#RE: ROCKSTAR ERA

[sapphiclinos-moved]

how many times are we gonna tie jisung up in a music video and/or point a gun at his head

[onlymywishfulthinking]

BREAKING NEWS!!!!

[bonefall]

Does Wildfur (cat mentioned as having their back broken and dying of lung infection) get any expansion? They're only mentioned once but knowing how bad the family trees are im guessing they've been stuffed in somewhere (plus i love the name)

My DUDE!!!

MASSIVE expansion. GIGANTIC one. ACTUALLY shows up on screen and is an important supporting character, I actually need to re-do this character summary at some point because it leaves a LOT of the new stuff out.

Wildfur is going to show up as an important character in two side stories; Blackstar's, and a brand new novella for Cinderpelt.

Cinderpelt's is just a fun side novella about her friendship with Littlecloud. I don't even really have a message in mind for it. It's just exploring the brief but fascinating era where the Clan cats were trading with BloodClan.

Wildfur gets disabled by a car in that one, and Cinderpelt and Littlecloud put their heads together to invent that mobility device.

I want to show the "evolution" of some technologies as the series progresses, so this is the mobility device that Jessy eventually improves upon for Briarlight!

It helps him overcome a really bad state of depression, which was what was causing him to lay around and catch infection over and over.

In Blackstar's SE, Wildfur's just a friend of Blackstar's.

He's an example of the sorts of cats that TigerClan and Brokenstar would have discarded or given up on. Blackstar's SE is about him sitting with that.

I kinda want him to be the father of Ambermoon through surrogacy. Brightheart and Cloudtail are the bioparents. He just kinda feels like a dude with a punk daughter with a name like that.

He goes on the Great Journey in that mobility device, but needs to be carried at several points.

The Clans aren't going to leave behind the old and disabled like in canon jesus christ. That was super fucked up actually

"Elders are respected and cared for :)" my ASS

In terms of personality;

He's super vain and haughty, VERY proud person. Rockstar vibes.

Takes great care of his hair

Different people take their disability differently, especially when it massively alters your life. Compared to Briarlight, Wildfur actually had an easier time adjusting once his depression subsided.

Unlike Briar, he was never a very active or athletic person.

He doesn't mind being an elder, it means he gets to do whatever he wants and boss apprentices around. Pretty sweet deal tbh.

Campbound activities are more his style. He keeps an extra eye on the kits, likes to help out kitchen patrol. Has a lot to do with flax processing.

[unhappy-day-in-hell]

The Dissection of Hazbin Hotel, Episode One: part 4

Onto the end part, Charlie meeting with the angels and... Vaggie's advertisement.

Let's finish this!

Part 1:

Part 2:

Part 3:

Part 4: //

--Uh. The fuck is this building and why is it in Hell? Are we not going to explain? (Trick question, there’s already so much exposition that it wraps right back around to leaving us in the dark!!)

--Ohhh. That's Adam’s voice? Someone as important as him does not sound like that.

...Stupid thought I just had: Adam has the first Adam's Apple in all of history too... because it's that little saying, that Adam got a piece of the forbidden fruit stuck in his throat to remind him of eating it. So Adam, really, should either sound like he's constantly choking on something/has a stuffed up scratchy throat, or he should have a super deep voice to indicate his adam's apple.

--Heck is wrong with your mouth girl?

--B Plot is them filming an advertisement. I know I tried to re-write this in the review earlier (and will offer an alternative near the end of the review), but this is the kind of smaller-time plot we need to do in these early episodes BEFORE we get to Charlie's stuff. It's not very good tonal whiplash to pair these two plots up.

Also Vaggie’s doing this on Charlie’s behalf. This is, once again, something Charlie should be doing.

--Why doesn’t Charlie know the leader of the Exterminators is Adam? Does that mean she doesn’t know anything important about her world in general? Or is Adam’s presence a secret to the world? Does Lucifer know Adam is here?

--Good god, Adam really IS just Mammon. He's even a performer who is like a rockstar. Viv has zero new ideas.

--We're cutting between Charlie’s "important" meeting with Adam and the filming for the advertisement. We really are. I guess this episode and Western Energy spring from the same source.

--“How were you this weekend” is at least a little amusing. If Adam was more airheaded like that and not *gestures* all this, I’d probably hate his presence less.

--There it is. The Vagina joke for Vaggie’s name. They… they really did that. They just couldn’t help themselves. Viv just can’t help herself.

Because really, what are you supposed to do with this name? People having to say “Vaggie” out loud or print it on merch is embarrassing. They could have called her anything. Maggie. Aggie. Naggie. Saggy. Haggy.

--Vaggie: We’ll fix it in post. Angel: Do you even know what that means?

Well you see Angel! Vaggie’s origin can be split!

For a long time, Vaggie was thought to be a sinner who died very recently, so of course she’d know about editing, because she had grown up in the era of that kind of tech.

Except now she’s been changed to be a fallen exterminator! This means there are a lot of implications. Are we going to use this moment to hint how ANCIENT Vaggie is as a former angel, by showing her as not knowing how to work technology? No, no of course not -- Vaggie seems competent with the camera, it’s just that her actors are dumb fucks.

This criticism spreads over to Adam, who talks just like a “normal guy” and he’s a modern rocker and all that shit. Adam, the first human, who is incomprehensibly ancient… doesn’t show any signs of being as ancient as he is. They couldn't even write him using outdated slang? Make him a disco lover or something and have him say "Groovy?" No? (He IS a thing made of light, he could shine like a disco ball!)

--Vaggie: I’LL FIGURE IT OUT.

Godddd Vaggie can’t have one single line with any life in it. How does she scream in anger with no anger.

--Hi Al. This shot reminds me of why I used to like you, because I DID like your design and your mannerisms once upon a time. I still feel an echo of the enjoyment I used to get from you, and it makes me sad how far you’ve fallen, to being Rosie’s lapdog. You do look good with this muted blue tinting your color scheme. I wish Hell was more of this color, it’s much softer on the eyes.

(Even when I was still a fan, I hated how overused red was. It was one of the first complaints I had. Then the show doubled down and removed even more of the colors from the color pallet to make it even redder.)

--Vaggie to Alastor: Why are you even here? Alastor: For the entertainment!

Actually you’re here because LilithRosie asked you to. She filed down your fangs. You are a toothless character.

--Alastor: I came here because I love seeing wasteful souls struggle to accomplish something meaningful and fail spectacularly!

This is almost exactly a line from the Pilot where Alastor said “I want to watch the scum of the world struggle to climb up the hill of betterment! Only to repeatedly trip, and tumble down to the fiery pit of failure." Except it just. Lacks. Any of the danger. Or the manic insanity boiling just under Alastor’s surface. The delivery is so deflated.

The words are stilted, like they were with Vaggie a while back.

--Much better qualified people than I have spoken about the use of vodou symbols around Alastor. All I can say is this: Practitioners of vodou have spoken about how harmful it is, and therefore, the symbols should not be in the show. It's that simple. It would have cost the team literally nothing to refrain from using them. In fact, we’re in Hell, and we’ve already used the Ars Goetia in Helluva Boss; why don’t they use the symbols of the Ars Goetia? Or other demonic Christian symbols? Or Lovecraftian symbols from the fictional Lovecraft universe? Or make up their own??? There were a million other options besides digging in your heels. It shows the crew and Viv’s inability to just learn or just be nice.

“This face was made for radio!” that shot, bleck, they made a discount of that scary shot from the pilot. Why is every line they reuse for Alastor worse than it was in the pilot? The pilot where Alastor said “I would have done so already” let Alastor be a little aggressive and threatening, but here, it's just him equating it to “this face can’t be captured on video” instead of him being allowed to flex his power and scare Vaggie and Charlie a little bit….

It makes me sad.

--AND AGAIN, THIS IS VAGGIE HAVING THIS IMPORTANT CONVERSATION WITH ALASTOR. Why is it Vaggie who is getting Alastor’s motivation speech and seeing his Scary Face and not CHARLIE!? The Hotel is CHARLIE’S! Charlie is the main character, she’s the one who has to face these moral battles! Alastor’s motivation and his scorn for her Hotel are CHARLIE’S obstacles to deal with; she has to be the one to face them, consider them, debate them, and find a way to overcome them. But Vaggie is the one here, again, in Charlie’s place. (And Vaggie doesn’t even seem to have any enjoyment or passion for the Hotel either, so SHE doesn’t offer anything in return when she’s facing these opposing ideas.)

--So Alastor is going to make a good advertisement for the Hazbin Hotel, in exchange for never having to work with television ever again.

God, it’s so… WHINY. This isn’t a powerful Overlord of Hell, who is able to manipulate the Hotel behind the scenes and everyone has to watch out for his power because they both need his power but also fear it. This is a dude bargaining over what chores he has to do. It’s depressing.

--And it ends with Alastor giving everyone new outfits. Like the pilot. Because of course. Viv has no new ideas in her head at all. Also Charlie's not here.

--I feel like this scene COULD have been a standout moment in another universe, where someone else wrote this story. The colors are very nice, and Alastor is genuinely one of the only sources of ANYTHING you might consider fun in this episode, even if he’s a pale shadow of what he used to be.

Imagine this as a rewrite for this Episode, and how it could have ended:

At the beginning of the episode, the Hotel staff is still figuring things out. They have a meeting and decide they want to make an advertisement to get people to come to the Hotel, but Al refused to take part, because he hates TV. Charlie then tries to film her own advertisement with Vaggie’s help, but fails to make anything good.

As she starts feeling discouraged in the blue room while cutting up tapes, Alastor walks in to taunt her for a little while. After a back and forth where Charlie asks what he even wants here, he gives his motivation speech, so Charlie can have her goal challenged. But eventually, Charlie asks him to use his power to help her with this, by getting the word out to the people of Hell; and Al agrees, because an empty Hotel is no fun… in exchange for something Al wants: he’ll be allowed to observe any part of the Hotel and give commentary over it whenever he feels like it, and he’s allowed to say anything he wants, positive or negative. Charlie reluctantly agrees to these terms.

Then Alastor uses his power and creates a huge radio tower out of the back of the Hotel. The rest of the Crew feel the Hotel shaking and run outside, and watch in confusion as the tower reaches up into the sky. Al then floats up to the top room, where an old radio station is set up inside. Taking his seat in the booth, Alastor uses his power to broadcasts a spectacular old-timey radio show all across the radio waves of Hell, which are impossible for people to turn off, so it reaches millions of them.

(This also marks his grand return to Hell after his time away…… I guess. Since they're going with that.)

Boom, now Alastor has a radio tower that he hangs out in for the rest of the series, and he’s often giving SCATHING commentary about what goes on inside the Hotel in its quest for redemption. It’s usually making fun of everyone, or damning criticism -- but every so often he compliments something or someone, or gives a bravo for a job well done if a character does manage to accomplish something (but it's always with this HINT that he doesn’t expect their victory to last.)

There.

I provided a better hook for Episode One to end on, something fun to look at -- AND it has Alastor being in total control, while still helping the Hotel, but clearly primed to fuck with it. It also gives the show its first stakes -- small ones, but a status quo is established and we know Charlie will be butting heads with Alastor for the foreseeable future.

--Back with Adam and Charlie, it has become an argument that sinners have earned eternal damnation by making mistakes, and angels and the souls in heaven are not the same; and that angels have never made mistakes. Adam even says he’s never made a mistake.

Why doesn’t Charlie bring up the fact that Adam ate the fruit of knowledge that damned humanity, literally the first sin ever committed alongside Eve? Would that require too much thought, because Adam could just say “hey Eve was the one who did that, then she forced me!” and Charlie would have no rebuttal, because this show doesn’t seem to care about logical or moral battles. (Honestly, I can bet Viv would genuinely believe that for Adam.)

Why don’t they also bring up the fact that all human souls are descended from Adam too? It would force Adam to say: “yeah I don’t care, they may be my grandkids but they made their choice and as the original father it’s my job to whoop their asses when they get out of line,” which would show off how horrible he is. (Or, just not have Adam act this way. The next point elaborates on that:)

--I keep asking myself WHY Heaven and the angels have to be depicted this way. Not "why they’re corrupt" -- but why they’re *gestures vaguely* like this, and so cartoonishly.

Some shows take themselves too seriously and need to lighten up, but a show like Hazbin Hotel has the opposite problem, where it won’t be serious when it needs to be serious.

Adam acts exactly like a demon. There is no distinction between demons and angels. They’re as foul-mouthed, raunchy, and gross. Why?

Is it supposed to be “commentary” or “satire” about real world issues, where authority/radical Christians think they’re better than everyone else just by virtue of being Christian? That’s my first guess.

But just like with Helluva Boss’s commentary on cartoonishly evil abusers: it’s not saying anything we don’t already know, and it hits you with all the subtlety of a sledgehammer to the face.

When Hazbin uses Adam to say “See? Heaven is hypocritical! It does the exact same bad shit as Hell, but gives ITSELF a pass!” it makes Hazbin Hotel worse for it, because of how one-note it makes literally everything in the universe, and how it sacrifices any actual clever worldbuilding, storycrafting, or realism for the sake of shock value. 

Hazbin Hotel is supposed to have a serious storyline meant for adults. It was meant to explore a serious moral question, and the angels are supposed to be one of the serious threats that Charlie has to change the mind of. You want us to take your show SERIOUSLY? Then you need to make villains we can TAKE seriously.

Think of it like this. If Heaven was allowed to have a different personality from Hell (if angels were allowed to act differently than demons), you’d be so much better for it.

First of all, it would give the show variety. Hell already has all the sex jokes, curses, and gore you could ever ask for – that’s Hell’s atmosphere. So let Heaven have a different atmosphere -- let its people has "serious" personality traits. Let them take themselves TOO seriously. That way, there’s some variety when characters go from one place to the next.

Second of all, it would give you way more personality types to play around with! (How boring must it get, writing the same screaming, cursing, sex-spewing archetypes over and over?) AND it would let different temperaments clash! Imagine Angel Dust meeting an Exterminator; Angel Dust makes everything a joke, and the Exterminator takes everything way too seriously, aaaaaand their personalities slam into each other. Imagine the possibilities.

But we can’t have that.

We can’t have anything because Viv can’t let herself be sincere or think this far ahead.

Instead we’re just stuck with Adam, who is Mammon.

--Lute says Charlie was “pardoned by daddy”? Who?? Lucifer? If Lucifer has the ability to blacklist souls from being killed, why can’t he just tell the exterminators to fuck off? Or are they referring to “God” as daddy, for which, I thought they weren’t going to touch God in this show?

The dialogue for this show is confusing. There was clearly no editing or rewriting to make anything make sense.

In the old pilot continuity, only an angel of higher rank had the ability to kill Lucifer, which means the exterminators were unable to kill him. Charlie, as his daughter, was directly below him in power, meaning Charlie would also be immune to them because she's stronger than them. But here apparently she's weak enough that the exterminators not only COULD kill her if given the chance, they WANT to kill her but have to hold back by some... law.

--Another song. Okay.

My opinion is that Brightman is a good singer, and this song definitely has more going on than the first one did. So… not terrible… but there’s also something missing in these lyrics. The way the music flows isn’t interesting and it goes by so fast. And Adam’s voice isn’t grating or terrible to listen to, but his dumb rockstar voice just kind of clashes into Brightman’s singing voice every so often, and makes it sound weird to me.

I could do without.

--OOH LAWD SHE ABOUT TO GO OFF. (That meme will never stop being funny. The shot is so tame. She doesn't even get to do any flexing or anything?)

--They’ll be back in six months?? Oh right, ahem, ahem: We’re putting this into EPISODE ONE? (I’m getting tired of saying that.)

Side note: they better not blame Charlie for this one, or try to make it out like she did something to cause this. Because... She literally didn’t. She didn’t get a word in edge-wise. (If they blame Charlie for making Hell worse, not only is it another Potential Dramatic Plot Moment they waste here, where Charlie would legitimately do a fuckup and have to face the consequences of her actions and it’s Oooh Drama -- it’s also totally unearned here, because Charlie Didn’t Do Anything. Literally if this is supposed to be “Charlie’s Mistake”, she didn’t do anything to MAKE A MISTAKE. )

--Alastor: I pulled a few LIMBS too, Hah hah hah!

Now you sound dead Alastor. I miss your fast-paced deranged laughter.

--To hear Blitzo’s voice coming out of Katie. Not even for a joke. I just. Vomit.

--(Quick question, is it just me or does it feel WEIRD to see Hell freaking out about the exterminations happening sooner, the way it is now? I mean, it’s a bad thing of course – but at the same time, it’s 6 WHOLE months away. That’s still a very long time; it’s not like the angels said they’d be coming in 1 WEEK or anything.

And again, moving the Extermination up to the mid-point of the year COULD have been a good plot punch a few episodes in – if the show had established itself as having a one year time limit before the next extermination, for instance, and for the first season we watch the weeks or months go by. The cast think they’re safe because they always have more time; “the year isn’t even half over yet.” But THEN, Charlie fucks up a few months in, and suddenly the date of the extermination is moved up!! WE ONLY HAVE A MONTH LEFT!! SHOCK AND HORROR. THERE IS MUCH LESS TIME NOW. HOW CAN WE DO THIS IN TIME!? PANIC! STAKES! DRAMA.

Makes my poor writer heart sad.

Imagine if we lingered on the Exterminations for a while before all this, and we learn that every single year, it takes about 3 months worth of planning in order for Sinners to secure hiding spots away from the Angels (a play on the three big holidays, Halloween, Thanksgiving, and Christmas). This is CRITICAL for Sinner survival; those who can't or don't are the ones who die, and spots are so competitive that it takes all that time for anyone to secure themselves. So when Charlie fucks up midway through the year and causes the Extermination to be moved up to just 1 month away, NO ONE IS SAFE, and there isn't enough time for three months of prep, which is why everyone flips their ever-loving shit: they know they're going to die and now there's a hysterical scramble all throughout Hell trying to secure safe spots.

--The ending shot shows an exterminator dead, and the angels out for blood about it.

Again, ahem-hem: EPISODE ONE.

And now, the Exterminators don’t even feel threatening -- because we know they can be killed.

What made the angels scary, originally, is that they were virtually untouchable. Demons could not defeat them, and angels could kill any demon they wanted to by default. (Even Alastor seemed to be weaker than the angels.)

The angels should have been a looming, impossible-to-defeat threat (at least for a while). This would have given the story tension, because the audience would know the sinners stood no chance if they ran out of time or failed to convince the Angels – it was a battle of MORALITY. It was a challenge for sinners to prove to Heaven they were redeemable, because Heaven held all the power.

They de-clawed their villains in their introductory episode.

…

Do Adam and the Exterminators even HAVE the authority to enact a full genocide??? Wasn’t there a “council of Angel Elders” mentioned in the beginning? Aren’t the exterminators just assigned to this post, and meant to keep the population low??? Won’t they get in trouble for overstepping their bounds!? ARE WE GOING TO GET ANY EXPLANATION AS TO HOW THE HIERARCHY WORKS OR HOW HEAVEN WORKS FIRST!? BEFORE WE GET INTO THIS!?!?

AAAAAAAAAAAAND ~CURTAINS!~

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And that was the end of Hazbin Hotel Episode One.

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So! What have we learned here today?

My personal takeaway is that, even though it’s cathartic to see this all start to go down in flames, I still feel disappointed and frustrated because of how much time I invested in it, even defended it to other people for a time. I'm frustrated because none of it had to be this bad. Viv didn't have to be evil. There was promise and potential, once upon a time.

Quite frankly, we were lied to. The premise that everyone fell in love with was dumped in the trash. For over four years, we were told this would be a story about redeeming sinners -- that’s what fans put so much of their time and money into. But that premise was discarded immediately, in favor of a generic War Against Heaven. Viv LIED to us, knowing from the start that the redemption storyline was never going to go anywhere.  

I just wonder how many resources were wasted creating this, how many people Viv hurt, how many opportunities were handed to Viv that could have gone to anyone else more deserving of it.

There wasn’t a single worthwhile thing in this episode. A handful of individual shots here and there were passable, but nothing enough to sit through it. Abysmal animation, pacing, storytelling, dialogue, voices, songs; characters that were flat and unmemorable, or stripped of what made them unique.

Charlie wasn’t the main character in her own show -- Vaggie was the one dealing with the morality of the other characters. (And frankly, Charlie didn’t NEED to meet with Adam. It accomplished nothing. If the angels had already decided to do the extermination in 6 months; they could have just done it, they didn’t necessarily NEED to meet with Charlie to enact it.)

Somehow, Hazbin found a way to do everything wrong!

This show should be taken as a lesson on what not to as an artist. (Any kind of artist, really.) 

In my opinion, the greatest weakness of this show is its inability to write anything sincere.

(And there’s a difference between something having sincere emotion, and melodrama, which Viv dumps in boatloads in her writing.)

I won’t re-write it all, but I basically mean what happened with Adam and the angels, where they aren’t allowed to be any different from the demons. They aren’t allowed to be serious, wise, ancient; because Viv CAN’T write them as sincere. (But this also includes so many other aspects of this show and this world as a whole.)  

(And its genre doesn’t shield it. Hazbin Hotel is trying to tell a STORY, so it doesn’t get to hide behind the genre of being an “episodic adult comedy”. It HAS to follow the rules of storytelling, and when it doesn’t, it is failing.)

And Hazbin Hotel is just one giant failure.

With that, I’ll wrap this up. I think I’ve said all I want to.

I don’t know if I’ll review any other episodes like this (or, if they’ll be this long), because they get worse and worse; and Episode 4 is such a serious, disgusting episode that I don't know if it's even worth it -- but I REALLY wanted to get my thoughts down for this one.

If you read it all, thanks for sticking around! It was fun to rip it apart.

If you have any thoughts you want to add onto this, I’d love to hear!

[thepoopdokyeomtouched]

HI!!!!

dude sajda karaan>>>

ik this is random but there's only so many desi blogs on tumblr and you seem like a really cool person idk

BRO WHAT OTHER BOLLYWOOD SONGS DO YOU LIKE BECAUSE YK THE 2000S SONGS LIKE DESI GIRL, BREAK UP SONG, MAKE SOME NOISE FOR THE DESI BOYZ ALL HIT SO HARD

(this is my somewhat subtle way of asking if you wanna be moots?)

OH DAMN WE ARE GOING THERE!?! Ok lets get in it

Starting of from old bollywood

Maine poocha chand se

Bahon mai chale aao

Chura liya hai

Aaj mausam

Lag ja gale

Pehla nasha

These are my favorite 90's songs 😭

Then 2000's

Piyu bole

Tu hi re

My dil goes hmm

👏🏻RHTDM👏🏻 THE WHOLE ALBUM IS MY SOUL EVEN THE RAIN SCENE FLUTE TUNES 😭😭😩😩😩💗💗💗💗

Suno na suno na

Main yahi hoon

Hosh walon ko khabar kya 😩🤌🏻

Kabhi khushi kabhi gam, the whole album 🤭💗

Falak tak

Lazy lamhe, ab to forever, hey shona, ladki kyu, chhalka, saathiyaan, chupke se 😭🤭💗

----NOW THE GOLDEN ERA OF BOLLYWOOD---

Starting with kk's songs : Tu hi meri shab hai, soniye, abhi abhi, beetain lamhe, dil ibaadat, kya mujhe pyaar hai, labon ko, tujhe sochta hoon, zara sa, haan tu hai, oh meri jaan, mat aazma , humko pyaar hua and more ☝🤓

Then Mohit chauhan : the whole ROCKSTAR album like hello?!?! Tujhe bhula diya , masakali, kuch khaas hai, khoya khoya, rabba, IS THIS LOVE, DOORIYAAN, bheegi si bhaagi si, abhi kuch dino se, TUMSE HI, tune jo na kaha and my ultimate fav PEE LOON

My fav artist kk, mohit chauhan, javed ali, sonu nigam, shreya ghoshal, monali thankur, nikita gandhi, sunidhi chauhan , MITRAZ, Vilen, darshan raval, arijit singh, jubin nautyal, asees kaur, shaan, neeti mohan, armaan malik, pritam, vishal shakher, ar rehman, ayushmaan khurana and so many more

Then all emraan haashmi songs 😭 pee loon, tuhi mera, hosaana, tum mile(the whole album 🔥) saibo, I hate love stories (whole album), ek break ke baad, uff teri aadat, hey yeah, tum tak, ranjhaana, rishte naate, paani da rang , soniyo(raaz), AASHIQI 2 WHOLE ALBUM 😩, tera hone laga tu, aajao tamanna, ek din teri raahon mai, hum tum, tere liye(prince), o bekhabar,, sawar loon, JAB TAK HAI JAAN 👺, allah maaf kare, rabba mai to marr gaya oye, mera mann, mann mera, baatein kuch ankahi si, tera chehra(adnan sami), MAULA MERE MAULA, deewana kar raha hai, oh my love, khyaalon mai, guzarish, tose naina, raabta, chori kya re, dagabaaz re, sanam re, gazab ka hai ye din, moh moh ke dhaage, ishq risk, ANJANA ANJAANI(THE WHOLE ALBUM ⚰️, ye tune kya kiya, halka halka, tere naina, ishq bulawa, THE BEST IKTARA, KYA KAROON, WAKE UP SID.

I have a whole sensual playlist romantic, sad, dance, I'M CRAZY ABOUT IT 😩😩😩😩

Even pops like "blam the nights, oh gujariyan, subha hone na de, lat lag gai, lucky boy(bachna ae haseeno is also a DOPE ALBUM🔥😩) , ladies vs ricky bahl, baand baja barat's ayyvien ayyvein, dum dum, aadha ishq, aa zara and so many 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

And OF COURSE WE ARE FRIENDS NOW (moot is so weird for a hindi speaker me yk🤓)

[nalyra-dreaming]

a couple of interesting things on that latest panel re: the current status of Lestat... Sam claims that in the first 2 seasons, there isn't even a moment where we see the "real" Lestat. Do you think that means we won't even catch a glimpse of him in the modern era? Maybe the most we'll get is some kind of hint that he's around, but his story won't properly start until season 3 kicks off? The other thing I noted was Rolin saying it was Sam's harlequin rehearsal that made him realize he was going to have to do rockstar!Lestat. So I guess that plotline wasn't part of his original design and we can (probably!) rule out rockstar Lestat being actively incorporated into this season, either in the 80's or the present? I know we have to take what they say with a pinch of salt, but I seriously hope we get more than just a vague hint of present-day Lestat this season!

Mhhhh.

So for one I would like to note, that for me the story started with episode 1, and in a quite the ingenious way, because the POV and memory angle allows for a very messy dive into the POV angle of the books. I mean, we literally can dive into emotions and manipulations of other characters there... I love that.

As per Lestat being there in Dubai... I had hoped for Lestat to be there in episode 8, but given that episode 8 apparently ends in a cliffhanger... it might be ending with the elevator pinging *snickers*

IDK. I think what Sam is trying to say there is that we cannot have seen the "real" Lestat yet, because of the POV angle - the only "real Lestat" we'll see will be on that couch in Dubai - I mean, his own POVs will also be colored by his perception. I bet it will be up to the audience to correlate that with what they see in Dubai, and then go from there.

As per that rockstar comment - I think that was a) tongue-in-cheek because I don't think you can just skip that part and b)... it was praise.

Rolin is very sly. And sometimes he puts his foot into his mouth, like we all do. And they don't want to spoil.

But yeah, rockstar Lestat was never to be in this season, imho. And even if, then only in flashbacks, but I see them more in s3 or 4.

But I think he was always planned as having happened. Remember Armand's comment re the "mediocre star"? I STILL think that was a jab towards Lestat's little rockstar career, because he was a "mediocre star one hit wonder" there. :)

[promptsblog]

Alright, quick apology for going slightly off-topic here from my usual sporadically-posted writing prompts, but I just found out something that has me really disappointed. I know this is kind of old news, but I only just found out because I wanted to replay Choose Love the other day, and GUESS WHAT? It’s gone. Netflix erased it, along with most of their interactive content, and I’m not happy.

Choose Love wasn’t just a rom-com; it was pure chaos in the best way. It gave us the chance to make reckless, dramatic choices that we’d never get to make in real life. Do you marry the loyal, dependable boyfriend? Go for the ex who is incompatible with you in every way? Run off with the hot, adorable rockstar? Or somehow, choose yourself and end up alone? It was interactive gold. And now it’s gone. Why? Because Netflix decided interactive storytelling isn’t worth their time anymore.

Here’s the thing: interactive romance stories have huge potential. Apps like Episode and Choices are literal cash cows. Choices has raked in $175 million, and Episode has had over 9 BILLION views across its stories. I'm not going to type that out as a number, but that's a lot of zeros. These apps are proof that people LOVE making choices in romance stories. They’re paying for premium options, spending hours replaying different endings, and fully immersing themselves in these fictional worlds. But the next step is live action. To actually see the stories play out in the real world and not just stilted animation.

So why did Netflix give up on something with so much potential? Romance is one of the most popular genres across all media, and when you combine that with the interactivity people crave, it’s a recipe for success. Look, I know Choose Love wasn’t perfect - Cami was bland and underdeveloped, the comedy could have gone a little harder and it was pretty obvious that we were being pushed to pick Paul - but it showed the potential of an interactive romcom. It was a proof of concept. They could’ve built on that! They could’ve made something amazing! Instead, they just gave up.

I also can't help but think of all the effort that was put into it by everyone who worked on it only to have it taken down after a mere year. As a creative, that must be so disheartening for all those writers, producers, crew members and actors.

And sure, maybe they want to focus on other projects or whatever, and post-strikes, it's expensive to pay royalties for content that isn't bringing in loads of views blah blah blah, but how do you just drop an entire format that’s clearly popular elsewhere? Apps like Choices and Episode are thriving for a reason. People don’t just want to watch a love story - they want to participate. Fans have very strong opinions about what choices characters should have made and who should have ended up together, and this format gives them the power to make it so!

I guess what I’m saying is, RIP to Choose Love and Netflix’s interactive era. If you need me, I’ll be over on Twine working on my choose-your-own-romance bisexual love triangle masterpiece which I will inevitably re-abandon after three days.

[mmunson86]

Sister Sav! I am telling you ! This right here lordt have mercaaaaay! This oozes rockstar Eddie & Oli is an added bonus that is one gorgeous man!

I am begging all of my modern day /Rockstar Eddie Munson girlies please please watch this & if it gives you any inspo to write a one-shot / series / mini-series of rockstar eddie x f!reader i beg you tag me i will devour it all!

I dont think i can ever move on from this man, i love all my Eddies , rockstar Eddie just has me in a chokehold 🥹💗

[diariodeltrompetista]

El bolero de Pedro (segunda parte)

Naima había estado casada con un director de cine, algo de lo que prefería no hablar. Se casó muy joven, él era mucho mayor, y las cosas terminaron tan mal que dejó Brasil sin que nadie lo supiera. Se refugió en casa de una prima en Italia, donde se escondió del mundo. Su cuenta de Instagram no mostraba una sola foto suya, un detalle que dejó a Pedro aún más inquieto aquella noche. Alargaron la velada hasta donde pudieron. Cuando el vino se acabó, ella le ofreció un café. Él lo tomó como la señal de que la despedida estaba cerca.

Durante el día, cada uno hizo su propia investigación. Pedro no encontró rastro de Naima, pero ella desenterró todo sobre él. Entrevistas, escándalos, una lista interminable de romances y chismes. Todo un rockstar latino. Durante ese día Pedro no dejo de imaginar que ella estaba leyendo sobre el, por primera vez, no se sintió orgulloso de su fama. Algo dentro de él se torció, como si su nihilismo hubiera perdido brillo.

A las seis de la tarde, pasó por el bar donde trabajaba Naima. Quiso parecer despreocupado, fingir que no estaba demasiado interesado, pero sus intentos de flirtear resultaron tan torpes que casi podía verse a sí mismo como una vaca jugando rayuela. Ella, por el contrario, tenía gracia hasta al respirar. La manera en que lo miró, cómo ajustó el cuello de su camisa cuando lo vio, o el roce de su mano al dejarle una cerveza… Pedro nunca había sentido algo así. Era un ratón feliz en la boca de un gato.

—¿Quieres que te espere? —le preguntó, casi sin voz.

Ella sonrió. —Salgo tarde, a las dos.

Aquella sonrisa fue todo lo que Pedro necesitó. La esperaba como si cada minuto importara.

Pedro siempre sobrepensaba. Se imaginaba las situaciones más extrañas, como un niño jugando con piezas que no encajaban. Su música venía de esos lugares, de conversaciones con los muertos o con objetos que no podían hablar. Cada vez que bebía o se drogaba, solo quería silenciar esa parte de sí mismo. Su ansiedad lo devoraba, y aunque parecía estar en forma, era solo porque comía poco y sus genes le favorecían. Habían pasado tres días sin meterse nada por la nariz, y por alguna razón tampoco quería beber esa noche. Por cada cerveza, tomaba dos vasos de agua. No paró de escribir en su libreta y de ir al baño.

A las dos de la mañana, Naima volvió sin el uniforme del bar. Se acercó a su mesa, le puso las manos en los hombros y le susurró: —Ya está.

Pedro se escurrió en la silla. —¿Qué escribes? —le preguntó, señalando la libreta.

—Nada bueno —respondió, nervioso, mientras la guardaba. Intentó escribir algo para ella, pero lo único que le salían eran cursilerías que le daban risa. Nunca escribía sobre el amor. Su música siempre era un enredo de juegos armónicos y matemáticos, con secretos escondidos entre las notas. A veces lo comparaban con Radiohead, pero con percusión latina y metales. Pensó en eso mientras cerraba la libreta y sonrió.

Naima lo tocó en la mano de nuevo y dijo: —Quédémonos un rato.

Los camareros solían quedarse después de cerrar, festejando entre ellos. En las horas que siguieron no pararon de hablar. A Naima esto le asustaba un poco. Entonces, una canción que Pedro no conocía comenzó a sonar.

—¿Qué es esto? —preguntó.

—Es “Gigi”, una de mis canciones favoritas de Fabio Concato —respondió Naima con una sonrisa. —Esta versión tiene a Julián Oliver en el piano y a Fabrizio Bosso en la trompeta.

Pedro no sabía mucho italiano, pero Naima, leyendo su mirada, empezó a traducir. La letra hablaba de Fabio en su infancia imaginó Pedro, un niño que añoraba a su padre, y mientras escuchaba, recordó al suyo. Lo imaginaba con su guitarra, en esos recuerdos que más bien eran inventos de una infancia que nunca tuvo. Tomó la mano de Naima, aferrándose a ella como quien teme caer al vacío en un avión y se agarra del desconocido a su lado en busca de alivio. Cuando empezó el solo de trompeta, Pedro respiró profundo, tratando de no romperse. La música lo mantenía a flote.

La canción continuó, y Naima le seguía traduciendo:

Dimmi dove sei...Canto Fabio casi gritando...

¿Dime donde estás? tradujo Naima...

Suoni ancora ma per gli angeli... Cantó Fabio...

Tocas ahora para los angeles... dijo Naima

Pedro apretó la mano de Naima más fuerte esta vez. El hombre en la canción ya era adulto, y ahora se intuía que el padre había muerto. Fabio cantaba con un lamento que atravesaba a Pedro. Sintió que la canción lo estaba derrotando, que le estaba ganando por dentro. La música le hablaba de todo lo que no había dicho, de todo lo que había ignorado. Pedro apretó la mano de Naima con más fuerza, como si aferrarse a ella lo pudiera salvar de esa marea. La canción seguía, insistente.

Suona forte cosi ti potrò sentire... cantó Fabio...

Toca fuerte Para que pueda escucharte... dijo Naima...

Noi quaggiù col naso in su a capire cosa sia Sarà il tempo in cui finalmente farai il tuo concerto, anima mia... cantó Fabio

Será el momento en el que por fin tengas tu concierto, alma mía... dijo Naima...

El pensó en lo mal que esta cita estaba saliendo, y ella pensó que “Que vontade de consolar este homem enquanto chora.”

Por primera vez en mucho tiempo, Pedro no pudo evitarlo: las lágrimas llegaron. Como si el peso de todas las cosas no dichas, de todas las canciones escritas en silencio, finalmente lo hubiera alcanzado.

[sapphiclinos-moved]

jeongin being the first to swear in a song when you have two australians right there is so fucking funny. fair play 3racha

[hannahklucey]

Taylor Swift is Saying Goodbye- and not just to the Eras Tour.

Hannah K. Lucey Dec 12th 2024

On Sunday night, Taylor Swift wrapped up the final weekend of her record-breaking Eras Tour, which began in March of 2023. Now, over two years since its announcement, the Eras Tour is over. But Taylor isn’t just ending the “Eras Era”- she’s saying goodbye to each era, and eras altogether. 

As we know, Taylor has been re-recording her first six albums since 2021, but she didn’t necessarily want to. Taylor allegedly tried to buy the rights to her first six albums from her old record label, Big Machine Records, after her contract expired in 2018, but was allegedly blocked from doing so. In June 2019, it was announced that controversial celebrity manager Scooter Braun had purchased Big Machine Records, which included the rights to Taylor’s work. Taylor soon reported that she would be re-recording her first six albums, has been signed with Republic Records since 2018, and has since been vocal about artists' rights to own their work. She said of her initial thoughts on the rerecording process “How can I possibly do that? Nobody wants to redo their homework if on the way to school, the wind blows your book report away.”

In her reflective Eras Tour book, which was released on Black Friday, Taylor explains that she got the idea for the Eras tour while making her album Midnights, which was released shortly before the tour was announced. She describes the songs as inspired by 13 sleepless nights scattered throughout her life, and ends the Midnights album prologue, “For all of us who have tossed and turned and decided to keep the lanterns lit and go searching. Hoping that just maybe, when the clock strikes twelve...we'll meet ourselves.”

Could it be that while in quarantine, re-recording her work, finding old “vault tracks,” and reflecting on the eras, Taylor Swift began a journey of self reflection that initially led her to Midnights, and ultimately, to the Eras Tour?

Now, through the Eras Tour, has Taylor Swift found a way to process her past, let it go, and find herself?

Taylor added the final song on The Tortured Poets Department: The Anthology, "The Manuscript," to her surprise set Sunday night, which is the only part of the show that changes every night. She included the lyric, “Looking backwards might be the only way to move forward.” Taylor may believe that The Eras Tour and re-record process was the only way she could properly say goodbye to her eras.

In her 2023 Time Person of the Year interview, Taylor said of her re-recordings, “I’m collecting Horcruxes. I’m collecting infinity stones.” At the time, many of us were surprised to see her referencing things like Harry Potter and The Avengers, when her inspiration usually seems to come from old, dusty books, ancient poets, dead divorcees, classic rockstars, and, of course, her own life. Maybe this time, she was going for accessibility- she wanted us all to get this message. Horcruxes, in the world of Harry Potter, are fractured pieces of Voldemort’s soul that Harry and his friends must collect and ultimately destroy. The infinity stones, however, represent larger forces- time, space, power, mind, reality, and only the final stone represents the soul. In Avengers Endgame (2019), these also have to be destroyed.

With the Eras Tour, Taylor is collecting her eras in order to destroy them, one by one. The destruction of eras would mean becoming one whole person, one Taylor, a Taylor who doesn’t need her eras anymore. She even hints at it in her reflective Eras Tour book, which was released on Black Friday. In the first paragraph of the introduction, about having the idea for an all-encompassing tour, Taylor writes, “...there’s nothing I hate more than doing what I’ve always done,” and what has she always done, if not eras?

She’s not the only one. Eras might be part of Taylor Swift’s image, but they’ve been a Hollywood staple for a long time. Musicians like the Beatles, Michael Jackson, David Bowie, and Madonna were expected to publicly reinvent themselves every few years to promote their next album cycle.

Taylor reinvented reinvention, though. By leaving cryptic clues for fans to find, she made guessing her next album title, track title, or even outfit into a puzzle, a mystery for the world to solve. She took her her writing so seriously that each era’s version of Taylor could even be read as performance art, with the Eras Tour being the culmination and conclusion of Taylor’s performance.

In her 2022 NYU Commencement speech, Taylor said, “Everything I do is just an extension of my writing, whether it’s directing videos, or a short film, creating the visuals for a tour, or standing on a stage performing.”

Taylor defined the Eras tour as an era itself just a few days before it began- on March 16, 2023, Taylor posted some photos from tour rehearsals to Instagram with the caption “In my Eras era,” showing her nails painted 10 different colors. Fans quickly assigned “eras” (in this case albums) to each color- green, yellow, purple, red, light blue, green, pink, grey, gold, and midnight blue (for Taylor Swift (2006), Fearless (2008), Speak Now (2010), Red (2012), 1989 (2014), Reputation (2017), Lover (2019), Folklore & Evermore (2020), and Midnights (2022).)

Sunday night in Vancouver, Taylor reflected as she began to perform the Eras Tour one last time: “It has been the most exciting, powerful, electrifying, intense, most challenging thing I’ve ever done in my entire life.” In the Eras Tour book, Taylor calls the tour “the longest, most ambitious show I’d ever even attempted.” She describes the promises she had made to herself: to be as physically and mentally strong as possible, to be as disciplined and devoted as possible, and to deliver the “happiness and wonder” that she had promised to millions. From the introduction alone, it’s clear that every part of the Eras tour, like the rest of her art, was planned meticulously.

With the show itself, she sent us a clear message- the versions of her that we see are not the true Taylor, and now she’s going home to her true self, whoever that is. Taylor has always encouraged her audience to find her messages- through lyrics, visual effects, clothing, lighting; anything she shows us is “all by design” as she confesses in the song “Mastermind.” 

Since her Reputation era, Taylor has been repeatedly comparing herself to scorned, angry female characters- namely witches. Taylor references witches in Reputation’s “I Did Something Bad,” Folklore’s “mad woman,” and over and over again on The Tortured Poets Department: The Anthology, which was released in April of 2024 and added to the tour's set in May. In one of the new performances, “Who’s Afraid of Little Old Me?” Taylor sings, “So I leap from the gallows and I levitate down your street/Crash the party like a record scratch as I scream/’Who's afraid of little old me?’/Well you should be,” while swirling black and white visuals play on the screen behind her, evoking those in the tornado scene of The Wizard of Oz (1939). She even spins on her podium on the stage, as her dancers form a swirling circle around her.

Fan video of the performance: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4FOrYUsY9U&ab_channel=krhtikos4

In this song, as in many others, she characterizes herself as the witch, but interestingly, in the Karma music video, she dresses up as Dorothy instead, on a pop-up book set. With the paper set, and by changing her identity constantly, Taylor reminds us that every version of her that we see has been intentionally curated for our consumption- and not always by herself.

Perhaps the clearest message of the tour was given at the very end of the last show Sunday night, when Taylor finally walked through the mysterious door that has been appearing every night in the background during the last song, Karma.

While some fans theorize about a legendary lost album, anyone who has seen The Truman Show (1998) will recognize the door in the sky. At the end of the movie, Truman, after realizing he has spent his entire life on camera, finally walks off set, through a door in what he believed was the sky for his entire life.

Taylor also bows like Truman does, with her arms out, at the very end of every show, as Karma ends. At the end of her final performance on December 8th, Taylor turned around and walked through the door. For further context, Elton John, on his Farewell Yellow Brick Road Tour, ended the show every night by leaving through a door in the back of the stage, on a backdrop that looked like a starry night sky. By drawing our attention to Elton's farewell tour, is Taylor saying this is her last tour? By referencing the Truman Show ending, is she ending a life in the spotlight? By repeatedly referencing both The Wizard of Oz and The Truman Show while on tour, is she hoping we'll link it back to this Elton moment?

In the Eras Tour book, she writes, “...life comes in waves, in phases, in brilliant flurries of magical moments, and all of these things come together to create…Eras." For 20 years now, Taylor has been expected to transform her real life and hardest feelings, her passion, into a marketable product, and reinvent herself time and time again to get us to notice her. Now, she's done. As she sings in "You're Losing Me," she's "getting tired even for a Phoenix."

The visuals at the end of Karma are yet another clue: as the song fades out, supernovas appear on the stage and the backscreen. A supernova is a powerful explosion that occurs when a star has reached the final stage of its life- in other words, a supernova is the death of a star. The message couldn't be clearer- Taylor Swift, the star, is dying, so that Taylor can finally be Taylor Swift, the person, the artist.

In her Time interview, after comparing her eras to Horcruxes and infinity stones, she said “It’s a movie to me now." At the last show, she finished her surprise song set with the lines, "The only thing that's left is the manuscript/One last souvenir from my trip to your shores/Now and then, I reread the manuscript/But the story isn't mine anymore."

She’s letting go of it all- giving it to us.

It also seems she’s pointing us toward movies in a more general sense, and it has been announced that she has written an original script and will be directing a feature film.

Midnights in particular contains many references to storytelling and movies, like “it must be exhausting always rooting for the anti-hero,” “this is why they shouldn’t kill off the main guy,” and of course, “Karma is the guy on the screen, coming straight home to me.”

That “guy” is not any of her actual or rumored lovers, it’s just Taylor. She’s coming home- from celebrity, from Nashville, Hollywood, New York, London, from eras. Taylor Swift is finally coming home to herself.

As we all live in the shadow of the monster on the hill that is Taylor Swift ™️, it’s natural to wonder, “Where can she possibly go from here?” While often asked alongside questions about Taylor settling down or having babies, my wonderings drift in another direction. Where can Taylor possibly go from here, not commercially, not personally, but artistically? One thing is for sure- the old Taylor can't come to the phone right now. But the question isn’t “What’s the next era?” anymore. Just… what’s next?

[tobbesdiscordkitten]

Plastïk Head Headcanon Prompt: Re-dyeing Kiki Bones' Blonde Hair.

A short but sweet prompt ☺️ I hope you enjoy!

- Kiki loathed coloring his hair alone; it was much easier when you helped by combing through his faded strands and retouching the dark roots.

- Every six weeks you would dye his hair. Kiki loved tricking his fans into believing he was a natural blonde.

- After applying the platinum hair-dye, you set a timer for 45 minutes.

- Kiki's scalp begins to burn from the bleach while waiting. He shifts in his seat uncomfortably and tries to ignore it. But as more time passes by, the stinging worsens, making the situation become unbearable. Knowing he can't relieve the sensation with his fingers, Kiki uses a toothpick to scratch the itch in various spots on his head.

- Once the timer ends, Kiki hops in the shower to rinse off. However, when he massages his scalp with shampoo, it hurts from the toothpick marks. He scrubs his hair gingerly, making sure all the color is washed away.

- Afterwards, you blow-dry his hair, then tease it and spray it with excessive amounts of hairspray, drawing inspiration from hair metal band members such as Michael Monroe and Vince Neil.

- Kiki reviews his final look in the mirror before engulfing you in his strong arms and planting a tender kiss on your sweet, soft lips as a reward.

- "Go get 'em, rockstar!" You say in return.

Taglist: @copias-juicebox

Side-note: if anybody else wants to be added on my taglist for certain eras/characters, let me know!

[clownery-blog]

It got deleted when I tried to answer the ask so here's my rant about chuck e cheese again

I don't know how to tell people the "lore" of things without specific questions so I'm gonna try to section a few rants about some of my favorite things relating to it

First specifically Helen Henny, she's my favorite character. This is my favorite animatronic of her and probably my favorite inside and outside of chuck e cheese in general

I just like it a lot, a close second for my favorite of her is probably her portrait animatronic, I think she out of any characters was reimagined the most, being one of the ones to be aged down significantly in the 1990s because they didn't want to abandon how relatable and loveable Mitzi was to young girls. despite that there actually aren't that many different plushie designs you'll find of her being sold(although there's still plenty), it's mostly the 2014 design with little alteration compared to chuck and such.

I have a plush of her, which is my favorite one of her and I was so happy when I got it

This is her and my chuck e plushie, I love them both especially because they both have silly guitars

Jasper and munch are best friends canonically and have a really funny dynamic but it depends on from where

Jasper has the best walk around out of any of them I think, all of his are incredibly accurate to himself

Heres that picture of Jasper and munch's very first walk arounds, I think munch's got replaced in like a year

I like all of Jasper's animatronics but the portrait has to be my favorite, I'm mostly biased because I like his banjo more than the cheese guitar, it just makes more sense to me (all animatronic bands have to have one country singer)

Mr munch is an alien from a planet made of pizza and when I wrote this the first time I took a break to re read the comic that was revealed in, which is hilarious btw I love that comic

(I might make a whole post about some of the comics if anyone wants me to I oveE them so much)

Pasqually's pretty cool but I think his current design is incredibly boring, he was already a pretty obvious stereotype but there's nothing wrong with his character or his older designs

He didn't originally have an instrument, opposite to Helen who originally had a ukulele (acoustic guitar? Can't remember) he had that silly pizza thing on his hand (I love his portrait so much)

In his prototype he didn't have drums he had a little table with pizza dough and bowls and rolling pins etc and I think it would've been really cool if he just pretended to make pizza while singing, I like the idea. (Not to say I don't like him with drums)

Would definitely be my favorite animatronic if it was ever real

He's played by a real person in the movie despite having a walk around costume which is an obvious choice for obvious reasons but I just love the detail, his actors great too

My favorite chuck animatronic, if not the plastic one is probably most studio c animatronics, especially this one

He's a popular choice and this guy specifically I think was just for this awards show, but I love him

My favorite era with chuck is probably tux if not avenger, I like most versions of him. I went as avenger chuck for Halloween last year, it was really fun I liked my costume, A lot of little kids shouted at me which was fun, one adult woman laughed at me

I do like most eras for him, ptt chuck had a good personality, I favor tux & avengers designs, and I'm not voicing my opinion about rockstar chuck because everyone is very open about their opinions and I wouldn't like to be repetitive.

All of his walk arounds are great btw if I didn't mention, my favorite is this articulated one they used for commercials

(I love this commercial, I love chuck e cheese commercials they're so entertaining)

Anyway There's not a lot to say about him that's not common knowledge

I don't know a lot about Bella, but I really do like her

I don't have alot to say but I thought it'd be awful not to include her since I talked about the rest of the main cast

I wanted to add some of the puppets and walk arounds but since I can't post anymore pictures, here's just a picture of four of them

(from the movie)

I didn't really know what to talk about so these are all just random things, I have other entire posts I thought of while writing this and I might just start posting about this stuff

I wanted to talk about the comics and the walk around characters and the merchandise and the movie and the other characters who aren't a part of the current band and the games and the commercials and the puppets and the other animatronics, I have a lot to say

[blueiight]

I also feel like Gaga in her early fame monster/born this way, seeding deep fear and hysteria in christians everywhere, era might be good inspiration for his rockstar era as well. the theatrics of her paparazzi vma performance would be the type of shit he’d love i think.

omg yes especially bc we seem to be re entering some sort of rerun into satanic homophobic panics . trolling religious extremists on ldl end is hilarious cuz lestat plays the disbeliever in s1 but he too, has such a tormented relationship w/ his god

[nalyra-dreaming]

What if Lestat went to earth after Paris and has been sleeping all this time and we see him waking up in Nola at the end of s2?

That could of course be!

However... Rolin Jones said something about telling the rockstar era through some kind of "other means" and I could totally see it being done via VHS or some kind of other media... TBH the rockstar era does fit best into the 80s somehow, at least for me^^.

Also, I keep coming back here to the three things that hint at it having happened already (imho):

the "inferior" re-recording of "Come To Me". Granted, it could have happened during their reconciled times, but... I don't think Louis would then be so sardonic about it then. Why would he be if that had been something he had wanted? Or at least accepted as a sign of goodwill? So I think that re-recording was something to call out to Louis. Because of course Louis - and only Louis (plus Armand who could have read it from Louis) would know what it actually meant. And for whom it was meant.

the "mediocre star" comment. I just... that is such a little bitchy comment IF it was a jab - I'd love it. Like that would be so in friggin' character, rofl. (I honestly cannot wait for the bitchfest between Armand and Lestat. CAN. NOT. WAIT)

Daniel reacts weirdly (imho) to Lestat's voice. Now, we know Daniel has forgotten a lot, has been made to forget a lot, but it's there, somewhere. It will come back bit by bit now. I think he has this vague notion that he heard the voice before (and, if I'm right he might even have been at the concert back then as in the book, maybe something else happened then, or maybe Akasha happened already, who knows) and might dig out some files eventually. Maybe we'll even see the rockstar era through him.

So... I personally think Lestat has been "up" in-between. Maybe he didn't find Louis. Maybe Akasha and Memnoch happened.

I think certain things played out as known, others... didn't.

We'll see :))

[dogwise]

kinda really into the idea of rockstar era lestat re-piercing his ears every night for the aesthetic