#Sherlock and Dracula mirroring

[jeante13]

‪𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐨:‪‪

♡ my name is Jeanté

‪‪‪‪♡ i'm libra & infp

‪‪‪‪♡ music taste: lana del rey, taylor swift, the cure, london after midnight, lareine, abba, nirvana, bauhaus, buck-tick, the smiths, him, evanescence, glamscure, the beatles, elvis presley, my chemical romance, siouxsie and the banshees, hole, sisters of mercy, david bowie, laufey, cigarettes after sex, vampire rose, the doors, malize mizer & type o negative

‪‪‪‪♡ fav films: edward scissorhands, girl interrupted, the aristocats, sabrina (1954), interview with the vampire, romeo & juliet (1968), thirteen, corpse bride, the crow (1994), 10 things i hate about you, jennifer's body, halloween, a nightmare before christmas, mirror mirror (1990), the craft, heathers, ginger snaps, sherlock jr, speak, white oleander, the addams family values, nosferatu, beetlejuice, the love witch, pearl, candy (1968), repulsion, black swan, the swan princess, the last unicorn, the princess & the frog, perfect blue, buffalo '66, casablanca, gone with the wind, mean girls, helter skelter (2012), gone girl, daisies (1966), lilya 4-ever & valerie and her week of wonders

‪‪‪‪♡ fav series: friends, gilmore girls, american horror story, sailor moon, chobits, death note, the office, queen's gambit, gossip girl, the golden girls, full house, kakegurui, neon genesis evangelion, castlevania, the vampire diaries, the rose of versailles, nana, the munsters, scream queens & ergo proxy

‪‪‪‪♡ fav books: pride & prejudice, emma, the secret history, dracula, frankenstein, crime and punishment, hamlet, my year of rest and relaxation, little women, wuthering heights, the picture of dorian gray, jane eyre, the stranger, the metamorphosis, the great gatsby, anna karenina, war and peace, the bell jar & white nights

‪‪‪‪♡ things i love: 60s/70s fashion, vintage items, ballet, russian literature, poetry, v-kei, anime, shakespeare, tim burton films, old barbie, coffee, history, philosophy, cats & 80s horror movies

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[dwightschrute11]

I wanted to throw a few questions for Calypso.

What would she see in the mirror of erised?

What would her favorite book be?

Which of the hl npcs is she closest to?

Thank you for this ask @ladyofsappho !! Love you girl 🥹💕💕

1. There are two things she could either see: the first thing would be herself flying through the breeze on a broom, sun setting and the wind playing with her hair: and while it isn’t obvious at first glance, it symbolizes that everything is alright and that she is finally free from all her pent up emotions and fears, free from all the problems in the world. Otherwise it would be her with her father and mother, both alive and well

2. Her favorite novel would definitely be Dracula (definitely not because I just got it from the library, and the fact the only other 1890s novel I’m knowledgeable on is Sherlock), because in both 1890’s and modern au she is a big horror fan. This also ties into the fact that in modern au she’d love vampires and all of that stuff (ngl she would’ve read all the twilight novels)

3. As I was playing the game pre being called ignorant, Sebastian was actually pretty close with Calypso in my head. But after the ignorant incident, I uh. Haha. Got very pissed about it, and me and calypso both are holding a big grudge about it (as you can probably tell from the few posts I have including Sebastian). I see now their personalities would probably clash anyways (might explain in a different post).

Sorry for getting off track haha, otherwise I can see her bond really deepen with Natsai. Twin souls, they both have an adventurous spirit and Nattys more down to earth personality weaves in well with Calypsos more “head in the clouds” way. I can also see Calypso actually being good friends with Samantha Dale: they seem like they could get together and geek out about stuff.

[pumpkinsouppe]

My print for @turnaboutballroom !!! Leftovers are OPEN and will be open until September 24, 2024!! If you want this print or any of the other gorgeous zine works, then this is your last chance to do so ^_^

If you’re curious more about my print’s story, I’ll write more about it below:

So when I did this zine I was actually simultaneously working on Blood Moon Rising (the Zelda horror zine) and I really wanted to have a more horror twist on my piece as a way to stand out. The idea was to create a fake case for a fake Sherlock Holmes investigations game about vampires. Considering Van Zieks is heavily vampire coded, I thought it would be fun to play on that and have the idea that Van Zieks was being framed as a vampire and the culprit, with all the items on the sides of the prints being evidence. The mirror scene in the middle was a direct inspiration from the Van Helsing movie during the ballroom scene, when Anna valerious was dancing with Dracula at a crowded party and then Dracula dips her in front of a mirror and she’s the only one reflected. I didn’t have much thought for the whole case, just this one scene, but Id love to come back to this piece and expand on the idea more in the future! It was fun thinking about ^_^

[dross-the-fish]

This might be the dumbest question on this blog, but is the motley crew like your AU/fanfic or is it an actual show? Can you also please give me a short summary?

I’m so sorry for asking such dumb questions I just really like your blog and I want to know more😭❤️🫶

It actually started out as a DnD style table top game I made for my friends. I decided to post some of the stuff from it here on tumblr and I'm re-writing it as a fic.

There is a LOT of lore, so I'll try to keep it brief and stick to the broadest points.

It's a goth lit crossover story, it begins with strange events happening all over England. There's an increase in the rat population, clouds of bats fill the sky at night, there are rumors of occult activity. The great detective Sherlock Holmes is called out of retirement to investigate a string of grisly murders and disappears without a trace during the investigation, leaving John Watson to try and find him.

Meanwhile Lawrence Talbot and his best friend Quincey Harker, the son of Jonathan and Mina (dracula) trying to rescue a woman from a wolf attack one night while passing by Baker Street. Lawrence is bitten and the bite is treated by Watson who finds it odd that there are wolves in London as wolves had been extinct in the UK for several centuries at that point and no zoo had reported a missing wolf.

Lawrence feels ill but otherwise fine and goes home thinking he'll sleep it off. Through the bite he contracts the curse of lycanthropy, on his first transformation he kills his entire family. The police investigate but don't connect Larry to the murders. The scene of the crime is a similar state to the one Holmes was investigating when he disappeared leading the newspaper to report the Talbot's as the latest victims of a serial killer at large. Watson questions Larry and Quincey, thinking they may be able to provide him a lead to finding Sherlock and, not knowing who else to trust they reveal Larry's lycanthropy. Watson is skeptical but once it's revealed that Larry is a werewolf he's convinced to help them find the cause of the curse and hopefully a cure.

Their search for a cause and cure leads them to fragments of a strange journal about an allegedly deceased man called Henry Jekyll who's own story seems to loosely mirror a werewolf curse and while trying to break into Jekyll's abandoned lab thinking his serum may have been the source of the curse they run into an unsavory character, Edward Hyde. Edward is at first, unhelpful, but once he realizes Lawrence Talbot is from a wealthy family he offers to help, stating that he knows a few things about Henry Jekyll and can get them access to his research in exchange for a place to stay and some money. Watson is mistrustful and advises the boys not to reveal Larry's condition to Edward until he proves himself an ally. At first Edward plans to mooch off of them for awhile, steal their money and disappear but once they figure out that Jekyll and Hyde are the same person they get him to agree to research Larry's condition and develop a cure derived from Hyde's serum.

Their continued investigation and search for Sherlock and a cure for Larry lead them to all kind of places and they start to assemble a group, picking up the Frankenstein creature and the Phantom of the Opera along their way.

It's eventually revealed that vampires, lead by Dracula have set up a society in England with the intention of taking over. Dracula is working for and with other villains from gothic literature like Dorian Gray, Carmilla, Imhotep the mummy, Dr Moreau, and Griffin the invisible man. Most of whom have sold or are in the process of selling their souls in Faustian contracts to Mephistopheles (Dorian's portrait physically is one). The crew's quest to find Sherlock and cure Larry turns into a bid to save the UK and possibly all of the world from team Dracula and Mephistopheles's machinations.

[lilolilyr]

♡ pls reblog my fic posts ♡

This is my new fandom masterlist!

In alphabetical order, everything I write for:

Gen F/F F/M M/M

• Dracula

• Goncharov (Katfia)

•••• Good Omens (ineffable spouses)

• Gunpowder Milkshake, (Floreleine, ScarletMay, Librarywives ot3, Killercule) also on @floreleine

• Hacks HBO (Avorah)

• Hawaii 5-0 (McDanno)

• Holby City (Berena)

• Humans are Weird // Humans are Space Orcs

• James Bond (00Q)

••• Leverage

•• Lie to Me (Callian, Zoe/Gillian)

• Lord of the Rings // The Hobbit

• MCU (mainly ClintCoulson, Stucky)

•• Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries (MacPhrack)

• Ocean's 8 (HeistWives aka Loubbie)

• Pirates of the Caribbean

• Pitch Perfect (Becommissar)

•• Sherlock (Johnlock, Shirene aka Adlock)

••• Star Trek

• ST Discovery (Milippa -prime, -mirror, -poly, -kat)

• ST DS9 (Kiradax, Kahndax, Kiradaxkahn)

• ST Picard (Saffi)

•• ST TOS (Spirk)

••• ST Voyager (J7, Chakotey/Tuvok)

•• Star Wars

• The Devil Wears Prada (Mirandy)

• The Hunger Games

• The Old Guard (Andromaquynh, Andronilynh)

• The Witcher (mostly Geraskier)

• Venom

• Warehouse 13 (Bering and Wells), also on @hgwellsmykabering

& more :)

A bunch of my fics are unfinished and Up for Adoption!

I don't just write but also make podfics, art, manips, moodboards rec lists and memes sometimes :D

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I'm always taking prompts, though much more likely to write for people who also support me by reblogging stuff and/or commenting on Ao3 of course ;) the ones in bold are my active fandoms that I'm mainly taking prompts for! You can also send other ideas though :)

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[joker1315]

All the movies and tv shows you can find on this blog

Use the following link and insert the tag you want to see:

#: 300 - 10 things i hate about you - 12 years a slave - 1899

a: a cure for wellness - a knights tale - after the rain - alice in wonderland - the alienist - all of us strangers - anchoress - andor - angels and demons - around the world in 80 days - assassins creed - august osage county - australia - the avengers - awake

b: bad influence - barbie - the battle for rome - birdland - black mirror - black panther - the blacklist - blackout - blackpool - blood - blood diamond - blow - the book of boba fett - boston legal - the boys - the brave - bright young things - broadchurch - brotherhood

c: captain america - casanova - case histories - cellular - centurion - charlie and the chocolate factory - chocolat - chumscrubber - the cloverfield paradox - clue - colonia - coriolanus - the counselor - covenant - crimson peak - critical care - the curse of the midas box

d: the damned united - dangerous lady - dark - the dark knight - the dark knight rises - dark shadows - dates - the davinci code - dead man - deadpool - the deal - the death of stalin - detective pikachu - die tür - dig - doctor strange - doctor who - dolly partons heartstrings - donnie brasco - dracula - dream lover - druk

e: ed wood - en kongelig affære - en kort en lang - exile - the expanse

f: the face of an angel - the falcon and the winter soldier - the fall - fantastic beasts - fantastic four - far from the madding crowd - fear and loathing in las vegas - the fifth estate - filth - finding neverland - fish tank - fleabag - the fountain - four rooms - fright night - from hell

g: gallowglass - der ganz grosse traum - good - good omens - the good thief - gotham - gothika - the great dictator - the great race - guardians of the galaxy

h: halt and catch fire - hamlet - hannibal - harry potter - heart - heartlands - high rise - his dark materials - the hobbit - the hollow crown - home again - how to train your dragon

i: i saw the light - the imitation game - the impossible - indiana jones - inglourious basterds - inkheart - iron man

j: jagten - james bond - jessica jones - the judge - jurassic park

k: kate and leopold - the kings speech - kingsman - kiss kiss bang bang - kong%3A skull island - ku'damm 59

l: l. a. without a map - the ladykillers - laws of attraction - the legend of 1900 - legion - the libertine - life on mars - little favour - loki - london - lord of the rings - love actually - lucifer

m: macbeth - macgyver - mamma mia - the mandalorian - marvel - master and commander - masters of sex - miranda - moon knight - mortdecai - moulin rouge - move on - mrs. doubtfire - much ado about nothing - much ado about nothing (1993) - mulan - the muppets most wanted

n: the necessary death of charlie countryman - the night manager - the nightmare before christmas - nine-1%2F2-minutes - not another teen movie - nu

o: the oa - once upon a time - only lovers left alive - oppenheimer - oscar wilde - oslo - ostfriesenblut - ostfriesenkiller

p: paddington 2 - parades end - passengers - patrick melrose - the patriot - peaky blinders - the pelayos - peter pan - pirates of the caribbean - polar - the power of the dog - the practice - preacher - present laughter - the prestige - prey - pride - priest - prodigal son - prometheus - pulp fiction - puncture - the pursuit of love - pushing daisies

r: rab c. nesbitt - ratatouille - rejseholdet - reprisal - reservoir dogs - resident alien - richard II - the right stuff - robin hood - rocketman - rocky horror picture show - rosencrantz and guildenstern are dead - rush - rush (series)

s: the salvation - the sandman - der schuh des manitu - secret window - secretary - shadow and bone - shame - sherlock - sherlock holmes - the silence of the lambs - the singing detective - single father - sleepy hollow - slow west - small island - the snowman - soldiers girl - the special relationship - spiderman - the stag - staged - star trek - star wars - stargate universe - the stickup - storage 24 - submergence - sucker punch - supernatural - supernova - sweeney todd

t: tatort - tatort berlin - tatort saarbrücken - the thick of it - third star - thor - to the ends of the earth - tolkien - torchwood - the tourist - the town - transcendence - triple frontier - tron - true lies - twilight - twin peaks

u: uncle frank - underworld - unthinkable

v: velvet goldmine - vildspor

w: wandavision - war horse - watchmen - welcome to the punch - whats eating gilbert grape - whats your number - wimbledon - windtalkers - the witcher - the wonderful story of henry sugar - the words - wreckers

x: x men - the x-files

y: yellow submarine

[kuipernebula]

What's Exalted? I'm asking you instead of googling because it'll be more fun this way

It's a tabletop game and setting by Onyx Path Publishing, formerly White Wolf Entertainment. The setting is inspired by mythological epics of the bronze age, as well as the kind of over the top action of fantasy and sci fi anime, western cartoons, comics, and video games.

Largely you play a human who has been Exalted, i.e. imbued with power from The Gods. And not just any of the gods (we're using Animism rules here, think the Celestial Bureaucracy of Journey to the West), the Big Dick Gods, the Incarnae. (Think the Olympian Gods)

The base game has you playing the chosen of Sol Invictus, i.e. the Unconquered Sun. His chosen, the Solar Exalted, are paragons of Human Excellence and channel his Golden Power into extensions of Human Skill. They're Gilgamesh, Batman, Musashi, King Arthur, King Solomon, Sherlock Holmes... Just to name a few types of characters they can easily play.

The Solars are currently illegal in most of the world however, hunted down as Anathema* by the chosen of the Elemental Dragons (and by extension, the Titan that made them, Gaia), the Dragon Blooded. Though weaker individually than the Solars, these Elemental Super Soldiers are much higher in number, and pass their power on through Hereditary Lines. While not really Benders, that's the best inroad I have to explaining them.

Their empire, the Scarlet Empire, is the Predominant Power of Creation, and their religion, the Immaculate Faith, is the Predominant Religion of Creation. But they're on the precipice of civil war, as the Empress is missing, and has been for five years. And her children, the heads of the five royal houses, are all horny to take the throne.

Meanwhile, the powerful ghosts known as the Death Lords made their first public move about five years ago, with the Mask of Winters taking captive the city of Thorns with an undead army and a plague that turned the bones of the city's people into puppets.

And finally, back to you, young Solar**. The Solar Exalted were dead to the world until about five years ago, when they started to reappear despite the best efforts of their enemies.

There's other types of exalted - the shapeshifting trickster chosen of Luna the Lunars (Sun Wukong, Coyote, Baba Yaga, Enkidu), the fate ninja bureaucrats chosen by the Maidens of Fate the Sidereals(James Bond with Enlightenment Martial Arts and Astrology Powers), the dark mirrors of the Solars and death knights known as Abyssals (Dracula, Frankenstein, most of The Locked Tomb), the demon princes of hell Infernals (Faust, Lucifer, Dante and Vergil Devil May Cry), and the Exigents chosen of lesser gods***

Among other, stranger varieties.

You try to save the world, because there's a billion threats - the Fair Folk from the edges of the world where reality frays, the undead and restless dead coming up from the rotting underworld, the demonic minions of the Yozi lords of hell... Depending on who you are, your list could also include The Scarlet Empire and its families, the machinations of Heaven and the Sidereal Exalted, the Silver Pact of the Lunar Exalted and their "barbarian" territories, the Guild and it's hold on commerce (including slavery)... Some games may even put you against the conspiracy against Heaven by Rakan Thulio and his strange Exalted-that-don't-exist, the Exalted Robot invaders of Autochthon, or the dreaded exalts known as Heart-Eaters and their armies of hollowed-out humans.

*Solars are not the only ones labelled Anathema - their partners, the Lunar Exalted, share that (primarily religious) distinction. Meanwhile, Abyssal and Infernal Exalted seem, to many untrained Immaculates, to be one and the same with Solars - so they share the label.

**As I said earlier, Solar is merely the default player type of the base game. While good - and I've labelled many character types they can be - all other types of Exalted are playable characters. Some are harder to get to work in a party, however. Older editions assumed most parties would all be of the same type of Exalt, though 3rd Edition is much more receptive to Mixed parties.

***Because Exigents are chosen by lesser gods - i.e. any god that isn't an Incarna - they can be almost anything. They're more common than any type other than Dragon-Blooded, but they have a huge variety to them. Rarely is any type of Exigent one that has many members the way other Exalts have - the God of This Volcano is unlikely to be strong enough to create more than one Chosen, though rarely the God of Schooling Fish might be powerful enough to make five or so.

[detectivereads]

Halloween/Fall Season TBR 2023

Hi Everyone,

I wanted to write down my TBR for the fall/Halloween season and mention some of the new books that are coming out this year. These titles are the ones I read every year and I highly recommend them to anyone who is looking for a scary book to read (or really any murder mysteries, it feels like this is the prefect season to read Murder Mysteries).

~Books that are on my TBR~ : (Pretty much I recommend everything on this list)

Coraline by Neil Gailman

Halloween Tree by Ray Bardbury

Pumpkin Heads

Nancy Drew (This and the next few are perfect for the cozy weather)

Judy Bolton

Dana Sisters

Connie Blair

Hardy Boys

Scary Godmother

Edgar Allen Poe

The Invisible man

Nightmare Before Christmas Long Live the Pumpkin Queen

Bunnicula

Dracula by Bram Stoker

Frankenstein by Mary Shelly

Garlic and the Vampire

Garlic and the Witch

Halloween Party by Agatha Christie (first time I am going to read this)

Sherlock Holmes

Then there was none by Agatha Christie

Addams family

Goosebumps books

Mirror Lake By Juneau Black

The House of Lost Horizon Sarah Jewell mystery

Sleepy Hallow by Washington Irving

Harry Potter (I also read these around Xmas time too)

~OP Books I recommend~

The Shady Hallow mysteries. I love this series and it feels like you can read this series no matter what time of year but the big ones that I recommend from this series are Cold Clay & Mirror Lake.

I love Mirror Lake the most out of the series and the description of food and the autumn ambience is wonderful.

~Soon to release books (I hope)~ :

DeepHaven by Ethan M. Aldridge- I saw the artwork that this author has been posting and I thought it was gorgeous. I did some digging but did not really want to spoil it too much for myself. I am getting very Eldritch horror vibes from the artwork.

Unfamiliar vol 2 by Haley Newsome- I am in love with this series, it has magic it has witches it has food. What more could I ask for.

Twilight Falls by Juneau Black- This is one of my highly anticipated books that are coming out this year. I love the Shady Hollow Mysteries series, this come out after November, but I am still super hype for it.

 Tim Burton’s Nightmare before Christmas the Battle for Pumpkin King by Dan Conner- I have been collecting anything really Nightmare for a few a years now and when I saw this I freaked, I can’t wait for it.

Bookshops & Bonedust by Travis Baldree- I loved Legends & Lattes and when I found it there was going to be a 2nd book, I was thrilled I can’t wait for it.

Catch me If you Candy by Ellie Alexander- Recently I have been wanting to get more cozy mysteries and this series is like one of the biggest series I have seen. I am hoping to start collecting the series soon.

~New Books~ :

Most of these books are going to be Cozy Mysteries. I love Mysteries and Cozy Mysteries are right in my alley. First of all, I will not spoil mysteries for anyone if I can help it, so I will keep description vague. Most of these books are new to me and I am keeping myself blind incept for like the over storyline. (These are not new releases they are just new to me)

Fatal Fudge Swirl by Meri Allen- this is the third book in the Ice Cream Shop Mysteries books, I am trying to collect the others and read them in order. So, this mystery takes place around Halloween and there is a wedding, and tragedy strikes at the wedding.

Murder at the Pumpkin Pageant by Darci Hannah- this is another cozy that takes place around time Halloween time. Halloween time is here, and our MC Lindsey is not really jazzed about it, because she lives in the town spooky haunted lighthouse, so teenagers make it a test of courage to come up and scare each other silly.  However, this year her best friend asked to do a spooky episode for her social media what was supposed to be a night of ghost hunting and fun scares turns sinister.

One Poison Pie by Lynn Cahoon- Now this one doesn’t take place on around Halloween (as far from what I know I haven’t not read this book yet, so I fix this later if I am wrong) but it’s having to do with witches and what’s better she is an amateur detective kitchen witch. Mia is our main character and right now she has hit a rough patch in her life when boyfriend has left her greener pastures and she is now jobless. So, she heads back home to her grandma’s house. It’s the first book in this series so I don’t know too much about it.

A Batter of Life and Death by Ellie Alexander- the only thing I know is that this book takes place in fall and I just starting to get into the Bakeshop Mystery series. So, I am keeping my self-blind and I can’t wait to read it.

No Parm No Foul by Linda Reilly- this is the second book in the grilled cheese shop mystery, and it takes place around Halloween. I read the first book and I like it, so I want to try to get the second to see how it is.

[victorianpining]

Is the jump drive in TGG any link to the timeline mirror for the agra jump drive in T6T?

Just curious.

So if I'm understanding the whole mirrored structure thing correctly (and I certainly hope so because I'm leaning into it intensely for the Dracula AU I'm writing), TGG would actually be a mirror to an episode we don't have yet: 5.1.

But this got me thinking of what would happen if you took the show as it stands now and tried to apply the same idea with the hiatus between TRF and TEH serving as the midpoint. That would be very thematically fitting for the story as it currently exists... It's a bit wonky because of TAB, but there is a sort of symmetry to it. If nothing else the two characters coming full circle in the worst way at the end of TFP is really driven home.

So if you did that I suppose TST would be leading the characters away from the Moriarty arc, kind of the opposite of TGG, and the flash drive is their way towards that final plotline of exploring Mary and Eurus to bring John and Sherlock back to the starting point.

[princessnamora]

do i need to replace the gif on my watch list page?

Yes

America's Next Top Model

American Dad

American Idol

Are You Scared?

Barry

Bienvenidos a Eden

Bitten

Bones

Briarpatch

Colony

CSI: New York

Fresh Off the Boat

The Get Down

Ghost Whisperer

Gossip Girl

Graceland

High Seas

iZombie

Killing Eve

The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel

Medium

Mr. Sunshine

Nancy Drew

NCIS

Partner Track

Pokemon

Revenant

The Rookie

Royal Pains

Salem

Scandal

Scorpion

The Serpent

Smash

Sweetbitter

Tale of the Nine-Tailed

Too Many Spirits

White Collar

Without a Trace

Zoo

The 100

Maybe

Abbott Elementary

Agents of SHIELD

As Told by Ginger

Avatar: The Last Airbender

Aziz

Bambaska Biri

Bloom

Bob's Burgers

Butterflied Lover

Charlie's Angels

Chicago Med

Cloak and Dagger

Couple of Mirrors

CSI: Crime Scene Investigation

Descendants of the Sun

Doom at Your Service

Emerald City

Eye Candy

Fallout

Florida Man

Game of Thrones

Ghost Files

Ginny & Georgia

Gone with the Rain

Gotham

The Great North

The Handmaid's Tale

Hawaii Five-0

Hellcats

Hercai

House MD

The Ingenious One

Jett

Kung Fu

The Morning Show

Mystery Files

Notorious

The OC

Our Kind of People

Pearson

Pretty Little Liars: Original Sin

Pride and Prejudice

Privileged

Rizzoli and Isles

The Romance of Hua Rong

Scream: Resurrection

Sen Cal Kapimi

Siyah Inci

Suits

The White Lotus

Yargi

You

Zoey's Extraordinary Playlist

24

No

Adim Farah

Agent Carter

Alexa & Katie

All American

American Housewife

American Woman

Archer

Arrested Development

Arrow

Australia's Next Top Model

Azize

Back from the Brink

Batwoman

Belgravia

Betty

Black Lightning

The Blue Whisper

The Bold Type

The Borgias

Boston Legal

The Boys

Brooklyn Nine Nine

Burn Notice

Business Proposal

Buzzfeed Unsolved

Carmen Sandiego

Castle

Charmed

Chicago Fire

Chuck

City of Streamer

Claws

Clean with Passion for Now

Community

The Consultant

Covert Affairs

Crash Landing on You

Criminal Minds

Cruel Summer

CSI: Miami

Cursed

Dare Me

Daredevil

Dawson's Creek

Dead Ringers

Delightfully Deceitful

Designated Survivor

Devil in Ohio

Dickinson

A Discovery of Witches

Dish Granted

The Double

Dracula

Echo

Emma

Empire

Eternal Love of Dream

Everwood

Extraordinary Attorney Woo

Faking It

Family Guy

First Kill

The Fosters

Friends

From Dusk Till Dawn

Galavant

GAP: The Series

General and I

Gilligan's Island

Gilmore Girls

Gizli Sakli

The Glory

The Good Place

The Great

Grey's Anatomy

H2O: Just Add Water

Halka

Harley Quinn

Harlots

Hart of Dixie

How I Met Your Mother

How to Get Away with Murder

iCarly

Irma Vep

It's Okay to Not Be Okay

Jane the Virgin

Jessica Jones

Katy Keene

Knightfall

Legend of Fuyao

The Legend of Shen Li

Leverage

Life Sentence

Lighter and Princess

Little Voice

Love Between Fairy and Devil

Love You Seven Times

Lovecraft Country

Lucifer

Luna Nera

The Lying Game

The Magicians

Make It or Break It

Marco Polo

Maxton Hall

Merlin

Meryem

Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries

Monarch: Legacy of Monsters

Monk

Moon Knight

The Musketeers

My Demon

My Lady Jane

My Man is Cupid

NCIS: Los Angeles

Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide

New Girl

Nikita

North and South

Once Upon a Time

One Tree Hill

Only Murders in the Building

Ordeal By Innocence

The Originals

Orphan Black

Outer Banks

P-Valley

Pan Am

Parks and Recreation

Peaky Blinders

Pretty Historic

Pretty Li Hui Zhen

Pretty Little Liars

Prison Break

Psych

Puppet History

Quantico

Queen of Tears

Ragdoll

Reign

Reservation Dogs

The Resident

Reven8e

Riverdale

The Romance of Tiger and Rose

Romance of a Twin Flower

Rome

The Royals

Runaways

Sanditon

Santa Clarita Diet

The Sarah Connor Chronicles

Saturday Night Live

Scooby Doo

Scream

Scream Queens

Secret Bridesmaids' Business

The Secret Circle

The Secret Life of the American Teenager

Senorita 89

Sense8

The Shannara Chronicles

Sherlock

Shogun

Slasher

Smallville

Spongebob Squarepants

Star

The Starry Love

Strike

Strong Woman Do Bong Soon

Suburgatory

Supergirl

Suspicious Partner

Swamp Thing

The Tale of Nokdu

Teen Wolf

That '70s Show

Till the End of the Moon

Titans

Twenty-Five Twenty-One

Twin Peaks

The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt

The Vampire Diaries

Veronica Mars

Vida

Vincenzo

Warm On a Cold Night

Warrior Nun

Wednesday

Weightlifting Fairy Kim Bok-Joo

Weird (and/or) Wonderful World

The West Wing

Who Rules the World

Whose Line is it Anyway?

Why Women Kill

Witches of East End

Wizards of Waverly Place

Worth a Shot

Yellowjackets

Zemheri

90210

[severusskywalker]

I’m looking for some more podcasts to listen to.

I’ve recalling liked The Magnus Archives, Welcome to Night Vale, Malevolent, Wolf 359, and a couple others, and I’m looking for more. I like ones with overarching plots, if that makes sense? Any recommendations? Thanks!

Edit: A few more I have enjoyed/finished (including from the list below, as I listen to them!)

Archive 81

Auricle

The Deep Vault

The Scarab Archives

Vigil

The Technomacy Project

What Will Be Here

Re: Dracula

Stellar Firma

Out of Place

I Am In Eskew

Ars Paradoxica

The Antique Shop

Currently listening to:

Worlds Beyond Number (The Witch, the Wizard, and the Wild One)

Sherlock and Co.

Woe.begone

And now the ever increasing recommendations, so they are all in one place… please feel free to keep recommending ones too, I love growing recs lists! (Now alphabetized!)

Aftershocks

Alice isn’t Dead

A Voice From Darkness

Camp Here and There

Captain Skyjacks

Case 66

Critical Role

Cryptids

Dames & Dragons/LegendLark

Darkest Night

Death by Dying

Derelict

Desert Skies

Desperado!

Deviser

Dimension 20

Don’t Mind Cruxmont

Dungeons & Daddies

Either

Ethics Town

Extraordinary Terrestrials

Find Us Alive

From Caulk and Candles

Ghost Wax

Girl in Space

Greater Boston-the vignettes

Hello from the Hallowoods

Interstitial AP

Just Roll With It

Kakos Industries

Keep it Steady

Last Call at the Bluebell Cafe

Life With Althaar

Limetown

Mabel

Midnight Burger

Midst

Mirrors

Mission to Zyxx

Mockery Manor

Monstrous Agonies

Murray Mysteries

Neighborly

Newts!

Not Quite Dead

Old Gods of Appalachia

Oz 9

Paralyzed

Potterless

Red Valley

Revolution

Riley Hopkins and their Amazing Friends

Rusty Quill Gaming

Sayer

Second Star to the Left

Seren

Somewhere, Ohio

Spines

Spirit Box Radio

Spirits Podcast

Steal the Stars

S-town

Strange Case of Starship Iris

The Adventure Zone

The Amelia Project

The Black Tapes

The Bright Sessions

The Cellar Letters

The Deca Tapes

The Invictus Stream

The Left Right Game

The Liberty Podcast

The Milkman of St Gaff’s

The Mistholme Museum of Mystery, Morbidity, and Mortality

The Newest Olympian

The Night Post

The Pasitheaa Powder

The Penumbra Podcast

The Sheridan Tapes

The Silt Verses

The SPC Foundation Database

The Storage Papers

The White Vault

Time:Bomb

Unwell Podcast

Vast Horizon

We’re Alive

Within the Wires

Wooden Overcoats

[drsilverfish]

BBC Dracula - Moffat and Gatiss (review) 2019

I’m putting most of this under the cut, so I don’t spoil anyone who hasn’t seen it yet (it’s now on Netflix for international audiences). 

Contains some discussion of queer-coding/ queer-baiting, and some discussion of Sherlock “Easter-eggs”. 

Claes Bang is an amazing Dracula.........

I know Moffat and Gatiss are frequent hate-objects on Tumblr. And I think, unfortunately, there can be a “contagion of hate” which happens in relation to creatives online, which is different from thoughtful critique of the work.   

They are, in my view, good writers and (as are we all) flawed humans. 

I’ve enjoyed their Doctor Who, their Sherlock and now their Dracula, whilst, at the same time, being critical of some elements (e.g. Moffat writing Amy, River AND Clara as “mysteries” for the Doctor to “solve”, as if women, a la Freud, were inherently mysterious, or their version of Sherlock’s contemporary London as, almost entirely, white, when London’s population these days is 30-40% BAME).

However, if we can only enjoy totally “unproblematic” art, there will be precious little art left to enjoy.

Sherlock, in particular, became embroiled in the great queerbaiting debate.

And I think that raised a number of interesting questions, and complex questions, about different generations of LGBTQ+ people, their expectations, histories, and (sadly) failure to communicate well with one another (inter-generational queer culture can be regrettably absent, as there are often no social spaces for it outside sexualised spaces).

Moffat and Gatiss (the latter is gay) at once openly disavowed and archly acknowledged the queer subtext in Sherlock in interviews, whilst BBC PR (and this element, I think in particular, was problematic) frequently used it as part of their marketing for the show.   

Moffat here appears to disavow Sherlock as gay: 

"There's no indication in the original stories that he was asexual or gay. He actually says he declines the attention of women because he doesn't want the distraction. What does that tell you about him? Straightforward deduction. He wouldn't be living with a man if he thought men were interesting."

Moffat is not saying that Sherlock, like Austin Powers, misplaced his mojo. "It's the choice of a monk, not the choice of an asexual. If he was asexual, there would be no tension in that, no fun in that – it's someone who abstains who's interesting. There's no guarantee that he'll stay that way in the end – maybe he marries Mrs Hudson. I don't know!"

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2012/jan/20/steven-moffat-sherlock-doctor-who

And also here:

“[Sherlock]’s not interested in [sex]. He’s willfully staying away from that to keep his brain pure — a Victorian belief, that. But everyone wants to believe he’s gay. He’s not gay. He’s not straight.”

https://www.vulture.com/2015/03/sherlock-is-not-gay-not-straight-steven-moffat.html

Whilst Gatiss, on the other hand, here acknowledges a homoerotic subtext, which he prefers as subtext:

“No, I don’t think I’d make a kind of gay programme. It’s much more interesting when it’s not about a single issue.  And equally, I find flirting with the homoeroticism in Sherlock much more interesting.” 

http://content.yudu.com/Library/A1p89f/BuzzMagazineOctober2/resources/index.htm

Buzz Magazine, Oct 2010. 

In viewing their, post-Sherlock, Dracula, I think Moffat and Gatiss have taken on board some of the “queerbaiting” accusations (although don’t expect them to admit it). 

For instance, in Sherlock, the only confirmed LGBT characters on-screen are Irene Adler and her companion, and Kenny Prince and his housekeeper/ lover Raoul (there is also John Watson’s sister, whom we never meet on-screen). All the main male characters who might be queer, remain queer-coded - Moriarty, Sholto, Mycroft, Sherlock, John Watson himself. 

In Dracula, it is clear that Drac himself is a seducer of both men and women. Yes, Moffat refers to him as “bi-homicidal” not bisexual:

https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2019/12/28/bbcs-new-dracula-is-bi-homicidal-not-bisexual-yes-really/

I don’t have a problem with that. Bram Stoker’s Dracula was all about feeding not overt fucking too, but his “desires” for male victims were more sublimated - it was Mina and Lucy he most directly targetted, and his vampire “brides” at the castle were all women. What we see on-screen in Moffat and Gatiss’ version is a more overt equal opportunities gorging, on both men and women, using the tropes of sexual seduction (hands on knees, intense looks, suggestive conversation). In that sense, Moffat and Gatiss are bringing the subtext of the original much further into overt text. Their Dracula is being read as bisexual by audiences who don’t approve as well as audiences who do (i.e. it’s pretty damn visible):

https://www.gaytimes.co.uk/culture/131015/viewers-defend-dracula-being-bisexual-in-terrifying-new-bbc-series/

https://metro.co.uk/2020/01/02/calling-dracula-gay-vampire-totally-misses-point-11991772/

Alongside that, there are several LGBTQ characters, including Lord Ruthven (a nod to Polidori’s The Vampyre, 1819) whom Dracula seduces. Renfield (played by Gatiss) and Jonathan Harker, are also “enthralled” by the Count, with Agnes Van Helsing directly asking Harker whether he had “sexual intercourse” with Dracula, and Gatiss’ Renfield appearing quite besotted with the Count. 

 But the key to this version of Dracula is the relationship between the Count and Van Helsing, whom Moffat and Gatiss have re-written as a nun, Agatha Van Helsing, incorporating also some of Stoker’s original Mina into the character as well.

The three episodes, “The Rules of the Beast”, “Blood Vessel” and “The Dark Compass” are set 1) In Dracula’s castle, in the original time-period of the novel, 2) On the Demeter, the ship Dracula takes to England, in the original time-period of the novel and 3) In the present day UK.

Episode one was a hammer-horror tribute, really. Episode two was an Agatha Christie tribute (and a nice piece of fan-fiction too, as it fleshed out the novel’s account of the voyage). Episode three was, really, in many ways, a tribute to their own Sherlock. 

Their Van Helsing was brilliantly written and brilliantly acted by Dolly Wells, as a sort of Sherlock character - celibate by choice, cold, brilliant, and absolutely commanding.

I think this Dracula played with the source material quite beautifully (“bloofer lady”) and found a way to incarnate the Victorian gothic themes of sublimated carnality, purity, corruption and death into the contemporary world.

Claes Bang’s Dracula is a creature of mesmerising seduction, but he is, in fact, always seducing himself, searching for “brides” who seem not to fear death (which he personifies, in the midst of his rotting eternal life) and forever coming up short.

And Agatha Van Helsing, his counter-part, his match, is, as a nun, a woman who has sworn vows of anti-seduction (celibacy).

But she does seduce Dracula, and she does it with her mind, through her own fearlessness, because she is so open about her doubt in the reality of God and salvation, yet she is bravely ready to meet her death anyway (twice).

I loved the final tableau of Death and the Maiden, only it is the maiden who seizes hold of death, even across time, and in the end wrests the Count into the loving arms of the finite.

I think Moffat and Gatiss definitely had some fun, in terms of thematic cross-overs with their Who and Sherlock, quite apart from the evident cross-over casting (Jonathan Aris, who played Anderson in Sherlock, appears in Dracula episode 2 as the Captain of the Demeter, and Sacha Dhawan, who plays The Master in the new Doctor Who episode “Spyfall” which just aired, also appears in Dracula episode 2 as Dr. Sharma). 

The time travel element was there – Agatha “re-incarnated” in her descendant Zoe and then inhabited by her spirit (via blood transference) and so was the duelling “frenemy” dynamic of the Master vs The Doctor and Sherlock vs Moriarty, echoed again here in Dracula vs Agatha.

I suppose we could say that all three productions (in Moffat/ Gatiss’ hands) share the sentiment that real seduction happens in the mind.

Agatha, of course, drinks Dracula’s blood in episode 3, and, given much subsequent vampire lore (e.g. The Vampire Diaries) which frequently attributes healing properties to vampire blood, it is quite possible that both she and the Count survive what seems to be their final encounter in “The Dark Compass” - her blood no longer deadly to him, as his blood heals her cancer.

The “game”, as Agatha/ Zoe says, is not, in fact, in that case, “over”. 

For Sherlock fans looking for cross-over textual commentary, there was plenty, including that reference to “the game”, a favourite saying of BBC Sherlock’s - “The game is afoot!” and, of course, episode 1x03 The Great Game.

Agatha and Dracula play chess on the Demeter, in Agatha’s mind. And if you listen, as they sit down to play, a few bars of the Sherlock theme tune play:

Remember this publicity shot for S4 of BBC Sherlock?

With its perhaps give-away pieces flying at John like bullets?

The fact that Agatha and Dracula’s chess game takes place in her mind, whilst, in fact, as she later realises, she is dying (being drained of her blood by Dracula) could be read as giving credence to the theories that S4 of Sherlock, in fact takes places significantly in John’s mind, whilst he is lying in a coma after being shot. 

Dracula also refers to “the losing side”  in relation to the chess game, as being Agatha’s. And that phrase is used by Sherlock -  ”sentiment is a chemical defect found in the losing side” in A Scandal in Belgravia in his confrontation with Irene Adler, when he guesses that she has used his name as her phone password. Dracula is eventually bested by Agatha because he succumbs to sentiment - he cares about her. 

Lucy rather resembles the bride of The Abominable Bride (as she becomes the abominable “bride” of Dracula) and Agatha Van Helsing is very much in the vein of the suffragettes who outsmart Sherlock in that episode. 

Key take-away being that dreamscapes are a common feature of Moffat and Gatiss’ Sherlock and Dracula - Sherlock’s drug-dream of The Abominable Bride, John’s possible coma-dream of much of S4, and the dreams Dracula’s bite gives to Harker, Lucy and Agatha. 

Things are not (simply) what they seem. 

Dracula also talks a lot about mirrors - he avoids them because they tell him the truth about his living corpse, whereas, interestingly the mirror lies to vampire Lucy, showing her a still-beautiful and un-burned version of herself (whilst the selfie tells her the truth). Mirrors, of course, featured heavily as a narrative device in BBC Sherlock (e.g. Molly as a mirror for John).

There’s plenty more to say, but I’ll leave it there for now!  

[mayhemchicken-artblog]

ladies, gentlemen, esteemed persons of all genders...

it’s happening.

stay tuned for further announcements.

[waitedforgarridebs]

What does it mean that Jonathan used the same coat as john?

That there is no baby

[raggedyblue]

ANDERSON’S BEARD

Impossible not to be tormented by Anderson's beard. When a character changes so substantially it is difficult not to ask why. In retrospect, having an incredible confidence in the planning of the Moffitsverse, it seems that the beard is a prefiguration of the Captain Sokolov in Dracula. But it's probably just that they represent the same thing.

Anderson's character is certainly not pleasant, but he is not a villain. It is an obvious mirror of John. He works with corpses (Molyy's mirror / John's mirror), he is married but unhappy, he is less intelligent than Sherlock .... well of all the street (I don't mean that John is stupid, he is just less intelligent than Sherlock, who isin't? and in any case he's otherwise intelligent. This is also why they form a perfect couple). He lives in an apartment that according to Arwel (X) is a bad copy of 221B, just like John's apartment (and why would anyone ever live in a bad copy of 221B if it wasn't all Mind Theater ?!). He wears large oatmeal colored jumpers.

So, John's mirror. But he also has other features of interest. He was the cause of Sherlock's death (one of the apparent causes), he hated him as much as he loved and then he was the only one to believe that he was not dead and that he would return. In Dracula (I assume they are the same narrative) he is literally the captain of a ship, which governs and leads, but who is unable to bring safely to ground. So I'd say a Doyle mirror, of which John is a primary mirror anyway, and we don't say it, Doyle himself says.

But the beard? The beard appears when Sherlock is not there and John decides to get married. So beard as a cover, as a heterosexual facade. John has shaved for Sherlock Holmes now we have to wait for Anderson to do it too. And Doyle was who in first decided that a beard was necessary.

@possiblyimbiassed​ @ebaeschnbliah​ @gosherlocked​ @sarahthecoat​ @sagestreet​ @sherlockshadow​

[hikarinotaisho19]

DRACULA/SHERLOCK MIRRORING

MINA as MARY MORSTAN

JOHNATHAN H. as JOHN WATSON