#I’m not very good with tone

[cherryspiders]

I’ve rewritten this many times but I think simple is best: I enjoyed the cr3 finale and I think the cast deserve to have that happy ending, narrative or whatever be damned. Some of them irl had to evacuate due to the fires and while I understand the people upset by the lack of narrative weight (which is a term I’ve seen being thrown around) I just never saw a universe where Matt (who notoriously loves his friends) would’ve ever done something different than allow his friends to have their characters have their happy (or desired) endings. I don’t want to diminish anyone’s feelings, and I think a lot of the constructive criticism is actually very healthy to express. But god, truth be told, there’s been a lot of rancid negativity in the fandom as of late and with this finale people are lashing out and while that’s a testament to just how much people cared about Bells Hells and their story I honestly think some people just need to sit down and reflect before they type. I know there’s quite a few people who hate to hear it as an excuse but guys, it’s their game. And I think with all of the awful things happening in LA with the fires I think they deserve that happy ending. Don’t forget to be kind.

[swordmaid]

a little distraction 🤭

@enderose ‘s silvia with shri’iia for the murder mystery au. pose from this photoshoot!!!

[nightcolorz]

Unhinged Sybelle and Benji tangent (cw references to abuse csa trauma etc)

yeah so Marius’s turning of Benji and Sybelle isn’t about whether or not that was the right decision to make and isn’t made better by their contentment living as vampires in late canon. Benji and Sybelle’s relatively happy lives as vampires are irrelevant to me. The cruelty of how he did it is made worse by the hypocritical nature of turning a kid into a vampire after so firmly insisting that turning children is morally abhorrent and smth he should’ve never done, yeah, but that’s only a small part of it.

It was so awful and upsetting to me bcus of the deliberate stripping of Armand’s agency. See, we have a whole book where Armand tells the story of how throughout his entire life and childhood he was forced into the role of submissiveness and/or dependency. whether that be his childhood religious devotion that would eventually lead to his being buried alive for God or being sold into sexual slavery or Marius’s mentorship of him that ultimately intended to teach him to stay loyal and dependent on Marius’s authority to Marius’s relationship with him sexual and otherwise to the cult indoctrination, up until Lestat comes along and tilts his own view of submission and devotion as his only way to survive and function in the world onto its head.

He gives him a theater and then he gives him Louis. Armand floats around, tries to find purpose without devotion through using Louis and Daniel as tools to understanding the modern age. The modern age to Armand is possibility and independence, things he’s never had so much access to and doesn’t know exactly how to apply to himself until the devils minion chapter when he’s like ah ok I get it, life without devotion is something I’ve always been familiar with—it’s what Marius taught me! I Am The Master now with my excessive indulgence and my Boy and my sea side paradise.

But Armand is a Void™️ with no concept of self besides a collection of concepts and experiences and people he’s been exposed to throughout his existence, so rlly he’s kind of a fraud. Internally he’s still a saint who yearns for a God to follow, he’s no Marius, and this all comes to a head in Memnoch the devil when he throws himself into the sun for Jesus etc. and so TVA Armand is mixed the fuck up, he’s lost everything he’s been building for himself, he’s like an open wound, like red and gold sand art shaken around until it’s sludges of brown.

Armand believes himself to have no coherent narrative of a life, no coherent and consistent sense of self, just a collection of unrelated sequences that he draws from to occasionally preform personhood, and at the beginning of TVA he is very much just that. No thoughts only colors and pain. But he’s trying to rebuild himself as best he can, he has these young humans who he’s caring for, and through caring Armand finds meaning.

These humans are very much reflections of himself, or who he used to be, and seeing a personhood reflected back at him through these two gives him insight into his own value as an individual, as someone who is inherently worthy of having a life. So with Benji and Sybelle he tries to rebuild his own sense of personhood by giving them what he would want in there place. The conclusion he reaches at the end of his story to David is that after everything ultimately he is learning and rebuilding, gaining fulfillment and individuality he’s never had before through his empathy and care for these two people in his life. Benji and Sybelle are representative of Armand’s healing process!!! They mirror him bcus they are him!! He’s literally nurturing his inner child!! And with that there comes self care and self love etc etc. but then the book doesn’t end!!

Then after all that trauma and all that healing everything that Armand was tenderly attempting to build for his new life is stripped away ! When Marius turns Benji and Sybelle it doesn’t matttttter that they like being vampires. What matters is that when Armand finally gained agency and individuality Marius decided to take that from him! Marius decided that he actually knew better then Armand, and if Armand would just allow him to do what’s best for him then everything would be so much better and so much easier. And when Armand starts sobbing and screaming and fighting him that’s just justification to Marius that Armand isn’t capable of independence or self sufficiency, that he’s a child throwing a tantrum who can’t make his own decisions, that he should just be dependent on Marius like he used to be and trust that other people know what’s best for him.

That’s why it’s so tragic! That’s why it’s so frustrating and so sad. Armand was on the road to healing but then Marius stormed in like the symbolic representation of his past telling him that no matter what he does or the progress he makes he’s still Armand in the catacombs, Amadeo on the red sheets, Andrei waiting to be buried alive. So I don’t really give af if ultimately Benji and Sybelle are fine! It’s great that despite being a child vampire Benji is able to function independently and contently as an adult with minimal body dysmorphia and existential dread, but you know who’s not able to do that? Armand 😭😭

[prettyboysdontlookatexplosions]

if we are adapting mediocre musicals for the screen now is it too much to ask for legally blonde the musical the movie. is it too much to ask that this happen and also is not directed by john m chu

[lesbianaelwen]

“camaraderie in the toxicity” REAL

[angrycanadiannerd]

I have started listening to The Magnus Archives because of your posting. I recently played Slay the Princess so it's nice to hear Johnathan Sims voicing a strange fucked up little man again.

Funnily enough i had listened to it back in 2020/2021 and had gotten back into it when Protocol came out

But uh… being so into Malevolent as of late has made me re-hyperfixate on Magnus Archives and now both shows are fighting for control of my mind gjagfkhsfkhsdkgakdh

But yeah i loved J Sims in Slay the Princess a lot too, I recently finished the Pristine Cut and I have Many Feelings™️

[corellianhounds]

It’s weird to me how one of my favorite sweet stories about Din and the children of the covert is written by the same person who wrote that Amidala piece

Do you also think it’s weird when somebody who knows how to make cupcakes can also cook barbecue

Sometimes Star Wars has baby-faced, nine year old, full-of-hope Anakin Skywalker tell Qui-Gon Jinn “Nobody can kill a Jedi,” and sometimes Star Wars has freshly-turned Sith Lord Anakin Skywalker murder a bunch of Jedi children and then Force choke his pregnant wife on a planet designed to look like hell itself. Lot going on in this universe.

[worstloki]

Thor 1 has so much banger dialogue and visuals that are that way because of the very specific context they’re in and I love that for them despite all the tilted angle shots 💯✨👍

[luna-the-bard]

Got genshin brainrot so I’ve been stewing on my old fan oc and her story; decided to give her a redesign only to scrap it and start anew.

Here’s an assortment of wips and sketches and whatnot from the past month

I’m still not satisfied with her design so this is goin to change like a thousand times probably.

Also if anyone has any idea of how to design a proper polearm for her plz hmu I can’t do gayshit impact style designs for the life of me.

[clowndensation]

my top surgery consultation got moved to this friday, an entire month earlier than i planned…………… <3

[bobby-rising]

Here’s a lil ghosty Nameless i badly scribbled up

[devilishdelights]

love when fics have mammon calling u “darlin’”. like if a butch called me that i would actually fall in love right then and there forever and ever and ever

mammon calling u that???? lord the things i’m about to do…. look away please.

[coconut530]

CW: Flashing (and fire)

Matches: Nevermore

[misty-moth]

Telling my mom I’m planning on a haircut~

Mom: “What color are you thinking?”

Me: “Kinda like a blueish charcoal…”

Mom: “Ooo that will look great! What style of cut?”

Me: “Kinda like a pixie but longer in the back… okay, so I want it to match Arthur’s hair.”

Mom: “OOOHHH because it’s almost his birthday???”

…How much am I talking about Arthur jfc 😭

[theres-whump-in-that-nebula]

I love being within walking distance of a bakery

[nightwingandhissquad]

young justice (up to s3) is finally on uk/international netflix they’ve finally remembered us and given international fans a way to legit watch it and give it views it only took them 5 years