#ranting about vampires

[generalsdiary]

technically, there are many kinds of vampires in fiction.

are we talking about twilight vampires, in which case they're basically made of rock/ice, so always rock hard? (pun intended)

or are we talking about the vampire diaries vampires, in which case their hearts do beat, albeit slowly, and they keep their bodily heat by consuming warm drinks/food.

of course there are also vampires with cold bodies with paused decomposition who don't have beating hearts, in which case they wouldn't have such an ability.

moreover, there are vampires in for ex. the Dark Heroine by Abigail Gibbs, who are royal families that procreate, and they behave as supernatural humans (with the need to consume blood); warm bodied.

another mention would be vampires in shadowhunters who are simple reanimated corpses with no heartbeat. a conclusion can be made they might have the physical ability to "get hard".

food for thought.

Ever since I saw your vamp/were aventurine/ratio i have come to have a question of great importance that nobody has answered. /hj

Can vampires get hard?

... They are undead. Their hearts don't beat I believe. Can they? If so... how?

This question is haunting me. I don't know why I've not thought of it before. I don't know what about your silly pretty comics made the question arise in my mind when I've been awere (ha) of them for so long.

Feel free to ignore and delete in case you are uncomfortable or such.

he can blush so i don't see why he can't get hard

ask ratio for the details he's the doctor here

[erebus0dora]

something something a chat i am in discussing the loneliness of Armand who needs someone to define him and see him, so

"...it was ghastly and awful and loathsome, and beautiful all at the same time."

and yeah i kinda just want to give ppl hugs with anything i do and talk to them in hushed tones, so there you go

[lizardkingeliot]

Oh, love. I'm merely waiting until you're happy. So hurry up, mon cher.

[ohitslen]

*Vampirizes your Vashwood*

keep reading for more :)

If there needs to be much closer close-up please let me know!

[tenderjock]

I’m with you, my love The lights shining through on you Yes, I’m with you, my love It’s the morning and just we two

[pleaseinsertwittyurl]

There are always 2 sides.

The discourse around Louis and Lestat being a victim and abuser and nothing more drives me insane.

Something i don't think enough people remember is that the very same reason the fight began in 1×05 (lestat grabbing claudia by the throat when she tries to "take louis away") we see Louis himself do to her in 1×07 when she tries to get Louis to burn Lestat.

They BOTH would harm her rather than live in a world without the other. They are both guilty of abusing her and each other.

There is an implication that a good deal of time passed between Louis and Lestat meeting and the church. Louis expresses that he shares himself with Lestat in a way he only had with Paul. I would assume that goes both ways, to a degree. We know Louis knows at least enough about Nicki to discourage Claudia poking that wound. He also clearly knows that the threat of leaving is his most powerful weapon against Lestat.

Mental abuse is abuse. And Louis abused Lestat mentally for years. Shaming him, ridiculing him, shutting him out, manipulating him into making Claudia (a traumatic moment for him, whether Louis understands the depths of it or not) by promising to give him what he's being denying him, promising to never put him through what he fears the most.

Louis admits to purposely making Lestat suffer. He admits he was warned that Claudia would suffer and he wanted her anyway because he needed to feel redeemed. He is not innocent. He is not a trapped, weak victim. He made choices to hurt both Lestat and Claudia time and time again.

Does this justify Lestat's actions in 1×05? Obviously not. But we now know Louis was not willing to stop the fight. He taunted Lestat the same way he taunted the Alderman. He was unleashing years of frustrations just as Lestat was. His priority was not to protect Claudia, it was to hurt Lestat, consequences be damned.

I hate the drop scene as much as the next person and Lestat has admitted he will never earn forgiveness for what he did. But if you view Louis as some squeaky clean victim who was manipulated, trapped, and abused by Lestat you are missing so much of what this show is conveying.

We will always tend to paint ourselves as the hero of our own story. It is hard to accept your faults or that you hurt people you love. It is much easier to shift that blame on to someone else, to frame them as the villian. But life is not usually that black and white. Claudia had harsh words for them both in her diary, even before they got to Europe, for a reason. They both made hurtful mistakes with her, both treated her like a pawn in their relationship instead of a person, both harmed her, took away her choice, never prioritized her.

That is the great tragedy. That she never had a choice and was not allowed to be her own person. And in the end, they both are responsible for her misery and her death. That's what makes the reunion scene so important. They have been grieving her and carrying that guilt alone, all the while longing for the comfort of the other for 70+ years. Louis has found clarity in his memories, he has accepted his role in their suffering, he has seen Lestat's perspective more fully. Lestat is broken, totally consumed with that guilt and grief. Both know that although they cannot change what they've done, they can forgive the other, even if they can't forgive themselves. They can love each other despite everything they've done to one another because they cannot stop loving each other. But now they can try to rebuild that love from the rubble.

[hellspawnmotel]

[arrowheadedbitch]

The worst part of mbav getting canceled is we'll never know where they were going with Ethan

Like they alluded to him being way more powerful than anyone knew yet and then it just ended

They all blew up and it was over

WHAT WERE THE OTHER SEER POWERS GONNA BE

[gilbirda]

hot take but we as a society need to be more comfortable about discussing "icky" parts of history, and even telling the side of the "bad guys"

hear me out

history is written by the victors, and will be heavily biased. The defeated will be painted as evil, deviants and/or like they have always been "the bad guys".

Reducing people to "the bad guys" does a huge disservice to the opportunity of learning from the past, because it creates a distance between the modern reader and the actual events, it creates the comfortable position of "I'm not like the bad guys, so i will never make their mistakes"

I think is important we understand how and why people believed in something, and where did things turn a certain way. Yes. Even "the wrong side". Even the nazis. Even those people you are thinking about, whoever they are.

Because you are not immune to propaganda and it's so so so so important to understand what happened and how did we get to those points before we fall to the same techniques again and again.

"Learning from the past" isn't deleting the ugly parts or cringing when someone brings up war. Thinking otherwise is a huge mistake and precisely what someone who wants to make the same mistakes wants you to think.

[v4guelyv4mpiric]

i love when the ship is

one disabled guy and one able bodied guy working together for years to help those with similar ailments and being so dedicated to each other that the woman love interest feels almost like she's intruding*

VIKTOR ASSENDING TO GODHOOD IS LIKE MICHAEL BECOMING A HALF BAT SCI-FI VAMPIRE

AND JAYCE HAVING TO USE A KNEE BRACE AND UNDERSTANDING VIKTOR'S DISABILITY FROM EXPIRENCE IS LIKE HOW EMIL WAS TURNED INTO A REGULAR VAMPIRE AND FEELS CLOSER TO HOW MICHAEL DID WHEN HE WAS HUMAN

*clarifying. the relationship feels intrusive, not the woman herself. i would never speak of Martine and Mel like that

[sharksandsquirrelsandsnakes-ohmy]

Stiles, having been kidnapped again: And, honestly, that's why I'm scared to ship any two Star Wars characters ever again before seeing their family tree. I mean, I don't want the franchise to end up like Game of Thrones— dying of incest-born diseases and poor write—

Kidnapper: DO YOU EVER SHUT UP???

Stiles: No really, no. Maybe if I'm unconscious but I've been told I talk in my sleep too—

Kidnapper: Shut up!

Kidnapper: Fuck this. This isn't worth the money. Get out!

Stiles, having already untied his own restaints: Man, I thought it was going to take you longer to let me go. Didn't even get to all the Percy Jackson characters being cousins.

[platoapproved]

for @dancinbutterfly who requested this, but also any non tvc book readers who may be curious... here's some excerpts from the scene in the vampire armand where a bunch of guys are bidding for which one of them gets to fuck amadeo and marius encourages it / treats it as a game / commands amadeo to kiss one of them while he kills him. imho this is a part of the text the show writers likely drew inspiration from for the idea of marius 'donating' amadeo.

for reference, these are all taken from chapter 5! so @dancinbutterfly you can direct your friend who doesn't believe this was in the text there.

how do i even begin to content warn for this, it's so fucking BAD. i guess the usual tva warnings for grooming & csa, sexual assault, pedophilia, kind of incest?, slavery, just... marius bein' marius y'know. (IT'S REALLY BAD. like i do just want to emphasize for anyone who has not read tva it's quite explicit and upsetting plz be aware):

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[ryanthel0ser]

[lizardkingeliot]

I liked taking photographs. It took my mind off things.

[its-placeebo]

MARIUS DE ROMANUS?

STUPID IDIOT MOTHERFUCKING MARIUS DE ROMANUS GOD DAMN FOOL BOOK COLLECTING DUST EATING RAT OLD BASTARD SHITHEAD IDIOT AVATAR OF THE WHORE BIGGEST CLOWN OF THE CIRCUS LAUGHED OUT OF TOWN COWBOY MOTHERFUCKING MARIUS DE ROMANUS

[mrghostrat]

I love the idea of vampire!Aziraphale. I imagine him still being a bastard about it too. All other vampires wear black but it washes him out so he doesn’t. He prefers to drink blood out of a teacup because straight from the neck is unseemly. Etc.

YOU GET IT... angel aziraphale is basically a vampire already, keeping his old clothes and books he's gotten attached to over the years, and hiding away for weeks at a time while he indulges new music with the shades drawn

my aziraphale is very gothic romantic about it: he doesn't kill anyone, that would be cruel and unnecessary (and he doesn't want the........ blood on his hands). he's a "creep in your window and feed off you while you sleep" kind of vampire, and moves on after a few days when his target starts to weaken too much. at worst, they'll think they have a bad flu.

he definitely robbed a blood bank once, and keeps his store in emptied out bottles of Châteauneuf-du-Pape 😂

(crowley can't be hypnotised)