#can vampires . eat

[island-in-the-shadows]

When you really think about it, Daniel Molloy being a vampire is objectively terrifying. This is a guy who, as a mortal:

- Followed a stranger to a second location in peak serial killer era California.

- Was down to fuck in a coffin.

- Was down for fangs in his neck.

- Consistently interviewed dangerous or powerful people and was antagonistic to them.

- Literally never stopped when on the hunt for a story to the point it destroyed his personal life.

- Got on a plane in the middle of a pandemic with a degenerative disease because the guy he barely remembers following to some place on Divisadero, who he knows is an immortal killing machine, is offering Daniel his story and this also means Daniel could get some clarity on his fucked up memory.

- Has a big fucking mouth. He will just say fucking anything regardless of it being inappropriate.

- Has a fantastic bullshit radar.

- Beat a professional gaslighter at 3D chess.

...and then said powerful 514yo gaslighter gives this man litres of his, essentially, untouched blood and makes him his fledgling? Like...INSANE.

Daniel is, no doubt, EXTREMELY powerful and with a personality type that will probably make him a good vampire. Absolutely terrifying...and hot. God I hope he's still "sun challenged."

[naoa-ao3]

Sometimes I think about how the first thing Spike did with the Buffybot was indulge in a role play where she almost staked him and then immediately went down on her. The man is just incredible.

[danlous]

You're going to break it off with him, aren't you? Well, it had to happen. Doomed, always doomed.

[marypsue]

Man, it's cool and all if you see a metaphor for marginalisation in the monstrous, and if you want the power fantasy of 'what if you could just eat anybody who threatened you/pissed you off'. Me too.

However, as soon as you start saying 'no, these monsters are a 1:1 on Specific Marginalised Group, and you have to treat them in the fiction like they are directly representative of real human members of the marginalised group', BUT you also, in the fiction, make them hurt/kill/eat humans? And then try to shame me, your audience, for noticing or engaging with the bit where they kill people, because you made them directly representative of a real-world marginalised group? You have lost me, and also, I think, the plot.

[four-unwell-lesbians]

Thinking about the way dungeon meshi does queer horror. Using horror to tell queer stories is already subversive, but dungeon meshi subverts it even more

Normal queer horror is like. A monsterous desire and immortal love of something isolated/hated and the uncontrollable but suppressed need to consume someone to live and they only die if you break/pierce their heart. its great.

In dungeon meshi, the group is STARVING. they do things the way they're expected to and they're so deprived that eventually, one of them is consumed by that monsterous desire.

Then when Falin becomes a monster, she doesn't eat Marcille because she doesn't NEED to, Marcille already offered herself up as part of Falin by mixing her own blood with the dragon's for the resurrection.

Also Marcille is a monster too!! She doesn't need to be turned by Falin. She's a 'witch' doing black magic for one but she's also very vampiric

Her name is super vampirey especially given one of the translation spellings was Marcilla, an annogram of Carmilla*. And Marcille is very similar to Marceline from Adventure Time so it's a name with heavy connotations to me. Also her staff is Ambrosia which means immortal.

*ps Carmilla is the original modern vampire that inspired Dracula and also a lesbian. she used annagrams of her name (Marcilla, Mircalla, Millarca) to disguise herself across hundreds of years.

Marcille is like. a vampire in that death is a big part of her theme. She can breathe that immortality into someone else using her resurrection black magic and death is a huge part of her character. She wants them to live as long as she does. To make them immortal. Like. Like a vampire. Vampires which are unholy when her love interest is a cleric.

But once again this is subverted!! she doesn't 'turn' Falin, she makes her undead by giving her own blood instead of taking Falin's. Falin becomes a monster not because she's attacked or turned, but because her DNA, something INHERENT about her is now intertwined with the monster. so a god-like figure merges them. Then the only way to free her from that frenzy and grant her autonomy again is to finally consume her. something inherently lesbian about all that i think idk about you

[rottengurlz]

"my jugular misses your teeth." 🩸

a collab with @kashisun 🔪

[krazieka2]

Vampire Mercedes lore doodles (and vampire Lorenz bullying)

[eric-the-bmo]

Going from Vampire the Masquerade to literally any other World of Darkness game is insane because you'll realize your character for this next game can go out in the sun and eat food and do normal human activities and you get really happy and excited about it

[iizuumi]

slides in 2 hours past midnight happy halloween friends!! <3

[creative-clawmarks]

Do you think after Alex killed Jay and Jay was officially just a corpse that Alex ate him. One last taste of his favorite, one last mourning meal and reverence to someone who gave and gave and gave to him until there was nothing left.

Oh, absolutely. He tore that body apart so badly that the Operator had barely anything left to take to the Ark. If Alex had had tupperware on hand he would've taken some of Jay home, he was extremely unwell about this specific guy in the way that only vampires can be.

[annabelle--cane]

just made what should probably have been an obvious connection between my current vampire enjoying and the fact that I spent most of my teens food insecure and malnourished. hmmm I wonder if my obsession with monstrous all-consuming unsatable hunger could perhaps be coming from somewhere...

[maybebitterxox]

The pitch for Buffy The Vampire Slayer was probably just “What if there was a girl who could kill vampires. And she can Never Catch A Fucking Break”

[fiendishartist2]

the archives is full of gay ppl; therefor halloween is celebrated

[nightcolorz]

clipped my favorite part of the iwtv trailer: Armand chanting lestatlestatlestatlestatlestat frantically as he paces around followed by a hard cut to Lestat furiously chewing and swallowing a piece of paper

[hanzajesthanza]

(Adam Dudaczyk) The fact that vampires drink blood to get that *meaningful hand-neck gesture* - you made that up? (Andrzej Sapkowski) Yes, I didn't model myself on anyone here, I don't know anyone who wrote before me about the fact that vampires drink blood not to satisfy their hunger, but to satisfy their thirst for… entertainment. Texts: the guys sent me to get blood, I was flying drunk… The fun was great.

as i reread this i couldn't stop thinking of this meme

[draculabrides]

Lucy, the Brides and Technology

LUCY: "See you hit this button and, ta-da, cute cat filter"

BRIDE 1: "And humans in this era find this interesting?"

BRIDE 2: "Hmm It is strangely compelling, like master's hypnosis but with less mind control required"

BRIDE 3: 'Does this device help with hunting for our eternal nightly nourishment?"

LUCY: "Oh yeah way ahead of you, here's a thing called "Take out" where people deliver to your residence. You'll love it!"

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An art trade I did with @cupcakeshakesnake a few years back. Wanted one of Lucy, after her turning and joining Dracula, showing the brides technology. Hey they're been couped up in castles and coffins for the most part, gotta get them up to speed on the modern day if they're gonna continue spreading vampirisim =P.

Enjoy!