Oh, yes. A short list of essential music videos:
- Bela Lugosi’s Dead – Bauhaus
- Grimly Fiendish – the Damned
- Dominion – Sisters of Mercy
- Lullaby – The Cure
- Face to Face – Siouxsie and the Banshees
- Bloodletting – Concrete Blonde
Bonus round! (Not “classic” goth, but ones I feel are essential)
- I’m Afraid of Americans – David Bowie (featuring Trent Reznor)
- The Carnival is Over – Dead Can Dance
- Vampires Will Never Hurt You – My Chemical Romance (stop rolling your eyes, StuntHusband)
- Join Me In Death – HIM
- The Fine Art of Poisoning – Jill Tracy
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Nerdy Goth problems…
me: So do you have recommendations for novels on vampires? Good ones? Not kiddie ones? Ones I haven’t read twice?
bookstore/librarian: The Historian, Dracula, Anne Rice’s original trilogy, Dark Dance, Fevre Dream, A Taste of Blood Wine, Sunshine, Anno Dracula, Carmilla—
me: ok good but I read them all
them: cool! How about–
me: I read it.
them: then there’s–
me: I read it.
them: ….
me: *sad bat noises*…………I have read them ALL.
- Interview w/ the Vampire w/ Bob’s Burgers
- w/ subtitles/captions
- please don’t remove these bullets ;}

Damn right! Antonio, Anyone?
y’know, as much as some ppl didn’t like him as Armand (and I will defend Antonio 5ever!), I could see him as Santino. Maybe part of the reason they cast him as Armand is that they really wanted Santino. Let’s pretend it’s Santino passing as Armand.
me: i love this movie
someone, inevitably: it’s not that great. here’s my 7 page analysis of why it’s not that great.
me: cool
me: i love this movie
I have a little doubt, are ricean vampires racist?

Y’know, that is a good question but also a tough one to answer. I’m sure there are academic articles on it (here’s one I skimmed, looks intriguing, thanks to takemetocoffin-or-losemeforever for the link!), and I did a movie!IWTV kill tally (according to the tally, 73% of the on-screen mortals killed were Caucasian).
I percolated on this with coldinhumanity, and the short answer is: Maybe, but if so, it’s unintentional. These are 200+ yr old vampires, and they have outdated conceptions of things.
In movie!IWTV: Louis kills Yvette, a poc, it was accidental. We see him struggling with it and trying to make Yvette leave him alone, but she seems to actually care about him, “Are you still our master at all? You must send away this friend of yours… they’re frightened of him. And they’re frightened of you.” I headcanon that they had a good relationship prior to his turning, maybe the best possible relationship under the circumstances.
Not saying that Louis was a fantastic slave owner, but we aren’t told negative things about him in that role, only that movie!Yvette (and I think it’s in book!IWTV, too) NOTICED his daytime absence in the fields, and seemed to want him back out there.
I think Anne Rice attempts to consider political concepts and weave them into her work if possible, but it’s not her main focus. Akasha’s idea for world peace was presented, and refuted. Was Akasha a misandrist? That’s not racism, but it’s hatred of a group of people who all share a certain characteristic having and/or being a dick, and AR strove to show us how impractical it was to try to remove them, 40% of the world’s population, in order to “improve” the remainder.
In the books, I’d say that:
- Anne Rice began the first one in the style of the Victorian-era gothic novels she loved, and emulated the way those novels exoticised anything that could be exoticised, such as, exotic people.
- The whole series are basically white men from the capitals of Europe.
- She has had some non-Caucasian vampires (I won’t spoil anything by mentioning them by name), who are typically from places that western history acknowledge as good and impressive, like Ancient Egypt and India.
I don’t think she intends to be racist, and her characters rarely have dialogue that would explicitly state such. In the narration, however, one could argue that there are implied racial opinions.

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#the resemblance is uncanny
//Well I have no idea who he is but the person who posted the original pic is Norwegian so I sent her a question about it. We’ll see if she replies.
//All hail my supreme internet skills – she didn’t recall his name but after some googling it turns out it’s Tristan Zieverink. He’s the brother of Jacko Zieverink, who also looks ridiculously like Tom Cruise and who was a contestant on The Voice Germany (singing Somebody To Love, hilariously enough, so it’s good classic rock genes all the way). And even better, there’s five of them in the family, and they have a band. For extra stalker points, his profile pics on facebook are public. You’re welcome! 😀
tHANK U! Excellent detective work coldinhumanity.
He can sing, and play guitar, and I mean just look at this guy! Here’s a much better shot:

And he has all these duplicative brothers zomg!:


^Hello, Far Left. I think that’s Tristan.
I love how werewolf/vampire/monster tv shows are now considered girl shows. Like, that genre is ours now. Fangs, claws, and the supernatural are now considered girl stuff, and that pleases me far more than I’d like to admit.






