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louis is dickmatized this louis is dickmatized that armand is dickmatized to the point that he gets called the embodiment of thirst by lestat. lestat. for half a millennium armand periodically gets into lestat's face and is like you destroyed my cult you made me a laughing stock to my own henchmen you robbed me of my life's purpose you found my maker and had him tell you all the secrets of our kind that he refused to tell me but you know what would fix me. your dick. and then lestat will say something like i literally just beat the shit out of you or i just survived attempted patricide and am a raving skeleton dressed in rags and armand just puts his fingers to lestat's lips and is like shh shh it literally makes me want you more. and lestat realizes once again that this guy is batshit insane and reflexively thrusts out an arm and pushes him off a roof. and armand skulks around lestat's resting place like a starved raccoon. and then a couple decades later lestat will stumble partially blind out of a new adventure and squint at armand like jesus fucking christ please don't tell me you still love me and armand goes i'm ready to steal an eyeball for you king

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AITA?

I (514M) recently reconnected with my ex (69M) in Dubai when he came to interview my husband (145M) for a book. Because I erased my ex's memories of our relationship together he had no idea of who I was, so I had to pretend to be a member of the staff for a while.

Eventually I had to reveal my true identity and join in with the interview where my mortal ex was able to expose the role I had to play in the murder of my immortal husband's sister/daughter (47F) and her girlfriend (31F). This made him angry at me and resulted in the end of our 77 year long relationship.

My immortal husband and my mortal ex were also able to recover some other memories that I had erased from an incident in 1973. Neither of them were particularly happy about this, especially my mortal ex as I had somewhat tortured him during the aforementioned incident.

Anyway, during a conversation with my husband about interior decorating I suggested putting up the Ai Wei Wei wallpaper with the Hockney's 'Lemons' which he did not appreciate and instead suggested that we should "leave the wall bare until inspiration entered the room."

AITA for taking this personally? I thought that the 'Lemons' piece would pair quite wonderfully with the Ai Wei Wei wallpaper and I can't understand why my husband wouldn't agree with me?

Edit: Comments on the interior decorating only please. Anyone accusing me of being 'manipulative' will be hunted down for sport.

Edit Edit: No, my husband and I are no longer together. He got back with his ex (262M) who also happens to be my ex as well.

Edit Edit Edit: For people asking about my mortal ex - he is now immortal and I would best describe our relationship as 'complicated' at the moment.

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They saw him going feral on instagram and realised they needed to get him back on set or we’d have a category 4 Bogosian event 😌

I FUCKING KNEW HE WAS GONNA BE IN THE TALAMASCA! I FUCKING KNEW IT!!!!!!!!

Photo Credit to @universeimortalbr on Instagram

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petition for an iwtv cast audiobook series of the books so i don't have to listen to simon vance ever again

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fem devil's minion dump p2, this time with some scenes from the 80s<3 (p1)

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I think the most difficult thing that armand struggles to come to terms with (re: his feelings about marius) is very much that marius seemingly steps into his life and performs actions that are, at a superficial glance, meant to be liberatory or empowering but are unequivocally very predatory if you start to dig into the meat of their relationship.

Marius rescues armand from starvation and sexual slavery at a point in his life when armand is actively entertaining thoughts of suicide. marius sweeps in, purchases him, and transfers him from abhorrent conditions of existence to a life of material comfort, although it’s not really a safe one, but at this point armand doesn’t necessarily have the ability to have a critical dialogue about safety with himself because he’s so glad to be rescued from slavery that he ascribes divinity to marius. he also receives an allowance and he’s taught swordplay. he’s taught swordplay. but what kind of harm could a child ever cause to a 1500 year old vampire?

And the material reality is that marius is not really interested in empowering armand at all. he actively fosters an unhealthy codependency between them, he withholds information about his nature, he performs sexual acts on him even when armand doesn’t necessarily comprehend that these acts are sexual in nature. he also strategises methods that he reasons are supposed to sexually liberate armand but these instances just contribute to the overall conversation on how he grooms him. armand is 15 years old when marius sends him out to brothels “to learn how to couple properly”. do you remember that he was supposed to be forced into prostitution. marius now offers him the illusion of sexual power by allowing him to experience sexual pleasure instead of offering it to predatory customers instead. but armand also says that he doesn’t enjoy the experiences at the brothels because he craves sexual relations with marius solely, to a point where he feels resentful about being asked to participate in these acts even when he derives sexual pleasure from them. he endures the experiences because his master gives him no other choice, but it’s also in these brothels that he discovers that sex doesn’t have to be associated with pain as it often tends to be with marius.

When he returns ‘home’ from the brothels he’s perceptive enough to understand that marius really sent him to receive a sexual education on marius’s behalf and attempts to replicate these acts on him. he unconsciously takes up the role of a sex worker, but again he’s a child, and it’s horrifying that he thinks he’s harassing marius by initiating sexual relations with him. it’s also not very surprising that when he does display sexual interest in other people marius emotionally shuts him off (because these experiences were never instituted with armand’s interest in mind) and these moments shape up to be very harrowing experiences for armand - he’s been taught to crave marius’s affection and never do anything that might displease him. armand often has to beg his way back into marius’s good graces and allow himself to be subjected to corporal punishment to achieve this. it’s terrifying that one of the first ideas the boys in the villa convey to armand despite the language barrier is that their master will never hurt him.

And the alarming fact about armand’s transformation is that vampirism serves to just further reinforce this abuse, even though, once again, it might seem like an empowering act. his newly acquired powers don’t change his reality - he’s still under marius’s control the whole time. he’s also further isolated from boys his age who share his interests, and his nights with marius are insular and suffocating. the corporal punishments continue. they’re now adjusted to account for his vampirism. “usual brain jarring blow” is a term floated in the book. marius calls armand’s coffin a “crib”. he very seriously asks armand if he’s ever been cruel to him soon after he transforms him. armand’s codependency with marius is in fact further reinforced by the vampiric transformation that marius carries out. so much of armand’s initiation into vampirsm is once again rooted in sexual instruction, once again evoking patterns of behaviour that are associated with grooming. it’s very in-character for marius to teach him the fundamental principles of seducing his victims before killing them. he also advices him to develop emotionally frigid relationships and never reveal his true self to the people he cares for, further establishing marius as the most significant figure in his life, as the person he constructs his entire identity around. how was he ever supposed to turn out well-adjusted?

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the vampire Armand and his minion 🩸

(the first page is based on the official devil’s minion comic book)

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anyone know if Vampires can go on testosterone? asking for my good friend Gabrielle de Lioncourt.

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just so you know, you have some followers who enjoy/write fanfiction. not saying their urls rn bc i don’t wanna air out dirty laundry in public but if you want them so you can block and report, just say the word and i’ll dm you a list

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All i want is for daniel to mockingly call armand “a real trooper” and for armand to be all like 🥹🥹

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Reading the vampire armand is often unsettling but at times it has me absolutely cackling.

Babe, it’s page 279, i ain’t no virgin and nether is anyone who’s made it this far

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I was so expecting the clip to be “your phones makes you slaves to your fetishes” lol

(Which i mean… in the words of two time pulitzer prise winning journalist; yah)

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I'm still slightly discombobulated

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i'm sorry you were turned out of spite and not following the threesome we had been planning extensively for. i'm sorry you were turned out of spite and you didn't even get to have the vampiric foursome we were planning on having following that one. yeah we were gonna bring another guy for you to eat while we sucked you off. unfortunate but it is what it is

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i have a working theory about vampire mythos of the early 00s and it roughly breaks down as the sexless straight mormon vampire mythology of stephanie meyer vs the erotic homosexual catholic vampire mythology of anne rice. and everything outside of that just falls somewhere on the spectrum between the two. but interestingly i do think there's a deeper argument to be made here about this spectrum because claudia is a child to a gay couple, not traditionally married, conceived without sex, who is an adult trapped in a child's body, and suffers a tragic end at the hands of other vampires (including her own father/maker). renesmee is a child to a married straight couple conceived with sex, whose mother "nobly" claims life over choice, becomes a child trapped in an adult's body, and escapes her own destruction at the hands of a vampire cabal that is like. a thinly disguised stand-in for the vatican. of course, i think there's similar analysis of life vs choice in claudia's story as well but it is presented vastly differently from bella and renesmee's. the lack of choice is a tragedy for claudia, and her mind developing while her body remains childlike is the full opposite of renesmee's body maturing while her mind, obviously, ages at a different rate. i havent thought enough about this to form a coherent argument, though, its just observation. (NB wrt renesmee's mental capacity: "has the mental capacity of an adult by the time she's born" does not mean anything since "adult mental capacity" does not actual equal to maturation or lived experience, ie the basis for the power imbalance between her and being imprinted on by an adult man, but i dont think tumblr is capable of having this discussion normally.)

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"The way Daniel sits here with his arm around the back of the sofa, a conspicuously empty, person-shaped space right beside him..."

@speckled-jim

yeah he was just grabbing a snack

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Devils minion 🩸