how that scene should have gone:
Graf von Krolock: God is dead.
Sarah Chagal: SO ARE YOU, NOW GET OUT OF MY BATHROOM.
We should really come up with a nickname for the NBCHannibal blog runner.
I second this.
blogibal?
The Chesapeake Blogger? (Just for the joy of being able to reblog their tags with the pseudo-ominous caption “THE CHESAPEAKE BLOGGER STRIKES AGAIN.”)
another Tanz der Vampire AU that I am definitely not going to write (and by definitely I mean probably):
Sarah is actually the Slayer and Abronsius and Alfred have been sent by the Watchers’ Council and things go hilariously wrong anyway
so much so that the tale of Sarah Chagal is used as a cautionary tale by all Watchers thereafter, though Giles tends to use it more as a pep talk in tough times (“on the bright side, we have not yet irrevocably ruined our chances at survival as happened in the Chagal incident”)
but he also has a chart unfavourably comparing Wesley to Alfred hidden away somewhere
Hannibal’s elegant and elaborate coffee pot.
( Vacuum Coffee Maker made by Royal Coffee Maker.)
Via: Eat The Rude.
hannibal i give up
you fucking classy motherfucker
fuckingchrist Hannibal
I had thought it was a samovar but in fact it is something even fancier.
(via smilefortyeight)
none of you appreciate how fortunate it is that I’m already embroiled in several WIPs at the moment
because otherwise I would be using my stupidly extensive knowledge of vampire folklore to write fic for Tanz der Vampire (which I saw tonight, review pending but in progress)
like maybe an AU where Herbert, instead of being a vampire, is a dhampir who’s reasonably good at his job but barely escapes getting killed in every village for deflowering every halfway attractive nubile son or daughter in the vicinity
and who tries to talk Sarah and Alfred into a threesome to preemptively console him at having to help them hunt his own biological father (Sarah is in favour of the threesome; Alfred is totally not and also confused at the very idea)
just be thankful that I’m not subjecting you to that, okay
In Berlin. Too much luggage. Deciding what to do/where to go first.
If anyone has been here, hit me up with suggestions, because right now I’m relying on Google!
FOR ALL OF YOU ASKING
Star Trek was about overcoming racism. A large number of people of color in the cast helped that. For example, famously, Whoopi Goldberg has stated that she decided to go into acting after seeing Nichelle Nichols on screen, playing someone who wasn’t a maid but a a strong, capable black woman. Having a man of color play Khan, a man who was seen as a “eugenic ideal”, IE a man bred to be perfect, was also huge, even though he was a villain. It would have been so easy to cast a classically white, blonde, blue-eyed man in that role of the ‘ubermensch’, but Star Trek was never about doing what was easy, it was about challenging the status quo.
Now yes, the casting of Ricardo Montalban, as amazing as he was as an actor, was still very problematic. Casting a Hispanic man as an Indian man perpetuates the stereotype that all non-white people can be lumped into one category, and that is, of course, extremely flawed. But, for a show made in the 1960’s, having a man of color- any color- be seen as a genetically superior man was still quite progressive.
It’s sad to see that, now in 2013, we’ve gone backwards rather than forwards. Benedict Cumberbatch may not be blonde, but in most other respects he is a very Aryan man. Casting a man of color was one step forward. Casting an Indian man would have been one step forward. Now, we’ve taken two steps back.
I wasn’t around in the 1960’s. Maybe people gasped when a man of color was called a “eugenic ideal”, (a word often used in connection with the movement of making the world a whiter place). Maybe they took it in stride.
But I hope that, today, people would gasp at that title being taken from a man of color and placed on a white man instead, showing that, no, a man of color can’t be the apex of evolution. He could in the 60’s, but not now.
And that’s not a message that should ever be sent.
(via purple-celery)
gotta write the next part of “services rendered” soon, dang
also finish “Lithuanian Sleep Experiment” and post it (yes that is a creepypasta reference, shhh just come)
to say nothing of my kinkmeme fills
so I guess it’s a good thing that I have a couple of 8-hour train rides in the next week
friendly reminder that there is not a single Alana Bloom/Beverly Katz femmeslash fic
but HOW IS THIS POSSIBLE???
(via fuckyeahbeverlykatz)
