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A Clutch of Vampires - art by Edward Gorey (1974)

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One man’s mundane and desperate existence is another man’s Technicolor.

Strange Days (1995) dir. Kathryn Bigelow

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forever grateful i was simply too lazy to let the makeup industrial complex get its hooks in me. I was just like im not doing all of that. in fact. im doing none of that

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sorry if i’m being a party pooper but because rabies is apparently the new joke on here ??? please remember that rabies has an almost 100% fatality rate after symptoms develop so if you’re bitten or scratched by an animal that you aren’t 100% sure is vaccinated then GO TO A DOCTOR. it’s not a joke. really. 

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they dont tell you this but like half of adulthood is just washing the same FUCKING pan

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Not to bother you, but I'm still obsessed with your pointing out that monsters are rarely positioned as a default underclass. Say what you will about 9x20 Bloodlines, but a distinct underclass the monsters are not. Not in manner or speech, attitude, or dress!

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I must admit that I find it very difficult to pay attention to Bloodlines 😭 but YEAH idk why things have gotten so turned around on this where people jump to assume monsters are by default positioned as underclass when they so rarely are! It puzzles me! So many of the MotW episodes are about what are essentially serial killers killing people supernaturally. Then when monsters get organized? Oh boy. You have the angels who I think probably qualify as the most bigoted monster group (with a small handful of notable exceptions), seeing absolutely everybody as beneath them, and humans especially as playthings they are entitled to kill and coerce and manipulate and harm, and when they are denied their "right" to engage in that behavior, they become self-righteous and indignant about their "toys" defying them. Then you have the Leviathan who set themselves up as 1 percenters and try to take over the world and rule over humans as a whole as a lower class they manipulate and feed upon. Then you have the vampires (lead by the alpha) who essentially want the same thing just also with a sexual gratification element (in fact working with the Leviathan until they get double crossed). Then you have demons whose whole operation revolves around coercing people who are often in terrible emotional and/or financial positions into selling their souls. Then you have stuff like werewolf cults and the Stynes who are basically white supremacists, and don't even get me STARTED on gods and the bullshit they get up to out of their obnoxious sense of entitlement and superiority. The first witches we met were a group of catty trophy wives living in the suburbs. Our first shifter was a serial rapist. Everybody's favorite cultural appropriation "kitsune" Amy Pond justifies murdering addicts by saying she has a mortgage. The show was never trying to tell as anything as simple as "Monsters = the underclass" and it's boring to try and simplify it down to that to make things neat based on a few cherry-picked episodes.

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A drawing of Puck, Titania and Bottom from "A Midsummer Night's Dream" illustrated by Charles Buchel, 1905

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John William Waterhouse

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Sara Eliza Johnson, Vapors

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Actually no one should be having sex. All of us are aged-up minors and the passage of time is inherently problematic

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Fucking Serena Jooooy

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Butch Comix Vol. 1

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BLOODSUCKERS

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REAR WINDOW dir. Alfred Hitchcock, 1954

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Royal Doulton, Tango Pattern Art Deco Trio Tea Set - 1930s

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