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warm from the feed or just with interest, ira mock-chases after laszlo’s withdrawing hand, snaps his teeth together in empty air, a quiet but notable click. ‘ we could. i could find you, ’ airless, all promising, ‘ something pretty. ’

the snap is answered with a noise between a growl and a purr, all animal affection, returning his hand to ira’s jaw. something pretty wakes something beastly in the pit of his stomach. laszlo thinks about tearing and tearing and tearing. “ my love, ” tacit endorsement, voice rumbly, “ you do have wonderful ideas. ”

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just as pointedly, and just as uncaring, ira lets his head turn just far enough to catch the pad of dracula’s thumb in his teeth, and then release; not even hard enough to break the skin, though he could, if he wanted to. ( stronger with each passing year, and each time the small and petty things he used to think about dwindle further and further away - )

‘ what’s wrong? ’ mock cluelessly, ‘ did you want to share? ’

“ you’re usually such an impeccable eater. ” he raises his eyebrows, presses his thumb against ira’s teeth, against the points of them; he could, with the barest amount of pressure compared to years ago, and there’s an idle fascination in knowing that he would let him. in lieu of that, he draws his thumb back to his own mouth, tastes the clotting blood, ira’s saliva. “ leave the mess to me — although now you bring it to mind, it has been a moment since we’ve shared a meal. ”

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“ ira. ” voice rasping, tone firm, his hands catch at ira’s waist, snagging to hold him in place so that he doesn’t get up. or rather, to largely discourage the getting up; ira could go, if he wants, although laszlo doesn’t want him to. “ i did hurt your feelings, hm ? how can i make it up to you ? ”  —  @cruenn, from here.

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(waves) i remembered to exist!

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@cruenn​ liked for a starter.

“ ah. ” laszlo’s hand stays firm at ira’s waist, cool palm against what these days is a nearly equally cool body through the fabric of his shirt, but the fingers twitch and curl, nails biting into flesh. far from hard enough to draw blood, but pointed, as he lifts his other hand to ira’s jaw, cupping the fine line of it tenderly. 

          or - nearly as tenderly as the either of them ever get. there’s a very scant amount of self awareness, and wolves don’t tend to worry what the cattle think of them, but every now and then a stray thought does cross his mind and make him wonder what an onlooker would think of the way laszlo holds his bride. his thumb smears at the corner of ira’s mouth, at blood in the clotted, ugly place between fresh and dry. eyebrows lifting: “ you have leftovers on you. ”

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send “...didn’t know where else to go...”

for your muse to show up at my muses doorstep one night during a thunderstorm, shivering, bleeding & soaking wet.

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i am a luxury few can tolerate

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i am too tired to deal with dracula lurking in his stupid castle, just like this post if ur interested in a starter from dracula in the modern day

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~#6700 screencaps / episode from BBC Dracula.

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thinkin an awful lot about This tonight

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“ ...  in Victorian times, of course, there’s Bram Stoker’s devotion to Sir Henry Irving, reflected in the homoerotic aspects of Dracula (Dracula’s line “This man belongs to me!” as he warns off the female vampires and claims Jonathan Harker) ... ” — early gay literature rediscovered

“ Vampires, especially in modern American literature, film, and television, can be used as a “window” on gay culture of the corresponding era. [...] Vampires were also becoming more conspicuous in American popular culture in the ’20s and ’30s. Just as homosexuals seemed centered in specific areas, vampires were mostly limited to Hollywood films, and both groups were seen as “spectacles” by much of the public (Dracula on the big screen or a Harlem drag ball). Much of gay culture during this time was as flamboyant as was 1931’s Dracula, with his flowing cape, transfixing gaze, and heavy accent. Tod Browning, the director of Dracula, was himself gay, and much of his work centered on the position of the outsider. ” — vampires are us

“ ... treatments of Bram Stoker’s novel analyze its homoerotic desperation, unconscious desire, and deeply buried trauma. Not one critic, however, has recognised that Stoker began writing Dracula one month after his friend, rival and compatriot Oscar Wilde was convicted of the crime of sodomy. [ ... ] Wilde’s effect: an earthquake that destabilized the fragile, carefully elaborated mechanisms through which Stoker routed his desires ... ” — a wilde desire took me

“ It is easy to see how Wilde resembled the Count: Thanks to the rapid “Gothicization” of his personality throughout 1890s, Wilde came to represent numerous repressed values of the late-Victorian age. [...] The vampire figure did not portray Oscar Wilde per se: Rather, it stood for all the fears and fascination Wilde inspired in British society. ” — coming out of the coffin

“ At one point, Harker refers to his “strange night-existence” (Stoker 30), referencing his frequent all-night conversations with the Count. The word strange is footnoted, and its Victorian English homoerotic undercurrents are pointed out. ” — repression of homoerotic undertones in dracula

there are many hundreds more sources and examinations that could be made on this and that homoeroticism has always been prevalent in horror, particularly in the vampire genre — carmilla predates dracula by twenty-five years — but these are some really relevant highlights.

to me personally - trans queer nonsense abound - the act of writing dracula as a gay man is a kind of reclamation; reframing and re-writing him as the hero of his own story ( but yes, the villain of many other stories ) and as a gay man turns some of the things bram stoker was thinking about after oscar wilde’s arrest on its head, and is in defiance of stoker’s later-life homophobia that is kind of generally considered to involve a lot of self-hatred and repression

un-repress the vampire! let him out! just ... let him go!

and, to prove it’s not always that deep, i just love explicitly queer horror - i think it is one of the best kinds of horror - and dracula can take dick like a champ. dracula also said trans rights. that’s not relevant but he said it.

i kno it’s not in my info or anything ( because, why does it need to be ) but a salient point is that i do write dracula as a gay man. why ? because i’m incorrigible and cannot be stopped. and also for actual reasons, but i’ll write a real post later

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i kno it’s not in my info or anything ( because, why does it need to be ) but a salient point is that i do write dracula as a gay man. why ? because i’m incorrigible and cannot be stopped. and also for actual reasons, but i’ll write a real post later

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Katherine Arden, The Winter of the Witch

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— ... IT IS NOT THE FIRST TIME ... OR THE SECOND ... THAT YOUR VEINS HAVE APPEASED MY THIRST.  ( PSD ) 

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misc sentence starters

“  i wish i knew how to talk about it.  ”   “  you don’t have to talk, we can just sit together.  ”   “  i don’t want to be alone anymore.  ”   “  i wish i could hate you.  ”  “  take a seat, we’re gonna be here a while.  ” “  i need you to trust me.  ”   “  i missed/miss you.  ”   “  she/he won’t listen to me.  ” “  let me do this for you. please.  ”   “  is there anything else you want to say to me?  ” “  tell me something happy.  ”   “  promise me.  ” “  i just want/wanted to help.  ”   “  let me explain.  ” “  i didn’t/don’t need you to understand, i just wanted/want you to support me.  ”   “  i’m on your side.  ” “  i’ve got your back, okay? ” “  please, tell me you have a plan.  ” “  stay with me tonight.  ” “  don’t go. please.  ”   “  i’ve been alone for so long i’m afraid i don’t know what it’s like not to be.  ”   “  talk to me.  ”   “  i did what i had to do.  ” “  we can’t keep going on like this.  ” “  i’m just tired.  ” “  i’m scared.  ” “  it’s okay to be afraid. fear can be good. use it.  ” “  it’s better to expect disappointment.  ” “  hope is dangerous.  ” “  i like seeing you smile.  ”   “  you look beautiful.  ”   “  be patient with her/him. they’re trying. ”   “  i’m trying my best and it’s not good enough. it’s never good enough. ” “  i’m starting to think i’m just fucked up.  ”   “  have a drink with me.  ” “  she/he is better off without me. but i guess that’s their choice.  ” “  you can’t dictate what’s best for someone else. ” “  can i help you?  ” “  i thought you’d like this.  ” “  do you wanna get out of here?  ” “  walk with me?  ” “  well, shit.  ”

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dracula in a fit of the most abnormal possible behaviour: *yeets jonathans mirror out the window* jonathan: It is very annoying,

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BBC’s Dracula (2020) | 1.02: “Blood Vessel”