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Do you think all/most vampires react to blood the same way, or that their taste for it varies? I know Varney dislikes the taste of blood in canon, but I don't know if that's common in other stories. The vampire women in Dracula lick their lips and act like they're about to feast well, which might mean they like it (and probably another metaphor for scary sexual appetite). OH I think Clarimonde shows a liking for blood, yet guilt about having to take it (or at least her lover's).
On a related note, do you incorporate the drafted inability to appear accurately in paintings, or appearing corpse-like or blackened in photos?
I absolutely hold that preference for blood varies depending on both the vampire and the victim, but evidence for vampire taste preferences is scant in the literature; not only is the actual physical act of blood drinking seldom given much importance in these stories, but a surprising number of vampires don't seem to need actual blood at all. (This makes a certain amount of sense: blood is just a stand-in for life force, and different vampires have other ways of getting at it.)
I love the idea of vampires looking fucked up in depictions, but it's definitely not a trait common to all vampires. For one, this trait in Stoker's lore is linked to his vampires not having reflections or casting shadows, and multiple vampires in other stories are explicitly mentioned as having one or the other (Alinska and Clarimonde definitely have normal reflections, and Liatoukine definitely casts a shadow). I think Kostaki and the boys should get to appear fucked up on camera, though, as a treat.
THE FRENCH FUJOSHI: and you will put ze tips of your penise togezher, oui? and you will insert yourself into 'iz boyhole, oui?

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Which is prev?
Unmarried girl
Apologist
Craftsman who works with a wheel
Archivist
Dying person
Educator
Girl
Jurist
Knife sharpener
Lawyer
Librarian
I am at least 3 of these and so curious what y'all are gonna pick
Poland and Romania shared a border less than a hundred years ago
Fragment by Byron really is more readable than the Vampyre (ok not a feat, but...), more somber and ritualistic, Darvell is already fascinating, and it's just the prologue of an unfinished bigger story. https://readerslibrary.org/wp-content/uploads/Fragment-of-a-Novel.pdf
From a reviewer of this who you will agree with: Included is Lord Byron’s “Fragment of the Novel,” which is haunting and evocative. (You may have heard that Byron is a pretty good writer.) “Fragment” was only released to demonstrate that Byron had not written John William Polidori’s “The Vampyre,” which is not nearly so haunting nor evocative. Its final line, “Lord Ruthven had disappeared, and Aubrey’s sister had glutted the thirst of a Vampyre!” makes this 21st century reviewer wonder how anyone could have thought this Byron’s work.
Huh. It's definitely more readable; Byron can actually make the interminable-sentences-strung-together-by-semicolons work, whereas Polidori just seems to be rationing periods. The prose is more evocative, mostly because it's actually comprehensible.
In terms of plot I think it's not really fair to compare the two; the unfinished nature of this one gives it an advantage, I think, in that your imagination is allowed to run wild with the directions it could take. I know mine certainly is.
My knee-jerk impression is that this one feels gayer, though that might be partially due to the first-person POV. I want to read Darvell's line with the stork and the snake as a threat directed at the POV character, rather than some conveniently appearing sister or girlfriend of his, but I have no way to prove the story would've gone in that direction. I'm intrigued by the amount of ritual surrounding Darvell's death and (presumed) resurrection; it makes me wonder what the literary vampire would look like in a universe where a finished version of this took off, rather than Polidori's slop.
The 21st century reviewer has left out the hackiest part of Polidori's ending: the formatting. In the Project Gutenberg edition of The Vampyre, the final word "Vampyre" appears in all caps.
"life is so hard for men because *starts describing the events of a mafia city ad*"
this happens every day and yet people believe men arent oppressed
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Vintage hardcover editions of Leaves of Grass Walt Whitman
Whitman Illuminated: Song of Myself
Illustrator, Allen Crawford, has produced this fabulous hand lettered version of Walt Whitman’s iconic poem. The entire 256-page book has been drawn by entirely by hand with each page focussing on a particular verse.
Since it was published a couple of years ago it has since won two illustration awards; one from International Illustration and one from the Society of Illustrators. You can get a copy here.
Happy birthday, Walt Whitman (b. 31 May 1819)
A noiseless, patient spider, I mark’d, where, on a little promontory, it stood, isolated; Mark’d how, to explore the vacant, vast surrounding, It launch’d forth filament, filament, filament, out of itself; Ever unreeling them—ever tirelessly speeding them. And you, O my Soul, where you stand, Surrounded, surrounded, in measureless oceans of space, Ceaselessly musing, venturing, throwing,—seeking the spheres, to connect them; Till the bridge you will need, be form’d—till the ductile anchor hold; Till the gossamer thread you fling, catch somewhere, O my Soul.
I LOVE COLLABORATIVE SOTRYTELLING I LOVE CREATING THINGS TOGETHER I LOVE "YES AND"ING WITH OTHERS I LOVE "NO BUT WHAT ABOUT-"S I LOVE HEARIJG MY FRIENDS' IDEAS I LOVE BOUNDING OFF OF THEM I LOVE ART I LOVE STORIES I LOVE ALL THE DIFFERENT PASSIONS AND SKILLS REQUIRED I LOVE ALL THE DIFFERENT MEDIA IT TAKES I LOVE I LOVE I LOVE

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