If anyone wonders what I use as basis for the Wings of Jack, Gregory, and fairy wings in general.

Rec: Four Times Henry Waited (And the One Time He Didn't) by et2brute

Rec: Four Times Henry Waited (And the One Time He Didn’t) by et2brute

Title: Four Times Henry Waited (And the One Time He Didn’t) Author: et2brute Canon: Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter Pairing: Abraham Lincoln/Henry Sturges Rating: Not Rated [PG] Word Count: 2,036 Summary: In which Henry Sturges plays sort of a long game. (more…)

View On WordPress

FINALLY, they’re done! Here’s a couple of illustrations I recently did for the brilliant @nausicaaenriquez‘s Spire/Heart extension! This was a fun opportunity to try this art style again.

HEAR ME OUT

Pirate au

SO. Privateer was a pirate with papers. As the name suggests, privateers were private individuals commissioned by governments to carry out quasi-military activities. They would sail in privately owned armed ships, robbing merchant vessels and pillaging settlements belonging to a rival country.

So Comte is obvs our rich boi who hires these pirates. And idk why, but Comte gives me a very Spanish vibe, idk why, but he'll reside in Spain for this Au, Sebas stays the butler or Comte here. Or we can buff him up and make him some sort of bodyguard.

Anyway. Leonardo is captain of the ship.

Idk why, but I see Theo being a cook. Napo is main cook, but Theo cooks too.

Isaac somehow got "adopted" into this family and does the navigation.

First mate is Jean. Second is Dazai. How that makes sense I don't know.

Mozart is always sea sick, his purpose??? He works for Comte, and Comte wanted someone to tag along.

Leonardo is constantly yelling at Arthur to keep women off the ship.

"IF I SEE ONE MORE WOMAN ON HIS SHIP, COMING OUT OF YOUR CABIN IM THROWING YOU INTO THE SEA"

"I can't swim-"

"NOT MY FAULT"

Isaac: you're cooking is horrible

Theo: you want Vincent to cook????

Isaac: no thanks. I'd like to live.

Also. Idk what Vincent does???? He's kinda just there, like Arthur. Will is there too.

Vincent: uh this is my friend Will he wants to join the crew

Leonardo: who are you?????

Will: Will

Leonardo: do you get seasick?

Will: don't think so

Leonardo: can you use a gun or a sword

Will: I have before

Leonardo: good enough for me. Now scrub the deck

They take down rival ships for Spain and get to live the life they want, as long as Captain Leonardo let's them.

Leonardo: k were going after the British.

Arthur: I'm the british

Leonardo: and I will throw you overboard if I keep having to hear that stupid accent

Okay so vampires right? Hot as fuck, pretty common trope…… but WHY? (maybe I’ve just never came across them)….WHY is there never any vampire reader fics???

sure, being hunted by my faves as a vampire is hot as hell, them taking advantage of me and biting me lord help. HOWEVER, I want to reverse the roles, I want to be the secret vampire drooling over my faves, wanting to bite them, holding myself back, wanting to pin them down and see the fear in their eyes as I lick my fangs🥵

Blood Moon

Love these two ❤️. They were awesome when they weren’t at each other’s throats and awesome when they were.

Okay but now I'm even more salty than ever about Vax'ildan not getting turned into a vampire by Sylas Briarwood during the events of Crimson Diplomacy. :/

I mean, if anyone in Vox Machina had to be a Vampire, Vax is perfect for it???

And Vampires are the sexiest thing ever, anyway???

Rogue this.

Wizard that.

Bard, ward.

VAMPIRES, PEOPLE

VAMPIRES

Lizzie Saltzman Aesthetic 2

— HUMANS ARE NO LONGER IN CHARGE

A decade after winning a war against humans, a vast array of supernatural creatures signed a treaty to live together and took a city for themselves: Firebrand. The city is a safe haven for all species, from witches to werewolves, merpeople, angels, demons, and even dragons. They all live in a (tentative) harmony while the humans who tried to wipe them out are now enslaved–along with any traitorous supernaturals who thought the side of humans was the side to be on.

The question is: which side will you choose?

{ F I R E B R A N D C I T Y }

Firebrand City is a 21+ mature M/s semi-appless roleplay based heavily around supernatural creatures and their superiority over the enslaved humans who tried to rid them from the world.

Two Women of Vengeance (1970s Japanese Horrors)

Sliding into the 1970s with two very different Japanese films. 

The Vampire Doll (1970), directed by  Michio Yamamoto, was the first of three vampire films made by Toho Studios, pretty clearly in a bid to capture some of the thriving Dracula market coming out of Hammer Films at the time. The story is about a guy who visits his fiance only to discover upon arrival that she’s recently died (and nobody bothered to tell him). But things are kind of weird around the house, compounded by an unsettling discovery. When he doesn’t come home, his sister and her boyfriend(?) come looking for clues as to his whereabouts.

The story is mostly forgettable, although there are some neat visuals. Also noteworthy that the vampire is....really not very vampire-like. There’s a lot of yurei influence in her design and everything else. Also the twist/explanation for the vampirism is very E.A. Poe, which is kind of clever, so I liked that...but then the movie just very abruptly ends right when it’s getting interesting. Alas. 

Belladonna of Sadness (1973) is an animated art film directed by  Eiichi Yamamoto and produced by Mushi Production, an anime studio that broke off from Toei to make some well-known properties like Astro Boy, Dororo and Kimba the White Lion. They also worked with Rankin/Bass on The Last Unicorn, which is apparent in some of the character design. 

But Belladonna is not your usual anime. It’s not...entirely...like anything I’ve ever watched. The animation is beautiful but quite unique. Sometimes most of the frame will be a still image that the camera just pans over, or a predominantly still image with a single animated feature. There’s narrative voice-over and some musical numbers. The whole thing is surreal and impressionistic and not quite meant to be viewed literally -- symbolism does a lot of heavy lifting. 

The plot is kind of hard to summarize in a way that does it justice, because this is a film that demands to be experienced rather than understood. Basically, it’s about a young woman who’s raped on her wedding night by the local baron (presumably because she and her new husband couldn’t pay taxes) and who ends up turning to the devil/witchcraft for a better life. 

The film was partly inspired by Jules Michelet's 1862 non-fiction book La Sorcière and by the life of Joan of Arc. 

This film is not going to be for everyone, which is probably why it was a huge commercial flop on release and fell into obscuring for about 30 years before finally getting a US distribution in 2015. It’s very weird and artsy and has a whole lot of sex. Like, a lot. There’s an animated orgy sequence involving people turning into animals and then back again and just piles and piles of people having sex with each other in every way possible. It’s not a very cheerful film, and its narrative is more storybook than modern movie -- lots of voice-over, not so much in-the-moment character interactions. 

But I fucking loved it. 

Seriously, this film is amazing. And shockingly feminist, especially by 1973 standards. It’s kind of a rape-revenge film, except not exactly -- because for a while at least, her greatest revenge is just living a better life. This film makes for fascinating viewing alongside Eggers’ The Witch, and a really interesting three-way comparison with Rosemary’s Baby. (Interestingly, Quentin Tarantino was partly inspired by this film when he was making Kill Bill, which features the title track from Belladonna -- at the time an exceedingly obscure film and something only a real cinephile would have ever noticed). 

Vincent: I do know how to cook, I'm not that incompetent.

Isaac: Tell that to my burnt sandwich.

Some characters from a lil DnD oneshot

Lord Harkon: Go now or abandon all hope of seeing the sun again!

Serana, spraying water at him with a spritz bottle: You stop that.