#(;; trial)

[desktopdinosaur]

Happy 9th anniversary!!

I was absolutely speedrunning to get this animation done- even if it’s just 13 secs haha

I’m gonna try and get some nice drawings done as well- and start planning what I wanna do for the 10th anniversary- I really wanna do something special. Not super sure of what tho

[aestum]

(by Peter Vanosdall)

[nalyra-dreaming]

And a SAM interview, too!!

(With GLASSES GUYS!! :))

Sam usually has a lot of questions

He thinks that Lestat would be very encouraging of Louis trying to be an artist

There is a level of unbreakable trust between Louis and Dreamstat, Louis thinks Dreamstat is the only one who would give him the truth

It's a very complex things to show this deep love between these characters and be supportive and to use Lestat as a very specific device - the framework that Louis needs to discover more about himself

There's a lot of hyperbolic descriptions in the first book and he needs to feel extreme, on the fringes of what's acceptable, because he's processed through the stories of people that he's hurt

It allows the show to the perimeters, and Lestat is used at this device that pushes (for example in the scene with Armand and his backstory)

Louis knows he is in another bullshit relationship (which is what Dreamstat vocalizes)

They are always operating on a higher meta level

They all have trauma

Them being vampires makes it easier to explore the dark parts (and makes them fun to explore)

Armand making Lestat a "Harlequin" was a very pointed choice within the tale - Armand sees Lestat as this hypersexual being which is also the superficial level of Lestat's trauma as well

Lestat is an object of desire to a lot of people and creatures, and through that he finds himself in a lot of shit situations

Lestat played this part (Harlequin) (in Armand's tale) that he never did (in the actual events (surmised))

"you are the thing you're pretending to be by saying you're not"

The theatre is a prison they created because the vampires are too extreme for society

Lots of parallels to society (doing the same)

Hannah Moscovitch gave Sam the original trial script(!!!) so it could be very clear to him

You don't always see all the hints, because it "would play the rug away from the deception", though Sam played it and it was edited

Alan Taylor said "do what you serves the story"

He realized he had to start feeding it what really happened

"Maybe he wasn't able to fully stand up, maybe there was something else going on"

You have to remember to give the characters agency

You want to make sure that Louis isn't just a "liar", you cannot go "everything he said was a lie"

The older "monsters" have a level of intensity and necessity for those they love to them - that is what he worked in with Emma Freeman as to the "why" Lestat was there at the trial - he just HAD to be there because of his love for his family

"That sparkly thing" that keeps Louis and Lestat together

After looking at Louis Lestat was improvising, because any previous negotiations with Armand flew out the window

Lestat had been told that Claudia was too young to turn

Lestat has experiences with turnings turn out badly

That is why he says what he says in the turning scene

"A vampire fledgling is not a puppy just for Christmas, it's eternal"

Claudia is actually the best vampire that could be

Lestat realizes on her death that he's messed up judging her

Because Claudia is the perfect vampire

Lestat apologizes in the trial, but not really in the reunion

Stuff happened when Lestat came back to NOLA that we don't know about yet(!!)

There's a vagrant part of the character that this turns up in the later books that they're bringing in there

Lestat is living in his personal ghost era

Lestat loves to feel, he is decadent in his feelings

There's some very fundamental "fucked up" things that happened to him, and that is why he cannot truly believe that he can be loved for who he is - and he was turned (into this monster) before he could actually learn to believe that

And Lestat tried to hide those parts of himself (from Louis), and they come out at these unfortunate moments

[voidsentprinces]

Time for your Daily Roulette

Spin for a randomized dungeon

Spin for a randomized trial

Spin for a randomized raid

Spin for a randomized PvP option/zone

[paramasqueradeva]

Twin Runes Epi 102 - 104 [Deltarune/Undertale Comic Dub] (feat.  @washerpizza , @luigikid67 and @zezodacol )

Comic By: @akanemnon

[kevinlucbert]

The red path

21 x 29,7cm, ink on paper, Kevin Lucbert, 2024

[flyer9550]

So in the United States a convicted felon is NOT allowed to vote, but IS allowed to run for President

EXPLAIN THE LOGIC

[kitskull]

Free Luigi

[pierrelucstl]

The trial of the century

[illustratus]

Katherine of Aragon Denounced Before King Henry VIII and His Council

by Laslett John Pott

[morphona]

Hades [FFXIV]

[jelliyfishlight]

COURT IS IN SESSION

Let's begin with a basic explanation of the trial.

The jury will determine the results.

This trial is the tipping point for all divine beings, the trial of Gambler anon against Ruby

Tonight, we will finally try Ruby for all of their crimes against everything, Including assaulting, or intent to assault Gambler Anon.

Without further ado, let the trial begin.

@myparkispleasent @artfulanimal

[nalyra-dreaming]

Another Jacob interview!!

(And InCreative Company once more with GREAT questions and therefore very interesting answers!!!!)

the show exists in different versions of the truth

Jacob has the most fun presenting a certain version of Louis in Dubai, because Louis modeled himself on James Baldwin

As he loosens up the NOLA accent comes back (slowly) and in the end the versions of Louis come together

There's a level of deception to Loumand that Louis didn't realize was "possible" until that moment, and he did not feel safe in the relationship

Louis holds the accountability at the end of season 2, is able to look at his mistakes, (also) with Paul and Claudia, who he really loved and was changed by

Louis is constantly lying

Louis is super vampiric, he wants blood, he wants to kill humans

Louis is always overcompensating, there is a primal rage in him, and the only way to control it is to be elegant about it

Louis really missed Lestat

The trial was as close to a lynching as it could get

But his love for Lestat was just trickling in and it was incredibly confronting to feel that, combined with the "I can't believe you're doing this"

Louis is not overly defensive about what Lestat says about their relationship at the trial, because the bits that are true... are true

the flashback to the coffin room was very surreal

it was a "new Louis" - it was the rage that Louis usually hides, that "primal" rage

Jacob was not used to letting it out, and it was very interesting to do that

He and Sam manage to find the fun in those days regardless

Claudia's birth scene felt almost blasphemous to revisit

Jacob didn't want Louis to kneel... he didn't like the optics, and it wasn't scripted - he didn't want this image of Louis - but when rehearsing he realized it had to be that uncomfortable, fearing, "little-boy" Louis, prostrating himself

He said to Rolin "I didn't want to kneel" - and Rolin said: "I didn't tell you to"

Sometimes "something else" is taking over and going against every instinct he has for the character

Re Louis' revenge: madness looks different for everyone of us

Louis is going through a manic episode, Jacob wanted it to feel real and faithful

Letting loose and allowing things to come out for it is kinda fun

On the reveal: Louis always had an inkling that there was something untrustworthy about Armand

That is why he had Dreamstat commenting the way he did

Dreamstat is indeed giving clues how Louis is really feeling

Louis and Armand do care about each other in Dubai - they do not have the intense love though

Louis gaslighted himself a bit because he did not want to trust that inkling - with help of Armand of course

Louis takes his part of the responsibility for Claudia

What Louis and Lestat have is undeniable, in the ether,

Louis had just wasted 70 years of his life in an effort to spite Lestat - with a person who was just keeping him as an object, "cut off his nose to spite his face"

Louis took his frustration out on Armand (and Jacob thinks that's fair :))

Louis has found peace at the end of the season

He always felt "wrong", he had to "present himself", and in vampirism that continues and builds into eternal shame

And in that final moment of s2 Louis reached self-acceptance through accountability and responsibility for his part in it all

That was deeply satisfying for Jacob, because he hates how much Louis is hurting all the time

He thought that very beautiful

Peace and self-acceptance is a really difficult thing to get to in any lifetime

[invertedfate]

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