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my hungry ass could never stay at an all-girls' campus

-Carmilla

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shaking mina like a maraca

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Baron Vordenburg: "We simply can not know how the Vampire performs the impossible task of leaving her tomb"

Carmilla:

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DOG MOSAICS (From Italy and Greece ××)

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Happy birthday Dracula!! 🥳 Here's to hoping that it won't take another 128 years to finally get an adaptation that does Jonathan's insane fight response justice-

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This vendor at the queer bookfair nearly leaping at me and saying "finally another non-white person please stay as long as you like. I feel haunted by all these white people" lmfaooooo

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Carmilla+Harrow (thanks to ur tags)

Weird dykes with communication issues slayyyyyyyy

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what sort of styles do you see more modern times laura preferring? she wouldn't still have her father and governesses around trying to push her into a proper English lady (tm). though upbringing can be too ingrained to change too much too

On scale of ‘casual’ to ‘date night with my wife’, here ya go!!

I think Laura’s usual wardrobe after all this time oscillates between ‘cool butch in the woods’ and ‘cunty prince of darkness’. My butch agenda. Pls trust. Also since she’s wolf and also bc f my personal headcanons. I think she likes hiking and takes a bunch of precautions even tho she doesn’t rlly need to<3 carmilla comes when it’s a night walk (sometimes Laura has to carry her tho) (neither of them mind this)

anyway. I think Laura after ten years was so fucking ready to break free and do her own thing and then just . Did not know what to do with fashion for a while. But luckily there’s a lot of queer vampires out there so she ended up finding a style she likes with some help :)

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crazy how all jonathan harker ever did was love his wife and then every subsequent adaptation of the story of jonathan harker loving his wife went, "hey what if jonathan harker didn't love his wife"

also crazy how all mina harker ever did was love her husband and then every subsequent adaptation of the story of mina harker loving her husband went, "hey what if mina harker didn't love her husband"

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Carm ep 15:

it was so hard listening to this one. Laura's voice broke my heart.

At first, I thought they had actually allowed her to be there (which I found weird, but what do I know?), but then she said she was only reconstructing from what she read. And I honestly don't know what was more cruel

I remember that scene from the webseries where Carmilla is talking about her punishment in the blood coffin, how scared she was, how she would do anything not to go back... and the fact that that's how they found her made me cry

the whole ordeal felt so... violent. And not just because of the stake and the decapitation, but the way they handled her, the fact that there was no one there for her, that she was still breathing and had a beating heart. The way she screamed! (sound design: why? but also slow clap)

And, of course, there's Laura's side, with her all alone and confused. Alone in the sense that she lost her friend, because she wasn't actually left alone even to go to sleep. But no explanation was given to her. She must have been so scared. And then to have to investigate what happened in the end, because I'm guessing she went and found the report by herself

I'm so sad for both girls. I knew they weren't getting a 'happy ending' whatsoever, but somehow, I didn't expect it to be so painful and callous

remember when they were walking in the garden under the moonlight? just talking and sharing? with hot chocolate waiting for them? good times

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Laura like, feeling an strong Presence in the drawing room while the moon is being mystical like Lafontaine had mentioned right before had Carmilla arrived, and going "sure vampires exist so why not I guess, but I can't conclude that's her regardless" and then she starts feeling lips on her neck and hands copping a feel and going "no yeah that's definitely her"

Lmao for real. There’s some slight mystical happenings in the beginning where Laura questions it until Carmilla’s Carmillaness comes out full force even in incorporeal form and Laura just immediately knows

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Me: "Why does post-conclusion pre-ominus-Prologue Laura from Carmilla fascinate me into putting (further into) the Torment Nexus: Vampires, Ghosts Or Both version"

>sees this poll:

(whispers) holy shit. she checks all of these at Once

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years after my deliverance continued to make my days and nights dreadful, and solitude insupportably terrific.

The fact that years after that summer, Laura has been feeling "solitude insupportably terrific" is such a heartbreaking state of being. At the beginning, she was lonely and longing for a companion.

After Carmilla, her loneliness has been something actively painful.

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the apocalypse could start and Laura would be nothing but heart eyes for Carmilla (relatable)

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I didn’t know this on my first read, but all the fuckery with Jonathan’s letters is SUCH a classic gothic lit element, seen primarily with women. A great example is The Woman in White, where the female characters have to go to wild lengths to make sure the mail they send is actually making it out of the house. Even when they know it’s being tampered with or stolen, they have to mask this knowledge, because they live in the power of the ones doing it and would only endanger themselves if they brought it up. Being in a position where the only power you have is putting words to paper, and even that is being stolen from you.

Anyway this has been post #462 of how much I love our gothic Heroine Jonathan Harker

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Wonder Woman(1987)#111 by John Byrne

submitted by @kriosv

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And even if you go blind without having read the novel, the movie is full of holes in its burning desire to make Dracula this power fantasy who leaves the other men impotent and weak or as horrible zealots, like by making Van Helsing this caricature who calls women whores (have I mentioned that he felt crushing guilt for killing the weird sisters in the original?) and in the end Only The Beauty Can Kill The Beast (but because he commands it). Like is everyone okay with Mina Harker being worse than Bella Swan in this? Bella had some other interests than Edward, Mina's entire personality is a man. Not inner world, everything is secondary to him. First, she kills herself because she thought he died, after 5 seconds of introduction, so he can have his manpain. Then she's fixated on this hot guy she's ready to cheat withbut it's okay viewers because he's her rightful husband. Her typewriter skill is presented as a tool of oppression forced upon her by her staid fiancé (when it's supposed to be a modern tool of hunting down the killer of her best friend, but female friendships mean nothing here). She doesn't care he serial-raped and killed Lucy before her eyes, she doesn't care he has a harem (what was that about "eternal devotion"?), she wants to be this 400-year-old man's 4th bride so bad. She even tells him "take me away from all this death. The death that HE caused? She lies about being assaulted. Holy shit do I need to talk about how vile that is? How the fuck do you do this with one of the most famous rape and aftermath scenes in literature? She is dumb as bricks, everything she does is from his guidance. Van Helsing gets the idea to reverse-spy Dracula. Even in the final scene she doesn't get to choose. He gets to ascend to the heavens, in peace (did I mention Lucy, his 19 years old victim, died twice, screaming?). And what does she get after? Who cares, this ain't about her.

*sickos voice* yess.... YES!!! 1992 Coppola's Dracula my absolute beloathed!!!!!

Everything wrong with it exists because Coppola is a misogynist, a racist, and a coward; and I am sick to the core of seeing people glorify his film as if it's the begin-all, end-all of Dracula adaptations. Even outside of the Dracula power fantasy (which, in all fairness, it wasn't the only one to indulge, and frankly, nobody has done worse than Dracula Untold), even outside of the heinous characterization (or lack of) the female characters, one of my least favourite aspects of this adaptation is its blunt refusal to accept that the Harkers are deeply, madly, obsessively in love with each other, and as close to a power couple as a 19th century author was capable of writing. It is so wildly dismissive of the original story that it should not have ever dared to bear the name. His Mina and Lucy are entirely stripped of their personalities and complexity, Van Helsing is cold to the point of cruelty, Jonathan lacks the drive and ambition that defined his character in the novel; honestly, I hate everything he'd done with it on the story level.

we need more 1992 Dracula haters please let more people look beyond the shallows of aesthetic and actually understand how bad this movie is