#carmilla you know

[unreadpoppy]

I just saw someone accusing the novel Carmilla of being queerbaiting

Y´all... im gonna gatekeep this word because you people are not knowing how to use it

[allastoredeer]

Deer's shed the velvet on their antlers. Alastor is no exception.

Bonus! They also eat it and cannibal besties always share.

+Bonus: Bucks shed their velvet right before rutting season, so take from thar what you will

Follow up post ➡️HERE ⬅️

[dykestache]

new heart bong 🫀

[the-artificem]

carmilla content in 2024?? More likely than you think

[tanema123]

Just something for pride month.

Clara didn't expect that.

They might be together now, but you never know what they had in the past.

[do-you-know-this-queer-character]

Do you know this queer character?

Carmilla is a Lesbian and uses she/her pronouns!

[whotfelsewantedtobelynnyx]

Headcanon that the real reason Carmilla was so preemptively over Alastor being back in town was because between Rosie (excited), Vox (it’s complicated), and the rest of the Overlords (massive gossips. See Zestial.), he’s been the topic of pretty much every conversation in their social circle for the past month.

Alastor: I’m sure you’ve all been wondering where I’ve been.

Carmilla: No. No, I haven’t. And if I have to hear one more word about it, I am going to lose my goddamn mind.

(the three different betting pools running simultaneously were what pushed her over the edge)

[annabelle--cane]

carmilla is the most toxic girl in your queer high school friend group. you can't really blame her for it, you know she's got Issues going on, but she has zero boundaries and goes through girlfriends every three months and sometimes cries if people try to call her on her bs. dracula's That Guy on the periphery of your queer adult friend group, you hate him but your lives keep running parallel and you have a few mutual acquaintances. he claims his marriage is an open relationship but also he's really possessive and his wife never actually seems to have multiple partners, just him? your friend jonathan says he had a two month "thing" with drac a while back but he doesn't want to talk about it, and you've tried to get him blacklisted from your mutual social clubs but the group organizers say they need more than just your reports of bad vibes.

[thedreamingpiscesfangirl42]

Headcanon that Zestial is very, very, VERY attached to both cloak and top hat. Whereas on the rare occasions he will remove his cloak while at the Carmine residence, his hat is firmly attached to his head at all times. It would be a full on fight trying to get the thing off his head, and another to keep it away from him 😂 Not even Carmilla has seen his unhatted head.

[see-arcane]

With Carmilla, there is ambiguity about her feelings for Laura to play with; they have declerations of love, of death in love, of a need so deep that one girl's hatred is preferred over her indifference, fatal obsession, conflicted attraction, and actual psychosexual seduction from a serial murderous monster. In the text. And it's ripe for Somehow The Vampire Has Returned ontinuation.

In short, they deserve have way more adaptations than a 2014 queer but "safe" indie web series set in modern times and barely threatening Castlevania cameos.

I want for Carmilla and Laura what Hannibal and Will had going on for a whole box set worth of seasons. It is overgoddamndue.

[fiendishfables]

So, I found a gender-bent version of Carmilla back on Pinterest and I am going absolutely berserk

The male version of Carmilla is Camillo-

I need to make fics on this guy, so I need the opinions of the people

(I’ll probably still have Carmilla as herself in the fics sometimes- those times it’s just like she has a brother, lmao)

If you have any specific requests that are not listed for the choosing below, please suggest them in the comments of this post! Whether that be to add smut, fluff, what sort of relationship him and the reader would have, etc!

I will happily look at all suggestions, as I plan to write for both Carmilla and Camillo a lot more in the near future!

This guy honestly just LOOKS like he would be somewhere on the Asexuality Spectrum to me, so let us have this small win within the community-

JUST LOOK AT THIS BEAUTIFUL CREATURE- <3

[gothamcitycentral]

I find the parallels between Vaggie/Charlie and Carmilla/Zestial to be really neat.

Vaggie and Carmilla both leapt to the defense of Charlie and Zestial. Both bite their tongue at danger and disrespect directed towards themselves, but when who they care about is the one being threatened, they react with no hesitation or composure to defend them.

In conjunction, Charlie and Zestial are both more powerful than Vaggie and Carmilla (even if this is more strongly implied in Zestial’s case). Yet they seem so much more hesitant to act on this power. Charlie explicitly hates using her royal status or fighting people, while Zestial just endures Velvette’s insults and questioning, only making small verbal defenses of his position. Not to mention how they’re both much older than Vaggie and Carmilla. Charlie is a slow aging immortal and Zestial is the oldest living Overlord and is on the regular described as ancient.

Charlie and Zestial both see themselves as someone Vaggie and Carmilla should confide in. Charlie isn’t upset that Vaggie was Exorcist, rather that she never told her. While Zestial “implores [Carmilla] to share the load.” He’s worried about this weight she’s carrying by herself, and wants to support her. I imagine Charlie felt similarly, Vaggie has been carrying her secret in silence for years, and with Charlie dedicating her life to helping others, it must her to know someone she’s so close to has been hurting this long.

“Ain’t you supposed to protect this place?”

“I’ll keep you safe, and keep this secret.”

There’s also how their ‘protector role’ seems completely self assigned. I highly doubt Charlie ever wanted Vaggie to be her personal guard, and Zestial reacts in surprise at being included with who Carmilla is ‘keeping safe.’ If you take Zestial’s reaction (or lack their of) to Velevette, you could make the point they do this because Charlie and him are unlikely to defend themselves (or at the very least hesitate to do so). Which I think speaks to the intrinsic sense of duty Vaggie and Carmilla have.

[allastoredeer]

I love how Rosie is 100% encouraging Alastor's spite lol. And Alastor just being like "well I distinctly remember requesting to be EXEMPT from this meeting, but SOMEONE denied it. "

Rosie is Alastor's enabler.

Alastor is Rosie's enabler.

It's actually bad that Alastor came back, because now they're going to get nothing done at these meetings. They're bad influences on each other.

And Alastor isn't letting Carmilla off the hook for denying his exempt. He's shedding his velvet. That's a very private thing :C

[lunagames]

I'm of the opinion that Zestial and Carmilla had and have wildly different opinions on Alastor, though Zestial's opinion probably didn't shift all too much overtime.

Now Carmilla is just a bit annoyed at the drama queen that is Alastor, but I do believe that she was concerned at the beginning of his appearance. Like dude just took out half her meeting room of overlords in a matter of weeks, that ain't fitting into her statistics. She likes control, she likes knowing what will happen and planning for it.

So, she probably met with Zestial to discuss this in a 'is this a normal problem or something we need to do something about'-way only to be met with a 'funniest thing to have happened in three centuries' banner.

[rahabs]

Anyway, I am quite wrecked over the fact that, during "Whatever it Takes", Carmilla looks very deliberately at Zestial when she says "I'll keep you safe." Like, until then it's been clear she's addressing her daughters, she looks at them as she sings, she holds them, but at that particular moment she looks up almost beseechingly and it is so interesting to me that the implication is that that particular "I'll keep you safe" was addressed to Zestial himself, and judging by the deliberate way they animated him to react, it was meant to be taken that way.

[mentha-vacciniumrainbow]

This is my latesr Zestmilla fanfiction! Enjoy!