Pandora wondered at how un-hurt her eyes were after staring
into the fire so closely for so long. She remembered as a human staring at the
fires so hard, so lost in the thoughts that they fueled, that she had cried. Now
she was extremely close to the fires of the open hearth and had already been
running her fingers over the licking flams unburnt, even though Marius had
several times forbid her to do so. He hadn’t seen her doing it, he hadn’t looked
her way all morning. She turned to him now, sitting in one of his chairs,
staring down at a book but not reading it. He was trying to not go down before
the parents. He had shut himself away in the crypt of the Mother and Father so
long and so often now, that he hardly did anything else. They had already had
several fights about it. She told him how she understood unconditionally, but
also warned him that it could be not healthy, it could turn dark on him like quicksand
so undetectable and nearly inescapable. It depended on what he was thinking down
there, what he was feeling. And since he had the mind to keep all these sacred
and pleading thoughts to himself she had no way of helping him. She had wept at
his misunderstandings and his lack of trust in her. But still he went down to
be alone with Akasha and Enkil.
All sports are gay and I’ve been preaching this forever
fun fact: the media keeps trying to imply that diego costa (white jersey) bit gareth barry (blue jersey) out of some sort of hetero football-rage during the game but barry insists it wasn’t a bite which is apparently a hard concept for the football association to grasp cause they cant think of any other explaination for the above image lmao
That ain’t no bite
I think my favorite part of this gif is the third guy walking by in the background, who judging by his expression is pretty sure he’s just won the league-wide betting pool on when these dudes will finally break down and admit their love.
♛I took to these modern products right away, and they come in flavors, some of them have warming effects, it’s dazzling!
But you know, there were such things before there were specific products for them. I preferred grapeseed oil, but you can use other oils. Contrary to popular belief, spit dries very quickly. Too fast to be of much use for this purpose.
Now, blood as lube took me longer to adjust to.
Our blood is thicker than mortal blood, and dries slowly, but even so… sometimes it’s easy to look at the landscape of my lover’s writhing body, see the blood that I’ve drawn or applied, and feel a frisson of dissonance. That I haven’t actually done them harm, unless that was exactly what they demanded from me…
For us, anywhere that can be bitten or cut can be an erogenous zone *winks*
painting of St. Sebastian by Guido Reni used for the cover of Violin.* And I know not every dude-w/-his-hands-tied-above-his-head counts as a St. Sebastian reference but still, it’s interesting to consider whether it might be.
“St Sebastian (feast day January 20th)has become something of a gay icon, as saints go. Partly, perhaps, because it’s an opportunity to depict a curly-haired semi-nude youth in light bondage. It has to be said this isn’t how Sebastian died, or how he was originally depicted. Sebastian miraculously survived being shot with arrows and was healed by Irene of Rome. He continued to denounce the emperor Diocletian, who had him clubbed to death in the year 288.
The tendency to depict Sebastian as a handsome youth pierced with arrows began in the 14th Century when Europe was being ravaged by the plague of the Black Death.
See how the two ‘Sebastians’ in the modern version above look entirely unperturbed by the arrows protruding from their torsos?There is a long tradition of Sebastian looking unaffected by his plight: corruption fails to touch him and that made him proof against plague. Sebastian occupied an important place in medieval religion as a protector against plague. He was seen as a saint whose prayers would work.”[X]
*The lighting on the cover may be distorting the colors and contrast of the original painting, and I’m not even sure that’s the original painting, got that from here [X]… but these changes seem obvious:
changed the trees in the BG,
blended the nips in a little more by changing their color,
rounded his face somewhat (tho, that O could be just making it look rounder)
moved the armpit arrow,
added a tummy arrow,
changed the angle of Left Ribcage Arrow a little bit,
lengthened his hair a little,
reduced the shadows in the Adonis muscle area, too sexy?
I headcanon that they are pretty clean creatures, unless they have a messy kill or a particularly adventurous night 😉
They do love all kinds of creature comforts, tho, so I’d imagine Lestat especially loves baths. Louis is like a cat and has to be dragged into any body of water! Louis
dislikes unnatural chemical scents, so he doesn’t like most scented products, unless they are legitimately natural.
Louis and Lestat are my OTP. I think they can be very romantic. However, I think that Lestat constantly ruins romantic situations. The shampoo unicorn horn will ruin the sexy candlelight bath any time.
I apologise for the lack of frocks midear :’) but when asked to do a fanart of Lestat & Louis that includes “Fluff and Love”… i couldnt help but interpret that immediately as ‘Of course fluff and love between those two scoundrels would be raunchy, rough and slightly NSFW’ hahaha.
…My brain, honestly *shakes head.*
Anyhoo, Merry Christmas all and i hope you like it! 😀
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