#vampire princess baylor slow

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of COURSE vampires get warmer after feeding. don't you dare try to science me out of this truth!!! i will not write it out of my story

I AM AGREEING WITH YOU IT'S A GOOD TROPE. This is why we've been friends since the dawn of time.

#fandom nursing home roommates association #vampire au tag #vampire princess baylor slow

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You’re Losing Me is, like All Too Well, difficult to enjoy on a level that doesn’t include the metatextual but also. On a non-metatextual level I want to listen to it 600 times because it scratches the itch of “breakup songs that make me think about the mirror of them and help me write fic.”

I want to crack the bridge of You’re Losing Me open like a walnut and then make a little house inside the scooped out shell of it like. Fuck OFF what a good mean beautiful achy disaster of a pop song.

#like metatextually is there a reason it is only for sale for 24hr #or are we just being precious about the breakup jam #metatextually how do you write the breakup song to your writing partner while you write with them #in text it is such a perfect foil to antihero #in text I love it so much that I want to write another vampire au about it #I wouldn’t marry me either #I’m the best thing at this party #as mirrors to champagne problems and bejeweled #it’s about the same emotion framed two ways #the way we are all kaleidoscopes #every story has two sides and each side has so many facets #the grouchy aunt j version of that cannibal show #but instead of ritual murders it’s just sadness repackaged #give itttttttt #midnight darling baylor slow #vampire princess baylor slow #do i have a music tag?

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PIERCED THROUGH THE HEART BUT NEVER KILLED. guys you need to use WOOD. but also, don't.

YES YES YOU GET IT.

Also today I was driving to work listening to Taylor Swift, like one does, and was thinking about how much the dread vampire Lestat would be a Swiftie and I need these universes to overlap so. Much.

#lestat has definitely done several murders #while listening to 'look what you made me do' #unironically #he thinks that song is literal but unlike the people who heard it literally and felt it was problematic #he heard it literally and felt seen #vampire princess baylor slow #midnight darling baylor slow #interview with the vampire 2022: they're fucking edition #fandom nursing home roommates association

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fic: stare directly at the sun, but never in the mirror (taylor swift (anti-hero)/taylor swift (bejeweled/lwymmd), E)

The other woman extends her hand, perfectly-manicured nails gleaming in the soft light. They're painted a colour that's not quite scarlet, not quite black; closer to maroon. It matches her lipstick, because why would it not. Taylor feels awkward, like her arms are brand new and she's still figuring them out as she accepts the handshake with what she hopes is a dignified, not-too-fawning smile. "Taylor," she hears herself say.

The other woman's face lights up, she laughs. "What are the odds of that?" she says. Her fingers are cool against Taylor's warm ones as she clasps her free hand around the place where they're touching, cupping Taylor's palm two-handed. "I'm Taylor as well." Then, almost conspiratorial: "You know, people are saying we look really similar."

Taylor shrugs. "I don't know if I see it."

(for @isaidquirky who appreciates the same highly specific assortment of tropes + will notice all of the lyric references)

#my fic #i don't know what to say but read this or else #i'm going to be insufferable for a good while #if this sounds like your thing you should read it #if this doesn't sound like your thing you should read it anyway #because maybe it is? #also this should go without saying but WE DON'T TWEET THIS TO THE REAL PERSON #WE DON'T TUMBLR DM THIS TO THE REAL PERSON #WE DON'T TAG THE REAL PERSON IN THIS FIC #we just have a nice time and keep it to ourselves #this is about music video characters shhh #and also somehow #the power of friendship #writing tag #vampire au tag #midnight darling baylor slow #vampire princess baylor slow

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https://twitter.com/theacheinyou/status/1655780287815774208 this piece of art reminds me of your baylor slow vampire au

(if you don’t want to click a link, it’s a piece of art of Baylor with what is potentially blood dripping from her lips with a hint of a snarl where you can see her teeth, while over a nakedish body and captioned with the lyrics “nights are so starry bloodmoon lit” )

askjdfl;sa oh wow anon, that art is extremely my vampire baylor AU thank you for sharing???

(And also thank you for describing the link so I knew what I was clicking through to!)

What I enjoy most about this is that a) this internet stranger is not on Tumblr, b) this internet stranger clearly has not heard of my fic and yet c) this internet stranger is DEEP into the Vampire Taylor sauce. It's like carcinization but with vampire AUs, we all get there eventually.

#still idly thinking about that morning-after fic #if i ever decide i'm sick of writing willow #maybe someday #or more accurately maybe when we get reputation (taylor's version) #at which point i'm not responsible for who i become #vampire princess baylor slow #best fanart #night of the living anons

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look, you just can't prove that Claudia didn't use one of the deluxe versions of Lover to write her journal entries. maybe she got inspired. maybe she got hungry ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Much like my pet theory that Charlie, bereft after losing Zari 1.0, went to 2003 and helped Fall Out Boy write From Under The Cork Tree, it is airtight and infallible.

(And there is like. The very fun and silly iteration of this which is that Claudia heard Better Than Revenge and was like "this girl gets me" and then there is the version where Claudia listens to the All Too Well (10 minute version) bereft and alone in her room and BOTH ARE TRUE.)

#only a cruel god #would let claudia exist in a world where she couldn't listen to taylor swift albums #and maybe hook up with vampire taylor a little bit #shh #vampire princess baylor slow #fandom nursing home roommates association #interview with the vampire 2022: they're fucking edition

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I mean, if this isn't the "realizing something about me fundamentally changed" look (possibly after oops eating a human), I don't know what is.

The wound at her throat is an ever-present distraction on the cab ride home.

She listens to her friend talk about - something. Bullshit. How she met a guy who was really hot and stupid, how she might date him anyway because his uncle's best friend is a successful artist and maybe that means he'll be good for her. She watches the city lights unfold around them, a smooth procession as the cab glides through the nearly-nonexistent 2am traffic. They seem brighter than they used to. Feel brighter, if that’s even possible. Her head throbs just a bit at the sight of them, and it sets off an answering discomfort in her neck. Not scary-painful, just - achy. Like the deepest sort of bruise, painful all the way down to her insides.

There’s a pause in the conversation, and Taylor realizes it’s her turn to talk. Blinks, manages, “Okay but when you say he was hot, like. Hot hot or. . .?”

That sets her friend going again, another cascade of words that Taylor half-listens to until the car brings her back home.

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She doesn’t keep iron in her medicine cabinet, (because why would she?) but there’s a nearly-expired bottle of multivitamins with iron in the ingredient list. She shrugs, takes two, just in case.

Her neck aches, and she peels back the black silk with trepidation, stares into the mirror. She left the most delicate wound: two incisors and the front arc of her upper teeth most visible, the gentlest violet line of lower teeth a matching suggestion. There’s a deep purple bruise spreading, a surrounding bloom that nicely compliments, almost seems to highlight the burgundy-red of the forming scar. She runs her fingertip over it. Thinks about how it should be more swollen, more - something. Magic, honey, she remembers.

She should go to bed. “You should go to bed,” she tells herself in the mirror, as sternly as she can manage.

Taylor makes it as far as her bedroom. She eases out of her dress, notices the tug of sore hips, sore thighs as she shimmies out of black satin and into her pyjamas.

(She also does have a small-to-medium personal crisis about her pyjamas altogether, wonders if the other her sleeps in soft leggings with kitty cats printed on them or if she has - something else. Something cooler, and Taylor can’t imagine anything within the intersection of the Venn diagram that encompasses goth and cool and pyjamas that’s also remotely comfortable to sleep in.

But maybe vampires don’t need to be comfortable? Do they need to sleep? If life is an endless ballroom sex party, what do vampires do at the end of the night when they need to retreat back to the quiet?

She thinks for a moment about the other Taylor, glittering like a diamond, curling up in an armchair to read romance novels, and - small-to-medium crisis. She works through it.)

She sits on the end of the bed and tries to think about sleeping but - she’s too excited. She feels too much at once. She’s exhausted like she’s just run a marathon, but - vibrating at the same time. It feels like her bloodstream is filled with champagne-bubbles; she couldn’t possibly sit still let alone sleep.

She gives it a good thirty seconds of staring at the ceiling, not even attempting to get in under the covers before she gets up again. She goes to her desk, and she writes.

(Coda to stare directly at the sun, but never in the mirror icymi)

#is midnights inspiring a vampire au #or did baylor hook up with her vampire double and then write midnights #WHO CAN SAY #tagfic #my fic #midnight darling baylor slow #vampire princess baylor slow #fandom nursing home roommates association

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Have you seen the Karma vid. She's no longer a vampire, she's a full on devil

Anon you are the second person in my life to be 100% sure that I saw the three seconds of footage in that video and I'm so grateful to be cared about.

She can be a vampire hosting an ancient greece themed bacchanal there is no rule saying she isn't.

#vampire princess baylor slow #night of the living anons

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Also in case you like me are like jesus christ I’m tired just tell me how to download the new secret mean Baylor feelings song:

go to this link. You want Late Night, not Til Dawn. I know.

buy the album online I’ve tried and this works using Paypal from Canada but you have to go to her US/taylorswift.com store, the regional stores don’t have it

this is only online until 8pm est on the 27th why

open a folder of mp3s

live your life thinking about how sad and mean and perfect that song is.

(Also protip: Til Dawn has Hits Different and is purchaseable as individual mp3s if you don’t want to repurchase this fucking album)

#why are you like this baylor #w h y #midnight darling baylor slow #vampire princess baylor slow #do i have a music tag?

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i'm your destiel meme?????? (yes, it does have Hits Different)

adsfklj YOU ARE MY DESTIEL MEME.

(Mary, only one of them has Hits Different I'm lying on the floor begging Vampire Baylor to stop taking night classes at the Lestat School Of Terrible Capitalism; the secret version sold at the NJ show has a NEW secret single but not Hits Different and the wider distribution version has Hits Different)

(Also is this a physical CD? A digital product? A streaming product? WHO CAN SAY.)

#midnight darling baylor slow #vampire princess baylor slow #laughing at all the people who just started following me for my willow fic #and are now going to have to experience us yelling abut taylor in coded meme #fandom nursing home roommates association

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okay, i'm finally sucking it up. finally having the courage to watch the last two eps of IWTV, and just 10 minutes into episode 6, between Claudia scratching the car and Lestat writing a fucking song for Louis and then having his lover record it???? HARMFUL LEVELS OF TAYLOR SWIFT DETECTED

MY FRIEND IT GETS SO TAYLOR SWIFT. LESTAT SCREAMED CRIED PERFECT STORMED SO THAT TAYLOR COULD BLANK SPACE.

#it's about the x on the cheek #it's about the your ex lover is dead #it's about the unreliable narrator of it all #it's about the ways that claudia is there and yet not there #and yet with her absence she is louis (metaphorical) undoing #i need a second season i need to examine this mess like a pinned and mounted butterfly it is PERFECT #interview with the vampire 2022: they're fucking edition #fandom nursing home roommates association #vampire princess baylor slow

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woke up today thinking: is there even a bigger mark of "person ruined by taylor swift's existence" than missing an important plot point due to over analyzing what a detail might mean?

She's laughing up at us from hell, etc.

#like it's meant to be ambiguous #maybe she does maybe she doesn't #maybe taylor writes an entire album of songs about being in love with a vampire #maybe she calls the album twilights and releases it unironically #there were five holes in the fence of this fanfiction mary #who can say #vampire princess baylor slow #fandom nursing home roommates association

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FOR YOU ARE THE WIND BENEATH MY WIIINGS

as;ldkfals;df I am just replying to this for posterity bc finding this my inbox to know that you found your ao3 email was next level delightful

#guys i wrote vampire doppelcest featuring the alternate universe iterations of taylor swift from several of her music videos #and ONE PERSON LIKES IT #and i'm frightfully pleased #and it makes me so happy #go read my weird little story i think it will make you happy #vampire princess baylor slow #midnight darling baylor slow #fandom nursing home roommates association

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i really wanna know what your ask taylor tag like....means

So like, I could explain it? But also I googled it and it turns out MTV has created an exhaustive timeline of the relationship between Demi Lovato and Selena Gomez dating back to like 1995, with links to videos, and I don’t know if I can do better.

Go wild, anon.

#ask taylor #baylor slow: vampire popstar princess #fandom nursing home for elderly twentysomethings (and thirtysomethings too!) #fandom nursing home roommates association

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I read the words "ask taylor" and my soul immediately departed my body and transcended the space-time continuum to transport itself back to 2010 so thanks for prompting that journey to some A+ drama days

Anon, sometimes we all just need to take that journey back together.

#ask taylor #baylor slow: vampire popstar princess

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isaidquirky replied to your post: Internet, I have been watching S2 of Arrow b/c I...

which of the baylors do you think sara would seduce first

i mean OBVIOUSLY it’s a tie between bathtub full of fake diamonds baylor and snake murder princess baylor, but i will tell you a secret: zombie baylor is sara’s gf when she’s in between resurrections.

#isaidquirky #fandom nursing home roommates association #baylor slow: vampire popstar princess