Look, I love Nic Cage as Dracula ('Cagula', if you will) as much as the next Goth BUT Richard Roxburgh is still the king of campy Dracula performances.
Come on, they cast an Aussie in a villain role for a major Hollywood blockbuster (*shoos the box office away*) - did they really expect any scenery to be left un-chewed?
Reverse Dracula AU in which Vlad's best friend's fiancée must travel to London only to be imprisoned and seduced by Lady Lucy and her three weed-smoking groomsmen
“Everything you said about the modern world is true. It is a dangerous place. Only not for us. For them, it’s a dangerous, sad, broken place full of fear and desperation. It’s weak. Looking for a powerful force to guide it, control it, dominate it. Like you. I mean, this entire society was designed for Renfields, by Renfields. So why should I have to adapt to it? It should have to adapt to me.”
“Oh sure, you’re ‘Sorry’. That’s a new word you learned only recently. I’d like to know where you learned to say it.”
Dark Shadows was really clever to juxtapose metaphorical and literal vampire arcs, and it set Willie up for one of the most devastating redemption arcs I’ve ever seen.
it took them until 1975 to get their shit together enough to coordinate a group costume. they let quentin be rocky because of his charmingly coltish naïveté (and because he already had the costume). willie had to pull the ‘remember that time you enslaved me and sucked all my blood out’ card to get barnabas on board in the first place. that and julia said she thought he’d look sexy in heels
“He accused me of caring for you.”
“Caring for me?”
happy birthday, melissa!!! thank you once again for introducing me to this wonderful show and for existing generally. you’re the greatest–in the galaxyyyyy. ♥ ♥ ♥ forever