#of course vampires are real

[lizardkingeliot]

my favorite thing in the world is when everyone calls sam and jacob out, actually

[camellcat]

"cordelia could you please drive me home?" "of course" OF COURSE she replies to buffy, softly, without hesitation. even if she goes right back to harping on about the world ending, of course she'll help buffy. head in my fucking hands

[smalldicksantiago]

nothing tells me how insane taylor swift fans are then watching them beef with a fictional vampire man

[allegoryofthebeast]

This is not even me being annoyed but it is genuinely so interesting to me how anyone could see how Armand had complete control over not only his coven but an entire restaurant full of people when Santiago started that fight w/Louis and then… Armand…somehow… was defeated by the Vampire Sam and the scary coven when it was time to kill Louis and Claudia. It felt so obvious he was lying and was a masterful way to introduce doubt in a chilling way for the audience to try and reflect if anything Armand has claimed so far to be true

[bleubeurre]

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[marypsue]

Because I am literally never not thinking about weird meta, blurring lines between reality and narrative, and the whole concept of actors becoming their characters, I am now entertaining thoughts of a Shadow of the Vampire-style story wherein a late-2010s-style all-female The Lost Boys remake gets derailed when the lead actress suddenly starts not showing up to shooting because she's sleeping all day...

[mlmgaze]

daniel waking up to marius kinda starting to press into him and, after getting his bearings, his first move is to ask sleepily if marius had another dream about daniel getting hurt. marius says no, and after a second daniel asks if marius had a dream about armand getting hurt. and marius just freezes (because of course obviously that's what it is because marius dreamed again about armand going into the sun and he wants to feel comforted and reassured but armand isn't here and daniel is and daniel is still blood of his blood and *i am dragged away by the guards)

[lestatthevamp]

[winepresswrath]

The thing about show!armand is that his great evil* wasn't about him obsessively doing anything he possibly could to keep Louis it was looking at Louis and thinking "maybe if you don't actually care very much about me I shouldn't burn my whole life down over you and your treasonous daughter I'm annoyed with." It didn't have to be any more vindictive than that. His baseline state is monstrous; he kills people in elaborate little plays every night for enrichment and group bonding. I definitely think he put a couple little extra vicious twists in there for the love spurned but really at the end of the day the worst of what he does to Claudia and Louis is withdrawing his protection and treating them like any other victims.

*season three pending

[mayhemchicken-varneyposting]

"You are much mistaken. On the constancy and truth of Charles Holland, I would stake my life." "No doubt, no doubt." "Have you spoken now that which you had to say?"

Well good for Flora not having the moral backbone of Coppola Mina when it comes to strange tall guys trying to woo you away from your fiance

Yeah his voice being like music to her is probably intended to be a vampire power like how it's (more subtly though) making a vampire literally irresistible in Dracula

The trick is that, for as much as Varney is the vampire Dracula adaptors so desperately want Dracula to be, Varney is still never intended to be any kind of romantic object - quite the opposite, in fact. He chases love in much the same way Team Rocket chases Pikachu, which is to say, no matter how sympathetic or lovable he comes across as, he is going to fail, and you are supposed to root for him to fail. The way the story is structured, Flora and Charles' love for each other is never called into question - and it sure kinda sucks how much worse the "subversion" of that story feels when it's supposed to be "more progressive", huh? It's almost like cheating on your fiance doesn't have anything to do with feminism or smashing the patriarchy. Imagine that.

It's a good reminder that a modern retelling of a work isn't automatically "more progressive" simply because it's modern. You have to actually, you know, put some thought into it, and pay attention to what parts of the original are actually harmful. Otherwise, like Coppola, you somehow end up in the embarrassing position where you've managed to tell a worse love story than James Malcolm Rymer.

(Personally, I think there are plenty of characters you could give a Sexy Liberating Dark Romance arc with Varney, but Flora isn't one of them. Even if we *sigh* restrict ourselves to heterosexual pairings, there are a whole slew of maidens to choose from in the back half. My top pick is Margaret Meredith, because I think it would be really funny. He should teach her how to grift and defraud people.)

[iguessyouregonnamissthepantyraid]

really desperately want to write a psychological thriller/horror novel where you think it's about a vampire slowly and deliberately taking over a small town with the help of his nefarious human familiar and you follow the brave cluster of townspeople who figure them out and resolve to rise up against them, but as the plot progresses you become less and less certain about the vampire's intentions and less and less certain that any of the mysterious deaths in town were his doing at all and less and less certain that this plucky band of townspeople are really doing the right thing here, until suddenly you're watching in horror as the heroes you've been rooting for this whole time break into this guy's house, murder his best friend, and try to drive a stake through his heart

[oui-maitre]

god you know this whole show has been building up to the trial. in episode 6 we briefly see Claudia and Madeleine being happy and then the trial starts and you can't help but think 'Claudia had barely left the nest, she deserved to have more time'. but of course that's the tragedy. the parent burying the child, a perversion of natural order. Claudia was inspired (at least in part) by Anne Rice's daughter who died at 5 from leukemia. there is no version of this story where Claudia lives.

[baba-o-riledup]

aaaaah im rereading tvl and oh my goddd when marius shows up and lestat is having such a Shit Time but then marius is everything he ever imagined him to be and is sweet and ethereal and beautiful and has his little mischievous smile and, most of all, loves lestat back. like, god, imagine

[outlying-hyppocrate]

fun fact about timelines! there is, in fact, a vampire timeline (222). very few changels have ancestry tracing back to it, and vampire genetics are almost as rare as human ones from 46. most notable traits found in changels stem from the elven timeline (45) and the hybrid timeline (3152).

[featherymainffins]

Trying to remember where I first encountered humanity as a horror to see if this has a root the same way you can trace literally all of my thirst for fictional characters back to WITCH, but ngl I genuinely cannot remember anything like that.

[oracleofdiscord]

by the way, i have been watching iwtv (the tv show version) and there are a lot of wild moments in there but for i think that so far the wildest one was when i realized that the show seemed to be heavily implying that irish author and playwright samuel beckett, creator of waiting for godot, was a member of the theatre des vampires