#carmilla (1872)

[frogoru]

1800s toxic vampire yuri goes crazy

#carmilla 1872 #carmilla karnstein #carmilla laura #i forgot her last name :( #i'm like 60% done with the story #carmilla by sheridan le fanu

[vulpinae]

“I have been in love with no one, and never shall,” she whispered, “unless it should be with you.” - Carmilla, 1872

#carmilla #vampires #carmilla 1872 #1800s #vampire #1800s art #sapphic #sapphics #sapphic love #gothic #vampire girl #vampire goth #vampire core #vampire aesthetic #vampirism #horror #gothic horror #gothic fiction #love as consumption

[souldagger]

carmilla (1872) 🩸

#my art #carmilla #carmilla 1872 #vampires #i present to you: the most ambitious piece of art ive made all year! 🧛

[dyingnome]

Karnstein Ruins - concept art for a project based on Carmilla by Sheridan Le Fanu

#carmilla #Sheridan Le Fanu #carmilla 1872 #gothic horror #carmilla book #gothic ruins #fanart #my art #Art #Illustration #digital art #concept art #visual development #gothic novela #mircalla karnstein

[brotherdusk]

the people who got violently angry at everyone in dracula for not realising they were in a horror story until it was too late would die if they read carmilla I think

#carmilla #carmilla 1872 #dracula daily #carmilla spoilers #gothic fiction #gothic literature #txt

[mswyrr]

I like toxic yuri. I do not like the Sapphic Overton window and how it's it's moved so far in the direction of unrealistic levels of purity that two women must act like inhuman saints and never have any conflict to be considered "healthy." And pretty normal women in love having realistic conflict for the plot they're in gets labeled "toxic yuri."

Malini and Priya from the Burning Kingdoms books are not toxic yuri, their feelings for each other and how they relate are pretty damn healthy, they're just trapped in impossible circumstances. Ditto Siuan and Moiraine from Wheel of Time. There's a difference between inherent toxicity and a dramatic plot pushing people to the breaking point.

Now, Lucille the repressed bisexual from Crimson Peak who is a serial killer and slowly poisoning Edith to death even as she desires her? Or Carmilla in the original 1872 story Carmilla who believes her love for other girls can only be death and so she's slowly killing the girl she loves to draw out their time together while slaying other women quickly to satiate her bloodlust? *That's* toxic yuri. There's something at the very core of their dynamic that is toxic. Not two women who are pretty sweet together forced into a mind-breakingly impossible situation and having conflict over it. I am into that shit - and I am into realistic writing and high stakes situations pushing people to the breaking point - and there's a very important distinction there.

#misc text posts #the burning kingdoms #the wheel of time #my meta #carmilla 1872 #toxic yuri #crimson peak #wlw meta

[aestheticallybloody]

"You must come with me, loving me, to death;

Or else hate me, and still come with me."

Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu's Carmilla 1872

#vampcore #vampyr #vampire #vampire aesthetic #vamptember #vampire carmilla #carmilla and laura #carmilla book #carmilla #count dracula #carmilla 1872 #dracula book #dracula 1897 #vlad dracula #dracula novel #dark academia #dark aesthetic #grunge aesthetic #grunge academia #black and white #aesthetic #red aesthetic #red velvet #brown aesthetic

[twisted-little-fuckermeh]

Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu's Carmilla 1872

#carmilla #vampires #lesbian #wlw #sapphic #wlw love #wlw vampire #carmilla 1872 #vampire #vampire girl #vampcore #dark fantasy #excerpts #camilla excerpt #vampire lesbian #lesbian vampires

[wowitsverycool]

#me #carmilla #carmilla 1872 #carmilla book #mircalla karnstein #countess kernstein #dracula daily #dracula #she is actually objectively better btw #because I said so

[sprezzartura]

so my girlfriend gifted me a copy of carmilla for christmas,

#carmilla #carmilla 1872 #sheridan le fanu #carmilla novella #mircalla karnstein #my art

[hymntosappho]

I'm in process of reading carmilla! quick portrait for her ♡ (I want to draw something more in the future...)

#hs books #my art #carmilla #carmilla 1872 #sheridan le fanu

[alunaeterna]

I know Carmilla is a horror book and all, but the fact that Laura told her governesses something like, "Don't tell Carmilla about the paranormal stuff going on because she'll be scared shitless" will always be hilarious to me.

#carmilla #carmilla 1872 #mircalla karnstein #laura hollis

[makeminemarvel]

Can we talk about how silly Carmilla is to do that anagram thing? Especially since they start as major stretches until she gets to Carmilla, which is the only one that sounds like an actual name

#mircalla? millarca? please baby #you can split up the Ls! you dont have to end it with the A! please get creative #oh well. she's stuck in her ways #carmilla #carmilla 1872 #j sheridan le fanu

[dyingnome]

A few more Carmilla sketches

#carmilla #Sheridan Le Fanu #carmilla 1872 #carmilla book #gothic horror #gothic novela #mircalla karnstein #laura #fanart #my art #Art #Illustration #concept art #digital art #procreate

[theartofmadeline]

carmilla & laura, from carmilla (1872)

#carmilla #artists on tumblr #illustration #sapphic #digital art #vampire #lesbian #character design #spooky #halloween #theartofmadeline #highly reccomend giving carmilla a read #if you like lesbians and vampires #and its only like 100 pages #carmilla 1872

[mswyrr]

This edition rewrites the entire narrative of Carmilla while keeping the vast majority of the text exactly the same. Originally, Le Fanu published the chapters serially in a magazine, then later bound them together with an introduction which claimed that the story came from Doctor Hesselius’s notes. Machado adds another layer. She claims that Le Fanu pulled this story from stolen letters, disguising and censoring the women’s story. Machado claims that the real letters from Veronika (“Laura”) were explicit about her and Carmilla’s romantic and sexual relationship.

In this version, it isn’t queer women who are trying to alter the author’s intention in order to claim Carmilla. Instead, it’s Le Fanu whose heteronormativity has obscured the real story, which can now be unearthed in its true form. This edition also adds a few footnotes and illustrations, though I desperately wanted there to be more of both. The meta-narrative that Machado creates is one in which vampires do exist—and that’s not all. In one footnote, Laura lingers outside of the woods, and the footnote laments, “Lonely as she was, if only Laura knew the potential friends who resided in those woods! Peddlers, mountebanks, roguish-but-decent thieves and brigands, fairies, wolpertingers…” (Another footnote, after a lengthy description, succinctly states, “If this isn’t an orgasm, nothing is.”) And Robert Kraiza’s illustrations are beautiful and compelling.

#carmen maria machado #carmilla #carmilla 1872 #monster girls #monster romance