#WANT #I want this bc of reasons
@gothiccharmschool, I think you need at least one of these, too.
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Speaking of guilty pleasures: a babyfaced Nixxi Sixx, reading The Vampire Lestat. I love this picture with giddy delight.
I have come to accept that this is my absolute favorite photo of Nikki Sixx.
Hello, I know you’re probably busy and flooded with asks. But I finally manage to get my hands on a velvet blazer (not the weather for it but I was thrifting so I wasn’t going to pass it up) and I was wondering what the proper way to take care of it, like washing and all that. Normally I give all thrifted items a good wash before even thinking of wearing them or hanging them up in my closet, but I vaguely remember reading somewhere that velvet shouldn’t go in the washer like regular clothing.
You’ve got a couple of options:
- A 1:10 mix of cheap vodka (cheap, unflavored, undrinkable vodka) and water in a spray bottle. Spray down the blazer, inside and out, and either toss it in the dryer for 30 minutes on low, or leave it outside in the sun for a few hours. (This is an old costumers’ trick, and is how I used to get club smoke out of my velvet dresses Back In The Day.)
- Get a Dryel “home drycleaning” kit (you want the “starter” kit). Use the booster spray on any stained places, thoroughly soaking them. Then toss the blazer into the special dryer bag, put one of the Dryel sheets in the bag, and toss the whole thing into the dryer for 30 minutes on high.
The one benefit the Dryel kit has over the the DIY vodka/water mixture is that the booster cleaning spray is AMAZING. So far, the only things I’ve not been able to remove from white fabric using it are chocolate and blood. (And OxyClean or similar works on those.) (Look, I occasionally have … issues with my gothic heroine nightgowns, okay?)
I am strongly considering spending all of Monday in a flowing nightgown, reading gothic romances. Not going anywhere, not doing any of the things I *have* to do, just … relaxing. With lurid fiction.
A brief history of goths, by Dan Adams. This is really well done.
BabyJenks00′s caption:
This is my version of Lestat from The Vampire Chronicles written by Anne Rice, I hope you like it…
I showed this picture to Anne Rice by facebook, she said it was “A tribute to the Brat Prince”
Here you can see link
Wanted to do a painterly illustration of Armand from Vampire Chronicles.
I think the scene from his mortal days where he’s whipped and then… the stuff that happens… has all these unexplored layers.Regret, reparations, the mixing of pleasure and pain and the guilt of seeing yourself as a victim- whether you see pain in your life as fate. Anyway, I love Armand’s character and his outbursts have always been fascinating!
I’d like to imagine that this scene is a vision he’s given himself. Going back to Venice and destroying it while his backside stings from lashes and the blood chills as it trickles downwards. A sheepish curl of his hand in his hair. The expression we cannot see. The hand clenching the beloved color of his master, maker, lover, etc.
BEAUTIFUL. Beautiful in the way that it’s a very delicate subject and I feel like @superhiki captured it with such tenderness and dignity… as @gothiccharmschool put it, re: Crimson Peak: “as my definition of goth/gothic is looking for “beauty and wonder in dark or unsettling places”.” (X) and this is an example of that for me *applauds*
I trust your judgment, so you have any vampire book recommendations that aren’t Anne Rice books? (Not that I dislike Rice’s work, it’s just that that’s everyone’s go-to when I ask this.)
Off the top of my head, and in no particular order:
- Salem’s Lot, by Stephen King
- Anno Dracula, by Kim Newman
- The Blood Opera trilogy (Dark Dance, Personal Darkness, Darkness I), by Tanith Lee
- The Blood Wine sequence (A Taste of Blood Wine, A Dance in Blood Velvet, The Dark Blood of Poppies, The Dark Arts of Blood), by Freda Warrington
- The Delicate Dependency, by Michael Talbot (the recently-published edition from Valancourt Books has a foreword by me!)
- Fevre Dream, by George R. R. Martin
- Lost Souls, by Poppy Z. Brite
- Midnight Blue: the Sonja Blue Collection, by Nancy Collins
- Still Life, by Michael Montoure
And, if you want super-sweet gothy YA vampires, the Vampire Kisses series by Ellen Schreiber are adorable.
-Sunshine by Robin McKinley
-The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova
-From the Dust Returned by Ray Bradbury
-Coldest Girl in Coldtown by Holly Black (where’s its cult following? because its really damn good for a vampire novel, lacking the over-sentimental-yet-emotionally-devoid clatter of a lot of YA books but not having the same levels of bitter cynicism that adult vampire novels have)
Do you have any book recommendations?
That is a very … broad question. What sort of books are you looking for?
However, some books I always recommend, in no particular order:
- Something Wicked This Way Comes, by Ray Bradbury.
- The Graveyard Book, by Neil Gaiman.
- The Bloody Chamber, by Angela Carter.
- The Haunting of Hill House, by Shirley Jackson.
- Anything and everything you can find by Terry Pratchett, but especially the Discworld books about the Witches.
- The Night Circus, by Erin Morgenstern.
- Dracula, by Bram Stoker
- The “original” three of The Vampire Chronicles by Anne Rice (Interview With the Vampire, The Vampire Lestat, The Queen of the Damned).
I trust your judgment, so you have any vampire book recommendations that aren’t Anne Rice books? (Not that I dislike Rice’s work, it’s just that that’s everyone’s go-to when I ask this.)
Off the top of my head, and in no particular order:
- Salem’s Lot, by Stephen King
- Anno Dracula, by Kim Newman
- The Blood Opera trilogy (Dark Dance, Personal Darkness, Darkness I), by Tanith Lee
- The Blood Wine sequence (A Taste of Blood Wine, A Dance in Blood Velvet, The Dark Blood of Poppies, The Dark Arts of Blood), by Freda Warrington
- The Delicate Dependency, by Michael Talbot (the recently-published edition from Valancourt Books has a foreword by me!)
- Fevre Dream, by George R. R. Martin
- Lost Souls, by Poppy Z. Brite
- Midnight Blue: the Sonja Blue Collection, by Nancy Collins
- Still Life, by Michael Montoure
And, if you want super-sweet gothy YA vampires, the Vampire Kisses series by Ellen Schreiber are adorable.
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