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- Disclaimer: Not real, but you can demand to know more if you must.
- Summary: After the apocalypse, everything changed. And not for the better.
- Summary: Frank and Gerard meet up after not seeing each other for three years, things may turn sour. Can Frank better himself for the one person who knows how to break and beat his walls until they're crumbled foundations slayed in front of his very own feet?
- Warnings: Bdsm, blood play, Gerard's not exactly nice but hey he's a vampire, more then likely he may turn out to be a complete psycho I want to try and write from the point of view of psychopathic bastard. Very bad language. Possible mpreg as in this au certain male vampire's can get pregnant. A very dom Gerard and a very sub Frank. Many chapter's may be pwp, a lot of vampire smut.
- Warning: Abuse of Starbucks?
12 Jan 2010
Did I ever tell you guys about the time we watched Zeffirelli's Romeo and Juliet1 in my 9th grade English class, and in the scene where they have sex, our student teacher2 came and held a piece of yellow poster board in front of the screen until they stopped?
I went to a large public high school in the most liberal city (which isn't saying much) in the grand old Pancreas of Dixie, Alabama. We were also taught Sex Respect instead of sex education in school, where activities such as making up rhyming slogans to discourage teen pregnancy replaced activities such as learning what contraception is or how impregnation occurs.
1. Romeo+Juliet had come out the year before so 100% of the class had already seen it. This was the Reign of La DiCaprio in my high school. Even Prince William couldn't compete. The next year, there was a group of girls belonging to my social clique who made sure that every time we performed impromptu skits in Spanish III - which we did once per week - at least one group's skit contained a reference to DiCaprio. The most popular skit, which they performed again at the end of the year party to great applause, was the one where Hilary Clinton (played by the other lesbian in the class, though I didn't know it at the time) pushed her husband (played by an extremely freckly ginger Republican named Riley) off the Titanic in order to claim Leo (I don't remember who played him) for herself.
2. I remember her quite clearly because she wore false nails, which had a new fanciful color each week. The first week she was with us they were pewter, a dark metallic silver color which I had never seen on anyone's nails before and instantly resolved to find for myself.
I went to a large public high school in the most liberal city (which isn't saying much) in the grand old Pancreas of Dixie, Alabama. We were also taught Sex Respect instead of sex education in school, where activities such as making up rhyming slogans to discourage teen pregnancy replaced activities such as learning what contraception is or how impregnation occurs.
1. Romeo+Juliet had come out the year before so 100% of the class had already seen it. This was the Reign of La DiCaprio in my high school. Even Prince William couldn't compete. The next year, there was a group of girls belonging to my social clique who made sure that every time we performed impromptu skits in Spanish III - which we did once per week - at least one group's skit contained a reference to DiCaprio. The most popular skit, which they performed again at the end of the year party to great applause, was the one where Hilary Clinton (played by the other lesbian in the class, though I didn't know it at the time) pushed her husband (played by an extremely freckly ginger Republican named Riley) off the Titanic in order to claim Leo (I don't remember who played him) for herself.
2. I remember her quite clearly because she wore false nails, which had a new fanciful color each week. The first week she was with us they were pewter, a dark metallic silver color which I had never seen on anyone's nails before and instantly resolved to find for myself.
Since the new Sherlock Holmes isn't out here for a while yet and the hype is constantly rising, today I felt moved to start to make screencaps of the remaining bits of Brett/Hardwicke Granada Holmes canon which I own, and have not heretofore screencapped. I watched the feature-length "The Eligible Bachelor" (based on "The Adventure of the Noble Bachelor" in The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes [book], but set instead between the episodes in The Return of Sherlock Holmes [tv]).
There are some excellent performances in this episode from the guest stars, some really beautiful photography, and a performance that was extraordinary even for Brett of Holmes distracted and haunted by his recurring nightmare. So far as it goes, this is pretty good, but the changes that were made to turn the short story into a 100ish-minute feature were a bit unfortunate. Not as unfortunate as that incredibly cracktastic and scummy later episode, "The Last Vampyre", but still fairly unfortunate.
Also there are a lot of screencaps in here.
( It's nice to address the giant morass of issues surrounding women and women's 'insanity' in the Victorian era, but why did you have to add a non-canonical surprise!leopard and the completely gratuitous intrusion of the supernatural in the form of Sherlock Holmes, of ALL people, having *prophetic dreams* that, um, then don't even turn out to be important to the plot? )
There are some excellent performances in this episode from the guest stars, some really beautiful photography, and a performance that was extraordinary even for Brett of Holmes distracted and haunted by his recurring nightmare. So far as it goes, this is pretty good, but the changes that were made to turn the short story into a 100ish-minute feature were a bit unfortunate. Not as unfortunate as that incredibly cracktastic and scummy later episode, "The Last Vampyre", but still fairly unfortunate.
Also there are a lot of screencaps in here.
( It's nice to address the giant morass of issues surrounding women and women's 'insanity' in the Victorian era, but why did you have to add a non-canonical surprise!leopard and the completely gratuitous intrusion of the supernatural in the form of Sherlock Holmes, of ALL people, having *prophetic dreams* that, um, then don't even turn out to be important to the plot? )