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faeriemaiden

which is largely concerned with vampires

Jul 19, 2009 00:06

Attention particularly to goddessreason: there is a film coming out in September about John Keats and Fanny Brawne, and it looks spiffing. Unfortunately neither of them are vampires in it (no word on Byron however), but one cannot have everything, I suppose.

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lady_moriel July 19 2009, 05:19:08 UTC

Idea: it's semi-impossible for a human to understand the vampire mindset really well because vampires aren't human, therefore even Mr. Caruthers, having lived with them and all, would have a hard time doing so. But. Seeing as vampire things and vampire magic tend to involve blood, what if a considerable part of learning this black magic that he signed up for involved drinking vampire blood? Not much of it, obviously, but it would be a pretty regular thing, I imagine, enough that while he certainly wasn't turned, he was still sort of...steeped in vampirism, the vampire way of thinking, vampire stories really since all these stories/memories are in the blood. I'm sure he wouldn't be getting very distinct stories from individual vampires, for reasons I think you've talked about, but it would still be...well, enough of a composite of the way those stories/memories form/are processed/something that he has more of a sense than anyone else does of the vampire mindset. Because, I imagine, the vast majority of thralls--whatever their ( ... )

goddessreason July 19 2009, 12:26:39 UTC

YAY!!!!! Keats!!! No vampires though. Drat. We should begin plotting a way to see it now, since it probably won't come to our smelly theatre. And you know, someday we really must make our own farce about him, with Byron :P Byron makes everything so interesting.

faeriemaiden July 20 2009, 03:56:21 UTC

SPEAKING of Byron, found this tidbit while wandering through the intarwebs...

English poet Byron, back in the late 18th century, wrote this marvellous piece on the death of the hated Lord Castlereagh:

"Posterity will ne'er survey
A nobler grave than this.
Here lie the bones of Castlereagh
Stop, traveller, and piss"

Oh, Byron.

(You know what would be really brilliant? Dressing up as various Romantics for Halloween. Or perhaps steampunkified versions. Or, uh, the vampiric versions. :D)

goddessreason July 20 2009, 04:17:33 UTC

I officially love Lord Byron! That is the best epitaph ever.

Yes, that's a marvelous idea! And of course we'd steampunkify them. And we should all definitely be undead ;)

shadowempress July 19 2009, 14:36:08 UTC

I giggle at the movie news.Due to my costume habit, I have known about this movie for almost a year and have mentioned it to you and Hannah on various occasions. You should check out the movie website, cause it is pretty.

Yay for sordid pasts!

pearlessence July 20 2009, 14:11:43 UTC

I would like to be added to balladrie quicker than I can say something really short! :D Your story sounds tres intriguing. Poor Mr Caruthers (learning black magics from vampires will lead to nothing good, but it helps appease the insatiably curious? I suppose?).

And I'd love to see a film about John Keats and Fanny Brawne - I'll definitely have to find out more about it.

EDIT: And your idea for Halloween costumes is marvelous. Steampunk undead Romantics? Does it get any better than that? Apologies for semi-hijacking your thread, but I couldn't help it. :D?

lady_moriel July 22 2009, 05:17:04 UTC

OOH IDEA: So Mr Caruthers needs an actual reason to realize he's in deep crap and be willing to sell himself to the Ministry (just remembered it's the Department of the Paranormal--why is that, exactly? *runs to Wikipedia* Ah, Britain has both Ministries and Departments, and they're a little different, so...huh.), right? And also he doesn't do anything about being hopelessly in love with Evy for, like, ages, and even then doesn't think he should or that he deserves it or whatever RemusSo here is my idea: it sounds like some amounts of hooking up, associated with all this bad-magic/drugs stuff or otherwise, went on while Mr Caruthers was being a Bad Boy. So say that there's this girl, dunno if she'd be a hooker or a magic-dabbling hooker or a not-hooker dabbling in some of the magic he is, but whatever the case, it's someone he's involved with and grows to genuinely care for. And largely because of Mr Caruthers' influence/idea/whatever, they both become thralls in pursuit of magic--and maybe she figures out first that it's bad business ( ... )