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mr gerrymandering keay, as the people wanted

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no one fucking warned me about queen of the damned ... everyone is all 'rats in blender' this and 'phone calls to paris' that but where was the forewarning about armand sacrificing daniel's mortality in order to save his life!!! where was the heads up that in the end armand's centuries-long vow couldn't hold out against his desire for daniel's eternal companionship!!!!!!!!!!!

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love when a man has dark brown eyes and an air of impending doom about him

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Eclipse

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TW insects it's time to learn all these drawing rules or something………but i'm too lazy

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Dnd npc sketches (+ my friend @toastrovn’s pc fang!)

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keeping vigil

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spider priest concept... they don't bite!!

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The newbie's falling for the former captain of the guards ❤️‍🔥

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oh armand we’re really in it now

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the vampire armand, ca. 1500, venice

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armand & daniel sketch pages

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some jonno sims

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Jon in a band headcanon save me

Save me Jon in a band headcanon

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more vampires.....

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“#I read so many gay Victorian love letters and books to get the tone right lol #Plato‘s symposium reference was THE way to signal you liked men in the late 19th century“ would you mind sharing some of your sources? 👀 I also want to write gay Victorian fanfiction am just naturally curious about the victorians

Omg 1000%, let me cite my sources:

Strangers: Homosexual Love in the Nineteeth Century by Graham Robb - this book is a treasure trove of well researched information. A lot of queer history focuses on men and I really appreciate all the stories about women in this one. It’s 20 years old and by (as far as I can tell) a straight author, so there’s some limitations - a total lack of awareness of bisexuality and trans identity - but I really enjoyed it regardless. There’s also like four pages where he discusses Sherlock Holmes as an iconic gay protagonist that changed my brain.

Fanny and Stella by Neil McKenna - a heavily researched story of two trans femmes in Victorian England, the crossdressing trial that scandalized London, their sisterhood and surrounding community, and the love triangle they were involved in. It’s written in a VERY fun and gossipy way, with a ton of primary sources, and is such a compelling story! This author also wrote a book about Wilde I haven’t read yet.

Gay History and Literature by Ricor Norton - it’s a website, not a book (I can’t find his books except at really high prices!) but it’s an obsessively compiled list of…basically…what it says on the tin. There’s a collection of gay love letters and newspaper clippings that are fascinating to read!

The Portrait of Mr. W. H. by Oscar Wilde, heard of him? This is my favorite Wilde story! It’s about the theory that Shakespeare’s sonnets were written to a young man, and how the desire for proof drives a man to death, and the frustrations and joys of looking for yourself in long-dead writing.

Before Queer Theory: Victorian Aestheticism and the Self by Dustin Friedman - reading this book felt like making my brain lift weights, but it was really interesting - it’s about the Aesthetic movement and how modern queer identity began in the nineteeth century.

Maurice by E. M. Forster (not technically Victorian but close) is a story written in 1913 about gay love (published in 1971 and dedicated to “a happier time” 🥲). It gave me some ideas about how a confession could play out. Plato’s Symposium is used as a pickup line, of course.

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the vampire armand, ca. 1500, venice