulled between the two.

Anyway. Point is the GIANT RED ORANGE LESTAT CHRIST SYMBOLISM is suspiciously out of frame this season.

See the difference in framing here in Season 1: (note, this is DanLou first meeting. It's BEEN THERE FROM THE BEGINNING)

And this itty bitty corner shot in Season 2:

And when does the triptych come back into frame? Oh just DIRECTLY AFTER THIS BIT OMFG:

Me too, Dan. Me too.

The triptych has been on the wall from the start of the show. Looming over everything, haunting the narrative, like a giant bleeding meta signpost.

[myrandomthoughtsblog]

A very big list of characters from different fandons that I headcannon as being aro or in the aro spectrum with no explanation at all

Some of them are even cannon :)

Dc comics -

Selina kyle

Damian wayne

Cassandra cain

Blue beetle

Zatanna

Raven

Harry potter -

Charlie Weasley

Neville longbottom

Marvel -

Yelena belova

Gweenpool

Bucky barnes

Nick fury

Nebula

One piece -

Luffy

Ordem paranormal-

Kaiser

Thiago fritz

Sherlock Holmes -

Sherlock Holmes

Mycroft Holmes

Teen wolf -

Stiles

Malia Tate

Cora Hale

Truly devious -

Nate fisher

Stevie bell

Haikyuu -

Kageyama

Kenma

Yaku

Akaashi

I wish the world would end tomorrow -

Carson

Monster high -

Cleo de Nile

Operetta

Spectra

Cupid

Heath burns

Ever after high -

Briar beauty

Lizzie hearts

Sparrow wood

Ladybug -

Alix

Luka

Boku no hero -

Mina

Todoroki

Jiro

Hatsumo

Addams family -

Wednesday

Stranger things -

Will

Max

Alice in boarderland -

Chishyia

The order -

Lilith

The umbrella academy -

Ben

Hunger games -

Katniss everdeen

Percy jackson -

Artemis

Disney -

Elsa

Isabella

Rosetta

Zarina

High school musical -

Sharpay evans

Violetta -

Camila

The walking dead -

Michonne

Carl grimes

My babysitter is a vampire -

Erica

Gossip girl -

Luna la

The Loud house -

Lynn loud

Your headcannons?

[the-vampire-queer]

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What is What We Do in the Shadows (2019) about?

Summary: "Based on the feature film of the same name from Jemaine Clement and Taika Waititi, "What We Do in the Shadows" is a documentary-style look into the daily (or rather, nightly) lives of four vampires who've "lived" together for hundreds of years in Staten Island.The self-appointed leader of the group is Nandor the Relentless, a great warrior and conqueror from the Ottoman Empire. Then there's the British vampire Laszlo -- a bit of a rogue and a dandy and a fop, he might say. He's a lover of mischief and a great soirée, but not as much as he loves seeing Nandor fail miserably in every attempt. And then there's Nadja: the seductress, the temptress, the vampiric Bonnie to Laszlo's Clyde. Also cohabiting in the vampire household is Guillermo, Nandor's familiar; and Colin Robinson, an energy vampire and day-walker of sorts -- he feasts on humans, but not on their blood." Source: Rotten Tomatoes

Source: What We Do in the Shadows (2019)

Cast:

Kayvan Novak - Nandor the Relentless

Matt Berry - Laszlo Cravensworth

Natasia Demetriou - Nadja ...

Harvey Gullién - Guillermo de la Cruz

Mark Proksch - Colin Robinson

Additional information: This tv series is based off of the 2014 Taika Waititi and Jemaine Clement film of the same name.

What is Renfield (2023) about?

Summary: "In this modern monster tale of Dracula's loyal servant, Nicholas Hoult (Mad Max: Fury Road, X-Men franchise) stars as Renfield, the tortured aide to history's most narcissistic boss, Dracula (Oscar® winner Nicolas Cage). Renfield is forced to procure his master's prey and do his every bidding, no matter how debased. But now, after centuries of servitude, Renfield is ready to see if there's a life outside the shadow of The Prince of Darkness. If only he can figure out how to end his codependency." Source: Rotten Tomatoes

Source: Renfield (2023)

Cast:

Nicholas Hoult - R.M. Renfield

Nicolas Cage - Dracula

Awkwafina - Rebecca

Ben Schwartz - Teddy Lobo

Shohreh Aghdashloo - Bellafrancessca Lobo

Additional information: There was a video game that released on Steam for this movie, titled Renfield: Bring Your Own Blood.

[whomstwedointheshadows]

Season 6 Nandermo Prediction: Monty Python to Seinfeld to the Office Finale

In Honor of Reality TV House Flippers, I Present Vampires in Court TV

*CRACK ATTACK*

To honor Serial Killer Guillermo and the show subverting the reality/ sit-com format, I need the Staten Island Gang questing to face off the Big Bad. The Big Bad has a Network. They track them down, expanding their own territory, nutty vampire death sentences and leaning in to dark humor. Gore, bodies, glory everywhere. Evidence to one former familiar, everywhere, as vampires now help with cleaning up as as they are more equal in the house.

The Big Bad is revealed to be a holy terror and also cute as a bloodthirsty bunny. Bunnicula, the Big Bad, if you will.

See Murder Husband dream fighting together, Guillermo pledging to do whatever it takes to survive and come home together, overcoming this comically adorable foe. The fight is more glamor shots, inspiring questions of fan service and striking home Yes This Is Homoerotic and Camp until they win, plot feels rushed to audience but it’s clearly just a set up for Big Confession Time. Obviously they are Fully Realized and Ready for It, now show us!!

Vampires done vamping with the fallen head home, masses of dead-dead/undead cut up, ready for further dumping. Incriminating, but just the usual work for a familiar now shared. Matching gore and relief for Nandor and Guillermo, a picture of intimacy.

All these dead in the name of Flirting, they openly acknowledge, laugh together. Nandermo is here, the scene is tipping in to a Big Confession, Big Kiss… something…

In swarm the police, Humans, incongruous immediately with sense of culmination of fifteen years of pining. Trucks, helicopters, tanks against stakes. Completely lost the romance, dark humor into a Gritty True Crime NARRATIVE.

Narration of Colin Robinson expressing ACAB, but an energy vampire has to feed, won’t it be great when this airs? First acknowledgment the footage is broadcasting somewhere and he feeds from the viewer.

Too tired to kill them all, too many to immediately hypnotize. Nandor bats, at Guillermo insistence, now begins comical on-the-run and hypnosis witness tampering from the vampires. Wackiness includes decorating courtroom based on family side, sculpture and blood fountain delivery… but Guillermo somehow gets one day house arrest with his mother, Nandor does his best to arrange a tender Spa Day and they’re summoned back to night court. Night Court is of course, more nebulously supernatural and quickly kicks out of Mortal Prison into Farce with Consequences.

Mainly: Can someone explain the relationship of a rampaging slayer to his vampire former-master-warlord as they’re claiming new territory? How safe is the wider supernatural community, and are they like, a new conquering force or …another Thing? What to do about this?

Return of lawyer Lazlo, reference to hating the English during all the court proceedings (and damn isn’t this the ending of Monty Python and the Holy Grail? Seinfeld? -that was only because they were cowards that ran out of budget or wouldn’t get characters together, classic comedy half hours end with a wedding), public acknowledgement Guillermo’s a fucking slayer/serial killer to Silvia de la Cruz, seemingly friendly with Nandor and show of being peaceful amongst the crowd of supernaturals and, rather than fury of a Van Helsing, she shares she knew Memo had it bad for his boss. (Clearly, the Slayer bloodline doesn’t activate into killer mode, or is more controlled, when she understands them and isn’t surprised.)

Cue talkback scenes about an effing clip show in court as evidence, Nadja mostly focused on famous like OJ and explaining the web of who was horny when because what when presented with evidence, wearing matching wigs with Lazlo. Mimics Office Finale allowing for further commentary, still centered around present character interests. Definitely charting the course of Nandermo, getting more off camera stories of observing the Pining. Murder is framed in the context of caretaking and making Nandor horny, like they’re going out of their way to explain (to Silvia?) how involved her son is in their unit and vampire relations. Also, he’s a badass so no one fucks with him or those under his protection. Thank g- there’s this badass footage that doesn’t show Memo in too much danger or really, really hurt.

Cross examination of Nandermo by Lazlo, first kiss revealed years ago off screen, fucking all season, I love you’d exchanged but ‘I’ll be with you forever, whatever it takes’ WAS exchanged in the previous episode before battle, thus honeymoon glow and downright joyous-sexually charged battle.

Lawyer Lazlo: Do you think we have a fucking documentary crew and now we worry about courtrooms? Gizmo killed a theatre of vampires to save us and we took over the fucking council. Yes, we’re callous, we’re cruel, we’re insensitive to mortal and immortal suffering if it doesn’t concern ourselves. We’re killers, including our dramatic slayer here who’s the youngest but catching up on body count, and we’re a family. We love each other. We will protect each other. We’ll end anything that gets in our way, whatever it takes. Nandor, you’re up.

Nandor: *to put a button on the unable to drink blood, totally able to slay Guillermo arc, see previous fights up to Bunnicula, reference to be together forever, whatever it takes.*

Obviously Nandor has already discussed a big celebration for a possible yet-not-planned turning, but Guillermo suggested simple and ‘like a courthouse wedding, yes’ - Both understand the offer is on the table and Guillermo just says when he’s ready, and it’s okay if that turns out to be never. His hesitation has remained his ties with his Mom. It’s yes to all his life with Nandor, vampirism second concern when he’s accepted and ready as he can be for the consequences, specifically loosing his mom, who is not brain scramblie’d and here today, seeing all of Guillermo and his vampires.

Nandor, a strategist: welcome to our wedding!! Look at the public awe of your many conquered foes! You’re so amazing as a warrior and my closest friend. I am PROUD for EVERYONE to know you’re incredible and I’m head over heels for you, forever. Everyone includes your mom, as my family too, who is not killing all vampires on sight now! And everyone knows if they fuck with your vampire or slayer family, we’ll kill them and enjoy it together! Do you appreciate my intricate ritual of planning a wedding after you went and said yes to forever before I could propose after our many escalating battles together?

Guillermo: so, even with the documentary crew, we’ve always kept our intimacy for us. Yes, it was kinda toxic, but Nandor is my idiot, except when he’s a genius. And it feels good. To be proud of us. They celebrated me. So, let’s party.

Cut to everyone dirty, raunchy dancing, sloppy kissing, exceedingly graphic reception cut for rating. New glitter portrait of vampiric Nandor and Guillermo, kissing, sparkly bare chests in the Tigris, captioned ‘Honeymoon’

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++Would love to see a parallel for the death of the historian in Monty Python leading to an arrest of King Arthur/Knights and the dead camera crew members leading to excessive workplace safety fines being the only lasting damage determined by the court.

+++Collin Robinson is somehow working for the prosecution, a corporate media outlet, and as expert testimony. No one is ever clear what the ‘trial’ actually is, he’s just fond of objections. Framing moves from court tv to royal wedding coverage, slowly edging the viewer wanting Nandermo confirmation about [yes, that is a glitter portrait from Nandor to Guillermo on 10 anniversary as master and familiar and here’s another one from later on their second anniversary.. of what? Well, how one can define a relationship is complex… oh! Let’s go frame by frame on these clips of their hands! ] confirming the bigger picture, Has segments devils advocating himself against Nancy Grace angry emotional vampire.

*** this is specifically a Crack!fic ideas playing with the idea all of Nandermo must be on camera, the viewer is primed for the next big step to be a confession or kiss, but what if we just jump straight to just married the dirty grinding, sloppy drunk kissing in public with all your family watching. Strikes me as a f-you to all the sweet chaste network gays, this is the suck and fuck show, babe

**** this is also a subversion of Guillermo resolving his arc as a vampire, having to be ‘ruthless’ enough, instead it’s about being assured in himself, what he wants, and cherished by those he loves. His found family accepting and making space for his family, because they care about his decisions and maybe he doesn’t have to choose, so they try. He’s gained the confidence in himself and is celebrated, welcomed, and supported by those he loves.

*****Listen, Nandor, was it kind of toxic to let your boyfriend get arrested and did you maybe plan a slaying rampage for the ‘gram- no one can quite prove, but good thinking if it was spur of the moment after the arrest, it tracks that a former warlord would yell about how awesome his spouse is and don’t fuck with us so they can have a bubble of peace due to the terror

[hauntingsoundtracks]

List of titles

To make the search on the blog easier, I've compiled a list of the movies, shows, etc that have at least one music here. I'll do my best to keep it updated as I add more.

Unfortunately tumblr won't let me publish a post with so many links, so I'm unable to add a link to each corresponding tag.

See the list under the cut :

List of movies / animated movies : 12 Monkeys 28 Days Later 2001: A Space Odyssey The Abyss The Addams Family Akira Alien Aliens American Beauty Arizona Dream Babe Baby Driver Basic Instinct Batman Returns Beetlejuice Beetlejuice Beetlejuice La Belle et la Bête / Beauty And The Beast (1946) Black Swan Blade Runner Blood Simple Bram Stoker's Dracula Brazil Candyman Carrie Casper Christine Le Cinquième Elément / The Fifth Element La Cité des enfants perdus / The City Of Lost Children Clockwork Orange The Company Of Wolves Le Comte de Monte Cristo / The Count of Monte Cristo (2024) Conan The Barbarian Coraline Corpse Bride The Craft Crash Crimes Of The Future Crimson Peak The Crow Dancer In The Dark Daredevil (2003) Dark City The Dark Crystal Darkman Dawn Of The Dead Day Of The Dead Death Proof Devdas Die Hard Dirty Dancing Divine Intervention Dr. Strangelove Donnie Darko Dune (1984) Dune (2021) Edward Scissorhands The Elephant Man Escaflowne Escape From New-York Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind Excalibur The Exorcist Fargo Firestarter The Fly For A Few Dollars More The Frighteners From Dusk Till Dawn From Hell Full Metal Jacket Gattaca Get Out Ghost Ghostbusters Ghost In The Shell A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night The Goonies Le Grand Bleu / The Big Blue Gremlins Groundhog Day Halloween Hellraiser Hereditary Der Himmel über Berlin / Wings Of Desire The Hobbit : An Unexpected Journey Home Alone Hook Howl's Moving Castle The Hunger The Hunger Games The Hunger Games : Catching Fire The Hunger Games : Mockingjay Part 1 The Hunger Games : Mockingjay Part 2 The Innocents Interstellar Interview With The Vampire In The Mood For Love I Saw The TV Glow Jane Eyre (1996) Jane Eyre (2011) Jaws Je vais bien ne t'en fais pas / Don't Worry I'm Fine Jumanji Jurassic Park The Land Before Time Last Night In Soho Låt den Rätte Komma In / Let The Right One In Legend Leon The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou The Lighthouse Lisa Frankenstein Little Miss Sunshine Little Shop of Horrors Little Women (1994) The Lord Of The Rings : The Fellowship Of The Ring The Lord Of The Rings : The Two Towers The Lord Of The Rings : The Return Of The King The Lost Boys The Lovely Bones Mad Max Fury Road Maleficent Mandy The Matrix Maxxxine Melancholia Microcosmos Midnight Express Midsommar The Mission Moonrise Kingdom Moulin Rouge! Mulholland Drive Near Dark The Neverending Story The Nightmare Before Christmas A Nightmare On Elm Street Nikita Nope North By Northwest O Brother, Where Art Thou? Oldboy The Omen Once Upon A Time In The West Only Lovers Left Alive Oppenheimer The Others Out Of Rosenheim / Bagdad Café Pan's Labyrinth Le Père Noël est une ordure / Santa Claus is a Stinker Perfect Blue Perfume : The Story Of A Murderer Phantom Of The Paradise Phenomena Philadelphia Pi The Piano Pink Floyd The Wall Platoon Poltergeist Portrait de la jeune fille en feu / Portrait Of A Lady On Fire Practical Magic Predator The Prestige Pride And Prejudice The Princess Bride Princess Mononoke Prince of Darkness Prometheus Psycho Queen Of The Damned Ravenous Re-Animator Repo! The Genetic Opera Requiem For A Dream Robocop The Rocky Horror Picture Show Le Roi et l'oiseau / The King And The Mockingbird Romeo + Juliet Rosemary’s Baby Saw Scanners Scream A Series of Unfortunate Events Shaun of the Dead The Shining The Sixth Sense Sleepwalkers Sleepy Hollow Snow White and the Huntsman Snow White: A Tale of Terror Starship Troopers Star Wars Episode IV - A New Hope Star Wars Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back Star Wars Episode VI - Return of the Jedi Stoker Strictly Ballroom The Substance Sucker Punch Suspiria (1977) Suspiria (2018) Sweeney Todd Tacones Lejanos / High Heels The Tale Of The Princess Kaguya The Terminator Terminator 2 : Judgement Day The Thing The Thin Red Line Time Of The Gypsy Titane Tommy Total Recall Trainspotting Tron Legacy Under The Skin Us Vertigo The Virgin Suicides Weird Science Whiplash The Witch The Witches Of Eastwick Willow Les Yeux sans visage / Eyes Without A Face

List of series / miniseries / animated series : Arcane Battlestar Galactica Berserk Buffy The Vampire Slayer Cowboy Bebop Daria Dark The Dark Crystal : Age Of Resistance Dragon Ball Z Elfen Lied Fallout Game Of Thrones The Haunting of Bly Manor The Haunting of Hill House Interview With The Vampire Lost Lucifer Midnight Mass Misfits North And South Our Flag Means Death Over The Garden Wall Record Of Lodoss War : Chronicles Of The Heroic Knight Serial Experiments Lain Stephen King's IT Stranger Things Teen Wolf True Blood Twin Peaks The Vision Of Escaflowne Westworld What We Do In The Shadows Yellowjackets

List of games : Bad Dream : Coma Dredge Fallout 4 Final Fantasy VII Plants VS Zombies Stardew Valley

List of podcasts : The Magnus Archives The Magnus Protocol

[sunnydaleherald]

The Sunnydale Herald Newsletter - Monday, October 2

AIMEE MANN: Man, I hate playing vampire towns.

~~Sleeper~~

[Drabbles & Short Fiction]

Forego Empty Promises (JoJo's Bizarre Adventure crossover, T) by arcanedreamer

O Christmas Tree (JoJo's Bizarre Adventure crossover, G) by arcanedreamer

Jolyne and Buffy: Spirit Cousins (JoJo's Bizarre Adventure crossover, G) by arcanedreamer

Blowing Off Steam (Resident Evil crossover, T) by arcanedreamer

Swoon (Spike/Drusilla, T) by a_sort_of_friendly_ghost

Lover’s Walk: Lucidity (Spike/Joyce, E) by LoTJ

Passing Mistakes (Gen, T) by NAOA

everything in the world changes, and nothing changes at all (Spike/Buffy, R) by disco-tea

[Chaptered Fiction]

Presumably Dead Arm Chapter 15 (Buffy/Spike, NC-17) by Tragic

A Marriage of Inconvenience Chapter 15 (Buffy/Spike, R) by all_choseny

Of Things That Would Never Be Chapter 55 (Buffy/Spike, NC-17) by Blond Goth Girl

Surviving Together Chapter 1 (Buffy/Spike, Adult only) by ionlylikebadboys

Buffy's Spooky Birthday Chapter 25 (Buffy/Spike, R) by VeroNyxK84

Buffy's Spooky Birthday Chapter 25 (Buffy/Spike, R) by VeroNyxK84

What the Drabble? Chapter 14 (Buffy/Spike, R) by VeroNyxK84

I remember who you are Chapter 5 (Buffy/Spike, PG-13) by Desicat

A Place in the Sun Chapter 24 (Buffy/Spike, NC-17) by honeygirl51885

Autumnal Shorts Chapter 2 (Buffy/Spike, NC-17) by VeroNyxK84

Vamp for Rent Chapter 3 (Spike/Xander, R) by forsaken2003

Lock the Door Chapter 2 (Faith/Buffy, T) by arcanedreamer

Meet & Greet Chapter 2 (JoJo's Bizarre Adventure crossover, G) by arcanedreamer

Kinktober 2023 Chapter 2 (Buffy/Giles, E) by Skyson

Post-Grave Chapter 1 (Buffy/Giles, Not rated) by Skylark62

[Image, Audio & Video]

Art: Faith by pocketsizedann

PODCAST: Normal Again S6 E17 (Buffy and the Art of Story Podcast) by lisalilly

[Reviews]

Spuffy, trauma and the Bathroom Scene by Flow

season 1 episode 4: teacher’s pet by slut-jpeg

season 1 episode 5: never kill a boy on the first date by slut-jpeg

[Fandom Discussions]

the incestuous, wrong connotations david fury is trying to implement between buffy and spike by silvermars

the amount of nasty thoughts i have about s4ats-s7btvs spangelus by fblckt

it would have been a better idea for Oz to also be gay by hermyohkneegranger

Spike and Harley Quinn are the same character by goodolreliablejake

Never forget that Buffy wanted her wedding photos to be taken at the cemetery by aphony-cree

Episode Battle: Goodbye Iowa vs Dirty Girls continued by multiple posters

Positives and Negatives - S6 continued by multiple posters

How Evil Was Spike? continued by multiple posters

Who did Angel hate? continued by multiple posters

FFH: Did Fred's Death Make An Impact?) by nightshade

How many seasons by Jakarisoolive

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Random sad thought of the day by WhatName230

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Tabula Rasa - head cannon by johnnyorac

Gunn and Fred did what Tara did for Dawn with Connor by The810kid

I think I just traumatized my boyfriend by RaspberryMonkey5723

I would’ve loved to see Gwen and Angel as a couple by Sweet-Siren

XANDER - COMPLICATED OR BADLY WRITTEN by EstablishmentMost397

Thoughts on why Angel / Angelus seem so separated. (It's all about Dad and the religious upbringing) by greenisthefutureAMA

Can we talk about the Angel feeding off Buffy scene? by Hopeful_Routine8942

What’s a metaphor you think the show did really well with? by Anyanka_Tin

Buffy always questions popular expressions by Tsole96

Second time watchers- does it bug you how much they dumb buffy down? by Hopeful_Routine8942

Could this be the moment Angel stopped drinking human blood? by rfresa

Xander was an underrated hottie by Sweet-Siren

[Essay rec, French language] Buffy ou la révolte à coups de pieu, déconstruire le réel par le surnaturel by RadiKultMag

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I posted recs of 25 of my favorite fanworks produced this year over on my DW and thought I should cross-post them here! List is arranged alphabetically by fandom and is a mix of fic and vids from 2023 (that weren't created for Festivids or Yuletide, because I always rec a lot from those challenges).

The Shipping Forecast series by leupagus (Broadchurch, Alec Hardy/Ellie Miller, 23k)

Ellie Miller and Alec Hardy, drifting together.

📺 I Wanna Be Evil by lilly_the_kid (Child’s Play | Chucky, Tiffany Valentine, fanvid)

You're sweet, my dear. Prim and proper.

beneath your weary heart by waveridden (Dimension 20, Ricky Matsui/Esther Sinclair, 10k)

It’s a comfort, having a name that is right. It is a comfort knowing that she is Sorrow and sorrow is her and they are one and the same. This is who she was meant to be. It is always who she was meant to be. And yet. (Or: Esther becomes the fury of Sorrow.)

📺 Mastermind by BeatriceEagle (Dimension 20, Brennan Lee Mulligan, fanvid)

"We support you as a DM and as our friend, but also you're our enemy." —Siobhan Thompson

Not According to Their Fanfiction series by AgentStannerShipper (Dimension 20, Evan Kelmp/K Tanaka, 63k)

Five tropes that did not live up to the fanfiction, and one that did. Spring semester at Gowpenny, a lot of feelings, and a lot of growth. Also featuring Evan's shadow (my beloved), true jock Jammer, Sam being the figurative wine aunt friend, Evan being a Good Boy, and K being exactly as horny as canon made them.

your heart, love by ASongofSixpence (Dimension 20, KP Hob/Delloso de la Rue, 8k)

Rue learns about something special that happens to goblins on All Hallows' Eve, and has big feelings about the use of the word 'monster.'

📺 After All by periru3 (Everything Everywhere All at Once, Jobu Tupaki, fanvid)

It felt like a winter machine that you go through and then / you catch your breath and winter starts again / and everyone else is spring bound

Chemistry by Twilightcitysky (Good Omens, Aziraphale/Crowley, 122k)

Aziraphale and Crowley have been living among humans for 6000 years, but there have always been parts of the human experience they've chosen to avoid (like allergies, head colds, and having to use the loo). They've also never let hormones get in the way of making rational decisions, because they didn't have any hormones to speak of. That's all about to change.

come raise your flag upon me by trinityofone (Good Omens, Aziraphale/Crowley, 5k)

Aziraphale persuades Crowley to accompany him to Heaven, to be Forgiven. Things get...weirder before they get better.

Covenant of Salt by thingswithwings (Good Omens, Aziraphale/Crowley, 18k)

Aziraphale's hand slides down past Crowley's hip to fist his cock in time with his thrusts, and he bites again, and again, down to Crowley's naked shoulder, up to his earlobe, not meaning to be sexy, just biting like he's eating, tasting the salt on Crowley's skin, like he might consume Crowley entirely if given enough time. "Talk to me," he gasps, between thrusts, between bites, his voice shaking. "No," Crowley grits out, just before he comes.

📺 Hate Me by killabeez (Interview with the Vampire, Lestat de Lioncourt/Louis de Pointe du Lac, fanvid)

“I love you with my whole soul, and I will always love you,” he confided to me. “You are my life. I have hated you for that and love you now so much that you’ve been my instructor in loving." —Blood Communion: A Tale of Prince Lestat

Bones and Blood: A Jurassic Park Survivor’s Story by avocadomoon (Jurassic Park, Billy Brennan/Alan Grant, 10k)

Billy was still staring at him. His face looked narrow and shadowed in the spotty kitchen lighting. Alan always thought about geometry when he looked at Billy: angles and rays and points and transversals. He was beautiful in the way that math was beautiful: like an equation that was beyond Alan's abilities, too complex for him to handle. But there, nonetheless. Holding all the secrets of the universe, if only Alan could figure out how to solve him.

Extended Disconnection by lick (Murderbot Diaries, Ayda Mensah, 91k)

Dr. Mensah's perspective from Chapter 8 of All Systems Red through Exit Strategy.

📺 They Don’t Care About Us by avg (Murderbot Diaries, “Human One” Refugee, animatic)

The story of a refugee.

Friday Keeps Coming Next by rattyjol (Nine Worlds, Artorin Damara & Cliopher Mdang, 38k)

Cliopher and his Radiancy break time. Again.

Embers by alfgifu (Nine Worlds, Cliopher Mdang, 126k)

A novel-length prequel to Hands of the Emperor about Kip's early years in service

A Most Restful Vacation by Quasar (Nine Worlds, Jemis Greenwing, minor pairings, 106k)

Jemis is invited to attend the investiture of the Viceroy of Zunidh, which promises to be a delightful trip with Almost No Adventures along the way.

An Officer and a Gentleman by cedarboots (Persuasion, Anne Elliot/Frederick Wentworth, 47k)

“Eight years changes a person, but not beyond all recognition. Fred Wentworth and Anne Elliot, years after a final break, find that they are more alike, in some respects, than they thought before.” (Butch4Butch AU)

first base by octothorpetopus (Sports Night, Casey McCall/Dan Rydell, 118k)

Dan Rydell was born in 1969 in Hartford, Connecticut. He came to life in Minneapolis in 1988. When he met Casey.

Sugar in Your Hand by WerewolvesAreReal (Star Trek, James T. Kirk/Spock, 13k)

Kirk meets a Vulcan, marries a Vulcan, and apparently outrages the entire Vulcan government in one day. He's an overachiever like that.

📺 Hate to Say I Told You So by findmeinthealps (Taskmaster, Alex Horne, fanvid)

Alex Horne being Alex Horne.

home is where by oliviacirce (Ted Lasso, Trent Crimm/Ted Lasso, 6k)

“Ted learns that sometimes when you ask people what they want, you (just might) get what you need.”

in the cards by jedusaur (Ted Lasso, Roy Kent/Jamie Tartt, 4k)

Whenever he says he's not feeling anything, that's when Dr. Sharon pulls out the fucking cards. Roy can't fucking stand the fucking cards. They're plain white with plain black text, each displaying the name of a different emotion, and he's supposed to go through them and decide whether he's feeling each thing or not. It's fucking stupid, it makes him feel like a fucking toddler, and worst of all, it fucking works.

Second Nature by MoreThanSlightly (Ted Lasso, Keeley Jones/Roy Kent/Jamie Tartt, 27k)

The first time they switch, Jamie’s fucking Keeley. It’s amazing, best sex of his life, and he wonders what it feels like for her—good, by the sound of it—and then a second later, he’s looking at his own face. He’s lying on his back staring up at himself. “What the fuck,” he says in Keeley’s voice.

📺 Cockroach Motherfuckers by eruthros & thingswithwings (Multifandom, fanvid)

A celebration of all the queer characters you can't bury. Or, if you do bury them, they don't stay down for long.

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Chapitre 8 : La poursuite

Parker était en furie. Sa voix, tremblante de colère, éclata dans l’habitacle de la voiture :

- C'est de votre faute, tout ça ! C'est vous qui avez attiré leur attention avec vos histoires de vampires et d'occultisme ! Vous nous avez mis sur leur radar !

Son partenaire, Mulder, répliqua, sa voix empreinte de frustration et d'animosité :

- Moi ? Mais c’est absurde ! Ce sont eux qui nous ont piégés ! Ils nous ont surveillés depuis le début, c’est tout !

- Et vous ne vous en êtes pas rendu compte ? Vous n’avez pas été assez prudent ? Vous n’avez pas vérifié si on était suivis ou écoutés ? Demanda Parker, les traits déformés par la tension.

- Non, je ne m’y attendais pas ! Je pensais qu'ils étaient discrets, mystérieux. Je ne savais pas qu’ils étaient aussi dangereux et organisés ! Sa voix avait un ton condescendant, comme si la gravité de la situation était une simple mauvaise surprise.

- Eh bien, vous vous êtes trompé ! Et maintenant, nous sommes dans de beaux draps ! Parker avait accentué ses mots avec une véhémence qui trahissait sa panique.

Ils atteignirent enfin leur voiture. Mulder démarra le moteur avec une précipitation nerveuse, quittant le parking en trombe. La voiture fonça à travers la nuit, vers le domicile de Skinner. Mulder était à bout de nerf, ses mains tremblaient sur le volant, et la terreur qui l’envahissait s’ajoutait à la discorde entre lui et Parker. Cette femme, qui semblait se délecter de le juger et de le critiquer, ne faisait qu’accentuer sa détresse.

La tension entre eux était palpable, une électricité chargée de colère et de peur. Ils espéraient arriver à temps, avant que le Cercle de Salomon ne les rattrape.

Les premières minutes de conduite semblaient avoir apaisé un peu leurs angoisses. Ils pensèrent avoir semé leurs poursuivants et respirèrent plus calmement. Mulder murmura, comme une tentative désespérée de trouver du réconfort :

- On va s'en sortir, on doit s'en sortir.

Mais Parker, les yeux rivés sur la route, lança d’un ton sarcastique :

- C'est vous qui le dites.

Le soulagement fut de courte durée. Une voiture noire surgit brusquement derrière eux, fonçant à toute allure. Mulder reconnut immédiatement le symbole du sceau de Salomon sur le capot.

- Merde ! C'est lui ! Cria-t-il, la panique dans la voix.

- Quoi ? Qui ça ? Demanda Parker, son anxiété augmentant.

- Le grand-maître du Cercle ! Il nous suit ! Précisa Mulder, le cœur battant à tout rompre.

- Comment il nous a trouvées ? Parker était maintenant accrochée à la poignée de la portière, son stress palpable.

- Je ne sais pas ! Il a dû nous pister ! Répondit Mulder, son esprit essayant désespérément de trouver une solution.

- Et maintenant, qu'est-ce qu'on fait ? Demanda Parker, l’urgence de la situation l’atteignant de plein fouet.

- On essaie de le semer ! Accrochez vous ! Ordonna Mulder, la voix rauque.

Il appuya sur l'accélérateur, le moteur rugissant sous l'effort. La voiture zigzagua entre les autres véhicules, les pneus crissant sur l’asphalte. Mais le grand-maître du Cercle restait collé à leur pare-chocs, klaxonnant furieusement et leur lançant des appels de phares menaçants. Il essayait de les forcer hors de la route, percutant et dépassant leurs trajectoires avec une agressivité effrayante.

- Il est fou ! Il va nous tuer ! Je vais lui faire la peau ! S’emporta Parker, la peur se mêlant à une rage désespérée. - Il faut tenir bon ! On n'est plus très loin ! Tenta de rassurer Mulder, ses yeux fixés sur la route, espérant que Skinner soit là pour les sauver.

Le domicile de Skinner n’était plus qu’à quelques kilomètres. Mulder priait pour qu’ils arrivent avant que le grand-maître ne les rattrape. Mais les espoirs furent brusquement anéantis lorsque le grand-maître, ne montrant aucun signe de ralentissement, sortit une arme de sa voiture. Les balles sifflèrent dans l’air, crevant les pneus de leur véhicule. La voiture, désormais incontrôlable, dérapa et se mit à tourner en rond.

- Attention ! Baissez-vous ! Cria Mulder, la terreur dans la voix.

Il tenta de redresser la voiture, mais les roues, sans adhérence, perdaient toute maîtrise. La voiture fit une embardée violente avant de heurter un poteau électrique. Le choc violent les projeta en avant, leur vision se brouilla alors que l’obscurité les engloutissait, les faisant sombrer dans l’inconscience.

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"Sweet thing," Astoria says at once, and there is a tone of urgency to her voice that betrays her even as she does not move and her expression does not change, "the love might be what's worth the most."

Matthew won't like it, she thinks idly, but Matthew doesn't like plenty of things that need to be said. And she doesn't like seeing Diana like this, ill-prepared and left with more questions than answers. She wishes she had a glass of wine. She hopes Baldwin is giving his brother hell.

"I was born in 1518." The corner of her mouth twitches upward into a smile, crooked and gentle and impossibly fond. "I have been alive five hundred years. I can speak more languages than most people will ever need. I was raised fluent in three. And in all my centuries, in all those languages, there is not a single word to be found that's sufficient to explain what I feel for him." She tips her head towards the door, where Diana can no doubt hear even muffled shouting. Baldwin is no doubt at his best, all his beautiful fury aimed like a weapon. "He is my heart, my soul, my life—all the poets across history have yet to come close to it. I was sired as an act of violence and revenge, I lost my family and my power and myself, I spent decades edging closer and closer to madness, and the first time he looked at me the way he does now, I knew I'd have done it all a thousand times over if he kept looking at me like that. Stubbornness is reason enough to endure, and you've been wronged badly enough that no one could ever argue that you aren't entitled to some revenge—but Diana, it's the love that makes it worthwhile."

She hooks her left hand over her shoulder, and she brushes a finger idly back and forth over the tattoo behind her ear. "There should be more to this than suffering," she says finally. "And you deserve more than constant self-doubt. Yes, this will start a war, if you continue. And yes, it will take a toll on everyone." Astoria settles more comfortably into her seat, lowering her left hand to trail her fingers instead along the outline of the snarling wolf's head across the back of her right. She does not offer platitudes of unconditional support. She wouldn't mean them. "The simplest solution will be that you become a vampire. Well, no. The simplest solution would be to leave him, but it seems fairly clear that's not an option for either of you.

"Matthew will try to talk you out of it because he's plagued by self-loathing of the worst kind: he's a good Catholic. We would find someone willing to sire you; I can think of three good options right now, and we would introduce you to them, let you have your choice. It's a painful process. It takes time, and it would require that you endure, again, but at the end of it you would be one of us, and the truth is that as far as the witches are concerned, you're already tainted by association, and you'll never be one of them again. But you'd also never again be as helpless as you were in La Pierre."

Her words are blunt, though her tone stays soft. "There are worse things in this world than to be a de Clermont, even by marriage. And there is nothing that compares to an eternity with the person you love more than anything." Her eyes flicker towards the doorway again, and she lets out a quiet, contented sigh. "But there's no way through this without some pain. You'll spend years reaching for magic only to remember it's not there anymore. Someday, the people you once considered family may come to put you down, like a rabid dog being put out of its misery, and you'll have to choose yourself over them. The light will hurt your eyes. The sounds of traffic will hurt your ears. You'll break everything you touch, those first few days, because you won't know how to control your own strength. And you will feel like the woman you were has died and now you're simply the woman you are, no matter how similar those two might be. But you will survive it." Her smile widens. The corners of her eyes wrinkle. "I did. Losing my magic was the worst of it, but it's a trade I'd make again.

"Your greatest challenge will be establishing who you are—as a de Clermont, as Matthew's mate, as Diana. Don't listen to him when he tells you that your success is because of your magic; he's bitter when he's not the smartest person in the room. Your success is because of your tenacity and your boldness and your skill. He will grow more insufferable with time and you'll bicker and fight and you'll love him all the more for it. His enemies will poke and prod at you, and you'll strike back quickly enough and fiercely enough to draw blood, so they don't repeat the mistake.

"Or you continue as you are. It will endanger him, and his family, not to mention your own. Baldwin will do what he must to protect his family, all of it, and I will do what I must to protect him. And much sooner than either of you are prepared for, you will age, and he will not. And if war doesn't take you from him, then mortal frailty and the passage of time will. This is, simply, life. What you are is a competent woman, Diana, and spellbound or not—" She's heard the word used enough times in the past day that she can guess at the limitations placed on Diana. "—you have your own power. Think like an academic. Ask questions. And let your decision be your own; Matthew doesn't get to make it for you, however much Catholic angst he insists on inflicting on the world."

STRANGELY , DESPITE THE LESIONS ON EVERY limb , the abrasions , the noise in her head - - she is more at ease than the days at sept - tours previously have allowed her to feel . astoria speaks to her as if she is a person rather than some other thing - - a problem to be dealt with . she wonders how much she can chalk up to her sustained trauma , and how much is merely astoria being herself . diana understands that astoria is baldwin's mate , but knows very little else to make a judgement of her character . she doesn't know any of them , really , nor do they really know her . and yet now , all of their lives are intimately bound . she snorts a half - laugh when astoria mentions her handling of a difference in philosophical opinion. truthfully , it sounds like something she'd do . her impression of matthew elicits an actual laugh , one that briefly reminds her of the pain in her ribs , and more still , solidifies the knowledge that while her heart seems to know matthew intimately , she does not really know him at all . there are others that have come before , and there are so many that will know him after .

❝yes . scientific history - - alchemy, primarily . more often than not , i think he attributes any area in which i might know better to the usage of magic . and maybe he's right , but still - - how could i possibly know ANYTHING without having lived it ? the fact that i got newton down in writing really irked him .  ❞ she shrugs . ❝ i'd put money on you in a philosophical debate , though . matthew's views are . . . a bit too introspective to really be generalized . ❞ it's a nicer way to say that he hates himself too much to interpret passages that speak of salvation when he considers himself damned .

despite her concern over the sofa , diana finds herself picking at a thread on a throw pillow . she is restless , still , even in a time of recovery . she needs to MOVE , and so she fidgets as she listens to what might have been . astoria makes it out to be the equivalent of a 19th century romance novel , in which the young woman meets the imposing , wealthy relative and is told that she simply WILL NOT DO. elizabeth bennet meeting the lady catherine de bourgh . it , somehow , does not sound EASIER .

just as soon as the theoretical reply is on her tongue , ( good to know . i'm not particularly good at dinner parties , so i thought i'd just expedite the process by upsetting the natural order of things and then getting thrown down a hole . ) it dissipates . eyes widen , and she nods slowly , as if she understands && yet cannot fathom what the other woman as just said .

she had never put much stock in sarah's prejudice against other creatures , particularly vampires . witches had savagery all of their own . she had experienced it firsthand . still , being faced with the standard practices of an ancient vampire family is still jarring .

and yet astoria glides by it elegantly , as if it is commonplace . and , perhaps , it is . she does not know this woman , she reminds herself . she does not want to pry . vampires are particular about their pasts, and as miriam informed her , they don't tell tales . but they surely have them . the conversation circles back , though , to the colossal elephant in the room . the simple solution that is far from it . the one , she knows , that matthew has REFUSED .

she yearns to go to the white table in her mind. to FIGURE OUT what everyone else is all too keen to solve for her .

❝ i. . . i don't have much magic to begin with. i never had the aptitude . it's chaotic , at best . not something i lived my life chasing . until i almost drowned myself because i was sad . i don't think i can ignore it now . ❞ she adjusts herself on the sofa with a wince . ❝ i know it's not worth much . really , i do . but i love matthew . so much. and i know this is worth even less , but i'm not really a 'start - a - species - war ' kind of person . i don't really know what i am . ❞ eyes dip down to the cushion she is fiddling with , as she suddenly feels too vulnerable to continue . she thinks , for a fleeting moment , that she wants her parents .

❝ so . . . prepare me . no one tells me anything. i'm not a vampire with thousands of years of lived experience, but i'm also not an idiot . i can handle it . i just need the information . ❞ she sighs . ❝ i need help ❞

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“La noche de Walpurgis” (1971) aka “The Werewolf vs. the Vampire woman” aka “Nacht der Vampire” aka “Werewolf Shadow” aka “La furie des vampires”, directed by León Klimovsky, with Paul Naschy, Gaby Fuchs, Barbara Capell, Patty Shepard...

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Rencontrez les Erinyes dans la dernière chambre du Tartare. C'est Mégère qui vous "accueillera"... Et elle a vraiment une appétence pour le goût du sang. Après un certain temps, ses soeurs Alecto et Tisiphone seront susceptibles de faire leur entrée. Pour votre plus grande joie, bien sûr.

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☐  ALDERMAN, Naomi – The Lessons ☐  ATWOOD, Margaret – Lady Oracle ☐  AUSTEN, Jane – Northanger Abbey ☐  AZEVEDO, Álvares de – Noite na Taverna ☐  BECKFORD, William Thomas – Vathek ☐  BIERCE, Ambrose – The Death of Halpin Frayser ☐  BIERCE, Ambrose – The Spook House ☐  BLACKWELL, Anastasia – The House on Black Lake ☐  BLACKWOOD, Algernon – The Listener and Other Stories ☐  BRONTË, Charlotte – Jane Eyre ☐  BRONTË, Charlotte – Villette ☐  BRONTË, Emily – Wuthering Heights ☐  BROWN, Charles Brockden – Wieland ☐  BROWN, Charles Brockden – Ormond ☐  CAPOTE, Truman – Other Voices, Other Rooms ☐  CARTER, Angela – The Bloody Chamber ☐  CATHER, Willa – My Ántonia ☐  CAZOTTE, Jacques – Le Diable amoureux ☐  CHAMBERS, Robert W. – The King in Yellow ☐  DANFORTH, Emily M. – Plain Bad Heroines ☐  DANIELEWSKI, Mark Z. – House of Leaves ☐  DICKENS, Charles – Oliver Twist ☐  DICKENS, Charles – Bleak House ☐  DICKENS, Charles – Great Expectations ☐  DICKENS, Charles – The Mystery of Edwin Drood ☐  DOSTOYEVSKY, Fyodor Mikhailovich – The Double ☐  DOSTOYEVSKY, Fyodor Mikhailovich – The Landlady ☐  DOSTOYEVSKY, Fyodor Mikhailovich – Bobok ☐  DOSTOYEVSKY, Fyodor Mikhailovich – The Brothers Karamazov ☐  DOYLE, Sir Arthur Conan – Lot No. 249 ☐  du MAURIER, Daphne – Jamaica Inn ☐  du MAURIER, Daphne – Rebecca ☐  du MAURIER, Daphne – My Cousin Rachel ☐  du MAURIER, George – Trilby ☐  FARING, Sara – The Tenth Girl ☐  FARRELL, Henry – What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? ☐  FAULKNER, William – The Sound and the Fury ☐  FAULKNER, William – As I Lay Dying ☐  FAULKNER, William – Light in August ☐  FAULKNER, William – Absalom, Absalom! ☐  FLAMMENBERG, Ludwig – The Necromancer ☐  GARSHIN, Vsevolod Mikhailovich – The Red Flower ☐  GAUTIER, Theophile – The Mummy's Foot ☐  GILMAN, Charlotte Perkins – The Yellow Wallpaper ☐  GOGOL, Nikolai Vasilievich – Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka ☐  GOGOL, Nikolai Vasilievich – Mirgorod ☐  GOGOL, Nikolai Vasilievich – Arabesques ☐  GOGOL, Nikolai Vasilievich – The Nose ☐  GRACQ, Julien – Au château d'Argol ☐  HAWTHORNE, Nathaniel – Young Goodman Brown ☐  HAWTHORNE, Nathaniel – The Minister's Black Veil ☐  HAWTHORNE, Nathaniel – Edward Randolph's Portrait ☐  HAWTHORNE, Nathaniel – The House of the Seven Gables ☐  HAWTHORNE, Nathaniel – Rappacini's Daughter ☐  HILL, Susan – The Woman in Black ☐  HOFFMANN, E. T. A. – The Devil's Exilir ☐  HOFFMANN, E. T. A. – The Entail ☐  HOFFMANN, E. T. A. – Gambler's Luck ☐  HOGG, James – The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner ☐  HOLT, Victoria – Mistress of Mellyn ☐  HOLT, Victoria – Kirkland Revels ☐  HUGO, Victor – Notre-Dame de Paris ☐  HUYSMANS, Joris-Karl – Là-bas ☐  INGOLDSBY, Thomas – The Ingoldsby Legends ☐  IRVING, Washington – The Adventure of the German Student ☐  IRVING, Washington – "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" ☐  JACKSON, Shirley – The Lottery ☐  JACKSON, Shirley – A Visit ☐  JACKSON, Shirley – The Haunting of Hill House ☐  JACKSON, Shirley – We Have Always Lived in the Castle ☐  JACOBS, W. W. – The Monkey's Paw ☐  JAMES, Henry – The Turn of the Screw ☐  JELINEK, Elfriede – Die Kinder der Toten ☐  LATHOM, Francis – The Midnight Bell ☐  le FANU, SHERIDAN – Uncle Silas ☐  le FANU, SHERIDAN – In a Glass Darkly ☐  le FANU, SHERIDAN – Carmilla ☐  LEE, Harper – To Kill a Mockingbird ☐  LEIGH, Julia – The Hunger ☐  LEROUX, Gaston – Le Fantôme de l'Opéra ☐  LEVIN, Ira – The Stepford Wives ☐  LEWIS, Matthew Gregory – The Monk ☐  LEWIS, Matthew Gregory – The Castle Spectre ☐  MACHEN, Arthur – The Great God Pan ☐  MARRYAT, Florence – The Blood of the Vampire ☐  MARRYAT, Florence – The Phantom Ship ☐  MATURIN, Charles – Melmoth the Wanderer ☐  MEANEY, John – Bone Song ☐  MÉRIMÉE, PROSPER – La Vénus d'Ille ☐  MOORE, John – Zeluco ☐  MORRISON, Toni – Beloved ☐  NERVAL, Gérard de – Les Filles du feu ☐  OATES, Joyce Carol – Bellefleur ☐  OATES, Joyce Carol – Night-Side ☐  OATES, Joyce Carol – A Bloodsmoor Romance ☐  OATES, Joyce Carol – Mysteries of Winterthum ☐  OATES, Joyce Carol – My Heart Laid Bare ☐  O'CONNER, Flannery – Wise Blood ☐  ODOEVSKY, Vladimir – Russian Nights ☐  PARKER, Gilbert – The Lane that Had No Turning, and Other Tales ☐  PARSONS, Eliza – The Castle of Wolfenbach ☐  PARSONS, Eliza – The Mysterious Warning ☐  PEACOCK, Thomas Love – Nightmare Abbey ☐  PEAKE, Mervyn – Gormenghast ☐  PHILLIPS, Arthur – Angelica ☐  POE, Edgar Allan – "Berenice" ☐  POE, Edgar Allan – "Ligeia" ☐  POE, Edgar Allan – "The Fall of the House of Usher" ☐  POE, Edgar Allan – The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket ☐  POE, Edgar Allan – "The Masque of the Read Death" ☐  POE, Edgar Allan – "The Oval Portrait" ☐  POE, Edgar Allan – "The Pit and the Pendulum" ☐  POE, Edgar Allan – "The Black Cat" ☐  POE, Edgar Allan – "The Tell-Tale Heart" ☐  POTOCKI, Jan – The Manuscript Found in Saragossa ☐  PUSHKIN, Alexander – The Bridegroom ☐  PUSHKIN, Alexander – The Undertaker ☐  PUSHKIN, Alexander – The Queen of Spades ☐  RADCLIFFE, Ann – A Sicilian Romance ☐  RADCLIFFE, Ann – The Romance of the Forest ☐  RADCLIFFE, Ann – The Mysteries of Udolpho ☐  RADCLIFFE, Ann – The Italian ☐  RAY, Jean – Malpertuis ☐  ROCHE, Regina Maria – Clermont ☐  ROCHE, Regina Maria – The Children of the Abbey ☐  ROSTOPCHINA, Yevdokia Petrovna – Poedinok ☐  SETTERFIELD, Diane – The Thirteenth Tale ☐  SHELLEY, Mary – Frankenstein ☐  SHELLEY, Percy Bysshe – Zastrozzi ☐  SHELLEY, Percy Bysshe – St. Irvyne; or, The Rosicrucian ☐  SLEATH, Eleanor – The Orphan of the Rhine ☐  STEVENSON, Robert Louis – Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde ☐  STEWART, Mary – Nine Coaches Waiting ☐  STOKER, Bram – Dracula ☐  STOKER, Bram – The Lair of the White Worm ☐  STORM, Theodor – Der Schimmelreiter ☐  TARTT, Donna – The Secret History ☐  TARTT, Donna – The Little Friend ☐  THOMAS, Elisabeth – Catherine House ☐  URBAN, Miloš – Sedmikostelí ☐  WALPOLE, Horace – The Castle of Otranto ☐  WILDE, Oscar – The Picture of Dorian Gray ☐  ZAFÓN, Carlos Ruiz – La sombra del viento

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Book list

Miss peregrine 5 / Let it snow / Histoire de Lisey / Le seigneur des anneaux 2 / + LSDA 3 / Twilight 1 / + Twilight 2 / + Twilight 3 / + Twilight 4 / Running man / Rêves et cauchemars / Le fléau / Insomnie /Différentes saisons / Orgeuil et préjugés / Emma / Raison et sentiments / Histoire de la Russie / Suzon / Claire / La Voleuse de Livres /Histoire de L'Europe / La Couleur des Sentiments / La servante écarlate / + Les Testaments / Alias Grace / Effacée / + Brisée / + Fracturée / Summerset Abbey / Olympe / Roméo et Juliette / Voyages de Gulliver / Anna Karénine / Le roi fantôme / La guerre et la paix I / + La guerre et la paix II / Dictionnaire de la mythologie / La mythologie Gréco-romain / W ou le souvenir d'enfance / Journal d'Anne Frank / Le monde de Sophie / Find me / Divergente 2 / + Divergente 3 / Carpe Diem / The Great Gatsby / The Virgin Suicides / Marlena / Girl, interrupted / The language of thorns / The Picture of Dorian Gray / Voyage au centre de la terre / Le Fantôme de l'opéra / Madame Bovary / Marie-Antoinette: femme réelle, femme mythique / La fille du train / The ballad of songbirds and snakes / Les contes des frères Grimm / Contes des particuliers / Les contes de Beedle le Barde / Traité sur la Tolérance / 20,000 Years of Fashion / Gravity Falls: Journal 3 / Oliver Twist / Tout savoir sur les vampires /Amour et Autres Enchantements /Atonement / Picnic at Hanging Rock / Macbeth / Hamlet / Lolita / Carrie / Frankenstein / L'histoire de l'art en BD / The Bell Jar / Valley of the Dolls / The Little Dictionary Of Fashion / Le monde de Charlie / The song of Achilles / Narnia 1 / + Narnia 2 / + Narnia 3 / + Narnia 4/ + Narnia 5 / + Narnia 6 / + Narnia 7 / A Series of Unfortunate Events 1 / + ASOUE 2 / + ASOUE 3 / + ASOUE 4 / + ASOUE 5 / + ASOUE 6 / + ASOUE 7 / + ASOUE 8 / + ASOUE 9 / + ASOUE 10 / + ASOUE 11 / + ASOUE 12 / + ASOUE 13 /The Secret Garden / Anne Of Green Gables / Black Beauty / Heidi / Percy Jackson 1 / + PJ 2 / + PJ 3 / + PJ 4 / + PJ 5 / Harry Potter 4 / + HP 5 / + HP 6 / + HP 7 / The Secret History / Le siècle des excès / Little Women / Histoire de l'extrême droite en France / L'Iliade / L'Odyssée / The Oxford Book Of Japanese Short Stories / D'une / Sense and Sensibility / The Complete Sherlock Holmes / Dracula / 1984 / Da Vinci Code / Don Quijote De La Mancha / Romancero Gitano / Le Monde selon Flaubert / La gauche en France / Histoire des États-Unis De 1492 à nos jours. /Manifeste du Parti communiste (Karl Marx) / Pensées pour moi-même (Marc Aurèle) / Le socialisme en France et en Europe: XIXe-XXe siècle / Sans raison (Mehdy Brunet) / L'Ami Prodigieuse 1 / + L'Ami Prodigieuse 2 / + L'Ami Prodigieuse 3 / + L'Ami Prodigieuse 4 /Middlemarch / I'm thinking of ending things / Bunny / Then She Was Gone / The Silent Patient / Evelina / Basic Writings on Politics and Philosophy /The Works of Lord Byron / The Four Fondamental Concepts of Psycho-Analysis / The Night Circus / Circe / All the light we cannot see / The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue / Turtles All The Way Down / Renegades / The Starless Sea / Legend Born / To Best The Boys / Stalking Jack The Ripper / The Betrayals / The furies / The woman in cabin 10 / Lovely War / Cruel Beauty /Luckiest Girl Alive / Some kind of happiness / Le diable s'habille en Prada / Vengeance en Prada / Sharp Objects/ Black Butler/ Valkyrie Apocalypse/ Les paradis perdus/ Le goût de Marie-Antoinette/ Coraline/ Rebecca/ Nevermoor 1/ N2/ N+7/ spirou et fantasio (55 tomes) / dents d'ours x 6/

[sunnydaleherald]

The Sunnydale Herald Newsletter, Saturday, May 7th

WESLEY: Oh, God! Oh, God! GILES: (calmly) It doesn't seem too promising, does it? WESLEY: Stay calm, Mr. Giles. We have to stay calm. GILES: Well, thank God you're here. I was planning to panic.

~~Bad Girls~~

The Sunnydale Herald is looking for at least one new editor! Contributing to the Herald is a great way to get your Buffy on! Find out more here.

[Drabbles & Short Fiction]

Family's Fragrance (Buffy/Angel, G) by janas (angelthehero)

Reunited for eternity (Willow/Tara, T) by Aragorn_II_Elessar

Accismus (Angel/Spike, T) by Gabriel_Is_My_Guardian_Angel89

Good Work Deserves a Reward (Buffy, Stargate crossover, FR21) by cmdruhura

Superchaosvirgitasticexpealidoorbell (Xander, multiple crossovers, FR21) by Sithicus

[Chaptered Fiction]

Jojo's Bizarre Adventure: Shadowed Suspicion, Chapter 342 (Ensemble, Jojo's Bizarre Adventure crossover, T) by madimpossibledreamer

To Live In The World, Chapter 42 (Buffy/Faith, M) by IvorySteel92

Once More, With Fury, Chapter 7 (Willow/Tara, T) by Rutkowski

Alternating Skies and, of course, the Hellmouth, Chapter 20 (Buffy/Spike, E) by Popsy

Mon Coeur Battant, Chapter 13 (Giles/OC, not rated) by melancholyrises

Sandy Places in Tomorrow, Chapter 11 (Xander/Spike, M) by Raihne

Love is Blind, Chapter 4 (Buffy/Spike, M) by Cyllene

The Time Vampire, Chapter 1 (in Italian) (Drusilla, Doctor Who crossover, not rated) by Sayman

You Don't Know What You've Got, Chapter 20 (Buffy/Spike, NC-17) by lex_hex

Le chemin de la destinée, du courage, et la force de ses convictions, les chemins de son cœur... Le commencement, Chapter 62 (Buffy/Spike, Adult Only) by Violette-Milka

Bleeding Poetry, Chapter 31 (Buffy/Spike, NC-17) by Dusty

Falling in Love, Chapter 23 (Buffy/Spike, NC-17) by Wonder and Ashes

First Alternate, Chapter 4 (Buffy/Spike, NC-17) by Soulburnt

Inhuman Behavior, Chapter 2 (Buffy/Spike, PG-13) by violettathepiratequeen

United We Stand, Chapter 13 (Faith, Nikita crossover, FR15) by batzulger

Blind Date, Chapter 1 (Buffy, Riley/Sam, The Fast and the Furious crossover, FR7) by Buffyworldbuilder

Rebman, Chapter 1 (Xander, Chronicles of Amber crossover, FR15) by Traszgo

[Images, Audio & Video]

Artwork: Would you die for her? (Buffy/Angel, worksafe) by janas

Artwork: A Hole in the World, Angel the Series and Fool for Love posters (worksafe) by kurtney_

Lego: Giles's Apartment in Lego by rdh_3000

Artwork: Buffy S8 comic page remastered (Buffy/Spike, worksafe) by l0veisntbrains

Artwork: BTVS “Every Outfit”: “the Wish” (worksafe) by whatshisfaceblogs

Artwork: BTVS “Every Outfit”: “Amends” part 1 (worksafe) by whatshisfaceblogs

Fanvid: Poison: Buffy and Spike by Sunnydale Sunset

Fanvid: This Love (taylor's version)- Buffy x Angel by Bangel Bot

Fanvid: Buffy and Spike (Lust) by RICHIEV333

Video: Spike head sculpt by Rocco Tartamella

[Reviews & Recaps]

I just finished season 4 of angel and I have some thoughts by notlikethegardensofbabylon

BB Discusses: 5x13 “Why We Fight” continued by multiple posters

[Recs & search]

Fic rec: Three Little Words by Walutahanga (Lindsey, Angel, G) recced by avatarskywalker78

Person search: Anyone had the screenname Amandalovespuffy? by xxsoymilk

[Fandom Discussions]

things that totally happened in angel btvs: Gun helped an old black lady from his neighbourhood by angel-thoughts-dump

Wide shots showing the interior spaces [in Smashed] by chasingfictions

Them fucking the house down as destroying the domestic space... by anonymous and chasingfictions

the reason spike’s old desoto never shows up again after ‘crush’ by july-19th-club

What would Joyce have done if she found out about Faith’s living conditions in S3? by melonsmessymusings

Buffy/Doctor Who parallels by burrunjor

Titles of episodes in English and others languages: Season 7 (part 1) by Antho

The Writers treated Gunn better before he joined the team by The810kid

Thoughts on Willow&Tara? by potterhead123456

The way the Summers girls grieve by Legitimate_Bug5604

What were the elements that made people continue to watch [BtVS] that differed from other shows? by Excellent-Durian-509

Favorite character introduction?? by kurtney_

Xander As A Stand-In For Joss Whedon: Source? by Paranormal_Nerd_Girl

Is Xander gay in the comics? by SkippingPebbless

What are your unpopular opinions about the show? by lilac-poppy

Do you remember the first time you watched [Seeing Red]? by InfiniteMehdiLove

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