#Vampire Cult Murders

[bull-shit-suji]

not to like wax poetic about the literary nuances of Black Fucking Butler but i feel i need to point out how insanely campy it is. oh okay cool the butler is throwing butter knives at people with guns and winning. we're battling undertaker's zombie army by starting a boy band (we actually got the idea from the ZOMBIES' boy band). theres a curry making competition and its so important it needs an entire volume and a continuing motif dedicated to it. the Grim Reaper Death Gods are all cornballs with gardening sheers. the contradiction. the unintended irony.

i think the manga is like. toeing the line of camp. like its silly yet takes itself so seriously but its not too silly. my immersion is not broken by the silliness. but the anime is uncharted levels of camp. what the Hell was going on with pluto. you're gonna look me in the eye and tell me the phantomhives own a fifty foot dog thing and no one has noticed. simply one hell of a deer. ice skating. theres opium in funtom candy. the queen of england is maybe a little girl. speaking of which, the city of london just burned down. yeah the whole thing. the fifty foot dog was there too.

it's so ridiculously out of left field and the fact that none of the characters seem to notice or care feels like being gaslit. camp so visceral it's causing psychic damage. i am constantly begging the narrative to break character just once and acknowledge its silliness but doing so would negate the lack of awareness that makes it camp. its dated and timeless. an absolute milestone in camp history.

[y-rhywbeth2]

Belated realisation post-novels that sacrifices to Bhaal specifically involve the blood and life force of the victim, which is not-so-metaphorically eaten. Bhaal craves blood itself, and may even demand specific 'vintages' via dream visions.

(This does nothing to dissuade me from the idea that the 'Death' Strahd originally made a deal with was Bhaal fyi).

So in other words a Bhaalist's job is going out and bringing home victims so their master can eat their blood. Most victims are carefully selected from the poor and outcast and criminals in shady high traffic areas. Normally Bhaalists are doing this of their own free will, but of course there are select others who were spawned to serve on pain of being stripped of autonomy and tortured for disobedience, so whether they serve willingly or not is irrelevant.

I personally picture Durge being slightly more like Cazador's other spawn than Astarion (specifically the better behaved/'better treated' ones), but hey, there's another layer to the things these various spawn have in common.

[chaosinthecloset]

The long distance hear me out cake

Discord crashed about 500 time

Me and my friend are deranged

[winepresswrath]

i am going to wind up on team #justiceforarmand but it's going to be so situational. justice for armand specifically during the period of time louis is all "oooh who needs labels." a very different kind of justice for armand on matters pertaining to claudia.

[hauntedrose555]

choose between tvd and ahs 😛😛

that is humanly impossible to choose between 😭, I love them both too much, they’re both my comfort shows

[personapeters]

personapeters’s masterlist ⠄⠄⠂ ⠂⠄⠄⠂☆

disclaimer: some writings uploaded contain mature 18+ contents and themes. please use caution and consume at your own risk.

short stories

⟢ tate langdon • time (18+) ▫

⟢ kyle spencer • stitches (18+) ▫ far from home (sfw) ▫

head cannons

⟢ kyle spencer • bf!kyle (sfw) — part one || part two ▫

one-shots

⟢ evan peters • facetime (sfw) ▫

⟢ kyle spencer • scholars (18+) ▫

⟢ peter maximoff • jumpscare (sfw) ▫

⟢ warren lipka • cuffed (18+) ▫

⟢ brian quinn • off the clock (sfw) ▫

song scripts (one-shots)

⟢ none yet!▫

 personapeters 2024 — all rights reserved

[adaftanddewyeyedmizz]

Ngl. If you played me in front of the coven I’d been leading for 200 years, I too would orchestrate your death in the most dramatic way possible. Armand was so real for that.

[enbysiriusblack]

i just remembered my vampire fic exists and. this is literally them rn in it:

sirius neglecting his mayor/leader duties to try to woo the man who hates him:

lily, taking control of the opportunity and starting a cult out of sirius' friendly little town:

regulus black being the only sensible one and actually following my original storyline:

and sirius failing to woo the man who hates him, so is now dancing with his best friend instead of just getting back to his mayor duties before lily turns the entire town into her cult and not just the lesbians:

[joviewinchester]

31 Nights of Halloween Prompt List 2023

You had finally found who you had been hunting for years, but they aren’t who you thought they’d be.

You’re lost in a corn maze with your enemy.

The scarecrow kept on your family’s farm had always freaked you out, but what happens when you decide to get rid of it for good?

You and your friends go to a haunted house, only to discover that everything is real, and you may not make it out alive.

“Do you like my costume?” “It’s not a costume if you actually are one!”

“You’re not one of those crazy girls who starts celebrating Halloween two months early are you?” “Yeah. I am. Hence the decor.”

“But you’re dead. I’m just going crazy.” “Do you not know how this whole All Hallows Eve thing works?”

“Can we not stay here? This place looks haunted. Personally, I don’t do ghosts. I am not a ghostbuster I am afraid of those ghosts.” “Y/N, we hunt monsters for a living.”

It’s the apocalypse and your closest friend has been bitten.

“Ha. Ha. Flickering lights. Very funny. I’ve caught on by now. You’ve been playing me all week!” “I’m not doing that.” “What do you mean you aren’t doing it?!”

“Hey I just dropped by to- Holy shit that’s a body!”

“So this doesn’t bother you?” “Hell no. I’m not an idiot of course vampires exist.”

“I mean come on. Opposites attract.” “That does not excuse sleeping with a demon! And you are far from an angel so that isn’t even valid!”

Going to a psychic and learning some shocking news.

“Woah. Hey now-“ “See? Even the ouija board ghost knows you’re delusional.”

The pain of finding out your significant other was the killer all along cannot be compared.

Dating the antichrist

Finding out you are a supernatural creature.

You woke up in the middle of the woods with no memory of the previous night.

Ghostface AU

“All right. Let’s split up.” “When has it ever been a good idea to split up? Have you even seen Scooby Doo?”

You’re a ghost, and by some crazy twist of fate, you found someone who can see you.

You live in a town that has had countless serial killers. What happens when they all return from their graves?

“Which one of you idiots stole the ancient relic off my desk?”

You find a doorway to another world. At first it seems like a dream, but now you’re not so sure. (Coraline AU)

Not letting your s/o see your costume until you arrive at their party and vice versa.

You didn’t mind being able to see and touch ghosts, until you discovered a really hot one.

You’re pregnant, but with the fast changing of your body, you realize your baby is not normal.

Being brought back from the brink of death.

Being caught in the cold rain on an autumn night with your enemy.

Taking your kid/niece/nephew/cousin etc. trick or treating.

It’s that time of year! Send in a number and what character from the following I should write about. I encourage wlw requests!

Avengers

Guardians of the Galaxy

The Vampire Diaries

Supernatural

Fear Street

Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark

My Babysitter’s a Vampire

Ghosts (U.S.)

American Horror Story any season

Scream

Stranger things

[helpimstuckinafandom]

Davina Claire is allowed to commit mass murder if she ever so desires. As a treat.

[kitsune-noah]

One of my books i have an Wattpad only.

A modern murder mystery with a fantasy twist.

[endawn]

pax’s grandmother, psylia arne, is an altmer and still alive during the oblivion crisis. after it was over, she traveled to cyrodiil from high rock to check up on him but ended up chiding him for wearing his hair in a way that obscured his pointed ears & for wasting his full magical potential. then leaves.

[asspinkie]

in all honesty the only bg3 origin i'd go near in real life is wyll. maybe karlach. the rest of them are too much even for my bisexuality

[noirandchocolate]

I can't believe it was three years ago today that I started watching American Horror Story Murder House lol. It feels like only yesterday...

My favorite parts were (spoilers):

Dick Biting Maid Ghost (she bites dicks)

the Blitzed Out of His Mind Mad Scientist Baby-Taxidermist Doctor Ghost and the Sad Murdered Nurse Ghosts delivering Ghost Baby (conceived by two alive people) and Alive Baby Who Turned Out to Be the Antichrist Several Seasons Later (conceived by an alive person and a ghost)

Jessica Lange Will Get In Your House Again (you can't stop this)

Jamie Brewer Will Also Get In Your House (why would you want to stop this)

The real-life Black Dahlia murder being fictionalized and randomly inserted into an episode for no apparent reason

Bitchy Gay Ghosts

Jessica Lange's himbo boyfriend who did nothing wrong

Everyone just resignedly burying bodies constantly

the House being treated as uniquely cursed but then there being other ghosts outside the House too, as a treat

the Bad ghosts getting put in time-out just outside the House so they could peer through the windows and pout jealously at the Ghost Family Christmas Party at the end

I just watched the first episode of “American Horror Story: Murder House” this morning because I thought I ought to watch something scary and I’d heard the of AHS series, and I want to ask, with complete sincerity:

Is it supposed to be a parody? As in, funny?

Like I had read that each AHS series is a “deconstruction” or “aggregation” of tropes used in certain subtypes of horror stories. But there was SO MUCH going on in that first episode that it was just…and I’m not saying this with any amount of smug “I’m too good for this”-ness or anything like that!…but it was so MANY tropes that I was just left wondering if I am supposed to be laughing at it. As though it’s a darker and much less blatantly kooky version of those comedy movies that explicitly make fun of tropes.

I’m probably going to keep watching it because it entertained me, but I have to say, the only thing so far that I feel even remote dread about is the dog inevitably dying horribly, and that’s less me being scared and more me just not liking to see animal death (it’s a trope and has been set up bc the husband resents the dog and the neighbors have been weird about the dog, so I’m expecting it and will be surprised if it doesn’t happen).

Is it going to get more scary (no spoilers please, just general opinions) or am I just going to keep yelling “Jesus Christ just divorce his ass” and “you are not calling the cops on this weird bitch why?” and “y’all are so stupid, MOVE OUT” while also laughing at everything?

[lesbians4armand]

he’s a vampire he has 10 million different traumas he was in a cult he was in a brothel he was forced to eat his best friend he is part of the 27 club he is 514 years old he’s from a country that doesn’t exist anymore he can never go home he doesn’t have a home he’s the most ethel cain coded character ever he puts rats in microwaves he once psychologically tortured a 20 year old then asked him if he was boring he pretended to be his own real servant to fuck with the same guy he was a renaissance muse he is autistic and plays minecraft he has an unhealthy obsession with blonde men he was a theatre director he murdered his husband’s and ex’s daughter he has three names that all begin with A he has the most unsettling bright orange doll eyes he’s muslim he’s even bisexual.

i didnt say his name but he popped into your head didn’t he?

[gallierhouse]

One of my favorite things about IWTV is its critique of the patriarchal family structure through vampirism. The maker functions as both father and husband, and the maker-fledgling relationship is analogous to a parent-child relationship (the maker makes the fledging, then nurtures them and teaches them about vampirism). This is then complicated by the fact that makers are often engaged in romantic or sexual relationships with their fledglings (Lestat and Louis, Marius and Armand). So the fledgling is permanently tied to their father-husband (or if they’re lucky, just their father). So far both makers have been abusive. Lestat is violent, controlling, possessive, and also loving, dedicated, and responsible for the welfare of his two fledglings. As cruel as he is to Louis and Claudia, he fulfills his function as a father by 1) teaching them to hunt 2) protecting them from the outside world 3) enacting punishment when they defy him. I know he fails Claudia with regards to Bruce, but he doesn’t save her because he’s punishing her for leaving (he could hear Bruce’s thoughts, so he probably knew what was happening, and chose not to go). This is the classical mold of a father. Both protecter and punisher, who has dominion over his family and is justified in expecting obedience. He is a good father. Not by modern standards, but he’s a good father according to the patriarchal idea that fathers should discipline, teach, protect, and yes, control (see: daughters first belonging to their fathers then to their husbands, child abuse being implicitly sanctioned as corporal punishment, etc.). He fulfills being a father the way he fulfills being a patriarch. It’s very traditional. Similarly, Armand functions as the patriarch of the coven, which Claudia identifies as a family. He enacts his authority through violence, and demands coven members follow a strict set of rules. When coven members step out of line, he punishes them, drags them home, demands they follow coven rules, etc. (See: Lestat’s father dragging him home from the seminary, Lestat dragging Claudia home when she tries to run away, etc.) It’s not exactly 1:1 because the coven is also a cult (and I have things to say about how the coven exists to critique not only cults but the nature of theatre troupes, which are commonly abusive and hierarchical…) but Armand does function as the patriarch and acts accordingly as an enforcer. Santiago even reminds Claudia that “tender can turn to tinder,” reminding her that as while affection within the coven (or, you know, families) exists, it’s secondary to the fundamental nature of the coven, which is hierarchical, obedience demanding, and enforced by the patriarch, who, within the rules of a coven or a traditional family, is justified in enacting violence. On top of that, it’s interesting that Claudia and Louis’ crime isn’t just killing a vampire. It’s killing their maker. When Armand abuses Claudia, he reminds her about what she did to her maker, not what she did to Lestat. Claudia and Louis have committed patricide. Bad enough to commit murder, worse to commit patricide, and flout the natural order and hierarchy of the family completely. Patricide has historically been punished much more harshly than murder for this reason. It was the only crime for which a death sentence could be given in the Roman Republic, and we all know about the myths (Oedipus, Cronus overthrew his father and then got overthrew by his son, the cycles cycle, etc.) that state that patricide is the worst possible crime.

All this is to say is that a recurring idea in IWTV is that abuse within the patriarchal family structure isn’t a bug, it’s a feature. Wives and children (Louis and Claudia) are meant to submit to fathers and husbands and father-husbands (Lestat and Armand). It’s not supposed to be an equal relationship. It’s hierarchical, and if you step out of line, you “deserve” to be punished (Louis refusing Lestat sex, Louis not allowing Lestat to cheat since wives, historically, are expected to tolerate infidelity from husbands via concubines, mistresses, maids, etc., Claudia defending herself and Louis from Lestat, Claudia daring to not want to wear a stupid blue dress, Louis not going home to Armand on time, etc.). I really like the way IWTV explores this, because not only does it cue us to see Lestat’s and Armand’s actions as abhorrent and abusive, cueing us to see it doesn’t spare Louis or Claudia from the abuse. The narrative respects Louis and Claudia, but Lestat and Armand don’t, and so even as the audience roots for Louis and Claudia, they have to recognize that they’re trapped in a cycle enabled by patriarchal structures of abuse, and the tyranny of the family.