White Rose of Avalon

Fantasy

  • We Need to Talk About ‘Return to Oz’

    Welcome back to White Rose of Avalon, my Darlings.   Today’s post is about the 1985 Disney film Return to Oz and just how strange it is in the best ways possible!   I recently re-watched this film for the first time since High School, and wow, it is just as eerie as I remembered…

  • Arwen, Half-Elven Queen of Middle-Earth

    Welcome back to White Rose of Avalon, my Darlings.   This week’s Femme Fatale Friday is about Arwen, the Elven Queen from The Lord of the Rings.   Arwen embodies much of the classic Faery Queen energy, being a well-respected and beloved fixture at her father Elrond’s Court at Rivendell.    She is referred to…

  • Rose the Hat, Psychic Vampire Villainess

    Welcome back to White Rose of Avalon, my Darlings.   This week’s Femme Fatale Friday post is about Rose the Hat, the primary antagonist of Doctor Sleep.   I find Rose the Hat to be truly one of the scariest female horror villains, which is why I wanted to write about her.   After all,…

  • Wednesday Addams: Spooky, Kooky, and All-together Ooky

    Welcome back to White Rose of Avalon, my Darlings.   This week’s Femme Fatale Friday post is about Wednesday Addams.   I thought she was the perfect character to discuss for an October Femme Fatale Friday!   After all, who is more related to Spooky Season than Wednesday Addams? The character of Wednesday Addams first…

  • Drusilla, Iconic Vampiress

    Welcome back to White Rose of Avalon, my Darlings.   This week’s Femme Fatale Friday is going to be focused on Drusilla from Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel!   I found this to be the ideal topic for the very first Femme Fatale Friday of October.   Kicking off October Femme Fatale Fridays with…

  • ‘The Lure’: The Ideal Mermaid Film for Spooky Season

    Welcome back to White Rose of Avalon, my Darlings.   For this week’s Femme Fatale Friday, I have decided to discuss the very fatal female protagonists of the Mermaid Horror Musical The Lure.   Yes, you read that right, this Polish Horror film is also a musical about Mermaids set in 1980s Warsaw!   The…

  • Banshees, Dark Women of the Faery Mounds

    Welcome back to White Rose of Avalon, my Darlings.   Today’s post is another discussion of Banshees, a favorite species of Faery who is oft misunderstood.    These Wailing Women are thought of as figures of the Monstrous Feminine, while in truth, they are meant to be Faery Women who bring warning of the oncoming…

  • ‘True Blood’ Maenad & ‘Chilling Adventures of Sabrina’ Pagans: A Magical Media Analysis of Folk Horror on Television

    Welcome back to White Rose of Avalon, my Darlings.   Today’s post is an examination of the Maenad storyline from True Blood, with The God Who Comes (Dionysus), and the Pagan storyline from Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, with the Green Man, and how they relate to Folk Horror!   In this Magical Media Analysis, I…

  • My Top 5 Favorite Vampire Television Series

    Welcome back to White Rose of Avalon, my Darlings.   Today’s post is a countdown of my five favorite Vampire television series.   As a note, I have included two series that are actually a universe of two shared series.   That may seem like a cheat, but as it is my list, I am…

  • A Very Biased Ranking of All Five Seasons of ‘The Originals’

    Welcome back to White Rose of Avalon my Darlings.   Today’s post is my own very biased ranking of all the seasons of The Vampire Diaries’ companion series The Originals.    I love this series just as much as its predecessor, and am so glad to have the chance to rank it!   Without further…