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maxyvert · 1 year
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Process of  ‘The last vampire’ Hexoween prompt This was edited on the clock app and it put blinking frames into the video. Tried to redo this like 3 times with no luck  :(  >Finished art here<
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big-idiot-wolf-boys · 7 months
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Ok twilight fans. Go run and get yourself a copy of Christopher Pike's The Last Vampire/Thirst series. We briefly get the vamp in high school trope actually done with an understandable motive, way better action and general vamp stuff, interesting lore, and a suspiciously fast growing perhaps vampire baby done way better and actually portrayed to be horrific. Seriously underrated series, go check it out!!
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booksinpiles · 1 year
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Some of these battered paperbacks have been with me for years; I love them for their stories, but also for the connection back to a younger me!
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totallyottie99 · 4 months
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Alisa/ Sita redesign
I loved this series as a kid and I think it really deserves a modern retelling
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instantarmageddon · 1 year
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I read basically every rebranded vampire series that got re-released with new covers around the time the first twilight movie came out and it drives me bonkers that they don't get talked about more. I feel like if I could go back and scour the forums on 90s-era webpages I would finally know peace
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thefisherqueen · 1 month
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Notes on Granada's Sherlock Holmes: the last vampire
This will be a tough one to follow for me! I barely remember anything about the story, except that it had something to do with blood, that a woman was wrongly and for rather racist reasons accused and that instead a young boy turned out to be the attempted murderer
Someone is burned alive in the opening scene? What? I don't remember this
"I'll stop if you let me kiss you". Wait. Isn't this her actual stepson? *a few minutes further* ok, that is not the mother, so not her stepson. Still very creepy behaviour from this boy. This comes a bit too close for comfort to me personally. People very rarely talk about it, but children can be the perpertators of sexual violence sometimes, as was the case for me
Ok, the next scene cheers me up. Laughing so hard about Holmes dressing up as a vampire and scaring the hell out of Watson
Why is everyone so scared of that grave looking man dressed in black? Don't understand that yet
Holmes, highly randomly: "This cup and saucers has been here for three days" he's so ADHD
Holmes: "Everything is better than this stagnation" *flops dramatically down in a chair* *assumes even more dramatic pose*
Poor Watson, he just wants some tea while Holmes is infodumping
Seems like Jeremy Brett and Edward Hardwicke had the time of their lives acting this whole vampire scene, I love them so much
Holmes: "The world is big enough for us, no ghosts need apply" Ah, I remember that quote!
Why am I not convinced by Holmes' reason for being in possesion of vampire teeth? Never heard Holmes say 'uhm' so much *mind goes wild with possibilities* I really want to know that the team's thoughts were! Watson: "Did you put them to use?" Almost convinced Watson discovers he has a vampire kink here
Client: "Thank you young man, I'm not quite in my grave yet" Haha, love a fiesty old man
I adore Brett and Hardwicke exchanging glances and trying not to laugh as the forgetful client rambles on
Ah, there's the first death. Looks quite dramatic with all the blood! And oh, that stranger really had bad timing. And he's a descendant of a hated, cruel landowner who the villagers burned alive. Plenty of reason I guess for the villagers to be suspicious
So the baby died as well (they made this so much darker). Holmes and Watson go to the village to investigate and keep the village calm. Good concept, actually. Great expantion upon the canon story
Village life has changed so little over a hunderd years that I forgot for a while that this movie takes place in the victorian age, lol, until Watson named all the young influenza victims. Yeah, that was a thing back then. Not entirely related, but I wonder now how long it took before child deaths in villages really started to go down. The installing of sewers and clean drinking water supply made a huge difference here... but I wouldn't be surprised if it took a long time before all villages had the same fascilities as the cities. Anyway, as tragic as it always has been (and I read a lot of proza and poetry written by grieving parents), a baby's death still was nothing out of the ordinary around 1900. According to this graph on child mortality, 228 out of a 1000 children died before they were five years old in the UK in 1900. (compared to 4 in 2020. That's an astonishing difference)
Ohh, bats living in the countryside with lots of old buildings, suspicious!
The writer is very relatable. I, too, have a tendency to horrify the fellow people at my table with marcabre history and uncomfortable questions
Love the way Holmes enages the whole fucking pub. Loudy: "Surely there is no crime in this part of the country!" *dead silence*
The influenza epidemic running in the background really adds to the panicked atmoshere, that was a clever choice
What was that sudden hallucination (??) at the ruin? *some time later* Oh, all right. Glad they went with actual optical effects this time
I love the scenes where we get to see Watson in his role as a doctor, visiting patients - calm, caring, competent. Such a wonderful exploration of that side of his character
Oh, the writer himself is dead now too? That was quite sudden and unexpected. Damn. I liked him. He was creepy but in a good way. Third death and counting, because of course it's not over now
I hate how realistic this whole panicked reaction of the village feels. People see causal relations where they don't exist and do wild, irrational things when they're scared, we've all seen it over the years. I can easily see a group of conspiracy theorists digging up a just burried man in the dead of night and moving him
I like how it's not necessary the Peruian artifacs and beliefs that are portrayed as in themselves creepy, but what they become in the hands of two white people. I think you can certainly argue it's a portrayal of cultural appropriation
The finale felt a bit rushed compared to the middle part. Still satisfying, but why kill the boy off? (at least I assume he's dead). I would have loved to see closure in the village, especially for the parents because holy shit they lost both their children, and a bit more reflection from Holmes and Watson
I really loved this episode, it was so well done and may become one of my favs. Nice build up, delightful characters, a good balance of fun and eerie things. The only thing I can find fault with is that the timing was just a bit off, the middle part a bit to long and the ending a bit too short. Classic period horror movie meets detective story
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sephirajo · 6 months
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Its so fun explaining Chrispher Pike's (the author's) Last Vampire series to people and have them progressively get more horrified at the racism as I go on. And this is in a series that starts with a white blonde haired blue eyed literally described as Aryan vampire and goes from there.
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wow tumblr only takes gifs that are <10MB ... anyway I liked that zoom in the last vampire (/vampyre) so I made it into a gif
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danielstalter · 1 year
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The Last Vampire delivers on what I have come to expect from Pike; complicated characters with dubious morals in fucked up situations. Alisa, also known as Sita, was a bit grating as the main character, although she did grow on me over the course of the book. Starting out she was a little bit too obnoxiously good at everything. My eyes rolled more than a few times. I would have liked it better if she struggled with computers. It would have given her a degree of fallibility that I felt was missing. She needed some sort of Achilles heel. An all-knowing, superpowerful 5,000-year-old vampire who can’t find a power button to save her life is something I could get behind. Beyond that, my chief complaints are that the ending felt rushed and I never completely bought into the love story. All that aside, I still enjoyed this book more than I didn’t. I particularly liked Sita’s relationship with Seymour. The Last Vampire may not be my favorite of Pike’s efforts, but it was far from his worst. It kept me guessing as to where the plot was heading, kept me entertained with a fast-moving plot, and continuously raised the stakes throughout the book. The ending was certainly abrupt, but it also went a long way toward ensuring that I will read the rest of the series. I’ll be posting my review of The Last Vampire 2: Black Blood next week!
Score: 3.5
My full review with memes, snark, and spoilers can be found here: https://www.danstalter.com/the-last-vampire/
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mercy-misrule · 2 years
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folks im two chapters into lestat vs atlantis and its grim going lmao
ive met this captive alien called Derek, and that's already pushing it. and now it looks like the evil spirit that is the genesis of vampires might actually be an alien and im so tired.
I've already been through this with 'The Last Vampire'! I've put up with Sita's bullshit pseudo Hindu via way of new age shops alien vampire story!
Anne, you aren't better than Christopher Pike, neither of you can or should execute a mystic aliens are responsible for vampires storyline tbh.
cannot fucking believe this is a plot in two decades spanning vampire book series. Jesus.
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shironezuninja · 2 years
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How convenient for this former Danger Mouse FanFiction writer: the Mayor in the Sonic Boom cartoon is also a mouse species.
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littlewriter19 · 2 years
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The Thirst Series By Christopher Pike.
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booksinpiles · 1 year
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Some of you have noted Mr. Pike’s pseudonym/tribute. It took me years after reading the former to find and love Star Trek, but it still feels like a happy link!
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marispos · 6 months
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she graduated from the university of servington with a degree in cuntology
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communistcephalopod · 8 months
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hypothesis: vampires are magically vulnerable to light originating from the sun
observation: moonlight has no effect on vampires, despite being a reflection of the sun
conclusion: this aversion is not a result of light or its origin, but some property of sunlight only present in direct contact
hypothesis: vampires are extremely sensitive to uv radiation
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