JUST WAIT!!! - Blog Posts

freddie draw something other than a disheveled viper after a race challenge FAILED

the dca fandom is genuinely the healthiest fandom I've ever been in. like everyone is so supportive of all the aus and different versions of sun and moon aaahhh I love you guys

I just learned how to use HTML codes and imma make it everyones problem. Like I use dark mode on here so all the text is already white but I could use an HTML code that will make it to where users on light mode cant even see the words. I could do some evil with this.

I need your votes!

I’m dropping a new piece this week and I need to title it before it goes on display! Here’s a sneak peak~

This was a 100+ hour personal project, woven with literal months of blood, sweat, and tears, and as an anthroponymy lover, I want this name to be special. I'm thinking something along the lines of hypnosis and trances because if you've ever locked eyes with a large bird, it's creepy intense. (When asked about my obsession with birds: Well they're the descendants of dragons, of course.)

Some single names brainstorms: Halo (it'll make sense when you see the final, but does the name sound cool?), Dispel, Luminesce, The Trance, stuff like that

Dramatic Adjective + Dramatic Noun format brainstorms:

Fractured Halo

Dark Halo

Fissured Sun(set)

Fissured Halo

Ruptured Sun

Sunset crown

Broken Trance

Crown of Thunder yikes these sound like really bad ya novel titles I'll stop now

AHHH I can't decide! I don't want to let go of this project yet and I think this title procrastination is my way of drawing it out. Please support or shoot down these ideas, or suggest new ones!

EDIT: Okay we're going with "Aura" but it's subject to change 😋

JUST YOU PEOPLE WAIT UNTIL I CAN ART AND WRITE!! THE AMOUNT OF FANFICS AND FANARTS OF MY OTPS WILL MULTIPLY BY TENTHS, I WILL SINGLE HANDEDLY CARRY MY OTP FANDOMS; JUST YOU PEOPLE WAIT!! Art block and writers' block will not hinder me...In the future. But as of now, I will die by their hands.

I’m just trying to demonstrate how careless Max is with Eleven’s powers. In fact, how careless all of you are. You’re treating her like some kind of machine when she’s not a machine, and I don’t want her to die looking for the flayed when they’ve obviously vanished off the face of the Earth.

PLEASE STOP CRYING ABOUT BAYO AND LUKA TOGETHER. IT'S A ALTANATE UNIVERS!!!! OUR BAYO FROM 2 MAY BE WITH JEANNE. THIS BAYO IN THIS GAME IS NOT THE SAME PERSON FROM THE PREVIOUS GAMES. LOOK I HAVE A FEELING THAT THEIR GOING TO MAKE SIDE GAMES ABOUT EACH INDIVIDUAL BAYO IN THE PREVIOUS GAMES. IT'S LIKE FINAL FANTASY.

DON'T GET YOU PANTIES IN A BUNCH.

The (Gay) Origins of Vampires in British Literature

Thanks to the absolute joy that is Dracula Daily, I thought now might be a good time to talk about the origins of the vampire in British literature. I am a 19th century scholar who focuses on the Gothic, so while by no means an expert on vampires, I do have some understanding of how the genre came to be and boy, is it as wild and petty and as you'd hope it to be.

In order to understand how vampires came to be the aristocratic, blood sucking sex symbols they are today, let's first lay some ground work on how the tradition made it's way to Britain:

The vampire is a folkloric figure from Central and Eastern Europe, the Balkans, Turkey, and Greece. In 1701, French botanist Joseph Pitton de Tournefort was touring the island of Mykonos and recounted in his A Voyage to the Levant (1702) his experience witnessing the locals dig up the grave of a suspected Vrykolakas and cut the heart from its chest.

A century later, the Romantic poet Robert Southey cites de Tournefort's Voyage in his epic poem Thalaba the Destroyer (1801). The poem does not outright use the word "vampire" and the turning of the main character's love interest into a vampire is a minor plot point, but Southey's work draws a direct line of how the vampire tradition jumped from Greece to England.

Now here's where it gets interesting.

It involves (of course it does) everybody's favorite 19th century bad boy, Lord Byron.

Byron's poem The Giaour (rhymes with shower) is the first mention of a vampire in the English literary canon. His vampire falls more in line with the folkloric vampire as a blood drinking corpse than a debonair aristocrat. How Byron learned about vampires is not clear. He could have learned about them from Southey or de Tournefort, or encountered the legend during his own travels in Greece. Either way, Byron didn't really care for vampires. He thought they were dumb.

ENTER THE FAMOUS GHOST STORY NIGHT AT LAKE GENEVA

Scene: Mary and Percy Shelley. Mary's step sister Claire, Lord Byron, his doctor John Polidori, probably a ton of opium, and definitely a lot of sexual tension.

While most people know that Mary Shelley wrote Frankenstein during this time, it's also worth noting that Byron started writing what was called A Fragment, or a Fragment of a Novel which featured an aristocratic traveler/vampire. However, Byron got bored with it and decided to drop the whole thing.

Not so much for Dr. John Polidori. Polidori worshipped Byron. He wanted to be Byron. He most likely wanted to bed Byron and Byron had the gall to laugh and call him "Polly Dolly" and refuse to give him the time of day.

So Polidori got his revenge by taking over Byron' s fragment and turning it into The Vampyre (1819). The entire novel is a thinly veiled jab at Byron and his hedonistic living. To make matters worse, the public thought Byron wrote it which infuriated Polidori who just wanted to shame Byron who laughed the entire thing off and said he would never write anything so trashy.

Once again, you can blame Lord Byron for something. The aristocratic, seductive vampire is (indirectly) because of him.