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DEFY ME by Tahereh Mafi
#2024 reads#kaela's 2024 reads#bookblr#shatter me#shatter me series#aaron warner#juliette ferrars#kenji kishimoto#tahereh mafi#defy me#shatter me aesthetic#defy me aesthetic#book aesthetic
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ANNOUNCEMENT: I WILL BE BACK
hey guys so I'm gonna be on and off tumblr for the moment as I just wanna limit my social media time lol but nevertheless, I will be here to spew my nonesense!
LOVE ALL MY FOLLOWERS AND MUTUALS SO SO MUCH and I just know you all understand and I appreciate you guys so much! So don't go anywhere cos I'll be here often enough, ready to yap and giggle with you all <3
LOVE YOU ALL 💕
- alims ❤️
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cr: Caraval by Stephanie Garber
cr: Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
cr: The Hunger Games Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes
Books I've read this year 2024 (so far, in order):
Powerless by Lauren Roberts
A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J Maas
Letters to the Lost by Brigid Kemmerer
Anatomy of a Misfit by Andrea Portes (reread)
Truth or Dare by Sophie McKenzie
Divine Rivals by Rebecca Ross
A Court of Mist and Fury by Sarah J Maas
Coraline by Neil Gaiman
A Court of Wings and Ruin by Sarah J Maas
A Court of Frost and Starlight by Sarah J Maas
How the King of Elfhame Learned to Hate Stories by Holly Black (reread)
Shatter Me by Tahereh Mafi
Destroy Me by Tahereh Mafi
Unravel Me by Tahereh Mafi
Ignite Me by Tahereh Mafi
Fracture Me by Tahereh Mafi
Restore Me by Tahereh Mafi
Shadow Me by Tahereh Mafi
Defy Me by Tahereh Mafi
Reveal Me by Tahereh Mafi
Imagine Me by Tahereh Mafi
Believe Me by Tahereh Mafi
The Inheritance Games by Jennifer Lynn Barnes
The Hawthorne Legacy by Jennifer Lynn Barnes
The Final Gambit by Jennifer Lynn Barnes
Icebreaker by Hannah Grace
Ruthless Vows by Rebecca Ross
Dead Poets Society by Nancy H Kleinbaum
The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
The Brothers Hawthorne by Jennifer Lynn Barnes
The Hunger Games Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins
The Hunger Games Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins
Reckless by Lauren Roberts
A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
Normal People by Sally Rooney
I have reviews to most of these if you check my tags somehow lol.
37/30 books this year. YAY! Happy Reading everyone!
A picrew of me <3
#books#bookish#booklr#booktok#currently reading#reading 2024#books aesthetic#acotar#boooo acotar sjm#anti sjm#divine rivals#how the king of elfhame learned to hate stories#the inheritance games#the final gambit#the hawthorne legacy#powerless#coraline#shatter me#shatter me series#unravel me#defy me#aaron warner#kenji kishimoto#restore me#pls not i do not support any anti palestine authors and at time of reading did not know sjm was one#the hunger games#the silent patient#dead poets society#reckless lauren roberts#caraval
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I wanna know ur Fontaine msq criticisms 👁️👁️👂I’m all ears
I'm not sure if you wanted me to talk about this secretly or publicly but! Here I go!
The TLDR: Fontaine MSQ aestheticised prison, poverty, child abuse, the justice system/court and didn't properly address any of it.
More:
Focalors/Furina has way too much of a sympathetic angle for a dictator who's lets people drown with her inaction.
Neuvillette feels Bad for sentencing some people to death/prison, but that's it. He's one of the most powerful people in Fontaine. If he felt like there are systemic injustices, I.E sending an abused Child to prison, he should be the first person to DO something about it, not just cry and be sad so the audience can be like aw, that's complex character writing isn't it? No it's not! And guilt doesn't absolve you!!!!!!! (These are stuff we deal with in OTCOJ read my fic now /j)
Meropide has children in it, both Sentenced there (Wriothesley) and BORN THERE (Lanoire), and this is just a quirk of the place. Not only that, Meropide accepts prisoners of all genders and crimes. There are abusers and abuse victims in one place. Do you know how bad that is? How much potential for crimes to happen in a place like that— oh wait, Meropide isn't under Fontaine's jurisdiction. If you are assaulted as an inmate it literally means nothing to the court.
Wriothesley had no qualifications when he took over. Depending on how long he lived on the streets, how old he was when he killed his parents, how old he was when he was first taken in by the orphanage, etc, the man might never have more than 4–5 years of formal education. Sigewinne probably had to teach him how to write reports. And do Meropide's spreadsheets. Edit because I forgot to elaborate on this one: This isn't a point brought up anywhere, which is bad, because when poverty and incarceration robs you of a proper education (and the rights to vote in many places too, too, by the way), it reduces your prospects for jobs, reduces many people's ability to get a home etc etc. Wriothesley was just, narratively, Given his position.
Meropide is an industrialized prison, and they portray this as a good thing. Prisoners are paid in coupons for their labour, and this is also portrayed as a good thing.
The One-Meal-A-Day reform was something Paimon gushed about being so great of a perk, that people might want to go to jail for food (could be interesting and reflective of systemic poverty if MHY had brains, but they don't, so I was just Pissed because essentially all Paimon wanted to say was "Prison isn't so bad, but still don't go to prison guys! Prison labour is really hard!"). By the way, in most real-world prisons they are obligated to feed you three meals a day. Because that's how much food a human needs. MHY went with one meal just so they can say "if you want to eat more, you have to work." And then the welfare meal is a goddamn gacha. So imagine you're a starving child who's too weak to work in the fucking robot assembly line, and you wander up for your first meal in 24 hours, only to luck in with a shit one. I'd kill myself.
They wrote Wriothesley, who's a victim of the system, into a guy who's say shit like "I'm the Duke I can do whatever I want" for a cool moment where he choke-slams an inmate (I know he was a bad guy. But also, in copaganda when cops are violent/disregarding protocols, they are always only portrayed to do that against bad guys, so what does our critical thinking tells us about this one?) They wrote Wriothesley, who was an inmate of a prison so bad, so notorious that it is the literal boogeyman of Fontaine, that has a legal (???) fighting pit, with an administrator who abuses his position to be unreasonable, to willingly stay in the place and become an Administrator who would choke-slam an inmate while saying a cool line about how he has the power to do whatever he wants. They wrote him, the guy who had to be fed on the streets by melusines, to think one-meal-a-day was a good enough reform (while he spends god-knows how much on his boat). This wasn't a victim-turns-into-abuser narrative either, they want all this to be seen as positive character growth.
And then, the final kicker is, they gloss over his entire abuse. You can only read about these shit in his profile, which most people don't because they don't Have Him or doesn't care to unlock it/read it online, and they jammed his entire backstory into a flaccid info-dump at the end of his character story quest. This man isn't Allowed to feel abused and neglected and show any reaction to it within the narrative of Fontaine itself, because if they actually Gave Weight to what happened to him, they'd have to confront THE FUCKING JUSTICE SYSTEM they had NO PLANS on criticising. I don't think they ever explicitly said the fucking Crime-Theatre nonsense was Bad either.
I could go on, but this is already so long. But yeah, I hope this gave you an idea.
#and then. and im putting my most controversial opinion in the tags bc im scared lmao. but like... then... you have the fans..... doing......#the same fucking thing.#the amount of times I have seen Wriothesley used as just a side prop for Neuvillette to feel bad about shit. While Wriothesley is just.....#portrayed as having the inner peace and acceptance of a fucking monk. I was shocked when I read some fics I swear#they really said this man has no trauma at all! the stuff in his past? he's over it!#i hate that passivity when writing victims. like ok if One is written like that#sure. but MHY write all their victims like this#I mean look at fucking Lanoire#and Neuvillette sentenced him to prison after he killed his parents who were never confronted by the law. That's canon.#that's more canon than WRLT itself.#why weren't they confronted? did wriothesley try to talk to someone about it? why did he feel like killing them is his only option ?????#at least have there be some sort of conflict and friction there. How does Wriothesley feel about the court and Neuvillette when#this is the literal system that allowed all that shit to happen to him in the first place???#are you Sure he won't be at least a little wary? the fact that some people think he's Grateful to Neuvillette or even idolises him is crazy#because the man literally subjected him to prison. and if you want to portray his prison life as easy breezy and trauma free#you undermine his entire shitty little 'prison reform' narrative#and if you think he'd be completely 100% accepting of the justice system. Then why the fuck would he kill his parents himself#don't you see that the whole 'I'll accept whatever sentence in order to kill my parents' thing in itself is an act of defying the system#and I Hate#this idea. about being some of the most powerful men in the nation. and yet they can't fucking TRY to set up a better system or smth#i can't believe I read a fic where leaving starving street kids croissants is the most they (the characters and the writer) want to do#like. what the fuck. the whole point of that scene is just to make neuvillette feel bad and be like aw......... poor people exist.... OK???#this is literally how MHY would portray him though.... tbf..... This is what ppl would argue as 'in character'#I just think the character they're in is bad.#I will say I'm giving the fic a lot of grief. there's more to the scene than that. and. ultimately.....#fanfic is (saying this through gritted teeth) ........ recreational....................and free........... in the end.................#i dont think this is reflective of the writer. I do think it is reflective of the way the canon material (genshin impact)#presents in the audience who consumes it. most fans only want these guys to fuck anyway. not think about systemic injustices#canon doesn't make it about the systemic injustices either so why should we. the aesthetic of slums and prisons are just there for fun guys#IM JUST CRAZY OK. I SHOULDNT EVEN BE HERE THIS IS NOT FOR ME . I DONT CARE THAT MUCH FOR PEOPLE FUCKING AND I CARE TOO MUCH
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shatter me characters x singers
Juliette listens to lana dal rey (especially white mustang)
Aaron listens to the weeknd (especially house of balloons)
Kenji listens to taylor swift (especially to message in a bottle)
Nazeera listens to arctic monkeys (especially to do i wanna know?)
#juliette ferrars#aaron warner anderson#aaron x juliette#aaron warner#juliette and aaron#warner x juliette#warner and juliette#kenji x nazeera#kenji kishimoto#nazeera ibrahim#nazeera and kenji#kenji and nazeera#aesthetic#books & libraries#shatter me#unravel me#ignite me#defy me#imagine me#restore me#believe me#unite me#fracture me#destroy me#shadow me#reveal me
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Defying the Volstead Act: Illicit Affairs
“We came to America for a better life and what did we find? Enforced sobriety.” ~ Trevor Belmont
Castlevania Prohibition AU
I’m having way too much fun with this one. Alucard is too powerful, Sypha is adorable, and Trevor’s just done. Definitely gonna be drawing more characters in this au, stay tuned!
#castlevania#trevor belmont#Sypha Belnades#Alucard Tepes#defying the volstead act#defying prohibition#castlevania fanart#castlevania au#fanart with filters#prohibition era#prohibition au#roaring twenties#1920s america#roaring 20s aesthetic#speakeasy#thanks to lackadaisy#for reminding me this time period was a thing
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Step on me, Warner.
#writing#aaron warner#aaron#tahereh mafi#shatter me#ignite me#defy me#taylor swift#swifties#simplicity#lover#aesthetic#books & libraries#bookworm#dark acamedia#books#academia#chaotic academia
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who's afraid of little old me? well, you should be.
#juliette ferrars#juliette ferrars aesthetic#ella sommers#shatter me#shatter me series#ella sommers aesthetic#defy me#tahereh mafi#warnette#ttpd#taylor swift#blairrwaldorfs aesthetic
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For some reason my hair decided it wanted to act like princess bangs
#I have only leave in conditioner on#no texture anything#and they are defying gravity#selfie#me#split dye#alt#academia aesthetic#dark academia#aesthetic
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Some scenes from Defy Me by Tahereh Mafi (if you haven't read the book then skip to avoid spoilers)
#defy me#book quotes#book#bookish#book scene#book aesthetic#annotations#book annotations#books and reading#dark academia#book recommendations#bookstagram#qoutes#aesthetic#books & libraries
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<self hate>
It's like I'm drowning and gasping for air, even when I know how to swim.
#jane austen#collen hoover#pride and prejudice#dead poets society#original poem#dear diary#franz kafka#rumi#shakespeare#william shakespere#defy me#harry potter#self love#nizar qabbani#khaled hosseini#umera ahmed#philosophy#aesthetic
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tag dump
#* ic / all things must die.
#* aesthetic / defy the force that drags them all to heel.
#* musings / whispers from mother.
#* character study / beneath the legend is a longing.
#* visage / alone as a god.
#* dyn. sephiroth & aerith / we cast darker shadows with stronger light.
#* dyn. sephiroth & cloud / what you are without me? what am i without you?
#* verse: final fantasy vii / ruination to all.
#* verse: crisis core / the one who remains shall become a hero.
.#* verse: kingdom hearts / in the heart of darkness.
#* verse: remake / the sun rising on a rebirth.
#* verse: advent children / i send the pestilence and plague.
#* ic / all things must die.#* aesthetic / defy the force that drags them all to heel.#* musings / whispers from mother.#* character study / beneath the legend is a longing.#* visage / alone as a god.#* dyn. sephiroth & aerith / we cast darker shadows with stronger light.#* dyn. sephiroth & cloud / what you are without me? what am i without you?#* verse: final fantasy vii / ruination to all.#* verse: crisis core / the one who remains shall become a hero.#* verse: remake / the sun rising on a rebirth.#* verse: advent children / i send the pestilence and plague.
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Everyone gets “The 90s” look wrong and I hate it
Couple years ago I saw these two board games at the store back to back. Well, not saw them per se, but ya know. Spied them out of the corner of my eye. And for a moment without reading the text, I couldn’t tell you which was which decade at first. Funny. Either they were in a rush to get these out the door or they wanted their throwback trivia game boxes to look uniform. I didn’t think too much of it.
Only, from then on I started seeing it MORE. Every time someone markets a 90s or 80s throwback...
Goddammit they’re identical! What??! How did we let this happen? As a 90s survivor and a designer, this drives me up a wall.
Look, I know I’m late to the party to complain about “the 90s look” when we’re just starting to get sick of the Y2K nostalgia train. But c’mon, the 90s were not The 80s: Part Two™
Trust me when I say that we weren’t all wearing neon trapezoids up until the year 2000. The 90s look being peddled is so specific to the tail end of the 80s and an early early part of the 90s - a part of the 90s when it wouldn’t stop being the 80s. This is Memphis design being conflated with the wrong decade.
Keep reading for a long ass graphic design history lesson and pictures of old soda and fast food.
Specifically, the look is Memphis Milano, self-named by the Italian design house Memphis Group. Starting in the early to mid 80s, they made all sorts of furniture, fabrics and sculptures that were like a Piet Mondrian grid painting under heavy radiation. Their whole deal was defying the standards of existing industrial design up to that point on purpose. Chairs had weird arches, bookcases would be in strange alien colors, unusual materials like plastic or elastic were used in place of metal or wood, that sorta thing.
Memphis quickly became the signature look for the decade. You can tell something’s influenced by Memphis design from it’s telltale trademarks:
Clashing, neon colors.
Use of diametric shapes.
Contrasting patterns like zebra print stripes, confetti squiggles and checkerboards.
It wasn’t long before Memphis Milano-inspired design was everywhere in 80s pop culture:
It was a special time, yes.
I was a kindergartener at the tail end of the 80s, so I knew Memphis mostly through the lens of kids media. Toys, clothes, games, tv shows used it like candy colored catnip. Cable channel Nickelodeon more or less adopted the Memphis aesthetic as their signature in-house style and practically built a monument to it at a Florida theme park:
I think this is why folks mistake what decade Memphis is representative of - 90s staples like Nick, Saved By The Bell, Fresh Prince - they all stayed around much longer than the design trend’s expiration date.
Couple that notion with the fact that companies are slow followers to design trends. Something gets popular and they want to get on the bandwagon? Gotta wait for the ink to dry, gotta wait for the production molds to be made. It would take a few years for them to completely work Memphis outta their system.
Now, this is not to say Memphis is bad! Personally I’m a fan of the aesthetic, if my neon-drenched artwork wasn’t a tip-off already. But it is a trend, and trends never last forever.
So what took the Memphis Milano look down for good? This part’s up for debate, but I personally think it had something to do with this dude:
It’s that grunge music from Seattle that’s so popular with the kids these days dontchaknow.
Once Smells Like Teen Spirit hit in 1991, the Nirvana tone drove the rest of the decade. Clean geometry became weathered, grainy and organic. Bright neon pastels became more bold. Bubblegum pop music sounded fake and manufactured. Attitude and apathy was authentic. Whatever.
Things got grungy. Things got grimy. Olestra was invented.
I think the best way to visualize this transition is how Cherry Coke entered the decade and how it left it:
1992 Memphis on the left, 1998 grunge junkie on the right. Fitting that the 90s would end with a design that looked like Darth Maul’s lungs.
Okay, so what should 90s retro design look like?
Continue on to PART TWO! Spoilers: No VHS filters or vaporwave needed, but maybe bring an antacid.
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Troy Bolton & Fawn Lynn
#Zac Efron#The light of my life.#The love of my life.#Beauty that defies description.#Troy Bolton#My baby.#Precious cinnamon roll who is too good for Gabriella Montez and the Wildcats' crap.#Fawn Lynn#Troy x Fawn#Troy Bolton x Original Character#High School Musical Series#Ship Aesthetic.#Mine.#Fawn is my OC.#Please don't judge me too harshly.#My son just deserves someone who truly loves and understands him without any prior East High School-based baggage or biases.#So I created a character to do just that.#All I want is to fly with queue.
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genuine question regarding the "women are female people" post. trying to understand the radfem mindset because I don't agree with y'all on most things, but I understand your need to find safety and acceptance within the patriarchy's oppression/danger. I am female but not a woman. I was never socialized as one either. I feel like biological socialization piece goes out the window in my case. Biologically yes, I am female, but socially no one, including myself, would ever view me as a woman or place me through the same social oppression that women face, nor will I experience or have experienced any of the good parts of womanhood. I feel no desire to, because despite sharing the same biology, we are not socially the same. I feel like, in this experience, theres a stark divide between the social category of "women" and biological category of "female." What is your take on this, I'm curious?
The crucial issue here is that you’re conflating women and femininity. You say there’s a difference between women and females, when you instead mean there’s a difference between feminine women and non-feminine women. You believe women are socially constructed, when you instead mean femininity is socially constructed.
The only way you could think that your non-conformance to femininity indicated that you were not a woman, is if you believed femininity was innate and inseparable from women. This is not only an unabashed display of bioessentialism, but a reinforcement of the same sex-based roles and sexist stereotypes that gender ideologues purport to be defying.
In case you don’t know, the concepts of femininity and masculinity were created solely to enforce female subjugation and male domination (elaboration here). Therefore, nothing is more misogynistic or in direct contradiction to the radical feminist goal of gender abolition than claiming women are defined by the very social construct created to subjugate them, rather than by their biological sex.
I’ll be honest, I feel increasingly irritated and hopeless every time I receive these messages of “I’m not a woman because I don’t conform to society’s sexist, outdated idea of what women are.” How can you not see how backwards it is to believe your conformity to a demographic’s harmful stereotypes is what determines whether you belong to that demographic? In what other circumstances is this ever the case?
This is a genuine question: why is it so hard for you to acknowledge that you’re a gender-non-conforming woman? Why must you go through all these mental cartwheels and act as though being a woman is contingent on how others view you, or how you socially conduct yourself, or what degree of oppression you face? What benefit do you see in defining women by the social construct of femininity (hierarchical, prescriptive, arbitrary) rather than defining them as female (non-hierarchical, descriptive, concrete)?
Much of my frustration stems from the knowledge that radical feminists and gender ideologues actually hold similar views on the concepts of women and men, until they diverge at one crucial, irreconcilable point:
Both radical feminists and gender ideologues acknowledge the existence of regressive stereotypes attributed to the sexes. But where radical feminists seek to remove the stereotypes from the sex, gender ideologues instead, quite stupidly, seek to remove the sex from the stereotypes.
In short, I still consider you a woman completely deserving of access to women’s spaces, because being a woman does not, and should not, have any other prerequisites other than being an adult, a human, and a female. There are not, and should not be, any behaviors, aesthetics, feelings, or non-biological characteristics that determine whether you’re a woman. There are no gendered brains; there are no gendered souls. Being a woman is an innate, neutral, and non-prescriptive reality, no different than having freckles or brown eyes or hooked noses.
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“𝙇𝙞𝙜𝙝𝙩 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙙𝙖𝙧𝙠, 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙨𝙥𝙖𝙘𝙚 𝙗𝙚𝙩𝙬𝙚𝙚𝙣 𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙞𝙧 𝙗𝙤𝙙𝙞𝙚𝙨 𝙖 𝙗𝙡𝙚𝙣𝙙 𝙤𝙛 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙩𝙬𝙤.”
𝙿𝚛𝚘𝚖𝚙𝚝: 𝙲𝚑𝚘𝚒𝚌𝚎
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✮♱✮ art by @isis_villalobos_art
✮♱✮ commissioned by me
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I have returned to bestow more beauty on this wondrous celebration of @elriel-month . This lovely piece of art was absolutely perfected by the amazing, sweet, and talented @isis_villalobos_art! The choice prompt is so romantic and perfect for Elriel, I couldn’t resist contributing! For this one, I wanted to show the longing both Elain and Azriel have for each other and the length their willing to go for the other—whether it’s defying fate or the cauldron, we’ve seen how they will stop at nothing to be with each other—their true loves. I also couldn’t help but add more of their glorious light and dark aesthetic! I hope yall enjoy and have been having a wonderful Elriel Month!
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✮♱✮ quote is from A Court of Wings & Ruin by @sarahjmaas
✮♱✮ characters are Elain Archeron & Azriel.
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✮♱✮ likes, saves, and shares are always appreciated!
✮♱✮ no reposts allowed.
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#acotar#elain archeron#my commissions#bookish#a court of thorns and roses#acomaf#a court of frost and starlight#a court of wings and ruin#a court of silver flames#a court of mist and fury#elriel month#elriel fanart#elriel#azriel acotar#azriel and elain
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Defying the Volstead Act: We Play What We Play
The forge master duo and Lenore playing for the speakeasy.
Castlevania Prohibition AU
The trombone is a left-handed trombone. I definitely did not draw it backwards. Not at all. Don't worry about it.
#castlevania#hector#isaac#lenore#defying the volstead act#castlevania vampires#castlevania fanart#defying prohibition#vampire sisters#castlevania au#prohibition era#prohibition au#roaring twenties#1920s america#roaring 20s aesthetic#thanks to lackadaisy#for reminding me this time period was a thing
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