#vampires on mulholland drive

[macabre-crab]

i don't have anyyyyy fucking idea when i'll finally finish one of the Many digital wips i have so i wanted to post these pages from my physical sketchbook LOL just some oc doodles and my friend's riddler design!

it's all stuff i've drawn within the past year, i don't do traditional much either so... 🤷

[scarletdreamers]

It's so hilarious to me how in queer media that actually accurately represents queer people (adults) there's always some kind of murder or other unforgivable mistakes involved??? Like, yeah that's my favourite genre, but why is queer cinema always some kind of psychological thriller/horror, especially the old stuff. Give us a minute to BREATHE please. Someone always DIES. I can name so many examples on this I'm actually going to write a paper on it asap, because I just think it's both so funny and interesting but also disturbing.

[spyboy2000]

𝙋𝙚𝙧𝙨𝙤𝙣𝙖 1966

[dykekingofhell]

on film: i want to dance!

[aroace-cat-lady]

I feel like hipster guys must feel when they see somebody drink organic tea for the first time.

[steveyockey]

While some of both Davis and Crawford’s work could arguably be described as camp (for the former, King Vidor’s Beyond the Forest; for the latter, later-era films such as Strait-Jacket and aspects of the wondrous Nicholas Ray film Johnny Guitar), that their entire careers and places within film history are defined as such does a disservice to their artistry. But they aren’t alone in representing what has become a troubling trend when it comes to women’s work. As camp entered the mainstream lexicon, especially after Susan Sontag’s landmark 1964 essay, “Notes on ‘Camp,’” the term has been increasingly tied to work featuring women who disregard societal norms. Camp is often improperly and broadly applied to pop culture that features highly emotional, bold, complex, cold, and so-called “unlikable” female characters. I’ve seen films and TV shows such as the witty masterwork All About Eve; the beguiling Mulholland Drive; the stylized yet heartwarming Jane the Virgin; Todd Haynes’s Patricia Highsmith adaptation Carol; the blistering biopic Jackie; the deliciously malevolent horror film Black Swan; Joss Whedon’s exploration of girlhood and horror, Buffy the Vampire Slayer; the landmark documentary Grey Gardens (which inspired the 2009 HBO film starring Jessica Lange and Drew Barrymore); and even icons such as Beyoncé and Rihanna be described as camp. Look at any list of the best camp films and you’ll see an overwhelming number of works that feature women and don’t actually fit the label. Usually, What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?, the film whose behind-the-scenes story provides Murphy’s launching pad for Feud, will be at the top of the list.

While camp need not be a pejorative, that hasn’t stopped it from being widely used as such. In effect, being labeled as camp can turn the boldest works about the interior lives of complex women into a curiosity, a joke, a punch line. The ease with which camp is applied to female-led films and shows of this ilk demonstrates that for all the (still-paltry) gains Hollywood has made for women in the decades since Davis and Crawford worked, our culture is still uncomfortable respecting women’s stories.

That major Hollywood icons such as Marlene Dietrich, Bette Davis, Joan Crawford (and, more recently, Natalie Portman, thanks to Jackie) have been roped into this lineage isn’t surprising. Society doesn’t know what to do with women of this ilk without discrediting their very womanhood. Take artist and filmmaker Bruce LaBruce’s offensive description of Mae West in an essay on camp: “[She] played with androgyny to the degree that her final performance — her autopsy — was necessary to prove her biological femaleness.” In his 2013 essay “Why Is Camp So Obsessed with Women?”, J. Bryan Lowder expands on Sontag’s most well-known line: “It’s not a lamp, but a ‘lamp’; not a woman, but a ‘woman.’ To perceive Camp in objects and persons is to understand Being-as-Playing-a-Role.” Lowder writes, “‘Woman,’ the concept within the quotation marks, is not the same thing, at all, as a real woman; the former is a mythology, a style, a set of conventions, taboos, and references, while the latter is a shifting, changeable, and ultimately indefinable living being. Of course, there may be some overlap.” But if all gender is a performance, where does the “real” woman begin? And why does the presence of camp hold more importance than the actual work and voices of actresses such as Crawford, who have come to be defined by it?

At times, camp can feel like a suffocating label. Its proponents often misconstrue the fact that recreating oneself as a character is not merely an aesthetic for women, but rather, for many, a matter of survival. Living in a culture that profoundly scorns ambition, autonomy, and independence in women, girls learn quickly the narrow parameters of femininity available to them. When they transcend these parameters, life can get even more difficult. Women often pick up and drop various forms of presentation in order to move through the world more easily. Performance as a woman — in terms of how one speaks, walks, talks, acts — can be a means of controlling one’s own narrative. Camp often limits this part of the discussion, focusing instead on the sheer thrill of watching larger-than-life female characters cut and snark their way across the screen. How these works speak to women, past and present, becomes a tertiary concern at best, and the work loses a bit of its importance in the process; it either comes to be regarded as niche or, if it still has mainstream prominence, as abject spectacle. In turn, the conversations around these works become less about the women at their centers and more about how those women are presented.

Much of Baby Jane’s camp legacy comes down to how more recent audiences have interpreted Davis’s performance. She’s ferocious, frightening, and grotesque. But framing Davis’s performance as camp, as Murphy does, doesn’t take into account how dramatically acting has shifted over the course of film history. In some ways, camp has become a label used when modern audiences don’t quite understand older styles of acting. Modern actors privilege the remote, the cold, the detached. The more scenery-chewing performances that make the labor of acting visible — such as the transformative work that Jake Gyllenhaal did in Nightcrawler, or most of Christian Bale’s career — is typically the domain of men. (Or, at least, it’s only men who can get away with it without being called campy.) As Shonni Enelow writes in a marvelous piece for Film Comment, “[Jennifer] Lawrence’s characters in Winter’s Bone and The Hunger Games don’t arrive at emotional release or revelation; rather than fight to express themselves, her characters fight not to. We can see the same kind of emotional retrenchment and wariness in a number of performances by the most popular young actors of the last several years.” Davis’s work as an actor was the antithesis of that; she painted in bold colors. Even her quietest moments brim with an intensity that cannot be denied.

[shisogelee]

@yvain tagged me to post my favourite first time watches of november <3 tysm!

anora (2024), midnight cowboy (1969), mulholland drive (2001), bird (2024), bodies bodies bodies (2020), humanist vampire seeking consenting suicidal person (2023)

tagging:

@were-rabbits @orla-mccoolgirl @eiqhties @devonaoski @putergenius @coldbrewgf @yasminhananis @macbethwitches

[itoldyatshirt]

My moodboards:

•Moodboards that I made for @siren-iv’s fics

•Moodboards for my writing

Letter to Patrick Zweig

Open

What happened to you?

•Challengers x other movies/tv shows

Tashi Duncan x Beth Harmon

Patrick Zweig x Klaus Hargreeves

Patrick Zweig x Fleabag

Art Donaldson x Nina Sayers

Vampires (Only lovers left alive)

Secretary!Patrick x Boss!Art x Boss!Tashi( Secretary)

Scooby Doo

The queen’s gambit

Fleabag

The White Lotus (Season 2)

Bridget Jones Diary

The devil wears prada

Black swan

Before trilogy

Alien

I love Dick(tv show)

•Challengers x different careers

Rock band

Teachers

Archaeologists

Orchestra

Circus

•More challengers moodboards

Happy new year

Tashi after the injury (post surgery)

Patrick

Female Patrick

Bisexual flag

•God’s own country

Johnny & Gheorghe

Johnny Saxby’s childhood and teenage years

Gheorghe lonescu’s childhood and teenage years

Life at the farm

•Moodboards inspired by other movies:

Cuckoo

The substance

Sound of metal

Inside Llewyn Davis

Nope

Dinner in America

Mulholland drive

Sorry to bother you

Queer

La chimera

God’s own country

[sapphoscister]

‼️ Introduction Post ‼️

Hello, I’m Andrea (she/her) !!!

I honestly have not used Tumblr since elementary/middle school and I am now 21 years of age lol. There was a time where I was heavily invested in fandom stuff, but I loss touch with it all over time. When Agatha All Along came out, it somehow reminded me of my old fandom days (not sure how to explain it). When I was younger I was interested in fandoms like SuperWhoLock, Arrowverse, The Vampire Diaries, Skins (UK), Teen Wolf, and Pretty Little Liars! This blog doesn’t really have a theme, it’s just here as an outlet for stuff I enjoy and I’ll likely do more reblogging than making content.

Notes: I use lots of exclamation marks, I love women, and I probably watch too many movies.

Below, you will find my general interests, but I can guarantee this isn’t close to all of them. Feel free to message me (I’m a loser lesbian with minimal friends so I’m borderline begging hahahahahahaha)!!!

Favorite Shows:

Agatha All Along - The Vampire Diaries - Doctor Who - The Sandman - Supergirl - Arrow - Titans - Smallville - The Haunting of Bly Manor - Fallout - Community - Daredevil - Jessica Jones - The Defenders - Wandavision - Loki - X-Men ‘97 - It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia - Teen Wolf - Clone Wars - Batman: The Animated Series - Batman Beyond - Bridgerton - My Adventures With Superman

Favorite Films / Franchises:

Blade Runner (original and 2049) - Pirates of the Caribbean - Scott Pilgrim vs. The World - Donnie Darko (Theatrical and Director’s Cut) - Mad Max (mainly Fury Road and Furiosa) - Suckerpunch - Stardust - Godzilla - Transformers - Drive - The Place Beyond The Pines - Labyrinth - Requiem for a Dream - Mulholland Drive - Star Wars (Empire Strikes Back, Revenge of the Sith, and Rogue One are my faves) - The Matrix - John Wick - Howl’s Moving Castle - The Fifth Element

(Superhero content separated due to the fact that I am a huge nerd and I’ve invested too much time in these things…)

DC (Live-Action): The Batman - Superman: The Movie - Birds of Prey - Zack Snyder’s Justice League - Superman Returns - The Dark Knight Trilogy - The Suicide Squad - Watchmen (Director’s Cut)

DC (Animated): Batman Ninja - Batman: Under The Red Hood - Teen Titans: The Judas Contract - Catwoman: Hunted - Justice League: Crisis on Infinite Earths Trilogy - Constantine: City of Demons - Justice League: The Flashpoint Paradox - Justice League Dark - Wonder Woman: Bloodlines - Batman: Soul of the Dragon

Marvel (Live-Action): X-Men: First Class - Logan - Guardians of the Galaxy 2 - Avengers: Age of Ultron - The Amazing Spiderman - The New Mutants - Deadpool - Black Panther -

(Note: I’ve grown up heavily biased towards DC due to the Arrowverse + animated movies and I honestly only collect DC comics. That being said, I still have a deep love for Marvel, mainly the X-Men and Defenders shows. I’ve watched all the movies and shows, with the exception of Secret Invasion…)

Favorite Ships:

Agatha Harkness / Rio Vidal (Agatha All Along) - Charles Xavier / Erik Lehnsherr (X-Men) - Kara Danvers / Lena Luthor (Supergirl) - Clark Kent / Lois Lane (I absolutely LOVE every version of them) - Harley Quinn / Poison Ivy (every version) - Damon Salvatore / Elena Gilbert (The Vampire Diaries) - Hayley Marshall / Elijah Mikaelson (The Originals) - Klaus Mikealson / Caroline Forbes (TVD & TO) - Klaus Mikaelson / Camille O’Connell (The Originals) - Kol Mikaelson / Davina Claire (The Originals)

Favorite Artists:

Radiohead - The Smiths - Carly Rae Jepsen - Lana Del Rey - Taylor Swift - Phantogram - Billy Joel - Barry Manilow - ABBA - Wolf Alice - Sabrina Carpenter - Arctic Monkeys - The Marías - Nirvana - Paramore - TV Girl - Grimes - Red Hot Chili Peppers - Childish Gambino - The 1975 - Coldplay - Kent - Anamanaguchi - Balthazar - Björk - Dominic Fike - Foster the People - Cage the Elephant - Have A Nice Life - Homeshake - Kylie Minogue - Ariana Grande - The Neighborhood - Momma

Favorite Video Games:

Tekken (faves are 3, 6, & 8) - Dead or Alive (5 & 6) - Soul Calibur (6 & 7) - Legend of Zelda - Pokemon (favs are BW, HGSS, DP, ORAS) - Fortnite - Skate 3 - Injustice - Arkham Trilogy - Scott Pilgrim vs. The World - Star Wars: Battlefront - Fallout (New Vegas & 4) - Saints Row: The Third - Bioshock

Other Miscellaneous Interests I’d Like to Mention:

Collecting vinyls, movies (preferably blu-rays), and dolls/figures or other merch related to my interests - handheld gaming devices (I have two 3DS’s, a Gameboy, a PSP 2000, and mysterious one from a thrift store. Hoping to grow the collection.) - movie theaters - journaling/scrapbooking - card tricks (I’m really bad at them but I wanted to make use of my 30+ playing card decks) - former Magic: The Gathering player (I don’t play competitively, just with friends) - poetry? (mostly for personal venting. not very good…) - reading & writing fanfiction (I’ve created outlines for several different stories but haven’t finished writing anything tbh. The second I do, I will likely post about it.)

Congrats, you’ve made it to the end!

I apologize for the length of this. I just wanted to make sure my interests were clear because I am hoping to make friends via Tumblr. I thank you deeply if you’ve taken time to read through this entire thing. Again, feel free to message me (please)!

[macabre-crab]

this was meant to be a warmup doodle and then it took me four hours to draw. whatever disability i have, i fucking hate it.

anyways! imagine having these two as your father figures, bro you are Not making it in the world

[most-screwed-by-writers-tourney]

Also, potential list of the yandere characters under the read more!

1. Cutthroat from Akudama Drive

2. Belphegor (Obey Me)

3. Griffith (Berserk)

4. Mimimi, Hypnosis Mic

5. Zenos yae Galvus from Final Fantasy 14

6. Shion Sonozaki from Higurashi

7. Yandere-Chan from Carflo + co's Yandere High School Minecraft Roleplay series

8. Luo Binghe, Scum Villain’s Self Saving System

9. Monica Campanella, Baccano!

10. Creed, Black Cat

11. Seiko, Blood on the Tracks

12. Makima, Chainsaw Man

13. Mao, Code Geass

14. Mariko Shinobu, Dear Brother

15. Mika Harima, Durarara

16. Akito Sohma, Fruits Baskrt

17. Shigure Sohma, Fruits Basket

18. Yuno Gasai, Future Diary

19. Satou, Happy Sugar Life

20. Yukako Yamagishi, JJBA Diamond is Unbreakable

21. Himiko Toga, My Hero Academia

22. Haru, My Little Monster

23. Oz, Pandora Hearts

24. Kuroi, Thou Shalt Not Die

25. Seishirou, Tokyo Babylon

26. Kish, Tokyo Mew Mew

27. Asami, Audition

28. Lucille Sharpe, Crimson Peak

29. Alex Forrest, Fatal Attraction

30. Jareth, Labyrinth

31. Annie Wilkes, Misery

32. Evelyn Draper, Play Misty for Me

33. Charlie Stoker, Stoker

34. Nellie Lovett, Sweeney Todd

35. Victor Frankenstein, The Dark Descent of Elizabeth Frankenstein

36. Frollo, Hunchback of Notre Dame

37. Erik, Phantom of the Opera

38. Fu Shenxing, Who is the Prey

39. Heathcliff, Wuthering Heights

40. Joe Goldberg, You

41. Missy, Doctor Who

42. Lestat, Interview with the Vampire

43. Kilgrave, Jessica Jones

44. Masato Kisaka, Kamen Rider 555

45. Siyun Baek, Dreaming Freedom

46. Tomoya/Sam, He’s Harmless I swear

47. Morae Baek, I don’t want this kind of hero

48. Lady, I don’t want this kind of hero

49. Yuta, Kubera

50. Thaddeus, Madame Outlaw

51. Yunsu, Trapped

52. JD, Heathers

53. Erik, Yeston and Kopit Phantom

54. Der Tod, Elisabeth

55. Callisto, Villains Are Destined to Die

56. Hannibal, Hannibal

57. Reinhart, I failed to oust the villain

58. Yul, Secret Alliance

59. Hananoi, A Condition Called Love

60. Naoka Ueno, A Silent Voice

61. Sumireko Hanabusa, Akuma no Riddle

62. Esdeath, Akame ga Kill

63. Dracula, Bram Stoker’s Dracula

64. Mashiro Mai, Dead Tube

65. Monika, Doki Doki Literature Club

66. Lucy, Elfen Lied

67. Juvia, Fairy Tail

68. Mimi. flip flappers

69. Akise Aru, Future Diary

70. Elena Aoki, Gleipnir

71. Hades, Hadestown

72. shuu iwamine, Hatoful Boyfriend

73. Luka, Alien Stage

74. LT. Oscar, Lupin the III, The Woman Called Fujiko Mine

75. Sumin Jeong, Marry My Husband

76. Reiko Ichijou, Migi and Dali

77. Diane Selwyn, Mulholland Drive

78. Harry MacDougall, Outlaw Star

79. Root, Person of Interest

80. Jackson Rippner, Red Eye

81. Kozue Kaoru, Revolutionary Girl Utena

82. Seyoung Jin, Surviving Romance

83. Sudou Kayo, Tailer of Enbizaka

84. Hayase, To Your Eternity

85. Tooru Mutsuki, Tokyo Ghoul RE

86. Kichimura Washuu, Tokyo Ghoul RE

87. The Creature, Lisa Frankenstein

88. Pig, Disco Pigs

89. Shinpei, Firefly Wedding

90. Aiko, Goodnight Punpun

91. Sal, Wadanonara

92. Jung, Cheese in the Trap

93. Khalid, From a knight to a lady

94. Margot, Gremoryland

95. Bibi, I love Amy

96. Kairos, I Shall Kill that Sweet Devil

[forthegothicheroine]

I keep seeing gifs of the vampire theater guy and thinking it's that creepy emcee guy from Mulholland Drive.

[sanguine-melancholia]

tagged by @feral-bookwoom thank u ilyyy

last song: 6 underground by sneaker pimps was on the radio, last song on my phone was pierrot the clown by placebo

favorite color: red

last book: last book i finished was flowers in the attic, last book i read was irrational man a study in existentialism

last movie: mulholland drive

last tv show: the good place

sweet/savory/spicy: savory but i do love sweet as well, especially when it’s fruity

relationship status: single

last thing i googled: perfume that actually smells like roses

looking forward to: i ordered some books for my birthday and they should arrive soon :]

current obsessions: lately i’ve been on an existentialism kick, especially the french existentialists. also into gothic literature, literature criticism and theory, vampires, and erotica/fetish art in history

[bradrotted]

intro !!

heyy, i’m ria !! i use she/her pronouns and i am a minor. i like to draw, edit, watch movies and talk about my interests..

my carrd: https://twinpeakssheriffdepartment.carrd.co/

MY MAIN INTERESTS !! (at the moment): brad pitt, twin peaks 1991

my other interests: fight club, once upon a time in hollywood, inglorious basterds, se7en, interview with the vampire (1994), saw, mulholland drive, primal fear, ocean’s trilogy, brokeback mountain, dogma (1999), good will hunting, breaking bad, babylon (2022), bullet train, whiplash, the boys, american psycho, suspiria (1977), house md, and more!

music: nirvana, hole, deftones, radiohead, alice in chains, nine inch nails, fiona apple, the smiths, korn, limp bizkit, soundgarden, the smashing pumpkins, cocteau twins, slowdive, the doors, the beatles, pink floyd, jeff buckley, foo fighters, jack off jill, veruca salt, mazzy star, fleetwood mac, the velvet underground, rage against the machine, system of a down, meat puppets, pantera, jimi hendrix, megadeth, sublime, the offspring, the cure, oasis, portishead, massive attack, aphex twin, the breeders, type o negative

other stuff: my favourite colours are blue, grey, and orange, i LOVE history, especially the 60s + 90s, and i am bisexual!!

TAGS I USE !!:

original posts: #ria stuff (me)

my art: #ria’s art (me)

inbox/asks: #ria’s inbox (me)

polls/games: #ria’s polls (me)

OTHER SOCIALS ARE IN MY CARRD !!

[vilecemetery]

tagged by @mrsmiroir for top 9 films i saw for the first time in 2024 🖤

-the cabinet of dr. caligari (1920)

-humanist vampire seeking consenting suicidal person (2023)

-onibaba (1964)

-death defying acts (2007)

-eve's bayou (1997)

-the watermelon woman (1996)

-sleight (2016)

-mulholland drive (2001)

-the raven (1963)

tagging: @the-angry-acrobat @ducksoup1933 (ik you’ve alr been tagged like twice lol) @no-1-rosalind-lang-apologist @afilmbykirkk @butterflypython @sparklykat-hideoutenthusiast

[infirmux]

well i did not enjoy saltburn overmuch and she HATED mulholland drive lessons to be learnt from this such as "your tastes are wildly incompatible & you ought to stop bringing each other movies" which shall be ignored for the sake of peace betwixt our houses i am going to lock her in a room with Requiem pour un vampire next