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Dracula’s Brides severed heads from Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1992).

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“She loves the wolf. She does not love the lamb. Not just any wolf. She loves the wolf that is capable of love. It is even more complicated: she loves the wolf who contains, hides or reveals an unexpected sweetness in his violence. The sweetness of the cruel is a greater sweetness.”

— Hélène Cixous, from Rootprints: Memory and Life Writing; “The Story of the Wolf who loves the Lamb he does not Eat,”

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Carmilla

Art by Ami Thompson

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Why try to fit in when I can become the most offputting and haunted individual in the family bloodline.

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oh darling, your blood looks so beautiful all over my hands

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i was thinking about how vampires are often surrounded by candles for aesthetic reasons but then i considered that they might also light candles because it's the closest they can get to experiencing the warmth and light of the sun and got so upset that i had to go outside and stare off into the distance with my hands behind my back for a while

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Would vampires be cold?

Yes they are dead, yes they technically don’t have blood running through their veins. But they are consuming warm blood. Wouldn’t they be a little warm? Wouldn’t they get warmer after a good meal? The hungrier they are the colder they are. Wouldn’t they be constantly doing everything they can to warm up?

I dare you to find a cozier creature than a vampire.

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"We breathe the light, we breathe the music, we breathe the moment as it passes through us." Anne Rice, The Vampire Lestat.

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ken taylor

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