White Rose of Avalon

Vampire

  • My Top 5 Male Vampire Diaries Villains

    For today’s post, I have decided to do a countdown of the best male villains in The Vampire Diaries.   Also, these are sometimes my favorite male characters.   What can I say, but I have a thing for bad boys! Number 5: Damon Salvatore ~Damon is one of the great anti-heroes in the modern…

  • Original Siblings Countdown

    For today’s post, I have decided to rank all of the Original siblings from the Vampire Diaries Universe!   This is based on my opinions of each of the siblings as I have watched them over the course of all three series in this universe.   My opinions grew and changed slightly based on getting…

  • My Top 5 Female The Originals Characters

    For today’s post, I have decided to do a companion piece to my top five countdown of favorite The Vampire Diaries characters.   This one is my five favorite female characters on the spin-off series The Originals. Number 5: Freya Mikaelson ~My number five choice is the Original witchy eldest child Freya.   We first…

  • My Top 5 Female The Vampire Diaries Characters

    For today’s post, I have decided to do a countdown of my five favorite female characters from one of my favorite supernatural shows of all time.   There were many interesting female figures over the course of The Vampire Diaries’ eight-year run.   These five stood out amongst the rest and that is the reason…

  • My Top 10 Television Couples Who Should Have Ended Up Together

    For today’s post, I would like to do a countdown of my top ten picks for couples I wanted to see end up together on television shows.   As the hopeless romantic that I am, I always end up getting super emotionally invested in the love lives of onscreen characters in shows I watch.  …

  • The All Souls Trilogy

    For today’s post, I have decided to take a brief look at one of my favorite book series.    The All Souls Trilogy by Deborah Harkness is the book series that inspired the beautifully done television show A Discovery of Witches (which is named for the first book in the series).   I have mentioned…

  • Darla, Vamp Tramp

    For this week’s Femme Fatale Friday, I have chosen to take a look at Darla from Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel.   I have always been a huge fan of fantasy and supernatural-based books, films, and television.   Specifically, as someone that was a child in the 1990s, I grew up watching these shows…

  • Carmilla and Dracula: Gothic Vampire Icons

    For today’s entry in Gothic Week I have chosen to take on the stories of two iconic vampires!    Carmilla was the original vampire story written by Joseph Sheridan LeFanu.   Dracula would come much later, written by Bram Stoker!   Both would take inspiration from actual deadly historical figures.   It is highly likely…

  • Lizzie Siddal as Inspiration for Lucy Westernra

    For today’s entry in Gothic Week I have chosen a bit of a unique topic.    I want to look at how Bram Stoker may have been inspired by Lizzie Siddal when he wrote the character of Lucy in Dracula.   It has been said that Stoker was living in London (when he moved from…

  • Morgana as Vampire Faerie

    Today’s post will be one that I have been thinking about since I first saw Matthew Bourne’s Sleeping Beauty.   It is my favorite ballet of all time, and I loved that he used the premise of faeries also being vampires in order to allow the prince and Aurora to fall in love before the…