Tag Archives: blood tw
“Black Star” – Radiohead, video by FIORIOUS & Interview with the Vampire mashup.
Parody video made under Fair Use. Captions included.
@ces-delices-violents helped inspire this!
^It’s not pretty, but please do not remove this info.
Horror Vacui
Exploring the darkness 2/?
A memorable scene of Lestat finding piles of blond haired corpses in Magnus’ tower.
Bodies were collected from various 19th century French paintings and arranged into an almost ornamental composition. The main source of inspiration being of course Gericault (The Raft of Medusa and studies). As in his works, the drawing explores the fragility of human body and the limits of human desperation when it comes to surviving.
“In a deep prison cell lay a heap of corpses in all states of decay, the bones and rotted flesh crawling with worms and insects. Rats ran from the light of the torch, brushing past my legs as they made for the stairs. And my nausea became a knot in my throat. The stench suffocated me.
But I couldn’t stop staring at these bodies. There was something important here, something terribly important, to be realized. And it came to me suddenly that all these dead victims had been men – their boots and ragged clothing gave evidence of that – and every single one of them had yellow hair, very much like my own hair. The few who had features left appeared to be young men, tall, slight of build. And the most recent occupant here – the wet and reeking corpse that lay with its arms outstretched through the bars – so resembled me that he might have been a brother.” – The Vampire Lestat
#one of my fave scenes of course #bc i am gross apparently #is when Lestat sees this horror and tosses his cookies and then
#well #eats the tossed cookies again bc 5 second rule right?
‘Fledgling’ – Vampire concept portrait. A mixture of youthful beauty and horror.
-exploring the darkness, 1/?-
Did that scene ever happen? Was that another one of Armand’s lies? It doesn’t matter. I wanted to explore the classical motive of David with Goliath’s head, here inevitably twisted, losing its victorious aspect, leaving only the figure of a young boy, holding a severed head.
I hope to God that this story was just something that Armand made up; somehow trying to intimidate the others, displaying the cruelty he could be capable of. This whole section though had me enthralled, the middle section of TVA was some of Rice’s best writing in my opinion, and the image of this–the Botticelli cherub, dressed in dusty and outdated but once opulent 18th century clothing, beneath the Paris streets, the stench of rot, old graves, and the filth of the city permeating through the earth, in a dark room lit by greasy tapers of tallow candles, hacking apart the body of this thing, this abomination as he sees her, this obstacle to his newest fascination, that of Louis, and he will demolish her, just as the hands were removed from the violinist in a mad attempt to reach Lestat again, this devil with an angel’s face capable of Lucifer’s cruelty–its a world of obscenity for its beauty, sublime in its composition of a clash of ideals, and shows like two unlikely titans of evil within the series as the most innocent in the face.
As always, perfectly captured by the wonderful @sheepskeleton
“I tried to grant her fondest wish, that she should have the body of a woman,
a fit shape for the tragic dimension of her soul.
…Enough. I won’t relive it.
I will not.
I never loved her. I didn’t know how.”
– The Vampire Armand
An Impossible Guide to: Blood Loss
Blood loss in fiction is often written very unrealistically. So here’s a short guide about blood loss and the effects to help you out a little.
First of all: The average healthy adult human body contains around 5 litres of blood. A healthy person can lose 10%-15% of their total blood volume without experiencing any difficulties and blood donations usually take 8%-10% of the donor’s blood.
Now let's get to the facts about blood loss:Class I Hemorrhage | 0%-15% | Minimal blood loss
No change in vitals, you may experience anxiousness. In almost all cases blood transfusion won’t be necessary. You will LIVE
Class II Hemorrhage | 15%-30% | Mild blood loss
Rapid heart beat and decrease in pulse pressure. Rapid breathing. Skin may start to lose temperature and start to look pale. You may feel anxious, irritable and confused. In most cases blood transfusion won’t be necessary. You will LIVE
Class II Hemorrhage | 30%-40% | Moderate blood loss
Heart rate increases. Shock. Mental status worsens. Blood pressure drops. Lightheadedness/dizziness. Nausea. Blood transfusion is necessary. If you get help in time, you will LIVE
Class IV Hemorrhage | >40% | Severe blood loss
Symptoms intensify. Probably unconscious. Aggressive resuscitation is required to prevent death. Losing >40% of your total blood volume may be fatal, you will probably DIE.
The chances of surviving after losing 3 litres of blood are REALLY low, the average person doesn’t survive this, so please don’t write a scene where a character loses that much blood without dying. It’s not really realistic.
by florbe91
Do you happen to know the source for this supposed fanart of Akasha?
http://40.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mbvxy8u54D1qgvdlno1_500.jpg
I keep seeing it on pinterest with that URL as the source, & no matter how much I search it, I can’t seem to find the tumblr post it came from or the artist!
@allthe-lace-and-velvet, I did a reverse image search with google and didn’t find very good source for your pic. Looks like this image is posted with the wrong description (and I am pretty damn sure it’s titled wrong as “Strider (Aragorn)”) in this artist’s portfolio. Artist is listed as Mark Satchwill. If you look at his portfolio, this looks like this style.
Posting here in case someone else knows the source or can do a more thorough search than I did. People, sign your work! Watermarks are ok, too! So that we can give credit where it’s due *u*
I-want-my-IWTV 
