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One day, I’ll learn to stop letting Sweetie2566’s incredible book edits trick me into reading H.D. Carlton.

It’s like a bad B-movie in the form of a book. The story is hella schlocky, but you expect that from Stine. I don’t know what else to say, other than it’s a simplistic, easy read that’s somewhat quenching my thirst for beach vampires while I daydream about Rip and Grim, AKA Román Tide and Dawn Grimshaw, from Sangre Sol.

Having the vamps possess the ability to transform into sharks is a jawesome twist on the mythos for a story about Night Surf Nation, AKA beach vampires, but so far the writing feels painfully juvenile.

STREAM VAMPIRE BEACH ON SPOTIFY.

After spending all day thinking about Vampire Beach, The Lost Boys, Vincent Væin, Sangre Sol, and Vampire Surf Cult, sinking my teeth into this seemed like a good idea.

My taste in men is clearly cursed because every time I think about Christian Coulson as Tom Marvolo Riddle, my sense of morality slithers away.

The absolute absurdity that Little Miss Lives and Breathes the Austro-Hungarian Empire would leave her ancestral homeland in Styria for Sheffield, of all places. I have to laugh.

Since Kat Dunn seems to have skimmed rather than studied Carmilla, a few clarifications:

1. Carmilla does not have chestnut hair, it’s a very dark brown, with something of gold in it.

2. Carmilla does not turn into a white cat, she turns into a giant black one.

3. Carmilla’s skin is not ashen, it’s rich and brilliant.

4. Carmilla’s eyes are not blue, they’re large, dark, and lustrous.

The writers behind Legacy of Blood: Great Families of the Core had to make Talena von Zarovich #TeamStrahd because they knew she and her other distant cousin (once or twice removed), Lyssa von Zarovich, would be too powerful and too iconic a duo.

Classic Gothic literature is God tier. There is truly nothing else like it.

A man of God and a secret vampire lover? Welcome back Baron Vordenburg.

Making Lyssa the FMC for a Worst Choices playthrough of Baldur’s Gate 3 was such a delightfully terrible decision. I love (1) Barovian aristobrat with an Evil Queen complex.

LATE ONE NIGHT, YOU DUG ME OUT OF MY GRAVE AND SAVED MY HEART FROM THE FATE OF OPHELIA.

The Gazetteer: The Domains of Dread are a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad place filled with monsters and misery.

Me: OMG I WANT TO GO.

Lyssa von Zarovich is, and forever will be, the better von Zarobitch. Count Strahd who?

BALDUR’S GATE 3 FIXED THE MAGIC MIRROR MOD. NOT ONLY THAT, BUT MODDERS HAVE FINALLY ENABLED A FULLY CUSTOMISED PLAYTHROUGH, WHICH MEANS I GET TO RUN A CAMPAIGN WITH ALL OF MY OCs. THIS IS MONUMENTAL.

Mina knitted the Witch some grey woollen socks as a gift. This is so Dobby the house-elf coded.

I VOLUNTEER AS TRIBUTE (TO BE THE WITCH’S COMPANION).

I love stories set in the Überwald.

I know you shouldn’t judge a book by its cover, but if that’s meant to be Laura on the front of it… WHY IS SHE NOT BLONDE?

Amina Khan, I have to know, why did you not include “Good Luck, Babe” by Chappell Roan and “I Hate Everything About You” by Three Days Grace on your playlist?

“Hate me, despise me, loathe me. I don't fucking care what you feel, as long as you only feel it for me.”

ALEXA PLAY “LAY ALL YOUR LOVE ON ME” BY ABBA.

Not Juliette offering to make Adaline something to eat, then fixing her a plate of pasta.