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To future dracula...
so dear lord Dracula
I HAVE YOU AS A PLUSHIE!!!
"I can't believe this, I... I've been turned into a marketable plushie! How could this have happened!? I demand to be restored to my old form this instant!"
#Plushie gang!!#I got the Alucard plush too. :D#castlevania roleplay#ask vlad dracula tepes#ask dracula#ask blog#vlad dracula tepes#dracula#castlevania dracula#castlevania rp#castlevania askblog#castlevania netflix#castlevania#dracula roleplay#sotn#dracula sotn#dracula symphony of the night#symphony of the night#marketable plushie dracula
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okay doxxing my room for @oldbutchdaniel
i...am too lazy to go through and see who has or hasnt done this so here: @appendectomy @fangsandthangs @saintllouis @black-market-wd4o if you want
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COCCOOCOCCOCOCOCO HOW ARE YOU??? KEEPING HYDRATED??? LOOKING AFTER YOURSELF???
I SAW THIS LITTLE SIGN IN THE NEW YEAR BACKGROUND AND WHAT??? ITS ACTUALLY SO CUTE!!! THE LITTLE SKILL WITH A LITTLE HAT!!!! Sam make this into marketable merch please, I would buy the hell out of it-
IT CAN BE THOSE LITTLE PLUSHIE KEYCHAINS FOR BAGS!!! But I love love love how the hat dwarfs the skull. It’s so cute!!!
Also Urm ignore the person I have on my Home Screen yeah that’s nobody- don’t worry
*The earth cracks.Appears, relive from the hells, among the flames of what we call... the climate of my country*
CERU CERU CERU HOW ARE YOU???? I hope well, drink lots of water and take good care of yourself! also hope you had a wonderful Christmas and New Year. THE MESSAGE YOU TAG ME on New Year's! IT WAS A VERY FUN YEAR WITH YOU TOOO!!! THANK YOUUU sorry this is too late---
NNoOO i don't need to hydrate! All this holidays I was reading Dracula and my thoughts are on that magenta RED eyes... ok well some water at this moment it would be good thank you.
AAAH YYEESS, SAM STUDY MARKETING!!! Everything he makes... makes you want to buy it. It is a trap? oh well. That design has too much-high Faciler energy...
KEYCHAINS??? incredibly cool and cute, give me 500. It's part of Sam specialty to "force" to buy a product you don't necessarily need... OKKKKKK, probably we do need it now- but bargain, haggle for that thing. Don't let him win it's part of his plan.
THE PERSON IN CERU HOME SCREEN??! You have all my attention... HOW CAN I IGNORE IT NOW???!
Are you giving him kisses?
#Cerruuu Ceerruuuu how aree yoouuuuu#Since I read your Guardian Angel AAAYYYYY... my mind in loop tries to imagine a Sam Angel#AND I AVOID IT I BLOCK IT#sttaapppiiittttt
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You are not safe from marketable plushification.
* Taís and Abe not sold separately.
(ft mine and @plotek-the-first's fools)
#art#my art#oc artwork#abraham van helsing#Taís#Baron#Eldritch#Vladislav László Dracula#Mitchell#Renfield#Doodle#marketable plushies
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Optimism for the horror genre
The early 2000s brought about what I felt was a dark ages of horror films. Sure, we had the occasional gem like Let the Right One In, The Woman in Black, and Trick ‘r Treat and the occasional TV show like Penny Dreadful, and the Frankenstein mini-series starring Luke Goss (from Hellboy 2) but for the most part it was a dry wasteland of remakes and “reboots” and torture porn.
The new Halloween 2018 film is a blessing. Much like the 2017 Stephen King’s it film I feel that these films have had a positive influence on the horror genre.
First Stephen King’s It did something unprecedented with a remake. It had the confidence and integrity to stand alongside the 1990 TV mini-series version starring Tim Curry and it didn’t belittle or mock the original. It never once claimed to be the superior version. Instead it strived for co-existence and this was virtually unheard of with remakes until now. For over ten-years remakes went out of their way to bash the original version of things, call them problematic or out-dated, and try to present the new version as a superior entity. There were even cases of production companies removing products tied to the original versions to try to sell merchandise specific to the remake. The excuse given for this was to “prevent Market confusion.” This was most infamously attempted with Star Trek toys and figures.
But with Stephen King’s It you saw NECA release figures and even plushies of both versions of Pennywise of equal detail and quality. For the first time ever a remake unashamedly showed appreciation for the original iteration without turning it into a pissing contest. I feel this was the start of the change, the positive change in the horror genre.
A few months later the “Supernatural romance” The Shape of Water was released and this would win four major Oscars. Though not marketed as horror The Shape of Water was a thinly disguised remake of Revenge of The Creature (sequel to The Creature from The Black Lagoon) but with the twist that his love was returned and he was truly a river God all along. The Shape of Water with Silence if the Lambs became only the second horror film to win the Best Picture Oscar though both movies seemed ashamed of being classified as horror as The Shape of Water was marketed as Supernatural (or Scifi) Romance while Silence of the Lambs was labeled Suspense Thriller.
I could easily argue that there’s more horror in The Shape of Water than half the films actually released as horror in the least year. It had a supernatural creature. It had atmosphere. It had murder. It had mutilation. It had suspense. It even had a scene of a man ripping off his own rotting fingers. It’s horror. It’s romantic horror but it’s horror.
The assumption that horror means low-brow or low-quality has tainted a lot of film and literature. I even, relatively recently, saw the works of Edgar Allan Poe, H. P. Lovecraft, and a collection of Ghost Stories for sale at Barnes and Noble with “Gothic fantasy” as a banner across the covers. No. These are horror. We need to accept that there are different types of horror and sometimes other genres can fit under the Horror umbrella. Horror should not be a genre regarded with shame. I knew someone who even insisted Dracula was “action adventure” simply because they, themselves, didn’t consider Dracula scary. But I digress...
Despite the fear of being labeled horror, it is a horror film that won Best Picture last year.
Another positive step in the world of horror came with the Netflix TV show Stranger Things. Stranger things was the first series I had seen (in a long while) set in the relatively recent past that wasn’t a parody of the era. Ever since the “hilarious” 1990s Brady Bunch movies people in Hollywood tended to look at the past and things set in that recent past as only fodder to be made fun of. This is how we ended up with the spoofish 2012 Dark Shadows. But Stranger Things broke this annoyingly long trend. Stranger Things was (and is) a loving and respectful and loving homage to 1980s science fiction and horror.
Even vampires are starting to improve. The Twilight trend created an obnoxious polarization of either broody and whiny teen vampires or near mindless predators. Vampires were even denied the power to transform into animals or summon storms. It was only after the Twilight fad began to die that I got to see vampires that were both predatory and also sympathetic. The best example of this being the version of Count Dracula as seen in Netflix’s Castlevania. And now Steven Moffat wants to attempt his own version of Dracula.
And now we come to the Halloween 2018 film. This film ignores the reboots and only acknowledges the first Halloween movie. And it seems to be doing well. Now there is talk of Robert Englund returning to the role of Freddy Krueger (Even though he said he was done with the role), and Tom Holland (Director of the original Fright Night, not the Spider-man actor) has officially licensed a new Peter Vincent comic book set in the original Fright Night continuity and ignoring the remake and remake’s sequel. Even Elvira has made a return with two new comic book series (the next one starts in January).
And even though Child’s Play is getting a remake that looks like a shameless cash grab trying to rip off Stranger Things, there is also going to be a Child’s Play TV series continuing the original franchise’s continuity.
Torture Porn and Found Footage have finally fizzled out. The cynical deconstruction like what you saw in Tom Cruise’s The Mummy has passed. Remakes and reboots are being replaced with franchise restorations. Vampires are both terrifying yet sympathetic again ala Castlevania’s Dracula. And they’re no longer being perpetually compared to Edward Cullen. (Honestly I was sick of the phrase “At least he doesn’t sparkle.”) Castlevania’s Dracula is tragic and human yet also fierce and terrifying all at once. His humanness actually only increases the viciousness of his quest for revenge. It’s really well done.
This is a great time to be a horror fan and not just because it’s the Halloween season. The dark flower of the Gothic horror genre has bloomed once more after years of trampling by those who just didn’t understand or appreciate it.
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