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shapelytimber · 7 months

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Welcome to my insane rant about Van Helsing, in the Dracula Hammer movies (with art)

*Quick* explaination of @quijicroix 's and I headcanons for Helsing, and why we think Lawrence (thought it was Abraham but no it's Lawrence in the Hammer cinematic universe) and Lorrimer Van Helsing are the same person (/!\ spoilers for the Hammer's Dracula movies obviously) :

At the end of Brides of Dracula (the second film in the timeline), we see Lawrence get bitten by a Vampire, not Dracula btw, and to remedy the curse he burns his neck and pour holy water on it. And ig by the power of jesus he doesn't get turned into a vampire (boring Hammer resolution) (and he doesn't even get a cool scar).

But we call bullshit on this ! Van Helsing definetly got turned into a (half) vampire !!

1) Lawrence and Lorrimer are both played by Peter Cushing and have the same face. Now I know what your probably thinking "this argument is lazy af", and if we stopped there, yes it would be. But we see Lawrence's son in 7 Golden Vampires (the last film in the serie, but not the timeline) !! And he looks NOTHING like Peter Cushing. So either the Cushing face skipped a generation (whitch is funny to imagine), or his son, who stays in china and never returns to england, serves as a way to help him hide his immortality by taking the identity of his own son, then his grandson Lorrimer.

2) Time for maths everyone ! In Dracula AD 1972, we learn Lawrence died in 1872. BUT !! In 7 Golden Vampires that takes place in 1904 (because the begining of the film is set in 1804 and these movies are obsessed with the 100 years later trope), who is still perfectly healthy and visiting his son in China more than twenty years after his death ?? Lawrence fucking Van Helsing. The only two explainations I see are either Vampirism or tax fraud.

And that would mean his son (Leyland Van Helsing btw) had to fuck very quickly after the movie for Lorrimer to be in his 70s (?) in 1972.

3) If curing vampirism was this easy, why kill the other people who got turned into vampires later in the timeline (rip a lot of the women and Johnny Alucard) ?? It paints Van Helsing in a way better light if you assume his miraculous cure didn't work *in the second film of this 9 movie saga*, and he doesn't just kill people he could cure.

4) it would be a very interesting take on the character, the renown vampire hunter himself becoming a monster, fighting to keep his humanity (but the Hammer didn't have the balls. And we thought about these movies way more than anyone involved in writting them-).

And the circle of violence theme is not between Dracula and the Helsing family anymore, but between him and Lawrence, whitch is way more personnal. And !! raises the stakes in both Dracula AD 1972 (already the best movie out of the 9 by far btw) and Satanic Rites since Dracula isn't the vampire his grandad fought, but his century long ennemy that keeps coming back.

And the scene at the end of Satanic Rites, where Dracula (for the first time in 9 movies) manage to align two sentences and basicly say he wants to end the world because he is tired of dying and coming back !!!!! Whitch is very heartbreaking already, but if he says it to the man who killed him (nearly) everytime ??? (We don't talk about that time Quatermass got him) Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhh

Ok I lied this was not quick but this!!!!!! Is something that has been haunting us for months, and in the words of Quiji : "People need to know."

I'm also working on an illustration in whitch this headcanon of ours is pretty central <3

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bestmusicalworldcup · 1 year

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The Best Snubbed Musical World Cup

The Best Snubbed Musical World Cup is a tournament to determine the best musical excluding those that won the Tony Award for Best Musical. Submissions are now closed! The final list of musicals in the Best Snubbed Musical World Cup is below.

& Juliet 1789: Les Amants de la Bastille 21 Chump Street 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee 35MM: A Musical Exhibition A New Brain Ablaze The Act Adamandi Aida Alice By Heart Allegiance An American in Paris American Idiot American Psycho Amélie Anastasia Anne & Gilbert Annie Get Your Gun Anything Goes Anyone Can Whistle The Art Of Pleasing Princes Assassins Back to the Future the Musical Bandstand Bare: A Pop Opera Be More Chill Beauty and the Beast Beetlejuice The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas Big Fish Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson Bonnie and Clyde Bran Nue Dae Bright Star Calvin Berger Carousel Carrie Chess Chicago Chitty Chitty Bang Bang Cinderella (Rodgers & Hammerstein) Clown Bible The Color Purple Come from Away The Count of Monte Cristo Death Note: The Musical Dogfight The Dolls of New Albion Dracula Dreamgirls The Drowsy Chaperone Elisabeth Émilie Jolie Evil Dead: The Musical Falsettos The Fantasticks Finding Neverland Firebringer Fly by Night Frankenstein The Frogs Funny Girl Ghost Quartet Godspell Grease Groundhog Day The Guy Who Didn't Like Musicals Gypsy Hair Hans Christian Andersen Heathers Hedwig and the Angry Inch Holy Musical B@man! Hoy no me puedo levantar The Hunchback of Notre Dame In Transit Into the Woods Jagged Little Pill Jane Eyre Jekyll & Hyde Jesus Christ Superstar Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dream Coat La Légende du roi Arthur The Last Five Years Le Roi Soleil Legally Blonde The Light in the Piazza The Lightning Thief Little Shop of Horrors Lizzie The Lord of the Rings Love in Hate Nation Love Never Dies The Mad Ones Made in Dagenham The Magic Show Magic Tree House: The Musical Mary Poppins Matilda Mean Girls Mentiras el musical Merrily We Roll Along Miss Saigon Mozart! Mozart, l'opéra rock Natasha, Pierre, and the Great Comet of 1812 Newsies Next to Normal Notre-Dame de Paris Octet Oklahoma Oliver On the Town On Your Feet! The Story of Emilio & Gloria Estefan Once on this Island Once Upon A Mattress Ordinary Days Parade Phantom (Yeston & Kopit) Pippin The Pirate Queen Preludes Pretty Woman The Prince of Egypt Priscilla, Queen of the Desert The Prom Ragtime Rebecca Ride the Cyclone The Rocky Horror Show Roméo et Juliette: de la Haine à l'Amour Sarafina! The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (1964) The Secret Garden The Scarlet Pimpernel Seussical Seven Brides for Seven Brothers She Loves Me Show Boat Shrek the Musical Sidd Singin' In the Rain Six Soldaat van Oranje Something Rotten Spies are Forever The Spitfire Grill SpongeBob SquarePants: The Broadway Musical Starry Starship Sunday in the Park With George Tanz der Vampire / Dance of the Vampires Tarrytown The Threepenny Opera / Die Dreigroschenoper Tick Tick Boom Timéo The Trail to Oregon! Tuck Everlasting Twisted Urinetown Waitress West Side Story Wicked Wiedzmin The Wild Party (Lippa) The Wizard of Oz (1987) The Woman in White Wonderland You're a Good Man Charlie Brown

#best snubbed musical world cup #broadway #best musical world cup #best musical #musical theater #musical theatre #musicals #theater #tony awards #theatre

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livefromcastledracula · 3 months

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You know, considering that the two vampire sisters/"brides" are, if I'm remembering things right, noted to have a certain resemblance too the Count (daughters if I had to guess) and if we go buy the usual assumption that they all are/were Dracula's lovers at some point before he grew bored of them, Jesus that's somehow makes everything even so much more disturbing

I think Stoker left that as ambiguous as possible. Considering the ugh racial themes that sometimes come into the book (though not as egregiously as in other late Victorian fiction) it may be just that he was suggesting they were the same ethnicity as Dracula and the blonde was not.

But it may have been that they were his family; it's been suggested that the blonde bride was the wife ("you are first, and we shall follow") and the other two were the daughters, it would make "I too can love" a reference to a familial love eroded over time by the soullessness of the vampire existence, which is more interesting to me than a 'vampire harem', imo.

It's hard to say if vampires in Stoker canon have any sexuality outside of their vampirism, and who is the "master" isn't entirely clear in the canon either. Certainly the Trio seem to react to Dracula with both a grudging deference to his authority mixed with naked scorn and indifference.

I quite like the interpretation that Dracula and the Trio have a kind of wolf pack vibe - they're a pack of predatory animals, with their own jostling, snapping pecking order that the living aren't going to understand. They've existed over centuries together, that's a relationship no living person is equipped to comprehend, and it's just another way in which they're not really human anymore.

#dracula daily #dracula #count dracula #daily dracula #brides of dracula #weird sisters

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captain-harpo · 1 year

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I really like the comparison of the Brides of Dracula to Christian nuns, which I hadn't really gotten before today's entry. But it makes sense--the Brides referring to Mina as "sister," Mina's ambiguous certainty that her "husband" is making his way towards them. The idea that a blood exchange can basically constitute a marriage continues over from earlier in the book when Van Helsing laughed at Lucy's funeral, which would make Mina "married" to Dracula; and, I mean, nuns take the sacrament (right?), which includes the blood of Jesus.

All this is to say that Dracula becomes an anti-holy Jesus, delivering people away from God. His nuns (brides) are similarly perverse, as instead of donning the nun's chaste habit they become more erotic in their service to Him.

#DISCLAIMER: I AM A JEWISH ATHEIST #dracula #dracula daily #brides of dracula #mina harker #abraham van helsing #captain's log #dracula analysis

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ladyminaofcamelot · 2 years

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Okay, so, I wasn't going to scream into the uncaring void of the internet about this but I gotta. A lot of people have been dunking on Dr. Seward about the August 19th entry, and especially about the phrase, "These infantesimal distinctions between man and man are too paltry for an Omnipotent Being. How these madmen give themselves away! The real God taketh heed lest a sparrow fall. But the God created from human vanity sees no difference between an eagle and a sparrow. Oh, if men only knew!" But when I was first reading the book, this was one of my favorite quotes, and frankly it's not as about Seward as everyone is making it. It's a reference to Matthew 10:29, which says "are not two sparrows sold for a penny? Yet not one of them will fall to the ground outside your Father's knowledge." (NIV) It is right in the middle of a passage about Jesus appointing his disciples and giving them both encouragement and instruction for the persecution they will face when they follow him, and you won't believe what is written only a few verses before in 24-26: "The student is not above the teacher, nor a servant above his master. It is enough for students to be like their teachers, and servants like their masters. If the head of the house has been called Beelzebul, how much more the members of his household! So do not be afraid of them, for there is nothing concealed that will not be disclosed, or hidden that will not be made known. "

So here we have Jesus telling his disciples not to fear the servants of Beezlebul, or the devil, because they are no greater than the devil himself, and really the devil's not such a big gun compared to God himself, who the disciples follow.

In 'Dracula,' we have Renfield serving his master who is Dracula, in similar authority structure to the devil, but he is also not to be feared in comparison to the power of the forces of good, and the verses after that even discuss the fate of evil which (spoilers) forshadows the end of the book and the character Dracula himself. If you ask me, using a scripture passage to foreshadow your entire book in such a subtle way is honestly just BRILLIANT and I love it.

Moreover, the particular verse he chose to actually reference helps to highlight the differences between Dracula (an embodiment of men's evil) and God. Seward is not bragging that he is in charge, or miffed that Renfield does not treat him as such, he is noticing a change in behavior, as Renfield often WOULD defer to him as a higher authority in the past. Seward is not illogical to think this is because Renfield has come to believe there is an even higher authority to appeal to, and is not wrong when he says that a human higher authority makes no distinction between men. Dracula does not care if someone is a lunatic, a beloved lady, or a lawyer, they are all prey to him, and he will use them to his own ends. Similarly men whose ultimate goal is to benefit themselves and make a "god" of thier own interests stop seeing others as individuals, but as means to an end. This is in direct contrast to the God who sees every sparrow that falls, and who seeks a personal relationship and to foster personal relationships between those who follow him. This is a trait shared by the crew of light in the book. They have a father in Van Helsing, brothers and sisters, and husband and wife in each other, and all love each other so deeply and tenderly, just as God cares for the sparrows, and so much more for his own people. Meanwhile Dracula has slaves he must bend to his will. He has the brides, who obviously don't even like him much. Dracula, in choosing to selfishly disregard the feelings of those he considers prey has made himself thoroughly and completely alone, and that is what makes evil so weak.

Maybe it is just Seward being arrogant, but in my understanding of the allusion, it's an expert highlight of the difference between good and evil, light and dark, selfishness and love, distance and relationship, the contrast of which is a central theme of the whole book. For let us not forget that Dracula was once a man, a man who has been twisted into the opposite of everything humanity was supposed to be, and that is what makes him so very horrific.

(Also just read Matthew 10. The whole thing lines up very well and it's super cool. Way to go Mr. Stoker.)

#dracula #dracula daily #jack seward #john seward #doctor seward #abraham van helsing #johnathan harker #mina harker #matthew 10 #bram stoker #I feel like Stoker's audience would have understood this too #And even if they didn't #It matches so well it had to be a deliberate choice on Stoker's part

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t0ast-ghost · 4 months

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Horror Movie Suggestions

This is my list reposted in a more easily changeable format

Basically I got sick for a week and wrote down every horror movie I could think of or was recommended and put it in a categorized list

If you’ve got any recommendations or suggestions lemme know in the tags, comments, or reposts

(List below cut)

Zombies:

- Night of the living dead

- The Return of the Living Dead

- Sundown: A Vampire in Retreat

- Dawn of the Dead

- Shawn of the Dead

- Pontypool

- Zombieland

- Dead Alive

- Fido

- Warm Bodies

- The Dead Don’t Die

Vampires:

- Nosferatu

- Lost boys

- The hunger

- Interview with the vampire

- What We Do In The Shadows

- Jesus Christ Vampire Hunter

- Dracula

- Renfield

- Only Lovers Left Alive

- Twilight

Ghosts:

- A Nightmare on Elm Street

- Child’s Play

- Annabelle

- The Exorcist

- The Conjuring

- Hereditary

- Sixth Sense

- The Ring

- Corpse Bride

- Ghostbusters

- Pet Sematary

- Poltergeist

- Trick ‘r Treat

- Paranormal Activity

- A Ghost Story

- Skinamarink

- Talk to Me

- Five Nights at Freddy’s

Demons/entities:

- HellRaiser

- Evil Dead

- Beetlejuice

- Smile

- Jennifer’s Body

- Candy man

- Sinister

- Insidious

Witches:

- The Blair Witch Project

- The Craft

- Suspiria

- Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark

- Drag Me To Hell

- Fear Street

Extraterrestrials:

- Alien

- The Thing

- Predator

- Critters

- Killer Clowns From Outer Space

- Night of the Creeps

- A Quiet Place

- Nope

Technology:

- Terminator

- Ex Machina

- Maze Runner

- Countdown

- Megan

- Videodrome

- Halloween 3

- Pulse

Other:

- The Fly (fly)

- Eraser Head (idk that baby tho)

- Young Frankenstein (undead guy)

- An American Werewolf in London (werewolf duh)

- Reanimator (reanimated)

- Basket Case (not sure)

- Frakenhooker (not sure)

- Carrie (mind powers)

- Gremlins (you know)

- It (clown creature)

- Final Destination (death entity)

- Cloverfield (monsters)

- Jaws (shark)

- C.H.U.D (monsters)

- Attack of the Killer Tomatoes (tomato)

- Coraline (button… demon)

- Doctor Sleep (weird powers)

- The Cabin in the Woods (Everything.)

- Constantine (supernatural investigator)

- Dog Soldiers (werewolves)

- Ginger Snaps (not sure)

- Tremors (not sure)

- Malignant (not sure)

- Doctor Sleep (immortal soul suckers)

Just a dude:

- Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

- The Phantom of the Opera

- Scream

- Intruder (1989)

- Maniac Cop

- Saw

- Would You Rather

- Misery

- The Boy

- Halloween

- Friday the 13th

- Texas Chainsaw Massacre

- American Psycho

- Pearl

- Psycho

- Eyes Without a Face

- Silence of the Lambs

- Orphan

- Cure

- Sleepaway Camp

- Ready or Not

- Urban Legend

- Tragedy Girls

Body Horror:

- Mermaid In The Manhole

- Human Centipede

- Tusk

Mindfuck:

- Cat in the Brain

- Donnie Darko

- Mind warp

- Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

- The Shining

- It Follows

- We Are What We Are

- Phantasm

- Get Out

- Us

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slaygentford · 8 months

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Now you have me thinking. is a bride denoted by the feratu’s idolization of them? the pedestal that Carmella is on as capital W WIFE. Wife in cheif? Is a Wife different than a bride? Anyway Gonzo is a monster and Camilla the chicken a bride. There are many brides, as Gonzo can’t tell the chickens apart and just assumes what ever chicken closest is Camilla-which that’s some material, look at the material (felt)- under the feratu-bride circumstances.

i am so fucking beyond obsessed with you. ^us. how did you know btw that somehow I ended up watching a lot of muppets videos the other day and they are so fucking funny like their wired interviews are SO fucking funny Jesus fuck. I'm not joking when I say this is the archetype.

I think the Wife that is the chief wife is actually something that doesnt exist in the draculas feratu canon(s) so it really is up to us no. I think there is something to say here about wife vs bride in that many remain brides but only one is elevated to wife and sometimes the wife becomes tiresome bc of her tie to homemaking... brides stay shiny and new? but wives are the constant and can never actually be left. yeah I think that's a new subcategory you're very very right

#material (felt)#ve never loved anyone like I love you

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thegoatsongs · 1 year

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Renfield and Dracula being twisted reflections of John the Baptist and Christ is apparently more obvious than I had first noticed

Renfield: "The bride-maidens rejoice the eyes that wait the coming of the bride; but when the bride draweth nigh, then the maidens shine not to the eyes that are filled."

John the Baptist in John 3:29: "The bride belongs to the bridegroom. The friend who attends the bridegroom waits and listens for him, and is full of joy when he hears the bridegroom’s voice."

Speaking as a Baptist-like figure, Reinfield transforms John 3:29's metaphor of a marriage scene by substituting senses - sight for sound, watching for harking - and focus - feminine for masculine, deception for joy…

(from The Theology of Dracula by Noël Montague-Étienne Rarignac)

Also, they both become martyrs, but Renfield does by turning against his Master.

Now that made me think in what more ways could Dracula be seen as an evil Christ/anti-Christ. And then I remembered of the Christian imagery of the pelican to indicate Holy Communion:

In Catholic and Orthodox iconography, Jesus is often symbolized as a mother pelican who tears her chest open and blood pours down from it to feed her chicks.

Dracula does this with Mina, tearing his chest open, but since he's an evil version of Christ, he violently forces Mina to drink instead of offering. And Dracula calls her "kin of my kin".

So really it's less a blood baptism and more a vampiric communion.

#probably others have thought of that but. it Just came to me #dracula daily #mina harker #count dracula #dracula (novel)#r. m. renfield #mina murray

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dontfeeltoohot · 1 year

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Finally got around to more YTAU! This is set in current time (January 16th-19th). I hope you guys enjoy 2.5k of sick Chrissy, eager Eddie, and contagion. There will be a follow up to this soon as well!

Also shoutout to @softsnzstuff for all the help, input, and ideas as well!!!

X X X

Steve and Robin leave Monday morning for a business seminar as well as a new coffee tasting expo thing- Eddie’s not entirely sure what it all is, but they had sounded excited so he’s excited for them. The sunshine twins leave, which means the chaos twins are left to their own devices. Chrissy comes down that morning from her apartment with her pillow and a little bag of clothing, which makes the artist snort.

“You do realize you could just, oh, I don’t know, walk and grab your shit before we sleep, right?”

“It’s easier this way,” Chrissy says like it’s the most obvious thing.

She puts her stuff in the guest room even though they both know she’ll end up cuddled up with Eddie in his bed by the end of the night. It’s been like that every sleepover since they were in ninth grade, curled up in Eddie’s full sized bed with blankets everywhere, giggling about different guys and music and the future.

Eddie busies himself with cleaning up some flash sheets on his table, looking up when she walks back in, rubbing his nose with her wrist. She looks tired, he notices, a little drawn and pale. Chrissy gets sick a pretty normal amount, and he realizes it’s been a while- maybe she’s due for a cold. As if on queue, she pauses in the hallway, scrunching her nose up.

“ihNGKt! ahh’IKSHuhew!”

“Bless-“

“ihGKshhEeW! hah’TsSHhew!”

“-y-“

“hah’ihkshew!”

“-ou. Jesus Cunningham.”

“Sorry, those snuck up on me,” she sniffles and rubs at her nose again, already sounding congested.

Definitely catching a cold then. The thing is, she knows. She knows he’s into it, but it’s never felt weird or awkward. Sure, she’ll tease him and make fun of him for it, but there’s never been any underlying uncomfortable feelings for either of them. It is what it is, she thinks it’s quirky and funny, and he’s just happy she doesn’t actually find him gross.

Which is why, when they’re cuddling; platonically with a capital P, on the couch that night, his best friend looks over at him and shakes her head jokingly. She’s been coming down all day with the tell tale symptoms of a cold- sore throat, stuffy and sensitive nose, being tired and worn out. Chrissy’s head is resting on his shoulder, his arm around her while Princess Bride plays on the television.

A small box of tissues is resting next to her leg between the two best friends, and Eddie snags one for her when he feels her breath hitch, holding it out. He doesn’t mean to stare, not really, but he can appreciate that Chrissy is cute with a cold, and the idea he might catch stirs something in his stomach. If he manages to come down with it, that would mean he’s sick when Steve gets back. He’s brought back from his thoughts of his boyfriend taking care of him when the petite woman next to him sneezes.

“hihNkTsch’ew! ihKhTChew! snfsnf! oh…ahiTSHHuhew!”

Her nose twitches and quivers, mess running down just enough he can tell she needs another tissue, which Eddie pushes into her hand just in time.

“ahh’ihGTCHew! SNF!”

“Bless you CC,” Eddie says gently, running a hand through her rarely down hair, making him suspect her head is feeling worse.

“Thanks bug,” she mumbles, balling up the tissues and setting them in her lap.

If he’s clingier than usual, she doesn’t say anything, at least not for a while. He hangs off of her, constantly touching her leg or arm or shoulder, breathing the same air as her, not minding when she coughs into his shoulder. He has an intense need to worry over his best friend, to take care of her and make sure she’s ok. Chrissy sick is a sad sight when she’s pink cheeked and red nosed, looking at least 5 years younger.

“Do you want me to get Dracula?”

Dracula is the little duck stuffed animal Eddie had gotten for Chrissy back in tenth grade for Valentine’s Day. It had been silly at the time, he’d almost chickened out, but she had loved the little thing and slept with it ever since. Chrissy shrugs, so he takes it as a yes. Grabbing the keys off of the small table by his door, he runs up a flight of stairs and into the apartment, going and snagging the worn out duck from the woman’s bed.

By the time he’s back in his own apartment, the strawberry blonde is asleep on the couch, mouth hanging open slightly. Chuckling to himself, Eddie picks her up and deposits her on his bed with Dracula, then goes to take a shower before going to sleep himself. With how much time he spends with Chrissy, the artist knows he’s probably going to catch this cold, not that he minds.

X X X

Tuesday has Eddie and Chrissy both working all day. The curly haired man feels bad that his best friend is jumping around with the high school cheer team and working on choreographing things, while he’s sitting tattooing people. He gets home with soup and a smoothie for Chrissy nearing 7 o’clock, knowing the woman won’t want much. As he steps inside, he laughs at the sight of a mound of blankets on his couch, tissues everywhere, and Grease playing on the tv.

“Hey buttercup, brought soup!”

“Nghhh.”

“Sounds like you had a great day,” he jokes softly, walking over.

Crouching down, Eddie shifts the blankets so he can look at his best friend. Her face is puffy from congestion and her nose is more pink than that morning. He feels his heart ache, wanting to make her better. Gently, he presses the back of his hand to her forehead, noting just the slightest bit of warmth.

“How ya feeling?”

Another groan and then she finally sits up more, brushing hair out of her face.

“Ligke this cold is go’hnda kill mbe.”

“Always so dramatic, Cunningham.”

The pair end up sitting on the couch again, though this time Eddie’s pressed right against her. They’re both eating the soup, and Chrissy’s smoothie is on the table next to her. The long haired man’s thoughts travel to Steve and how he’d react to getting home with Eddie laying around, nose pink and stuffy, sneezing and coughing and being a little more needy than usual. He’s unaware of the blue eyes on him until he blinks and turns.

“Yes Princess?”

“Take a picture, it’ll last longer.”

The congestion in Chrissy’s head has loosened somewhat from the steam, helping her not sound so terribly incomprehensible. Eddie laughs and shakes his head, thankful he has a best friend like her.

“You want this don’t you? The cold?”

Eddie’s entire face goes instantly hot. He’s aware she knows, he’s aware she likes to tease him. But it still sometimes catches him off guard at just how blase she can be about it, when he’s grown up knowing to keep it secret.

“Uh. I mean. Kind of, yeah. Fuck this is embarrasing,” he grumbles the last part, refusing to meet her eyes.

“I don’t mind sharing my drink, if you uh-sndf! Catch my drift?” She laughs quietly, grabbing the to-go cup and holding it out.

It’s halfway gone and slightly melted, but he understands what she’s getting at. Sharing a straw. Hesitantly, not wanting her to think he’s weird, he looks at her, then to the drink, and after another moment of silence, he takes it and puts his mouth around the plastic, sipping at the strawberry banana smoothie.

“See? Tastes good,” she brushes off as if it’s nothing.

“Yeah…thanks Chris,” he gives her a shy look which makes her laugh.

“Never thought Eddie Munson would get shy.”

“Come on, I mean…this is kind of weird right? I promise I’m not like-“

“It’s only weird if you make it weird, just relax and enjoy cuddling me,” she jokes, wiping her nose with her sweatshirt cuff- upon investigation he realizes it’s his sweatshirt and not hers.

The rest of the night is spent watching Our Flag Means Death and sharing the rest of the smoothie as well as water and tea. Chrissy starts pressing her face into his shoulder when her nose gets runny again, sniffling over and over. Eddie pauses the show just as Chrissy’s nostrils dilate and she tips her head back slightly. Instead of pressing her face into her elbow however, she brings her hand to her face, palm hovering against her mouth.

“aihhKTsCHew! hihtshhew! huhhH! uhKshhEw! sndff! ahITsSHew! Uhh..SNDF! S-Sorry…”

Her palm is slightly damp, her nose is running, and her nose is still quivering in itchy, coldish anticipation. Eddie goes to grab a tissue and finds that the box is empty. The only other thing around is a napkin on the table so he hands the rough paper to her.

“Thahhngks-snnndf! Sorry Eddie, I juhst…ahhItSCHuhew! hihDTchew! Just reahlly ndeed…t-snf! To..aigKSHew! ihkSHEW! Oh…sndf! Sneeze. Was that hot enough?“

The last words make her giggle as she wipes at her nose, and they make Eddie’s jaw drop before narrowing his eyes playfully.

“You’re too cheeky for your own damn good.”

“But you love me. I’m your bestest fri’hnd and you love me,” she smirks, giving him a sassy look.

“Unfortunately.”

When she finishes with the napkin, Eddie watches her ball it up and set it between them. She rests a hand on the artist's arm, snuggling back up. Oh he’s so getting this cold.

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Wednesday Chrissy calls out, much to Eddie’s surprise. While there’s not much warmth coming from her skin, it’s still enough that it’s making the woman feel worn out. Eddie offers to stay with her, he’s got no actual appointments today, only random walk ins, but she assures him she’ll be alright- he ends up taking a half day. When he comes home at 3, Chrissy is back in his bed, head half on her pillow and half on his, Dracula nestled in her arms as she sleeps. By the time dinner comes around, she feels slightly more human and the low fever is gone.

Thursday, Eddie wakes up with a stuffy nose- not completely uncommon because of his allergies. Sitting up, he checks his phone and then carefully maneuvers out of bed, not wanting to wake the woman next to him yet. He feels weirdly tired for having gone to bed early, but the tattoo artist brushes it off and goes to his en-suite to pee and brush his teeth.

Standing at the sink, toothbrush in his mouth, a ticklish feeling winds its way through his sinuses. Trying to ignore it, Eddie scrunches his nose and continues, but a moment later the feeling crests. Barely managing to spit his toothpaste out beforehand, he presses his toothpaste covered mouth into his sweatshirt clad arm.

“ihhGkTSHuhew! hihNgKTshh’ew! iiGhtSHew! Fugck…”

Nose running onto his now dirty sleeve, he sniffles soupily and cups water in his hands to wipe his mouth and nose off. His toothbrush is laying haphazardly on the counter, and droplets of water are sprayed around it from his quick movement. Sighing, Eddie grabs a washcloth to wipe everything up, pausing as he turns to the closet, a thought occurs to him.

These sneezes aren’t his usual random morning sneezes, they felt far too stuffy and desperate. Swallowing and concentrating, he notices his throat’s sore along with a dull ache in his body. Holy shit.

“Chris! Hey! It happened! We did it!”

Popping his head out of the door, he looks at his best friend who’s now sitting up slowly, looking groggy.

“What?”

“Pretty sure I’m getting a cold,” he beams, which makes the cheerleading coach laugh.

“Only you would be happy for this.”

“Steve’s gonna think it’s so hot.”

“Whatever makes you happy, you little weirdo.”

“Steve’s told me what Robin’s into,” he gives her a look, feeling triumphant when she blushes.

Thursday evening, Steve gets back to Eddie’s apartment. The week has been full of seminars for leading a workplace, different investors and vendors, going to a few vendors' work areas. It’s been long and fun, but Steve’s ready to not share a room with Robin, and to snuggle up with Eddie. When he walks in, the barista expects his boyfriend to be cooking or maybe playing guitar, even drawing. Instead, he’s greeted to a dark apartment.

Frowning, the brunette flips on lights and listens carefully. When no music or sound rings out, he drops his bag and moves further in and down the hallway, finally reaching the bedroom. The door is open and inside the side table light is on, illuminating everything enough that the ex jocks eyes land on the bed.

Eddie’s laying there, messy hair sprawled out, mouth hanging open. Almost immediately, Steve notices the tissue box that’s normally on his side of the bed, laying close to his boyfriend. A few tissues are balled up next to it, and there’s a bag of sugar free cough drops on the table. Feeling something start to spread through him, the younger of the two moves closer, sitting down on the edge of the bed.

“Eddie? Baby I’m home.”

The musician stirs and his eyes open. Up close, Steve notices the pink around the edges of the other man’s nostrils, how they look a little chapped and irritated. His skin is paler than usual, too. The feeling in his body turns warm and it makes him want to squirm. Surely Eddie’s not sick, not when he’d been so sick a few months ago. His body is probably good for a decade.

“Stevie? sndf!”

The sniffle rings through his ears and he nods, grabbing Eddie’s hand.

“Yeah baby, I’m home. You okay? You sound a lit-“

“ihEigKSH’ew! eiKTCHuhEW! snfsndf! hihGKtsh’uhew! ‘Scuse mbe…uh sndf!…might have caught a cold…for you.”

Eddie aims his sneezes into his free arm, looking overly tired even though Steve’s just woken him up. He feels his heart melt and his jeans tighten. Shifting slightly, it clicks in his brain what his boyfriend’s just said.

“Wait…you caught a cold for me?”

“Yeah, Chrissy’s had one all week ahh’d I was taki’g care of her,” the long haired man explains as if it was obvious. “Ahnd mbaybe I wasn’t so careful about germbs.”

All Steve’s dumb brain can do is do the ‘prrrb’ sound, short circuiting. He leans forward and presses his lips to Eddie’s, pulling away slowly.

“You caught a cold, for me. You never get colds.”

“Exactly,” he grins, eyes sleepy and face soft.

Watching the older man’s nose run, Steve snags one of the already balled up tissues and wipes away the accumulation around the other's nose. Letting the tissue drop, the barista kicks off his shoes, takes his pants off and then slips into bed, wrapping an arm around Eddie tightly.

“Guess I’ll have to take care of you, hm?”

Steve nuzzles Eddie’s neck, tugging on a piece of hair playfully. His boyfriend sniffles and leans closer, rubbing his nose against Steve’s shoulder.

“Yep. But I’m a good patie’t for the mbost part.”

“Mm, I’ve seen a grumpy, cranky Eddie before.”

“I had the flu! This is a silly cold.”

“Alright, alright. I’ll take care of you, but only because I feel bad for you. Not because you’re sexy as hell.”

“Sexy? I’hd mby good christia’d household? Absolutely ndot. …m’glad you’re home Stevie.”

“I am too. Now go back to sleep E, we’ll get you feeling better.”

#my fic #ytau #em #st #sh #rb

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cadaverousdecay · 1 year

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leaf im trying of expand my horror film history knowledge and also just out of curiosity please i need to know your favorite vampire films. the campiest ones, the essentials. the so bad it's good ones. give me the juice

YIPPEEEEE okay so. i have made it my life goal to watch every movie on the vampire films wikipedia, im not yet there, but i will give you all the favorites of the ones ive watched so far

first off, LOST BOYS!!!!! (1987) my favorite movie of all time, i could watch it every day for forever, the style, the vibes, the soundtrack, everything is so perfect. amazing execution of a horror comedy, about familial love and the feelings of alienation in youth (so many queer undertones), this is a movie for fags

for essential films, i gotta say nosferatu (1922), dracula (1931), [also check out the spanish version of dracula (1931) if you can get a hold of it, it comes with the dracula dvd if you have it at your local library], horror of dracula (1958), blood and roses (1960), the vampire lovers (1970), and the blood splattered bride (1972). three early dracula adaptations, and three carmilla ones. these, esp the dracula ones, lay the groundwork for vampire movies.

for some comedy and camp, check out what we do in the shadows (2014), vamps (2012), love at first bite (1979), dracula:dead and loving it (1995) <-thats where the blood gif i reblogged is from, dracula ad 1972 (1972), buffy the vampire slayer (1992) <-i prefer the show but the movie has its charm, so bad its good, was a fun watch, and jesus christ vampire hunter (2001)

idk what to title these last ones but i love them, the hunger (1983) <- also if u can find a copy of the book it was an amazing read!!, interview with the vampire (1994) <- also check out the new show if u feel like it, its even better than the movie to me, blade (1998), let the right one in (2008), only lovers left alive (2013), and a girl walks home alone at night (2014)

i'll keep u updated as i watch more <3

also if u havent read the vampyre by dr polidori, carmilla by sheridan le fanu, or dracula by bram stoker id def recommend them, those are the big three in vampire lit history. also the vampire a new history by nick groom is a wonderful book about the history of the vampire myth

#okay that was a lot lol #i loooooooove vampires #anyway. yeah #let me know if any titles jump out at u and i can tell u more abt them if u want #i love u so so much thank u for asking about vampire movies <333

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You mentioned in one of your Ron and Chris posts that they dressed up Jake as a chickie when he was young. So I had this idea that after the mission that Jake and Bradley dress up as a chickie and rooster respectively for Halloween. Maybe they show up to a costume party or even to Ron and Chris’s house to trick or treat in these costumes.

Oh my god. Love this so much.

When Bradley first saw the picture of Jake as a baby dressed as a chicken he fell even more in love if that was possible.

That first Halloween Bradley was planning things. About two weeks before their dads throw the Halloween party Bradley brings it up.

They’re in bed, Jake is laying on Bradley’s chest. No time like now. “So I had an idea for our costumes.”

Jake puts his chin on Bradley chest so he can look at him. “Go ahead.” Bradley smiles, “you go as a chicken I go as a rooster.”

There’s a beat where Jake just stares at him.

“You want to essentially announce to our parents that you fuck me.”

Bradley slaps Jake’s ass. “You’re such a dick Jesus Christ.” Jake let’s out a laugh he reaches up and holds Bradley’s head from where he’s thrown it back. Bradley is burning red. “No no I’m sorry it’s a really cute idea. Let’s do it.”

Bradley looks at Jake, “if you don’t want to we really don’t have to.” Jake smiles, he kisses Bradley, “baby of course I want to. I just wanted to fuck with you for a second.”

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Two weeks later Jake is in a fluffy light yellow sweater, he’s got white pants and feathers artfully placed in his hair. He’s finishing the yellow eyeliner he got when Bradley comes up behind him.

Arms go around his waist and he pulls the pencil away from his eye. “Stay still or I’ll lose an eye Bradshaw.” Bradley kisses Jake’s neck. “You look adorable your dads are going to lose it.”

Jake finishes his eyeliner, “Pa is going to die that photo is like one of his favorites ever.”

Jake spins in Bradley’s arms taking in the red and blue sweater with feathers less artfully in his hair. Jake laughs. He adjusts the one that looks like it’s about to fly out. “Ready?”

Bradley kisses him, “with you by my side? Always.”

Jake lightly smacks his chest. “Sap.”

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When Ron sees Jake walk in, he sees the yellow first. “Jake Seresin you didn’t.”

Chris leans out from behind him “oh my god baby he did.”

Jake spins in place so both of his dads can see the full outfit, tiny fake tail and everything. “Oh Chickie you’re adorable.” Ron looks like he might cry. “Pa oh god don’t cry this was supposed to make you happy!”

Jake goes into his dads arms, he gets crushed by Ron, “I’m not crying I just love you.” Chris laughs, “he’s crying.” “Okay fuck you.” Chris smacks Ron and catches sight of Bradley.

“Oh. My. God.”

Bradley blushes. “Surprise?” Chris let’s put a laugh. “Tommy! Mav! Come here!”

Tom makes it first, “oh Jesus.” He’s smiling, Mav slides into the room “Bradley wha-? Oh my god you two.”

Jake slips out of Ron’s arms and goes back to Bradley, he wraps an arm around Bradley’s waist, “tada!”

Tom and Ron look at each other, they both start talking in rapid polish. Jake goes bright red, “Jesus Christ fuck you both I hate it here. Come on baby I want a drink if I’m supposed to deal with them.”

Chris smacks both of them “cut it out leave them alone the four of us aren’t any better.” He slides into Ron’s arms as he says it.

Ron looks down at Chris where they’re wearing a Dracula and his bride matching costume.

Tom shrugs and spins Mav in his rabbit costume, it matches how Tom’s dressed at a magician.

Jake smiles at them, “yeah fuck you four y’all are sappy as hell.” Bradley laughs and tucks his face into Jake’s neck. “They’re worse then we are.”

Jake pats his head “guess we’ll have to really go for it next year then huh baby.”

#ron slider kerner #chris seresin #ron slider kerner x chris seresin #tom iceman kazansky #pete mitchell x tom kazansky #pete maverick mitchell #jake hangman seresin x bradley rooster bradshaw #jake hangman seresin #bradley rooster bradshaw #slider is jake's dad au #thanks for the ask !!#top gun #top gun maverick #mac writes top gun

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draculestigame · 1 year

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Greetings, mortals!

It was tremendously exciting for Penta and I to see all your enthusiasm for the Draculesti announcement post. We’ve been working on this game together for several years now, but this is its first real glimpse of daylight. After that long kept under wraps it’s hard to know how a project’ll be received – seeing people eager to play is a big morale boost and a reassurance we’re on the right track. We especially love all the Renfield-themed usernames we’ve seen around! For the next while, we’ll be sharing some general information on what Draculesti is, building to a demo release in the first few months of 2023.

If you’ve got any questions in the interim, please send us an ask! The juiciest details (such as who’s on the dating menu) will be saved for big updates but we’re happy to answer broad queries about our influences, intent, or artistic process.

Speaking of influences... for our inaugural information post, we thought it would make sense to start with that most significant of subjects for this site’s discerning Dracula devotees: adaptational decisions. Let’s take a moment to talk through some of the choices we’ve made for this game, and why. Oh, do let’s.

Dracula the novel has three major arcs: Jonathan’s stay at the castle, Dracula’s descent on London, and the hunt across Europe. When it comes to adaptations the first major choice a creator has to make is which arcs to include and why. They might do a mix (Dracula (1931)), all three (Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1992)), just one (Fury of Dracula (1987)), or throw out the lot while keeping a few key characters (most of the Universal/Hammer Dracula sequels). Once you’ve chosen which arcs to retain, the other key question is who’ll be filling what roles. Both are partly determined by medium. A film doesn’t have the runtime to develop every suitor, so characters get combined, or the excision of the stay at the castle means there’s no reason to have a Jonathan. In the end, taste and practicality combine to determine what goes in the adaptational soup, resulting in Draculas of varying qualities for varying palates.

Our taste was for a Renfield-centric adaptation, and practicality for us meant figuring out what would work best in a horror-romance visual novel. Renfield is originally a ‘London’ character, but many adaptations give him his own ‘stay at the castle’ arc, either onscreen or in backstory, to explore his character, explain his sudden institutionalisation, or add some foreboding to Jonathan’s departure. As a horror-romance visual novel, we make a lot of design choices (both narratively and aesthetically) for intimacy: in terms of location choice, the castle keeps all the characters contained, without being as restrictive as something set during Renfield’s stay at Seward’s asylum. That made a ‘stay at the castle’ narrative feel like the best fit for us. While there’s plenty left to say about why we like Castle Dracula for a setting, hopefully that answers the big picture questions about how we got here!

To close out for tonight, we also wanted to address a few other points that we suspect are important for setting expectations around what Draculesti is doing:

Draculesti is centred on the ‘villains’ of the original story: Dracula, his Brides, his human servants, and Renfield. While there are mentions of/cameos from the rest of the cast, and Jonathan in particular retains a key role, characters such as Lucy and the suitors aren't central to our story.

Draculesti is a ‘horror-romance’ because our Dracula is horrific. This isn’t a redemptive story. That’s not to say he can’t be alluring. Our Renfield’s dynamic with ‘the Master’ is as fraught as ever. But there aren’t any star-crossed reincarnation romances here, nor last-minute come-to-Jesus moments.

Draculesti is a BL (boy’s love) game, so most of the important characters with dedicated routes/character arcs are men. Though perhaps not… exclusively.

We’ll have lots more to say on these points later, but until then, thank you again for your support! Have an excellent night.

-Mads

#dracula #renfield #draculesti #visual novel

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