I had hoped that I would be spending the last month of this 365 project neatly tying off loose ends, conducting elegantly crafted Seasonal-Giving-related Unscientific Polls, deftly weaving in small photography projects, and composing a beautiful tear-jerker of a final post.

Staring at a DW inbox that indicates I have 450+ unanswered comments and a recent string of access-locked posts all of which boil down to either "I'm sick" or "I'm exhausted" or both, I suspect that the envisioned triumphant gallop over the finish line, waving proudly at the cheering crowds, shall instead be a limp sweaty crawl followed by crumpling ignominiously to the floor.

Nevertheless, I shall carry on for the few remaining days. Today, I have a Seasonal Giving request as opposed to an offer.

My friend Rose Sinister began publishing her Vampires podcast this year, and it has slowly been gathering momentum. I was hooked from the first episode, being a vampire fangirl, though without Rose's depth of knowledge and capacity for mixing captivating story-telling with astute observation and a knack for dissecting works in light of the social and temporal contexts of their creators. With maybe more than a bit of an intersectional-feminist slant. I have listened avidly to all nine episodes so far on Spotify. My favourites are Episode 3 ("Underworld"), Episode 5 ("Let the Right One In", which coincidentally came out the weekend I was in Sweden and which I listened to on the train ride from Stockholm to Uppsala), and the most recent Episode 9 ("Dracula", part 1).

Will you consider, as a Seasonal Gift to me, becoming a Patreon support of Rose Sinister, so she can continue to produce her podcast? You can do so here. If you decide to become a patron, and are comfortable telling me about it, please do in the comments on this post, or PM me. Thank you.
(I'm playing fast and loose with the topic order, I'm afraid, since I got interrupted by conference + intensive document writing. I promise I'll get to all of them. Right now I need a break and so I'm choosing a fluffy topic.)

(Content note: All the m15m links here contain MASSIVE SPOILERS.)

[personal profile] alwayswondered wanted to know: Your top three vampire films!

I love vampire films. In fact I love most of the film-based incarnations of Dracula, even when they're really bad. I also love the book and re-read it regularly. It has such strong religious overtones. Everyone seems to forget this, including me! You might think that it would put me off, seeing as I'm a firmly established non-theist, but I really like the way a very particular Victorian morality is explicitly woven into the story, and Van Helsing's at times rather long-winded characterisation of Mina as the perfect Christian woman.

I digress. I'm not in any way completist about watching vampire films, so my experience with them is fairly haphazard and related to various periods in my life when I had the leisure time either to look them up or went to the cinema to see them. There are just a few that I will happily put on (kind of like Red Dwarf) and watch them for comfort.

  1. Underworld: Yep. I love this film so much. I love Kate Beckinsale rocking the pleather, and kicking much werewolf (and later, vampire) bottom, and doing it because she's decided sod it, she won't be chained by any sense of obligation that she hasn't chosen herself. I love it so much I have done projects for art classes based on it, and wrote an m15m of it. I have also written fanfic of it, which I'm not linking to because this post is public. I'm not too much in love with the two sequels, as the second one is incoherent and the third features zero Kate Beckinsale kicking bottom. But the fourth is inching its way up my list of favourites because Kate Beckinsale is back, and she's mum to a baby girl vamplycan who also kicks much bottom. Honestly, it's like these films are released at the points in my life where they resonate with me most.

  2. Blade: This one has fallen somewhat out of favour with me as I've gotten older and had more difficulty enjoying problematic things, but it rates being on the list because I've watched it so many times (and done fanart based on it, and an m15m of it. No fanfic though). I can still sorta forgive it for its misogyny and I can almost forget I know Wesley Snipes is a massive idiot. But most of the reason I loved it anyway was that it looked fantastic, ended in a very silly manner and had some fabulous dialogue. From my m15m:

    BLADE: Some motherfuckers are always trying to ice-skate uphill.
    BLADE:. …
    BLADE: Seriously, this movie should have ended right there.

  3. Priest: This is a new entry and at the moment is fending off various iterations of Dracula that sit below it. I think it's moody, strong-jawed fellows who spend a lot of time looking moody. And Maggie Q kicking bottom. Actually no, I know it's Maggie Q. Also inspired an an m15m.


I may now have to write a post for various interpretations of Dracula separately.
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