#clarimonde

I find it curious how in The Dead Lover (1839) Clarimonde has no hypnotic powers and needs to use sleeping pills to take blood from her victim despite her sleep-related power. Maybe hypnotic female vampires were not prominent yet in French literature? But imagine explaining to hypnotic vampires that yes I can create elaborate, vividly experienced dreams, no I cannot make someone swoon to feed on them.

I saw something when I was hiking with my mom the other day…

I comprehended at last the full horror of my situation, and the funereal and awful restraints of the state into which I had just entered became clearly revealed to me. To be a priest!—that is, to be chaste, to never love, to observe no distinction of sex or age, to turn from the sight of all beauty, to put out one’s own eyes, to hide for ever crouching in the chill shadows of some church or cloister, to visit none but the dying, to watch by unknown corpses, and ever bear about with one the black soutane as a garb of mourning for oneself, so that your very dress might serve as a pall for your coffin.

Apex Society Pinups: Clarimonde

Heyyyy guys, I finally drew Clarimonde! I was just gonna do a silly little doodle, but I was having too much fun with the colouring and suddenly locked tf in with the shading. I’m not putting my usual “ignore the hands” warning here, since Ibis Paint had some handy tracing sketches that i used to cheat a little with the hands so they don’t look as weird as usual.

"Aquele amor nascido havia poucos instantes enraizara-se de maneira indestrutível; não pensava em arrancá-lo, sabia que era impossível. Aquela mulher apoderara-se totalmente de mim, um olhar apenas havia sido suficiente para modificar-me; ela soprara-me seu desejo; eu não vivia mais em mim, mas nela e por ela."

baron vordenberg mention!!! the true og vampire-hating career hunter, finally someone remembered him. he only appears at the end unfortunately, but if you adapted a full carmilla movie with backstories, he'd exactly who people think van helsing is. minus the catholic zealously vas helsing is given.