I liked all of it except for the opening arctic scene, which looked very videogamey.

If you wanna know more about Polidori and the huge influence his story and Mary Shelley's did on Regency England & how that would've influenced a nerdy goth girl who wanted to be a writer and affected a real vampire trying to live in London Society, you should totally check out Bite Me, Your Grace.

Oh, and who also wrote the first vampire story in English (that was also at first mistakenly credited to Byron, but was inspired by the way Byron charmed people, then sucked them dry, and discarded them) .

But if we have to credit a dude, how about John Polidori, Byron's physician and one of many of Byron's discarded lovers, who gave Mary all the anatomy info she needed?

Like, I get that he was one of her friends and she started writing the book at that infamous house party at Byron's villa in Lake Geneva, but it's still HER work!

And I also give Del Toro a scolding for ending with a Lord Byron quote instead of, I dunno, one from MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY!

I can't wait to get some of my romantasies adapted into audio. I got my 1st 2 Regency Vampire Romances done, though, if you are interested in a Bridgerton, but with vampires fluffy vibe.

BITE ME, YOUR GRACE, is $4.99. This one hasn't been discounted in over a year, so if you haven't read my debut novel that's a bit of a satire on fluffy regency romances--with lots of genuine love for them too--real 19th century horror writer history, and vampires! youtube.com/shorts/uZ4_W...

I at first took the "Naw, we cousins" line at face value, but it took less than a minute for me to go, "Waitaminute. Ohhhhh."

Yeah, that's how I've been operating.

The problem is, how do we trust them going forward?

It's only 5 minutes, but Stinkles the Clown.
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