i love the locked tomb because all of the men are described like:
he was grotesquely muscular, like bulbous lumps in a plastic bag. this other guy is a lame skinny nerd with crooked glasses. i detest them both.
and then all of the women are described like:
her anemic skin shone like pearls in the sunlight. her body is wonderfully skeletal and i feel as though her ribcage consumes me. her iridescent locks curl at the base of her neck like the lapping of a tide and i am undone by her gaze...
hello average tumblr user. in front of you is a femslash rarepair. your challenge is to not start psychoanalysing its fans and saying they only pretend to like it to score social points, not depart from your 'shipping is for fun people can do what they want' view of mlm rarepairs, and not start randomly commenting on posts about them how you actually prefer those female characters with men who are or are not important to their characters. Live or die. Go.
truly i love all of you and i'm so grateful for all the support i get on my vanilla milkshake posts here because i've just seen the way people talk about vanilla milkshake and mysticao on twitter and its genuinely taken 50 years off my life. now i've been reminded as to why i should never join the crk fandom on twitter
ultimately i think the appeal of daniel and armand to me is that it's very much a typical dark romance storyline where the heroine is kidnapped and tortured by an evil monster but using her wits she manages to seduce him and make him emotionally vulnerable to her, because she is More Special and More Clever than all of his other victims, and because of this she enjoys a level of dangerous favor and protection from him, except in This version of the dark romance it's two toxic old men who both have the worst fucking personalities imaginable. who truly just fucking suck beyond measure. like no pun intended, they are Garbage, one is the actual literal immortal devil and the other is just kind of a deadbeat with no moral compass, neither of them is willing to work on himself and neither of them has ANY reason to want to rail the other as bad as they do.
currently thinking about enemies to lovers trope with muzan kibutsuji and immortal human reader who's fought for centuries just because reader has the blue spider lily with them
he has an army of weird dogs that follow him around. he calls them his children. he probably puts sweaters on them. they fall asleep in big big piles. they love to cuddle. they eat pancakes. how can anyone be mad at this book