Sh loss

Cute outfit that screams “I’m gonna kill my ex girlfriend”

before the vows

I'm taking the plunge!! CARMILLA EPISODE 1 IS NOW ON WEBTOON 🦇❤️

The art of Mary Syring

“But to die as lovers may—to die together, so that they may live together. Girls are caterpillars while they live in the world, to be finally butterflies when the summer comes; but in the meantime there are grubs and larvae, don’t you see—each with their peculiar propensities, necessities and structure. So says Monsieur Buffon, in his big book, in the next room.” Carmilla Chap 4

Caterpillars, larvae, are not just a term for biology. Le fanu studied law at Trinity College so Latin would be a language he would have to have some familiarity with. It is not unlikely he would have been aware that a larva/larvae in its original Roman context is a mask used to represent dead ancestors. Representing the dead larvaa became associated with lemures, the restless dead who died violently or who were not buried with appropriate funery rituals.

Taking the Roman idea of a larva, Carmilla could be read using a double meaning describing girls as caterpillars/larvae. It would certainly pertain to her, a vampire. She was murdered and became undead. Carmilla is as much as telling Laura she is a vampire but wrapping it in the language of science with larva's better known meaning Carmilla's true nature remains masked, a larva. Caterpillars metaphorically die to become butterflies but she wants Laura to die to become a vampire with her. One kind of larva to the next.

There is a neat video by an Italian professor of magic and the occult who talks about larva as the Romans understood them and how those ideas transferred to modern occult practices which is worth watching as Halloween comes along. Angela Pucca at Angela's Symposium is a great site if occult and esoteric knowledge is your interest.

Benz and Chang, “After Carmilla, 1916”

Carmilla’s ultimate desire is to make Laura her eternal bride… or maybe she’s just her next meal. Neither Carmilla nor the reader can say for sure…

✨ 𝕮𝖆𝖗𝖒𝖎𝖑𝖑𝖆 ✨

The ultimate sapphic vampire crossover. Carmilla from Castlevania and Carmilla from the 1872 gothic novel by Le Fanu. It came to me one evening when I was chatting with @belciiboo , after my reread of Carmilla, that I needed to see these two in each others arms, dripping with blood, a scene of beauty, gore, intimacy, and a dash of horror.

1910s:

Les Vampires (1915-1916)

1920s:

Genuine: The Tragedy of a Vampire (1920)

Nosferatu (1922)

1930s:

Dracula (1931)

Vampyr (1932)

The Vampire Bat (1933)

Mark of the Vampire (1935)

Condemned to Live (1935)

Dracula’s Daughter (1936)

1940s:

Return of the Vampire (1943)

Son of Dracula (1943)

House of Dracula (1945)

The Vampire's Ghost (1945)

1950s:

I Vampiri (1957)

The Vampire (1957)

Blood of Dracula (1957)

Horror of Dracula (1958)

The Return of Dracula (1958)

Blood of the Vampire (1958)

1960s:

Blood and Roses (1960)

The Brides of Dracula (1960)

Slaughter of the Vampires (1962)

Crypt of the Vampire (1964)

Castle of Blood (1964)

Blood Bath (1966)

Dracula: Prince of Darkness (1966)

The Fearless Vampire Killers (1967)

A Taste of Blood (1967)

Le viol du vampire (1968)

Blood of Dracula's Castle (1969)

1970s:

The Vampire Lovers (1970)

The Velvet Vampire (1971)

Dark Shadows (1971)

The Shiver of the Vampires (1971)

The House That Dripped Blood (1971)

The Blood Splattered Bride (1972)

Daughters of Darkness (1971)

Requiem pour un vampire (1972)

Blacula (1972)

Dracula A.D. (1972)

Vampyres (1974)

Alucarda (1977)

Dracula (1979)

Salem’s Lot (1979)

Nosferatu the Vampyre (1979)

1980s:

The Hunger (1983)

Fright Night (1985)

Vamp (1986)

Near Dark (1987)

The Lost Boys (1987)

Nightmare Classics: Carmilla (1989)

1990s:

Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1992)

Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1992)

Interview with the Vampire (1994)

Dracula: Dead and Loving it (1995)

Vampire in Brooklyn (1995)

From Dusk till Dawn (1996)

Two Orphan Vampires (1997)

Vampires (1998)

Blade (1998)

2000s:

Queen of the Damned (2002)

Underworld (2003)

Van Helsing (2004)

Let the Right One In (2008)

2010s:

Dark Shadows (2012)

Only Lovers Left Alive (2013)

Dracula Untold (2014)

Curse of Styria (2014)

A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night (2014)

What We Do In The Shadows (2014)

The Invitation (2019)

Carmilla (2019)

2020s:

Last Voyage of the Demeter (2023)

Renfield (2023)

Nosferatu (2024)

Abigail (2024)