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[jazzitos]

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[livefromcastledracula]

Book Carmilla vs Adaptations (SPOILERS)

Here are a few 'interesting' adaptations. I like some of them for their own merits, but mostly dislike them as Carmilla adaptations for the below reasons, with some notable exceptions: Vampyr: The Dream of Allan Gray (1932 film): The first Carmilla inspired movie, although it keeps almost NOTHING from the novella except 'female vampire'. In this case, a creepy old lady rather than a charming young lesbian. This is a really moody, slow, acid trip of a film though, a treat for fans of vintage vampire film. (3/10) Hammer Karnstein Trilogy: The Vampire Lovers is the gayest and most book-accurate. Carmilla still kisses/seduces men before killing them, boo. The second one her identically-named reincarnation is blonde and has sex with / falls in love with a man booooooo. She's not in the third one at all. It's all very 70's and nowhere near queer enough, but at least we got the incomparable Ingrid Pitt in the first movie. 5/10. Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust: 'Carmilla' shows up as a surprise third act villain. She's an elegant and imposing vampire queen with a castle called "Cjethe" and the Vampire King offed her previously for being A Bit Too Extra. She's... Bathory. She's Elizabeth Bathory, right down to the name of her historical castle, the elaborate gowns and the blood-bathing. Bathory in Castlevania Nocturne even looks a lot like this one. Cool scary vampire lady, but Carmilla In Name Only. 4/10 Castlevania (Games): She's fine here, but mostly just kind of a big Dracula groupie like most of the other non-Dracula vampires. Often depicting as a flying skull or mask crying bloody tears, with optional succubus-like figure reclining on top of it. Cool. Rondo of Blood has her appear together with a ninja vampire Laura with bunny ears because why the hell not. 6/10 Castlevania (Netflix show): Baddass, angry Karen. She's amazing in the first season when she's scheming against Dracula, but after that she just sort of sits on her butt sipping wine and griping about men for a whole season until Isaac storms her castle. A cool character but not a great Carmilla, because Carmilla for me is defined by how much she loves women, not how much she hates men. Still amazing voice work by Jaime Murray though and her last stand was insanely baddass. 7/10

Carmilla Web Series / Movie: My favorite adaptation. It's obviously playing waaaay fast and loose with the canon and reframing her as a charming antihero in a zany urban fantasy, but there's deep current of love for the source material, especially in the movie. Natasha Negovanlis has charisma off the charts and the Hollstein romance is adorable. This Carmilla might be a black-leather-wearing snarky millenial goth with a Canadian accent, but as the show goes on it peels back layer after layer of the romantic, poetic, wistful, world-weary immortal hinted at by the novella. This show redeems LeFanu's lovelorn villain in all the best ways. 10/10. 2019 movie / Styria movie: I still haven't seen these, have heard good things about the gothic cinematography on the most recent one but not good things about the rest of it. The trailer looked moody and pretty though, I may watch it at some point.

[ingridgh0st]

POV: You search Camilla on the internet

[baronmpontmercy]

I’ve wanted to do this for a while, feel free to suggest stuff!

[haveyoureadthisfanfic]

Summary: A war between just about every fictional character, each on one of two factions, fighting for New York City. All building up to Kirby showing up

Author: Chrysanthos

Note from submitter: Genuinely one of the funniest things I’ve ever read just for the absurdity of it 

[swoodthis]

New Dead Cells headcanon: The Beheaded isn’t talking in the confrontation with Dracula in the Return to Castlevania DLC. Dracula can read minds, and the SECOND he realizes it turns into

[mewkwota]

I didn’t share these a while back but it’s more sketches of Trevor in his Judgement attire and a small shot with his Classic attire. I made his hair a tad too long in the former look, but whatever. Like Simon-- or any Belmont for that matter-- he’s pretty no matter the outfit.

[ephemxras]

okay i’m starting to understand why netflixvania isn’t well liked to the fans that have played the games. there’s a lot of things that was a missed shot and i’m upset about it too :(( i also had a long convo abt it with my older brother too and he was like yeah there are def some flops here and there. my rambles are under the cut if there are some folks interested!

i think my big issue with the show was how they characterized the cast tbh. especially hector. like i had the biggest feeling they were gonna fumble with him, but before that i hadn’t played curse of darkness yet so i didn’t have the best knowledge. but now that i’ve played it i think they really did him terribly. like a character assassination (plus hector is my fave in CoD!!!!! THEY MASSACRED MY BOY!!!!!). his whole thing abt vengeance was to be a parallel of sorts to dracula and i don’t think. they even explored that?? hell i don’t think they even touched on his backstory at all which made him even a weaker and forgettable character in the show. isaac. man. personally as much as i liked how they tried something new i sure wished they mixed it up a bit with his original design. plus he’s got a cool backstory! shared with ;;;; hector :’). the one thing i’ll commend is how they had this guy run a whole coup against carmilla but that storyline didn’t make sense to me akajdjfkfj. i’ve yet to play trevor’s story but i already had a feeling that he’s absolutely different comparing to his netflix adaption because.

have you SEEN this man??? plus in hector’s story he’s so cool and mysterious. sassy even. i haven’t played cv3 yet but i heard the lore was very interesting so i’ll have to check it out post CoD o7 i’ll save my thoughts about trevor in another post once i actually know how he’s like in the games. for now on a surface level i generally think he was way better in the games than the show.

idk generally speaking, i think they could’ve done better with sticking with the source material (cv3 and CoD) if they were going for something like a nostalgic trip of your childhood cv games through animated media. but to me, it just feels like cyberpunk edgerunners where it’s a whole different story in cv’s world? and i mean. edgerunners was pretty good in getting folks into cyberpunk. i mean this in good heart that netflixvania would’ve been good as a stand-alone series with ocs that take place in cv’s world instead of what seems like an attempt to retell an existing story that only makes the characters weaker in what new things they want to weave in.

[piedalchemist]

[phantasmeels]

I had a somewhat intensive conversation with @decorous-biohazart about shitty character portrayal and bad game storywriting, and this was part of the dump of ranting I let out

[authenticaussie]

AHHH??? AHHHH?????????

LIKE. 1997? BRO? BRO???!??? Like I was Thinking but also NINETEEN-NINTY-SEVEN, I WAS NOT EXPECTING THIS---

[darkcloud-kcalifornia]

Edouard: 🎶 Do you hear the people sing? Singing a song of angry men? It is the music of a people who will not be slaves again! 🎶

source - Les Miserables

[pinkysgallery]

💅Marie Belmont viene a derrotar al Señor Oscuro... pero a color💅💖 😅Aún no me convence😅 😎pero ahí les va😎💅💕 ✔Castlevania Lords of Shadow fanfic ✔Solo en Wattpad ✔Fiel al Lore ✔Secuela/Precuela ✔Mary x Gaby ✔Contenido adulto 🔞 ✔No Ya0i, no inc3st0🙅‍♀️🚫 ✔Primera y segunda parte completas en español e inglés. ✔Tercera parte en proceso. ✔Activa las notificaciones para que no te pierdas ningún capítulo en cuanto comience a publicarse. ✔✔Link in Bio 🍷💖 #gabriel #gabrielbelmont #wattpad #gabrielbelmontdracula #dracula #dracul #Castlevania #castlevanialordofshadow #castlevanialos #castlevanialordofshadow2 #princeofdarkness #fanfic #BloodBounded #BloodBoundedFanfic #prequel #precuela #mariebelmont #TeamMarie #secuela #sequel #gabrielxmariebelmont #draculaxmariebelmont #draculaxmarie #gabrielxmarie #gabrielxmariebelmont #patriciabelmont #oc

[miaqc1]

Poll: About Icon Sets.

I did: The Girl From Tomorrow on Squidgeworld. On AO3

Carrie Fernandez on Squidgeworld (Castlevania 64 & Castlevania Legacy of Darkness). On Ao3

Ami Mizuno | Sailor Mercury on Squidgeworld (Bishoujo Senshi Sailor Moon). On Ao3

Hotaru Tomoe | Sailor Saturn on Squidgeworld (Bishoujo Senshi Sailor Moon). On Ao3

Sugestions / ideas for characters are welcome.

Even if this get more "NO" I'll probably do some anyway.

[ball-of-butter]

red queen characters and their fav video games:

mare: grand theft auto 💀🙏 any gta game she can get her hands on but it started with the chinatown wars on ds

cal: missed out on a proper childhood so is treating his inner child to fnaf for the first time and idk… something something about the story being an overarching narrative about a brother trying to pick up the remnants of his family through his grief… he says he doesnt get the lore butbhe kinda does. also had a goat simulator phase for the same reasons but minus the angst

maven: i would like to say some really cool psychological game but this mf would probs love playing chess against a cpu the most 💀 silent hill takes second place though (he’s obsessed with the idea of a purgatory of one’s own making… hmm… i wonder why 🤔)

evangeline: mario cart (she eats anyone who even THINKS of playing as peach)

elane: some sort of dating sim methinks… maybe like those ikemen games (let her be y/n)

ptolemus: fortnite for the dances.

kilorn: also fortnite but he has one-sided beef with ptolemus on there who keeps trying to add him. he also has the toph skin and keeps wiping the floor with his ass (ptolemus has the miles morales skin)

cameron: the attack on titan vr game where the world’s best comedy is originated from

gisa: what remains of edith finch. cursed family narrative goes hard with these folk.

shade: hes a legend of zelda girlie.

diana: she genuinely doesn’t play any game besides minecraft because she gets forced it by other people. but i know she’d love red dead i just don’t think she could be convinced into playing it (tragic)

iris: virgo versus the zodiac would speak to her, i feel. she has a secret weird side that only indie games could tease out of her.

wren: star stable!!! secret horse girl lore.

thomas: resident evil 4 because depending what you headcanon him as hes either feening for leon or ada or both.

coriane: definition of stardew valley girlie. but considering what she went through maybe yume nikki would be a game she keeps close to her heart (someone check up on her).

elara: if the sims 4 existed in the red queen verse it could have saved a lot of lives. maybe even her own.

sara: she wipes everyone in super smash bros you best believe it.

julian: castlevania: symphony of the night… mm the grip it has on this nerd loser… do not even breathe the name alucard around him he will give you the entire dracula lore starting with le fanu’s carmilla.

dane: detroit become human. played markus’ storyline and bro suddenly was made to govern a democratic republic for the people by the people.

[swoodthis]

What is a homunculus? A miserable pile of slime!