#votbm

[retracexcviii]

Sunday Moon

Hi there dear fellows and Luna lovers. Sunday is here.

Don't edit this drawing and don't post it anywhere.

This really lovely Luna was made by an artist that is active on the fandom to support Palestine.

The artist is @/cinnajer on Twitter.

[lynnlyrae]

been a while since I drew Luna but they and their little family are precious to me🤲

lowkey based on “Vampyr” by Munch but it is mostly because I liked the title

[grelleswife]

I’m quite curious to know who the “dangerous friends” who made Luna’s attire might be…and the special properties with which said garments could be imbued, since Vanitas emphasizes that Amelia should use a particular type of fabric to “mend the gloves and the cloak.” 🤔

Back in Mémoire 49, Luna mentions that “families of alchemists and magicians” tend to have amicable relationships with vampires; perhaps the clothes were provided by one such group of mortals?

[acediathemelancholy]

Hmm... this one panel explains so much about the economic structure of both human and vampire society. And once again, it goes back to the event that created vampires (and astermite) and the vampires’ fear of the Vampire of the Blue Moon. 

The vampires want astermite out of their realm because of its alleged connection to the Vampire of the Blue Moon. The humans take the astermite in exchange for yet unknown goods. The humans became reliant on astermite as a power source, which only comes from areas where humans cannot enter alone. The vampires are also likely reliant on this trade with the humans. It would also explain why the vampires in the most recent chapters were offering work to humans and the vampire slave traders that ended up picking up Noé despite their overall disdain for humans: because they need humans to mine the astermite for them.  

It also explains why even a group as fanatical about slaying vampires as the Church has at least until recently mostly at least pretended to comply with the treaty. After all, money talks. And Noé and Vanitas’ little excursion in the chasseurs lair proved that even they are heavily reliant on devices powered by astermite. 

Tl:dr: Vampire society likely has the resource curse (à la the real life Gulf States that likely doesn’t produce anything of note other than energy and relies on outsourced labor to even produce that) and human society is completely dependent on an energy source they have no control over. And it’s a recipe for disaster

[vanitasnocarteconfessions]

"I am fed up with Luna's prounouns's discourse saying the fandom and the character misgender them. It's clear that Luna being non gendered as more to do with the plot than gender identity since them being neither male or female allows them to fill the lack of fatherfigure for Misha and the lack of mother figure for Vanitas. This keeps reminding me of stupid discourse just because the translation uses them to translate the neutral pronouns in jpn that can be used in any context. Headcanons are fine, but don't push it please and in Luna's case, it's clear you can refer to her as a she or he or they because they are intented to be seen as that : a creature whose identity depends on how they are perceived."

[i-prefer-the-term-antihero]

Extra beautiful in your style!!

"Most beautiful creature in the world "

Watercolor and ink on cold pressed paper

It's no secret that I've been absolutely enamored with Luna since the first reveal of Memoire 49, and I absolutely agree with the Shapeless One,they truly are the most beautiful creature in the world 💙. I'm somewhat more satisfied than last I drew them!

[zakuryoishi]

i love luna so much they're such a pookie

[lovemails]

mochijun was really making an effort to make votbm Distinguishably androgynous

[retracexcviii]

Sunday Moon

Hi there dear fellows and Luna lovers. Sunday again.

Don't edit this drawing and don't post it anywhere.

Well, someone save me from this wonderful and ethereal piece of art. The artist made a wonderful work with this Luna, love it.

You can find him like @/Verbartt1 on Twitter and Instagram.

[azapofinspiration]

Wasn’t Misha and Vanitas being injected with VOTBM’S blood also described as making them an unstable existence or something along those lines?

And eventually the world or the World Formula would catch onto the aberration and essentially erase them and that’s why they were going to die unless they found a cure of some sort (or accepted Luna’s offer of making them kin as that would help stablize them for now but ultimately fully change them into something else).

I haven't seen anyone else point it out yet, but this line has to be alluding to something important, right?

I can't think of any context in which the description of "unstable existence" could apply to a normal vampire like Noé or Dominique, but we have seen talk of "stabilizing existence" back with Naenia in Gévaudan.

There's no way to know what's wrong yet, but something is *up* with Teacher. And based on "how long have you been like that," it's possibly a newer problem that he's developed since the last time he saw the lady Archiviste.

[lynnlyrae]

Saw that trend and instantly thought about Luna

[panvani]

The Luna and Faustina are twins theory is another very very silly easily disputed one that nonetheless sticks around because people really want to be able to put 2 things together and pat each other on the back

[thermesiini]

I REMEMBER what i was going to say. vanitas (character) is also vanitas (concept) and an allegory for a cycle of systematic suffering and abuse that exists haplessly and without purpose. noé right from the start is in denial over the existence of such useless suffering (thinking he can save mina) and continues to deny this by writing the case study of vanitas, his futile attempt to scrape off some meaning from such a bleak allegory. while he can understand that killing vanitas is a form of salvation for him i don’t think that can come to terms with the fact that vanitas did suffer at all. so to write the case study of vanitas, trying to go over the events of their lives together, and trying to piece together vanitas the person he ends up disrespecting his existence altogether, simply by over scrutinizing it. vanitas did not want to be remembered. by saying he wanted to erase the existence of the votbm, he is saying he wants to erase his suffering from this world. what noé does with the case study is essentially immortalize it, because he is selfish, naive, and wants to understand something inscrutable. rather than taking comfort in the fact that vanitas can continue to exist in his memories, like how he will tell him as he dies (i won’t die noé even if i’m no longer here) noé bastardizes these memories and turns them into something almost masturbatory

[retracexcviii]

The sweet blue moon family 🥺🥺🥺 I am love tyvm

Happy Holidays, @retracexcviii !

I finally got to do @vncsecretsanta this year! It was fun going back to fandom art and I love seeing the Blue Moon fam happy for once. I hope you enjoy!

[mysticnightmarestarlight]

did this for a contest on Twitter and thought I'd share it here too

[azapofinspiration]

I just talked about this on Twitter but —

You ever think about how interesting it is that Vanitas (and the Vampire of the Blue Moon) are accented with silver (including the hourglass charm in the manga version), which is supposed to be a weakness for vampires in most vampiric lore.

Silver is often used as a symbol of purity which often makes it an effective tool in lore against many supernatural beings (such as vampires, werewolves, undead, etc.) and it was considered a naturally occurring solution to getting rid of these problems. That’s why silver bullets work on werewolves and the undead can be kept back with silver.

With vampires, silver is said to burn and paralyze them in a lot of lore. Despite its frequency the actual effectiveness of silver on vampires can range from being enough to kill them from the burning purity of the metal to effects similar to a bad allergic reaction. Overall, the effects are not as bad as sunlight but can still be effective to deter them.

Most commonly, silver was used to bind and entrap vampires until they could be killed with other means (if the silver itself isn’t enough). A convenient trap and a way to hurt them all in one.

Similarly, silver is also why vampires often wouldn’t reflect in mirrors due to it being used as the base of a mirror’s reflective properties. Basically, they were too “impure” to show on the “pure” metal.

I say all this because I wonder if these properties are why Luna, Vanitas, and even Misha have silver accents and accessories. Because with their association with the Blue Moon, they’re supposed to be the destruction of vampires in the series. Or at least according to their world’s lore.

Because to vampires, silver is deadly.

Bonus:

Also, correct me if I’m wrong but even with all the vampire nobility we’ve seen, while they were other precious metals and jewels, I can’t recall anyone who wore silver. Gold most certainly, and probably what’s meant to be bronze.

But I think silver has been reserved for the Blue Moon Clan.