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If you want to see a series where vampires are the closest to the book in terms of viciousness and of having their human personality warped: Van Helsing 2016. Vampocalypse in modern times, survival mode, unethical mystical & scientific research, cool characters. Quite a lot of gore and emotionally heavy scenes, though, so tread carefully! It also answers the question of "But what if vampires could be turned back into humans?" and the answer is "severe PTSD and survious guilt"!
Thanks for the rec! The undead turning back into the un-undead is honestly one of those concepts that's always been like catnip to me.
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I swear to god, if someone has not written the fanfic for van Helsing 2016 I will come out of retirement to write it myself
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Watching Van helsing season 2 (my dad is watching and I'm kinda glancing over) and I so called it that after Mohammed stabbed himself and Sam bit him he would turn
Idk I'm really happy about it
... Also i spoilered myself :')
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1, 11, 31?
do you know how you want the story to end when you start, or are you just stumbling through the figurative wilderness hoping to find a road.
Usually, yes. I generally know the story I want to tell from the jump. There are always times where I might not have it really mapped out, or change tracts halfway through. But usually I go from idea to result without issue.
I have learned to listen to the feeling that I get sometimes that tells me that the the original plan is not going to work. Trying to force something that just doesn't want to happen is a sure-fire way to have a shitty product. So, while it can be annoying and even disappointing, there is usually a good reason for listening.
11. what’s something neat you’ve learned while doing research for something you were writing? also, how much do you worry about doing research in general?
I recently wrote an addition for my "Conjuring" series where I wanted to find a tv show that had been on air during that time period. I got super fascinated by the following trivia:
"The Flip Wilson Show: was an hour-long variety show that aired on NBC from 1970-1974. The show starred comedian Flip Wilson. It was one of the first American programs starring a black person in the title role to become highly successful with a white audience."
I like to be as accurate as possible, but that being said if something is a huge job I might skip writing the thing altogether because of the time sink. Otherwise, I love doing a bit of research whether it is for the plot, setting, details or even the perfect title.
31. tell us about one of your characters who’s an absolute joy to write
This is such a niche thing that is basically my sole baby as the fandom is tiny and I am the only one that ever wrote for the character, but Flesh/Phil Fleischman from syfy's "Van Helsing". He is such an amazing character and writing him is such a joy because he is so complex. He is a good person but in a very human way. He had real regrets about his life that translated into literally destroying his family when he was turned against his will in the vampire uprising. Imagine regretting having had kids and settling down, but you deal with that and be a good father and husband as much as you can. Only you get turned into a vampire that doesn't give a single shit and burns out all your morals so what do you do? Slaughter your children and make your wife watch. Wild tbh.
His arc is incredible and basically the only thing I watched the show for after mid-way through the first season. He goes from this retail 9-5 that hates his life to this incredibly trusted vampire officer for his sire, known for his loyalty and strategy. In the first episode he is the reason the main character becomes who she is - which in the process changes him back to human. Cue his emotional shit storm.
also he literally crawled out of a hospital garbage chute in the first episode, covered in blood, so I was sold from that moment on tbh.
#chamblerstara#response#ask meme#ask game for fanfiction writers meme#phil fleischman#van helsing 2016#the conjuring
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Detective Spiderman at your service
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8 Brief Thoughts About Van Helsing (2016)
It's now been a good chunk of time since Van Helsing (Syfy) final season came out on Netflix, and I would like to take a look back at some things from the early seasons that had such great potential and were ultimately squandered. Maybe one day someone can take some of these good ideas and have another go at it.
As a preface, in general I think that if this show had taken itself a little less seriously, been a little less unironically 90s-comicbook-style edgy, and just had more campy fun, they might've been able to keep the plot from flying off the rails at the end of season 3 and maybe would've been able to keep the MC likeable enough that they didn't have to stuff her in a closet for over an entire season.
And now, 8 things that could have been good:
1. the idea of a reverse vampire (someone who can bite vampires to turn them back into humans). I love the idea of being able to walk up to a classic, arrogant Gothic style vampire who remembers the Crusades and thinks humans are basically cattle, and just absolutely wreck them thematically and literally with just a little ~nibble~
2. Combining the classic "zombie apocalypse with fast zombies" setting (with half-starved feral vampires as the fast zombies), with having actual, intelligent villiand (well, varyingly intelligent) who can have the usual villian hierarchies and dynamics. Like if the various bad guy factions of The Walking Dead were lightly fantasy flavored and also not meant to just further bash into your head that all humans are horrible terrible monsters.
3. On a similar note, just having a show in an apocalypse setting that says "Humans aren't the worst, actually, because the vampires definitely are, and you have to magically and horrifically strip a person of their connection to emotion and humanity to get that". And if that's the opposite of the writers intentions and I've read it completely wrong, then I think they might've chosen being edgy and nihilist over being interesting.
4. Diversity. Not just in the representation of bi women, lesbians, BIPOC actors and characters (I cannot stress enough how big a deal having a confirmed-in-season-one bi female protag was for 2016), but in the in-world diversity of vampire clans/subspecies.
4.5. The Sisterhood. Obviously.
5. Putting a SHOCKINGLY gripping murder mystery in the middle of the first season of your post-apocalypse fantasy show.
5.5. Making Christopher Heyerdahl the murderer. The man never misses when it comes to playing compellingly unhinged characters. If you want a show with a script and plot that doesn't do him dirty like season 4 did, watch the first season of Hell on Wheels.
6. Having your mid-level BBEGs Tragic Backstory be "I was into BDSM in the 1700s and I had HORRIBLE taste in choosing a new dom and now here we are". I'm sorry but that is glorious and I still can't fathom why they waited until we no longer cared about the character to reveal it. They could've played it for comedy, they could've played it for developing the character (trust/control issues etc), and instead we got to wave at it as it passed us by on its way out the window.
7. Lady Dracula instead of good old Vlady, and the Three Spouses of Dracula instead of three wives. Liked the idea, felt the execution was lacking (but, to be fair, it was equally as lacking as everything else plot related in the later seasons). Please, someone just give me a modern Carmilla in vampire fiction.
8. A short list of themes they could have developed or developed better with this setting and these characters, and chose not to:
Human capacity for empathy and connection, and how that relates to ones definition of humanity.
In what ways does the fact that "humanity" can be given or restored in this setting conflict with the characters' assumed definitions of humanity. Further, address the fact that almost every single vampire killed in this series was originally a person who didn't want to be a vampire, and who could have been a human again. What are the personal and moral implications of actively killing a vampire when you could have just as easily turned back? Is there any real difference than just killing a human at that point?
The line between love and obsession/possession and the toxicity therein. After they mentioned that most vamps have a very limited emotional range, I would have loved to see this theme played out more in the vampires who still have close familial or romantic relationships (or, uh, I guess both), especially when you have Phil to contrast it with.
Found family and redemption arcs. Oldies but goodies. The amount of these themes/tropes they did have within the side characters' stories was most of what made the later seasons watchable for me, but I sometimes think we all might've got over the fact that Julius used to eat babies just a little too quickly.
#van helsing spoilers#van helsing (2016)#van helsing syfy#vanessa van helsing#van helsing#van helsing series finale
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Kelly Overton in Van Helsing (2016) Coming Back
S1E4
Vanessa and Mohamad head into the vampire-controlled streets in search of Dylan, the daughter that Vanessa orphaned when she 'died'. Back at the hospital, Cynthia is found dead. Doc soon discovers that what looked like a suicide is actually a deliberate murder. Is there a killer among-st the group? On their return to the hospital, Vanessa is captured by vampires while Mohamad leads a new group of refugees to the hospital.
#Van Helsing#tv series#2016#Coming Back#S1E4#action#fantasy#horror#drama#Vanessa#Mohamad#Back home#Cynthia#vampires#just watched#Kelly Overton
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RIP Robbie Coltrane (1950-2022) - Beloved character actor best remembered for his performance as the giant Rubeus Hagrid in the Harry Potter franchise (2001-2011) and the lead character Dr. Edward 'Fitz' Fitzgerald in the series Cracker (1993-2006) - for which he won 3 consecutive TV Bafta awards has passed away. Another memorable character he played was Valentin Zukovsky, a former KGB agent-turned-mob-boss in two films from the James Bond franchise, GoldenEye (1995) and The World is Not Enough (1999). Other credits include films directed by great director such as Neil Jordan, Bertrand Tavernier, Derek Jarman, the Hughes Brothers, and Steven Soderbergh in a variety of roles in Deathwatch (1980), Flash Gordon (1980), Caravaggio (1986), Mona Lisa (1986), Henry V (1989), The Pope Must Die (1991), Buddy (1997), From Hell (2001), Ocean's Twelve (2004), Van Helsing (2004), and mostly the miniseries National Treasure (2016).
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COSTUME DESIGN IN TV & FILM
— VILLAINS
102 DALMATIANS (2000)
Clenn Glose as Cruella de Vil | Costume design by Anthony Powell
THE DARK KNIGHT (2008)
Heath Ledger as Joker | Costume design by Lindy Hemming
CURSE OF THE GOLDEN FLOWER | 满城尽带黄金甲 (2006)
周潤發 as 大王 | Costume design by Jessie Dai & 奚仲文
VAN HELSING (2004)
Elena Anaya as Aleera | Costume design by Gabriella Pescucci & Carlo Poggioli
THE HUNTSMAN: WINTER’S WAR (2016)
Emily Blunt as Queen Freya | Costume design by Colleen Atwood
ENCHANTED (2007)
Susan Sarandon as Queen Narissa | Costume design by Mona May
CINDERELLA (2015)
Cate Blanchett as Lady Tremaine | Costume design by Sandy Powell
SNOW WHITE AND THE HUNTSMAN (2012)
Charlize Theron as Queen Ravenna | Costume design by Colleen Atwood
MALEFICENT: MISTRESS OF EVIL (2019)
Michelle Pfeiffer as Queen Ingrith | Costume design by Ellen Mirojnick
BATMAN & ROBIN (1997)
Uma Thurman as Poison Ivy | Costume design by Ingrid Ferrin & Robert Turturice
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𝔳𝔞𝔪𝔭𝔦𝔯𝔢𝔰
SELECTED VAMPIRE* SHOWS WATCHED IN THE PAST 15 YEARS for @userphotoshop event 6 ✦ halloween
*including dhampirs and it-was-never-specified-they-were-vampires-but-hey-they-drink-blood characters
the lost boys (1987)
forever knight (1992-1996)
interview with the vampire (1994)
vampire hunter d: bloodlust (2000)
queen of the damned (2002)
the league of extraordinary gentlemen (2003)
underworld (2003-2016)
van helsing (2004)
supernatural (2005-2020)
30 days of night (2007)
blood ties (2007)
moonlight (2007-2008)
being human uk (2008-2013)
the twilight saga (2008-2013)
true blood (2008-2014)
let the right one in (2008)
vampire knight (2008)
daybreakers (2009)
thirst (2009)
the vampire diaries (2009-2017)
the gates (2010)
let me in (2010)
shiki (2010)
fright night (2011)
priest (2011)
vampire prosecutor (2011-2012)
being human us (2011-2014)
abraham lincoln vampire hunter (2012)
byzantium (2012)
only lovers left alive (2013)
dracula (2013-2014)
hemlock grove (2013-2015)
the originals (2013-2018)
dracula untold (2014)
what we do in the shadows (2014)
the strain (2014-2017)
blood (2015)
scholar who walks the night (2015)
seraph of the end (2015)
the vampire lives next door to us (2015)
shadowhunters (2016-2019)
eat locals (2017)
castlevania (2017-2021)
devils line (2018)
tenrou: sirius the jaeger (2018)
a discovery of witches (2018-2022)
the passage (2019)
dracula (2020)
noblesse (2020)
blood red sky (2021)
happiness (2021)
mars red (2021)
midnight mass (2021)
the case study of vanitas (2021-?)
first kill (2022)
the invitation (2022)
morbius (2022)
vampire in the garden (2022)
interview with the vampire (2022-?)
vampire academy (2022-?)
#vampires#vampireedit#horroredit#horrorgifs#filmedit#tvedit#vampsource#userbbelcher#chewieblog#iwtvedit#morbiusedit#vampireacademyedit#firstkilledit#midnightmassedit#happinessedit#onsedit#*i#*gifs#tw blood#tw gore#me: i love vampires#someone: ok name 50 vampires#me: hold my beer#hunting for decent quality for all of these#AND the scenes#completely killed me
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FRANKENSTEIN
Samuel West Van Helsing 2004
Harry Treadaway Penny Dreadful 2014-2016
Colin Clive Frankenstein 1931
James McAvoy Victor Frankenstein 2015
Charlie Tahan (voice) Frankenweenie 2012
Kenneth Branagh Frankenstein 1994
Gene Wilder Young Frankenstein 1974
Peter Cushing The Curse of Frankenstein 1957
#Van Helsing#Samuel West#Sam West#Penny Dreadful#Harry Treadaway#Frankenstein 1931#Colin Clive#Victor Frankenstein#James McAvoy#Frankenweenie#Charlie Tahan#Frankenstein 1994#Kenneth Branagh#Young Frankenstein#Gene Wilde#The Curse of Frankenstein#Peter Cushing#Frankenstein#mary shelley#mary shelly's frankenstein
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A mention of Jellal in a TV Series. 🥺 He was the MC's favorite anime character & she went back in time & used his name on a tomb in order to keep safe some stuff that was humanity's last hope against the vampire& her sister found that clue in the future. Check the video ⬇️
In some subs, they put "Jamal Fernandes" but you can clearly hear that she says "Jellal" in this very english way to pronounce his name, also, you can see that the last letters of the name are "LLAL"
The TV series is Van Helsing 2016 (Season 5. Ep 7)
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Watching Van helsing season 2 (my dad is watching and I'm kinda glancing over) and I so called it that after Mohammed stabbed himself and Sam bit him he would turn
Idk I'm really happy about it
... Also i spoilered myself :')
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𝐓𝐀𝐆 𝐍𝐈𝐍𝐄 𝐏𝐄𝐎𝐏𝐋𝐄 𝐘𝐎𝐔'𝐃 𝐋𝐈𝐊𝐄 𝐓𝐎 𝐊𝐍𝐎𝐖 𝐁𝐄𝐓𝐓𝐄𝐑!
(Wasn't sure what to put for an image so... 🐭)
𝐅𝐀𝐕𝐎𝐑𝐈𝐓𝐄 𝐂𝐎𝐋𝐎𝐑(𝐒): 💜💜PURPLE!!!!💜💜 (and lime green...)
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𝐅𝐀𝐕𝐎𝐑𝐈𝐓𝐄 𝐅𝐋𝐀𝐕𝐎𝐑(𝐒): sweets! Yours truly can be quite a big sweet tooth hehe.
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𝐅𝐀𝐕𝐎𝐑𝐈𝐓𝐄 𝐌𝐔𝐒𝐈𝐂: mostly Classic Rock and Heavy Metal! :0 although we do enjoy quite a bit of Swing and Pop too.
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𝐅𝐀𝐕𝐎𝐑𝐈𝐓𝐄 𝐌𝐎𝐕𝐈𝐄(𝐒): Wreck-It Ralph, Phantom of The Paradise, Wes Craven's New Nightmare, Black Christmas 1974, Malignant, Cast a Deadly Spell, V/H/S 94, Skinamarink, Van Helsing 2004, Ghostbusters 2, Aliens, Ghostbusters 2016, Leprechaun 4: In Space (LISTEN I LIKE GOOFY HORROR TOO OKAY-)
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𝐅𝐀𝐕𝐎𝐑𝐈𝐓𝐄 𝐒𝐄𝐑𝐈𝐄𝐒: The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy; The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack; Chop Socky Chooks; Adventure time/AT: Fionna and Cake; What We Do in The Shadows; Castlevania; Shameless (the american series not the british one ejdnsn); Breaking Bad.
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𝐋𝐀𝐒𝐓 𝐒𝐎𝐍𝐆: I Heard (Eddie de Clown)- Madame Macabre
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𝐋𝐀𝐒𝐓 𝐒𝐄𝐑𝐈𝐄𝐒: The Adventures of Professor Egghead (creepypasta series on yt)
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𝐋𝐀𝐒𝐓 𝐌𝐎𝐕𝐈𝐄: Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves!
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𝐂𝐔𝐑𝐑𝐄𝐍𝐓𝐋𝐘 𝐑𝐄𝐀𝐃𝐈𝐍𝐆: iHomu: the Von Henheim Project by Mélani Garzón Sousa; The Occult Book by John Michael Greer; Hyde by Craig Russel.
(For context yes we're reading all three books at the same time because I have a short attention span that needs to shift into another piece of reading after a while <\3)
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𝐂𝐔𝐑𝐑𝐄𝐍𝐓𝐋𝐘 𝐖𝐀𝐓𝐂𝐇𝐈𝐍𝐆: Adventure time.
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𝐂𝐔𝐑𝐑𝐄𝐍𝐓𝐋𝐘 𝐖𝐎𝐑𝐊𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐎𝐍: tons of art stuff we either owe to people (commissions, art trade...) or gifts; ref sheets of my characters/updating their toyhouse page; setting up two-three other different RP blogs. One for a group of insectoid/fly-based OCs of mine- the other for the creepypasta series villain Professor Egghead.
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MAG10 - Vampire Killer
*turns around in the most ugliest coolest yellowest office chair like a Bond villain, petting a baguette-shaped cushion* so, you came here from MAG9 without expecting the whiplash. Don't worry, you are not alone lmao
Trevor Herbert is like a homeless Chuck Norris, a shaggy Terminator, a Van Helsing lite (the Hugh Jackman one, not the original). He looks in your head like the dog in The Lady and The Tramp but in human version.
And the very first thing this mf says when he writes his statement is "I've been procrastinating this shit for 50 years, but hey, I finally came to the Magnus Institute". So better late than never and all that jazz.
Quoooooooting timeeeee:
"I hear someone even made me a page on the Internet and it got a few thousand likes. I don’t know exactly what that means but it sounds nice." - Trevor Herbert, July 10th 2010
Aww, doesn't he sound nice? :D
"Obviously that’s not why I’m here, though, is it? No, I’m here because I have also dedicated my life to finding and killing vampires." - Also f*cking Trevor
Sorry u wHAT
" (...) but I do not have proof to give you except for the vampire teeth that I will leave with this statement." - Trevor "I brought you a souvenir" Herbert
" I killed my first vampire in 1959." - Trevor Herbert, THE LEGEND THE MAN THE MYTH
You wish you sound as badass xD
"I was hit by a stale, coppery smell that I did not recognise as old blood at the time, since I was barely 16 and did not have then the experience I have now." - Trevor, barely 16 but already a poet
I find upsetting how many statement givers were so young they didn't know they were smelling blood.
"The furniture and wallpaper had clearly not been changed in many decades, and a thick layer of dust covered everything." - Trevor, 16, also an offended interior designer
LOL the landlord when he tells you " I just painted everything, it's all new"
"I remember wondering whether Sylvia McDonald walked exactly the same route through the house always, as I saw other clear lines of passage in the rooms we passed through." - Trevor "WTF" Herbert
" It was 1968, I remember because that was the year United won the European Cup, (...)" - Trevor "Yes, I'm British, why u asking?" Herbert
"I do not know if you’ve ever felt your blood being sucked out of you, but I would not recommend it." - By Trevor, 0/5, no stars
"Regardless, there is substantial evidence to support the version of events told by Mr. Herbert in all aspects except the vampirism." - Jon Sims, April 13th 2016
He really said "I believe everything except the vampire bullshit" XD
"(...) It may be that they take Mr. Herbert’s statement far more seriously than I do." - Also Jon
He sees that a lot of government and law people takes this statement seriously and goes "hm how weird, why tho, it's all bullshit"
Small review:
The vampires in the tma universe are so freaking weird, disturbing of course, personally I can't really tell if they are scary tho, but I'm certain they are a mystery.
Gotta say, RIP Nigel, he seemed nice :(
I must admit Trevor is quite an interesting figure, he's intelligent and resourceful, can do much with almost nothing and put together every piece of information he has in a way he can reach a satisfactory conclusion. And then he just sticks with it. There are these monsters, which I know how to kill, and so I do it. Simple. Efficient. Practical as hell.
This is also the second time going clubbing has ended horribly for someone in tma, and honestly? Wtf
This guy just die in the break room, like, lmao. He really said "no time like the present, may as well reach supersaiyan state in that couch over ther", and he fucking did it
And then Jon ends everything by showing a lot of evidences while acting the sceptic part and it's so goddamn funny. He should be a comedian.
General overview:
Vibe: this one is so fucking wild, nice homeless grandpa ends up being the modern Van Helsing and "dies" in a couch at paranormal research institute. Iconic
Horror: there are cryptids in it, that's horror genre coded
Audio: pretty ASMR in general
Humour: hilarious Terminator Grandpa, feat.Jon being Jon
Score: 10/10
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Van Helsing (2016) Stay Inside
S1E3
When the hospital's power source is damaged, Vanessa and the survivors only have three hours of reserve power for the UV lights - the only thing keeping the vampires at bay. While Vanessa and Axel head into the ruins of Seattle to scavenge parts, the others are left to fight: against both vampires and among-st themselves.
#van helsing#tv series#2016#action#drama#fantasy#vampires#Kelly Overton#Jonathan Scarfe#Vanessa Helsing#Axel Miller#Stay inside#horror#just watched
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