If Anne Rice taught me anything, its that all vampires are lgbt. All of them. Eternity is way too long a time to be a straight cis heterosexual. Its a fact.
It might not be the lesson she was trying to teach, but it is in fact the lesson I learned.
realizing that by virtue of how Krolock’s musical line in Vor dem Schloss inspires part of Carpe Noctem, Krolock had to be listening to Alfred from the very beginning of the musical to supply “He ho he” at the beginning of Sie irren, Professor………………………………….
the sexy monster genre may not be my thing, but I do have a certain respect for what Guillermo Del Toro is doing with the shape of water, because while cowardly media like twilight will remove all signs of monster qualities to make vampires sexy underwear models, Guillermo is just full tilt “this creepy fish man is sexy, this woman wants to fuck the creepy fish man. she wants to lick his gills or some shit and that’s ok. fish fucking is valid” like I’m not into it, but goddamnit if I do not respect the boldness of it. go big or go home