Did a lil quick sketch, for @i-want-my-iwtv reminded me that today is the birthday of our drama-queen XD
I love it, he definitely is our drama-queen extraordinaire!
^_____^
You’re very welcome for the reminder! He looks like he’s about to reprimand us – and then forgive us, of course – for nearly forgetting his birthday ❤
one thing I find hilarious is when Shakespeare quotes are used out of context
like, people are always saying “some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them” as if it’s all deep and meaningful when actually it comes from a prank letter in Twelfth Night
and “This above all: to thine own self be true” comes from Polonius in Hamlet wherein the joke is that he’s an old pompous dude giving a long and rambling speech full of contradictory pointless advice to his son
“Brevity is the soul of wit” is another joke, because again, it’s made by Polonius who will just not shut up
it’s “we are such stuff as dreams are made on” not “of “, as in, “such stuff as dreams are built on”
“wherefore art thou, Romeo” doesn’t mean “where are you, Romeo” it means “why the fuck are you called Romeo, shit, I wanted to bang you but I can’t because you’re a goddamn Montague”
all these lines have acquired a kind of dignity in text that they never had in performance or are constantly misinterpreted
It’s not necessarily bad but it is kind of funny, sometimes.
#GREATNESS THRUST UPON THEM WAS A SEX JOKE#THE GREATNESS#WAS HIS PENIS#HIS FUCKING PENIS#STOP USING IT SERIOUSLY IT WAS A DICK JOKE#IM B E G G I N G YOU (x)
those who dream only by night: the gothic short stories rec list
have you ever felt like you want to read more fiction in the gothic tradition, but you haven’t the money or the time, or you’re the sort of person who only reads a novel if you’re sure you like the writer? i can help with that! here is a list of short stories, novellas, and one poem, all of which are important in the gothic tradition, the gothic revival, or contemporary gothic fiction, and they are all on the internet! for free! (i enjoy making rec lists, but i particularly enjoy making rec lists where i know that everyone who reads the list can get all of it for free.) so, take a night, make some hot chocolate, and frighten the life out of yourself. you’ll thank me!
- manfred by lord byron (1817)
- the tell tale heart by edgar allan poe (1843)
- carmilla by sheridan le fanu (1872)
- lord arthur savile’s crime by oscar wilde (1887)
- the yellow wallpaper by charlotte perkins gilman (1892)
- lot no. 249 by arthur conan doyle (1892)
- the great god pan by arthur machen (1894)
- the turn of the screw by henry james (1898)
- the monkey’s paw by w.w. jacobs (1902)
- sredni vashtar by saki (1911)
- casting the runes by m.r. james (1911)
- the damned by algernon blackwood (1914)
- the tomb by h.p. lovecraft (1922)
- the garden party by katherine mansfield (1922)
- a rose for emily by william faulkner (1930)
- the lottery by shirley jackson (1948)
- lamb to the slaughter by roald dahl (1953)
- a good man is hard to find by flannery o’connor (1955)
- the company of wolves by angela carter (1979)
- i, cthulhu by neil gaiman (1986)
Peter Capaldi as Jonathan Harker, Daniel Day-Lewis as Dracula, Half Moon Theatre, Stepney,1984.
(Seen on the twitter of MrGodfrey.)
WOW SO MAYBE THIS IS (at least part of) THE REASON WHY David Geffen (and/or others in charge) wanted Daniel Day-Lewis to play Lestat in movie!IWTV.
Apparently Cruise was approached by Geffen through Creative Artists Agency head Michael Ovitz after leading contender Daniel Day-Lewis declined the part.
– Entertainment Weekly July 30, 1993
And you know what I can totes see DD-L being great as Lestat… but he probably felt like Been There Done That, having already played a vampire *cries* but I’ll console myself to the fact that he was also older and maybe too old for the role, too
PS. @gothiccharmschool, let me know when your time machine is up and running, we gotta see this show!
Anne Rice has dolls of her Vampire Chronicles characters. Here’s Louis, Lestat and Claudia (made by
Paul Crees and Peter Coe)
♛Too far? Nowhere is too far for me, except, perhaps, the moon, or Mars. Are you a Martian? If it’s still offered, I’ll take your gift, with gratitude… any excuse to go on a road trip is a good one, and if you know me at all you know I’m more than a bit of a foodie when it comes to blood *winks* I’ll even dress up for such fine cuisine.
//ooc; Lestat’s just being overly excited, he’s been slumbering for what seems like ages on this blog and he’s soaking in all the attention. Pardon the mun if this is giving anyone second-hand embarrassment!
And Lestat’s a super awesome hacker, he can find you by your IP address, so you needn’t share personal info publicly here 😉
Celebrate Lestat’s birthday by surrounding yourself with hot people and making abundantly poor life decisions
So we reach into the raging chaos, and we pluck some small glittering thing, and we cling to it, and tell ourselves it has meaning, and that the world is good, and we are not evil, and we will all go home in the end.
♛Merci, ma petite, I’ll raise a glass for you tonight *grins*
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