here we go, cowboy

Stephenie Meyer Vampires: "Getting turned into a vampire is the worst pain imaginable. The vampire venom is so painful you'll want to die."

Anne Rice Vampires: "Getting turned into a vampire is like the best gay sex you've ever had while flying high on the best cocaine imaginable. But you'll shit yourself after."

I get so frustrated by "yeah make vampires scary again" stuff every time a vampire movie has a "monster" vampire (Nosferatu, Voyage of the Demeter, etc). It reeks of an attitude that thinks all horror is about something being ugly and horrifying on the outside. If you can't see the horror in Interview With the Vampire, or a Jean Rollin film, or The Hunger, or Carmilla, or the vampire sections of Baldur's Gate because they are attractive that is absolutely an issue on your end. There is such a rich well of themes to dig into with horror and vampires, especially where sex and romance are concerned, but people are so desperate to separate romance and horror. The despair of being frozen as a child even while your mind matures, the loneliness of an eternity alone, the terror of eternal hunger that can't be sated, the awful seduction by something beautiful but monstrous. Trying to turn vampires into just any other monster doesn't make them more horrifying, its just a more kind of overt horror that can only be done so many times and is often covered better by other monsters.

#i like a good bat creature but man some people don't get horror

Interview with the Vampire 2.02 | 2.05

Maurice (1987) dir. James Ivory

NOvember. ive had enough

I remember when your head caught flame It kissed your scalp and caressed your brain

“male loneliness epidemic” and “friendzoning” are similar concepts to me in that the conditions they describe are literally experienced by everyone at some point in their lives but when its men its some sort of profound injustice that needs to be rectified by checks notes giving them unfettered access to the public good that is Women

very busy. i have to pace in circles for 6 hours. you understand

to be fully honest this new trend of remaking and sanitizing not only gothic fiction and its genres (hill house, dorian grey, turn of the screw) and horror movies more generally (carrie, the exorcist) point to much more serious cultural movement than the death of art or the death of horror as a genre in the mainstream. specifically it is gesturing to a sanitizing effect in which cultural authority has now deemed the subversive as worthy of living but only if it is a) commodified and b) divested of all its subversive elements. we can play-act at feminism, trans inclusion, and anti-racism as long as it serves a corporate interest and does not actually challenge cultural authorities. we can adopt its aesthetics as something to be sold without actually inhabiting it ideologically. it is the newest manifestation of cultural authorities anesthetizing effect on anything that threatens it and it is becoming more and more prevalent. anyway i want to beat mike flanagan with hammers

anyone wanna fall madly obsessively in love with a mid bitch like me

Autumn woods and rowan berries ^_^

bbc sh*rlock wants what adam has

CHAPPELL ROAN performing 'The Giver' on Saturday Night Live