#carmilla the vampire

[yun-lii]

Carmilla and Laura are my new obsession

#carmilla #carmilla x laura #laura x carmilla #wlw #vampire #sapphic #carmilla the vampire #sheridan le fanu #carmilla karnstein #art #fanart #carmilla fanart #art on tumblr

[livefromcastledracula]

If I was doing a adaptation of Carmilla that casts her in a more sympathetic light one thing I would change is that she's actually less discriminative on who she targets the feed on, not just targeting other young women.

Unless it's with someone she's aready particularly intimate with, her feeding does not actually have a sexual component to it. She's a lesbian who also just happens to be a vampire, not a "lesbian vampire" so to speak.

Probably give her more standards too. She tries not to feed on children and at least makes the effort not to kill the people she's feeding on. But it can be hard to control oneself when feeding and even if the person survives it can fuck up a person's immune system in the long term, so…

She does seem to be quite amoral in the novella when it regards her prey outside her fixation. Baron Vordenburg puts it as "proceeding directly to the target, overwhelming with violence and exhausting at a single feast" so if that's at all accurate, I'm guessing the peasant girls' encounters with Carmilla are less a surreal dreamlike visitation than a horrifying and fatal encounter with a cryptid monster cat or nightmare ghost ripping their throat out in their sleep.

The funeral procession scene makes her seem somewhere between indifferent to their fates and masking guilt as indifference (in her rather violent protestations against the funeral) although, as always with Carmilla, there's ambiguity, because it may be that the Christian funeral hymns and customs are causing her literal psychic damage because VAMPIRE.

However you slice it, though, she's killed a jawdropping number of young women, so I can see why you'd address that in a sympathetic adaptation (like the web series did)

#carmilla #carmilla the vampire #carmilla karnstein #sheridan le fanu

[esmiephan]

My favorites vampires of pop culture:

1. Count Dracula (Bram Stoker's Dracula)

2. Lestat de Lioncourt (Interview With The Vampire)

3. Lucy Westenra (Bram Stoker's Dracula)

4. Carmilla (1872s novel, Carmilla)

5. Jerry Dandrigde (Fright Night)

#vampires #vampire movie #vampire literature #bram stoker's dracula #count dracula #vlad dracula #lucy westenra #lestat de lioncourt #interview with the vampire #fright night #jerry dandridge #carmilla the vampire

[annabelle--cane]

vampirism poses the question "what if there was a fundamental, horrible, unending well of want in your soul that, if truly satisfied, would lead to great pain for all those you hold closest and, in turn, their absolute and total revilement of you?" and naturally as a person with no problems I don't relate to this in any way at all.

#carmilla. millarca. micarlla. whatever your name is. we're really in it now. #marina marvels at life #vampires

[bbybluemochi]

“You must come with me, loving me, to death; or else hate me, and still come with me” Carmilla, 1872.

#carmilla #art cover #vampire #lesbian #sapphic #gothic #my art

[gabriellemkari]

Carmilla & Laura 🩸

#carmilla #vampire #vampires #laura #lgbt #lgbtqia #lesbians #artists on tumblr #digital art

[elainiisms]

"you can't ship those characters they tried to kill each other!" sounds like someone can't appreciate the inherent eroticism of violence 🙄

#like idk grow up? #hannigram #villaneve #carmilla #fuffy #catradora #judecardan #soukoku #satorika #rhaenicent #tamber #interview with the vampire #andreil #loustat #i cannot for the life of me think of things to tag #u get it though

[vamplire]

sorry i moaned when u showed me ur fangs

#vamplire.txt #vampires #what we do in the shadows #interview with the vampire #astarion #carmilla #dracula #wwdits

[mynqzo]

carmilla

#digital art #artists on tumblr #oc #digital aritst #original character #vampire #carmilla #laura #vampirecore

[macaulaytwins]

hey don’t cry. every vampire is gay. okay?

#inherently vampires are queer hope this helps #vampires #gay vampires #tvc #iwtv #wwdits #carmilla #castlevania #lost boys #hey don’t cry #meme #shitpost #gay #queer #horror #halloween #interview with the vampire #baz #basilton grimm pitch #first kill #loustat #what we do in the shadows

[rariatoo]

In addition to Noss and Zakuro, there are vampire parents who are single mothers.

#oc #myoc #carla carmilla #dolk carmilla #noss the nosferatu #zakuro the vampire #vampire #noss & zakuro #character design #monster

[yun-lii]

More Carmilla fanarts? Yes please

#I know almost no one cares but I love them #carmilla #carmilla fanart #carmilla karnstein #carmilla book #carmilla x laura #laura x carmilla #carmilla the vampire #fanart #arte #art #sapphic #lesbian couple #vampire

[hirosemaryhello]

two of my favorite illustrations from this year, both from Carmilla

#artists on tumblr #illustration #art #illustrators on tumblr #carmilla #vampire #lesbian vampire #vampire art

[esmiephan]

"uwu vampire stories are meant to be scary and evil and demonic and serious and zero romance or else it's stupid Twilight bullshit!!"

Shut the fuck up. No one owns vampire rules, Dracula didn't create vampire rules, Carmilla didn't create vampire rules, YOU didn't create vampire rules. Romantic vampire stories can be great and well-written, and love stories can also be horror stories. Shut up and let people be happy.

#vampires #vampire movie #vampire literature #dracula #carmilla the vampire #bram stoker #joseph sheridan le fanu #gothic #gothic literature #twilight #i know twilight is cringe and bad written but people can enjoy it AND apreciate good vampires stories the same way #vampires CAN BE humanized and romanticized. they aren't fucking real creatures. get a grip

[bubblegum-blackwood]

#vampires #dracula #twilight #btvs #carmilla #iwtv #vc #vampire diaries #underworld #blade 1998 #lost boys #polls

[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