Have you read other classic vampire stories like Dracula, Polidori's the Vampyre and such?
I need to get around to reading the vampyre and others but
I FUCKING LOVE DRACULA!!!!! I LOVE LUCY AND MINA AND JOHNATHAN AND VAN HELSING AND QUINCY AND JACK AND ARTHUR AND DRACULA AND HIS ROOMMATES WHO HATE HIM!!!!! GRAHHH!!!!!!
Carmilla tells Laura how she got attacked,
“I was all but assassinated in my bed, wounded here,” she touched her breast, “and never was the same since.” “Were you near dying?” “Yes, very—a cruel love—strange love, that would have taken my life. Love will have its sacrifices. No sacrifice without blood.”
It takes us back to this, near the beginning. Carmilla telling Laura that she once suffered the same illness as these dead and dying girls (which are her victims),
“Then you have been ill?” I asked. “More ill than ever you were,” she answered. “Long ago?” “Yes, a long time. I suffered from this very illness; but I forget all but my pain and weakness, and they were not so bad as are suffered in other diseases.” “You were very young then?” “I dare say, let us talk no more of it.”
Carmilla knows exactly how she was attacked, how it felt, and what the dying process is. She doesn't want, or cannot by the oath, reveal that it killed her and turned her into a vampire. But she does attempt to talk about it. For how many decades has she hidden it? It hurt, and she has to stop herself from saying more, has to justify herself, until she too bites Laura, to give her the same affliction so to join Carmilla in undeath.
Guys, we've talked about this.
Thank you for the PSA, and it’s certainly good advice! I am happy to report that in this particular photoset we’re looking at a temporary holding tank, possibly being used to keep a lab employee safe during a routine water test. There is a strict no-shared-space policy for outside contractors at reputable spirit preserves, both to keep the ghost from becoming frustrated at its inability to approach what it perceives as prey, and to ensure the safety of outside parties. Training sessions focusing heavily on positive reinforcement are used to get the ghost accustomed to the holding tank as well as short trips between the pond and an appropriate secured location. Many health checks and enrichment activities can be conducted directly at the water source, but sometimes a more controlled environment is required. Please be assured that the ghost in the photographs is doing ‘well’. ☆⌒( ＾ ▽ ゜)
I call this series: Scraps from the Ipad (I don’t remember drawing any of these)
Carmilla is not original conflicted vampire in literature. Varney the Vampire was conflicted vampire in 1840s already. He even committed suicide by throwing himself into Mount Vesuvius to end it all. Many of today's standard vampire tropes also originated in Varney: Varney has fangs, leaves two puncture wounds on the necks of his victims, comes through a window to attack a sleeping maiden, has hypnotic powers, and has superhuman strength.
Carmilla was influenced and inspired by Varney. All other multi-dimensional vampires or takes on vampires exist also thanks to Varney.
I admit that you got me there, BUT Carmilla does have something that Varney does not have which is pure unfiltered inmortal teenage angst. And yeah! It's really interesting to see how all of the tropes about vampires that we have today sort of pile from every single vampire related piece of literature that has one. It's almost like a collaborative work that spawned from centuries ago that is still going to this day to build what literature calls classic vampire stories.
Let's see what we can trace from the beginning until we run into Carmilla:
Wow... those are lots of vampires!
Edit: Christabel, Aurelia, and Alinska added thanks to the important note of @wiliecoyotegenius!
The Shiver of the Vampires (Jean Rollin, 1971)
A follow up to this previous Mircalla comic
Laura reading Shakespeare to Carmilla? He likes quoting Shakespeare apparently, who they read to keep up with their English, and Carmilla is likely more familiar with local literature, so it would be probably something different for her.
LOVE THIS SO MUCH
(I know this is like The R&J quote but let me have this carmie loves melodrama)
Watson is ALWAYS ready to hit someone.
“‘Give me the word and I’ll thrash the hide off them.’”
“I could have struck him across the face.”
Dr. John "Catch These Hands" Watson.
He's a healer, but...
How beautiful she looked in the moonlight!
my favorite hobby is putting them in Situations.
CARMILLA + adaptations You are mine, you shall be mine, you and I are one forever. @lgbtqcreators — creator bingo / adaptations
