#silvia the vampire

[asterhaze]

OC Writers Block

Thank you @mthollowell-writes for the awesome tag here!

I have already answered this if it was for the three main characters of Masterpiece. If you'd like to know what the main cast of Masterpiece would do to help me get through writers block, you can read that here! However, there are many other characters in the story and I'd love to explore them.

Julien would literally throw a book at me from across the room and tell me to find inspiration somewhere if we were alone. If there were other people in the room, I'd like to think he'd pick a book off of the shelf and hand it to me. I'd tell him "You know, I've read that book a million times." And he'd just smile behind his scarf and point to his nose.

Silvia would sit at a table with me, pen and paper in hand, and we'd have a long chat about everything until we worked through my writers block. She'd talk to me about all of the shitty romance books she's read, try to convince me that my book just needs a little more romance, and eventually I'd have a bright idea and the writers block would be all over even though I won't be adding any more romance to Masterpiece at all. (I love her)

Finch would tell me to delete my book in a fit of rage and then write it all over again. "If you love your book so much, why can't you write it again????" He's an idiot. Do not do that.

Robin would snap at him for being a turd and tell me to write anything and everything until something sticks, like I've been doing. "Don't give up on something you love more than anything!" Robin is also an idiot and I don't reccomend anyone else do this unless it works for you. It is a total time sink and is why I have over a thousand pages of discarded Masterpiece related nonsense. But it works for me, so maybe Robin isn't so stupid after all.

Gently tagging my favorite people once again: @doublegoblin (I am always going to tag you, okay?) @veetvoojagigthemagnificent @poetinprose @goldxdarkness @m-r-levine @gummybugg @pinkchaosstories Please don't feel pressured and let me know if you'd like for me to quit tagging you <3

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ALICE

[sarcastic-clapping]

i haven’t stopped thinking about the implications of daniel saying armand’s martinis were better than Real Rashid’s or the fact that he mentioned how good the martini was in season 1. why would a 500 year old vampire be so good at making a martini exactly how this old man likes???? i’m going insane

[weirdlookindog]

El mundo de los vampiros (1961)

[silviakundera]

Does it feel like they're trying to redeem the dickless bore? idk if he's doing a con on her or they're showing he has real feelings for her wasn't the novel different?

One thing I'm really noticing in the Princess Royal (Grand Princess) adaption is that they will 'play it straight' with characters like Su Rongqing and the Emperor: giving the character similar dialogue and facial expressions as they would have in the novel -- except without PWX or LR's internal dialogue of 🙄 why u lying???

🙄 lol ok sure

😒 oh i see, back on your bullshit again

😤 the AUDACITY

😬 oh shit oh shit danger BE COOL

The consequence is that if you take everything at face value, the Emperor seems like a reasonable guy and not up for The Absolute Worst Dad award. Under the surface, the novel reader knows he is acting out a play and coldly calculating every interaction with Li Rong, the Crown Prince, and Consort Ruo. Every single scene with him, Li Rong is in peril and she knows it. She's pretending to be his sweet, obedient 19 year old daughter who believes in him and is following Pei Wenxuan's direction and acting as a puppet, making moves that he has already approved PWX to make. The Emperor's pretending that this play isn't supposed to end with LR and the Crown Prince taken down & the power transferred into Consort Ruo and the other prince's hands.

The viewer can just interpret all the words coming out of a character's mouth as facts & just believe everything they claim about their motives/real agenda as true. Or they recall the implied horrorshow of Life 1 and view all of these interactions with a cynical eye, questioning what else could be under the surface.

With SRQ, that guy is so fucking complicated. I think actually he's portrayed in character. Nothing we have seen isn't .... him. At least so far, as of ep 19 he aligns with the novel.

But 3 different factors: A) The music is romantizing him; B) The audience is given a couple internal-thought voice overs from him, which other antagonists don't get; C) With those voice-overs, the screenwriter has chosen to affirm his love for his brother and LR way earlier than the reader has it confirmed in the novel (where he is intentionally kept a total mystery for far longer, while the reader is the math lady meme, trying to piece together clues to figure him out).

And ultimately, when in SRQ's PoV in the drama, we have to deal with him being the hero of his own story. He is absolutely sincere about himself and, as has been revealed, in his own way he's sincere about wanting LR and his brother to have a good life this time around.

So does that mean the writer intends to do a swerve in the narrative arc and redeem him in the end? It's totally possible. Maybe?

However, not necessarily.

#1 There is a certain refrain from many of the great cnovel/drama villians: I had no choice! You all forced me to this!

We saw it from Shen Yurong in The Double, we saw it from Meng Yao/JGY in The Untamed, and in the novel (and I presume in the drama), we're gonna see it from Su Rongqing.

And it's the reason why they become villians who can't be saved. Because so many people suffer in life or experience unfairness. But they don't turn around and use this as an excuse to enact horrible cruelties on others.

Out of the billions of people in the world, few have no problems but so many of them actively chose to do good, or are willing at least to turn back and be better.

#2 imo the reason LR has historically been bad at reading people's hearts but has an exquisite read of SRQ, his flaws & darkness, is THAT'S HER FUCKING MOM. And I do think ep 16-18 put that out there in the text, if you're looking for it. He and the empress are the same sophisticated aristocrat who is clever & educated but with a narrow perspective limited by their privilege and desperate need to maintain the status quo. So sorry bro, but no wonder she might have settled for marrying you in the first life if you wanted to, but she was never gonna fall in love with you 💀.

PWX can see that SRQ loves her and he thinks that matters, so it scares him. LR has tender nostalgia for her empress mother and her former companion but she's all too aware that their love for her will not necessarily get in the way of stepping on her to protect the social structure of a powerful aristocracy class operating at a higher level above the peasants and restraining the throne. To them, this is safety and stability that guards the realm.

(ofc both those characters are complex and when it comes to LR's life & death we can't be confident on what they will always choose. that's part of what made all the palace drama aspects of the novel incredibly suspenseful. So many of the suppporting characters are layered and tho everything they do makes sense when it happens, you can't often predict people's hard choices when their back is up against the wall)

Story of Kunning Palace and The Grand Princess say that caring about people and trying your best to understand them, wanting what's best for them by listening to what's best for them, can make a huge difference. But not everyone is willing to change.

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Van Helsing (2004) dir. Stephen Somers.

[gennsoup]

He loved the sound of her voice, like incense. It belonged in vast, elegant rooms lit with candles and strewn with fragrant, pale flowers.

Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Certain Dark Things

[iolaussharpe-24]

Actors I want to see play vampires in something because I love bloodsuckers

Sebastian Stan - The Covenant is what made me think this initially. Hearing that (at one point at least) he wanted to be Dracula and tried using the fact that he's Romanian to make it happen just makes me smile. There's fanart, fanfiction, manips, and AMVs that help me know that I'm not alone in this line of thinking.

Mads Mikkelsen - Did you know that he's actually in a vampire movie? He's not a vampire from what I can tell, he's a vampire hunter, but that's still something to think about. It's called Nattens engel (or, Angel of the Night) from 1998. Nikolaj Coster-Waldau was also in this movie. Speaking of which....

Nikolaj Coster-Waldau would be a good vampire in something. Tell me I'm wrong. He has the charisma for it.

Adam Driver - Hear me out! Look at him in The Last Duel, The Man Who Killed Don Quixote, and the poster for Hungry Hearts if you don't agree, and then get back to me. He's big, he's sexy, he's got that nice deep purr of a voice, and the Reylos agree that's why there's already art and fanfiction of it! Somebody please give me Adam Driver Dracula I'm begging you!!!

Eva Green - Stop giving me Eva Green witches and give me a bloodsucker! She. Would. Slay. That. Shit.

Cara Delevingne - It's the eyes that do it for me.

Abbey Lee (Kershaw) - I don't want to profile, but look at her. Tall, sexy, scary, she's perfect!

Oscar Isaac - Annihilation convinced me. And the little bit of The Card Counter I saw. And the little bit of Big Gold Brick. And a really good chunk of Moon Knight. Look, just trust me. I know what I'm talking about.

I like my vampires to walk that perfect line between sexy and scary. If you disagree, you're wrong. Simple as that. And here are my favorite examples just to prove my point.

I have more examples. A lot more. But only thirty pictures are allowed per post and I wanted a structure. Sexy/scary vampires are the best vampires. I love the scary ones, I love the sexy ones, but the ones that can be both are perfect.

I love vampires.

[houseofgiallo]

Silvia Colloca - Van Helsing (2004)

[taymartiart]

I FINALLY FOUND A LESBIAN ROMANTASY I LIKE

Contract Bound by Elle Mae

[irina-irina-irina]

Haydée Politoff, Silvia Monti, Ida Galli

Queens of Evil (1970)

[angelina8611]

well I made a lot of Mickey Mouse OCs this year a lot of girls and a couple of boys

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A few books with Mexican Aztec/Mayan vampires!

[weirdlookindog]

El mundo de los vampiros (1961) - Italian photobustas

[good-books-to-read]

Thirst for Vampire Books?

The Beautiful by Renée Ahdieh

Set in 1872 New Orleans, the main character Celine has run away from Paris with a dark secret, now hiding in convert, yet the bustle and charm of New Orleans could be hiding something much more sinister.

The immortal rules by Julie Kagawa

A YA dystopian set in a walled city, and there is not only Vampires but Zombie Vampires as well. The main character Allison struggles to survive with her crew and only thing keeping her going is her hatred for the vampires that keep them like cattle.

Empire of the Vampire by Jay Kristoff

Is an adult book that is a dystopian written like a high fantasy novel, it starts of with a man Gabriel being interviewed by a vampire from there it bounces between past and present as the vampire tries to piece together the knowledge for it’s mistress.

Certain dark things by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

Set in Mexico, this book has many different kinds of vampires in it, the main characters are a jaded vampire on the run and a young man who collects garbage.

The coldest girl in cold town by Holly Black

A YA novel, that starts with the main character waking up in a bathtub after a night of partying only find everyone killed but a beautiful boy and her Ex, which leads to a road trip with the two that starts a chain of events that can’t be undone.

[boypussydilf]

huge shoutout to the empress eyes for establishing that ice kings diary goes so far back that it has entries from when, so far as we can figure out from context, simon was still somewhat sane. Meaning that 1. he has NOT written in that very much to still be using the same book after literal centuries 2. This ^ Is Simon’s Diary