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beevean · 2 years ago

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...so wanna rant about Netflix Isaac for a few minutes ? :P

My calm and collected reaction when I read this ask.

I was just debating on how to write about Isaac and N!Isaac (or Abraham, as I prefer to call him). Unlike Hector and N!Hector (Caesar), where I could prove that the latter could have been like the former if not for terrible writing… I simply do not like Abraham. At all. The more I think about him, the more resentful I feel, which I know it’s not fair because 99% of my resentment comes from people shitting on Isaac to prop the guy. I honestly simply wanted to explain why Isaac is deeper than people give him credit for, and leave Abraham aside, since, as we all know, the dude has nearly nothing in common with his canon counterpart.

… but if you ask so nicely :)

So alright. I will primarily talk about my man Isaac, because I love him and he deserves more love; by doing so, I’ll also explain why there was zero need to turn Abraham into Diet Hector :)

Since this first part mainly focuses on the prequels, as a counterpart to Season 2, it’s better to start with the biggest misconception about Isaac, and what almost certainly lead to Abraham becoming what he became: his personality.

To give a summary of Isaac as most fans know him, he’s extremely flamboyant, theatrical, cruel, consumed by hatred, but also intelligent, strong and determined. He doesn’t appear much, but he steals the scene every time he does. He acts in theory as the rival, much like his predecessors Hugh and Maxim, but he’s far more antagonistic than either of them: he’s not a friend to be saved, he’s an enemy to be punished for his crimes. However, much like the other rivals, he’s strictly connected to the protagonist, and the story treats him as a victim in its more important moments.

Kou Sasakura, who was a hired writer, kept herself fairly close to the game: you can tell not only from the accurate Innocent Devils she drew, but because, well, there’s not much difference between her Isaac and the game one. He’s already dressed in his magnificent CoD outfit, he’s pretty much a dick to everyone who isn’t Dracula, he talks about troops of people dying with glee and boasts about embracing the “laws of heresy”: clearly, he has never been particularly sane to begin with. He’s an entertaining asshole, as he should be. That’s not to say he’s completely flat, though: there’s still plenty to say about this version.

Instead it’s Ayami Kojima, who worked directly on the characters (and clearly preferred Isaac), who wrote a mini-arc to actually show what the Curse did to him. And therefore, he starts off quite unlike one would expect. These posts explain how, in Kojima’s interpretation, a non-Cursed Isaac is an honorable warrior who respects Hector even in battle, cares about a fair fight, is just as compassionate towards his Innocent Devils as Hector is, and is even sensitive to his Lord’s plight. He also uses an elegant sword, rather than his iconic and brutal Chauve-Souris. This paints him as an even more tragic character, and gives weight to Julia’s words when she says that “[her] brother is in the venomous grip of the Curse”.

… but of course who even read Prelude to Revenge :^) certainly not our man Ellis :^)

Abraham has none of this. At the start of the series, he’s not charming, nor he has hidden depths. What you see is what you get: a stonefaced, serious, no-nonsense, contemplative man who hates humankind and trusts Dracula without question and beyond reason, the latter being literally the one thing that connects him to the name Isaac. He self-flagellates, which I can only assume it’s meant to reference Isaac’s BDSM aesthetic – Abraham even changes reasons for doing so between Season 2 (a self-focusing discipline, implied to be a result of the abuse he went through) and 3 (a religious practice), before dropping it completely.

On his own, he’s… fine, I just think he’s pretty dull because he has no quirks or anything that makes him stand out, but he didn’t irritate me as Alucard did. I enjoyed his utter trust in Dracula, which makes him far less approachable compared to the manipulable Caesar: notably, poor Godbrand didn’t even finish airing his grievances to him before getting swiftly killed, and never mentioned again. This establishes Abraham as being strong, efficient, fanatical, and even concerned for his Master’s mental wellbeing – no point in telling him what happened, right?

As someone who is presented as being Isaac, he irritates me: he feels scrubbed down, neutered, because Ellis or whoever was responsible for the personality change clearly thought there was nothing salvageable about Isaac, and removed everything that made him iconic save for the simpness. Well, they were wrong.

Isaac doesn’t get a childhood flashback like Hector, but we see the day he found Dracula’s castle, which tells us already his priorities. His past doesn’t really matter: his devotion to his Lord does. His blind loyalty is his defining characteristic.

Look at this little baby, so happy to have finally found a place that can welcome him and his little sister <3 he has no idea what fate has in store for him <3

But yes, Isaac’s very young age in this scene tells us a lot without actually showing us what he went through. Whatever happened to him broke him far more than Hector’s own traumatic childhood: poor kid can’t be older than thirteen, and he’s already bragging that he has turned his back against God.

In CoD, Julia says that she escaped from the witch hunts in Western Europe. We don’t know if she meant in adulthood or childhood. If the latter, then Isaac was probably involved as well.

We also see that he still cares about Julia, and he wants her to come with him. Sadly we don’t know what happened to her afterwards – if we go by their canonical ages, she’d be a very young child here – but she’ll be important later. Presumably, Dracula didn’t want to take in such a young, inexperienced witch, while Isaac’s more cursed powers could already be honed.

The other half of his flashback chapter in the MF manga sets up other important factors:

Isaac is learning to Forge Devils, but he has trouble with stabilizing them: Isaac is talented, but just not enough, and it’s not a surprise that being “stable” is what gives him the most trouble (we can infer Hector never had an issue with that, as he’s more levelheaded than his companion);

The Succubus taunted Isaac that he’d be surpassed by a new boy: this establishes his inferiority complex, and while this never comes fully into play in the same way it does for other rivals, the implication is that he always saw Hector as an adversary, and it bred even more animosity in his easily corruptible heart;

isaac is the gayest man in wallachia seriously have you seen how he looks at hector

So this is Isaac. What about Abraham?

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Since Isaac’s childhood is far less defined, Abraham had to get his own unique tragic past. Admittedly, not much to point out here: he used to be the slave of a priest who abused him (because CHURCH BAD), but nonetheless Abraham fell in love with his master, and when he confessed, he got punished for it. After killing him, Abraham spent his life on the run, hunted by other people who wanted to kill him and worse, until Dracula personally rescued him. I like how this, much like the MF flashback, paints Abraham as someone who has the tendency to cling to his masters no matter what; and while I prefer the idea of Hector and Isaac knocking on Dracula’s door, I don’t mind the man himself actually helping Abraham. Indeed, Dracula treating him like an outright friend ensures that Abraham will be 100% devoted to him. (if only Dracula’s good relationship with Abraham didn’t come at the cost of the two of them shitting on Caesar…)

Speaking of Caesar! You can’t talk about Isaac without mentioning his crush relationship with Hector! And how it was turned in NFCV :)

Sadly, both mangas give us meager crumbs of what the two thought of each other before Hector’s betrayal, and they diverge quite a bit.

Not much to say about what very little is shown by the PtR manga: Isaac comes off as friendly… or as friendly as he can be:

That power... Perhaps you can become even scarier and crueler than me…

The two even have something resembling a heart-to-heart conversation: Isaac more or less attempts to calm down Hector when he’s in the middle of a morality crisis, although by downplaying his grievances. If the two were friends, they weren’t close ones, or maybe their different moralities were already driving a wedge between them.

The MF manga emphasizes the resentment Isaac felt for Hector, “from the moment [they] first met”:

When he has the confirmation that Hector is alive and has hidden himself on holy grounds, Isaac is ecstatic to face him, so much that he kills his own underlings to go against Dracula’s express order to bring Hector back to him. He is that determined to not only prove his strength to his Lord, but most importantly to kill the traitor with his own hands.

Of course, things may not be as clear-cut as he pretends to be :) He even tried to spare Hector, allegedly in the name of their Lord, but who knows :)

Yeah, who knows.

And CoD itself, while sadly barely touches on Hector and Isaac’s former relationship, gives us another little gem:

I know that Julia has some kind of divination powers, but this doesn't seem like the kind of information she could garner from them. He told her, didn't he?

I was, as you can imagine, immensely disappointed that Abraham and Caesar’s relationship is barely on the level of “coworkers reluctantly forced to share a building”. Abraham’s lack of respect for Caesar is not endearing at all: he treats him with condescension, he insults him behind his back (and to Dracula’s face, who seems to agree with him, and yet again I must ask why did he choose someone he thinks he’s a complete idiot as a General), but he still has time to make a joke about kissing him which at this point comes off as even inappropriate. Caesar, on his part, seems to ignore his existence until Carmilla reminds him of the fact. Not only this complete lack of chemistry is utterly boring, and doesn’t take advantage of the potential differences between the two characters, but it becomes a characterization issue later on.

This all culminates in the fateful moment when Hector and Isaac fight right outside the Castle, freedom and loyalty clashing! And its NFCV equivalent, which has Caesar being dragged against his will into Carmilla’s assault of the castle, and Abraham being yeeted away by Dracula. Yeah, the two don’t fight at all. Because why have a compelling relationship in this show when you can rely on snarky one-liners.

The exact events of the fight differ between the two versions, but they hardly matter in the long run. What matter is that the two fought to the death, Hector emerged superior, and Isaac discovered to his immense horror that, without him and Hector guarding the castle, Trevor Belmont and the others managed to slay Dracula.

Both versions are heartwrenching.

Not only the Curse that Dracula cast upon his death already reached his Generals, but Isaac had a full mental breakdown. You can tell he’s blaming himself for not protecting his Lord, and laments that he has to live without him – Lord Dracula was everything to him, and now that he has failed him to this degree, what else has he to live for?

Why, Hector himself. He can blame him. He was the one who ran away, he was the reason Dracula had to send Isaac in his pursuit. Sure, the Belmont is the one who physically dealt the killing blow, but maybe, if Hector remained loyal, the two could have defeated him together. Even in CoD, Isaac doesn’t direct his fury at Trevor (in fact, in the Japanese version, he even compliments him), because Isaac’s main concern isn’t not him: it’s his former friend who turned his back on him and their Lord.

And what can I even say about this masterpiece from PtR?

I won't let you say that your rebellion has nothing to do with this! Had you cut off my head as well, I would not have seen this… Hector!

Isaac crawled back in shame using his broken sword as a cane, fully expecting to be punished by Dracula for once again proving how inferior he was to Hector. He did not expect to come back to this.

Not only Hector deliberately left Isaac alive, which comes off as a humiliation (interesting contraposition to the MF version, where it’s Isaac who grants Hector mercy in the name of Dracula – they will both regret their decision)… these pages really convey just how much Hector’s defection has taken away from Isaac. In one fell swoop, he has lost his beloved Lord, the only place he could call home, the closest thing he had to a friend, and the work of his lifetime. Is it any wonder that even in this version, he seems to regret that he has to live? Is it any wonder that he’d be fueled for three years with pure hatred for Hector?

In short, Isaac has every single understandable reason in the world for wanting Hector dead.

What’s Abraham’s reason?

First of all, Abraham is, technically speaking, also partially responsible for the fall of Dracula’s castle. While Isaac lost everything through no fault of his own (yes, he killed his underlings in the MF manga and that’s fucked up, but that did not influence the chain of events at all), Abraham was also roped by Caesar into asking Dracula to move the castle under Carmilla’s request. His first reason for agreeing was even “it will stop her from making mischief”, which is a nice way to say “Iook I just want her to shut the fuck up”. Agreeable, surely, but I feel less sorry for him.

But that’s not the issue. The issue is that the Hector vs. Isaac fight simply did not happen, because Caesar did not flee on his own (because he was prevented from having agency), so Abraham was sent away by Dracula when the assault started, out of concern for his soul (or because Dracula wanted to die in peace), and Abraham only knew that Trevor, Sypha, Alucard and the Styrian forces were attacking, not that Caesar was involved.

Thematically, I like that Abraham chose to die for Dracula, but Dracula denied him the choice. He’s a tool, and he’s not even allowed to die on his own terms – much like Isaac, who was forced to live. But I’m still not satisfied.

So, Abraham gave zero shits about Caesar, knew that Carmilla was bad news from the start (but still agreed to her idea), didn’t actually see how the battle ended, actually saw Trevor and the others storm in with his own eyes, and didn’t know that Caesar “betrayed” Dracula.

Why in the fuck is he so pissed at Caesar? What weight does his revenge plan have?

This is what happens when you shoehorn a plot point you read on the wiki without understanding the context. Abraham by all means should either blame himself, or blame Carmilla exclusively. His animosity makes far less sense, and I don’t feel as sorry for him.

On top of this, his loss doesn’t feel as severe. Yes, he was separated from his Lord/friend and the castle, but he still had his immense power (even his Forging knife; he didn’t even have to, for example, find himself another weapon while living vulnerable in the meantime), and he actually has lived in the desert before, meaning he knows how to move and what to do. He also is not afraid of travelling among humans, while Isaac couldn’t let himself be seen even if he wanted to (he looks very visibly “wrong” for the average Middle Age person, and that’s not including the possibility that he was known in Wallachia). He did not lose his entire life: there is simply a big obstacle in his way.

Before I move on, two interesting scenes to compare are the different versions of the Hector vs. Isaac fight, mostly for what the latter says.

In the PtR manga, Isaac seems to be genuinely resentful of how humankind treated him:

Were we known in the human world, we would be chased away with stones… A place where we can exist… a place to cling to… Where was it?!

This is fairly in line with what you would expect from him: humans hated him, so he hates human in return, and this is why he’s outraged that Hector would even dare to turn his back to their Lord.

But the MF version has a slightly different flavor:

I pointed out different times that Isaac seems to put more focus on how humans did not respect Dracula enough than how they were cruel towards Hector and him. And indeed, Isaac rarely if ever expresses outright misanthropic views, in the same way Dracula does. This is a more interesting approach, in my opinion: Isaac genuinely doesn’t care about mankind, he’s not motivated by spite against them, he’s only motivated by the love and gratitude he feels for the first creature who showed him respect. And if said creature orders him to slaughter humans, oh well.

I have already talked extensively about Isaac’s “tool” mentality, so I won’t repeat myself. Long story short, Isaac nearly dehumanizing himself and refusing to have his own agency outside of Lord Dracula acts as a contrast to Hector, whose main goal is to gain agency over his own life.

Needless to say, Abraham gets this only halfway through. Yes, he also starts the series believing to be Dracula’s tool. Unlike Isaac, though, he spends two season unable to shut up about how much he despises mankind and considers them the root of all evil and believes that by exterminating mankind the world will be full of love. His dialogue gets incredibly repetitive in no time flat. Abraham is not endearing: he's pretentious.

So I suppose it’s time to jump to the three years between CV3 and CoD/Season 3.

In short, my man Isaac is not coping well with the divorce :’D

This post by @the-crow-binary is a great breakdown of Isaac’s mental state in the MF manga. The Curse has taken a hold of him already, and he’s ranting, obsessed, shaking in fear and rage: an absolute mess.

Still better than how we find him in PtR:

Mmh… So you can make that kind of face… I've gotten a lot better too... How many times has the moon waxed and waned, I wonder? That’s a nice expression… I'm happy. Good pain is proof of life. I won't grant you the peace of death so easily: live, spit blood, and then…

Lord Dracula is with us!

As I have pointed out, in this version, Isaac rotted the entire time completely alone in the ruins of his old home, easy prey for the Curse. He had nowhere else to go, and apparently he didn’t consider to find his sister again. Anyone would have gone mad, even without Dracula's help.

(side note, I love love love how this manga justifies Isaac's iconic outfit by showing that Hector ruined it first, and then Isaac let it fall off his body, no longer in the conditions to care:

Hector broke Isaac's outfit. Hector broke Isaac's mind and heart. It's so interesting how Hector truly is the villain in Isaac's story <3)

And speaking of broken heart! I'd be remiss if I didn't mention this small detail of Isaac writing Hector's name on the sole of his boot. Whether you interpret it as a hex or him expressing twisted romantic feelings, one thing's for certain: Hector is at the forefront of Isaac's thoughts. I cannot stress enough how personal Isaac's revenge is, much like Hector's own revenge quest will be.

This is how we feel the weight of his devious plan to get revenge on the man who took everything away from him, by taking his hard-earned happiness away as well.

So how’s Abraham doing?

This is the part of the show where he turns from secondary antagonist to full protagonist and darling of the narrative.

Season 3 is where Abraham supposedly starts his super compelling character arc, moving away from being Dracula’s tool and giving himself a new purpose. Allegedly, his ingrained misanthropy gets constantly challenged by actually experiencing human kindness, although sadly the lessons don’t quite stick. On paper, this sounds very intriguing, not unlike Hector learning what love is thanks to Rosaly (hint hint). However, I find the execution laughable at best, and irritating at worst.

This is what Abraham does in this season. He decides that he wants a big army, which means killing humans. He travels. He meets a kind shopkeeper that gifts him a mirror that tells him where to go next. He’s stopped by guards because he has an army of demons: Abraham is sad that they’re not as kind as the previous person and kills them. He travels. He boards a ship with an intriguing captain, who manages to tell him that committing human genocide would deprive the world of happiness. He’s stopped by guards because he has an army of demons: Abraham is sad that they’re not as kind as the previous person and kills them. He travels. He talks with a philosopher demon who tells him that CHURCH BAD. He meets a woman that tells him where to go next. He kills a bunch of people and kills a magician.

This is… not really an arc. Abraham allegedly takes one step forward, and then immediately one step back. He doesn’t get better nor worse. He just talks a lot in the meantime pretending to be deep.

Now, I do like the scenes with the shopkeeper and the captain, those two are well written; I also like Miranda as a look on what Abraham could become if he gets consumed by despair, ironically acting as the Isaac to Abraham’s Hector (hint hint). But this scene, one of the most popular ones for Abraham, pisses me off.

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Abraham wants to travel with a giant army of demons in tow. The guards insist that he must turn back because, well, giant army of demons. This is literally the second time in a row that this happens, hence the famous “is this the definition of insanity?” quote. Oh, but not because Abraham is stupid in expecting that humans would move out for him, but because poor thing, he really had hopes that humans could be good, but no, they keep hurting him! By doing their job! Oh no, they are slightly aggressive to the dark wizard who can control demons, how awful of them!

Sure, Abraham is correct in saying that he literally can’t turn back because he’s at the harbor, and yes the guards had no chance against Abraham, but the way this scene is framed, we’re supposed to feel sorry that poor little Abraham got confirmation that all humans are stupid and evil after all, and really, is it any wonder that he snapped and killed them all?

This is what Isaac would do. Slaughtering a bunch of humans because they were “fucking rude” to him? It’s just as cartoonishly evil as Abraham fans accuse Isaac of being. Except that in his case, it would be clear that he’s batshit insane, and not in the philosophical way Abraham pretends to be.

Abraham ends Season 3 in the same place where he started, and I have no idea how he managed to become this popular.

Most insultingly, Abraham isn’t allowed to lose. Abraham isn’t allowed to be set back. In the season where every character suffers, is traumatized, or loses something (Caesar and Alucard being by far the worst victims), Abraham ends the season happily killing brainwashed people to then kill a generic magician to get to a magic mirror that would lead him directly to his destination, along with the army of demons that he created by killing people, after a lady he happened to meet told him about the existence of said mirror.

People in NFCV can smell magic? Well, I can smell favoritism.

But okay, he’s still a bad guy, right? I’m not meant to sympathize with him, right? I’m just in for the ride because he’s “cool”, right?

Enter CoD/Season 4.

You, who gave up your powers and became the lowest of the low, nothing but mere scum.

Sadly, CoD has a severe dearth of Isaac appearances, after the iconic first cutscene. He is as I described him in the beginning: an utter bastard. However, I appreciate his overall plan that sets up the whole plot.

There is a lot of speculation and holes-filling to do here (I suspect he had Death’s help, at least when it came to the Infinite Corridor part of the plan, but we have no proof), but the point is, he has all the means to inflict a most terrible punishment on Hector, by taking advantage of the Curse that he’s spreading and that consumed him, and also by taking advantage of Hector himself. The two knew each other well: Isaac knew that Hector would be unstoppable in his quest for revenge, to the point that he felt confident enough to spell out his plan, which is to guide Hector so that he can regain his cursed powers (even drawing schemes to explain how to Forge, which is hilarious when you think about it). What would Hector do anyway, give up? That’s not like him. Isaac knows this. The only part he omits is that he needs those immense powers not just to make their fateful match worth it, but to break the seal that prevents the castle from resurrecting. A very clever spin on the classic “get stronger so that our fight will be worth it” plan.

(contrast this well-thought out plan with Abraham getting everything he wants on a silver platter.)

We also get a cute moment where he retreats at the sight of Julia, almost as if he was afraid of hurting her, implying that he can feel more than smugness and rage.

Sadly, the end of his story is not a happy one. By the time he faces Hector like he wanted, his former friend is absolutely livid that he had been played like a fiddle… and more important, he regained all of his strength. Which was more than Isaac’s. Oops, that part wasn’t very well thought-out. But it’s not Hector who kills him: he saves himself from the Curse taking complete hold of him just in the nick of time. No, it’s Death, who decides to use the “other one” (even making fun of him in the process) to resurrect Dracula. Either the ritual or Hector slashing his possessed body to pieces puts an end to Isaac’s madness. Despite Julia’s best wishes, Isaac never rose from the darkness that consumed him. He constantly chose loyalty to Dracula and hatred, and that doomed him. Furthermore, his own name acted as an omen: much like the Biblical Isaac, he was set to be sacrificed in the name of the closest thing to a God he worshipped.

As for Abraham… at this point in his arc, it’s pointless to compare him to Isaac, because he has officially turned into Hector. By reversing Isaac’s downfall, the writers accidentally recreated Hector’s character arc of finding agency for himself, killing the person responsible for his pain (well, he wants to, but Carmilla in true #girlboss fashion peaces out on her own terms), and then moving on from Dracula, accepting to live in full. It’s. It’s Hector. Except worse.

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What else can I say? Abraham got his revelation off screen, during a time-skip: now he wants to create, to do good in the world like when he killed the evil magician. He sets out to invade Styria to kill Caesar, but then changes his mind at the last second, and even tells him to not go with his plan of resurrecting Dracula. No internal struggle, just a ton of words. No mention of all the people he has gleefully killed for petty reasons. No remorse at all. Not an obstacle he had to overcome. Not even an ounce of self-loathing that at least made Hector more sympathetic. Abraham fails at being a good reinterpretation of Isaac, and fails at being an interesting anti-hero with a solid journey.

To be clear, I'm not saying he should have died like Isaac. Again, at this point I accept that he became Hector. But his happiness simply doesn't feel earned. He got what he wanted after a fairly small loss (Dracula died, sure, but he never got confirmation for that), and he had his character development offscreen. His narrative is a rushed version of what Hector was allowed to be through two mangas and a game, and yet he's the one hailed as the best character of all time.

Just to cap it off, I can’t help but complain about how dull and forgettable Abraham’s design is. He’s literally just a man who walked into the set and stole Isaac’s full Devil Forgemaster outfit. There is no reason for him to be associated with red (his magic), since the Red Oni Blue Oni dynamic with Caesar has been lost. His tattoos do not convey anything, and we rarely see them in full anyway. Also why does he have a different crest on his back???? IT'S A UNIFORM! It drives me mad! At least try to understand the source material for fuck's sake!

Isaac is iconic. He’s immediately recognizable in the Castlevania cast, but still fitting in thanks to key elements. He doesn’t look fully human, with his bright red hair and yellowish eyes: he doesn’t have the typical Kojima pretty face, but he has more distinguishable features such as a big nose: the tattoos tell a whole story about him and it’s fun to imagine what they symbolize – high pain tolerance? A desire to defile his own body to spite God? Some arcane symbol, the result of a ritual? And then there’s the Devil Forgemaster crest forever embedded in his back, representing his full devotion and the fate he could not escape from. He truly looks like everything Hector isn't.

This post got long. And again, I didn't even care to talk about Abraham, because I don't like him one bit and because I love Isaac independently from this overhyped character. But hey, you asked, and I ranted with great pleasure :P

also have this absolute banger

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does abraham have a sick ass theme? yeah didn't think so

#castlevania #curse of darkness #isaac laforeze #anti netflixvania #long post #like really long #like really fucking long #oh my god it took me a whole ass day #and i had to watch nfcv clips for this it did not calm me down at all #at least i got to explain why i love isaac so much in a convenient masterpost

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gryptids · 1 year ago

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“Nine People you want to know better” tag game

I was tagged by @demekii!! Thank u for thinkin of meeee <3

Last Song: Ike's Rap II by Isaac Hayes. On the album it is attached to another song, but I've just been listening to this part :>

Favorite Color: SO HARD TO PICK... probably cool green, but blue & pink are my honorable mentions.

Last Movie/TV Show: I don't really watch much TV 2 be honest!!! I much prefer nonfiction media, most of my fiction I consume thru books rather than TV/movies. That being said, I do plan on tuning in to the new season of True Detective on HBO 👁👁

Sweet/Spicy/Savory: Tie between sweet and savory!!! I loooove sweet drinks, but when it comes to snacks I prefer savory. Catch me drinking sweet chai & salt n' vinegar almonds like nobody's business. My tolerance for spicy food is fairly low.

Relationship status: Happily single

Last thing I googled: The 2019 film Queen & Slim

Current Obsession: The Bald & The Beautiful podcast and Cyberpunk 2077. I don't really care about the plot of the game, more the world that its in. Been watching a looot of ambient driving tours in Cyberpunk 2077 lol (shout-out to DaydreamGaming on Youtube).

Stealing prev's last two questions:

Last Book: Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir. Gideon is so fucking funny I love her so much, I know at least two lesbians who act exactly like her sjlkfjsd.

Looking forwards to: Attending some adult meetup groups at my local library!!

Tagging @official-bagpipes @technicolor-technopath @sauntervaguelydownward @triptrippy @dracula-enthusiast @charlioak @esafagus @cucumberlumber @protoformx and whoever else wants to do it!!! There were some ppl I wanted to tag but Tumblr wouldn't let me so if u see this I am tagging YOU and you should do it 👀

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tm-trx · 9 months ago

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currents.21 [2024]

selections from my week in media [19-25 may 2024]

[listening]

In honor of SHINee's 16th debut anniversary, I made a playlist. 16 of my favorites, plus a bonus. 💎

[loving]

Seeing Onew back performing with SHINee and how happy they all are to be onstage together again. 💎

[reading]

Dracula Daily: Reading Bram Stoker's Dracula in Real Time With Commentary by the Internet by Matt Kirkland - I really love how this book is designed, with the entries down the center and Internet commentary/art/memes along the sides. I get the emails, but this is how I'm reading this year.

[watching]

Bridgerton, pt 1 - I've always liked Penelope, so was looking forward to this season and wasn't disapointed with how it's all happening. I think they should have included Colin's writing as voiceovers though. I think it would have helped a lot to fill in his character. He's a writer, Pen's a writer: it really would have worked well I think. I love how the fight with Eloise is being handled. I love Francesca already and will be picking up her book soon I think. I really wish they hadn't split the season because I think it does Colin's character a disservice.

The King: Eternal Monarch, ep 6-7 - One of the shows I've watched so much I have it on in the background, but always end up stopping what I'm doing to sit and watch. I love it.

SHINee World VI Encore Concert - SHINee's concerts never disappoint. It's been a SHINee weekend and I'm loving it. 💎

Wandee Goodday, ep 1-3 - I laughed through most of the first episode and only had to mute twice from secondhand embarrassment, and it only got better from there. All the characters are great (Cher is one of the standouts) and I'm curious to see how far they take the "am I too vanilla?" storyline or if it goes away in favor of the scholarship plot.

previous Currents posts

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#shinee #bridgerton #wandee goodday #the king eternal monarch #dracula daily #onew #thai drama #ql drama #book rec #tmtrx currents #tmtrx watches dramas

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theharpermovieblog · 1 year ago

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🎥THE COMPLETE 2023 MOVIE LIST🎥

(Without the Halloween and Christmas lists)

#HARPERSMOVIECOLLECTION

FILMS OF 2023

1. Banshees of Inisherin (2023)

2. The Visitor (1979)

3 The Hunt for Red October (1990)

4. The Four Seasons (1981)

5. The Burbs (1989)

6. The Blob (1958)

7. The Blob (1988)

8. Raging Bull (1980)

9. River's Edge (1986)

10. A Shot In The Dark (1964)

11. Violent Night (2022)

12. Pearl (2022)

13. It Happened One Night (1934)

14. Secretary (2002)

15. Dracula (1992)

16. Hard Target (1993)

17. Skinamarink (2022)

18. Head Of The Family (1996)

19. Rubber's Lover (1996)

20. Dr. No (1962)

21. Goldeneye (1995)

22. On The Silver Globe (1988)

23. Top Knot Detective (2016)

24. Fantastic Voyage (1966)

25. Crimes Of The Future (2022)

26. Get Carter (1971)

27. Dog Soldiers (2022)

28. Demon City Shinjuku (1988)

29. Death Line AKA: Raw Meat (1972)

30. Indian Jones and the Kingdom Of The Crystal Skull (2008)

31. Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984)

32. Invaders From Mars (1953)

33. The Velvet Vampire (1971)

34. Cobra (1986)

35. Assault On Precinct 13 (1976)

36. Batman Returns (1992)

37. My Dinner With Andre (1981)

38. Beyond The Darkness (1979)

39. VIY (1967)

40. Communion (1989)

41. The Cable Guy (1996)

42. In The Mouth Of Madness (1994)

43. From Beyond (1986)

44. Wings Of Desire (1987)

45. The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the Eighth Dimension (1984)

46. The Living Dead At Manchester Morgue (1974)

47. The Man Who Would Be King (1975)

48. Casablanca (1942)

49. Swamp Thing (1982)

50. The Unbearable Weight Of Massive Talent (2022)

51. Cronos (1993)

52. Spiral (2021)

53. Boss Level (2020)

54. Kids In The Hall: Brain Candy (1996)

55. The Menu (2022)

56. Altered States (1980)

57. The Terror (1963)

58. The Sword And The Sorcerer (1982)

59. The Verdict (1982)

60. Nothing But Trouble (1991)

61. John Wick Chapter 4 (2023)

62. Maniac Cop (1988)

63. Maniac Cop 2 (1990)

64. The Thing From Another World (1951)

65. AntiChrist (2009)

66. Dungeons And Dragons Honor Among Thieves (2023)

67. Revenge Of The Ninja (1983)

68. The Raven (1963)

69. Lost Highway (1997)

70. The Devil's Rain (1975)

71. Critters (1986)

72. Jackie Brown (1997)

73. The Night Of The Werewolf (1981)

74. The Bridge On The River Kwai (1957)

75. The Super Mario Bros. Movie (2023)

76. Cocaine Bear (2023)

77. After Hours (1985)

78. Batman Forever (1995)

79. The Big Lebowski (1998)

80. Things (1989)

81. Onibaba (1964)

82. Commando (1985)

83. Jacob's Ladder (1990)

84. Saint Maud (2019)

85. Fright Night (1985)

86. Fright Night Part 2 (1988)

87. Joe Versus The Volcano (1990)

88. Kingsman: The Secret Service (2014)

89. The Hobbit (1977)

90. The Lair Of The White Worm (1988)

91. Tango And Cash (1989)

92. Desperado (1995)

93. Puss And Boots: The Last Wish (2022)

94. The People Under The Stairs (1991)

95. Tales From The Crypt: Demon Knight (1995)

96. Robin Redbreast (1970)

97. The Missouri Breaks (1976)

98. Pumpkinhead (1988)

99. God Told Me To (1976)

100. The Cabinet Of Dr. Caligari (1920)

101. The Hateful Eight (2015)

102. Nowhere (1997)

103. Tommy (1975)

104. Last Shift (2014)

105. Multiple Maniacs (1970)

106. Bronson (2008)

107. Child Of God (2013)

108. Subspecies (1991)

109. Batman: Mask Of The Phantasm (1993)

110. The Hound Of The Baskervilles (1959)

111. Blood Simple (1984)

112. Bloodstone: Subspecies 2 (1993)

113. Beneath The Planet of the Apes (1970)

114. The Fly 2 (1989)

115. Berberian Sound Studio (2012)

116. Antiviral (2012)

117. Evil Dead Rise (2023)

118. Sundown: The Vampire In Retreat (1989)

119. Terrifier 2 (2022)

120. Shivers (1975)

121. The McPherson Tape (1989)

122. Moonage Daydream (2022)

123. The Saddest Music In The World (2003)

124. Masters Of Horror: Cigarette Burns (2005)

125. Lurking Fear (1994)

126. The Passion Of The Christ (2004)

127. Rambo: Last Blood (2019)

128. Fantastic Planet (1973)

129. Old Henry (2021)

130. Halloween Ends (2022)

131. The Shakiest Gun In The West (1968)

132. M3GAN (2022)

133. Smile (2022)

134. DUNE (2021)

135. High Noon (1952)

136. Hot Fuzz (2007)

137. Infinity Pool (2023)

138. Tales From The Gimli Hospital (1988)

139. Bullit (1968)

140. Jesus Shows You The Way To The Highway (2019)

141. Subspecies V: Blood Rise (2023)

142. Dario Argento's Dracula (2012)

143. Barbie (2023)

144. The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934)

145. The Dead Zone (1983)

146. The Neon Demon (2016)

147. Krull (1983)

148. Stephen King's Graveyard Shift (1990)

149. Elliot (2017)

150. Dogville (2002)

151. Eastern Promises (2007)

152. Sorcerer (1977)

153. Dagon (2001)

154. Zatoichi (1989)

155. Equinox (1970)

156. Clash Of The Titans (1981)

157. Calvaire/The Ordeal (2004)

158. Waxwork 2: Lost In Time (1992)

159. Matinee (1993)

160. Blood For Dracula (1974)

161. Murder By Decree (1979)

162. Ghostbusters: Afterlife (2021)

163. A Night To Remember (1958)

164. The Night Stalker (1972)

165. The Night Strangler (1973)

166. Don't Torture A Duckling (1972)

167. Fargo (1996)

168. Bloodsport (1988)

169. Robin Hood: Prince Of Thieves (1991)

170. The Terminator (1984)

171. 4D Man (1959)

172. Magic (1978)

173. Trilogy Of Terror (1975)

174. Paprika (2006)

175. The Changeling (1980)

176. The Devil's Chair (2007)

177. The Omega Man (1971)

178. A Nightmare On Elm Street 4: The Dream Master (1988)

179. The Time Machine (1960)

180. Three Thousand Years Of Longing (2022)

181. Red Riding: 1974 (2009)

182. Red Riding: 1980 (2009)

183. Red Riding: 1983 (2009)

184. The Devil's (1971)

185. Once Upon A Time In The West (1968)

186. Lonesome Dove (1989)

187. The Never Ending Story (1984)

188. The Seventh Curse (1986)

189. Dreamland (2019)

190. Money Plane (2020)

191. Dune (1984)

192. Halloween 2 (1981)

193. Fool's Paradise (2023)

194. The Straight Story (1999)

195. A Serious Man (2009)

196. A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)

197. Misery (1990)

198. Forbidden Planet (1956)

199. Time Bandits (1981)

200. Escape From New York (1981)

201. Escape From L.A. (1996)

202. HEAD (1968)

203. Leptirica (1973)

204. Indiana Jones And The Dial Of Destiny (2023)

205. The War Of The Worlds (1953)

206. Godzilla: Minus One (2023)

207. Horror Express (1972)

208. TÁR (2022)

209. Runaway (1984)

210. Shock Treatment (1981)

211. Apocalypse Now: Redux (1979)-(2001)

212. Barry Lyndon (1975)

#HarpersMovieCollection2023 #HarpersMovieCollection #HarpersFilmAddiction

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seiya-starsniper · 2 years ago

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Tag Game

Tag 9 people you want to get to know better. Or however many. Whatever.

Tagged by the lovely @tryan-a-bex

Three ships: Dreamling (of course), Xedgin (my new love! <3), and Hannigram.

First ever ship: Oh. Oh boy. I've been reading fanfic for too long, but I think consciously, the first ship I ever read fic for was Bit and Leena from Zoids: New Century. I think I aged myself by admitting that lmao

Last song: According to YT Music, that was Break Down by BeForU. So my treadmill music at the gym :D

Last movie: I recently got my partner to watch What we do in the shadows. Next up is the show whoo. In a theater? Dungeons and Dragons: Honor Among Thieves. aka my latest obsesssion!

Currently reading: I've subscribed to Re: Dracula! Very excited to finally be joining the trend. I am also slowly making my way through Stiff by Mary Roach, which was recommended to me by the lovely @pintobordeaux

Currently watching: Currently don't have anything in queue, but now that GO season 2 is announced I should...probably finally watch season one *runs away*

Currently consuming: Tea.

Currently craving: something sweet. Like a pastry or a cinnabon.

Tagging (with absolutely zero pressure) @menthol-drops @sleepsonfutons @rosaren2498 @acedragontype @scpdragon @janimoon @beholdme @bisexualhobgadling @obl-wan

#seiya gets tagged

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ruiniel · 1 year ago

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Prickly thorns, tender roses

Fandom: Castlevania series (2017-2021)

Rating: Mature🔞

Relationship: Alucard/Original Female Character

Characters: Alucard, Original Character(s)

Summary:

Set after the events of Castlevania (Netflix) Season III. After the betrayal of his young apprentices, Alucard feels barely alive in his lonesome castle. Days wear on, chipping away at his mind and sanity. And what is the son of Dracula to do with this unwanted visitor, suddenly come at his doorstep? Often the prickly thorn produces tender roses - Ovid

Chapter tags & warnings: Inspired by Castlevania, Canon Divergence, Blood and Injury, POV Original Character, Post-Castlevania Season 3, Canon-Typical Violence, Non-Canon Relationship, Hurt/Comfort, Emotional Hurt/Comfort, Blood Drinking, Unresolved Sexual Tension, Unresolved Emotional Tension, Strangers to Lovers, personal interpretation of post-season III Alucard

PART I

AN: first Alucard longfic from 2020. Heavily follows ‘Beauty and the Beast’ trope.

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XVI. Changes

Ravenna glanced upward, to the lowered golden head, the eyes set on her wrist, then to the steady hands holding her arm fast. She was lying down on a table close to the apothecary section of the wide knowledge trove which consisted of his library and ruined laboratory.

A sharp hiss filled the space when Adrian poured a clear liquid over the open gash. His gaze flickered momentarily to hers before drifting back to the cut. The dagger had been sharp, and her nerves had been strained at the time. Thus the wound was deep, and as the pair reached the castle after an endlessly silent trek, the dhampir took Ravenna straight into this area to mend it. We would not want you succumbing immediately after such an honorable feat, he had said derisively. But in truth, Ravenna had sensed an eerie sort of unease reaching from him, along with the distracting sound of his heart and the feel of him, so warm and tense against her. In his arms at the time, the woman had completely and shamelessly leaned into him. And the silk of his bare neck against her temple was still etched into her mind, as was the beating of his life, pulsing through her with an intensity Ravenna had never experienced nor felt before.

"What type of alcohol is that?" she asked presently as the blond placed the bottle aside.

"A strong regional moonshine. It should prove a good enough disinfectant," Adrian replied, reaching for a thread and needle placed aside.

It was true. Though a largely forgotten piece of knowledge nowadays which few but healers and scholars were privy to, the ancients had been known to resort to alcohol for the cleansing of wounds. And he knew of it, of course he would know of it. His mother had been a physician after all.

"Now, its use will be twofold," he continued blankly, meeting her eyes again and handing her the bottle which Ravenna took with her other hand, rising into a seated position. She regarded the transparent liquid with a critical eye. "I must stitch the wound, and we have nothing to numb you with, so drink."

Warily, she complied. Ravenna coughed her heart out after the first burning sip reached down her throat and poured its fire into her stomach, mellowing her limbs. She did not partake in alcohol and thus her body had little resistance to speak of. She made a face, "Disgusting."

"More, Ravenna. This will hurt," Adrian urged as their eyes met.

There was a sudden sizzle ringing in her ears when she now stared into those golden eyes, and though Ravenna saw nothing in their depths, she somehow felt it all. His lips had touched her skin, she had offered him to partake of her blood... and it had transformed him, if only momentarily, into someone much more ruthless, merciless and no less deadly. It was the great proverbial behemoth in the room, but none would speak of it. She had never been as frightened of anything before, not even when gasping for breath under a night creature's hold; nor had she ever been as damnably excited. The thought caused immediate distress. What... what is happening to me?

"I have never done this before, mind you," Adrian broke the silence, finally looking away. "I have only ever seen my mother do it," he took the needle and thread, also placed into a dish with alcohol.

She could not do it properly herself anyway. Ravenna nodded in understanding, taking another swig of the moonshine. The taste was horrible but its numbing effects were already making themselves known. Just then Adrian placed a hand to her shoulder applying only a little pressure, urging her to lie down again. She startled, and as drawn by an unseen force their eyes met again. When had his become so dark? The shade of them was no longer light gold, no. His irises were now a reddish copper as they bore into hers. Ravenna swallowed and slowly reverted to her horizontal position, still unable to look away. And apparently neither was he, for the beam of his eyes still burned into her.

His lips, on her skin... What in God's name is wrong with me? the woman averted her gaze to the side.

As hours wore on since their return Adrian appeared to have regained himself, though Ravenna did not know nor understand his kind well enough to properly ascertain this. Though his drinking of her had seemingly been a deeply hidden and covert curiosity - if she were to judge by how the incubus had used it against her - the reality of it had been quite different, and in circumstances she never could have imagined. It had hurt immeasurably, it had been harrowing to feel her life force draining from her body. And when he ceased the unseen link had snapped, leaving her dazed, confused and... and... wanting? Part of her felt ashamed that she should think of him in this manner, knowing how troubled his mind and spirit were.

But try as Ravenna did, whenever he touched her now her body craved more pressure, more of him, more, more, more... Her skin would burn, her heart would rage. A sharp sting woke the woman from her unsettling colorful array of guilty thoughts. He had begun to stitch the wound. Her eyes strayed unbidden to his deathly white face now strained in concentration, to his furrowed brow, the straight set line of his mouth. He was even paler than usual. If she did not know better and under different circumstances, Ravenna would think him absolutely adorable, an apprentice attempting his trade for the first time. Gods, she had nearly lost him. Ravenna shook the offending thought away. Yes, she was undoubtedly somewhat unhinged, delirious even... she must be. How could she lose something that was not even hers?

"What were they looking for?" Ravenna decided to switch her mind to matters more rooted in reality.

The needle pierced her flesh again, and his gaze snapped to hers as if to determine its effect.

"You have had the pleasure of encountering bounty hunters boasting alchemical enhancements to their bodies. Their livelihood consists of contracts for gold. Mercenaries, if you will. And when desperate they resort to actively hunting creatures of the night to sell for profit to other humans, ones foolish enough to think they can contain the forces of Hell, or else subdue them to do their bidding."

"Then you-"

"I was a fortuitous and valuable catch to them," Adrian supplied. His gaze caught hers again at the words, before trailing to how her dark hair was fanned about her on the table, then back to her face and down to the hollow of her neck. A smile caught her by surprise, dry and brittle though it was. "-would have been," he corrected. "That was very foolish of you," his voice came softer, or she may have imagined it.

A different sort of sting flared behind her rib cage as Ravenna turned her head, a light crimson blush spreading over her cheeks. "You regret it then... that I returned for you." She gritted her teeth and gasped when the needle pierced skin again. It still irked her less than his words had.

"Ravenna," the young woman heard her name, and it came different to her ears than any times before.

When she did not deign to look his way Adrian continued. "I am not at all ungrateful for your successful attempt. I only denounce its worth compared to the risk you took," but there was no admonishment there. Yet Ravenna could not place the emotion coloring his voice, if there even was any.

"That sounds pretty much like ungratefulness to me," she bit, her words slightly slurred. Her belly felt warm and her eyes had become glazed over. "And of the self-righteous sort, at that," she could not help but add.

Ravenna heard a scoff and none spoke again until he was done, cutting the remaining thread with a small pair of metal scissors. He then bid her stand upright and as Ravenna did so, she found him standing close before her. Adrian took her forearm and applied of the mixture she had previously prepared for her other wrist. And Ravenna could not help but watch him as he worked, keenly feeling the touch of his fingers along with the pain. He was very close, standing effectively between her knees as she faced him. This way they stood precisely at eye level. She wondered what it would feel like to bring her legs around him-

Be silent! the woman willed her troublesome mind to cease. Just then his head snapped upward, and their eyes met again. Still holding her wrist Adrian was now in the process of wrapping it over.

What to say? The way his eyes shone was new and no less strange, and why on earth was he looking at her so... so... Hungrily? "Thank you for doing this," Ravenna settled for voicing her gratitude, her mind significantly fogged over and numbed by the alcohol she had ingested. Had she drunk too much?

A line tensed in his jaw, and for a moment Ravenna thought his shoulders fought back a shiver, his grip on her arm tightening so briefly she may have missed it, if she had not been so very aware of him. His gaze sharply flickered downward. "Never again, Ravenna," Adrian voiced, and there was both a plea and a command there. "No matter the peril, no matter my state. Never again."

Ravenna knew what he meant. He was closer, he felt closer. She wanted to bring her legs around his hips, her hands around his neck and... she shut her eyes when fingers tilted her chin upward.

"Do you understand?" Adrian urged, his gaze burning into her lowered eyelids.

"Yes," the woman managed, wanting more than anything for him to cease this, this... whatever it was that made her insides boil and churn and her thoughts so inflamed.

When Adrian released her and stepped away she felt hollow.

"Do you think they knew who you were?" Ravenna voiced another thought. "Do you think they were looking for you?"

Adrian sighed and followed the veiled skies visible beyond the great window. "I do not think so. But they may have sensed my presence owed to the concoctions they use. It enhances their abilities to track creatures of the night."

"Where are you going?" Ravenna asked swiftly when he turned his back on her.

"To the study," Adrian briefly looked over his shoulder at her just as Ravenna stepped off the table and was on her feet. His face was open to her for once, and it appeared as though he pondered and weighed between a number of opposing notions. "If you wish and prefer to rest there instead of the bedchamber, you may come with," Adrian voiced tentatively, and taken aback as she was Ravenna failed to reply until he was already walking away.

Despite her weariness and addled state, despite all that had happened since life had her stumbling into him of all people, in spite of her two mangled wrists and his unusual and oft times contradictory manner-

It was all she wanted presently. "If that bears no trouble to you," Ravenna hastened heading towards him while also wary of his own condition. What did drinking blood after a time of abstinence do to one of his kind?

When she reached his side Ravenna was regaled with another of his wry smiles. It was not the kind which suited him best, but beggars could not be choosers. "Oh you are trouble, Styrian. But of what kind, I have yet to determine."

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#alucard x oc #ruiniel:fanfiction #prickly thorns tender roses

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klunk2003 · 1 year ago

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Michelangelo: “A regular Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde!”

Cody Jones: “Doctor who and mister what? Should I be really honored or really offended?”

M: “You mean you dont know about Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde?”

Leonardo: “The black and white movie? Spencer Tracy?”

Donatello: “Famous story? Robert Louis Stevenson?”

C: “Nope, never heard of them.”

M: “It’s like one of the all time classic monster movies!”

C: “What’s a monster movie?”

M: “You’re kidding! Frankenstein? The Mummy? Tell me you’ve at least heard of King Kong! Dracula? Creature from the Black Lagoon? Or even The Tangler?”

Speaker: Michelangelo, Leonardo, and Donatello to Cody Jones

Context: Serling comments his disapproval on Cody’s battle armor, Turtle-X, and Leo defends him stating its for his protection and Raph says it’s to “transform into a mega powered kick butt robot warrior.” Mikey jumps in and calls him Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and the above conversation takes place.

Media origin:

1. Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1941) is a movie about a mad scientist— Dr Jekyll— that performs an experiment that transforms him into a violent and evil man called Mr Hyde. The 1941 film is the one Mikey is referencing but was originally a novella published in 1886 and has had numerous other adaptations on stage, in film, radio, and television.

2. Spencer Tracy is the actor that portrays Jekyll and Hyde in the 1941 film.

3. Robert Louis Stevenson is original author of the novella Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde.

4. Frankenstein is a classic monster character originally appearing in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (1818) but has had numerous adaptions like Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. Following the classic monster movie theme, Mikey is most likely referencing Universal’s Frankenstein film series debuting in 1931. The series had eight films in total, the final one released in 1948.

The rest of the references are all from classic monster movies from that general era as well.

5. The Mummy franchise is about an ancient Egyptian mummified priest being ressurected. Mikey is referencing Universal’s films spanning from 1932-1955 with six films, but has had remakes since.

6. The King Kong franchise is about a giant ape-like beast that attempts to possess a beautiful, young woman. Mikey is referencing the original franchise that aired four films from 1933-1967 and has had several remakes since.

7. The original Dracula (1931) is about a vampire that preys upon a young woman called Mina and wants to turn her into a vampire. The vampire hunter Van Helsing is enlisted to stop and kill him. There were a total of three films in the series, the last one released in 1943.

8. Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954) is about a group of scientists encountering a creature called the Gill-Man in the waters of the amazon. The franchise had three films, the last one released in 1956. Unlike the other classics in this list, Creature from the Black Lagoon has never had a reboot of any kind. There have been several times a remake began but all were ultimately cancelled or abandoned.

9. The Tangler is a play on words to the film The Tingler (1959). The film follows a scientist that discovers a parasite that feeds on fear and causes a “tingle” sensation in the spine of the host. Similar to Creature from the Black Lagoon, there are no sequels. However, a follow-up novel was published in 2023.

Season & episode: S6E07 “Night of Sh'Okanabo"

Episode’s original airdate: October 21, 2006

#couldnt get the rights to say the tingler huh #GSKSHKSH good lord yoi can see why i procrastinatd finishing up #this one absolutely killed me to write im sorry for any typos and errors #also ive never actually seen any of these including remakes. god damn i should fix that #stay tuned for the eventual letterboxd list i make of every movie reference they make #also cody yes i would be offended considering some of the shit mr hyde does #tmnt 2003 #catalog #s6 #mikey #don #leo #frankenstein is def a repeat ref and maybe dracula so ->#repeat ref #OH and i wanted to say i think mike has definitely watched the mummy remake with brendan fraser like its the most famous one!

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oneforblu · 1 hour ago

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i finished castlevania.

this was the perfect ending for these three. i could not stop crying while watching this episode. after all the struggle, fighting, pain, and death, they can finally be together again.

s4 ep9 was PERFECT. the trio reunited again, having to face their biggest battle yet. i had been waiting for them to reunite, and their reunion was done so well. i loved seeing them fighting together again. their chemistry while fighting is incredible, protecting each other like they've been fighting for years.

trevor telling sypha he loved her right before he fought death was so moving. i could not stop crying after that scene. these two have become one of my favorite ships, and seeing their relationship grow throughout the season has been such a beautiful watch. although the episode leaves on a cliffhanger, the buildup to the season finale was incredible.

trevor finally has someone he truly loves, and because of that love, he can become the hunter his family would be proud of. while sypha is trevor's strength, trevor is also sypha's. she was able to go on the adventures she always dreamed of and discover her strength thanks to her meeting with trevor. they saved villages, helped people, and fell in love along the way. not only did they find each other, trevor and sypha also found alucard. their connection and friendship give them all a start to a new life. these characters meeting in gresit was a fateful encounter that changed their lives forever.

in the series finale, we finally have sypha tell trevor she loves him, too. at this point, i could not stop crying. the love between them is so genuine and perfectly written. their development was done so well that you fall not only for their relationship but also for them as characters. they have so much respect for one another, they see each other for who they are. the bad, the good, and the ugly. they've seen it all on their journey, yet their love is stronger than ever.

alucard's ending made me so happy. after being consumed by grief and guilt, he's now FINALLY content with his life. even though he's dracula's son, he decided to defend humanity to honor his mom. he lost his parents, his new friends left him, and then he was alone in that big house. later on, he was betrayed by people he thought he could trust. alucard's humanity and vampirism will always be apart of his life, a constant battle that will go on for the rest of his life. however, he still loves people. he still values connection, and it has much to do with trevor and sypha. alucard learned the value of friendship from them, giving him hope despite the dark time he went through after they left.

now, at the end of the series, he has people and a community who depend on him, and he finally sees how much he has to offer the world. alucard now has his two favorite people by his side, a village that depends on him and humans he can trust. although there will be moments where he will grieve and be in pain, at least now he has a place to belong with people he cares for. i'm so happy he's finally able to smile <3

the ending with dracula and lisa was also very beautiful. finally reunited, given a second chance at life, and happy to be together again. it's so beautiful to see the series start and end with them.

i'm so happy I finally watched Castlevania, and i can easily say that the trio will be a favorite of mine for a long time!

#castlevania #castlevania spoilers #castlevania netflix #trevor belmont #sypha belnades #alucard #adrian tepes #dracula #trephacard #trepha #trevor x sypha #castlevania trio #I LOVE CASTLEVANIA SO MUCH #THIS TRIO CHANGED MY LIFE #ALUCARD I LOVE YOU SO MUCH #TREVOR MY HERO #SYPHA MY QUEEN #TREVOR AND SYPHA INVENTED LOVE

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colescorner · 5 months ago

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Spooky Season TBR!

Happy October to all my fellow readers and book bloggers out there! 🎃👻

I’ve been scouring my bookshelves finding what books I want to read this month and I’ve found them!

To start the month off I picked one of the newest books I’ve acquired and that is the new Percy Jackson book! This is the second book in The Senior Year Adventures. The first book is The Chalice of the Gods and I read that last month and really enjoyed it! This second book follows Percy on his quest to acquire 3 letters of recommendations from the Gods so that he can attend New Rome University with his long time girlfriend and fellow Demigod Annabeth Chase. Percy is tasked with watching the Goddess Hecate's hellhound and Polecat while she is away attending festivals in her honor. How hard can pet sitting two mythical pets be? If you're a fan of any of Riordan's previous books then you'll enjoy this series for sure!

One of the next books in my TBR is a from an author I just discovered recently, Chuck Tingle. He has written many erotica books, but this debut horror novel is titled Camp Damascus. This novel takes place in the mountains of Montana where the "most effective" gay conversion camp resides. But the methods used at this camp are described as anything but holy. I've never read a gay horror novel before but I am excited to read it this month! I've also picked up his most recent release Bury Your Gays, which I would like to read soon as well!

I also had to a classic spooky book for the month of October and what better classic than Dracula by Bram Stoker! I've never watched any adaptations of Dracula and I know bits and pieces of the story so I am so excited to read this during the month of October! I kind of want to go into this one not knowing much so I can be surprised and really experience it!

The last book that I picked for my TBR is The Witches: Salem, 1692 by Stacy Schiff. This is a historical account of what happened during the Salem Witch Trials. The Salem Witch Trials have always fascinated me and to be able to delve into a book that will recount it in a historically accurate way will be very insightful! I also love history so I think I'll really like this one! I'll let you know in my October reading wrap up how it went!

If you'd like to check these books out, I am linking them below! The link is to their bookshop.org page. I am not aware of people's financial situation and I know it is typically cheaper to buy off amazon, but bookshop.org helps independent bookstores and I try to support independent whenever I can! Also don't forget to check your local library if that is how you primarily read your books!

Happy Spooky season and happy reading!

Percy Jackson: Wrath of the Triple Goddess - Rick Riordan

Camp Damascus - Chuck Tingle

Dracula - Bram Stoker

The Witches: Salem, 1692 - Stacy Schiff

#books #booklr #reader #book blog #booklrcommunity #book blogger #october tbr #tbr #bibliophile

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mando-abs · 1 year ago

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Fannish Year Review - 2023

Thank u for the tag @pennyserenade 😘😘😘

1) Your main fandom of the year: The Pedro Pascal fandom of course. Going 3 years strong!

2) Your favorite film of the year: Barbie. Hands down. I’ve never giggled so much while watching a movie in theaters. The movie’s packed full of clever jokes. Honorable Mention - Spiderverse. I kept gasping at all the references and turns of the movie. Very awesome.

3) Your favorite book this year: This is a tough one. I’ve read so many this year! I really enjoyed Unlikely Animals by Annie Hartnett. It’s really such a clever novel that makes you feel so many emotions but leaves you satisfied in the end. I finally read Howl’s Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones. Not only is this story even more of my personality now but it will be a major influence in the story I will come up with myself. Dracula by Bram Stroker was a delight. One of the best classics I’ve ever read. A Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes by Suzanne Collins needs no explanation since it’s probably the book of the year. Giovanni’s Room by James Baldwin!?!? I could go on.

4) Favorite Album or Song this year: Song - Borderline by Tame Impala…Album - The Leo Sun Sets by Dreamer Isioma

5) Favorite tv shows this year: The Last of Us. The Mandalorian. Bluey. Adventure Time. Angels in America (which is a limited series but I’ll include it). Frankelda’s Book of Spooks. Fiona and Cake.

6) Your favorite tumblr community this year: the Pedro girlies

(this isn’t my gif but can be found on a simple google search)

7) your best new fandom discovery of the year: um I’d say the adventure time fandom is pretty chill and I love them. I’d like to hang out with them. So, call me I guess.

8) Your biggest fandom disappointment of the year: oh gee…there was a lot of discourse about this past season of the mandalorian. And while many of these takes were warranted, I think we all needed to take a step back and breathe. Accept that Season 2 was a GOAT that can’t be replicated, love the show, and move on.

9) Your tv/movie boyfriend and/or girlfriend of the year: Wow. I wonder who it could be???

10) Your biggest squeeze moment of the year: Pedro on SNL twice. And absolutely killing it. I don’t think we’ve ever seen that man happier. And I couldn’t be happier for him. Well deserved. I don’t think we talk about it enough either. We need this Emmy hype train revved up baby!

Np tags: you reading this. It’s late and I’m tired and lazy.

#tag game #thank uuuuu #happy new year #pedro pascal #pedro pascal fandom

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epicyclical · 1 year ago

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Dear Author Letter -yes it's done now! Sorry!

Dear Yuletide Author,

Happy Yuletide season! My favorite time of the fandom year :). I am always happy with any gift, so no pressure and feel free to ignore any prompts/suggestions!

Without further ado, my requests!

1) Rivers of London (up through Foxglove Summer)

I’m getting the other books for Christmas so I doubt I will have read them by Yuletide, so if you could avoid spoilers for anything past Foxglove Summer that would be very kind! But I couldn’t resist requesting RoL anyway, because I am SOMEWHAT OBSESSED. (Also I consume it as audiobooks so apologies for any misspelling!)

Soooo I love Thomas Nightingale an unhealthy amount. Stylish, self-possessed, an INSANE TANK-DESTROYING BADASS, with a dust-dry sense of humor and deeply buried trauma. What’s not to love? I also like Peter although DEAR GOD BOY keep it in your pants, for real. I love their relationship, how seriously Thomas takes his responsibility to Peter as his ‘master’, how exasperated Thomas is with Peter’s experiments (and tendency to only use his brain to make pop culture references).

Ship-wise: I love gen, I like Peter’s love interests (except the jazz vampire, I forget her name) but would prefer a story not focus on his relationships, I personally ship Thomas/Varvara secretly in my heart. I haven’t read any Thomas/Peter but am willing to be convinced!

Things I love: Thomas being a badass, other people talking about how much of a badass Thomas is, master-apprentice dynamics, protectiveness (going either way), Thomas’ adventures pre-RoL, Peter please stop telling people you’re a wizard I’m begging you, daily life in the Folly, Molly and Toby, cop talk

Things I DNW: the usual (rape/non-con, permanent major character death). Canon-typical violence and gore is fine.

2) Dracula

Yes I’m basic and obsessed with Re: Dracula (the podcast), sorry not sorry. I'm also Magnus Archives trash so I have imprinted on Jack Seward like a baby duck, but I love every single character!

So I read this when I was much younger and didn’t really engage with it on a Fannish level, so I’m absolutely delighted by all the tumblr discourse surrounding dracula daily and re: Dracula. Seeing fans talk about this book from 1897 the way they talk about Supernatural is just so weirdly charming to me, so really I don’t have any specific requests re: characters/plot/etc, but I would love to see some old-fashioned fanfic, if that makes sense. Shipping trash, h/c, crossovers, AUs, meta, songfic, bodyswap, genderswap, sex pollen, soulmate, etc -- everything you would ever see on a cliche bingo card. (I’m an Old Fangirl, sue me) What kind of fic would get written if this book had come out in 2005? Or 1995? (Honestly that goes for any of these requests, I love this stuff)

If that doesn’t float your boat, no worries! Things I would love: OT3/4/5/+, Jonathan and Mina OTP 5EVA, Jack/Abraham, Jack and Abe’s adventures when Jack was in school, the Suitors having adventures (esp pre-canon), Everyone is Poly except Dracula, Everyone Is Poly Including Dracula, what-ifs (Lucy vs Mina, Mina vs Jonathan, etc.), Victorian sensibilities, Victorian sensibilities being absolutely wrecked, train travel, boat travel, horse travel, gothic atmosphere

No DNWs for this -- if you want to lean in to the Darker Elements, go for it.

3) Dungeons and Dragons: Honor Among Thieves

I've been playing DnD for *mumble* years and this movie was the first that really captured how it FEELS to play Dnd. It's not the lore, gods and kingdoms, it's the party of different classes trying to accomplish a small scale task chaotically. I love that you can tell in the movie when they fail a skill check. (Though I am still sad that we didn't get any real Bardic magic from Ed. I love a good bard singing during fights!)

So meta is highly encouraged! Anything acknowledging that it's a game, the rules of the world, etc. would be delightful! Showme the players if you dare haha

I also really enjoy pretty much all the characters from the party, I am a total sucker for Found Family in all its forms! I also adore: Ed and Xenk's ridiculous dynamic, Ed and Holga's platonic bro-hood, Holga as Kira's warrior surrogate mom, Forge and his scheming, Simon's awkward crush on Doric, Jarnathan and the poor patrol board -- basically everyone lol. I adore backstory -- all the stuff that gets referred to in the opening montage, how everyone met, various previous adventures. Or future adventures! Where to next?

Just let me hang out with these doofuses some more haha.

Shipwise I ship Ed/Xenk but am happy with gen, please no Ed/Holga (their platonic-ness is too precious), I think anything else is fair game. DNW: rape/noncon, character death. DND-typical violence/gore are fine (and somewhat encouraged haha)

#yuletide #yuletide 2023

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stubobnumbers · 1 year ago

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Spooky Season - The 1930s.

Spooky Season Recommendations - The 1930s.

1. The Bride Of Frankenstein (1935)

2. The Mummy (1932)

3. The Invisible Man (1933)

4. Werewolf Of London (1935)

5. Frankenstein (1931)

6. Dracula (1931)

7. The Old Dark House (1932)

8. Freaks (1932)

9. Vampyr (1932)

10. White Zombie (1932)

Honorable mention - Dracula's Daughter (1936)

Honorable mention - The Vampire Bat (1933)

Honorable mention - The Black Cat (1934)

#movies #spooky season

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sunnydaleherald · 2 years ago

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The Sunnydale Herald Newsletter, Saturday, April 15th

GILES: There's a Watchers' retreat every year in the Cotswolds. (walks to the other end of the table) It's a lovely spot. It's very s-serene. (everyone listens) There's horse riding and hiking and punting (smiles) and lectures and discussions. It-i-it's... it's a great honor to be invited. (a tad bitter) Or so I'm told.

~~Faith, Hope, & Trick~~

The Sunnydale Herald is looking for at least one new editor. Contributing to the Herald is a great way to get your Buffy on! Find out more here.

[Drabbles & Short Fiction]

Backstage 47: “the Price of Lace” by aadler (G)

Shipwreck by apachefirecat (Buffy/Faith, PG/K+)

Purge by SomeKindOfADeviant (Spike/Drusilla, T)

A misogynist faces the Demon Wolf by Bl4ckHunter (Warren, Teen Wolf crossover, T)

Who Am I? by AJ Fields (myfanfiction) (Anya, G)

Bring Me Back To Life by ialwayscomewhenyoucall (poetry, Buffy/Spike)

Hysteria...A Woman's Disease by Desicat (Buffy/Spike, NC-17)

[Chaptered Fiction]

Jojo's Bizarre Adventure: Shadowed Suspicion, Chapter 383 by madimpossibledreamer (Ensemble, Jojo's Bizarre Adventure, T)

Vamp Fashion, Chapter 3 (complete!) by adella_green (Spike/Proinsias Cassidy, Spike/Dracula, Preacher and What We Do In the Shadows crossover, T)

Lost and Found, Chapter 3 by BlakeStorm (Buffy & Sam Winchester, Supernatural crossover, T)

A Coalition of Heroes, Chapter 11 by Aragorn_II_Elessar (Ensemble, Supernatural and Charmed, T)

William „Der Blutige“ Shakespeare, Chapter 3 by Lilith464 (Ensemble, E, German language)

Mostly Harmless, Chapter 14 by Lady Emma (Buffy/Spike, NC-17)

Mostly Harmless, Chapter 15 by Lady Emma (Buffy/Spike, NC-17)

The Key Saves Spuffy, Chapters 14-15 by Dynamite (Buffy/Spike, NC-17)

42, Chapters 14-15 by Dynamite (Buffy/Spike, NC-17)

Back Through The Woods, Chapter 7 by Desicat (Buffy/Spike, R)

Trying, Chapter 19 by Pet35 (Buffy/Spike, NC-17)

So One of Us is Living, Chapter 5 by violettathepiratequeen (Buffy/Spike, PG-13)

Belonging, Chapters 11-15 by honeygirl51885 (Buffy/Spike, NC-17)

Those 2 again, Chapter 3 by Julikobold (Buffy/Spike, G)

Origin Story of Shanna Brown, Chapter 36 by Cristina (Buffy, Merlin and other crossovers, FR18)

The Butcher, Chapter 16 by Grief Counseling (Buffy/Spike, NC-17)

Postcards and Snapshots, Chapters 5-6 by TheSunnySlayer (Buffy/Spike, PG-13)

Those 2 again, Chapter 3 by Julikobold (Buffy/Spike, G)

The Home Invasions, Chapter 3 by VeroNyxK84 (Buffy/Spike, PG-13)

Here we go again, the two of us, Chapter 1 by LJ94 (Buffy/Spike, PG-13)

[Images, Audio & Video]

Artwork: Harmony by emmatheslayer (worksafe)

Artwork: Buffy/Spike by feyspeaker (worksafe)

Artwork: spuffy wip based on my fav picture of billy idol by snoozieart (worksafe)

Artwork: Spike by vampywillz (worksafe)

Artwork: Buffy by marveletplus (worksafe)

Artwork: Angel sketch by kingbuffy (worksafe)

Headers: Buffy Summers + BtVS Season 5 headers by onegirlinallthewrld (worksafe)

Bar chart race: Top 10 cartoons/comics/graphic novel fandoms on AO3 based on number of fanworks (2009-2022) by bakanokiwami

Fanvid: Buffy/Angel ''Sweet Dreams'' college project by Wearer of the cheese

Fanvid: buffy & angel | all of the girls by a.

Fanvid: Buffy and Angel are doomed love by Driad (slideshow)

Music: Close Your Eyes - Buffy and Angel Love Theme (Piano Cover) by Gishin' Around

[Reviews & Recaps]

The first season of Buffy the Vampire Slayer by staringdownabarrel

Buffy yearbook by kingbuffy

Found a Buffy book I haven’t read [Blood and Fog] by btvs_historian

Podcast: 7.16 – "Storyteller" by If the Apocalypse Comes, Beep Me

[Recs]

Late Night Talk, Buffy/Joyce by badly_knitted recced by petzipellepingo

[Community Announcements]

The SAD Transcript Library

[Fandom Discussions]

the way buffy the vampire slayer uses guns is really interesting by fallingtowers

[Angel/Angelus] the split-divide identities/personalities thing by Girl4Music

Did Faith sign Buffy's yearbook? by kingbuffy

There’s something very funny about Faith’s plan to unleash Angelus in Enemies by nevergonnabemuchmorethanweather

touch starved cangel is just soooooo good and interesting by someonefantastic

Cordelia and Angel by therulerofallpotatos

Angel by wolfstrong

My bold take is I think Spike should’ve eaten Parker by disco-tea

Explain to me how Willow and Tara are just living in Buffy’s house spending all of her money by levelzerohermit

When even the demon bar in Buffy the Vampire Slayer is chill with gender neutral bathrooms by levelzerohermit

cordelia and caroline vs. lydia by mimi-dracula

Do you like Kennedy? continued by multiple posters

What did you guys think when you saw Dawn for the first time? by Sinmerina

Why do so many people dislike Tara? continued by multiple posters

Fred all alone by MoreGull

For all of the “I’ve finished Buffy but didn’t like Angel. Should I watch Angel?” by Dry-Dragonfruit5216

Do you think Sunnydale will be rebuilt? by aeryn1227

Buffy season 7 is a misunderstood masterpiece! by D_B_4986

Buffy Billboards by btvs_historian

Do you think Giles fished out all the scoobies diplomas from the rubble? by SmurfSmeg

Sunnydale high shouldn’t be allowed to continue to function with how many people are being murdered by NotCharAznable

Do you feel bad for [Robin Wood and Billy Ford]? by Opening_Knowledge868

I'm feeling quite a quality drop in season 5 compared to 3 and 4 by Thestickleman

Angel season 5 worth it? by Hot-Face2471

Giles as a father figure by _lilith_and_eve_

Prophesy Girl, all the fuss about the prom dress by Inoutngone

Foreshadowing with Snyder by Eagles56

How in the world was this scene from Double Meat Allowed to Air? by aeryn1227

The Gay Buffy Video: Once More With Queering by Lily Simpson

Video: How Tara Became the Best Character by Better with Bob?

[Articles, Interviews, and Other News]

Buffy the Vampire Slayer Script Sides by Christopher Burdett

Angel: The Casefiles Volume 2 by Christopher Burdett

Submit a link to be included in the newsletter!

#buffy the vampire slayer #btvs #angel the series #ats

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