#carmilla (1872)

[corvidcrowned]

Ok but what if she’s into it huh…..

[mimimar]

carmilla and laura

(art prints)

[decaysings]

mircalla millarca carmilla

[ID: black and white digital fanart of carmilla from the novel by sheridan le fanu. wearing an 1860s style nightgown with her wavy hair loose, she stares steadily at the viewer. her eyes are red and her face, the front of her gown, and hands are all stained with blood. end ID]

[frogoru]

1800s toxic vampire yuri goes crazy

[elainiisms]

vampire yuri ily

[dyingnome]

Karnstein Ruins - concept art for a project based on Carmilla by Sheridan Le Fanu

[cathyartie]

Toxic Yuri my beloved

[brotherdusk]

the people who got violently angry at everyone in dracula for not realising they were in a horror story until it was too late would die if they read carmilla I think

[mswyrr]

I like toxic yuri. I do not like the Sapphic Overton window and how it's it's moved so far in the direction of unrealistic levels of purity that two women must act like inhuman saints and never have any conflict to be considered "healthy." And pretty normal women in love having realistic conflict for the plot they're in gets labeled "toxic yuri."

Malini and Priya from the Burning Kingdoms books are not toxic yuri, their feelings for each other and how they relate are pretty damn healthy, they're just trapped in impossible circumstances. Ditto Siuan and Moiraine from Wheel of Time. There's a difference between inherent toxicity and a dramatic plot pushing people to the breaking point.

Now, Lucille the repressed bisexual from Crimson Peak who is a serial killer and slowly poisoning Edith to death even as she desires her? Or Carmilla in the original 1872 story Carmilla who believes her love for other girls can only be death and so she's slowly killing the girl she loves to draw out their time together while slaying other women quickly to satiate her bloodlust? *That's* toxic yuri. There's something at the very core of their dynamic that is toxic. Not two women who are pretty sweet together forced into a mind-breakingly impossible situation and having conflict over it. I am into that shit - and I am into realistic writing and high stakes situations pushing people to the breaking point - and there's a very important distinction there.

[twisted-little-fuckermeh]

Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu's Carmilla 1872

[corvidcrowned]

Read carmilla recently<3

[alunaeterna]

I know Carmilla is a horror book and all, but the fact that Laura told her governesses something like, "Don't tell Carmilla about the paranormal stuff going on because she'll be scared shitless" will always be hilarious to me.

[decaysings]

drawtober prompt 1 - vampire

“you must come with me, loving me, to death; or else hate me and still come with me, and hating me through death and after.”

[ID: black-and-white digital fanart of carmilla and laura from the novel by sheridan le fanu. both women wear 1860s style evening dresses, and laura also wears a pair of lace gloves. she is looking off to the side with an anguished expression, guided along in a dance as carmilla stands behind her, smiling. red blood drips from the bite on her neck, matching the red of carmilla’s eyes. end ID]

[frogoru]

i tried to redraw one of the illustrations from the story

[its-dark-its-une]

My life changed the day I found that an alternative anagram for "Mircalla" is calm liar. That... has been my Roman Empire ever since.

[dyingnome]

A few more Carmilla sketches