#i am spoiling y'all

[grassbreads]

I've been doing a lot of reading lately about the history of vampires in fiction and how the vampire as we know it today first entered literature, and the subject is honestly fascinating. The traditional folklore around vampires and vampire-like creatures is largely very different from what we'd think of as a vampire today, and it's also very different from how vampires appeared in even their earliest literary incarnations.

For one thing, there's nothing particularly alluring about most traditional vampires. They're bloated corpses that have crawled out of their graves, not dashing mysterious counts in lonely castles. They're not a particularly stylish or sexy monster.

However, from pretty much the moment that western literature first turned to the vampire myth for inspiration, writers saw something in the concept to sexualize. The poem "Der Vampir" (The Vampire) by Heinrich August Ossenfelder is often cited as the first ever true literary depiction of a vampire (published 1748!), and it is about a man corrupting a chaste and religious woman through his unwanted kiss/vampiric bite. John William Polidori's 1819 short story "The Vampyre" is widely seen as the first work to truly codify vampire fiction, and the titular Vampyre Ruthven is in large part inspired by the womanizing Lord Byron. Le Fanu's Carmilla depicts an intense attraction between Carmilla and her victim Laura. Stoker's Count Dracula is a man with overly flushed lips and hair on his palms, marks of Victorian fears of sexuality.

From the very start, vampires in literature have been a sexual monster. They're emblems of the seductive and terrible—the kiss of death that you can't help but be drawn to anyway. A violent forced intimacy that will corrupt you and drain away your very life force. There's a great deal of xenophobia and fear of the un-christian in early vampire fiction as well, but the fear of sex and sexual assault have always been a driver of literary vampires' horror and allure. Writers seem eternally split between desire for the vampire and revulsion at that very lust, even from the moments that the creatures first graced the page.

There's a great tradition of vampiric fiction both using vampirism to evoke sexual predators and making vampires themselves desirably sexy. Thus, given that it is very concerned with sexual assault and bodily autonomy as themes, often uses predation by a vampire to evoke sexual violence, and is deeply horny about vampires and blood drinking, Jun Mochizuki's The Case Study of Vanitas is actually one of if not the best modern successor to the canon of early vampire literature. In this essay, I will

#rare vnc post on main bc starting off with my obvious vnc icon and url would spoil the punchline #wanna take y'all by surprise a little ;P #anyway this post is a joke but the point I'm making genuinely kinda isn't #you know how it is #I am genuinely fascinated by the ways that vnc is in conversation with the literary sources that it pulls from #it really is riffing on a LOT of the same ideas through a modern lens #vnc #vanitas no carte #the case study of vanitas #invasion of the frogs

[katherine-mcnamara]

Jamie Campbell Bower as Peter Ballard Stranger Things 4x05: The Nina Project

As I asked in the tags do NOT spoil anything in replies/comments/tags

#jamie campbell bower #jamiecampbellboweredit #stedit #strangerthingsedit #st4edit #st4 #stranger things #stranger things spoilers #mine: gifs #Y'ALL HAVE NO IDEA #HOW MUCH HIM IN A NEW ROLE MEANS TO ME OK #LOOK AT MY BOY #MY ANGEL I AM SCREAMING #WAILING!!! #peter ballard #userduckie #keep spoilers off my post #i see your tags and your spoiling shit for me and others #quit it

[vynnyal]

This is likely the hardest I've laughed in rain world yet. Basically, you can glitch a spear into a quantum state using a dead bat body, allowing stabbed enemies to follow you through tunnels. So I tried bringing a leviathan to Moon. And the game really, really didn't like that

#rainworld #rain world #game clips #I cut out the moment I died because the footage froze for a solid 20 seconds right at that moment #I was so close!! But I accidentally went back through the tunnel and got crushed. #And for some reason while grinding this out I somehow glitched the game into thinking I died 200 times #So my score is like -130 which is really funny. Like I can casually speedrun hunter with 1 or 2 deaths to this point #Game fr said ''skill issue'' #God no am I gonna try actually speedrunning this game. The actual advanced movement tech is crazy hard #Anyways welcome to my gaming channel please like and subscribe /j #I posted a hk highlight clip but then realized that since I'm shifting fandoms I'm likely spoiling the hell out of my new followers #Sorry if you saw that LMAO #I have another video of torturing moon that I found really funny but it's like 5 minutes long #And no way do y'all have the patience to watch that. Especially without context #So that's a friend-exclusive #Or maybe I'll put it on my literal YouTube channel with like 300 subs for. Some reason #OR THE ART ONE LMAO ''it's been three years check out this completely unrelated video''

[chaos0pikachu]

so I'm finally watching Dead Friend Forever and when I tell y'all the sound I made watching ep03 transcended the sound barrier like after a Very Stressful Day of non-consensual decapitation Tee and Not Tee are running away from haunted mansion: cult by ryan murphy only to get bodied by Thai Ghostface only to be saved by Babygirl White who is channeling the biggest Clerk's I wasn't even supposed to BE here today energy calls them on a 90s walkie talkie like "honey I watched the sus ass video of y'alls missing friend and I'm freaking out cause we fucked in the shower which is horror movie rule no-no number like 6 and Fluke is freaking me the FUCK out that bitch ain't right in the head get your ass back here NOW" and once our Slasher villain hears this, jets, and STEALS THEIR FUCKING SCOOTER he was like zoom zoom motherfuckers!!! straight up roadrunner noises eat my dust and ass losers energy leaving Tee and Not Tee to just stare at each other like "did fucking Voorhees McKrueger just jack our fucking scooter???"

the energy this show has truly

#dff the series #dead friend forever #dff spoilers #no one spoil me I'm only on episode 4 #but my GOD as a horror fan I am having an AMAZING time #also this show is nothing like scream lmao y'all played me #chaos pikachu speaks #pikachu's chaotic recaps

[dandyleyen]

Beta kids !

Thought I'd workshop some designs for them. Subject to change as I get further into this

#guys i'm getting into homestuck for the first time ever #my friends and i are reading it together <3 #beta kids #the beta kids #homestuck #dave strider #jade harley #john egbert #rose lalonde #shaking y'all by the shoulders don't spoil anything 4 me i'm starting act 4 next week #homestuck fanart #character design #homestuck beta kids #fanart #my art #hs fanart #i am cringe but i am free

[dipplinduo]

Sweet & Sour Dipplins: Chapter 18 is outtttttt

It's technically the length of a double chapter because I had a little fun with this one, so get cozy. >:)

#AHAHAHHAHA #its beauty #its grace #it'll destroy your precious smiling face #<3333 #y'all got comfy for too long #and angst ~ inspires me ~ you see #my fics #dipplinshipping #kieran pokemon #kieran x juliana pokemon #juliana x kieran pokemon #kieran x juliana #juliana pokemon #juliana x kieran #something about this post is so funny yet again but I don't wanna spoil by drawing attention to it #ENJOYYYY LOL #I am gonna go throw some angst in BYFILWM now #and then DIOH #LMAO

[thatoneluckybee]

I've already forgotten her name but I love her

(p.s. cause there's a lot of fans of this on tumblr please no spoilers)

#It was on purpose :3 AMAZING 10/10 #Do not spoil please #I'm never recovering from this #Y'all KNOW i already talk like a strange poor little texan accented 1900s aristocrat's dying son #Reading this is forever changing my vocabulary I'm not going to recover for WEEKS #I do that everytime i read something i start talking like the characters #I think it's the autism but idk #Regardless i am SO SORRY IF I START TALKING STRANGELY AGAIN #Fambles #Nevermore #nevermore webtoon

[ghost-proofbaby]

please please tell us that there’s some sort of happy ending with these two. the tension is INSANE

full transparent truth - i don't think the ending will be as happy as you all are hoping for.

but that's because, please keep in mind, this is one night only between them. everything changes, yes, but them ending totally in love and in some sort of stable relationship just isn't realistic. once the series ends, i'll be open to additional requests because i certainly see a happy future for them!!! hell, i would even be open to writing a sequel/another series of them if i had a good enough idea for it!

that being said, it is technically happy ending. just... not as happy as i know some of you would want.

#i am trying hard not to spoil but no yeah its... sort of HEA? #sort of #it'll be a rough few final chapters #just keep in mind miscommunication is my favorite trope to write unfortunately (for both y'all and for me) #thank u ily #i hope y'all don't hate me by the end of this series

[theflyingfeeling]

so idk if anyone remembers anymore but some time ago I described a fic idea in the tags of a post (and then elaborated the idea in a later ask) regarding Olli/Aleksi falling for each other while still being in relationships respectively... yeah, I kinda ended up writing something based off that thought and I just uploaded the first chapter on AO3, I hope y'all will be cool about it 👉👈

#blind channel fanfiction #blind channel rpf #ollixallu #i probably should've added some more tags but i really just don't want to spoil anything too much 😭 #please please please be nice i am so goddamn nervous about this fic #MASSIVE thanks to my pre-readers who i love so 💗 #ugh i'm so terrible at promoting my own fics lol pls just take this out of my hands and do whatever you will with it #i know the premise of the fic may sound off-putting and/or sad but i hope you'll give it a chance anyway 🥺 #ignore me constantly editing the tags of this post lol ANYWAY i forgot to mention that i've already written all 4 chapters #idk what the ideal posting schedule would be but sunday has often been posting day for me so... #this 1st chapter is quite short but the others are definitely longer and i want to give y'all enough time to read 💗 #and idk maybe it's just me being a slow reader but i always get a little anxious if i can't keep up with an author's posting schedule 😭 #kudos comments reblogs likes asks dms i'll take anything <3

[localravenclaw]

Personal NSFW shit

The hottest thing my partner does before every session is get aftercare stuff ready by the bedside. It's like his quiet way of saying, "I am about to thoroughly ruin you, but don't worry, I will take such good care of you after."

#i am a lucky LUCKY girl ♡ #couldn't ask for a better dom #catch me being spoiled senseless in the bedroom y'all #aftercare is IMPORTANT! #tmi #personal #just me casually sharing shit about my sex life

[spiderwarden]

it must be my birthday because @sporedruids gave me more icons.

#[ 🕷️ ] —— out of character #[ i am so luCKY TO HAVE WONDERFUL FRIENDS!!!! ] #[ y'all spoil me ima cry ] #[ the only thing that is mine here is the writing and the hcs and all the other WORD shite ] #[ everything else is all them ]

[kinaesthetiqueer]

quick doodle representing me reading this week's comments even though i don't have the energy to respond yet

#kina rambles #💛💛💛💛 #sorry im dealing with the Horrors rn but i see you and i appreciate you #every comment though whether it's keysmashing or screaming or theorizing or yelling makes my brain go brrrrrrrr #essay length fic comments are like?!?!?!!! the best chocolate cake or a good tiramisu #never expected but absolutely savored on the occasion that they happen #y'all absolutely fucking spoil me 😭🥺🤗 and i am very grateful #kina draws

[whynotimtired]

Actors have to assume that the audience only knows what they SEE. the audience SAW mike confess his love to El, so that's what the audience knows, the audience saw mike spit out an entire speech on how he loves her he loves her he loves her, so, to the audience, HE DOES. he WILL NOT spoil the show. He IS NOT going to say that "oh yeah that speech?? Totally a lie he's in love with will lmfao". Finn is one of the younger actors most seasoned in NOT SPOILING ANYTHING, he holds EVERYTHING close to his chest. He is BANKING on you thinking he's stupid so you stop asking him the invasive spoiler riddled questions. ACTORS LIE. DIRECTORS LIE. WRITERS LIE.

They will say ANYTHING to keep the integrity of their show and they REFUSE to spoil it.

#they will say all kinds of backwards shit to make sure nothing is spoiled #noah is ALLOWED TO TALK ABOUT BYLER. #he FINALLY has permission BECAUSE HIS CHARACTER IS OPENLY IN LOVE WITH MIKE. #Finn however? He cant talk about mikes involvement in byler BECAUSE THE AUDIENCE DOESNT KNOW THAT YET. #WE are not the general audience. i am bashing this into your thick skulls. you know this. the actors talk to the general audience. #they CANT talk to the theorists who unravel the entire show to figure smthn out bc everything we figure out WOULD BE A SPOILER #AND THEY SAID THAT FINN KNOWS THE ENDING #THEY SAID HES THE ONLY ONE WHO KNOWS CAUSE HE FUCKING GUESSED IT. HES NOT STUPID. THEYRE NOT STUPID. #THIS IS HOW PRESS WORKS. YOU LIE. #finn wolfhard #will byers #byler #mike wheeler #byeler #stranger things #i dont even think whatever happened is a big deal either i just think that y'all rlly need to hear this #so you can stop going batshit insane losing your minds everytime an actor says something positive about mike/el and negative abt byler.

[blujayonthewing]

friend we're visiting: y'all hype?? how are you feeling about traveling?

me today: [got up, ate breakfast, sat in the garden and painted in my sketchbook, felt tired and shaky afterward]

#haha I'm in danger :) #I literally just sat in a chair eating breakfast and painting... y'all I am Nervous about camping in the mountains lol #we're not JUST doing that but a lot of the things she threw out there as stuff she wants to show us is still like #'big interactive art installment/ museum you walk around in' or like 'cool places to go shopping' #I'm WORRIED and also I'm FRUSTRATED I wanna do COOL THINGS I wanna HAVE FUN I wanna GO CAMPING #flying for the first time since Before is already gonna be mentally and emotionally taxing just for starters... #I DUNNO I haven't been sleeping enough... maybe today is about coffee and not enough sleep #maybe everything's fine! and I'll get to have fun!! and not spoil anyone else's fun!! #I guess we'll just find out huh!!! #about me

[freyadragonlord]

In the last month I have accidentally started reading more than one manga that have very small english-speakers fandoms (at least on tumblr and twitter??) and I am suffering So Much.

#bsd spoiled me i am used to the People #i want to drag y'all down with meee

[dragonslaved]

Hello All, Space here to tell you why YOU !! Should read classic manga Magic Knight Rayearth. 

“What’s that?” you ask? You’ve never heard of Magic Knight Rayearth? Well, I am here to tell you ALL about it.

WHAT IS MAGIC KNIGHT RAYEARTH?

Magic Knight Rayearth is a 6 volume manga about magical girls, giant robots, and isekai. Yes, you read that right. All three amazingly loved tropes together and it’s done seamlessly and beautifully. You’ll laugh, you’ll say ‘wtf’, you’ll sob big Ghibli tears. 

Also like. If you have any intention to actually read this manga after this post, don’t google anything? Seriously don’t. It’s only 6 volumes but googling will spoil literally every twist and turn this series has and BOY DOES IT HAVE SOME. I’m not gonna spoil you for them. Don’t spoil yourself.

To put into perspective how much I love this series and how badly I've wanted people to read it for years: I was pinching pennies for p much my entire life until very recently. I read this series when I was 14 (~20+ years ago oh god) and fast forward to today I'm still a penny pincher but I went out of my way to collect 5 different full copies of this series in various printings and languages because I just. I gotta. I love it. I have a copy that is a dedicated loner copy so I always have one ready for someone to borrow and read. PLEASE understand how much I love this series and go along with me here.

All right, so the story goes like this: three middle school girls on a field trip to Tokyo Tower get summoned to an alternate world called Cephiro. Oh by the way, they go to different schools. Also they’ve never met before. 

You’ve got rich, beautiful hothead, Umi Ryuzaki. Her magic element is water, fierce and unforgiving. Her two loving parents are still in their honeymoon phase 14 years later. They’re rich, she loves food, she is kinda selfish, but has such a great character arc because of it. She’s amazing and I would die for her. 

After her, you’ve got polite but very very shrewd and thoughtful, Fuu Houoji. Her element is wind, kind, occasionally harsh, and healing. Fuu is the one with plans, who is very sweet and formal but also very conniving if you aren’t paying close attention. She cares deeply about those around her  while also being realistic. Sometimes she can be a little aloof, but it’s ok she’s cute.

And finally last girl, BEST GIRL, Hikaru Shidou. Energetic, sympathetic, understanding, and eternally the best. Her element is fire, she IS the magic knight of Rayearth, the titular character, the beautiful perfect darling angel who has never done anything wrong in her life. She goes to an all girls’ school. She has three older brothers. Almost every girl in her school has a crush on her. She is oblivious as fuck. She grew up in a kendo dojo and beat her father in a match when she was in kindergarten and that’s why he’s not around. She has the biggest heart in the universe. I love her. I would beat gen urobuchi in a denny’s parking lot at 3am for her honor. 

These three girls meet a magician, Guru Clef. This lil dude. 

The rare “small boy who is actually a bajillion years old” trope before it was such an annoying trope to use on women characters, but he’s 700+ years old and the most powerful sorcerer in Cephiro. He gives the girls magic and armor, and tells them they were summoned by Princess Emeraude to save Cephiro. 

How do they do that?

By talking to the chief Pharle (artisan, blacksmith, etc) of Cephiro named Presea to make them weapons. And oh yeah they have to use those weapons to revive the rune gods.

Y’know.

Big Giant Mechs. 

Waking these bad boys up takes a lot for the girls and it’s really really good seeing how they go about it and what they're willing to do to accomplish it.

I’m not gonna spoil the story for you but I WILL go through some of the other characters.

You’ve got:

Princess Emeraude. The Pillar of Cephiro, imprisoned and kept from praying for Cephiro’s well being. She’s sweet, she’s heartbroken, she wants her world to be safe again. 

Next to her you have the High Priest Zagato, her second, the antagonist who got the ball rolling on this whole thing. He’s gloomy, he’s serious, he’s methodical and looming. 

I mentioned Presea, did I mention her already? She’s great. She’s feisty and loud and would be THE most amazing dom queen if she could ever find a sub willing to tolerate her. 

She makes the weapons for the girls and also gives them a guide to find the rune gods.

Oh yeah their guide. 

So like. Probably obvious by now but in case it’s not, this is an early 1990s CLAMP series. You know CLAMP. They did xxxholic and Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicles and Card Captor Sakura. Yeah, this series came before ALLLLLL of those. 

You know that lil fuckin rabbit mascot they have?

That’s Mokona. He’s their guide. This is the series he originated from. 

Mokona is an adorable caring little shit who knows exactly what he’s doing at all times.  He helps them out but my god. The way he makes their blood pressure skyrocket on the journey there. 

Then we’ve got Ferio. A traveling swordsman who enters tournaments. Unfortunately Fuu’s straight alignment. But he’s fine, he’s cute. He’s got like… a whole Thing about him that I won’t explain but know that he’s okay. He’s all right.

The latter three volumes expands their allies to some other people that I cannot spoil but please know: they’re gay. They are all gay. There’s no heterosexual explanation for any of them. You think "oh that's a straight couple". Wrong. They're all gay, even if they're straight. One of them is like. Holy shit I cannot express how obviously gay they are. This isn’t like. “Oh you’re reading too into it with your fandom eyes”, I mean this is like. Wow. You two had the worst ghosting breakup and should get back together because it was over something stupid. 

There are a fair number of villains and only one of them is like. Pure Actual Evil and I won’t tell you which one it is but the rest are all VERY satisfying in their character stories and arcs and I love them all dearly. Got some hot magic ladies, got some nervous quiet men, and some awkward cute boys. The whole variety is there! 

Aside from the great characters, the artwork is GORGEOUS. 

I know in this day and age of 2023 digital art and speedy turnarounds of weekly manga releases, all the art is crisp and kinda minimal except for big scenes, and people like that. 

But also consider: gorgeous detailed intricate illustrations. 

And I still won’t spoil you for the story, but it will still surprise you I swear to you. 

“Okay but isn’t there an anime? Can I just watch that instead?” Look at me. I am holding your hands gently, and I am looking you in the eye as I pull you close and tell you: no. 

You notice all the artwork I've shared is specifically manga art. The anime is. ……………………………………………… not great. It has its pros like padding out filler episodes so they can flesh out the girls’ friendship and some of the side characters. But in having to pad out a 6 volume manga to two 26 episode seasons, some Decisions Were Made that were not in the best interest of the series or its themes. And when I say that, I do mean the very core of some of who these characters are. Motivations and internal goals changed for no reason, added characters for padded run time, an entire character killed for no reason only for their (anime only) twin to dress up and pretend to be that character because the directors realized “oh shit that character is in the second half uhhhhh quick”. It’s not great and it’s just not a lot of fun. 

All I’m saying is please please give this manga a read. It’s very quick, you can finish it in like. 3 days tops. It’s beautiful, it’s heartbreaking, it’s tragic and hopeful. 

I’m gonna leave this with a link to read it online and some other characters I didn’t mention because I just think they’re neat. 

#read this manga please I am begging you #it is my favorite manga of all time and I need more people to know about it #I've suffered so many other fluff cotton candy magical girl series being popular just please read this beautiful tragedy #y'all thought I was insane about other series boy you have no idea how insane I am about mkr #I will gladly answer any other questions about it that don't spoil the plot #because like I NEEEEEEED YOU TO UNDERSTAND #so many series took cues from this #ESPECIALLY PMMM LIKE TO THE POINT I AM UNFORGIVING ABOUT PMMM yes I am annoying about it #anyway I'm not tagging this with the series because there are some anime only truthers and they're wrong #the anime destroyed hikaru's entire character for the sake of [redacted] #this has been sitting in my drafts bc I apparently wrote it when I was delirious with a 100F fever last month #and you know what I stand by every single word of it