#Black Books (TV series)

[dorcasmckinnonn]

I believe in the annabeth chase supremacy. bow down to your queen.

smoustart on insta

[batcavescolony]

just saw someone say Rick Riordan making a TV show is just as bad as anything JKR has done. BFFR you're comparing Rick Riordan trying to make his world more inclusive, changing some parts because of money/time constraints, or just making changes cus he thinks they're needed, to JKR being a terrible person!

[am-i-jojo]

Did a quick page inspired by Armand. The lines are a bit messy, but i like it anyway.

[zobix]

MOTHER ATHENA IS HERE

[haveyouseenthisseries-poll]

[aesthetic--mood]

Sauron Aesthetic

[mostlyvoid-partiallyflowers]

The most recent episode of Interview with a Vampire let's us see Lestat's side of the story and see how it compares to Louis' accounting of their relationship. As a result, it reaffirms just how unreliable of a narrator Louis is, but it also further illuminates elements of his character that the director and writers have been playing with since the beginning of the show.

There's this part in the episode where Lestat turns to Louis and apologizes and it's framed with Lestat turned to Louis on one side and Claudia on his other side. They're the angel and devil on Louis' shoulders, but who is the angel and who is the devil? And as my friend said, Armand and Daniel are placed into that same dynamic with Louis later on. We are being asked to decide who to trust, who's telling the truth, who's the good guy, but the fact of unreliability robs us of that decision.

This whole story is about Louis, he's the protagonist, though not the narrator, and he is constantly being pulled in two directions, no matter when or where he is in his story. He's a mind split in two, divided by nature and circumstance. He's vampire and human, owner and owned, father and child, angel and devil. He's both telling the story and being told the story. His history is a story he tells himself, and as we've seen, sometimes that story is not whole.

Louis is the angel who saved Claudia from the fire but he's also the devil who sentenced her to an life of endless torment, the adult trapped in the body of a child. He's the angel who rescued Lestat from his grief and also the devil who abandoned him, who couldn't love him, could only kill and leave him.

He's pulled in two directions, internally and externally at all times and so it's no wonder that he feels the need to confess, first to the priest, then Daniel, and then Daniel again.

He's desperate to be heard, a Black man with power in Jim Crow America who's controlled by his position as someone with a seat at the table but one who will never be considered equal. He doesn't belong to the Black community or the white community, he can't. He acts as a go-between, a bridge, one who is pushed and pulled until he can't take it anymore. He's a fledgling child to an undead father, he's a young queer man discovering his sexual identity with an infinitely experienced partner. He's confessing because he wants to be absolved, that human part of him that was raised Catholic, that child who believed, he wants to be saved. He wants to be seen.

Louis wants to attain a forever life that is morally pure, but he can't. He's been soiled by sin, by "the devil," as he calls Lestat, and he can never be clean again. Deep down, I think he knows this, but he can't stop trying to repent. He tries to self-flagellate by staying with Lestat and then tries to repent by killing him, but can't actually follow through. He follows Claudia to Europe to try and assuage his guilt. He sets himself on fire, attempts to burn himself at the stake, to purify his body, rid himself of the dark gift.

Louis is a man endlessly trying to account for the pain he has caused and he ultimately fails, over and over again, because he can't get rid of what he is. A monster. He's an endlessly hungry monster. He's hungry for love, for respect, for power, for forgiveness, for death. He's a hole that can never be filled. He can never truly acquire any of those things because he will always be punishing himself for wanting and needing them in the first place. He will never truly believe he deserves them and as a result, can't accept them if they are ever offered. He can never be absolved for he has damned himself by accepting the dark gift and thus has tainted himself past the point of saving.

[bonobochick]

So I finished up Cruel Intentions and Rivals.

Chatted with a friend today about Rivals and Cruel Intentions. She'd heard Rivals but not CI cuz she follows booktok and booktok has been all about one ship on Rivals.   I wasn't surprised cause we know booktok is big on only promoting white ships in romance & no Black women. 🫤

Anywho, there are several romance storylines that I like on Rivals so if there is a S2... which I really hope there will be... I'd like to see more of those potential couplings become actual couples.    

[holly-natnicole]

To all New Orleanian African American 'Percy Jackson' (2005) franchise fans, I have a serious question:

Please vote!! I've felt very confused for the past half a year coz of this issue.

[tuhainkahan]

in my “the world is cruel, therefore, I won’t be” era.

[thezombiegeekinthehawaiianshirt]

Bill Bailey has cut his hair.

Took nearly 25 years but Simon Pegg finally got what he wanted.

[jewishbarbies]

an executive producer of The Handmaid’s Tale was cheering that trump won under an insta post from justine bateman and idk why anyone is surprised when the lead actress has always been balls deep in Scientology

[zobix]

GUYS THALIA CASTING IS HERE ‼️‼️

She is sooo beautiful and I can't wait to see her as Thalia on screen 🎉

[rareworldz]

The Mother Of Dragons Daenerys Targaryen 👸

[twinsarekeepers]

Your the TV annabeth super fan, right? I found your arch nemesis @notmyannabeth

they are the book annabeth super fan, gong as far as straight up changing TV annabeth artworks to their book version lol

Yeah I know about them. I have them blocked and reported for stealing artwork and also, antiblackness and racism.

The way this ask is phrased is as if this is some fandom war, when in reality, this is a case of deeply entrenched misogynoir that has led to the disgusting harassment of a real little black girl.

Annabeth has always been my favorite character, even before the tv show was an idea. But, this isn’t about that. Me getting upset about people being reckless and opening more hate spaces up for Leah and the cast isn’t being a “super fan”, it’s me trying to protect the very young cast. It never actually seems to do anything since Leah is still banned on tiktok from y’all reporting her while whole accounts that are dedicated to bullying her are still gaining followers and traction on every single social media platform.

I’m done with this fandom ignoring and downplaying what has happened and is still happening because y’all want to go back to talking to your racist ass mutuals. Fuck y’all deeply.

[aesthetic--mood]

Rhaenyra Targaryen Aesthetic