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Memento Mori Skull Ring, around 1600-1625

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i haven't watched Young Dracula in ages and yet i can still feel myself yearning for Vlad

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what if vampires were real and they were… freaky

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“There were three raven sat on a tree.” From an oil painting. Randolph Caldecott : a personal memoir of his early art career. 1890.

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Memento Mori- St Nicholas Church, Berlin.

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Need to take a week off where I just wander around whitby bearfoot at night and hope to God somebody bites my neck

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My vampires CAN walk into the sunlight but doing so would reveal what they would look like if they aged normally

Younger vampires don’t have much to worry about but older vamps have reason to avoid sunlight as they age. They are still immortal, but their aged, sunlit selves are significantly weaker than their non-sunlit forms. Vamps over 100 years old run the risk of crumpling over, fully immobile, but still conscious

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just tell me what you want to do, tell me what you want to burn away 'cause i could be your stoker —open up your heart like the gates of hell

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fuck it’s august??? what’s next? 2022???? can’t do this anymore

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"𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐢𝐬 𝐡𝐞𝐥𝐥? 𝐈 𝐦𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐢𝐭 𝐢𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐮𝐟𝐟𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐨𝐟 𝐛𝐞𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐮𝐧𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐥𝐨𝐯𝐞." — 𝐅𝐲𝐨𝐝𝐨𝐫 𝐃𝐨𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐞𝐯𝐬𝐤𝐲, 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐁𝐫𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐊𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐦𝐚𝐳𝐨𝐯

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Peak Vampirism on acrylic

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obsessed with the way that gothic horror is about horror but never directly. it’s not horrific because there’s a haunted house and that’s scary, it’s horrific because the monster isn’t a monster, it’s your grief, your loss, your pride, your desire, your fear. the monster skulking in the shadows, the darkness at the edge of the woods, the haunted house that is too broken to be a home—those are manifestations of events that grabbed onto the fabric of time in a fit of abject horror and clamped down so tightly that they couldn’t keep moving forward toward resolution and eventual dissipation like they were supposed to. it’s all about the scared child and the mourning mother and the hunger in your gut and the little emptiness in your chest at the end of the day. those things are all little horrors but you can’t approach them directly to understand them, so gothic horror gives us these little metaphors and says “here play with these for a while and see what you find.” and all of those metaphors need someone to go back to childhood to release them. you have to care, and be curious and clever, and look for a way to heal the hurt. you have to be so achingly human to survive in gothic horror

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White-winged vampire bat outer wing.

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 “ Bram Stoker’s Dracula, First Edition, 1897 Published in Westminster by the Archibald Constable and Company ”