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#aes / just about anything #better than loving you / queue

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#muse: mona mayfair #about / the line of mayfair #better than loving you / queue #mildly suggestive cw

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"If clarity's in death, then why won't this die? Years of tearing down our banners, you and I. Living for the thrill of hitting you where it hurts, give me back my girlhood, it was mine first."

Indie priv & selective book based multi-muse, ft muses from Bridgerton, ACOTAR and many more. Loved by Tiny.

#promo / follow them! #better than loving you / queue

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Corey Brickley

#muse: suzanne mayfair #lasher / mi daemon #horror tw #fire cw

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#aes / just about anything #better than loving you / queue

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Demon Lover: Bluebeard

— Marina Warner, From the Beast to the Blonde: On Fairy Tales and Their Tellers (1995).

— Angela Carter, The Bloody Chamber (1979).

— Walter Crane, Bluebeard (1874).

— Věra Chytilová, Fruit of Paradise  (1970).

#lasher / mi daemon #musings / the witching hour

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hbd aesthetics - @xradiant - quinn blackwood & mona mayfair

'Where do we go, Princess Mona of Mayfair?' I asked. 'I have wrestled with angels and dragons to be with you."

#muse: Mona Mayfair #aes / just about anything #better than loving you / queue #blood cw

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"I Am So Much More Than What You Made Me"

Indie & Selective Astarion Ancunin

Edict / Existence

as penned by Midori

#promo / follow them! #better than loving you / queue

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#music / listen to the wind #better than loving you / queue

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SADIE SINK Armani Beauty Designer Glow Foundation campaign, January 2024

#muse: mona mayfair #visage / manipulate unseen forces #style / i believe in free will #better than loving you / queue

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BL1NG BL1NG !

#muse: merrick mayfair #visage / manipulate unseen forces #any verse. #better than loving you / queue

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#aes / just about anything #better than loving you / queue

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xx / xx / promo credit muses

indie fantasy multi muse (with guest muses) written by Fish. fandoms include: the stormlight archive, the wheel of time, tw3, asoiaf, and more.

formerly ofimaginarybeings

#promo / follow them! #better than loving you / queue

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I am tapping the sign.

#ooc / thinking i understand #psa #about / the line of mayfair #better than loving you / queue

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So I read the Witching Hour... I knew Anne Rice was typically solid when it came to her political views, but wow this entire book is just a class commentary; it's das capital but horny as shit and with an incubus as an antagonist.

On its face it is just a spooky scary story about witches and their roots as disenfranchised feral wizards who, back in the day, accidentally called on a super powerful magic being, thereby turning into people who are absolutely corrupted by that power, as far as setups it's standard witchy fare, right?

But I love that the entire thing hinges on riches and money As SOON as the Mayfair family got money they used it to buy their way into the upper class, and that money 'kept coming back to them' maintaining them in the upper crust

As SOON as they became part of the upper class, they indulged in the fast track to winning capitalism (which at the time was, of course, owning slaves and a plantation, and later morphed into playing the stock market and owning land in various key places) Anne Rice really said 'subtlety? I don't know her' and I love that for her

So within the story it's made clear that the Mayfair family history, and therefore ability to know how this all started, was lost-- each subsequent generation was seduced by the $$$ bought by their last names into not investigating it further, just sort of benefiting from the endless fountain of riches, and seeing that quite-literally-haunted history as just fun facts about the family and how interesting it was but none of the modern Mayfairs have the motivation to investigate, to know more, because the ignorant rich are the rich who don't feel guilty about where their gains came from.

With Rowan, it deals with someone who is set up explicitly as someone who: doesn't know about the Mayfair family, doesn't care about sullying the name or not, is supposedly unable to sacrifice a single living being to help untold thousands, and is generally well enough off that she doesn't need/want more money. And yet, upon entering the deadly miasma that is the bourgeois (in this case the Mayfairs accepting her into the fold) she is instantly and inexorably succumbing to the quagmire of complete and total weath, power, and false sense of community. She is quite literally seduced by it, this strong, stone faced protagonist who seems unshakable at first a literal one-woman-island introduced from the decks of her single-handed command of her massive deep sea vessel is taken in and played like a fiddle because that's what wealth does

I think its quite a good book, even if it drags in the middle-- and yeah, is a bit dated, but in the end it's about hubris and class and power and even the weird quirks of the book showing black people only being mentioned in passing or as set dressing feels incredibly deliberate when the entire book revolves around the white landed gentry, in fact I think because the book is a few decades old now your biases of a 80s era book feed into where you think it will go vs where it does go

So yeah fun read, extremely horny (i mean duh it's anne rice), and a solid commentary on things, I'm shocked it got made into a show I'm not surprised i never heard of this show because i cannot imagine a 90s spooky scary telenovela about horny ghosts going well lmao Oooh i see there's tags for this subsection of the population, well hello! I am plopping this in your fandom I'd love to hear your thoughts!

#muse: rowan mayfair #about / the line of mayfair #meta #better than loving you / queue

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“Lestat is bi,” I say into a microphone.

The biphobes and media illiterates boo.

“They’re right,” come a soothing French voice and an astute writerly voice.

The voices in question are Anne Rice and Lestat de Lioncourt himself.

#Lestat / a perfect vampire #muse connnections #bisexual #meta

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'When he speaks into your ear so that no one can hear, he will say he is your slave, that he’s passed to you from Deirdre. But it’s a lie, my dear, a vicious lie. He’ll make you his and drive you mad if you refuse to do his will. That is what he’s done to them all.'

THE WITCHING HOUR - Anne Rice (1990).

#muse: rowan mayfair #muse: deirdre mayfair #visage / manipulate unseen forces #alt fc #musings / the witching hour #style / i believe in free will #lasher / mi daemon #aes / just about anything #better than loving you / queue #tw flashing #horror cw