#vamp laura

[swedenis-h]

Some vampire girls from my gothic literature!

(Top left drawing: From top to bottom, left to right: Carmilla Karnstein, Lucy Westenra, Laura Hollis, Mina Harker, Claudia de Pointe du Lac!)

[annabelle--cane]

last episode of s2. aaaaa. what's really getting me right now is lucy, obviously I already knew how this episode would end because I've seen it before but I did find myself semi hoping that she would make it out alive because I think the prospect of adding a monstrous human to the human monster dynamic has some real potential. lucy killed four people with her chamber and blew up thirty-one more in the funeral parlor, which actually leaves her final kill count (35) above mitchell's latest killing spree (that police guy + the coroner + box tunnel twenty + four weird priests = 26). laura, mitchell's narrative parallel in the first season, ends her arc by getting him to kill her so she can't hurt anyone else, and lucy, his parallel for this season, ends her arc by telling him not to try and get her to a hospital after being fatally wounded because she wants to die. hmm I sure hope nothing bad happens to this guy at the end of next season.

[aestheticallybloody]

“I saw a solemn, but very pretty face looking at me from the side of the bed. It was that of a young lady who was kneeling, with her hands under the coverlet....”

“She caressed me with her hands, and lay down beside me on the bed, and drew me towards her...”

Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu's Carmilla 1872

[parsleyartist]

Explaining more about the Vampires! I felt like I owed yall a guide. I finally was able to write it down and illustrate it in just one single day haha! I need sleep.

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[corvidcrowned]

biggest change I’m making to Carmilla’s personality in my webcomic is making her kinda a huge freaking nerd abt nightlife. She is dragging Laura around to look at flowers that only bloom when the sun sets. She’s showing her the constellations and nocturnal animals. She’s a creature of the night and she has so much love for flora and fauna that thrive under the moonlight ok<33 she’s documenting her findings n shit too.

[folansstuff]

The fact that we didn't get a Dazzler and Boom-Boom Blood Hunt mini to round out the X-Terminators gals with Wolverine and Jubilee's minis is honestly such a bummer

[the-crystal-femmes]

Do you collect/like having plushies? if yes, of what?

I do! I actually have a colony (bat plushies). I have 17 bats.

There are some not in this image or hidden, which are: my beanie buddies bat-e named Lugosi, And my palm pals bat named Finley.

[widowshill]

VAMP ROGER AU QUESTION! how would he and barnabas interact together (if they ever interact)? :3 💜

tagging @tortoisesshells because she's my co-conspirator <3

excellent question! this family and their sharp-toothed men will be the death of ... well, several community members of Collinsport, i suppose.

to start — Barnabas gets out of the box slightly differently than in canon, which colors his relationship to Roger and the rest of the household. Roger kills Willie after his attempted assault on Carolyn and Vicki (who is, by that point, his wife); Willie's mysterious disappearance and Roger's suspected involvement makes Jason that much more panicked, desperate, and correspondingly aggressive. Liz goes searching for the lost family jewels in a last-ditch attempt to buy Jason off, and, inadvertently, lets their ancient family sin out of the tomb.

ergo she's made Barnabas' thrall instead of Willie, but this goes unnoticed for a while — even though her brother would, in theory, recognize the signs, and his suspicions are raised, but she's already acting so much unlike herself with Jason around that he doesn't suspect anyone else of doing her harm. yet.

at the start, he and Barnabas get along very well, even before they discover their shared affliction: they're both relatively sophisticated, well-traveled, intelligent people, and for all that Roger decries Liz's emphasis on the Collins name, he leans towards familial connections instinctively (Roger hasn't got much in the way of friends outside of the house even in canon, and he's even more isolated as a vampire).

after he finds out Barnabas is also a vampire, things get a little more complicated, but overall, they're still friendly. Roger doesn't have much sympathy for Barnabas' relentless self-pity and decrying his doomed fate to live as a monster, because Roger on the whole enjoys his vampirism and has made a decent un-life for himself out of it (thanks in no small part to Vicki). but having someone like him around is a comfort in ways he wouldn't have expected, he's no longer solitary or uniquely monstrous out of the Collins family, he has someone else around through the night, and someone who understands the sufferings of bloodthirst and being shut out of the sun.

furthermore, Roger's very much interested in his family history and stories of the past, the building of Collinwood, Jeremiah's ships – and Barnabas was there. there's potential for some very interesting conversations about the past, and the arc of the Collins family history to the present, not to mention literature, travel, fashion, politics and the rest. Roger's his cousin's mirror in modernity in many ways, and that's something potentially interesting to explore: the world changes around them, but Collinses do not.

as an aside, they both have a funny sort of relationship to Burke. Barnabas hates him for his resemblance to Jeremiah and envies his friendship with Vicki and thinks he's crude, and Roger ... well. it's complicated. it's closer to antagonism than not, and Burke has tried to kill him once in this au, and Roger resents his flirting with Vicki, but then there's everything else with their past. so I don't think Barnabas' treatment of him would sit particularly well with Roger, he'd take the attitude of hey, only I can be a dick to Burke >:(

the definite fracture point is Barnabas imprinting on Vicki. Roger's already jealous and possessive by nature, and it's amplified by the supernatural nature of his relationship to Vicki (being closer, bodily and mentally; being necessary to each other; being, quite literally, sustenance) so he's already a little on edge when Barnabas starts paying attention to her, giving her presents, and appreciating the scenery — Barnabas doesn't, exactly, tend to have much in the way of moral inclination to leaving women alone when they have prior engagements, but it's fair to point out the irony of everything Roger was doing with his bloodbag governess when he was still very much a married man.

anyway: Roger finds foreign bite marks on his wife's neck, and he's understandably immensely upset by this. partially out of territorial sentiment, but he also knows Vicki, and he knows that she wouldn't have invited another vampire willingly — which means that she was forced, or hypnotized, or attacked in secret, and there's only the one potential suspect. this is already enough to lose his good will, but he might have been willing to let Barnabas go with a "hands off," had this discovery not lead to finding out what he'd also been doing to Liz. the combination of the two is unforgivable, and it's Barnabas' error to have made an enemy who is very personally aware of all his vampiric weaknesses, and Burke's already carved a stake.

[rearranging-deck-chairs]

also, about carmillas control of her vampirism, while it's hot to think about, i dont think fangs actually come out during sex. like in the s3 scenes where shes actually still a vampire that we dont get to see but i dont think that happens

based on my inferences that the losing control of the vampirism happens mostly bc of anger/threat and it basically never happens atlaura and i think one of her worst fears is hurting laura, i think during sex is the least likely time for any loss of control like that

+ theres the fact that laura is the bitey one during sex, even with human teeth

[mayhemchicken-varneyposting]

in Varney the Vampire, there is approximately 1 female lead per story setting, but discounting all the little vignettes there are 2 main ones (Clara Crofton and Flora Bannerworth). clara dies in her section, but flora lives, begging the question...

in dracula there is a cowboy and the female lead lives. in nosferatu there is no cowboy and the female lead dies. ergo, the existence of a cowboy is highly important for the survival of the female lead in a gothic vampire story.

[nerdasaurus1200]

i just noticed the red eyes on Laura. Is she a vampire too?

In TOWL, yes. I’m still working out how exactly but Carmilla turned Laura to save her life. So because of that they’ve been together for decades.

[aestheticallybloody]

“I never knew what life was until it ran out...”

“In a red gush over my lips, my hands...”

Anne Rice’s Interview With a Vampire; Louis.

[parsleyartist]

The Vampire Queen and her wife ❤️

[cry-ptidd]

because they’re dumbasses. hope this helps ❤️

hellsing werewolves fanlore

- unlike vampires, there are no conditions (such as virginity or gender) to turning someone into a werewolf

- the bite scars very slowly, and permanently stays a dark red mark instead of the usual skin-like tone

- the bite is terribly painful, but the curse can be avoided if the bitten body part is cut off with a silver blade before the transformation process starts

- the reason they’re so rare when the curse is so easily transmitted is because most people die during the transformation process; it can take over a week of excruciating pain for the body to fully adapt, during which the signature abilities are gained; however if the person is weak or sickly, they will most likely die because of the sudden changes

- the newly turned person will be bedridden for up to two weeks during the transformation, during which their hunger and mental state will go out of control without enough willpower

- the person stops aging once they’ve gotten a taste of their first human flesh

- the instincts change during the process ; for a person to stay "themselves" during and after it they have to have an undying human spirit

- the size of the wolf form varies from person to person

- the full moon is only a power boost

- holy items are no use against them, but silver is deadly and scars them permanently

- physical traits that change after the transformation include : body pilosity, teeth shape, eye color and iris shape, ear shape, fat/muscle mass

- human meat is more nutritious to them, if they don’t eat it enough they can become weaker

- silver through the heart is the one true way to kill a werewolf; a shot to the head will slow it down tremendously, but its body will heal slowly if not properly disposed of (one knows the werewolf died for sure if they erupt in blue flames like vampires and other undead do in the series)

[charmmsydiary]

sapphic vamp series 🧛🏻‍♀️🦇🩸 Carmilla & Laura, Marion & Lisavet, Christabel & Geraldine

[bugsb1te]

drawing me and my mutuals: day one, laura!

today I drew myself with @batsbolts-andfangs !!! vamps one of my favourite mutuals <3 /p /pos

im a pup so im quite small so keep that in mind when thinking of the size comparison between me and it :3

did you know: the common vampire bat is only 2 inches long? with a wingspan of 8 inches!

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