altonzm:

today I read this german short story by karl heinrich ulrichs (basically the first guy to talk about gayness as a valid, cohesive and positive identity in Europe, tho he called it “uranian love” – he also coined terms for lesbian and bisexual ppl) that is about these two gay fishermen from the faeroe islands, and one of them dies in a shipwreck

but then he keeps leaving his grave, swimming to the other’s island, and 1) getting it on with his alive boyfriend but then 2) drinking blood from his lovers chest above the heart (ulrichs repeatedly calls it ‘the soft mound above his heart’ which is a bit disturbing), and this blood drinking weakens the other guy but he’s into it bc he loves his zombie vampire bf

I feel like I should mention none of the villagers really care about the gay, just the blood drinking bc that’s not really sporting

anyway then his mum over his protests goes to the vamp’s island to make the zombie bloody well stay in its grave, which involves stakes, but that just means that when he shows up at night he’s not only soaking wet from swimming between the islands but bleeding everywhere and even more hungry for blood, but they still get it on bc uranian love persists even after death

anyway so then non zombie mum tries again by driving a massive iron stake through the gay zombies body and leaving it there, which works and he doesn’t show up to fuck and drink his bf’s blood again

but then the alive one is like “but mum I love him” so he asks her to murder him over his vampire bf’s grave so they can be together forever, which she does

1) eat your heart out anne rice but 2) modern fanfic is weak shit