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[xxplastic-cubexx]

WAIT WAIT WAIT CHERIK MPREG IS CANON

i cannot stress enough how canon cherik mpreg is, yes my friend

[bootlegdvdmenu]

friend and i had a very lighthearted "debate" about this last night and it inspired me.

[ahalliance]

Etoiles: You know Richas, I don’t mind losing my sword as much, it’s my shield that I miss

Richas: Why??

Etoiles: Because it’s a part of my soul, an extension of my arm

[hermitagereheadcanons]

Hi all! I'm going to put a pause on headcanons that involve Iskall or Stress for a little while. I need some time to think about the information that has been made public before I decide how to proceed.

[hacash]

once again I’m struck by how ‘I don’t care if Trump gets in, I don’t care about allowing matters to get worse - both for America and vulnerable countries around the world - as long as I personally feel morally comfortable at the end of the election’ is a statement that people are actually saying with a straight face and meaning it

[thatswhatsushesaid]

more salty commentary about.... salty fandom commentary, but for a fandom i'm not really involved with

ftr this is about the gay-ass (affectionate) vampire show

squinting at some of super vitriolic anti-armand commentary that tumblr's algorithm keeps throwing at me like 'this? you want this one bestie? no? what about this one instead?' when in fact i want none of these takes, actually. "i don't believe a word that comes out of that lying liar's mouth!!" "of course he could have stopped claudia and madeleine's murders, he's the most powerful vampire in the world!!" (uh, i'll come back to that one later. maybe. if i feel like it) "he was onboard the 'let's murder claudia!' train from the very beginning!!!" etc. if you're even peripherally keeping your finger on the pulse of this fandom's discourse, you've probably seen some of this, too.

and... okay. bearing in mind two things:

it's been about 20+ years since i read the original novels, and

the show's relationship to the original novels, as well as the 1994 movie, is both conversational and subversive,

two seasons into this delicious mess, how are we still collectively failing to recognize that the central conceit of amc's retelling is that, intentional or not, all recollection of louis' past is both catharsis (for louis) and performance (for ???)? that all of louis' recollection of his own actions, as well as the actions of the other vampires in his orbit, is filtered through the lens of his own feelings about those vampires in that moment? like this isn't a subtle storytelling device, this is something the show is repeatedly bashing us over the head with again and again and again: louis' reliability as a narrator of his own experiences can't be trusted even when he isn't so consumed with rage that he tries to drain twenty year old daniel molloy dry for the unforgivable crime of /checks my notes, mouthing off at him like a dumbass, or goes into vulgar detail describing to lestat precisely how he is going to kill him, cut his head off, and then feed his decapitated head to lions at the zoo. which, it bears mentioning, is not the version of events that we were presented with during s1, but it is the version of events that louis himself comes to reluctantly believe is the more accurate recollection of the past.

does that make lestat into The Real Victim™️ who did nothing wrong to louis or claudia, ever? please tell me you're not actually asking me this question. be serious.

the point is that louis is right in the thick of feeling his intensely passionate vampire feelings about armand in real time, in the present day, while looking backwards through time at the 77 years they have spent together, and he is questioning everything. justifiably so, for the record! why wouldn't he question the actions and motivations of the supposed love of his life after discovering that such an important memory from his and daniel molloy's shared past was erased from his mind? but seriously, if you have reached this point in the story and your takeaway from the last episode boils down to "THIS TIME louis' recollection of the past is definitely 100% accurate! the rose-tinted glasses are OFF and we can see the TRUTH about you now armand!!!" then i just. i don't know what to say to you. lmfao.

anyway rather than getting into the weeds with anyone actually in the fandom about which of these diva vampire daddies is right, actually, find me hanging out with claudia and madeleine's ashes giving all of them the proverbial finger. because honestly, fuck all these vampires (affectionate).

[iphigeniacomplex]

hi!! my dear friend recently had a cousin pass away, and the family is struggling to put together the funds for a funeral. with my friend's permission, i am linking this gofundme, which was set up by their great-aunt; all donations will go toward the services. if you have money to donate, please consider doing so---regardless of size, any donation would really help.

[guiltyidealist]

I cannot STAND the shipcourse label terms.

Rant.

"Anti-ship". "Pro-ship".

They're such fucking misnomers for what they're actually referring to that it's not even CLEAR what they're actually referring to.

I struggle to even apply any of this shit to myself. Labels serve as a concise way to communicate something. A label has failed to function as a concise descriptor when it does not describe what you want it to.

Put the shipcourse connotations to these words aside for a second. Just take them for their literal, face-value translation.

I'm not """anti-ship""". I'm not fucking against shipping. Nor am I """pro-ship""" per se?? I'm shipping-positive and shipping-favorable -- like sex-positive and sex-favorable, I'm good with other people doing it and I like doing it -- but not indiscriminately???

There are ships I dislike and there's nothing about it related to ethics. "Anti-ship" and "pro-ship" are such absolutist fucking terms, black-and-white and binary and un-nuanced, "this or that".

But here's the thing: these words don't just mean "how you feel about shipping". Shipping is hardly the tip of the fucking iceberg. A small, singular, surface-level facet to a deep and complex issue related to art, reality, human relationships, and responsibility.

(And that's problem #2 with the labels: encompassing a fraction's fraction's fraction of what this is really about and making it sound like petty fandom bullshit instead.)

What it's really about is portrayal of sensitive and fucked up matters in fiction, and of how to engage with it. It's about what's healthy and what's not. It's about what's ethical and what's not.

It's about boundaries; the line between fiction and reality, the line between artists and their works, the line between creator and audience.

It's about the nature of art, the nature of the relationship between an artist and their artwork, the nature of the relationship between artwork and those who view it. It's about art as a medium through which interaction occurs simply by one person creating it and another perceiving it.

It's about responsibility and accountability. It's about the placement of responsibility and accountability in the artist-viewer relationship. Who is accountable for what. Where does the artist's due diligence end, and where do the viewer's discretion and critical thinking begin. Who takes credit or blame for what.

It's about consequences and who receives them. It's about how art reflects upon the artist, and how it doesn't. It's about what it means to create, to bring something forth to the world and to put it out there to be perceived and judged and acted upon.

I ran out of spoons but. TLDR: shipcourse labels suck so much -- dysfunctional and counterproductive, misleading, wildly failing to capture stances in the real issue at hand -- and we should stop using them actually

[zappedbyzabka]

I must apologize for this awful mistake.

He’s Johnny’s purse dog/chair idk what I was thinking

A purse puppy one could say. He’s like one of those menacing guard dogs who only rolls over for pets for it’s owner. scares you to death, but as soon as he sees Johnnu, he’s softer—different. Still scary, but distracted.

I’m so sorry for this one allakskskskksksksjjs

[caffeiiine]

funniest thing i ever encountered during fic research was the other day i was researching cults and how they work how the leaders usually are how they lure people in etc, etc, and i find a reddit post titled “how do i start a cult” on r/mbti (?) and people were giving genuine advice and answers on how to start a cult and manipulate people into joining it

[icharchivist]

waking up to see they're discoursing about Ladiva again on the previously-blue-bird site i'm just. benafflecksmoking.jpg.

do we really have to go through that every time a major granblue game release. can't people fucking behave.

[vampyretaemin]

“getting high and learning empathy is one of the most masculine thing youve done” is the FUNNIEST thing anyone has ever said to me. so fucking true

[mihai-florescu]

Listening to a palm reading asmr rn and, well, not to project, but i think tsumugi would too. "Natsume kun can you also do-" "Finish that sentenCE and I'm goiNG to kill yoU"

[coffinbutch]

Okay ykw I think I'm actually probably overthinking the application. I just need to trust my instincts and submit it.

[transmasc-queer]

I always block people how suck ass but its hard reading shit like “trans men wish they were oppressed so hard”, “i hate trans men”, and “if trans men left certain social groups life would improve”. like do y’all not hear yourselves? i don’t understand how these people are trans and still haven’t done any fucking work not being transphobic.

[hierophanthistorian]

In Ontario Liberal leader Wynne (2 elections ago) literally told their base not to vote NDP even though Libs had no chance whatsoever because allowing a Tory gov in power means people think about how bads the Tories suck instead of understanding we could have something other than those two :)

to be completely honest, I think the best path to block a conservative majority is for the liberals to pull their candidates out of ridings that could go NDP. the liberals are in shambles and have no chance of winning the next election. as it stands, I think it’s unlikely that they would form the official opposition. if they give the NDP the opportunity to win more seats, the NDP could be the opposition and form a coalition with the bloc and the remaining liberals to block conservative legislation.

unfortunately, the liberals aren’t going to do that, because they’re useless. not enough of them recognize that they’re completely screwed with or without trudeau in leadership. which means it’s up to anybody who is even slightly progressive to throw their vote behind the NDP. the NDP needs to pull together a really really good campaign, and yes, in quebec the bloc might need to do more of the heavy lifting.

as much as I hate to admit it, I don’t think there’s a remote possibility that the conservatives don’t win. the only question is whether they get a majority government or not.

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