#vampire himbo novel

[vampire-himbos-of-santa-perdita]

!!

The vampire himbos come as a set, but I’ll do a separate description for each since I’ve got two asks thus far! ✌🏻

Oliver  (Ollie) Van Statten

Ollie is one half of the Ollie & Booker vampire himbo pair. He was turned in the 80s and keeps a very glam rock Billy Idol style by way of Prince and Adam Ant. He plays leather-clad punk bad boy, Garrote, who is the enemy-turned-vampire-love-interest in Lula Slays the World, which shows up in the California town of Santa Perdita every summer to film a new season.

He was originally part of the mall coven, which consists of mall rat burn outs, valley girls, and queen bees who exclusively live and hunt around malls. Although they’re still close, Ollie broke free from the coven after turning Booker and his highest priority is now looking out for his best bro. He is able to turn into a bat (quite successfully) and a wolf (very unsuccessfully) when he’s not in human form.

[herotome]

Warden on Tiktok

So there's these Paul Wesley Q&A clips that have been living rent-free in my mind...

[vampires-bitrs]

Ilyas Mood Board (First Bite)

You were panting as your heart was beating fast and erratically.

The night air was cool and humid as you ran desperately through the woods, sticks, and undergrowth crackling under your feet. The barely visible path faded in and out, from moonlight to complete darkness, as the towering trees above obscured your view of the sky overhead making it hard to keep track of your course. You could hear your heart beating louder and louder in your ears and the faint sound of fast footsteps behind you.

You stopped for a moment, gasping desperately for air as they heard the sound getting closer. Fear bubbled up in your chest. The vampire, who had been chasing, no hunting you for what seemed like an eternity, was gaining ground. Just when you were about to give up, you saw a clearing ahead. you sprinted towards it, hoping to make it to safety before it, the vampire, Ilyas caught up. But it was too late—Ilyas jumped out from the shadows, reaching out for you and tackling you with inhumane strength.

You felt your bones crack under the pressure of his inhuman strength. The sound of the splintering in your bones made him chuckle a deep sadistic predatorial chuckle. He gave a deranged smile fangs glowing in the moonlight as he came closer to your ear then whispered "Run, run so I can catch you."

[violetwolfraven]

Carmilla (2014-2017) really did have it all huh. Lesbians. Vampires. Cults. Mildly toxic main relationship. Canon nonbinary character. Most of the action happening offscreen. Shitty special effects. One (1) straight character and he was a himbo. Sponsored by a period products brand. Some pretty damn good costuming for that low of a budget. And it was all literally just a college au fanfic of a novel from the 19th century. Truly peak entertainment.

[gayest-classiclit]

Classic Literature Sexyperson Tournament; Round 1

propaganda:

Quincey:

quincey deserves #1 sexyman prize. he is the token cowboy. in a gothlit book. his first instinct when in danger in to randomly shoot through windows to (scare the shit out of) protect his friends. he decided he would literally die for a group of people he met like 3 hours ago because they seemed nice enough. he's texan for christ's sake. tropes: angst (dead), bait, distinctive voice, LGTBQ+ coded (dracula polycule is canon bram told me so), himbo (-ish), well dressed (cowboy).

Dracula:

owwsaawoagghb. older gentleman who is very regal and polite and is a fucking vampire how much sexier can you get

Obv everyone knows vampire sexy. The sensuality of drinking blood is *chef's kiss*. But I just really wanted an excuse to share this one thing, that isn't even related directly to the novel. So, my junior year of high school we read Dracula, and then our class went on a field trip to see a local theatre group perform the Dracula stage play-- and EVERY TIME Dracula came on stage, his neckline would progressively dip Lower and Lower (like. Comedically so) until he was soooo close to showing just straight up tiddie, but still juuuust barely not-- the tease was immaculate and istg it was doing Something for everyone in the audience. It was transcendent. An awakening. Even all these years later when my old high school friends and I bring it up, the only detail we can remember from that performance is Count Dracula's plunging neckline and that's Gotta count for something right

[deadmomjokes]

Betwixt Christmas gift cash and Steam Family Sharing workaround shenanigans, the husband and I have finally started Baldur's Gate 3.

Went in basically blind except for knowing the names of the companions and the fact that Astarion is a vampire (couldn't miss that cultural osmosis).

We also came in on two different meta-levels as players.

He is very familiar with D&D, D&D-based games, computer games in general, and these sorts of games specifically. He's also that kind of person that plays things on Extreme Difficulty Mode for fun. He quits when something isn't challenging enough. His idea of relaxing, rewarding gameplay is ultra-hard-mode Elden Ring and Dark Souls.

I, on the other hand, am bad at games. Full stop. I have lost Wii Mario Kart to a 6 year old, repeatedly. I get hopelessly lost even when there's detailed maps, trackers, compasses, and flagged waypoints. I also panic in combat situations and have no strategic ability aside from "stand there, hit it, and hope it doesn't move." I'm more of a low-stakes visual novel sort of gamer. Stardew Valley is as intense as I get.

He is playing a Seldarine Drow warlock in a pact with an archfey. She's a noble with a ridiculously high Charisma score, a perfectly balanced spell loadout, and an even more balanced overall stat build. She's DPS without being totally squishy and helpless, and has advantage to almost everything. She also has an impeccable fashion sense and always looks put together, even when on death's door to a brain worm. Or, to put it in a way my husband would loathe, she got that drip.

I am playing a ginger himbo of a high elf fighter with -1 to Charisma and a -1000 to common sense. He's an impulsive maniac with, somehow, a +3 to intimidation despite being a truly gentle soul that believes every sob story he comes across. He's a sweaty, dusty, grubby little feral child (outlander background) with the world's messiest ponytail and greasepaint-turned-eyeliner that a 90s ex emo kid would be proud of. And that's him trying to look presentable. Despite having an impressive dexterity score, my natural disadvantage to dexterity (and Wisdom and Intelligence) as the player makes it so that this man bumbles his way into everything and only gets out by making horrifying threats he has absolutely no intention of following up on, or by being forced to stand his ground and take it on the jaw.

So this was going to be An Experience no matter what. And boy, it sure has been.

Thus far, we have:

Accidentally pacifism'd our way into every Goblin/Absolute aligned settlement we've encountered on the pure luck of husband's choice to play a Drow because he thought it would add an interesting dynamic. That interesting dynamic, he thought, would be difficulty. He thought being a Drow would make it harder because of the general hatred toward them. He's technically good-aligned, but, y'know, planet-of-hats racism means he was expecting it to work against him, which he likes because he likes when things are hard. Only now it's basically a free pass into all the areas we'd normally have to fight or sneak into. Great for our shared pacifist tendencies, but LOL

Lost a full hour of progress because my computer screen is tiny and bad at graphics and I hadn't learned all the controls yet, so while trying to investigate a hole in the floor of an abandoned church I tripped in face-first and got us into an unescapable, imminent-TPK situation, whereupon the game immediately autosaved for the first time since waking up on the beach. We have since learned to spam the quicksave button liberally.

Accepted a ton of mutually exclusive quests, half of which we have no intention of doing, just to try and get out of situations without combat, so now the mini map now looks like a cubist rendition of a simple sun drawing and I'm SO worried it's going to come crashing down and get us shanked in our sleep.

MET BEST BOY DOGGO I WILL DIE FOR SCRATCH 😭

Discovered husband's character is, build wise, a carbon-copy of Wyll. This was 100% unintentional and he's BIG mad about it LOL RIP

Impulsively pushed a button in a crypt without saving and woke up a bunch of skellies we weren't prepared for, but were somehow also saved by that same impulsivity because I had previously run around the entire area and looted every single skeleton no matter how useless it was to my character, so they all woke up without their weapons so HAH take that I TOLD YOU being a klepto would pay off

Immediately after this fortuitous stroke of fate, having learned exactly nothing, my impulsive maniac opened the shiny sarcophagus before consulting anyone or healing. Luckily it wasn't cursed or trapped or full of enemies (it was Withers, and I'm love), but I'm now not allowed to open or interact with anything bigger than a crate without announcing it first so husband has the chance to go NO WAIT LET ME SAVE FIRST

Sneaked into a secret underground passage, whereupon my husband sent his invisible'd familiar around to carefully scout the area, discovering the button that would turn off the overpowered guardian statue. My character then readied a crossbow shot to hit said button, but in trying to move out of the way of the other party members, stepped right into the statue's attack circle. I panicked, tried to move, but couldn't figure out how to unselect the attack I could no longer use, and tried to fix it by pausing. But all of that just resulted in me standing there, doing nothing, until I finally dropped dead. Luckily I passed my saving throws, and more luckily still, my husband managed to stop laughing long enough to eldritch blast the statue to pieces and come get me.

So anyway, we're having the best time. I know we're late to the party, but it really is so good. I may have even teared up a little during the dream sequence with the psychedelic neon light guardian warriors. This is going to consume my brain for the next few months, and I'm happy to have paid for the privilege. 10/10, absolutely deserves that GOTY and the $60 price tag both.

No spoilers please, we're only level 3 and just encountering the Goblin Camp. (We've met everyone but Karlach, I believe.) But rest assured, as we learn and discover more I will come yelling and seeking those who will screech with me. Probably mostly about my new sons that I've acquired, namely the lying purple sadsack trash wizard with some horrifying kind of chronic illness and/or addiction, and the prettiest most specialist murder machine who definitely won't admit it but is definitely gonna need a hug when I finish breaking down those obviously performative emotional walls.

Also, Lae'zel scares me. Please stop yelling at me, you cranky fish woman, I'm trying my best here 😭

[wickedfelinaxo]

March books!

-DO YOURSELF A FAVOR AND READ THE CROWNS OF NYAXIA SERIES!!! I am obsessed. Don’t skip the novella that comes after the first book. It’s called “Six Scorched Roses” and is so good. I believe I will write some fics for this series in the future 🥰

-The Witch Collector likely deserves a better rating as I listened to this one via audiobook and found the audio itself to be boring. However, I have a special edition of this book on pre-order and will review again once I’ve *physically* read it. It has a lot of potential and the FMC is mute, and seeing stories/representation of individuals with disabilities is important to me! Also, the author is amazing to her fans!! So I would still suggest giving this series a chance. I’m looking forward to reading the next book in the series.

- Butcher & Blackbird. Listened to this on audio and it was fucking awesome.

- Yet another reread of ACOMAF aka my Roman Empire

- Slaying the Vampire Conquerer was good. I didn’t enjoy it as much as I wanted to but I liked it still. This is a standalone novel in the Crowns of Nyaxia world and characters from it will be introduced in later books in the series. I think I will have more of an appreciation for the book whenever I see how they fit in.

- Ice Planet Barbarian books 1-3. You know what? I like it. It’s fun PWP with endearing characters and hot himbo aliens that just wanna take care of their mates and make babies with them. I plan to read more of these books.

- Fourth Wing. I fuckin’ adore Violet Sorrengail. Underdog who is a cunning, resilient badass but also completely relatable in the sense that she spends the entire book thirsting for the hot dude that is totally dangerous for her. Bc I too would be internally warring with myself like, “He could kill me???? Yeah, but he’s HOT.”

[mightbewriting]

Will you ever write another dramione fic? I love the wait and hope series so much and you are an incredibly talented!

hi anon!

tbh, i'm a touch confused by the wording here; i can't tell if this is means to suggest any dramione fics besides wait and hope or if the wait and hope comment is just an adjacent compliment (thank you!!). if you mean in addition to wait and hope, hooo boi do i have good news for you!

over half my ao3 profile is filled with various dramione fics, so there's a lot to choose from, including but not limited to:

another novel length dramione called a season for setting fires (very dark soulmate/voldemort wins au, proceed with caution)

four different short multichap stories ranging from horny himbo and spite smut (season pass [to this ass]), to morally ambiguous vampires (guidelines for the treatment of non-wizard, part-humans), to polyglot draco and international travel (love in other places), and finally to intellectual idiots fighting over a lecture space (bone mortar).

a couple holiday stories as well, like minister of magic hermione and her silver fox of a dept of mystieries head being Very Mature about a gingerbread house decorating competition (sugar flurries, candy storms), dramione accidentally fake dating and ending up being really into it (lie with me), and a ghost pov observing 8th year dramione warming up to each other on new year's eve (transparency).

also one of my favorite smut pieces (and pieces of writing in general!) in well said, hermione, blatant pandering to the scone agenda in scone strategies, and crack treated seriously and with soft romance in hippogriff homewrecking.

happy reading anon!

[vampirelequeer]

After reading IWTV and TVL as a teenager, I decided before the show came out to start again and slowly make my way through the whole series. I’m about halfway through the fourth book at the moment.

So without further ado, my thoughts on The Tale of the Body Thief so far:

(Spoilers ahead)

( also me special interest dumping oops)

- first off, HUGE trigger warning for a horrible sex scene. I guess (??) it shouldn’t be so shocking that Lestat is a monster and an actual canonical r*pist and seems to brush the whole thing off. But then also I’m sort of putting it down to Anne Rice very being weird in general and ideas about sex maybe (??) being different in the 90s. I don’t know I am reaching here

- Okay so that grimness aside, this is possibly my favourite book so far (I’m about halfway through). Tied with The Vampire Lestat maybe. After the drudgery that was Queen of the damned (oh the drudgery), I am loving the action and silliness of this story, the actual Lestat character development. There is less vampires sitting round a table telling their life stories and more actual stuff happening. There’s also some really beautiful writing and it feels quick and fun and romp-y to read. Pure vampire escapism.

- however I am PISSED that I waited 3 books to read a sex scene and what I got was a horrifying assault scene and…..a straight sex scene. An overly detailed yet somehow blandly vanilla straight sex scene. How dare you, Anne?? I wonder if this is the homophobia of time- Anne may have been all for mlm but felt too uncomfortable to actually write two men having sex. Or most likely it just wouldn’t have gotten published. I know vampires are supposed to be ace but it seems sort of….suspicious that Anne Rice the erotica writer has chosen this rule for only her male/male character relationships. Anyway basically we have been robbed

- There is some really great Louis content in this book. There is an absolutely beautiful scene where we learn more about his living situation and him as a vampire. I think he goes a bit wooden doll-ish character-wise in TVL and QotD and here he is actually his own personality again.

- However where is Armand, my evil rat baby

- I think what a lot of people hate about the books after Qotd ( though I speak as someone early on- I’m sure they will get really terrible soon) is that Lestat doesn’t stay dedicated to Louis. In fact he falls in love with anyone he gets close to. I think it’s easier reading it now, knowing that Lestat and Louis are going to end up together. But also I see them as a poly relationship (ish) and that they are working on their own stuff before being fully together again. As a poly independent person, I think this is great, and would honestly find the relationship a bit boring if it was just happy and monogamous forever. I am all about the drama lol

-on a lighter note god I love Lestat becoming human and remembering the horror of being a disgusting meat sack. Like him accidentally weeing on himself and gorging himself on chocolate. And almost dying of the flu because he’s not realised he needs a coat in the snow. I love that murder himbo

So yes halfway through and probably about to eat my words on supporting this (currently wonderful) vampire trashfire of a novel. David does seem to suck so far, but not more than say, Marius. And I find Marius’s POV fun to read even if he is an arrogant creep.

What do you all think of this novel? Thank you for coming to my tedtalk on old vampire books nobody reads anymore

[blackchaisenpai]

Crave - Tracy Wolf Review

This review will contain spoilers but for people who want a spoiler free opinion I will add that here at the top!

I can across this book on kindle unlimited the cover was so vague but when I noticed the small subheading that stated "take a bite" I got Twilight Vibes.

Which is not incorrect assumption this book does feel heavily inspired by Twilight so much so the male MC sends the female MC a copy of Twilight. Wolf has written this in a way that it is very self aware of the parallels between Crave and Twilight.

In my personal opinion I enjoyed Crave more than Twilight. The characters have a bit more depth to them. i thoroughly enjoyed how everyone has a personality. Our female main character enjoys classic art and reading in the library. She also likes bad jokes hanging out with her cousin.

Our male main character also enjoys bad jokes. So we do get a lot of text dialogue between them just sending dad jokes back and forth. It's quite enjoyable. He also has a lot of family issues but does make an attempt to be vulnerable with her.

They are kind of cringey with each other but its a type of realistic cringe I expect from teenagers in love.

Unfortunately, I do feel as though the book is a bit longer than it needs to be. The book is about 500 pages with the audiobook around 11 hours (3 1/2 hours if you're like me).

I do also have some issue with how descriptive the female mc feels during romancer scenes. This is a young adult book so nothing more than kissing occurs. it is just that the way this seventeen year's pleasure is described makes me uncomfortable.

I understand these are feelings teenagers have. however reading about them at my big ass age is a bit discomforting. If I were to read this while I was in that age bracket I would have ranked it higher.

It's a fun read definitely tailored to a younger audience therefore not my usual read. Though I do also like to expand the type of things I read by renting whatever seems somewhat interesting on KU.

You never know what you like or don't like to read until you read it. If you're looking for something to disassociate into for a while this is a good pick for you.

Overall I will give it a 7/10.

*Spoilers ahead*

When the novel starts we are int he perspective of Grace newly orphaned seventeen year old that is on her way from San Diego to middle of nowhere Alaska. Her uncle is the headmaster of an elite private school that Grace will be attending along with her cousin, Macy.

Unbeknownst to Grace the school is essentially monster high with a light mix of Nevermore. A long series of unfortunate events occur before this information is shared with her.

As soon as she arrives in Alaska she experiences endless misfortune. Starting with altitude sickness to multiple attempts on her life. Her uncle Finn and Macy do plan on telling her but it is hard to find a moment to do this with all the craziness surrounding her.

With the realization that she is surrounded by supernatural creatures is amplified when her cousins informs her that she comes from a family of witches. Her uncle is a Warlock and her cousin a witch. Grace, unfortunate is not a witch. The reason for this is that her father was a warlock who gave up his power to marry her human mother.

We have two separate love interests introduced to us early on. Jaxon is a natural born vampire from one of the oldest vampire families. He enjoys being an absolute douche bag and texting bad jokes to Grace. He is the leader of "The Order" the clique of natural born vampires at the school.

The antithesis of Jaxon would be Flint. Flint is a dragon with he power of hot and cold. His favorite snack is marshmallows he toasts himself. He is more is a himbo in comparison to Jaxon.

On the surface it appears as tho both of them are pinning over Grace but that isn't the case. Which I will admit did surprise me. With how similar things appeared that slight deviation was unexpected.

Flint is getting close to Grace as he is the one attempting to kill her. He does not do so out of malice he does so out of necessity. he genuinely felt he was doing the right thing.

Sounds complicated, I know. But this is where the character known as Lia really comes into play. Much like Flint Lia pretended to be Graces friend. They bonded over their mutual grief. Grace lost her parents Lia lost her mate, Hudson. Hudson was Jackson's brother and jaxon had been the one who murdered him.

Jaxon murdered Hudson because he had the power to manipulate anyone into doing anything including murder. Hudson essentially wanted to commit genocide of every race that wasn't vampire; human, werewolf, dragon etc.

How do all these pieces fit together? I will try to simplify this the best I can.

Lia has been planning on completing a ritual using Grace to bring Hudson back to life.

To get Grace in Alaska she arranged to have her parents killed.

Flint knew about this and tried to kill Grace to stop Lia.

The one question that we do not get answered in this book is why Grace? what is so special about her that she is needed to bring a powerful deceased vampire back to life? We learn that Grace comes from a family of witches yet she is powerless. So why did Lia go out of her way to do all this? Hopefully that is answered in the later books.

One final note, the epilogue of this book is from Jaxon's POV. He is arguing with the headmaster (Grace's Uncle) something had happened to grace. She is a petrified state as a result of whatever Lia did to link her to Hudson. It ends with jaxon promising a stone Grace that she will stop Hudson and bring her home.

[wuekka]

@neiti-kassiopeia tagged me for rambling about 10 characters from 10 fandoms, thank you and okay, lets do this...These are not in favourite order, I don't want to make a puzzle for myself. :'D

Majima from Yakuza/Like a dragon. One of the biggest twists for me getting into the series was that Majima wasn't Joker-type insane recurring villain! He's actually smart who fakes being dumber/crazier than he is (character type I love when it's done right) and actually cares about people, another surprise was that he was in the same family as Kiryu, that he's his aniki. I just love you can see his fooling that he doesn't care/understand, then turns back being like "shit.". He's the smartest playable character Yakuza has, others are himbos.

Vincent from Final Fantasy VII. I love his tragic backstory with his lover Lucrecia and tying to Sephiroth's backstory 👌.+Vampire aesthetic and turning into a monster he can't control is just more tragedy on top of that.

Gale from Baldurs gate 3. I'm sorry Astarion, who is little too self-contradictory at times (You don't like saving other slaves Astarion?!) but Gale's just so adorably nice with really funny lines.

Percy from Critical role/Legend of vox machina. There's a reason I have a tag of "badass percy lines", he's so awesome with those. Tortured man with a secret demon he isn't aware of with vampire arc-nemesis, just beautiful. Taliesin plays him so well, he fits into the worlds talking style perfectly. Even his "life needs things to live." I feel is made fun of a little too much, like it's basically "you need stuff in able to keep going."

Jianzhu from Rise of Kyoshi. Reason why rise of kyoshi is the best avatar novel. He gets good motivation, pov chapters and is shown very well to be not fully manically evil.

Enji Endeavour from my hero academia. I'm not in this fandom anymore at all, except for the ship of endhawks. Turning Enji's character from cartoon evil jerk villain to a regretting, flawed man who tries to become better and focusing on it was the best writing decision Hori made. Sadly Hori stopped and decided Bakugo is ultra gary stu more important than main character. -_-

Ashe from Final Fantasy XII. Real main character of the story, awesome literal queen with revenge plot. Only minus is her hot pink way-mini skirt.

Nanami from Jujutsu kaisen. Again, fandom I dropped but this man was such a brainrot for a good while, he and Gojo got me trying to write again.

Amaterasu from Okami. Snarky by body language, a wolf who doesn't say a word, but she's badass and adorable. What other game lets you play with a character that paints with their tail creating a better world and poops exploding stuff at their enemies.

Terra from Kingdom hearts. ...I don't like the joke of calling him stupid or himbo, because he's not. He goes along with some villains, not because he's trusting them but because he has no other choice or wants to see how things play out without intervening ("no meddling! -Donald) Terra's also the strongest character, "man too angry to die." The angst of being Xehanort/Xemnas and getting moments of losing identity is just angst factory gold.

Tagging @homo666 @vampiricfruitcake but no pressure doing this. :D

[vampire-himbos-of-santa-perdita]

The Hell Witch’s WIPs (2023)

Heaven’s Tiny Daggers- After watching her teen idol die onstage in a freak accident, Finn Begby starts a girl punk band to cope with her grief. As her band, Heaven’s Tiny Daggers rises to fame, they gain the attention of folk rock legend, Helene Saturnine, who invites them to a retreat at her mansion in New Orleans to work on their next album. Joined by fellow up and comers in the emo rock scene, Heaven’s Tiny Daggers discover that they have been lured to La Bellemort Mansion for more than just their artistic potential. Helene intends to use them in a ritual sacrifice to raise her long lost lover from the dead. But in doing so, La Bellemort’s residents unleash far more dangerous demons who feed off their every nightmare...

MCR meets Haunting of Hill House meets Daisy Jones and the Six meets Gideon the Ninth

Status: QUERYING!

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The Vampires of Santa Perdita- Marnie Marsette is a lone wolf vigilante who protects the streets of her small southern California town, Santa Perdita by night. When she finds herself first on the scene of a murder on the set of popular teen drama, Lula Slays the World, Marnie is certain Lula’s hedonistic leading man, Ollie van Statten and his entourage are the culprits. Trailing them from party to party, she finds Ollie and his best friend, Casey Booker (from rival teen sleuth show, Jupiter June) really do seem solely interested in having a good time. That doesn’t stop her from uncovering their far more surprising secret: they’re vampires, and possibly the dumbest vampires in existence at that. While Marnie tries to solve the mystery of who keeps killing young blonde girls in her hometown, she has to face a hard truth about herself: does she really want to find the killer, or is she just desperate to make friends?

Bill & Ted meets The Lost Boys meets Heathers meets Scream

Status: First bare bones draft written

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Haunt Your Murderers- Millie Marsette has a penchant for taking young protegees under her wing. Melusine Cutpurse was her first, a drag queen whom she trained up to become kingpin to London’s underworld of thieves. Her second is Andrina Calder, an aerialist plucked from her family’s traveling circus to inherit the legendary title of Steamboat Annie, a fearsome pirate who has been the subject of tall tales for a century. When a mad doctor begins luring prostitutes off the streets and paying body-snatchers to dig up fresh bodies for his experiments, Millie brings Andrina and Melusine together in a scheme to bring his plans to an end. But his bodies have started to reanimate, posing a far greater problem not just for Millie’s protegees, but for Victorian London at large...

Frankenstein meets Pirates of the Caribbean meets Rocky Horror meets Fingersmith

Status: First draft written

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Bloody Nights & Green-lit Days- Young Hollywood hopeful, Lena Harlow was killed in a hit and run the night she arrived in LA. Her assailants, Jory and Cecily bring her body back to their sprawling mansion. When she wakes up, she’s no longer human. The magnetic couple help her adapt to her new life as a vampire, in amongst their raucous parties they use as their personal hunting grounds. While Lena explores the grounds of her new home, she meets Jory and Cecily’s son, August, who is the only person who can see the mansion’s many ghosts. Lena’s about to become the second. Coddled inside the mansion, August is never allowed to leave, until Lena sneaks him out to show him the outside world. Meanwhile, his parents spent their days on Hollywood back-lots, frustrated by the lack of support for the folks behind the scenes. Tired of inaction, Cecily and Jory, combine their creative talents of costume and set design to take matters into their own hands. Rumours of a curse on the production studio take a life of their own as freak accidents keep happening on various movie sets... It won’t be long before Lena gets sucked into Jory and Cecily’s nefarious schemes and she has to choose whether to use her new powers for good or evil...

Great Gatsby meets American Horror Story: Hotel

Status: TBA

[theshadowedqueen82]

“I couldn’t fix him, but I could sexualize him.”

-the Dracula fandom, probably

With regards to Dracula, the sexiness is in the problematic people eating nature of vampires. As far as I can tell there's no way to "fix" him without removing the sexiness. It must be embraced.

The great thing about the novel though is it also contains a whole cast of himbos and the genius Mina Harker nee Murray, and Lucy Westerna my beloved, and those people are all perfect and need not be fixed to be sexy. Truly a novel with something for everybody!

[rofax]

So I have low-key decided to make an otome-styled visual novel where all the handsome men are actually handsome monsters. Soooo officially working on that between jobs now!

This is a first pass at the eight romance options plus the main character. :3c

[hannibaliszt]

As a person who read the Dracula novel, just rolling with the confusing ass breaks between storytelling, I am STOKED to see Tumblr realizing how campy (and vampy) this story truly is. It’s one of my favorites.

[romantichore-blog]

idk but there's this feeling in my heart, this headcanon that popped up from the moment I first talked to Elliott

that this man has gathered himbo/hunk-ish physical traits like the infinity stones and he cannot help it and he absolutely fucking hates it. he's tall, he's broad on the shoulders, he's lean but just heavy-set enough that he gives off fighter vibes, not bard. think more harpy eagle than crow. merman rather than lithe vampire. more knight in shining armor than starving artist and for fuck's sake that's not what he's going for.

he is very particular about his appearance because the aesthetic was not natural, it was cultivated. he's not a pretty landscape, he's a curated gallery experience that looks effortless now because he's been at it for a long time. leave him alone for two weeks without shaving his beard and he looks like you'd meet him in a shady tavern in the docks district of the next town over deep into his third bottle of rum. short haired Elliott looks like he's about to commit a hate crime.

he's not insecure about his appearance, he just knows who he is at heart and it's important to him that the point easily comes across. he could have chosen from a number of occupations that people have told him would be more suitable, because he didn't use to "look like a writer" but he needs to prove that he's a creative, sensitive soul capable of touching human hearts with his words.

deep down, of course, he understands that most people wouldn't care what he looks like. he knows, though he's not ready to admit it, that putting effort into looking the part, living and breathing the part, is an attempt to prove to himself that he can do it, because time is slipping through his fingers and he feels like he is no closer to that finish line. it's been a while and he still doesn't have a novel, the ideas still don't flow like he wants them to, he hasn't found his muse - and it's all terrifying.