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Yo, Tatort Saarbrücken.

Hugs.

You have to admit that it would be kind of neat in terms of narrative symmetry if Leo spent some time in a coma.

And aside from that cliffhanger, this was objectively a good episode, good use of the characters, and really enhanced authenticity (Lyoner, Maggi bottle, V&B Alt Luxemburg porcelain plate spotted in a kitchen, even a minor character speaking Saarländisch and a motherfucking Schwenker grill, this Tatort SB incarnation has never been more true to its location.

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Reading aloud

I am not quite spring-cleaning yet, but eventually I am going to have to confront the plastic bag at the bottom of the cupboard with the cleaning supplies. Inside is another plastic bag, and inside that is my cosmetics mirror and the hellbeast I've trapped with it.

(A bug. It is a large bug.)

The true story is that I accidently summoned a demon from hell, or possibly out of another dimension. This happened last summer as I was reading Lovecraft short stories in bed. It was midnight when I decided to read a poem out loud because I liked the sinister rhythm and the evil energy ... and what is the worst that could happen? When you read Lovecraft out loud? At midnight?

The hellbeast was suddenly in my bedroom, as if it had smoothly folded into this dimension from one of the parallel layers of unreality.

(Or the bug came in through the open window.)

It was very large and it was hectic. It would not sit still, but ran across the walls, aggressively launched itself into the air and flew around in erratic patterns, towards me. It had dangerous little antannae and a threatening shape, murderous stick legs and demonic signs on its wings. It made a loud, angry buzzing noise. I undertook several desperate attempts to fight the demon: shoo it, squash it, capture it under a glass. It was too fast, too large, too terrifying and far too clever for me. In the end, the beast landed on my little cosmetics mirror and wedged itself into a narrow space between the frame and the legs. It waited.

If you've ever fought a demon, you'll know that they cannot generally be killed by normal humans such as ourselves. We can only hope to banish or imprison them in a cursed object, and guard them for the rest of time. So I threw a trashbag over the mirror, my heart pounding, closed it tight and then, for extra protection, put the bag in another bag and now here we are.

Learn from my mistakes:

(Get a bug net.)

Do not read Lovecraft aloud at midnight.

And do not open the bag at the bottom of the cupboard.

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New Year's resolutions

I generally need to manage my time better so I can actually do all the activities I've been neglecting: get better at playing the recorder (and buy a nice wooden tenor recorder when I deserve it), write the story that's been gestating in my brain, do regular exercise.

I'll continue going to metal concerts and I will continue swimming once a week. I'll also get into bouldering, because it's fun! They say you can easily meet new people bouldering. That would be nice. But I'll settle for nice (functional) muscles.

I haven't read much this past year, so I'll get back into that as well.

=_= Why must I waste so many hours of my life at work?

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Other Vampire Chronicles characters have fans, some even have stans, but Marius de Romanus has defence lawyers with a a speciality in age of consent laws.

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I know that no one on this platform owes me anything, but could someone, anyone, pleeeeeease make a fake trailer for a Théatre des Vampires workplace sitcom?!

There's just something about this voice-over narration by Armand in 2x3 - "It was 1556 when the Roman coven sent me to lead the shambolic Paris coven. A face from the sub-continent, French my fourth and poorest language, I had never lead anything in my life" - that just screams "fish out of water, culture clash, workplace sitcom pilot episode". Someone please do it.

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YESsSSsss my terrible girl is here to cause problems and unnaturally prolong the lifespan of roses, and she’s all out of roses 🥳🥳🥳

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WOT proving itself once again the most bisexual-gaze-catering show on the planet

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One thing I appreciate about Interview with the Vampire (TV version) is how similar its season finales are to the dramatic final moments of an Ace Attorney game. Daniel pointing out inconsistencies in someone's story, presenting evidence!

And then, bam! The truth!!! Life-shattering revelations! Someone has an epic mental breakdown! Triumph!

Now, is that the smart thing to do when it's actual vampires you're provoking into a mental health crisis? Probably not! But Daniel does it anyway! Because YOLO.

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There is a common misconception that the Anne Rice novel is titled Interview with a Vampire. It is, of course, Interview with the Vampire.

But I think we can all agree that it would be most in-character for Old Man Daniel to title his book Interview with Some Vampire.

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I have been taking a vitamin D supplement for one week, and I am already beginning to suspect that entire aspects of my personality are actually vitamin D deficiency symptoms.

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:D But what if he did put the baby on the couch and it's on the floor because it did fall?? :D

Props to Louis for - no, not not-eating the baby, that's the bare reasonably expected minimum.

But for not dropping the baby (I was so nervous that would happen) nor putting it down on the couch from where it could have fallen and fatally injured itself.

Instead he put it on the floor where it was the safest (given the circumstances.)

He might have done it by accident/ subconsciously, but says that (deep down) there is more good inside him than he gives himself the credit for.

(At least as far as the baby event. We shall see about whatever else.)

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Oh, no! Noooooo! I was referring to the adaptations! Not the books! XD I meant that it has not affected Pratchett's legacy that some of the adaptations of his books have been mediocre, bad, or The Watch.

I get annoyed every time someone tries to make Good Omens Season 3 about "Terry Pratchett's legacy".

Terry Pratchett was a novelist. He wrote over fifty books. That's his legacy. There have been various adaptations and some of them have even been bad. Didn't affect his legacy. It feels dismissive of his actual accomplishments to claim that his whole career is practically unfulfilled unless Good Omens Season 3 happens / has six episodes / whatever. This one piece of television allegedly based on mere ideas for an unrealized sequel to a co-written novel, as remembered by a known liar. Just no.

Just admit you want Season 3 because you want Season 2's cliffhanger resolved. You like the show and want more of it. That's perfectly normal! That's why TV seasons end on cliffhangers. Don't claim it's really about the interests of a respected author who is conveniently dead and cannot contradict you.

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Chrono Trigger (Squaresoft - SNES - 1995)

Source: x

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I kinda wish people wouldn't conflate book canon and show canon so much. Such as citing things that only happened in the books to prove a point about a character in the show. I'd rather treat show and book (and movie) as separate works. I mean, it's fine to draw on book knowledge, the author's life, on interviews and other secondary sources in order to strengthen an analysis. But you have to acknowledge the differences between the source material and the adaptation, because they are deliberate choices, quite significant and they have consequences. The characters are different, their experiences are different, their actions are different ... It's kind of frustrating when there's an interesting discussion happening somewhere, and then people start aggressively bringing in things that haven't been established yet on the show, happened differently, sometimes didn't even happen in the books either because they misremember, and then everyone gets insanely confused because nothing really makes any sense and they're talking about entirely different stories!

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I get annoyed every time someone tries to make Good Omens Season 3 about "Terry Pratchett's legacy".

Terry Pratchett was a novelist. He wrote over fifty books. That's his legacy. There have been various adaptations and some of them have even been bad. Didn't affect his legacy. It feels dismissive of his actual accomplishments to claim that his whole career is practically unfulfilled unless Good Omens Season 3 happens / has six episodes / whatever. This one piece of television allegedly based on mere ideas for an unrealized sequel to a co-written novel, as remembered by a known liar. Just no.

Just admit you want Season 3 because you want Season 2's cliffhanger resolved. You like the show and want more of it. That's perfectly normal! That's why TV seasons end on cliffhangers. Don't claim it's really about the interests of a respected author who is conveniently dead and cannot contradict you.

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I am incoherent tonight, but ... Has anybody discussed the parallels between Louis betraying Lestat in Season 1 and Armand betraying Louis in Season 2? There are similarities, for example that both play the happy loving boyfriend in the time leading up to the carnage, that in both cases someone else is the mastermind and driving force behind the plan (Claudia, Santiago), and both Louis and Armand commit to it, but have a change of heart at the last moment and save/spare their BF's life after all. There's always collateral damage. Both Claudia and Santiago go for maximum drama and theatrics with costumes and silly wigs. There are differences, too, and I think the most important one concerns Louis and Armand's respective motives ... I struggle to put this succinctly, but idk ... Louis agrees to Claudia's plan because he needs change and independence, while Armand accepts Santiago's plan because those same things scare him; he'd rather stay in his familiar environment, even in a demoted position, than go off into an uncertain future with Louis, who he fears might end up leaving him. Something about how Louis chooses freedom, Armand chooses stability. The same wrong choice for such different reasons, or something? THERAPY COULD HAVE PREVENTED ALL OF THIS.

I always get ambitious thoughts like this during the day, when I am busy, and in the evening when I have time to think and write them down, my tired brain hides all the good words and won't tell me how to construct an argument. Stupid brain. :(

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I am starting to get a hang of the things but for the record, the first time I read a post about Louis that said something like "after all, he is LDPDL", I thought: "LDPDL??? Is that from some trendy new personality typology system that I haven't heard about?! This is getting out of hand!!"