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[dragons-hoard-of-fandoms]

Uzi listens to power metal, specifically Sabaton, DragonForce, and Twilight Force.

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IWTV S3 Musings - Louis Going Forward

I've been seeing posts in the tags, and just wanna urge LDPDL fans (esp. show-only fans) who fear that Louis won't have anything to do after S2, not to freak out just yet. No, he doesn't show up in the books as much as Lestat, ofc, but if AMC's smart they'll realize that there's plenty of book!Louis content to keep Jacob around!

We've gotten plenty of assurances from Rolin Jones that they've no intention of sidelining Louis, as Loustat's endgame (a la Blood Communion). (But Rolin's also fanboyed nonstop how much he's been waiting to do TVL and focus on Les's story & adventures. Ofc, intent & execution are 2 different things, so forgive us, Rolin, if the fandom's side-eying y'all.)

Louis taking an active role in Owning the Night and dropping his address so the vamps can take him on is a BOLD move; I love it. Rolin said waaay early in S1 that they made AMC!Louis stronger and with more of a backbone than book!Louis, and he definitely is. Plus, AMC!Lou has the Fire Gift--one of the most powerful attacks in a vampire's arsenal. So I imagine that S3 will be pretty busy for Louis--in contrast to the fandom's hilarious headcanons that Louis'll be minding his business at home crocheting and doing yoga while Lestat's making a fool of himself on tour. 🤣 He' pretty much gearing up to be Louis the Vampire Slayer! Guillermo! Take notes!

While book!Louis isn't in TVL (Lestat's backstory), he comes back in QotD when Loustat get back together again. So we have a lot to look forward to there, as Lestat tries to get all the vamps' attention so they stay AWAY from Louis & fight Lestat instead--culminating in Les' disastrous Death Valley concert when Akasha appears.

Loustat has a lot of romantic scenes together as Les starts courting Lou again, asking him to come his concerts & watch him perform--so I hope AMC gives us some backstage lovin', showing Lou as "Monsieur le Rockstar's" boyfriend, b4 all hell breaks loose & Akasha takes Les away. :(

Book-plot wise though, the elephant in the room is ofc TotBT, and David Talbot. 🤮 We don't know yet how far AMC's going with Raglan James, and if they're incorporating that book into S3, or saving his schemes for the new Talamasca series and holding Raglan's fight with Lestat until S4. 👀

Aside from Les, TotBT is a VERY important moment for Louis' character development, too. I've already explained Louis' HIGHLY significant role in that book, and how Louis' choices impact Lestat going forward with Memnoch. So we'll have to wait and see if Raglan shows up again any time soon.

I PRAY that "others we can't tell you about yet" means Raglan, and NOT that racist pedo David Talbot. Everyone knows David was conjured up as AR's Replacement-Louis when she didn't wanna write anymore sad & depressed mopey vampires anymore. So instead we get that closeted colonizer David, and AR got butthurt when people didn't like him, LOL (esp. not in Merrick, oof!). 😂

But tbf, the QotD majorly improved David's character, removing every bit of his problematic context, to just focus on his role in the Talamasca, tracking down vampires like Marius; which is smart.

So I say AMC could/should either:

do what QotD did: water David down to make him less problematic

give his role as Les' sidekick to Daniel--maybe providing context for how/why Daniel was Turned; if he's still human during Les' tour (in the S3 promo), and gets injured by Raglan, so Armand swoops in & saves him

give his role to as Les' sidekick to Louis, Mr. & Mrs. Smith style, as they fight Raglan together (cuz book!Louis already said he'd kill Raglan if he ever saw him). Does AMC!Lou have beef w/ him for snooping around w/ Daniel in S2? 👀

So yeah, there's a lot of action-packed potential for Louis in S3; that takes him beyond his grief over Claudia (esp. since we won't have Merrick as the following book/season)--unless ghost!Claudia is a thing and she becomes a Problem™️. But that's way too close to the plot of Blackwood Farm, which I'd prefer AMC do instead--esp. since that way we can still get Merrick Mayfair come in as a crossover.

That's so precious! 😍

A cleansing, amen! I can't imagine what Jacob had to go through, playing Louis! Method acting is REALLY hard, esp. with mentally ill & chronically insane characters--we all saw what it did to Heath Ledger! And look at Joaquin Phoenix, out there literally starving himself, jfc.

Nah, we get you, Jacob.

Jacob, I've been saying it since S1: YOU WERE ROBBED OF YOUR EMMYS. I effing hate AMC for not doing you the justice you deserved and making sure S2 could at least qualify for a nomination. I'll never forgive them for it; esp. cuz you can bet your arse they won't fumble the ball in The Vampire Lestat's season; oh nooo~! 🙄😒 White Lestans can gaslight TF out of us all they want, minimizing our trauma & pain & rightful suspicions, but Black actors have been shafted by Hollywood bureaucracy & shenanigans since it's effing inception, and IDGAF what anyone says--once is an accident, twice is a pattern!

He really is. But I get so mad & so offended that Jacob's immense talent and Louis' incredible character arc is shunted to the side by critics & viewers alike. Brad Pitt put literally ZERO effort into Louis and it showed; meanwhile Jacob's out here giving the acting performance of a lifetime. But people won't STFU about Lestat's hair.

EIGHT SEASONS!? Motherfudger, wtf!? XD I'm all for it, but y'all are gonna have to speed up how long it takes to film & air each season--at 2+ years per hiatus, 16 years is way too much, even for the Supernatural fandom. And LBH, Jam Reiderson & Eric are NOT gonna make it 16 years in the face department.

That is so beautifully put, Sam. ISTG, when is he publishing his doctoral dissertation on TVC already!?

FACTS! I have hope for S3. It's perfectly OK to tonally shift and switch MCs! So long as you're not neglecting & disrespecting THE titular vampire--hasn't Louis suffered enough?! 😅 I'm excited for where S3 takes him.

[popcornfairy28]

An update!

Just right now, I just went through my "read by the author" podfics on AO3 and changed the "Read by the Author" tag (which was meant for podfic) to the now dedicated "Podfic Read by the Author" tag. Technically, it's the same tag functionally, but now it just says it lol. I also added the tag "Podfic and Text in the Same Work" for the more recent works where that is appropriate. I'm so excited that AO3 added those tags! I had been using "Podfic & Podficced Works" for the latter, and that tag is still on those works.

But that's not really what I wanted to share with y'all 😅

You're gonna have to say goodbye to sleep-deprived me, because I am finally curing my insomnia of recent years. Turns out, my current bedroom is a lot more disruptive with noise at night from inside the house than my old (much smaller) bedroom, so I've been sleeping in there for the past four nights and I've had sooooo much energy and been so productive!! I have gotten to become a much lighter sleeper than I used to be, so it took me ridiculously long to figure that out. I really should've figured it out earlier, since even the numbers don't lie. When I was in my old bedroom was when I first started posting to AO3 and wrote 50000+ words (and probably much more, but for WIPs) in a month, and my three year hiatus immediately started as soon as I moved to my "new" bedroom. So ummm we'll see what this does for my writing productivity 🤞

For writing, I might as well tell you how it's going. Here's the order I hope to update my WIPs: First Snow, The Older Siblings (+ prequel), Perry the Teenage Spy, and then Bap Away at My Heart should be getting its last chapter at the end of the month/early March. Any The Golden Years installments will have to wait until March/April. I will also be attempting to participate in the Inklings Challenge Four Loves Challenge, and I'd still love to write some for the Christmas Challenge. At some point, I will update the Chesterton Challenge Prompts before May. I won't give any specific dates, as I never succeed at them lol.

I still have a few podfics left to edit from Voiceteam Mystery Box. I will be working on them for this week and potentially the next. Then I will be posting a few romantic-ish ones for Valentine's Day. Then I hope to post a few for the "Leading Ladies" Podfest going on this month. In March, I hope to be mostly working on a longer podfic for the Podfic Big Bang. In April, I will be posting my bloopers of my "read by the author" podfics for my anniversary of my 2nd podfic (as that was the one that Voiceteam reached out to me and got me really making podfics), and then I plan to take it easy with podfics in order to gear up for Voiceteam again in May (Then I will definitely be editing Voiceteam podfics in June, if not also July).

Another thing I want to do with podfics this year are go back through and make versions with music! I want to record a few stings and jingles and such from the shows with my guitar and add them for page breaks and such. And, if I could figure it out, I would also add audio effects. (I also have a New Year's Resolution to make 100 podfics this year, and I'm already a tenth of the way there! It would be really funny if I already hit this with Voiceteam events haha)

Sorry for the long post, but it does show that my concentration has very much improved with better sleep 😂 Considering I just wrote this out in 15 minutes!

(I can of course get sick and throw this all out of whack, since the flu has been going around, SO while this isn't entirely unrealistic planning, it is a bit hopeful)

[bisamwilson]

hey honey! <33 for the ask game: 4, 13, 42, 57 and 63!

hi darlin!!!!! thanks for the ask <3

(from this list)

4. Where do you find inspiration for new ideas?

from lots of places! books i've read, shows or movies i've watched, conversations with friends, real life things that have happened to me! song lyrics on occasion. the princess diaries au sequel i'm working on for example, in addition to being inspired by the princess diaries movies of course, is inspired by past lives (2023, dir. celine song)! and the fic where bucky grows old without sam was inspired by a man called ove, even if it doesn't line up entirely. the fic where sam takes bucky home for the birth of AJ after finding him in paris was inspired by that one tumblr post where the op's uncle showed up at their birth with a ONS in tow akjsfdads

13. what’s a common writing tip that you almost always follow?

i'm generally not afraid of the word "said," and also i try my very hardest to stay aware of what tense i'm using so i'm not switching up constantly. those are the things that take me out of a story pretty often, so i try to be vigilant about them

in non grammar tips, i tend to write in blitzes when i have the motivation. set a timer for twenty minutes, write like 600 or so words, take a break, do it again until my motivation's gone or my word count is steadily declining during my set time period

42. What’s the last fic you read? Do you recommend it?

the last fic i read was actually a bbc merlin canon divergence merthur fic called to the point of fear which is from a season 5 mordred's point of view! i enjoyed it! i liked having mordred as the pov character working through what he thinks are merlin's motivations

i also recently opened up a tab to reread don't stop believing (aos spirk fic) which i haven't read in YEARS but i do remember really liking back in the day (hence why i wanted to revisit it)

57. Do you prefer editing as you write, or waiting until it’s finished? 

theoretically i prefer waiting until it's finished but i am physically incapable of not rereading and editing whenever i find a mistake/something i dislike so it ends up being both. i do tend to give it a read over before i post anything, though (and, without fail, any time i reread my own fics later on i end up having to edit something small that i catch asjdfhkds)

63. Something you hate to see in smut.

(putting this under the cut since nsfw text)

in sambucky specifically, i hate seeing overly aggressive and/or super dominant!sam. usually those fics are just woobifying bucky and also they were EVERYWHERE when tfatws came out. felt like every other fic was just sam either taking care of bucky or bucky being very uwu while sam was hypersexual and aggressive, and now if i see anything looking like it mind trend in that general direction i skip right on past.

in general, i'm generally not a huge fan of reading the kind of dirty talk that's just constantly degrading a partner (i get why people are into it, but it's generally not my thing, though small bits of calling someone a slut or their slut/whore/etc is fine and i even write it on occasion, but even then i write it where it's said in a loving/adoring tone, rather than a "i'm purposefully degrading you" kind of way). also not huge into breeding kinks and if anything is tagged "watersports" i won't touch it with a ten foot pole. people can enjoy the kinks they enjoy, those just. aren't the kinks for me