#vampire infection

[dazaiiiiiiiiissss]

For a project in my stats class :3

[im-not-buying-it-ether]

Billy Batson, who got his sixth case of vampirism in his lifetime, cracking open a bottle of coconut water: Aint gonna get me this time either universe!

Joker, straightjacketed up in his cell: Something funny is happening and I’m not involved…

[viscericorde]

incredibly well-adjusted vampires. i like the dynamic these two have very much <3

[kozzdraw]

Pages from Deku's creature chronicle... part 3

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[jayktoralldaylong]

Seeing Lestat again in Season 2 really reminded me how much Armand broke him. No one has been able to make Lestat cry the way Armand makes Lestat cry. And that's saying something cause his abusive parents and Magnus came before Armand, but no one has matched Armand's level of crazy.

And I think it's because the other tortures were...brief?

He ran away from home, the abuse from his parents stopped. Magnus died and that stopped too. Armand, meanwhile, has decided to dedicate the rest of his immortal existence to torturing Lestat. It has become his favourite pass time.

"Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned."

Even the scorned women are learning work from Armand. 💀

Everything about Armand just messes with a person's mind.I t's the way he's not even chasing Lestat around for me. 😭😭😭

He really like "I'm old enough to be your biggest problem by staying in the same spot for 5 centuries." And he was right. 💀😭

I hear the next season is gonna be The Vampire Lestat and oooooh boy. 💀💀 People are about to discover just how terrible Armand can be. Baby's name gonna be dragged in the mud when the secrets get out. Gonna see if he can gaslight his way out of this one.

(Who am I kidding? Bro was torturing Louis and Daniel AND still had us feeling sorry for him. He can gaslight his way out of anything.)

[annabelle--cane]

things tma and being human have in common

doors that weren't there before

cold invisible sad people who compulsively make tea

monstrous metaphors for trauma, addiction, and abuse

wolf-coded homeless vampire hunter duos composed of not biologically related parents and children

theses of "even if all attempts at humanity are eventually doomed to end in bloody failure the time spent trying still matters"

the saddest british people you've ever seen in your life (and mitchell!)

[xmoonlitxdreamx]

Concept that i vaguely think abt sometimes but i dont exactly know how to execute... ouji vampire mercy

[edworm-cullen]

I know we all love the idea of twilight actually being a horror story. I like to think it’s not magical horror, but biological.

What if venom isn’t merely a chemical compound that alters the body, but a living thing? A bacteria or virus, even a parasite, that rapidly rewrites the dna of its host until the body is more suited to sustain the Venom.

The changed human would need to keep some of its instincts and memories in order to ensure the survival of the invading body, but ultimately those memories are only electrical signals maintained in a host that is nothing more than an altered shell—a fossil, frozen in time. An opalized form merely maintaining the approximate shape of its host.

The Venom’s first instinct is survival, and it needs new blood in order to be sustained. Human blood is better because it’s from the organism the Venom parasitizes or infects. Its second instinct is to reproduce, which is done through the infection of a new host.

The Venom doesn’t have a brain or at least not one capable of philosophizing or making moral judgements. The fact that its host was human and still maintains some of those memories is the only reason the vampires in twilight are able to approximate human emotions

[lizardkingeliot]

Me: I’m fine

The fading hallucination of Lestat de Lioncourt on a loop in my head for the past 24 hours straight: you might not know this but I had the tailor inscribe your initials on the back side of the ticket pocket right here so your name would always cradle my heart you might not know this but

[incorrect-hs-quotes]

Karkat: I REFUSE TO ACCEPT THE SHITTY AND ARBITRARY DEFINITION OF LIFE THAT MAKES VIRUSES NOT ALIVE. FUCK YOU THEY ARE ALIVE 

June: Things are heating up in the virus fandom

Jade: that’s called a fever :D

[yourwonderful]

Uh hi salutations!!! Here are some of the fandoms and shows im interested in!!

Audio role play channels I watch:

Goodboyaudios

Escapedaudios

Yuurivoice

ObsidianLantern

Yuzuya

Shining Armor asmr

Shows I love:

My babysitters a vampire

Total drama

Hazbin hotel

Helluva boss

The amazing digital circus

Other things I'm into so far

Percy jackson

Greek mythogly

Mr plant!

Epic (circe saga is best saga)

Infection Au's

Saw

(If you want to talk about any of these with me I will be more then happy to!)

[vickyvicarious]

Then, with the fear on me of what might be, I drew a ring so big for her comfort, round where Madam Mina sat; and over the ring I passed some of the wafer, and I broke it fine so that all was well guarded. She sat still all the time—so still as one dead; and she grew whiter and ever whiter till the snow was not more pale; and no word she said. But when I drew near, she clung to me, and I could know that the poor soul shook her from head to feet with a tremor that was pain to feel. I said to her presently, when she had grown more quiet:— "Will you not come over to the fire?" for I wished to make a test of what she could. She rose obedient, but when she have made a step she stopped, and stood as one stricken. "Why not go on?" I asked. She shook her head, and, coming back, sat down in her place. Then, looking at me with open eyes, as of one waked from sleep, she said simply:— "I cannot!" and remained silent. I rejoiced, for I knew that what she could not, none of those that we dreaded could. Though there might be danger to her body, yet her soul was safe!

So yesterday I wrote about how the land itself seems to be affecting Mina. Ever since they left the main road behind and began to approach the castle, she has seemed distinctly more vampiric. But this scene marks the start of another change, I think. Before this moment, she's in the same state as yesterday. When they travel, Mina's fully passed out throughout the day, and she gets alert at night. She's extra charming, she refuses to eat. She isn't aggressive, but she seems to hold an unnatural stillness and attention, much like how she lay where Van Helsing asked her to sleep the night before but simply watched him all night long. She's very quiet.

And then as he puts the holy ward around her, Mina starts to get very pale. The way she does so, and the way she gets paler as he completes this task, seems almost like she is being harmed or frozen by what he is doing. In fact, it reminds me a bit of what Lucy did when the men trapped her outside her crypt:

When within a foot or two of the door, however, she stopped, as if arrested by some irresistible force. Then she turned, and her face was shown in the clear burst of moonlight and by the lamp, which had now no quiver from Van Helsing's iron nerves. Never did I see such baffled malice on a face; and never, I trust, shall such ever be seen again by mortal eyes. The beautiful colour became livid, the eyes seemed to throw out sparks of hell-fire, the brows were wrinkled as though the folds of the flesh were the coils of Medusa's snakes, and the lovely, blood-stained mouth grew to an open square, as in the passion masks of the Greeks and Japanese. If ever a face meant death—if looks could kill—we saw it at that moment. And so for full half a minute, which seemed an eternity, she remained between the lifted crucifix and the sacred closing of her means of entry.

There are a couple key differences, of course. Mina lacks the rage that Lucy exhibited, and she isn't trying to get away. But something about the way they both just silently freeze and watch as the holy articles are used to keep them trapped feels very reminiscent to me. Also, Jack's entry says Lucy's color "became livid" - and while that word can simply mean angry, it can also be used to mean either reddened or pallid/pale. Given the association with color in how he uses it, I assume it would be one of those. So this could also be a potential connection here, if Lucy also paled in that situation.

But then when Van Helsing gets close to her (I think after he has finished the circle) Mina's reaction of clinging to him reminds me a lot of an entirely different moment: one between her and Jonathan on October 2.

The dear girl was more affectionate with me than ever, and clung to me as though she would detain me; but there was much to be talked of and I came away.

Jonathan was putting Mina to bed (where Dracula had attacked her and would come again) so he could go talk vampire-hunting with the other men. He was actively trying to convince himself throughout this period that the choice to leave her out was correct despite his own misgivings, and Mina herself was also trying not to show how much it bothered her. Still, the only other time Mina is described as "clinging" to someone was when she tried to stop Jonathan running off after Dracula on the 3rd. It's not something she typically does, and I highly suspect it was not just out of affection in this instance. Instead, there was some part of her, suppressed though it was, that knew she was in danger and was terrified to be alone. Mina clinging to Van Helsing here could be related to her fearing for him (as she does a short while later) but I think given her behavior right before this is more easily aligned to another instance of unconscious dread for herself affecting her. The holy circle has affected her and perhaps she fears it, or maybe she fears what its affect on her means. But it's unconscious. She doesn't know why she's doing it and can't express it in words.

Then Van Helsing asks her to leave the circle. And as soon as she does, she wakes up. She freezes in realization, and then she understands. This is Mina coming back to herself much more than before. The holy circle restraining her sort of acts in the same way seeing her scar in the mirror did in the past, by awakening her to the danger her soul is in. But it also does something else, I think, and this is where I get more speculative.

After Mina is put into the circle, her behavior starts to slowly change back. She's not straight back to normal, of course. But she is no longer being super charming during the night. Instead she sits calmly, knowing why she must stay in here. When the vampire women show up, she knows how safe she is from them - both because of the circle and more importantly because she is becoming like them. And yet she does not reply to them, and she expresses her worry for Van Helsing. She looks at them with revulsion and horror - seemingly unaffected by their sweetness.

And while Mina still falls into a deep sleep during the day, she is able to wake at some point in the middle of the day to let out the wail that awakens Van Helsing from his own trance. I suspect that this was around noon, given the significance of that timing, though we don't know for sure. Regardless, she seems to be acting extra-psychic, knowing when Van Helsing is in danger and knowing of Jonathan's approach. This seems less like vampiric magic and more like Mina's own psychic abilities to me. But the real kicker is how she looks when Van Helsing returns: bad. He tells us "She was looking thin and pale and weak; but her eyes were pure and glowed with fervour. I was glad to see her paleness and her illness, for my mind was full of the fresh horror of that ruddy vampire sleep."

After a day spent within the holy circle, Mina appears more human than she has lately. And perhaps some of that is the effect of the day itself (but that hasn't been mentioned the past few days) or maybe the death of the three nearby vampires has lessened the evil influence of the area (seems quite possible, but the change in her started before this). But I think a big part of that is the holy effect surrounding her helping to cleanse at least a little of the vampiric magic within her. It's not going to be enough to heal her, not without Dracula's death, but maybe it slows the process down a little, or at least protects her somewhat from the ambient evil aura that seemed to make her symptoms so much worse so suddenly.

[lady-lorienn]

Twilight had been acting strange after she confided in her friends regarding a frightening “encounter” she’d had one night during a diplomatic trip to Canterlot. Eventually, she rarely left her castle, or even her bedroom, at all.

One night, as he’s trying to sleep, a distant sound from the entrance hall startles Spike awake. Eager to catch even a glimpse of Twilight and see if she’s okay, he leaves the safety of his own room and braves the darkness of the castle in search of her…

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Finished piece for another Discord pony art jam! The theme this time was “monster ponies,” so of course I took the chance to draw a spooky vampire

[ladder-ghost]

[y-rhywbeth2]

Random thought of the day: It would've been very awkward if anybody got bitten by a werewolf at Cazador's place.

[pinacoladamatata]

the Tav that's out here balduring my gate