#vampire colony

[mrhyde-mrseek]

CONTAINS SPOILERS FOR BOOKS 2 (PUBLISHED) AND 3 (WIP)!

Now for the Case Files antagonists:

Dion Tantlos/Edgar Wick

Abraham “Brom Bones” Van Brunt (whose name I somehow managed to type incorrectly onto the moodboard)

The Headless Horseman/Hans Woelfel

The vampire colony

#the case files of clara holmes #gothic literature #classic literature #gothic lit #classic lit #the tell tale heart #edgar allan poe #dion tantlos #edgar wick #the legend of sleepy hollow #abraham van brunt #brom bones #the headless horseman #hans woelfel #dracula by bram stoker #dracula #dracula book #vampire #vampire colony #tcfoch vampires

[creators-island]

As a LatinAmerican student let me tell you something about Olrox, I love him and everything he represents.

Did he killed Julia Belmont? Yes, and she had it coming , let me explain; You don’t go out on a literal civil war without context on what’s going —on and who’s attacking who and most importantly why— take the side that looks like you, just to essentially killed the last hope of protection the other side has —Let’s remember that Belmont knew about the tale of vampires that could be friendly or neutral at worst /aka Alucard/ she could have spoken to the natives or the slaves to know why this was happening, but she didn’t /I doubt she did at least/— then make unfair decisions about who is evil and deserves to die.

(She might have KNOWN what was going on, since –in my understanding– she was living there for A GOOD WHILE, so she either didn’t care or was oblivious enough to pass it out.)

Olrox is literally the best thing to ever happen to me in so long, the lore behind him and the profound sense of cultural connection I feel with him is something I haven’t felt in a long time, I can feel his rage and his intense feeling of disgust at the idea of colonialism.

As a kid most of us were always told that colonialism was good for us, that we were savages before and now “we’re better bc we have technology”, but guess what, we had our technology back then, we had a way of living and a good thing going on. Was it perfect? No. But it was way better that the hell that was forced into us, the sickness and the cultural hatred that influenced us into submitting our culture and beliefs, THAT WASN’T A GOOD THING.

Olrox has every right and reason to do what he does. Fight me in the comments about it.

#castlevania: nocturne #castlevania netflix #castlevania olrox #castlevania nocturne #castlevania fanart #colonialism #olrox/mizrak #olrox matters so much #Olrox fanart #Aztec vampire #castlevania mizrak #julia belmont #ritcher belmont #quetzalcoatl #aztec empire

[nashvillethotchicken]

Sometimes I think about how loustat are in a placage marriage and make myself insane.

#placage is a system of concubinage prevalent in pre 1804 Louisiana where wealthy white men would take black partners and oft have kids #who would then become the free black elite in the south especially in NOLA #it stems from french/ catholic “progressive” views on race mixing that made it ok in french/spanish colonies vs english colonies #so when i say louis is lestats concubines in canon do not get mad at me #they cant get married legally but everyone regards them to be in some type of relationship #lestat then leaves louis at home to cavort publically with white society #its so interesting #like this was my major in college i wanna talk about it so bad but you people cant handle someone saying lestat was dead wrong so i caint #like i love loustat #in canon yhe show is pulling from that history of interracial relationships in nola #and some of them genuinely loved each other but that racialized dynamic was always there even though the black person was 'free' #the white partner could always sell them or their kids into slavery so there was always that dynamic over the black partner #and then louis is most likely a descendants of one of these relationships like theres levels to this shit #interview with the vampire #iwtv #amc iwtv #louis de pointe du lac #lestat de lioncourt #iwtv 2022 #ldpdl #loustat

[meerawrites]

Almost done my novel research, I just need to get to the terror and the (justified) trial and execution of Marie Antoinette and Louis le incompetent <- I’m not saying his number he doesn’t deserve that.

Ah yes, the French revolution the most divisive event in history, my beloved.

Also... Robespierre was a saint compared to feudalism, monarchy and what Louis (and every French monarch before him) was doing to Haiti.

Marie Antoinette’s execution (from a French Revolution pamphlet).

Marie Antoinette on the way to her execution (Francois Fleming 1887).

#meera.musings #wip: liaisons x vampires #french revolution #writing historical fiction #writing horror #maximillian robespierre #marie antoinette #louis xvi #ancien regime #history #know your history #anti colonialism #anti imperialism #anti monarchy #les liaisons dangereuses #dangerous liaisons #18th century #18th century history #historical references

[alpaca-clouds]

About the international vampires (that are not really vampires)

You know what? Based on the rant I posted last week about the James Somerton video, let me vent about this one specific thing that I have seen around since basically forever. The thing even I believed, because the non-fiction books on vampire mythology I read as a teen claimed this as well. The claim that there are vampires all around the world, that basically every culture has a vampire myth. And that... it is just bullshit. And not only bullshit, but colonial bullshit.

Let me ask you one thing: What do you think of, when I say "vampire"?

I would guess your thoughts are:

Undead (and hence probably immortal)

Drinks blood or maybe consumes human life energy

Probably some sexually charged stuff

And, well... Those things are only really a thing with some of the vampires we find in Eastern European Mythology, which later spread into other parts of Europe (especially England). There is one of the wanna-be international vampires, that kinda fit the deal - though only through more modern interpretation. And that is the Aswang from the Phillipines. But even here, this is not part of the original myth but more came to be through mixing of the myths of the culture with Western mythology.

And that... is actually the big issue here.

See, vampire mythology as we know it is mostly a thing from Victorian England. While we will find some of the ideas in the Eastern European mythology that Victorian England based their ideas on, most things we associate with it come from England. And you know what England did over the years? Yeah, that is right, they colonized most of the fucking world.

And that is where the issue comes in.

See, as someone who is very much into comparative mythology I can tell you: Yes, there are certain ideas in different mythologies that repeat. Showing up in myths around the world. (One of my favorites is the "magic tree connected to knowledge".)

But a big issue with comparative mythology is, that some parts of it are also Western researchers (or people who wanna be such) looking for imagery that confirms their preconscieved notions. And as such they want to find those creatures and gods and patterns that are "just like this thing from our mythology". It is a big thing that happened with Campbell.

And that... kinda has just happened with vampires as well. If you look into the claimed to be vampires all around the world, you will find, that most of them are not vampires at all. At times they do not consume blood, are not undead and also do not have anything about themselves that could really be considered vampiric. Or they are undead, but if we were honest, if anything they are more like zombies than vampires (the hungry dead of Chinese mythology are a good example of this).

And, yeah... I am sorry, but that is just colonial bullshit. It is taking a Western thing and pressing international mythology through this one specific lense. That is not how any of this works.

It is disrespectful towards those other cultures and their mythology. Those creatures are not vampires, they are their own fucking thing.

Now, by all means. If you wanna put other European creatures through the vampire lense... Fine. But don't go around and claim that stuff from other cultures is actually "totally like this one European thing". It is... just horrible.

And yes, I am looking angrily at fucking World of Darkness here, too. Because boy howdy, do they like to do that with their rulebooks, too. (For heaven's sake, White Wolf, just hire people from other cultures. I am begging you!)

#horror #fantasy #urban fantasy #vampires #vampire #vampire mythology #colonialism #comparative mythology #world of darkness #vampire the masquerade

[chicago-geniza]

Anne Rice inadvertently wrote a subplot of Get Out about the British Raj and the book does not acknowledge or even seem to recognize its own conceit

#raya reads the vampire chronicles #reading Anne Rice is just like. Girl the colonialism

[solradguy]

Drew Sol twice today... It's like Soltober came a little early this year...

#textpost #I punched the shit out of a dragon until death in D&D this evening #Playing a Dhampir monk named Konstantyn and he just ATATATATATATATATATATA-WATAAAAA!! #His punches heal him too lol He just tanks the damage and then goes in and punches until the thing is dead and sucks out their soul essence #I need to draw him more... Only drew him once for his token... He's got fucked up chunky teeth because- #-his flavor of vampire eats bones/raw meat and not blood. They're like hyena teeth kinda #Finger bones are his favorite but that hasn't really come up yet lol #He was converted into whatever his vampire species is called when he was like 5 so he doesn't remember being human really #and the vampire colony lived in a spaceship that attacked smaller transport vessels for food/etc #Konstantyn started showing empathy towards humans and the vampires got mad about it and #locked him in a rotting meat closet for like a week as punishment. Surrounded by food that only made him sick... #Then the next time they let him join in attacking a vessel he made a run for one of the escape pods #The ships were in the middle of nowhere and the escape pod ran out of oxygen but he doesn't have to breath so that doesn't matter much #The pressurization and temperature dropping almost killed him though #He's only lived among humans for a short time (~5 years?) and is still sort of figuring things out #Since he's only half-vampire he doesn't *need* to eat bones/meat and that helps him blend in better #But he's still kinda weird haha

[aelloposchrysopterus]

Not me having one of those moods where I start writing lesbian vampire romance as a critique of colonialism and homophobia because of fucking Olrox from Castlevania: Nocturne and sheer rage at the impacts of British colonialism on India.

#personal #aellopos writes #consider yourselves warned #olrox is now a formative influence on how i view vampires as a metaphor for colonialism and its effects

[abysswalkersknight]

Just thought of a cute idea for my vampire au:

As we all know, Lilia loves feeding everyone his dubious cooking but what only few know is that he also slips in some blood he's caught that day. He does this for all of Diasomnia because 'these boys need something nutritious in them and he's always welcome to share' and he never questions the disgusted looks Sebek and Malleus always have when they discover their metallic tasting treats in their meals, instead he's beaming at the only one who appreciates the addition, his vampiric son who always has trouble when deciding where he should feed from next. It's found to be much easier if Lilia just mixes a lot in Silver's drink or something similar, apparently his son is too old to be feed outright like he usually did when he was younger. oh how they grow so fast.

#ramble time #silver twst #lilia vanrouge #twst #vampire au #I immediately thought of this when I learnt of how vampire bats sometimes feed members of their colony if they were unsuccessful in a hunt #and it's funny to see Lilia showing his affection in the form of feeding everyone blood #'if Silver loves it surely everyone else will!' he thinks as the other two are trying their hardest not to throw up

[scalefeathers]

holy shit I actually tore myself away from Baldur’s Gate 3 long enough to draw something from Baldur’s Gate 3

(Credit to @velnna for the coloring tips (and for all the amazing art he does, I wanna be half that good and half that funny someday))

#baldur’s gate 3 #baldur’s gate iii #bg3 #bg3 fan art #bg3 fanart #astarion #astarion/tav #between co-running a colony of vampire spawn #and his boyfriend taking him to see all the weirdest and most beautiful places in the Underdark #Astarion’s not even gonna have time to miss the sun #Raal Heliwr #there’s more to do and I still want to live

[apalestar]

Post canon he is usually out adventuring when not overseeing his feral cat colony in the Underdark. If he ever decided to retire from adventuring for a time, Astarion is likely to take up a profession as a tailor. He is quite talented at it, and does indeed enjoy it.

#verse: this will be a lot of fun #headcanons #// There is no vampire coven. Just a feral cat colony

[that-was-a-bit-stupid-of-you]

#red flags #anti religion #anti sexism #anti homophobia #anti transphobes #anti holocaust jokes #anti colonialism #anti racism #anti fatphobia #anti vampires #sorry bro #but drinking blood ain't it #tumblr polls #my polls #random polls #random poll #polls polls polls #polls post #polls #random

[nart]

#One day i will actually write this story #toxic vampire colonialism metaphor yuri #character design #oc #fart

[nashvillethotchicken]

And when I get my all black interview with the vampire remake ala the wiz then what

#listen there truly is so much you can do with blackness and itwv #even what we get with louis and his own struggles with race and racism in the show like lets not stop there #and i thunk it is a great way to get more black fans 1) involved 2) in creative spaces cus imma be real. i dont wanna see more white lestats #like lestat as an alexander dumas type has been rattling around my brain for months i need people to see the vision #i also just see it more as a way to look at how slavery and its legacies have forever warped how the Diaspora interrelates #not only slavery but french colonialism as well. what does it mean to be a free man of color when your cousins are being sold off? #what does it mean to be Haitian in spaces like aristocratic colonial france? #how does the arab slave trade factor in? #like there are so many good points of meta we could do if people weren't obsessed with woobyfying white men in this fandom #hell even the notion of passing in itwv is deeply intriguing #interview with the vampire #iwtv #amc iwtv

[meerawrites]

I just think they’re neat.

Remember when humans were trying to do ‘equal opportunity enlightened death’ even to monarchs who we could’ve just gunpowder plotted <- and was 100% deserved?

#meera.musings #wip: liaisons x vampires #french revolution #marie antoinette #louis xvi #history #anti monarchy #anti imperialism #anti colonialism #18th century #18th century history #late 18th century #writing historical fiction #historical fiction #joke but not a joke

[nahkajima]

[Hi! JO1] EP.25🥂JO1品位チェック🥂

#JO1 #Kinjo Sukai #Kimata Syoya #Kawashiri Ren #Kawanishi Takumi #Shiroiwa Ruki #Tsurubo Shion #Ohira Shosei #Yonashiro Sho #Mamehara Issei #Kono Junki #Money Vampire Kinjo Sukai #Kimata Ray XIV from Colony #Absarom Repatam Junpei #Celeb of Celeb Kawanishi Takumi #Prince of Dunan Castle Van Shiroiwa #Morino Kuma #Ohira II from Fairytale #Chura ka-gi Louis XIV #Red knight Maji I #Narazuke Prince #please put Keigo in a prince suit in the future too thank you #narumiedits #christmas gift #JOe #JO1g