#johnny actor model AND vampire

[imnameimswrld]

⃘ ֹ ִ 𝐄𝐑𝐀𝐒 ★ ִ a series ꒱

in which I make a moodboard and write some calculated nonsense about my biases as taylor swift songs (my queen) !

status, in session...

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𝐁𝐀𝐍𝐆 𝐂𝐇𝐀𝐍 as ...call it what you want by taylor swift.

stray kids. skz. leader. producer. '97. aussie-korean. my ult / husband. christopher bahng. 3racha. vocalist. rapper. dancer. gnabnahc. don't touch his laptop aka the mother-load. swarovski knows what's up. peak husband material.

𝐕 as ...maroon by taylor swift.

bts. bangtansonyeondan. vocalist. '95. korean. daegu boy. celine's top model. kim taehyung. thv. yeontan's dad. his boxy-smile, ugh. he's served enough, send him home please. visual. actor.

𝐌𝐈𝐍𝐆𝐘𝐔 as ...dress by taylor swift.

seventeen. svt. rapper. vocalist. visual. hip-hop unit. kim mingyu. my favourite tall tan boy. vampire. '97. korean. mr bullied by his 12 brothers. his lisp dear lord. cute puppy with the body of a greek god. dior, bvlgari & cartier doing God's work out here. min9yu_k.

𝐉𝐈𝐒𝐎𝐎 as ...gorgeous taylor swift.

blackpink. bp. vocalist. visual. mother. '95. kim jisoo. actress. ceo of blissoo. jisoo turtle-rabbit kim. i am so in love with her goofy ass. sooyaaa__. flower. pretty sure she's a billionaire. korean. blackpink in ur area (except for mine). blackpink is indeed the revolution.

𝐘𝐄𝐉𝐈 as ...new romantics by taylor swift.

itzy. leader. main dancer. vocalist. rapper. '00. korean. hwang yeji. a literal lightfury. the cat is cating with this one. the eyes chico. a total loser girl but I love her for it. lucy hwang. my oppa. yezyizhere. ms english is about confidence. visual. midzy's protector fr.

𝐒𝐀𝐍 as ...lover by taylor swift.

ateez. vocalist. dancer. demon liner. '99. choi san. korean. mountain. my kitty cat. the fluff is fluffing. blonde brought me to my knees. stage presence. the de-twinkafacation is too real. shoulders for days. mr flirts too much his photocard that I don't have should be sleeping on the porch. deja vu eyebrows... ya just had to be there. kq give my boys their own insta accounts right now. totally kisses his band mate jung wooyoung.

𝐓𝐀𝐄𝐘𝐎𝐍𝐆 as ...delicate by taylor swift.

nct. nct 127. nct u og. super m. leader. lee taeyong. korean. rapper. dancer. '95. a parent of 26. korean. bless his hair. mr ty. my bubu. he is peak comfort. I just want to hug him forever and never let go. ai. he bleeds neo-green. taeoxo_nct. please don't send him away, he's already been serving since 2016. sticker's no.1 defender. visual. tik_tyong.

𝐓𝐄𝐍 as ...king of my heart by taylor swift.

nct. wayv. dancing king. vocalist. rapper. '95. a cat dad. a sassy king. chittaphon leechaiyapornkul. lee yongqin. gender-envy is real people. mr oh no your have to taste it. nct u og. thai and kinda chinese too I thinks. I wanna say multilingual king but according to bambam he can't even speak thai (his mother-tongue) well. a 10/10 fr. tenlee_1001. birthday was a cultural reset. visual. pretty sure he's in love with a guy named johnny suh from chicago.

𝐉𝐄𝐍𝐎 as ...mastermind by taylor swift.

nct. nct dream. dancer. rapper. '00. lee jeno. a samoyed doppelganger. so fluffy. leejen_o_423. hot sauce jeno is my roman empire. visual. korean. makes my heart so warm. kinda wanna put him in my pocket. he might be in love with some kid that goes by the name of na jaemin.

𝐊𝐀𝐑𝐈𝐍𝐀 as ...enchanted by taylor swift.

aespa. leader. rapper. main dancer. '00. real ? I think not. literally ai. my adorable stupid cheese cat. yoon jimin. korean. one of them laughing slappers. such a cutie pls just get in my pocket and let me protect your forever rina. katarinabluu. quite literally meows. a cat has never cat-ed like her before. run run run kitty kitty run run. visual.

𝐊𝐀𝐙𝐔𝐇𝐀 as ...dancing with our hands tied by taylor swift.

le sserafim. rapper. vocalist. dancer. ballerina. '03. zuha. japanese. literally lee hojung's sister because, huh. looks a little line jeon wonwoo too, but that just could be me. nakamura kazuha. my girlfriend (real). body goals fr, SLAY QUEEN. such a cutie patootie it makes me cry. the rizz is lowkey but so real. zuhazana. the swan song is literally her song. SOUNDS LIKE MONSTER BABY KING KONG, such a banger. visual.

𝐒𝐎𝐎𝐁𝐈𝐍 as ...wonderland by taylor swift.

txt. tomorrow x together. leader. vocalist. dancer. that dolphin song boy. '00. choi soobin. my favourite tall awkward and shy boy. he's just such a cutie pls. korean. I live in his dimples. I love that we collectively hate on math, my soulmate fr. you know you know soobin. page.soobin. so boyfriend dammit. visual. BRING BACK PURPLE HAIRED SOOBIN RN.

𝐉𝐀𝐘 as ...getaway car by taylor swift.

enhypen. enha. an all-rounder honestly. he plays guitar and that's hot. '02. blonde jay makes me spiral. korean but spent some time in america too. park jongseong. if angry bird, then why so gorgeous. he shouldn't be allowed to wear jeans because holy moly. he makes me giggle like a girl and I LOATHE IT because I'm supposed to be a feminist jason (his name isn't jason btw). I wanna kiss him. my boyfriend (REAL).

𝐈𝐍𝐓𝐀𝐊 as ...paper rings by taylor swift.

p1harmony. piwon. p1h. rapper. dancer. such a cutie I can't take it. he likes almonds. hwang intak. intakie. intak-attack. taki taki rumba. '03. he's soooo... BEIDJEDKWNDKED. I can't think straight when I see the guy. I love him. korean. his music taste is bangin'. I can't handle short-haired intak lord haveth mercy. okay okay, but fr this time, he's my boyfriend.

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[jess-moloney1]

There are some people who say to defend Jess «if she wanted to become famous, she could have chosen and dated someone who is more famous than Jamie », but I noticed something that other people have noticed or maybe not, Jamie is the new Johnny Depp version of this generation for 17 years now since he played in Sweeney Todd in 2007, with a very famous director and with very famous actors (Tim Burton, Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter, Alan Rickman).

Jamie is the new version of Johnny Depp of this generation, because he is a chameleon actor, which means that he is able to play and adapt in all role in a film as a wizard, sailor, vampire, hunter of shadows, cow boy and others exactly like Johnny Depp and we must not forget that Jamie is a singer, musician and he was part of a group of singers and musicians « Counterfeit » (who were very popular and famous from 2015 to 2020) and he is a model and has posed for several clothing brands.

I suppose Jess knew by heart Jamie’s professional career well before she date with him, she learned well about everything on him and she realized at one point (I don’t know when exactly), that he was becoming more and more famous every day since 2007 and she started stalking him even if she knew that he was in a relationship with someone else, which means that this woman had no respect for him and his ex partners and for his private life, everything she did to attract Jamie’s attention is due to the fact that she had to know his personal life by heart, what he likes to do outside of work like surfing, his tastes in music (her favorite hard rock bands), tattoos, his style of woman, travel, hiking, beach, spending time with his family and his friends and she managed to get into his life in this way, to make him believe that she likes all his tastes and she certainly made him believe that they are made to be together and that they are soul mates.

Jamie is popular and famous with teenagers, young adults and adults so it was enough and interesting for Jess’s business (and not for the person he really is and not out of love) to choose and date Jamie and he has a lot of followers on IG, TikTok, YouTube and Twitter.

Jamie announced on IG that he was going to be part of the cast of Stranger Things season 4 in October 2020 (before Jess appeared weirdly in his life), this show is world famous and has gained many fans since 2016 and I suppose Jess upon learning that Jamie was recruited by the Duffer brothers she understood that he would become even more famous and she did not waste time attracting Jamie’s attention on IG and weirdly 2 years later she appeared with a fake smile on her face at the preview of Stranger Things season 4 with Jamie in New York (Is it a coincidence ?).

So people who continue to find excuses about the fact that Jess could have found someone more famous than Jamie is not convincing to me to defend her and she is not innocent and benevolent as she seems, knowing that this woman had only one goal: to sit in the foreground and be welcomed on a red carpet (thanks to Jamie, not thanks to herself).

I agree with you. Most likely nothing was “a coincidence” it was a well-planned sick, cruel  game to Jess and Jamie became her victim. The way she’s stalking people is obsessive and morbid. She’s also paranoid and probably has serious mental health problems and other sh*t to deal with. Jamie is an amazing, multi-talented person with a big heart. He deserves so much better than her. I think there’s nothing that he can’t do if he puts enough effort into it. I also see why Jess chose Jamie. 

Like you said, Jamie is famous, popular and handsome. He would have a real chance to become even more famous and popular. When he gets new fans and that way becomes more known, the same thing could happen to Jess. There’s a chance that if Jess had been with someone more famous and not as talented as Jamie, people would have discovered her secrets and that could have destroyed all her future chances. 

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MORTAL KOMBAT 2 Fancast.

These are my fancast for the sequel! When I fancasg these characters, I’ll write down my reasoning for these! Please give feedback! I’d love to hear your thoughts!

Now before I continue any further, the director wanted accurate casting just like he did for the first film. So I will be doing the same and respecting his wishes! Anywho, let’s begin!

THE MIZ - Johnny Cage

A WWE wrestler who has an experience in Acting and his gimmick is considered based off Johnny Cage! I feel like he’d do an excellent job considering that he is a good talker and athlete in the wrestling business. Besides, for decades, he’s been very dedicated to giving the fans what they want. He stated that if he ever gets casted, he wants to get the character right due to the last detail. Currently working on his kicks and splits, and he’s old enough to play Jessica McNamee’s romantic interest who is 36. Miz is 42! I honestly don’t see a better cast than this!

YOSHI SUDARSO - Kuai Liang

Yoshi Sudarso as an actor, stuntman and martial artist. Like Joe Taslim, he is also Indonesian of Chinese descent. From my research, he is very good friends with Joe Taslim and was very interested in the role if Kuai Liang is in the script. He is also younger than Joe Taslim (He is 33 years old). You don’t see him in much, but you can find him on Power Rangers, Buffalo Boys, Project Power and Bullet Train! He’s a good actor and a very agile martial artist, and he’s VERY well acquainted with the color blue! He could become the next stuntman actor to get a huge breakout role next to Max Huang, who portrayed Kung Lao!

Also if you look closely and squint your eyes just a little bit, they kinda have a resemblance of being brothers… it could mostly be the eyebrows!

SISI STRINGER - Kitana

This should be a no-brainer fancast since Kitana and Mileena are technically twins. Sisi Stringer has shown her range in acting in Vampire Academy (Stream it on Peacock, it’s amazing.) So I wouldn’t be so surprised if she does get casted as Kitana (But I will be so happy because she deserves it!)

ANDREW KOJI - Kenshi

Andrew Koji is an up and coming British actor and martial artist of Japanese descent. Kenshi is a eurasian (Japanese) character, so this cast would be very fitting for Andrew Koji, especially since he has the look and the mysterious voice and his experience with swords (Storm Shadow in Snake Eyes: G.I. Joe Origins). I could see him pulling this off!

JOE TASLIM - Noob Saibot

Not much of a fancast since this is technically bound to happen, in all honesty. But it would be cool to see Yoshi Sudarso V. Joe Taslim! Just Yoshi living his dream of being on-screen with a friend of his, especially since he stated that Joe Taslim is like a brother to him in the Hollywood industry!

AMBER MIDTHUNDER - NIGHTWOLF

Not a genderbent fancast, but a “passing the mantle down” fancast! I have a pitch where since we saw a photo easter egg of Nightwolf in the movie, he’s most likely a legendary protector of the Matoka. Later that day, he’s gotten very old and asks the great spirit to find another warrior and pass the Nightwolf mantle down to them, then Grey Cloud can train them for the tournament. I fancast David Midthunder as Grey Cloud since David is the face model for Nightwolf in Mortal Kombat 11 and he is also Amber Midthunder’s father! So this could be perfect in my opinion.

[favoritejohn]

that's.... the sexiest vampire i've ever seen....

[mattsuchan]

fic read list (under construction)

(semi fic rec ? its all the fics that i've read)

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STRAY KIDS

bang chan

1. paris (1950s au, actor au)

2. non ducor duco (historical au, gang au)

3. the phantom (vampire au, historical au)

4. the eclipse (cop au)

5. from grace (demon au)

6. free fall ; one two three (mafia au)

7. supercut. (established relationship au)

8. chan + plushies (established relationship au)

9. [untitled] (college au)

10. domestic disturbance. (detective au, fwb trope, fake marriage trope)

11. good enough (established relationship au)

12. my house (ceo au, established relationship au)

13. [daddy issues - the nbhd] (... yeah 🧍)

14. [11:23 pm] (idol au)

lee know

1. business proposals (ceo au)

2. who are you (detective au)

3. strawberries (tattoo artist au)

4. misfits. (punk au)

5. youngblood (college au, f2l trope)

6. expectorate. (mafia au)

7. "go back to sleep." (established relationship au)

changbin

1. weight on my shoulders (social media au)

hyunjin

1. backseat driving (racer au)

2. back in time (time travel au)

3. it's knot you (soulmate au)

4. forward in time (time travel au)

5. define it (f2l trope)

6. don't wanna be friends. (pornstar au, f2l trope)

7. the duke and i (bridgerton au, f2l trope)

han

1. reverse corruption (?? au)

seungmin

1. getting to first base (highschool au)

ot8 (headcanons mostly,,)

1. when you wear their clothes

2. cockwarming

TOMORROW X TOGETHER

yeonjun

1. hasta la vista (1989 au)

2. how he deals with you being a brat (fwb trope)

3. today is the day (time travel au)

4. [untitled] (badboy au)

5. break time (college au)

6. back and forth (roommates au, s2f2l trope)

7. making out for the first time (established relationship au)

8. sober thoughts (f2l trope)

9. summer rain (summer camp au)

10. loved. (social media au)

11. pose (model au)

12. bambi (1920s au, hitman au)

13. [untitled] (established relationship au)

14. you're fucked up but so am i (revenge au)

15. seesaw (social media au)

16. the story of us (social media au)

17. 10:20 am (college au)

18. wheresoever you go (established relationship au)

19. dancing with your ghost (ghost au)

20. sneaky link (college au)

21. playboy (model au)

22. till' the end of summer (college au, ALSO MY FAVORITE SERIES OH MY GOD)

23. the art of (mis)communication (bf2e2l trope)

24. punishment (?? au)

25. you see love is a game (and i still want to play) [college au]

26. make a wish (?? au)

27. see the stars (established relationship au)

soobin

1. perfectly perfect (highschool au)

2. clingy much? (werewolf au)

3. game over (college au)

4. one last present (established relationship au)

5. mr. choi (neighbour au)

6. down the aisle (wedding planner au)

7. paper hearts (1980s au)

8. [8:23 pm] (neighbour au)

9. 17:53 (established relationship au)

10. 2:30 am (strangers au)

11. stuck on you (social media au)

12. new rules (idol au)

13. little bunny (idol au)

14. 33 (best friends pining trope)

15. saint (highscool au)

16. [10:33 am] (established relationship au)

17. d r a m a (social media au)

beomgyu

1. you're the one that i want (college au)

2. voices (soulmate au, s2e2l trope)

3. the prince and the jackal (fantasy au)

4. journey with you (fantasy au)

5. silver nights (social media au)

6. listen before i go (social media au)

taehyun

1. beverly hills (e2l trope)

2. when the ice begins to thaw (fantasy au)

3. underneath the golden sun (guardian angel au, soulmate au)

4. hero (social media au)

hueningkai

1. 7:12 a.m. (hybrid au)

2. long live the king (royalty au, f2l trope)

3. princeps caeli (fantasy au)

4. thank you, barista boy (college au, barista au)

ot5 (headcanons mostly,,)

1. reaction to you receiving a lot of anonymous love letters

2. what he'd call you

3. reacting to having a small s/o

misc.

1. cat & mouse (college au, fwb trope) ; jaemin

2. demon days (demon au, college au) ; san

3; doll (?? au) ; sunghoon

4. smoky aura (neighbour au) ; johnny

[mint-yooxgi]

NCT Drabbles Mini-Masterlist

Important things to keep in mind:

Drabbles are currently closed!

Based off of this post

An asterisk (*) signifies NSFW

OC = Reader

Part Two of this masterlist can be found Here - Part Three - Part Four - Part Five

→ 'Chance' Encounter - Yandere!Idol!Renjun

→ Grim Reaper!Doyoung

→ Yandere!Mechanic!Jaehyun

→ Stay With Me - Yandere!Volcano Deity!Shotaro

→ Yandere!Sugar Baby!Renjun

→ Unstable - Yandere!Boyfriend!Kun

→ Becoming - Yandere!Yangyang

→ Yandere!Dragon King!Yuta X Baker!OC - Part Two - Part Three - Part Four

→ Yandere!Knight!Jeno X Concubine!OC - Part Two ft. Yandere!King!Johnny - Part Three

→ Yandere!Ghost!Husband!Taeil

→ Cursed Immortal - Wizard!Yuta

→ Complaints - Deity!Lucas & Deity!Yuta

→ It Burns! - Vampire!Hendery

→ Older - Yangyang

→ Yandere!Superhero!Taeil X Newsreporter!OC

→ Understudy - Yandere!Actor!Jungwoo

→ Kidnapped - Yandere!Johnny

→ Punishment - Yandere!Deity!Taeil & Yandere!Deity!Jaehyun

→ Yandere!Doyoung Soulmate AU

→ Yandere!Peter Pan!Renjun - Part Two

→ Yandere!Knight!Hendery X Rebellion Leader!OC

→ Yandere!Husband!Kun*

→ Yandere!Shotaro

→ Yandere!Plague Deity!Hendery X Queen!OC

→ Yandere!Taeyong X Harpy!OC*

→ Yandere!Possessive!Wolf!Lucas*

→ Yandere!Mad Scientist!Hendery

→ Yandere!Dancer!Shotaro X Beginner!OC

→ Yandere!Prince!Hendery X Maid!OC

→ Prince!Shotaro X Royal Chef!OC

→ 'Rent-A-Boyfriend' - Yandere!Student!Renjun X Exchange Student!OC

→ Yandere!Fashion Designer!Ten X Model!OC - Part Two - Part Three - Part Four*

→ Vampire!Xiaojun

→ Yandere!Sicheng - Part Two - Part Three - Part Four

→ Yandere!Fanfic Writer!Doyoung X Idol!OC

→ Yandere!Kun*

→ Trickster!Haechan X Princess!OC

→ Yandere!Possessive/Jealous!Haechan*

→ Yandere!Mafia!Yuta & Yandere!Mafia!Johnny X Sniper!OC

→ Yandere!Taeil

→ Yandere!Husband!Johnny*

→ Yandere!Jaemin - Part Two

→ Yandere!Stalker!Haechan*

→ Yandere!Childhood Best Friend!Doyoung

→ Yandere!Groupie!Jungwoo X Rockstar!OC

→ Radio Host!Johnny

→ Yandere!Deity!Taeyong X High Priestess!OC

→ Yandere!Wizard!Jaemin - Part Two - Part Three - Part Four*

→ Yandere!Boyfriend!Haechan - Part Two - Part Three*

→ Yandere!Siren!Jaehyun X Pirate!OC*

→ Clingy - Yandere!Yangyang - Part Two

→ Photograph - Yandere!Jeno

→ Yandere!Demon King!Yuta - Part Two - Part Three ft. Yandere!Angel!Jungwoo

→ Wolf!Jeno

→ Childhood Best Friend!Haechan

→ Moving - Lucas

→ Massage - Taeyong*

→ Yandere!Jaemin*

→ Yandere!Pirate!Jaehyun X Siren!OC

→ Wolf!Mark

→ Morning - Prince!Yuta

→ Yandere!Kun

→ Wolf!Yuta

→ Soft - Mark

→ Yandere!Vampire!Taeyong

→ Yandere!Ten*

→ Gimme Gimme - Yandere!Jaehyun

→ Sharing is Caring - Yandere!Lucas & Yandere!Johnny

[rallamajoop]

Dracula, The Witcher, and the Peter Cushing connection

So, no, I haven't had much new Witcher stuff posted in a while. Still got fics in the works there (the next bit of the Discworld crossover is coming along quite well), but I've been a mite distracted.

That little Dracula kick I was on a few months back evolved into an extended mission to watch all the Dracula adaptations – well, at least most of the major film versions (Nosferatu, the 1932 with Bela Lugosi, the 1958 with Christopher Lee, the 1979 with the hair, the insane 1992 Coppola one, the 2002 Guy Maddin silent-film ballet version with the hot Chinese Dracula...) And though I can't usually watch adaptations of anything I loved without compulsively nitpicking, I've been kind of loving all of them – but that's a subject for another post.

Hammer’s 1958 Dracula, starring Christopher Lee, isn’t necessarily the most iconic version, or even really my personal favourite – but it is where I got a little stuck. It’s the version that costars Peter Cushing as Van Helsing, being the same Cushing you may have seen cited as the visual inspiration for Blood and Wine's take on Regis – y’know, that Witcher-vampire I have been ever-so-slightly obsessed with for the past year or so. Up to this point, I knew Cushing mostly as that guy who played Grand Moff Tarkin in the first Star Wars film – but once it’s been pointed out to you, it’s pretty hard to miss.

We may as well note the irony of CDPR having modeled their vampire after an iconic vampire hunter. Actually, those sideburns aren't even Van Helsing's – these hail from Cushing's time starring as Victor Frankenstein in Hammer's other big-name high-gothic film franchise, which involves no vampires whatsoever.* Still, I suppose Baron-Dr-Cushinstein does spend a lot of time covered in blood and/or hanging around alchemical paraphernalia, which doesn't hurt for relevant visuals where Regis is concerned.

Whichever performance they may be referencing, CDPR’s design for Regis is a charming nod to classic horror cinema, and Cushing's skinny, mild-mannered, pleasantly-authoritative Van Helsing makes a more fitting choice for Regis than any of Hammer's actual vampires. You’d be hard-pressed to find any much better fantasy fancast for Regis than Cushing in his prime.

Now, primed as I obviously was to fall headfirst into what amounts to original-alternate-Regis fandom, the truth is I came out of Hammer's first Dracula film going, "well, that was pretty good – maybe I'll get around to the sequels at some point." But the series’ next entry didn’t do a lot for me (Brides of Dracula, which I am disappointed to say contains neither a) Dracula, nor b) any actual brides thereof), and Van Helsing isn’t even in the next four.

Not until Dracula A.D. 1972 does the series reunite both the original stars, Peter Cushing's Van Helsing (now playing his own grandson) and Christopher Lee's Dracula, and most critics seem to feel the series was long past its prime by this stage. But putting all expectations aside, in watching it, I discovered several things:

Van Helsing II having to calmly, authoritatively explain to a skeptical 70's cop that they’ve got a vampire problem on their hands and somehow pulling it off is EVERYTHING I never knew how much I wanted from this series.

If this film is garbage, it is emphatically MY KIND of garbage. I loved that Van Helsing vs. Dracula is now some kind of epic, generation-spanning rivalry; that Van Helsing II gets some real stakes via his (surprisingly likeable) granddaughter; I loved Johnny Alucard the beta-villain chewing all the scenery, why do people not like this movie?

Despite having aged about 14 years in real time (and perhaps several more internally**), Peter Cushing only gets better with age

I have officially fallen head over heels for this man's face ridiculous cheek bones everything

People, I do not do the whole celebrity-crush thing. Let alone over long-deceased actors from my grandparents' generation. But it quickly became Very Important that I watch pretty much everything Peter Cushing had ever been in. And Cushing (as I may have mentioned in a footnote around here somewhere) is an actor who kept busy.

If I had to summarise what made the Hammer Horror formula work, I think I’d have to go with “enjoyably trashy, but with a touch of class,” – and delving into through Cushing’s back-catalog is like making a laundry list of exactly that class of low-mid-budget 60′s-70′s British horror. Actors like Cushing and Lee lent a similar quality to those films that that Patrick Stewart and Ian McKellen brought to the X-Men franchise: a bit of gravitas and a lot of style. Whether playing the hero or the villain, Cushing’s old-fashioned air of authority could carry off an awful lot.

In addition to Van Helsing, Dr. Frankenstein and Moff Tarkin, he also played Sherlock Holmes, an actual vampire, (sort of) Dr. Who, and even Mr Darcy (in a 1950′s TV adaptation of Pride and Prejudice that, to my great disappointment has long since been lost). Unavoidably, there are some films not even he and Lee combined could hope to save, but Cushing single-handedly makes a lot of otherwise-middling films worth watching. It’s a crying shame some of this stuff isn’t better known and remembered today. It’s as hard not to wonder that an actor of this calibre didn’t get to do more higher-brow work, but then again, to quote the man himself, Who wants to see me as Hamlet? Very few. But millions want to see me as Frankenstein so that's the one I do.

My Internet history tells me I first watched Dracula A.D. 1972 way back in May. Honestly, I was kind of expecting to be over it by now, and yet here I am.

Anyway, if you do share my taste in Witcher-vampires, may I also highly recommend Hammer’s Frankenstein series, their Carmilla adaptation, The Vampire Lovers, and 1959′s The Flesh and the Fiends (which is not a Hammer production, but still very much in that vein). Dark Corners’ youtube episodes on the Hammer Dracula and Frankenstein series are great introduction to both (even if I do feel they’re awfully unfair to what is now my favourite Dracula film).

Or if you’re reading this as a Peter Cushing fan, well, I can’t honestly pretend the main Witcher video game series will necessarily interest you – but there is this one relatively-standalone expansion pack called Blood and Wine that just might be worth your time...

* (back) Though to see Cushing at peak sideburns (pictured in the first comparison above), you’ll want 1959's The Flesh and the Fiends (which isn't technically a Hammer production at all, even though Cushing is basically still playing Frankenstein by way of Doctor Knox).

** (back) The story goes that Cushing spent the 70′s doing film after film because he’d recently lost his wife, and was desperately trying to bury his grief in work. Which only makes the number of grieving fathers and/or widowers he plays in his later years that much more ouch to see in effect.

[only-johnny-deppp]

6 years ago, on January 12, 2016, Johnny attended and played on stage with Marilyn Manson and friends during Stella McCartney’s Autumn 2016 Pre-Fall Show at the Amoeba Music Store in Hollywood, California.

On that day, Stella McCartney, Paul McCartney daughter, presented her new collection and invited dozens of celebrities, such as actors, singers, models and other personalities. Johnny attended the event with his daughter Lily-Rose, Marilyn Manson, and his fellow vampires Tommy Henriksen, Bruce Witkin and Matt Sorum, who went on stage to perform and close the event.

> Behind the scenes: Johnny, his fellow pirate Orlando Bloom and Marilyn Manson.

[pinelife3]

An investigation: if supermodels are so dumb and vapid, how do they pull artistic geniuses?

This is a picture of Nick Cave and his wife leaving the inquest into their son’s death. Their 15 year old boy fell from a cliff after taking acid and becoming disoriented. 

I cannot even conceive of how terrible it must be to lose a child. The drugs and the cliff make it an episode of Skins (or Euphoria for the zoomers) but that’s your little boy. It was a stupid accident and now you never get to see him again. A teenaged tragedy. Unendingly unfair. 

Ghosteen, the 2019 album from Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, is a complex, existential album in conversation with the death of Nick’s son and his feelings of loss and grief. Nick Cave is an artist - his life’s work is to share how he feels and what he thinks. What he’s expressing with Ghosteen is sorrow and longing - and some larger angst about the purpose of existence.

Through all this tragedy, I’m sure you couldn’t help but notice... who’s the babe with the shiny hair and the fabulous gazongas? That’s Nick’s wife, man! Susie Bick - or sometimes Susie Cave. She was a major model in the 80s and 90s. A model and an artist - it’s actually fitting. 

And what’s more, Susie is the founder of The Vampire’s Wife - a label which has become super popular in the last couple of years. (Fashion people eyeroll The Vampire’s Wife because every dress has the same silhouette, but that’s out of the scope of this blog.)

There is a perception that models are are vapid and unserious. Their job is to look good, keep their mouth shut, and move merchandise. They cannot offer anything profound because their value is surface level. Men and women both push this way of thinking. 

For example, when Brad Pitt was recently revealed to be dating 27 year old model Nicole Poturalski, people were disappointed. Brad Pitt has been a cultural fixture for decades - after all this time, people still find him fascinating. And they expect him to date someone who is equally compelling. Clooney married a human rights lawyer - why is Brad dating someone who makes posts like this on Instagram...

This was Lainey Gossip’s take on the new girlfriend: 

A model, younger, it’s so predictable it’s almost boring.

Nice! I guess we’re all feminists until the woman in question is young and hot. 

It's easy to assume the worst of a person who is unknown to us, but is beautiful and hooking up with someone famous. A million mean thoughts spring to mind. “A model, younger”. That’s scorn. You know exactly what she’s saying: hot but dumb. An uninteresting person. We know what Brad really wants her for... 

If Brad Pitt is compelling to you, how compelling must Nicole Poturalski be to have won and held his attention? Brad Pitt has not been celibate in the four years since he separated from Angelina Jolie, but not until Nicole did we have confirmation of someone who he was definitely seeing. He allowed himself to be photographed with her en route to his French chateau. And what ensued was a weird story - she’s in an open relationship with some old German restaurateur and she has a son? She’s a sugar baby? Why would Brad fucking Pitt get publicly involved with someone who has a messy personal life: why hook up with a married 27 year old and weather months of stories about her open marriage if he didn’t actually like her? Why even be seen with her? The relationship is a little weird - but the reporting on it has been nasty. The new sugar baby angle which has emerged in the last week (late October 2020) is basically calling her a whore. This is the level of suspicion and derision directed at a model dating a public fixture like Brad Pitt. The notion that Brad Pitt would pay for female company or sex is patently absurd. 

If our assumptions about models are correct, why do so many models end up with artistic geniuses? I don’t care about the Victoria’s Secret models who hooked up with the bassist from Kings of Leon. I’m talking about beautiful women who made it with icons, the premier humans of the past century:

MUSICIANS

Nick Cave and Susie Bick

David Bowie and Iman

Kanye West and Amber Rose

Bob Dylan and Sara Lownds

Mick Jagger and Jerry Hall

Mick Jagger and Carla Bruni

Serge Gainsbourg and Jane Birkin

Eric Clapton and Pattie Boyd

George Harrison and Pattie Boyd

Madonna and Jesus Luz

MISC. POWERFUL PEOPLE

Salman Rushdie and Padma Lakshmi

Donald Trump and Melania (lol)

Nicolas Sarkozy and Carla Bruni

Evan Spiegel and Miranda Kerr 

Hitler and Eva Braun (What?! She had a brief career an artist’s model...)

Michael Jordan and Yvette Prieto

Rupert Murdoch and Jerry Hall 

ACTORS (perhaps not artistic icons... but still creative and interesting)

Matthew McConaughey and Camila Alves

Johnny Depp and Kate Moss

Bradley Cooper and Irina Shayk

Bradley Cooper and Suki Waterhouse

Robert Pattinson and Suki Waterhouse

Vincent Cassel and Tina Kunakey

Halle Berry and Gabriel Aubrey

Leonardo DiCaprio and half the VS roster

Huge congrats to all the models with more than one entry on the list. You’ll note that there is a dearth of female icon/male model pairings - this is kind of interesting but not something I feel like getting into.

To some extent, the prevalence of the artist and model pairing makes sense. Men like good looking women. Rich, powerful men are high status and have access to good looking women. Plus, an artist needs a muse.

Many of the models in the list above are actually iconic in their own right. Like, when someone is having a great day on RuPaul’s Drag Race and looking sleek and skinny and flawless RuPaul might compare them to Iman. People pay $10,000 USD for handbags named after Jane Birkin. 

Conversely, in the case of Amber Rose, she became the most desired woman in the hip hop industry c. 2010 because she was with Kanye. And most especially because she broke Kanye’s heart. Everyone wanted the girl from “Hell of a Life”. People point to that song as being about Kim - it was prophetic, yes, but not written about her.

Anyway. Could an icon, a legend, a genius, make it work with someone who had nothing to offer but a fast metabolism and a beautiful face? Do poreless skin and puffy lips make up for never finishing high school? 

Wouldn’t being with someone superficial or unserious mean the artist was fundamentally boring in some way too? This is increasingly the assumption about Leonardo DiCaprio - seen above photographing his 23 year old model gf for her Instagram. Even Reddit mocks him for his age gap relationships with models.

And here’s where I try to make my point: 

Kate Moss’ daughter, Lila, recently had her modelling debut during Paris Fashion Week. It was big news because she’s celebrity spawn - and of course her mother is one of the most iconic models ever. She was eviscerated. 

On The Daily Mail, the comparisons to her mother flowed. What’s interesting is that Daily Mail readers do not like Kate Moss but they will defend her 90s modelling career with their life. They laud her bone structure, her waifish figure. An irresistible, undeniable face. 

It seems silly to praise someone for the shape of their head and the way their skin fits over it... it’s not a talent, is it? Maybe it is! There is no shortage of hot girls in the world - but there may be a shortage of girls with preternatural charismatic beauty. Lila Moss (left above) is attractive - she even looks quite a bit like her mum. Perhaps in the pic above she even looks hotter than her mum (right above). But Kate Moss is more interesting: less perfect - half her eyebrow is missing, she’s less manicured. She exudes some kind of darkness, newness. Lottie Moss, Kate’s younger half-sister, is a similar story. Obviously attractive, obviously interested in modelling - but she’s lacking something. 

Bella Hadid came from a similar-ish background to Lila Moss (Bravoleb parents, frequent appearances on Real Housewives of Beverley Hills in her teen years, groomed by her ex-model mother) but Bella Hadid has it. She may have risen through the ranks due to nepotism and cosmetic surgery but she is someone people want to look at. She is sought after - not foisted upon us. Again, it’s not because she’s the hottest woman on the planet. She is gorgeous, but on top of that, there’s something beguiling about the angles of her face.

What’s this thing that clicks in your head telling you that Kate Moss’s face is more interesting than her daughter’s? It’s an intrusive thought: her skull shape is pleasing, let your eyes linger. A command: you will not forget that face. 

Iman has it. Look at her. On meeting Iman, Bowie said: "I was naming the children the night we met... it was absolutely immediate." How many beautiful women had Bowie met in his life? How many had this effect?

Can you imagine trying to keep David Bowie or Bob Dylan interested in what you’re saying? Or Madonna? Or Michael Jordan? Most of us do not have a single thought in our head which would be of interest to these people. The models I listed earlier transfixed them. Mick Jagger could have romanced every woman on the planet - but he only wanted Jerry Hall (pls disregard affairs so I can make my point). 

When a model hooks up with an artistic genius, it’s illogical to assume she’s vapid or that the icon is with her for shallow reasons. What we should assume is that she is the most interesting woman that icon has crossed paths with in a long time - which would make her very interesting indeed.

[imaginesforjohnnydepp]

Architectural Digest (Power Couple extended imagine)

for @karlacce4 @takemepedropascal

Inside Johnny Depp and Y/N Y/L/N’s Stunning $1.9M New Orleans Home! - Article by Rita Joseph, November 2018

A casually dressed Y/N opens the door on a bright and sunny but chilly Friday afternoon. The Golden Globe nominated actress is just as stunning makeup free and in an old college sweatshirt and jeans and her hair pulled back from her face as she is in expensive designer gowns and jewelry; right behind her is her husband Johnny Depp and their dog Jack Sparrow. “Hey, come on in!” Immediately, I’m greeted with warmth and the scent of cinnamon. The entrance is narrow, and there is a wooden table next to the door with a small bowl which hold two sets of car keys, but there are two doorways across from each other: on the left is the sitting room, and on my right is the dining room with its painted blue walls contrasted with white curtains and a chandelier hanging above the table.

We start with the sitting room which holds a lime green couch adding a nice touch of color against the white walls. There is also a gold ceiling lamp and a glass coffee table. “This is our sitting room, but we use it for a little bit of everything, like a storage room or sometimes a guest would want to sleep in here when they visit because it’s so quiet as opposed to upstairs because we still have teenagers, and there’s a lot of banging around in the morning getting ready for school, or we’ll have friends over.” Those friends would include Brad and Angelina (before the divorce), Tim Burton and Eva Green, Helena Bonham Carter, and Depp’s Hollywood Vampires band mates Joe Perry and Alice Cooper. What great company to keep!

From the sitting room we head into the dining room. “We actually painted the dining room a week after we moved in. All of the walls in the house were white and we thought it was way too much, so we decided to paint it a different color,” Depp said. “The tables and chairs actually belonged to Y/N’s sister and we bought it off her in ‘07 when she moved to another city, and that couch in the other room we bought after Nathan and Noelle’s first birthday.” “It was their favorite thing to play on when they were babies. So hard to believe that was 2004,” Y/L/N reminisced. The blue walls are decorated with a few of Depp’s paintings with a molding of a deer’s head that Y/N got at a flea market.

As we exit out of the dining room, I get a good look at the other side of the wall facing the staircase as we go into the living room. The entire wall is covered in a black and white photo of a jazz band taken at a Mardi Gras parade a few years ago, and there is a nice sized wine cabinet which is the size of a recording booth with only one bottle of wine in it; Johnny has cut back on drinking, but still enjoys a glass of wine every now and then. “I’m not as young as I used to be, and I’m runnin’ around on stage all night so I want to be as healthy as possible when I’m performing and to see the rest of my babies grow up.” The rest of his babies would be Nathan and Noelle, fraternal twins born in 2003. Their oldest kids include 26-year-old Star Wars star John Christopher III, born in 1992, and 22-year-old The Greatest Showman actress Camille.

The living room is gorgeous but simple; an all white leather reclining sectional with built in cup holders surrounds a small wooden coffee table in front of the fireplace which has a flat screen television above it. There’s a chandelier in this room as well, similar to the one in the dining room, and the wooden table behind the sectional breaks up the whiteness of the room. “This is where everyone spends the majority of their time. Morning, noon, night, weekends, we are here, with the older kids when they come over for dinner on Sundays. They’ll come over in the afternoon and stay the whole day.” Even with the oldest kids moved out and with houses of their own, the Depps are still a close knit family with Camille and John Christopher, or Three as he’s called by friends and family, living minutes away. Depp family favorite weekend activity? “Cooking breakfast together and then going to the nearby park or to a flea market or farmers’ market. There’s always something to do do in the city so you’re never bored,” the Dark Shadows actor explained. 

When I asked them why they decided to move away from Hollywood, it was an easy answer. Y/L/N said: “we wanted to give them a normal childhood, and you can’t really have that when there are people taking pictures of you in your school uniform heading into school.” The couple moved to the Big Easy before Johnny began filming the first Pirates of the Caribbean movie in 2002, and speaking of cooking, the kitchen is next, and it is every homeowner’s dream. The white marble kitchen island doubles as a sink with its clear backed chairs and a sleek gold light fixture hanging above. A few feet away is a rectangular table with four shelves.

“This is my favorite room. I’m always cooking, and this is pretty much multipurpose room. We do game nights, eat meals, the twins do homework here.” When I joked about the chandeliers, the two only laughed, with Y/N adding, “you’re gonna be seeing a lot of chandeliers in this house. I loved them as a child and always wanted one. Or thirteen. We actually got each of them at Home Depot or Wayfair, and they look good in every room.” At this point, Jack Sparrow begins barking and runs to the front door (the dog, not Depp who plays the beloved swashbuckler). Noelle and Nathan are home from school and they follow the dog into the kitchen.

They are taken aback as they take in the camera man, as they wash their hands in the sink before reaching for the snacks. “Oh, I thought this was happening tomorrow,” Noelle remarks as she reaches for a bag of trail mix from a cabinet and a bottle of water from the fridge. “You have drivers ed tomorrow,” Y/N instantly in mom mode. “And your uniforms are hanging up in the laundry room.” Johnny and Y/N are athlete parents with Nathan playing on his school football team while Noelle is a cheerleader. After getting an okay from the twins to tour their rooms, we head upstairs after the examining the wall of pictures in the upstairs hallway.

Some pictures that have never been made public: a tired looking Y/N in a hospital bed after giving birth to their children, followed by a procession of school portraits and certificates from school. John Christopher and Camille’s graduation and prom pictures. Family outings at the near by park which featured a heavily pregnant Y/N circa early 2000s. A picture of Depp’s late mother Betty Sue and Y/N’s Aunt Claudia smiling as they played cards. And then there were the family portraits.

One that started with John Christopher as a newborn in 1992, then adding Camille in 1996, followed by the twins in 2003. Black and white photos of grandparents and great-grandparents, photos of Depp and Y/L/N ancestors, and the framed Polaroids of Y/N and Depp in Vegas on their honeymoon, after they eloped in summer 1991 after less than a year of dating, and I had to ask the question that’s still on peoples’ minds years later: why elopement? “We were young and didn’t want to go through the process of planning a wedding. I proposed a day after meeting her aunt and uncle and two days later we were married.” You remember that day like it was yesterday; you and Johnny went on vacation to visit your aunt and uncle so they could meet him for the first time as your boyfriend. They loved him, of course and at that point, you’ve only been dating for four months and it was getting serious to the point where Johnny called you his future wife and mother of his children in interviews (which probably wouldn’t be too distant in the future since your period was late). He proposed the night before you left for L.A. after your aunt and uncle had gone to bed and you immediately said yes.

After settling back home, you two took a road trip to Las Vegas the very next day and twenty seven years later, you’re still very much in love. I asked them why move to New Orleans, to which Depp answered: “Y/N was filming a movie here after Three was born, and when I came to visit her with the baby, I think it was during Mardi Gras, we had an amazing time. The food was just incredible, and the people were amazing, and no one gave a fuck about who we were. Once Camille was born, we kept coming back as much as we could, and we decided we wanted to build a life here.” The first room we enter after reaching the landing is the master bedroom. The walls are painted a nice gray, and, you guessed it, a chandelier. “This is our room, where we rarely get any sleep because we have the kids always running in and out for whatever reason--” 

“And we also climb into bed with them too,” Noelle interjects. “And other times we just do it to annoy them,” Nathan backs up his sister’s statement. The bathroom is gorgeous with a white tiled floor; the shower stall is in a corner next to Y/N’s vanity, and across from it is a jacuzzi tub set next to a window that had a few candles along the edge, and adjacent from the tub is a double sink. “This is our bathroom, and we do more unwinding here than the bedroom. Whenever one of us comes home from filming or press tours or whatever, we’re in the tub, probably falling asleep.” Next we move to Noelle’s room and it’s something out of a Pintrest board

Pretty pastel pinks and fluffy white rugs and throws with a nice swing chair in a corner, which she calls her reading nook. Black and white framed pictures of her mom from her modeling days as a teenager and pictures of friends and family fill in space on her walls. “Every piece of furniture came from either Wayfair or Overstock. They have such great deals on furniture and rugs, and I’m always scrolling through their websites.” Nathan’s room is a typical boy’s room. It’s a cool gray scale vibe with a portion of the wall behind his bed painted black and there are shelves on either side of the bed filled with books, picture frames and sports trophies. “Dad and I repainted this wall almost a month ago. The sun shines so bright in the mornings and it’s always a pain, and I love when a room is cold and dark.” 

He admits to sleeping with the fan on at night, even in the winter. There’s a sleek desk in the corner that holds a laptop and a stack of books, and next to it, against the wall, is a decent sized book shelf. Nathan likes to read, a trait that he and the rest of his siblings picked up from their parents. He and Noelle are having a competition to see who could read the most books by the end of the year. The next room is a low ceilinged guest room which is where Depp’s mother Betty Sue lived her last days. 

“This used to be Grandma Betty’s room. Jack comes in here all the time, and we’d find him just laying on the bed,” Nathan says, touching a portrait of his grandmother. The next room is pretty much a music studio, as there’s a drum kit, bass guitars, electric guitars, and a keyboard. The walls are covered with the kids’ school art projects over the years. The room is frequented by Depp’s band the Hollywood Vampires whenever they blow into town, where they write and record new music, and Noelle receives guitar lessons from her father and Cooper. The last room we reach is a game room/homemade home movie theater.

There’s a nice flat screen on the wall and plastic storage bins containing video games, game controllers, and DVDs; Noelle used the room to host a sleepover a few weeks ago, and Nathan and his friends used it to launch water balloons at the neighborhood boys during the summer, which he realizes he makes a mistake in admitting this in front of his parents. Finally we come to the last part of the tour, the backyard which holds a patio and a swimming pool. “I know it doesn’t feel like it now, but we were using the pool up until a week ago. During the spring and summer months, we’ll invite the neighbors over for barbecues or they’ll invite us.” It’s November, and Thanksgiving is a week away. The entire Depp family plans on spending the holiday at the Kentucky ranch Johnny bought for his mother with his siblings. Before we leave, Y/N offers me and the camera man Justin a snack of green tea and cinnamon rolls ushering us politely out of the door so they could have dinner and get ready for Nathan’s game.

The video is now up on architecturaldigest.com and on our YouTube channel.

The video is uploaded on YouTube to great reviews; the viewers love how down to earth and humble you are and that you didn’t spend a ton of money on furniture and other unnecessary miscellaneous items in the house while others wish they had a room like Noelle’s when they were teenagers. The comments range from: i’m a simple person. i see johnny depp’s name and i click on it-user26. i love how they live in a normal looking house in a normal neighborhood. i’m so glad they raised their kids outside of hollywood because john christopher and camille are the most humble nepo kids in the industry and always acknowledge their privilege. can’t say the same for others.- user89. When is Noelle gonna start her modeling career?- user85. i love how close they all are and that they live so close together to where they can get together on the weekends.- user63

dying at the looks johnny and y/n gave nathan when he said he and his friends threw water balloons out the window.- user14. when tf did the twins get so big??? why wasn’t i warned???- user 78. why do noelle and nathan get to look like they just stepped out of a j crew catalog after a day at school but i look like i got beat within an inch of my life by 4th period? - user52

[bellalikeskitties]

masterlist

the queen nct mafia!au | [under construction/rewriting]

the most powerful woman with an army and 21 men to her bidding, she is the queen

johnny  ☆

model |  college student au, drabble

mixed |  vampire au, doctor au (2.2k+)

being a rare half-turned and half-true born vampire with dangerous men at the tip of your fingers proves to be difficult 

taeyong  ☆

me and my husband (we are doing better) | angst, married au (1.2k+)

this is the decision you made, and he is the person you chose, so you’re just going to stick with him. you both have your problems, but this is your life and you’re going to live it.

based on mitski’s me and my husband

yuta  ☆

just like me | demon au, immortal au, doctor au (1.6k+)

you sell your soul to a demon in exchange for a cure to your sister’s illness. god decides to save you and the thing is you injected yourself too and now you’re immortal?

tattoos and tea | fluff, tattoo shop au, flower shop au (1.9k+)

you work at a flower shop and a tattoo artist from across the street comes in to practice drawing flowers for his next tattoo

doyoung  ☆

heavy heart | roommate au (2.4k+)

words he didn’t mean to say and tears that weren’t meant for him

jaehyun  ☆

dessert | baker au, drabble

mixed |  vampire au, doctor au (2.2k+)

being a rare half-turned and half-true born vampire with dangerous men at the tip of your fingers proves to be difficult 

lucas  ☆

unlikely | angst, superhero au (.9k+)

you’re a supervillain in high school and without warning, your nemesis actually transfers to the same school as you

mark  ☆

unlikely | angst, superhero au (.9k+)

you’re a supervillain in high school and without warning, your nemesis actually transfers to the same school as you

lapdog | politics au, bodyguard au (2.2k+)

you, the prime minister, are loved by your country for being a successful and admirable politician. the president does not agree, sending hitmen after hitmen to kill you. so your team decides to give you a bodyguard. a very not normal one too. 

jeno  ☆

big trouble | fluff, superpower au (1.8k+)

you’d known, intellectually, that your heroic nemesis was a teenager, but it didn’t really sink in until the day their school called because your number was the only one on their emergency contact list

haechan  ☆

fairy of shampoo | angst, idol au, actor au (.8k+)

how a young man falls in love with a girl in a shampoo commercial 

happy reads

[groupiesoutrageously]

Girlfriend 

Kirsten Caroline Dunst [30.04.82] 

One of the most famous faces in pop culture during the 2000s, Kirsten Dunst began her career as a child model and had her first acting role in a segment of the anthology film New York Stories (1989) at the age of seven. Her breakthrough came five years later, with the starring role as vampire child Claudia in Interview with the Vampire (1994), for which she received a Golden Globe nomination. During the 1990s, Dunst continued to build a strong career in Hollywood, notably starring in Little Women (1994), Jumanji (1995), Kiki’s Delivery Service (English dub version, 1998), Drop Dead Gorgeous (1999), Dick (1999), and The Virgin Suicides (1999). She starred as cheerleader Torrance Shipman in the 2000 teen hit comedy Bring It On.

The biggest role of Dunst’s career was in Sam Raimi’s Spider Man trilogy (2002–2007), as the unforgettable redheaded Mary Jane Watson. Other notable mentions include a minor role in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004), the title role in Marie Antoinette (2006), and a dramatic performance in All Good Things (2010). In 2011, Dunst won the Best Actress Award at Cannes Film Festival for her performance in Lars von Trier’s Melancholia. 

Dunst starred in the second season of the TV series Fargo in 2015, which was highly praised and earned her more awards. She also played Camille Moriarty in the 2012 film adaptation of On the Road, and co-starred in The Two Faces of January (2014) and Hidden Figures (2016). Her fourth collaboration with Sofia Coppola was in The Beguiled (2017). In 2019, Dunst starred as Krystal Stubbs in the dark comedy series On Becoming a God in Central Florida, of which she is also an executive producer. 

Dunst had notable relationships with actor Jake Gyllenhaal (from 2002 to 2004), musician Johnny Borrell (in 2007), and On the Road co-star Garrett Hedlund (from 2012 to 2016). She began dating Jesse Plemons, her Fargo co-star, in 2016. They became engaged and Dunst gave birth to their son, Ennis, in 2018. The actress can be seen in some music videos including “I Knew I Loved You” by Savage Garden (1999), “Playground Love” by Air (2000), “We All Go Back to Where We Belong” by R.E.M. (2011), and “Make Some Noise” by the Beastie Boys (2011). As a singer, Dunst has recorded a cover version of “Turning Japanese” in 2009. She also collaborated with Jason Schwartzman in his solo project Coconut Records, singing in the tracks “This Old Machine” and “Summer Day” in the 2007 album Nighttiming. They starred together in the music video for “Is this Sound Okay?”, directed by Gia Coppola.

"The Virgin Suicides showed I could nail a very difficult character, while Bring It On brought a great deal of joy to young girls. These are the beautiful rewards of being an actress."

[yoonia]

Blood Moon Rising is so well written I am so invested to the story. I love how you have a variety of characters too with other groups involved. are the hunters the same Lucas and Johnny from NCT? Who do you picture as the vampire Lord and y/n's Dad? or did you also use real people to inspire you for the characters? I'm sorry for asking too much, I always try to put a name to their faces and I wonder if there's going to be more idols making appearances 😅

oooh, I’ve been waiting for someone to ask me about them hahaha 

Okay, first of all, I have to be honest that I suck at giving names for my side characters. So when I was mapping this story and knew that I would need a lot of characters to be added (since I’ll be involving a ton of characters), I decided to add multiple groups into the story and plot them into the character groups to make it easier for me to work on them :)) 

(eg. Ikon members as Vampires, BTS members as animal shifters+werewolves, Got7 and NCT/WayV as Hunters) 

For the additional characters (though definitely not the least important ones), I use real celebs as well for references. Here are the non-idol characters in the story: 

Cha Seungwon (Actor, Model) as Vampire Lord Seungwon

Jung Woosung (Actor, Model) as Alpha Woosung/OC’s dad

Extra: 

Zico/Woo Jiho as Jiho, the Vampire we’ve met in the early chapters :)) (don’t worry, we’ll be seeing him again later) 

Jackson Wang as Jackson, our friendly Hunter

We’ll be seeing more characters in the future chapters, and most possibly from other groups /evil cackling/ so stay tuned for that. 

Thank you so much for reading Blood Moon Rising! 

[strawbvrrylipstick-archive]

i was fixing my tags and while going through all the posts, i’ve noticed a bunch of my muses that had like less than five text posts in their tags. so, below the cut you’ll find a rather large list of my muses with some brief info included about them. i want to write some starters for them and get some threads going, so please comment on this post with any muses you’d be interested in getting a starter from. there’s really no limit. 

alexander beckett / outcast prince / pansexual / fc: will tudor 

frances ‘baby’ houseman / canon divergent baby from dirty dancing / bisexual / fc: zoey deutch 

connor beckett / heir of his father’s company who is kind of an alcoholic / bisexual / fc: armie hammer

florence beckett / princess & aspiring ballet dancer / bisexual / fc: liana liberato 

jarrod beckett / prince & broadway actor / homosexual / fc: axel auriant 

lawrence cohen / based on chunk from the goonies / pansexual / fc: ansel elgort

marnie piper / canon divergent marnie from halloweentown / pansexual / fc: lana condor

mike wheeler / older mike from stranger things / bisexual / fc: timothee chalamet

milly michaelson / innocent daydreamer / pansexual / fc: natalia dyer

tiffany beckett / queen with a heart of ice / bisexual / fc: emilia clarke 

violet sanford / works as a bartender - living a double life / bisexual / fc: danielle rose russell

wesley james / college student by day - call boy by night / heterosexual / fc: michael b. jordan 

augustus waters / canon divergent gus from tfios / pansexual / fc: ansel elgort

jamila el dine / conspiracy blogger and researcher / pansexual / fc: jade thirlwall 

john torres / warlock cursed with nine lives / pansexual / fc: diego tinoco

lamont warrick / scam artist who owns a curio shop / pansexual / fc: keith powers

nancy drew / amateur dectective / pansexual / fc: kat mcnamara

nigel mookerjee / historian / heterosexual / fc: dev patel 

luna santoro / fashion designer / bisexual / fc: sofia carson 

star rhee / works at a planetarium & super down to earth / homosexual / fc: laura harrier

thomas blake / charming demon / homosexual / fc: daniel sharman 

yumi shimizu / works at a bento box stand / bisexual / fc: sana minatozaki 

blaine o’callaghan / drug dealer turned kingsman agent / pansexual / fc: lee taeyong

cady heron / canon divergent cady from mean girls / bisexual / fc: maia mitchell 

chandler yoo / maid and nanny - based on cinderella / pansexual / fc: yoon jeonghan

elton grady / kingsman agent with sociopathic tendencies / bisexual / fc: jamie dornan

jackie kelly / struggling artist with wanderlust / homosexual / fc: anna kendrick 

jeremy heere / awkward nobody who wants to be popular / bisexual / fc: timothee chalamet

reese george / cisbent regina george from mean girls / bisexual / fc: park jimin 

vivian edwards / head of the kingsman agency / bisexual / fc: daisy ridley

amber kang / med student and prodigy / pansexual / fc: jeon heejin 

blue o’sullivan / well known lgbt*a activist / pansexual / fc: saoirse ronan 

cheri kim / shallow aspiring model / pansexual / fc: ha sooyoung

emerald greenblatt / environmental activist who owns her own 0 waste clothing company / pansexual / fc: hailee steinfeld 

fitz bennett / head of his own social networking company & single father / pansexual / fc: henry golding 

geoff princeton / star baseball player / heterosexual / fc: chance perdomo 

lila hernandez / nanny who wants to be a novelist / pansexual / fc: selena gomez

olly turner / youtuber who runs a channel similar to shane dawson featuring conspiracy theories, etc. / bisexual / fc: calum hood 

onyx wright / lead singer of a band & apathetic asshole / pansexual / fc: alex fitzalan 

perrie huang / embodiment of sunshine who works at a daycare / bisexual / fc: viian wong 

pippa jamil / food network star / homosexual / fc: jameela jamil 

silvia martinez / high end escort & daddy’s girl / pansexual / fc: bruna marquezine

tinsley bell / works at disneyland as the face character of tinkerbell & super confident / pansexual / fc: hunter schafer

violet zhang / works at hot topic & ur hot goth gf / pansexual / fc: natasha liu bordizzo

wyatt parker / everyone thinks he’s this playboy heir to his father’s company but he’s a soft boi / bisexual / fc: xavier serrano 

theo decker / canon theo from the goldfinch / bisexual / fc: ansel elgort

ajay ghale / drug dealer / homosexual / fc: park chanyeol 

alex yoon / film student who likes working on independent projects - super needy / homosexual / fc: felix lee 

anya romanov / canon divergent anastasia / heterosexual / fc: abigail cowen

april williams / aspiring model who works at lush / pansexual / fc: maggie lindemann

autumn rossi / a witch who owns a bookstore / pansexual / fc: kiernan shipka

brett utonium / gang member / pansexual / fc: jordan connor 

bryan utonium / sugar baby / bisexual with a preference for females / feminine aligned individuals / fc: lucas wong

grainger / club owner & single father / bisexual with a female lean / fc: tom ellis 

park jinhwan / dancer & ulzzang / pansexual / fc: park seonghwa 

na jisoo / dancer & personal stylist / homosexual / fc: kim chungha 

johnny kim / ex-dancer and now solo artist / homosexual / fc: park junhee 

na jonghyun / dancer who owns his own studio / bisexual / fc: han jisung 

maddy perez / canon maddy from euphoria / pansexual / fc: alexa demie 

luke hemmings / fictional portrayal 

meg murry / student who picks too many fights / pansexual / fc: vanessa morgan 

miranda priestly / intern at a fashion magazine & aspiring designer / pansexual / fc: barbara palvin 

peter pan / canon divergent portrayal / pansexual / fc: kj apa 

ponyboy curtis / from the outsiders / aspiring writer / bisexual / fc: harry styles

summer somchai / works at an aquarium & surfer / pansexual / fc: lalisa manoban 

winnie santos / ice skater & instructor / bisexual / fc: camila mendes

ellie cullen / hybrid cutiepie - vampire & human / pansexual / fc: kathryn newton 

lana jackson / burlesque dancer / pansexual / fc: indya moore

valeria sousa / camgirl & cosplayer / pansexual / fc: barbie ferreira

stacy harrington / cousin to steve harrington & works at scoops ahoy / homosexual / fc: diana silvers 

freyja whelan / deaf education major / bisexual / fc: florence pugh

edythe cullen / edythe from life and death / bisexual / fc: josephine langford

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THE FOLLOWING AVENGERS HAVE AGREED TO JOIN THE ACADEMY!

RESERVED UNTIL MAY 10

CHOU TZUYU, TWICE › weapon manipulation

JEON JEONGGUK, BTS

PARK CHAEWON/GOWON, LOONA › vector manipulation / triple a bassist canon *

LEE TAEYONG, NCT

PARK CHANYEOL, EXO

SHIN RYUJIN, ITZY › astral manipulation / infinity sub-plot / orange canon

UNDECIDED FACECLAIM › cryokinesis / welcome wagon canon

UNDECIDED FACECLAIM › intangibility / stark internship canon

RESERVED UNTIL MAY 11

JEON HEEJIN, LOONA › weather manipulation *

JEON WONWOO, SEVENTEEN › decay *

KIM DAHYUN, TWICE › telekinesis

KIM JENNIE, BLACKPINK › heroes vs. villains sub-plot / the divine nine canon

KIM JISOO, BLACKPINK › electrokinesis / welcome wagon canon

SONG YUQI, (G)I-DLE › the normal canon **

YOOK SUNGJAE, BTOB  › superhuman speed / daily bugle editor-in-chief canon

YOON JEONGHAN, SEVENTEEN › empathy

RESERVED UNTIL MAY 12

BAE JOOHYUN/IRENE, RED VELVET › portal creation

CHEN LINONG, NINE PERCENT › technology manipulation / stark internship canon

PARK SOOYOUNG/JOY, RED VELVET › heroes vs. villains sub-plot / the divine nine

CHOI YOONSUN, SONAMOO › persuasion

DO KYUNGSOO, EXO

IM JINAH/NANA, AFTER SCHOOL › umbrakinesis, heroes vs. villains sub-plot / the sick six

JANG YEEUN, CLC › kinetic energy manipulation / stark internship canon

JUNG JINSOUL, LOONA › puppet mastery

KAISEI TAKECHI, EXILE TRIBE › adaptive power replication / heroes vs. villains sub-plot / the divine nine

KIM DOYEON, WEKI MEKI › feline physiology, triple a bassist canon

KIM JONGDAE/CHEN, EXO › sonic scream

KIM YOOHYEON, DREAMCATCHER › crystal manipulation / heroes vs. villains sub-plot / the divine nine

MYOUI MINA, TWICE › self replication

NAM JOOHYUK, ACTOR › light manipulation

OH SEHUN, EXO

UNDECIDED FACECLAIM › teleportation

RESERVED UNTIL MAY 13

HYE OLIVIA, LOONA › ghost physiology

JUNG CHAEYEON, DIA › daily bugle staff canon

JUNG JAEHYUN, NCT

KIM TAEHYUNG, BTS › illusion manipulation

KWON EUNBI, IZ*ONE › memory manipulation

LEE FELIX, STRAY KIDS › imagination manifestation

LEE TAEMIN, SHINEE › erebokinesis

PARK JIHOON, TREASURE13 › welcome wagon canon

SEO KANGJOON, ACTOR › conceptual items

WEN JUNHUI, SEVENTEEN › energy assimilation / heroes vs. villains sub-plot / triple a guitarist canon

WU KRIS, SOLOIST › shapeshifting 

YOO SEONHO, SOLOIST › animal morphing

APPLICATIONS RECEIVED / OPENING AT 14 APPLICATIONS

AHN SUNGJIN / “SPECTRE” YANG JEONGIN, STRAY KIDS › psionic energy / infinity sub-plot / yellow canon

CHAE HYUNJIN / “MAYHEM” KIM MINJU, IZ*ONE › enhanced combat / stark internship canon

CHOI BEOMSEOK / “BULLDOZE” KIM MINGYU, SEVENTEEN › superhuman strength / welcome wagon canon

DABIRI ADAM / “WEBSLINGER” HAN HYUNMIN, MODEL › spider physiology 

HA GUNWOO / “GUST” MIN YOONGI/SUGA, BTS › air manipulation

HEO TAOHAN / “ETO” HONG JISOO/JOSHUA, SEVENTEEN › ghoul physiology / heroes vs. villains sub-plot / the divine nine canon / triple a vocalist canon

JO MINHO / “REAPER” KOO JUNHOE, IKON › osteokinesis / heroes vs. villains sub-plot / the sick six canon

KANG JINHYUK / “PYRE” HAN JISUNG, STRAY KIDS › pyrokinesis / heroes vs. villains sub-plot / the sick six canon

KANG JISOO / “HELLION”   JEON JIWOO, KARD › carbokinesis / heroes vs. villains sub-plot / the sick six canon

KIM HYEONSOO / “BIOTIC” NAM WOOHYUN, INFINITE › healing artillery / school nurse

KIM JUMI / “NIX” SON CHAEYOUNG, TWICE › faerie physiology 

KITTIBUN “KIT” KARA / “MERLIN” CHITTAPHON LEECHAIYAPORNKUL/TEN, NCT › chaos magic

MIN HYUNSIK / “FANG” CHOI YEONJUN, TXT › vampire physiology / heroes vs. villains sub-plot / stark internship canon

MOON SORI / “CHERRYBOMB” IM NAYEON, TWICE › fourth wall manipulation / infinity sub-plot / red canon

MOON TAESEOK / “AION” LEE DONGHYUCK, NCT › time manipulation / infinity sub-plot / green canon *messaged

NAM SUYEONG / “SIREN” HWANG HYUNJIN, STRAY KIDS › hydrokinesis

NOH JINHO / “ANVIL” HWANG MINHYUN, NUEST › metal manipulation / moneybags canon

PARK JIHYUN / “NOFACE” JUNG SOOJUNG/KRYSTAL,  F(X) › force-field manipulation

RYU EUNYOUNG / “VOID” MOON GAYOUNG, ACTRESS › meta space manipulation / infinity sub-plot / blue canon

SAKURADA RINA / “PIXIE” HIRAI MOMO, TWICE › size manipulation

SAKURAZUKA SHINN / “ZERO” NAKAMOTO YUTA, NCT › life-force absorption / heroes vs. villains sub-plot / the divine nine canon

SONG DAEHYUN / “PLAGUE” KIM JONGIN/KAI, EXO › contagion embodiment / humans vs. villains sub-plot / the divine nine 

QU MEIZHEN / “BLACKSTAR” WANG ZIXUAN, ACTRESS › diamond form / school counselor

SONG SIWOO / “DURESS”   SEO JOHNNY, NCT › hell inducement / heroes vs. villains sub-plot / the sick six canon

YOO YONGIL / “AD HOC” KANG DONGHO/BAEKHO, NU’EST ›  luck / infinity sub-plot / purple canon

YU VALENTINE / “VEIN” KANG YEOSANG, ATEEZ › blood manipulation / heroes vs. villains sub-plot / the sick six canon

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THE MAN IN BLACK – YOUR APPOINTMENT WITH FEAR FEBRUARY 5, 2017 GREYDOGTALES 1 COMMENT

Have you met the Man in Black? Has he whispered to you on the airwaves? Your radio is dead, and yet his voice is still there inside you, entreating you to join him… Yes, our Voice of Horror series is back, with a hero of the genre!

Long before Johnny Cash, the Tommy Lee Jones films or even Westworld, there was a single man who embodied the concept of the forbidding stranger, the archivist of the dark – the Man in Black. Can you recall his name, or remember his sepulchral tones? No? Then we shall help. Treats are in store, including some links to where you can listen to, or watch, him in action.

Along the way we bump into Shirley Jackson, Hammer Horror, GK Chesterton, Edgar Allan Poe, Dr Who, Sid James of Carry On fame and S T Joshi, amongst others. Is that enough names yet? For today’s article we must take you back to the days when you made radio shows by rubbing two sticks together, so a few reminders may be in order.

Dyall M for Murder

Valentine Dyall (1908-1985) was the true Man in Black, and it came about because of the BBC. In the 1940s and 50s, they aired a wonderful radio series called Appointment with Fear. This was a series of dramatised horror stories which both drew on the classics and also invited new stories from contemporary writers. Each started with an introduction from the narrator, the Man in Black, either teasing the listener about the nature of the tale to come, or warning them of the terror that awaited them.

Each show was about half an hour long. When Dyall started speaking, you knew you were in the right place. His voice was dark and distinctive (some called him the British Vincent Price), and he had a resonance which just oozed menace. Occasionally the actual story was less interesting than his narration. Between 1943 and 1955 he introduced nine series of terrifying tales, with one more series being narrated by his father, Franklin Dyall. He also narrated a single series of the Man in Black in 1949.

Before we say more about Appointment with Fear, we should mention Dyall’s wider horror credentials. He had a number of parts in film and TV over the years, in addition to his radio work, and his career was packed with the sort of media trivia that we so love.

For our younger listeners, Dyall played the Black Guardian in Dr Who between 1979 and 1983.

“The Black Guardian is an anthropomorphic personification of the forces of entropy and chaos, the counterpart of the White Guardian, a personification of order. The two Guardians balance out the forces in the universe, although the Black Guardian seems to desire to upset the balance in favour of chaos and evil while the White Guardian prefers to maintain the status quo.” (Wiki)

He took the lead role in individual episodes and in three linked serials, which some call the Black Guardian trilogy, playing opposite Peter Davison as the Doctor.

Well Hammered

We mentioned Dyall’s memorable voice, and in Hammer Horror’s film Lust for a Vampire (1971), the character Count Karnstein, played by Mike Raven, was dubbed by Valentine Dyall. He also appeared as the caretaker Mr Dudley in the outstanding 1963 film version of Shirley Jackson’s novel The Haunting of Hill House. Sometimes just known as The Haunting, this is by far the best adaptation, and still sends shivers up the spine.

Going further back, he played a key part, Jethro Keane, in the wonderful City of the Dead (1960). The film was known as Horror Hotel in the States, and is the tale of a young student who seeks information on witchcraft for her college studies. What could possibly go wrong when she travels alone to a mist-shrouded New England village to ask if there are any witches about? Especially when your professor is an intense Christopher Lee, and the man who gets into your car is Valentine Dyall? The usual hilarity ensues…

Two film oddities in Dyall’s career remain worth noting. The first is the attempt to transfer the Man in Black idea to film, again by Hammer. The Man in Black (1949) was a British thriller film which starred Sid James. Adapted from Appointment with Fear, Dyall provided the introduction to the film, as “The Story-Teller”. Sid James, who rose to fame in the British Carry On films, plays a straight role for once, with none of his yuck-yuck dirty laughter. It received mixed reviews, but is worth a look.

His other role, which links to our interest in detectives and will lead us back to the radio, was as Dr Morelle in Dr Morelle: The case of the Missing Heiress. This was another Hammer Film, and was based on the popular long running BBC radio series written by Ernest Dudley.

Ernest Dudley (1908-2006) wrote many tales of Morelle, a psychiatrist with an interest in criminology. In the radio series, the part of Dr Morelle was taken by the silky-voiced Cecil Parker, a stalwart of British period films. It’s well worth seeking out the old-time radio recordings of A Case for Dr Morelle, as the sleuthing doctor is incredibly annoying and condescending to his secretary, Miss Frayne. They’re greatly enjoyable in a sort of ‘God, I want to slap this man’ sort of way (and for some unlikely, if not implausible, deductions).

Appointment with Fear

So we’re glued to our radios again, and Appointment with Fear. See, we know where we are – sort of. John Dickson Carr, the prolific mystery writer, was responsible for a number of the original stories and for many of the adaptations of classic tales. Given the number of series, we won’t list them all, but here are some of the adaptations which Dyall introduced:

The Pit and the Pendulum – Edgar Allan Poe

The Cask of Amontillado – Edgar Allan Poe

A Watcher by the Dead – Ambrose Bierce

The Middle Toe Of The Right Foot – Ambrose Bierce

The Monkey’s Paw – W W Jacobs

Oh Whistle And I’ll Come To You, My Lad – M R James

The Beast with Five Fingers – W F Harvey

Markheim – Robert Louis Stevenson

The Hands of Nekamen – Kathleen Hyatt

The Yellow Wallpaper – Charlotte Parkins Gilman

Mrs Amworth – E F Benson

John Dickson Carr (1906-1977) was an American, and yet his detective and mystery stories were predominantly English tales, perhaps due to his English wife and the time he spent there in the thirties and forties.

He was the creator of Dr Gideon Fell, a larger-than life investigator modelled on the author G K Chesterton. Fell is a great figure, an eccentric, corpulent cape-flapping fellow – an amateur sleuth who sees through the mistakes of the authorities. He too was made into a radio series, this time played by another classic British actor, Donald Sinden.

Carr and Dr Fell probably deserve their own article on greydogtales, so we’ll keep this short. There were 23 Dr Fell novels, and Carr wrote many other detective mysteries besides. He also wrote an authorised biography of Arthur Conan Doyle (1949), and with Doyle’s youngest son, Adrian, wrote Sherlock Holmes stories for the collection The Exploits of Sherlock Holmes (1954). Whilst musing on this, we were surprised to find that S T Joshi, a major figure in weird fiction criticism and a Lovecraftian scholar, produced a book-length critical study of Carr, John Dickson Carr: A Critical Study (1990).

Most of the recordings of Appointment with Fear have been lost, but one of the few surviving episodes is an original Carr tale, The Clock Strikes Eight, originally aired 05/18/1944.

Another example is And the Deep Shuddered, written by Monckton Hoffe, an Irish screenwriter, and aired 20/11/45, which can also be found on Youtube.

The Rest of the Man in Black

After Dyall, others took on the voice of the Man in Black. Revived as Fear on Four, the concept ran for five series on BBC Radio 4 (1988-1992), with Edward DeSouza in the key role. A fifth series was broadcast in 1997, but with no Man in Black.

The most recent revival was with Mark Gatiss reprising the role. There were four radio series featuring Gatiss between 2009 and 2011. Whilst not as sepulchral as Dyall, it’s fair to say that Gatiss does have the ability to make ordinary things sound quite unnerving, so he wasn’t a bad choice. We covered Gatiss’ recent audio version of Dracula here last year:

Come Freely, Go Safely: Dracula Returns, Scott Handcock Rules!

Although we must have missed it, apparently The Return of the Man In Black was broadcast by Radio 4 as two Archive Hour specials in October 1998. The documentaries were presented by the acclaimed horror writer Ramsey Campbell, and covered the history of fear and suspense on BBC radio. During the programmes, two complete episodes were presented: The Pit and the Pendulum (from Appointment With Fear) and The Beast With Five Fingers (from Fear On 4).

Buried under names and trivia, we leave you with Valentine Dyall, and his reading of The Pit and the Pendulum.

Sleep well…

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