#vampires of prague

[letterboxd-loggd]

Mark of the Vampire (1935) Tod Browning

November 30th 2022

#mark of the vampire #1935 #tod browning #lionel barrymore #jean hersholt #elizabeth allan #lionel atwill #bela lugosi #donald meek #carroll borland #henry wadsworth #ivan f. simpson #leila bennett #holmes herbert #the vampires of prague #vampires of the night #vampires of prague

[gmalaart]

Valentine’s Day is about keeping your loved ones close… so create a blood bond with your local vampire prince today!

#art #artists on tumblr #vampire the masquerade #vtm #illustration #valentines day #digital art #original character #uc #aka we finished our prague vtm campaign and ulrich made terrible life choices #but hey every prince needs a guard dog #and ulrich’s leash had gotten too lose for his liking

[galejro]

Some Screenshots form our VTM:Redemption Reawakened Project. Some shots of Prague in the rain.

#vampire the masquerade #world of darkness #vampire #vtm art #vamily #vtm #skyrim #skyrim mods #prague #medieval #rainymood #dark aesthetic

[dantesmelancholicshitpost]

Living rent free in my head

#really sorry about canonically killing love forever during the concert #the heart shaped balloon #also as a vampire in the audience i felt very validated #hozier prague #andrew hozier byrne #hozier concert #hozier #unreal unearth prague #unreal unearth tour #unreal unearth

[nalyra-dreaming]

👀 really hope the Prague Reporter is wrong there… (just like last time) 😩

https://x.com/a_savagegarden/status/1692551788430254336?s=46&t=j-jWlLWHXdEtJEqNzqyzRA

#interview with the vampire #iwtv #prague reporter #iwtv s2

[lordbettany]

Vampyre Moodboard IV

#silent film #nosferatu kind of vibes #idk really he looks so hot #aneurin barnard #aesthetics #moodboard #black and white #vampire #vampyre #interlude in prague #mozart

[teplavecernice]

when westies try to write books with slavic/ee settings:

#imagine my disappointment when a book with such promising premise of 'queer vampires in prague' #turned out to be just another not-so-well researched book from a westie #(this is only of several missteps that appear in the synopsis btw) #for the non-slavs out there: pijavice means leeches. the worst kind of evil are leeches #czech #čumblr

[zombie-bait]

What if I told you guys I had the chance to visit Prague last year and made it my sole, sacred mission to take photos in front of the Theatre of Vampires filming location

#iwtv #interview with the vampire #amc interview with the vampire #i was slightly delirious with fever at the time #but i had to go and see it #I was determined #prague is beautiful actually #i barely got to see it tho :(( #vampire chronicles #amc iwtv #iwtv season 2 #selfie will not be included but i did do the soyjak pointing meme

[gorbalsvampire]

the world is a vampire (vtm city meta 1/?)

playing the world

So, you ended up as a Storyteller. Maybe you happen to own the rulebooks. Maybe you had the idea. Maybe nobody else in your group will put on their big gender pants and step up. The point is: you've got the 'sponserbilities. Now what?

The charm of being the Storyteller, for me, is getting to build wide rather than deep. Rather than inhabiting one character you get to occupy an entire world, moving it in response to the other players' actions but - and this is one of the big Storyteller Secrets - also in spite of them, and without anything to do with them.

In my experience a real good city and story are dynamic environments. SPCs want things that aren't necessarily anything to do with the PCs; they have Ambitions that they will advance whether the PCs are interfering or not, even whether the PCs are paying attention or not.

That's the secret to playing the world. What the players are interested in is the primary plot - there's no point in dragging them to Your Story - but you still get to do everything. Things can happen that the players only discover later, when their attention turns and they realise there was always something else going on.

choosing your location

There are two wolves inside me.

One abhors the very words "lore" and "canon" and has no interest in living any deeper in the shadows of the "IP holders" than necessary to play. One is obsessed with the World of Darkness and has years of fond memories attached to published material, and is also kinda lazy.

One of the wolves gets to pick my cities, but it's not always the same one. If it's the first wolf, I pick a city that doesn't have a By Night book and might only have one or two lines of attention paid to it. If it's the second, I pick a city that has a good By Night book, or a writeup in one of the gazetteer chapters/books. Glasgow was a first wolf pick; Prague was a second wolf pick.

why did I pick Glasgow?

I wanted to set a story in Scotland, for the Dunsirn connection, and I wasn't going to use Edinburgh because I didn't fancy tangling with The Gentleman's adopted OC. (I can be quite a brat about this, sometimes - it's why I've never run a game in Manchester despite knowing and loving the city.)

Vampire as a game turns on sectarian violence, the conflicts between conspiracies. Vampire as a mode exaggerates real history, setting up the Kindred as influential parasites and predators, moving it but being moved by it. Generally, when I pick a city off its own merits, it's because I've looked at it and gone "oh, that could be vampires."

Glasgow's history is, forgive me, full of lines drawn. Protestant and Catholic, Unionist and Independence, Rangers and Celtic. It's really easy to wire and crosswire vampires into those conflicts, and to set up tensions within a clan or sect's power bloc by having its members on different sides of them. Divided loyalties aplenty.

I also have a literary point of reference. I'm a big Iain Banks fan, have been since I read The Wasp Factory at school, and his novels Espedair Street and The Crow Road are mostly and partly set in Glasgow. That helps - if the city isn't somewhere I've ever been I like having a sense of it informed by fiction, a vibe that I can draw down and inflect with Vampire's core concerns.

why did I pick Prague?

Partly, I had Redemption on the brain. (I've always had Redemption on the brain, it's how I came in, it's my Bloodlines.) Statting Christof Romauld for a Reddit thread got me started on the rest of his coterie, then reading Transylvania By Night and seeing how it didn't align with the PC game kept me going. And... OK, I'm not going to lie, the anachronisms were getting to me.

Sometimes, the desire to reach in and do a different job to the authors - not an objectively better one, but one more aligned to my priorities, subjectively better, for me - is too strong. There's a lot of that at work here. The buildings that shouldn't exist yet, the Discipline choice that doesn't make sense in V5, the desire to see if I can make this work - that's it, really, that's why I pick cities with more published material. The urge toward transformative work expresses itself as it will.

other reasons

In the past I've often seen advice to the extent that you should pick a city you know well, maybe the city that YOU live in. I don't think you have to do this, but there's one way in which it undeniably helps: grounding, through little details, through street names and cultural cues that you just know in your bones and don't have to fake. That can be really helpful if you don't want the cognitive load of pretending you're multiple different people and having to sell the sense of a different culture and do that respectfully.

Also, we need to talk about history. Some places are better for vampires at this point or that in their real history - Glasgow of the twentieth century was definitely an easier place to tell a kind of grotty, gangland vampire story than the twenty-first. Since I wanted to use it for V5, and I was bridging through from Revised, I made that part of the story, part of the theme. The city was cleaning up its act, gentrifying even, and the controlling ancillae were being left behind.

I could very easily do a Nineties Camarilla game, or a Victorian Age thing, showing the city in its glory days (for a given value of glory), but if I wanted to do a Dark Ages game, it would be more of a frontier thing, with the PCs the only Cainites in town: the city is too small and too new for much else to work.

#vtm #vampire the masquerade #meta #st advice #promised this an age ago and now I'm working on Prague so here we go! #let's build a vampire city

[heyitsmelouiss]

Madeleine actress pretty much confirming she’s getting ready to go back to work I used to pray for times like this 

#this means Sam and Jacob are probably on their way to Prague soon #roxane duran #interview with the vampire #iwtv series #jacob anderson #louis de pointe du lac #sam reid #lestat de lioncourt

[iwtv-az-hours]

Thank you for your let Eric kiss Assad with tongue campaign like I’m so excited for what they’re cooking up!!!

My open letter to the makers of this show is,

We will accept any and every physical and otherwise affection between the 2022-setting characters.

Up to and including Armand and Daniel doing the pow chikachika against the clocktower facade 30yards in the air, even if it means Mr.Bogosian and Mr.Zaman will need to be forklifted buttnaked on the Prague Old town square to do thrusting action where only the Orloj figurines can judge them.

Respectfully,

#interview with the vampire #Daniel Malloy #Armand #Armandaniel #Devil's minion #iwtv #text #my-post #Use the Prague scenery while you're there / Give the locals some show / It's only a suggestion of course

[prettysweetprettysweet]

I've been walking through Prague not even finding faint ghosts of IWTV filming...the museum's exterior has returned completely to it's original state.

Prague locals, is there any lingering evidence of filming anywhere, or any show-related locations you'd recommend I visit? :)

#interview with the vampire #iwtv #amc iwtv #prague #season 2 #yo mismo #yomismoiwtv

[la-femme-au-collier-vert]

IWTV Set Design

So the 1947 movie posters in Prague that I’ve been able to identify include Le Cafe du Cadran involving a wife’s affair with a young violinist, Quai des Orfevres which includes one Inspector Antoine, and Monsieur Vincent is about St. Vincent…de Paul. I’m deceased 💀

*morts sans sepulture is about a group of imprisoned resistance fighters struggling not to give up information about their leader to the Nazis.

credit to @criminalbiskitt on twitter for the image

#Iwtv #iwtv season 2 #mara lepere-schloop #Interview with the vampire #louis de pointe du lac #lestat de lioncourt #Nickistat #Prague

[nalyra-dreaming]

The scans look so otherworldly 👀

#interview with the vampire #iwtv #amc iwtv #amc interview with the vampire #iwtv amc #iwtv 2022 #scans #prague

[lordbettany]

Aneurin Barnard - Dark Vampire Moodboard I

#aneurin barnard #the white queen #daniel solace #richard iii #doctor who #boris drubetskoy #dunkirk #war & peace #barkskins #hamish goames #mozart #interlude in prague #1899 netflix #dark aesthetics #dark academia #vampire #vampyr #red #moodboard #so fucking hot #MYPOSTS

[lestatdelioncoeur]

hiii! i am so sorry for asking if you dont know this, but I remember you posting a lot about the shoot in prauge back last year when that happened. I am currently in Prauge and I really want to go see where they filmed the Theatre Des Vampires, but I cant find the exact adress 😭😭 do you happen to know that? Thank you!!!

That's so cool! The exterior location is here:

Interiors here:

And more information about general areas they potentially used here:

#thanks for asking! #looks amazing #interview with the vampire #prague #theatre des vampires #locations #amc iwtv