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soulsanitarium · 1 year

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DANCE IN HORROR

In different cultures dance and music was (and still is) appropriate way to negotiate with gods. Music and dances have been a part of religious festivals, births, deaths, marriage ceremonies, and other festivities. Midsommar (2019).

Ritual dances can be performed individually or collectively, in traditional dresses, along with their own songs. Wicker Man (1973.)

Trance, on the other hand, was often the prerogative of holy men. The Believers (1987).

God’s death and rebirth are also associated with fertility rituals such as maypole dance. Ritual is used to eliminate things that threaten the world order, such as sickness, the order is restored. Angel Heart (1987).

In Europe the development of art dance began to form first in ballet. The ballet was initially a very well-defined series of movements. It took a long time before the art dance could be expressing an idea or emotion, releasing energy, or simply taking delight in the movement itself. Red Shoes (1948).

In the early days of Western art dance, ballet was disciplined and regulated and left very little room for self-expression. It was not until the turn of the 20th century that modern art dance took its first steps. Isadora Duncan danced barefoot, she was interested in Greek antiquity - for example The Furies. Suspiria (1977).

Before The World War II, modern dance was influenced by Mary Wigman and Rudolf Laban in particular. "Ausdruckstanz" meant that the primary function of dance was to give shape to emotions and inner experiences. The expression of personal feelings in dance was banned along with psychoanalysis and many dancers and psychoanalysts fled from Germany to America. Wigman and Pina Bausch have been mentioned as a model for the Madame Blanc in Suspiria (2018).

Mirroring & Reflecting are important in dance & Psychotherapy. In French, “être Médusé” means literally to be paralysed by stupefaction. Les médusées-group was a model for the Suspiria (2018).

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It may be that the superego problem is also reflected in the body. Our bodies are like bound by curses. The madness, the melting superego, was seen in the Climax (2018).

Modern dance diversified in the 1980s. Non-European influences began to show more clearly. Dancing is increasingly being done in public places, not just in a dance theater. The content of the dance is important, not just distinctiveness. However, classics - like the Swan Lake ballet - have remained popular with the general public. (Haukinen et al. 1992.) Black Swan (2010).

The Witches (1966): Beneath everything controlled lies the primitive power of libido and aggression that threatens the order. Dancing is also a way to get to know different cultures. Flamenco, Latin dances, etc. For many, dance is an exercise and a way to take care of their health.

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ladamarossa · 2 years

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Men (2022)

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bad-surprise · 7 months

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sweet as honey, ever on his tongue

haladriel x midsommar | E | graphic violence, major character death | 1/?

“We have a festival for the summer solstice,” Hal explains. “It’s the climax of our year. And death plays a significant role in it— not in a macabre, somber way, but more of— our community utilize… unique methods to process grief. We believe it’s wrong to force an individual to shoulder that weight alone.”

For the first time in months, Galadriel gains the acute awareness— and accompanying rush of soft affection— that she’s been seen. Invisible as her staggering loss has made her feel— and despite all the endless nights in which she wished she might disappear completely— there’s comfort in this.

It almost tastes like hope.

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“We’re not going to Numenor to get laid,” Elrond explains, ignoring Thranduil’s death glare, “we’re going because— well, I’m going for my thesis. You two just invited yourselves along.”

or: the Midsommar AU.

#my midsommar inspired take on akallabeth #this was supposed to be a one shot but it’s stupidly long so looks like we’re doing daily updates for the next week #otp: bind yourself to me #haladriel x midsommar #my fics: sweet as honey #haladriel #haladriel fic #haladriel fics #saurondriel #saurondriel fic #saurondriel fics #haladriel modern au #saurondriel modern au #haladriel cult fic #folk horror fic #galadriel x sauron #sauron x galadriel #halbrand x galadriel #galadriel x halbrand

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schlock-luster-video · 2 months

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On April 6, 1966, the Reptile debuted in the United States.

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rateatcheese999 · 2 years

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just like every other twitter user i'm here now 🧌

uhh youtube enjoyer (cringe) and professional the front bottoms consumer. and i like big brother (it has consumed my life i close my eyes and see big brother help hel phelp)

I HAVE MORE TO ME BUT THATS IT NOW I GUESS BYE BYE

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cmykaleidoscope · 1 year

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Hey I need more people to follow. Like/Reblog if you post:

1930s-1990s aesthetic and everything in between

Bowling alleys

Unreality, liminal spaces

OSDDID system memes, NPD memes, menhera content

Rockabilly, Psychobilly, Murder Folk, Folk, Modern/alt blues, Roots rock, Black musicians and Artists

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Customer Service memes

Poetry/lyric writing

Dead by Daylight

Chainsaw Man, Akudama Drive, Classic and new Horror movies, cult classics, old cinema, queer cinema, black cinema

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digitalafterlife · 1 year

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just watched kier-la janisse's 3 hour documentary epic about folk horror as a mode of interpretation and understanding of vastly different styles and eras of genre cinema and despite everything the fact remains that most "horror" "fans" and creators are cowards who firmly stick to their guns regarding their ingrained assumptions and prejudices about cultures/beings/identities that are seen as the other, continuing to proliferate these damaging harmful narratives without questioning which parties may benefit from a version of the story being told from this particular point of view. what ends does the instilling of fear, the most powerful, potent, galvanising in some cases emotion, serve for an audience? (obviously this is the case with any other genre and in actuality just a far wider problem sort of inevitable in a regime that instructs which ideas are to be spread to the masses) but again, it's vital to consider this issue specifically within the realm of horror, since nothing inspires scapegoating, hatred and self-righteous violence quite like blind fear of a phenomenon that the required effort has not been put into comprehending

#anyway the documentary itself SLAPPED i am still reeling from how all-encompassing and wonderfully cohesive it was. standing ovation #can you tell i'm mad about hereditary again. stop touting it as the pinnacle of modern horror or whatever. nobody around me gets it #ari assturd SUCKS he is literally example A of what i'm vagueing here #folk horror #kier la-janisse #woodlands dark and days bewitched #film #jamie.txt #horror

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grenewoden · 11 months

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hi i'm still not over the fact that tgp just proved you could so easily make a r.obin h.ood adaptation that was good actually instead of all the shit we've gotten over the years.

#tbd.#ooc.#god they really made a show about the love a working class community in 18th century west yorkshire have for each other #and the desperate ends the landlords and those in power have driven them to #and the folk horror bullshit in the background with a folk-heavy soundtrack with some modern musicians and traditional folk #and nobody is h.ollywood gorgeous they are all the kinds of people i have grown up around and who i might see down the pub and they talk so #naturally and in such a familiar way.#AND I ONLY GOT THREE?????? EPISODES?????????? THREE????? IS THIS A JOKE

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lichen-punk · 1 year

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cant help but kinda feel like the majority of folk horror serves to further christian (and christian atheist) cultural hegemony by consistently coopting and vilifying nonchristian traditional beliefs but then again i dont watch horror movies so ig im unqualified to make that point

#very annoyed at how much genuine extent religious practice and folk tradition seem to get used in modern horror movies #as a standin for oOoOoOo spooky evil cult #and ppl on this website lap it up like that isnt what xtians have been doing for hundreds and hundreds of years #but rebranded so that the still-deeply-christian atheists can also consume it ofc kjdsfhgsfjk

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adlibitur · 2 months

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time to watch all the eurovision songs

#this is how i find good music before many #armenia's song is a blast this year #i love the costuming #austrailias video is weird af from what i saw not a fan #austria just said WE WILL RAVE ft electronic music which is amusing with the austrian folks i know in lvoe w classical #azerbajan has a nice sound #belgium gives me panic/fob vibes meets rocky horror aesthetic in video #croatia is just a song id listen to anyway weirdly catchy #cyprus is fun #czechia is great modern girl pop #denmark seems like song has great performance #estonia what is that instrument yall #finland with the blurred out windows 95 logo #france with the ballad but man his voice is nice #georgia is catchy summer music #germany is a song id probably just like too #greece i was not expecting that but oooo is it catchy #iceland sounds like a fun party song or a movie ending on a happy note sonf #ireland is fucking wild i was NOT expecting that and the video is cool as hell #israels music video seems like a dance moms performance #italy got the fun weird hair going on and catchy #love the embrace of weird girl looks for this year #latvia with the bald dudes #lithuanias singer has a coat that i thought only existed in comic books #luxemborg was not what i was expecting #malta is very fun thays very much a vibe i get from people who live there that i know #moldova was super interesting and reallly cool #netherlands with the catchy europapa #norway impressive #poland was fun pop

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celestial-kestrel · 5 months

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It's that time of year again where Mari Lwyd starts to be talked about and shared around and an INCREDIBLY misleading post gets shared a lot. As someone who grew up with Mari Lwyd I wanted to clear some things up.

Also hello, if you are unaware who Mari Lwyd is. This is about the Welsh tradition of the horse skull who visits houses during the Christmas to New Years period in Wales asking for alcohol.

First off and probably the most important one:

Mari Lwyd is not a cryptid!

I can not emphasise this enough. She. Is. Not. A. Cryptid. There is no story or mystery about a ghost or zombie horse roaming the Welsh valleys. She's not even supposed to be a ghost or a zombie. It's just a horse skull on a stick with a guy under a sheet. She's a hobbyhorse and a folk character used to tell Welsh stories and keep songs alive. When people spread the misinformation that she's a cryptid, it's the equivalent of saying Kermit the Frog is a cryptid.

She is actually only one character in a wider cast of characters who go door to door or, in more modern times, pub to pub. The cast of characters can change town to town and village to village but there are some common ones I see time and time again. The Leader, the Merryman, The Jester and The Lady are just some I see regularly. Punch and Judy used to be more popular a few years ago but I haven't seen them in a while as their tradition has mostly fallen out of popularity. In most cases, almost the whole cast will be played by men. Even the characters are considered and referred to as female. Though this again depends and varies by which group is partaking in the Mari Lwyd tradition.

This point also goes onto my second point,

Mari Lwyd does not rap.

I think this comes from a very common misunderstanding of what rap is vs spoken word. Rap is a very specific style of music originating from the African American communities of the USA and has it's own structure and motifs unique to it. It's a lot more complex than people give it credit for as a style of music and just flippantly assign anything similar to it as being rap. If someone is talking fast or reciting poetry, it is not rap. Or anything that is an exchange of words between two people is not a rap battle. Mari Lwyd does not do rap, actually something that gets left out of these posts is the fact Mari Lwyd does not even speak. It's actually the Leader, who does all the speaking and song based banter between the house/pub owner for entry. Mari Lwyd just clicks her mouth, bites people and bobs her head around.

I think Mari Lwyd is a really beautiful and unique part of Welsh culture. She's not actually as wildly celebrated as a lot of the posts make her out to be. Actually, I think most Welsh people themselves learn about Mari Lwyd through the internet as well. Her popularity is increasing thanks to the drive of local groups wanting to keep the traditions alive and a renewed desire to document Welsh traditions before they're gone. Which is why it's such a shame that she's turned into something she's not to earn horror points on the internet. I think this is why it bothers me so much to see the misunderstandings of the culture and the folk tradition. Mari Lwyd's origin is very hot debated as well as how long it's been going on for. But I think it's thanks to a lot of traditions like this that the Welsh language and our stories weren't lost forever. Welsh culture is recovering as is the language. But it's still in a very fragile place. I think it's why it's important to document and correct information when it's spread.

Anyway, if you want to see the tradition in action, here's a lovely video from the Cwmafan RFC going to one of the pubs for charity. It includes the song exchange with the pub owner for entry and the whole pub singing and joining in once Mari Lwyd and the rest are inside.

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As well with another video from St Fagan's showcasing the more traditional and door to door form with the larger cast.

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#Mari Lwyd #Wales #Welsh #Welsh culture #Youtube

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ququoquaw · 3 months

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big fan of the horror fae game

#i think its neat to apply folk tales to modern urban horror

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rawwkfingers · 8 months

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Completed this years October horror movie list

This is my second year of doing a horror movie every day for the month and it was a lot harder coming up with movies this year because last year had a bunch of the big names

There still are some this year ofc, I love rewatching horror movies especially, but it does feel weird having a list of "horror movies I intend to watch this year" that doesnt include some of my favorite movies ever like The Shining, Blair Witch, or Carrie

#rawwk on #this year im going full a24 and doing aster eggers and peeles big works #also watching some more modern folk horror cuz last years list was ALL about the 70s #the big names i kept to rewatch were silence scream halloween and friday

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see-arcane · 1 month

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Our good friend Jonathan Harker is getting ready to leave for his business trip, Mina Murray is picking out a new journal, Lucy Westenra is charming a gaggle of smitten suitors, Abraham van Helsing is wrapping up his lectures, and Castle Dracula is prepping the guest room for a very long stay.

Which must mean that Dracula Season is here again!

‘Dracula Season’ being a catchall term for the voracious reading, memeing, writing, illustrating, analyzing, and general fun-having that’s ensued since Matt Kirkland’s project, Dracula Daily, caught on with us back in 2022. The Substack had already been running before then, but it sparked a conflagration as time went on and readers old and new to Bram Stoker’s Dracula—the actual novel, not Coppola’s fanfiction—devoured it in a way that scratched an itch none of us knew we had. Stoker wrote the book in epistolary fashion, clumping sections together as needed for the pacing without perfect adherence to chronological order. Matt went ahead and put all the events in order and proceeded to set up a lovely chain of emails that delivered entries on those correlating dates.

This style of organization and pacing turned out to not only make the virtual book club that much easier to engage with, but left space in-between to stew on the story and relate with the characters themselves. Every day of waiting in the book feels weightier when you have to pace and sweat and worry in tandem with poor Jonathan trapped in the castle or Lucy wasting away or Mina running out the clock before she loses the fight for her own humanity. And while we sat with the story or the lulls between Dracula Seasons, some of us found ourselves craving more of that ghastly gothic horror goodness to the point that we figured:

“Well. Why don’t I make something?”

And then we did! Tons of creative works have been churned out in the wake of Dracula Daily’s high. I figured that while we’ve still got a bit of time to wait for May 3rd, we should check out all this new stuff in the meantime. (Plus a handful of neat stuff that just clicks with the Dracula itch overall.)

So, in the interest of Dracula Season pregaming, let’s take a look at…

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Blood of My Blood – A recent addition to the Dracula Bad Ending AU pile, and definitely one of the most harrowing and addictive group-produced narratives I’ve ever come across, Blood of My Blood is the dramatically gothic currently-WIP work of @ibrithir-was-here and @animate-mush’s devious design. Give or take a heap of other fascinated folks (hello!) adding ideas to put more Horror into the Horrors that our cast has to face. The premise:

The Transylvanian climax went fatally sour and the Harkers were forced to shelter with Dracula himself, including their half-vampire son, Quincey. Cut to two decades later, and Quincey finds himself out in modern London, smitten with Lu, adopted daughter of Arthur and Jack, and diving into certain bloodstained old documents that detail the real history of how his parents came to live in the castle. Said revelations coming not a moment too soon, as a storm is coming for him straight from the Carpathians…

Dracula Daily Sketch Collection – An array of illustrations that captures every entry beat by beat, the Dracula Daily Sketch Collection by Georgia Cook, alias @georgiacooked was dished out over the course of the last Dracula Season. Some of the most fun character designs out there.

Fanfiction Spotlight: BlueCatWriter – With a whopping 99 works devoted to the novel Dracula (so far, the number may have gone up since I blinked), @bluecatwriter is one of the most prolific and talented fanfiction scribblers out there. Romances, nightmares, and overlaps between the two seem to crop up the most, give or take a crossover. Seems fitting that those blue paw prints have contributed to BoMB too.

The League of Extraordinary Gentlefolk – An ongoing comic in which all your favorite characters from the Classics section get together and tackle some perils ranging from the mundane to the monstrous. Started by the amazing @mayhemchicken and posted on @lxgentlefolkcomic, this series is a love letter to beloved Victorian era lit, with a spotlight on the two couples leading the League. Namely, the Harkers, ala Dracula, and the Nortons, ala Sherlock Holmes,’ “A Scandal in Bohemia.” Mina and Irene are the driving investigative and steering forces here, and still deeply in love with their likewise-infatuated husbands, just like in their canons! What a concept! Alan.

Without spoiling the full character list, just know there are going to be a ton of familiar faces roaming around before you finish reading the first arc. Said arc having conveniently wrapped up just a few days ago! Give the comic and its bonus silliness a look if you’re in the mood for a new comfort-adventure epic.

Re: Dracula – Probably the most well-known and incredible thing to come out of the initial Dracula Daily wave. This podcast is a full audio drama that follows the same format as the Substack, with episodes coming out in time with the entries themselves. And it has an unfairly cool soundtrack. They have a Tumblr with @re-dracula, a site and a Patreon to check out before the series kicks up again on May 3rd. (Also, keep an eye out for their next work, an audio drama in the same style with Carmilla.)

The Soldier and the Solicitor – Another treat from @ibrithir-was-here, this one involves a bit of time travel trouble. Quincey Harker has stumbled out of World War I and into the same dark forest where his father once fled for his life…then runs into the man himself, on that same night. Jonathan Harker, young and starved and lost, who has no choice but to trust this stranger while the Weird Sisters are at his heels…despite said stranger having no shadow. It’s a tasty emotional trek, already complete on Tumblr, but now it’s turning into a Webtoon. While Ibrithir is juggling a number of other stories, she’ll be redrawing spruced up versions of the comic and adding a few new scenes as things unfold.

Substack Stack – You know what’s better than one emailed-out public domain book club? A mountain of them. Just. So, so many of them. You’ll see that a lot of these are finished, but some are still ticking along. Either way, they’re all great picks if you’re craving some more old school lit to fill the void between undead emails.

Frankenstein Weekly – Frankenstein

Jekyll and Hyde Weekly – The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

Voyage of the Nautilus – Twenty-Thousand Leagues Under the Sea

Letters from Watson – Sherlock Holmes

The Invisible Mail – The Invisible Man

Letters from Bunny – E.W. Hornung’s short stories of the eponymous Bunny and Raffles

Letters Regarding Jeeves - P. G. Wodehouse’s Bertie Wooster short stories, including the novel, Right Ho, Jeeves

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…The Beetle Weekly – The Beetle (NOTE: Do Not Read This.)

The Vampyres – A novella I finally wrenched through the gears of self-publication as of March this year. Starring a petite but powerful paranormal cast, The Vampyres, centers on an unscrupulous undead fellow who finds that the revenants of the world are being mowed down by an entity known only as ‘Quinn Morse.’ Between trying to save his neck and figure out where the shadowy bastard came from, the Vampyre in question crosses paths with a new paramour and handy human shield in the form of a grieving Good Samaritan. He’s even polite enough to invite the Vampyre into his home while he’s in dire straits! Surely this will end well. All the info is available here and a little author site is over here.

What Manner of Man – This is the one made for everyone who started out hoping there’d be a real love story with our good friend Jonathan Harker and the Count when he was at his most charismatic. Where that sea of wonders dried up into a mire of horror, What Manner of Man by @stjohnstarling keeps things firmly on the romantic tracks. This Substack stars the letter-writing priest Father Victor E. Ardelian as he finds himself meeting with one enigmatic Lord Alistair Vane. It isn’t long before interest turns into intrigue and intrigue into undead intimacies.

The entire novel has been completed—along with multiple epilogues in the author’s Patreon, allowing readers to choose for themselves just how the uncanny romance plays out in the end—and the Substack now has a number of other gothic goodies piling up in the meantime.

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Dracula Daily: A Unique Reading Experience: This one comes courtesy of @realwomenofgaming. It’s a short and sweet piece that amounts to a fun snapshot of the entire Dracula Daily ride. A cozy couple-minute read.

‘Dracula Daily’ is the One Substack You Need a Subscription To: Features my favorite Matt Kirkland interview. @mattkirkland, if you’re still floating around on here, thank you for dispatching our vampire newsletter again this year.

Dracula Daily is Tumblr’s hottest new book club: Alright, the ‘new’ part is worn out by now, but this one is still a delightful article to swing back around to. Two years on, this Polygon piece is a time capsule of those early months when people outside our bookworm bubble realized we were all happily receiving letters from our favorite classic gothic horror blorbos.

“How Mina Murray Became Dracula’s Girlfriend” – Princess Weekes, if you ever read this, thank you, thank you, thank you. I am sending oceans of love and millions of rewatches to your video essay. If you haven’t seen it yet, “How Mina Murray Became Dracula’s Girlfriend” is one of the most refreshing and well-made breakdowns of both the title subject and numerous other issues that have proliferated in the public view of Dracula’s cast and plot as adaptations endlessly warp or outright bastardize the actual novel. An incredibly cathartic watch.

Literary play gone viral: delight, intertextuality, and challenges to normative interpretations through the digital serialization of Dracula: A mouthful of a title for an even more elaborate article about the Dracula Daily phenomenon. This one is a full-on study that analyzes just what happened within the big bloodsucker book club surge and how its ‘wandering reading practices’ enriched the experience for participants.

“The Undying Undead: An analysis of the Dracula Daily community for a theory of online community formation and interaction” – We have a thesis on here! Look at that! @sirangelothebestest’s MA thesis used our vampiric book club as the bones for a massive brick of an academic piece that definitely deserves a look.

…And I think I’ll go ahead and cap things here.

This isn’t everything I got recommended, but if I had squashed all of it in here, I think folks’ eyes would start to fall out of their head. I hope you can find something cool to comb through here. Or, if there’s something great I overlooked, tack it onto the list! We’ve got just two weeks to go until we’re off with Mr. Harker. Let’s enjoy our respite before those castle doors close behind us.

#time for Dracula Season pre-gaming :3 #thank you to everyone who sent in their suggestions!#dracula #dracula daily #re: dracula

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