Uncompromising idealism, haunted romanticism, fatal ennui, and a heady amount of scandal and vice: red roses and pale carnation with a draught of laudanum, smears of opium tar, a hint of absinthe, and mercury ointment.
My thoughts upon smelling this: “Well now I want to go have a midnight picnic in the garden. How difficult would it be to set up all the velvet throws and pillows, candelabras for enough light to read a book of antique ghost stories, and a tray with the absinthe, glasses, and the absinthe fountain? Far too ambitious a plan; I should just stay draped on the couch. Why oh why don’t I have a butler?”
Shelly, Byron, and Keats is one of my favorites from the Only Lovers Left Alive collection. I embrace my cliches so hard they squeak in mock-protest.
Out of the entire line of BPAL’s OLLA scents, Byron, Shelley, and Keats is my second-most favorite. Blood Popsicle still owns my heart, but the scent for the mad, bad, and dangerous to know poetry boys is a very close second.
If it isn’t possible for me to lounge on a velvet couch and read ghost stories right now, at least I can smell like it.
Mr. (or Ms.) Wrong illustration for the Ebony magazine July issue! The article is about the temptation of toxic relationships and how to recognize bad boys & girls you shouldn’t date. Who better to symbolize Mr. Wrong than a vampire lothario?? (don’t stare into his eyes!) More on my blog!
They need to scrap the idea of making The Vampire Chronicles into any more movies and just do a TV show called The Vampire Lestat on HBO or Showtime, or whatever. They can start with the second book, The Vampire Lestat (obvi), for season 1-Lestat’s origin, how he was turned, Nicholas, Marius, Louis, etc etc and see how it goes from there. There’s so much material, a 2 hour movie just isn’t enough for the characters or the storylines.
Yeah, and I’d be happy with a very freely adapted version of the books, a la what Hannibal does with Thomas Harris’s work. It could tell a lot of the same storylines without having to work its way through the books as written one by one, and they could play around a lot with inserting flashbacks as and when they wanted to either add new material or make the clunkier moments of storytelling in the books more concise.
I definitely see the physical resemblance and in that one page I see some character resemblance ;]
I enjoy seeing works inspired by other works, especially works inspired by VC!
Dany&Dany started out as VC fanartists and built a manga empire on those characters, specifically L/L, recasting them as different characters but retaining similar personalities and appearances, as if they were actors.
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