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2016:19 — What We Do in the Shadows
(2014 – Jemaine Clement, Taika Waititi) ****
Holy crap I didn’t know this movie had this many awesome poster-variants…
“Some interviews with some vampires”
Tonight, I need sleep, but tomorrow, I’d like to host a stream; OLLA I think, was the next on the list, but anything that will distract everyone, anything that we can all just watch together and enjoy.
most likely around 8 or 9 PM, New York City time.
#PERFECT JUST PERFECT #bring yer own blood popsicles
two vampire friends lying on the floor getting drunk and describing eachother because they can’t use mirrors don’t even try to tell me that isn’t adorable
for the first time in my life ive found something i may like about vampires
You know what’s even more adorable
They decide to try and draw each other
And they both have the drawing skills of toddlers
Let’s brace ourselves, folks. This one is gonna be a bumpy ride. I’ve already read enough about Tom’s moaning as Jonathan Harker in this 2012 radio play from BBC.
Oh, this is going to be FUN.
Already pre ordered, can’t wait for tomorrow 😀
Do I know anyone who has ordered this??? I’m on the fence about it! I disliked the style of Dracula but it’s David Suchet and Tom Hiddleston, so… Please help! 🙂
Sorry for the spam, but I’ve been binging your archive a bit and I’m wondering, just out of curiosity, how would you go about constructing at least somewhat science-y vampires?
That depends of course on what sort of vampire we’re aiming for. Infectious vampirism would require an infectious agents of course and there I would tend more towards viruses because they do muck around with DNA and protein construction so for physical changes that’d be neat.
At the same time, parasitic infectious a la The Strain are also really tempting, especially because it drifts over into ‘behavioural changes caused by parasites’ which is just hella cool, though I figure that those vampires would be sitting halfway between what we tend to think of as vampires and Umbrella Corp zombies.
If we’re going with non-infectious vampirism, the field of genetics is wiiiiide open, though personally I’m not a huge fan of the whole ‘super predator’ thing because again, evolution the straight C student. You wouldn’t get twilight-style ‘super attractive/fast/strong’ because frankly one of those would be perfectly sufficient and as we all know, the concept of evolution is to get a ‘good enough’ and that’s it. Look at cheetahs. They’re incredibly speedy, but like sighthounds they’re not terribly strong. They don’t need to be. If you can run your intended prey down and strangle-bite the exhausted gazelle, there’s no need for you to be able to rip it into two parts as well.
So like, you’re vampires are fabulously hot, chances are it’s a prey lure tactic and they’re not very fast. If you make them poisonous they might not even be very strong. On the other hands, if they’re ugly as sin you’re most likely looking at something that’s doesn’t need to make humans come close it so it probably *is* really speedy and/or strong enough to kill you before you can get away.
So uh yeah basically first you gotta settle on what sort of vampirism you want and then you gotta consider how you’d arrive at that particular kind through evolutionary sensible means (meaning with the last amount of effort). Thankfully nature provides for a lot of inspiration already if you want to wrangle out specific details.
Dearest Lestat (I hope it is alright to use your first name?) Other than your own, what is your favourite vampire book or series?
//Sorry, my Lestat can’t answer this one 😛 Since I haven’t read many other vampire books or series, I can’t consider what his opinion would be on them!
He’d probably be more into the vampire movies and graphic novels/comics than novels and series. Lestat was into
Sam Spade
comics before it was cool to be a giant nerd! ;D
He does read books, he did a lot of reading to educate himself on the state of the world in 1984, but remember how he felt about Gabrielle’s bookworminess: “I hated the sight of her books; I hated her absorption in them.”
[X by @so-bad-its-effin-awesome]
However, I did ask around and got some recs from other ppl about other vampire books/series Lestat might like:
- The Historian (for its worldliness),
- Dracula (for its stereotype-setting content),
- Lord Ruthven (Byronic vampire, Lestat doesn’t catch the irony of John Polidori’s mockery of the foppish, arrogant, and well…Lord-Byron-y vampire)
- Tanith Lee’s vampire series was out when Lestat was playing rockstar
- The Delicate Dependency, for romance and decadence.
- and also A Taste of Blood Wine, also for romance and decadence.
@riverofwhispers:
- Carmilla is good
- Anita Blake and Sookie Stackhouse books, but only the early ones.
- the Rachel Morgan series but again starts out good gets weird later and it’s not about vampires so much as there are vampires in it.
Anyone can reblog/comment and add to this what you think Lestat might like to read! We’ll make this a recc post under #vc adjacent recs.
When people are African American and they are turned what color is there skin?
What you’re really asking is “When people of color are turned, does their skin color change?” because not all African-Americans are people of color, and there are many people of color who are not African-Americans.
I have seen other vampires of color (”VoC”) in other media like Blade (1998), Blacula (1972), Vampire in Brooklyn (1995), Vamp (1986), Twilight Saga, True Blood (2008-2010), Vampire Diaries (2009-2010). The vampires I’m familiar with in those examples have retained their skin color.
You would probably get a better answer from @askavampirologist-blog, because I think they have a wider spectrum of vampire media knowledge than I do, since this blog is mostly about Ricean vampires.
For Ricean vampires, they retain their original skin color, and over a very long period of time, their skin does become lighter. You would have to ask AR directly why she wrote her novels this way, I’m not going to guess at her intentions on that.
Here’s a VoC in QOTD:
“Davis was a black Dead guy and one damned good-looking black Dead guy,… His skin had a gold glow to it, the Dead glow which in the case of white Dead guys made them look like they were standing in a fluorescent light all the time.”
^We don’t know how old this vampire is, but it appears that his own skin color acquired a “gold glow” when he was turned.
[^X] Akasha is an Egyptian VoC played in movie!QOTD by Aaliyah. According to Wiki, Aaliyah “was African American, and had Native American (Oneida) heritage from a grandmother.” Even though Aaliyah was not the same ethnicity of the fictional character, I was pleased that the filmmakers chose a person of color to play this vampire of color character. She was one of the best parts of the movie.
Akasha is described in the novels as having porcelain white skin because she is very old, and Ricean vampire physiology involves the lightening of the skin over time. This is a point of contention in the VC fandom, that AR has whitewashed her. I don’t have a stand on this partly because there is a debate as to what color the Ancient Egyptians’ skin really was. I have links to 2 articles about that, and some thoughts on the skin lightening issue, in a post from awhile back [X].
^This was from Vampires Suck (2010), a parody vampire movie, and aesthetically, I didn’t like the way they did the makeup for this vampire of color. He looks like someone assaulted him with baby powder! But that was probably intentional, to make him look unattractive? IDK maybe someone digs this look!
It’s a Halloween-themed Rohan! I did the line art, @remarried did the coloring!
Laynie did some excellent lines & I colored em 😀
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