#This is the sort of thing I'm talking about to when I say “It's okay to be wrong” about random shit because in some instances it is

[nyc-pizza-rat]

an idea came to me in the middle of the night. picture this: dean and cas out on a case, somewhere post s13, i would say, sans michael problem, effectively post canon in the sense that there is no real big bad left to fight they're just sort of doing their own thing. anyway. yes. dean and cas, on a case. and cas is near human now btw! his grace has been sort of..drying up, for the lack of a better word. and he's out hunting with dean alone. and they take a case somewhere close enough to home, but not too close, and turns out it's a witch. and everything goes more or less according to plan, but then cas gets SHOT because he's reckless and stupid, and it happens in front of dean and he goes panic mode crazy but somehow they deal with the witch. and then dean like. helps cas back to the car, stitches him up in the motel room, and he is soooo mad he just gives him the cold shoulder.

and they're driving home, and dean's looking out at the road, but he's not really seeing the road, he's remembering cas getting shot, and it's like the worst kind of memory, sth that catapults you into the past and brings the awful, terrible feelings up to the surface, and really, it's good that dean's been driving since about the time that he could reach the pedals because it's only muscle memory that's keeping him on the road. and then cas sighs, loud, and dean falls back into himself, and he's so unbelievably pissed he doesn't know what to do with it. he clenches his hands around the steering wheel and locks his teeth together.

cas shifts, and says, are you just never going to speak to me again? and dean says nothing and then cas goes, can we atleast turn on your tape, and this really fans the flames inside dean because he keeps calling it dean's tape and it's not dean's tape, it's CAS' tape because dean GAVE IT to him! when dean doesn't respond to that, cas tries to reach over to the console, and dean slaps his hand away.

says, sth along the lines of how reckless people dont get car music privileges, and cas rolls his eyes heavenward. Says, i wasn't being reckless! and i'm fine, dean.

and dean shakes his head and is like oh so that wasn't you that bled all over me back at the motel?

and cas is like. squinty glaring. dean goes, that's what i thought.

and then cas glares more, takes a breath. goes: you know, you are so much worse at being calculated in the field. you're the one who's always running into places without forethought. and dean's like well i'm not the one who went and got himself shot. and cas is like IN THE SHOULDER. it's not even a bad wound. i'll heal in no time! and dean scoffs and shakes his head and cas goes you're being a real assbutt right now. and dean goes your face is being a real assbutt and cas goes what and dean goes what? shut up.

and then cas goes back to staring out the window and dean goes back to replaying the fight in his head and driving and they don't really talk more and when they get to the bunker cas just gets out the car the moment it's parked and slams the door on purpose and dean is like great. just great. watch it, you dick! and he grabs the stuff from the trunk and then when he drops everything at the map table, he sees that sam and jack are fussing over cas about the injury (his arm's like in a sling and everything) and sam asks are you okay and cas is sooo annoyed he's like you guys are the worst im literally fine. and dean goes sure you are. and cas goes don't you start with me right now. and dean is like what? like you can't be doing this shit you're not invincible like you used to be you're gonna get hurt and when you get hurt you're gonna get in trouble, and you're gonna get everyone with you in trouble and it's gonna be a bitch of a situation!!!! and cas goes FINE then I'll just go hunting on my own then you don't have to take me with you and you don't have to worry about me bring a liability and dean goes shut the fuck up you're not going on cases ALONE are you not hearing me about you being vulnerable now and cas throws his hands up or tries to and then winces and dean grabs his arm to look at it and cas goes let go and dean goes shut up and let me look at it and then he does and cas has fully pulled at dean's crude stitches and he's bleeding a little through the bandages and dean says well shit.

so sam brings dean some real suturing supplies and then looks between them but decides he values his own mental health more than maintaining deancas peace (he's been working on his affirmations lately and he's realised that he's living like a child of divorce in his own house bc of these two) and fucks off. and dean's taking care of cas and cas is silently letting him but he's also fuming. and as dean's working on redoing the stitches he's kind of also losing it a little bit and again, it's really good that he's been doing these things since before he hit the teens bc the practice is really the only thing keeping his hands steady. and he goes. fuck. cas. it's just -- it's scary, alright? you don't wanna be in the field watching your partner go down -- that's just -- and cas interrupts him and goes i wouldn't have let anything happen to you and dean goes i'm not talking about me! i don't care about that! and cas is like quiet. chastised, almost. and dean's mind is going brrrr bc he's just saying things before he can think them right. and he's telling him hunting IS like this I know that but it doesn't change that your stomach just drops when you see someone you love get hurt in the field and cas goes what and dean goes, i mean i still panic when it's sam but it's just -- it's so much worse when it's you. and cas goes what. and dean is just babbling but cas is not hearing him not really and then cas says dean. and dean stops and looks up and cas goes it's worse when it's me and dean goes wide eyed like O-O and cas goes is that what you just said? and dean goes sure. ye-yeah. and then he looks down and he's done w the stitches. so he quickly sterelizes the skin and goes. well. rest up, sleep and cas is just dial-up modem rebooting mode right now and dean books it out of there and then they don't talk about it for like two weeks until cas' modem reboot finishes and then he just jolts into his senses and then he goes to find dean and kisses him stupid THE END

wholeheartedly believe that the first time dean drops the L word on cas, he’s scared and desperate and angry, and as he’s yelling at/pleading with cas (same thing to dean), “you’re the love of my life” just slips out. and dean doesn’t even think about it, because it’s just an obviously true fact to him.

meanwhile cas is totally blindsided making dial up noises and having his entire understanding of the world rewritten in an instant

[yuurivoice]

its me, the anon that decided to take another look at Aurons storyline and okay yeah he's definitely up in my favs now 😭 ive been pretty uninterested by like crime boss CEO types simply because I find them to follow the same surface level alpha male type thing more often than not, and I can very proudly say that Auron is a refreshing, fleshed out character that I've become very endeared too!! ive learned my lesson not to doubt you man 💃💃

This shit hits like crack cocaine to me, man. LOL

I think one of the most creatively gratifying things is getting this sort of reaction when I pull a rabbit out of the hat. No shade at by the numbers criminal CEO shenanigans, because CLEARLY there is a thriving market for it.

I just get much more inspiration out of doing the "What if this trope...BUUUUUT (insert some sorta transformative twist)!" and Auron gets to keep a lot of the mess, but he's this like...pathetic self sacrificing hypocrite who is utterly lovestruck. It's much less about the edginess of his supposed archetype, and more like...what if you took someone who otherwise would have been a very very very different person and then shoved him into that box. How uncomfortable does he get? How does he cope? What rules has he set for himself and what are the repercussions of breaking them? etc

And honestly it's not entirely different or unique. I haven't done a ton of market research, but my hunch tells me that CEO Crime Man who ended up in that position because of vaguely self sacrificing/justified reasons is probably a popular angle to take because it allows the reader to cope with loving a shitty dude. Which...yeah, that makes sense mechanically speaking.

I think over the years I learned to trust myself in the kitchen. I don't have to subvert every single expectation, just the ones that excite me creatively. Because if I'm excited, I don't care if a trope has been done 100 times...I'm gonna string together a series of words that will hit someone the way that YuuriVoice can. Nobody else.

At least, that's the self talk I give myself when I'm nervous or doubtful or feeling that imposter syndrome hit. lmfaooooo

Thank you for the kind words, anon!

[daughterofheartshaven]

I just wrote this up somewhere else and then realized I could share it here. I've seen some people saying that the reveal that The Well was set on the Midnight planet didn't really add anything. Here was my reply to one person who had said that and asked for people who liked the addition to explain what it added for them:

Okay, I really liked this being a follow up to Midnight, and since you sent out an open invitation, I'll talk about what this adds for me. I should probably give the context that Midnight isn't really a story I like that much, so the deviations from it didn't bother me in the same way it bothered you. Meanwhile this is pretty easily my favorite 15th Doctor story so far.

Firstly, this felt like a very effective raising of the stakes in the midway point of the story. Generally in Doctor Who we open with a mystery, and then by the end of the episode the mystery is basically solved. This is a very mysterious story and up until that point I was assuming that we would solve the mystery and that would be crucial to the story, but knowing it was the midnight entity raised the possibility that the mystery was not going to be solved (and, to an extent, it wasn't in my opinion. It partially was - we figured out the mirror thing - but there's still a giant pile of unknowns). So, for me, that turned this story from a somewhat generic mystery to an "so [expletive] we're actually in REAL danger" situation, which I think the remainder of the episode followed up on by actually showing we are in that much danger. This wasn't about making the Doctor scared. This was about making ME scared.

The other reason is probably deeply connected to the fact that I've seen all of classic who and am VERY in the weeds of the expanded universe stuff and so on. It's important to me that I make it clear that I don't think this does not make my takes any more valid than anyone else's, but they also do effect what I want. And this sort of thing - returning to a planet at a different point in its history - is something this show almost never does unless the planet in question is Earth, Skaro, or Gallifrey. I can think of only a few other examples of this happening off the top of my head - Peladon and Telos, both from Classic Who, and New Earth from Modern Who. Kinda and Snakedance are an edge case (I don't promise I remembered anything, but you take my point). And all of those examples happened within a few generations of each other. Getting into the EU weeds adds maybe a couple dozen more planets that are recurring, while adding hundreds of new ones. So while Doctor Who is good at planet diversity (when they're not doing every single episode being on Earth at least), it's very rare for them to feel like they are giving their planets history. So to see a planet almost 500,000 years later and to see how knowledge was lost, how its native species evolved, and how stories of the Doctor was passed down for countless generations - or maybe this was the same entity after all this time, I don't know - was an extremely new experience in a franchise that struggles to find new experiences. I'm pretty sure that this is why this episode overtook The Robot Revolution as my favorite with 15. I can see why you said this made the universe feel smaller to you, but to me it made it feel bigger - not because of space, but because of time. I hope that makes sense and sheds a little insight into my perspective!

[feelfreetopleasemexo]

"He's insufferable!"

"Hey, I only just opened the door, you can't be mad at me just yet can you?" Gojo giggles trying to assess the situation, and which of his many personalities is most likely to calm this whole situation down.

"Wait, what's happened? Calm down love, shh shh." He says cradling me to his chest, as he sees the furious look on my face.

"Your son, he won't stop snapping back at me. Every little thing I say he has a comeback. I tried to put my arm around him earlier and the damn brat turned his infinity on. I just can't with him today. If I have to hear him one more time correcting me, I swear I'm going to scream. Let's just say, you could never question if he was your son...." I snap, putting my head deeper into his pecks.

"woah woah hold on there, what's this friendly fire about? Cool it babe, I'm not the one on trial here remember?" He sounds hurt, and instantly i regret my choice of words.

"I didn't..I just...I didn't mean to hurt you, or him, it's just been a lot with you working so much recently." I squeeze my arms around him, hoping this with the puppy dog eyes would pass for enough of an apology, so I didn't have to actually say it. I'm not mean, I'm stubborn, there's a difference okay....plus he knows better than to use sarcasm when I'm already pissed off.

"It's, fine. I'll talk to him." He sighs, kissing the top of my head and walking towards our son's bedroom door.

As he passes me I stare at the floor, the rage seemingly passing from my body, he always knew how to calm me, even if he was an ass at times. I turn to check out his ass and suddenly see a flash of blue and him fly across the living room.

"what hAVE I SAID ABOUT USING CURSED ENERGY IN THIS HOUSE!!" I slam the door behind me. Those two can sort each other out, I'm going shopping.

[familyvideostevie]

tlou hbo season 2: episode 3 thoughts

okayyyyy. lock in! are we just titling the episodes after songs? whatever. lots of in-the-weeds stuff about the themes in this episode. i have my doubts, i have somethings i liked, i have one thing i HATED. CRAIG.....

spoilers for tlou hbo and tlou part ii below.

just wanted to say I forgot how badass the dogs killing the infected was last episode. Are we just doing song title episodes now or what?

EPISODE 3: THE PATH

GOOD -man "all gone" will always hit. Always always always. Good way to start. playing it at joel's grave made me cry.  -the emotional payoff for Tommy not being at the lodge plays out beautifully here for me. the silent start to the episode, the lighting in the morgue, the other bodies and the scope of the loss but tommy sits down with his brother and cleans him. it was very reverent, in a way. give sarah my love, whoo, boy, i cried. they finally got tears from me here! -ellie waking up screaming -- i think hbo!ellie feels things more intensely, and so establishing that there is ptsd involved is a move that works. i expect this to come back as she gets deeper into seattle (i hope so, anyway). also, it was cool to see exactly how functional the hospital is in jackson! after writing so much fic about the place and making shit up it was good to know that i was uh, making up the right kind of shit. -jesse! tommy! hot men rebuilding the town! that's it, that's the bullet point. -i'll talk more about this conversation between ellie and gail in a different part of the post but frankly? ellie when she is jerking someone around is funny. it's a sort of malicious humor as opposed to how she used to fuck with joel, obviously, but i think the switch from her lying through her teeth to gail (more on this later, again) to walking down the hallway of the hospital was very compelling. there is so much we are not being told but this is a good hint at it. -flowers at joel's house...the notes...god. and the house tour! the choice to have her bedroom ready and waiting for her (sans mattress) was potent. i think it fits for this ellie and joel -- where things are so tumultuous between them. i always felt like joel using the spare bedroom in the game for his workshop was a sign that he fully supported ellie's independence, though it made me sad. him leaving her bedroom actually made me sadder, so. and then the rest of it! the score as she finds the watch and the gun, the jacket. the way she breaks and swallows it. I'm interested in how they're showing her crack and then lock it back up. -tommy and ellie talking about their plan. don't talk to me like i didn't know him. he was my brother. i loved the way gabriel delivered this line. he's not yelling at her, he's not mad at her, he's being blunt and truthful. and the way she regrets it right away -- i just like that he's not careful with her in this moment. and the way they hug, that come here. telling her where to find joel. i always want more of these two, and the way they are framing what is to come makes their relationship very important. -ellie having a matrix poster is sick as hell she's so funny -i will maintain that joel going to therapy is bullshit but fuck if gail isn't funny. this sort of seer type character who sees people for who they are and has to keep it all to herself! so interesting. the way she clocks ellie as a liar -- i actually agree, here. ellie lies to herself this entire story. about why she's doing this, about what she wants out of it. clocked, clocked, clocked! there was maybe one person she told the truth to and he's... -i am not sold on this dina x ellie dynamic as it is but dina taking charge and reminding ellie that she cannot be an island is something i like. -coffee grounds on the grave. i cried, okay? -the approach to seattle on the highway was gorgeous. also the first time that ellie felt like an ellie i recognized (don't come for me here). the set of her brow, the way bella says too quiet. it just really felt like her. -reveal of the WLF being actually an insane army...and yet we gonna mow through them, motherfuckers

IFFY -time jumps are always iffy for me cause they are easy to overuse. after such a dramatic one at the start of the game and how much time manipulation we are in for (hopefully) i grow weary. also is march in Montana really this...not-snowy -dina my beautiful angel i love you why do you have curtain bangs -dina and ellie at the table. we have swapped dina's love for ellie with her love for joel as motivation for the seattle mission. yeah, i think dina cares for ellie a lot and they are close friends, but since we are lacking a solid answer on her romantic commitment, i am unsure how I'm feeling about it. the cookies and the lying and the way ellie snaps at her -- all of this reminded me of ellie calling dina a burden in the game. but what i did think felt right was the way ellie regrets her outburst but can't apologise for it, and the way dina allows this. we will see how that give and take develops and falls apart -the sharp cut to the seraphites. phew. okay. i really need to noodle on this more because i am really...interested in where they are going to go with this. as a gamer, i know who these people are and what they are about. i wonder how this hit for people who are like woah wtf! cause i remember playing the game and when you meet the seraphites you're like....WHAT? but this narrative framing feels like craig overwriting the seraphites vs the wlf to get out from under neil's previous overwriting of the seraphites vs the wlf. does that make sense? showing the children, the conversation about the prophet and protection, the fact they are leaving a war behind. and then the fact that they are slaughtered, all of them. and, in theory, we don't know that this wasn't abby, yet. this was just the wlf. i think it pushes us so far to one side that i wonder how grey they will be able to make the wlf in s3. maybe to make abby's turn more rooted in ideology? I'm not sure, still noodling on this one -nature vs nurture convo. i actually agree with gail here -- they were walking side by side from the start. i think that i agree with this in the context of the game more than the show for reasons i won't bore you with but all have to do with characterization. i also believe that ellie has a capacity for violence that surprises even her, especially in this story, and that such a capacity is not inherently negative. i think it kept joel alive and keeps her alive. i think it is meant to be a sticky question for us -- how we can hold something so dark inside us but also love, etc. some people just can't be saved. i don't know if i agree with this fundamentally but i think it's a really interesting point in the whole gail as a sort of seer/cassandra figure -- a role occupied by the player in the game. she knows what is coming, i think, even if it's just in abstract. -i get it! the boots are practical. but i wanted ellie to slaughter half of seattle in converse. sue me!

BAD -why are everyone’s clothes clean. Why does it look like everything is fresh off the ll bean rack. Seriously where is Gail getting her clothes and why it ann taylor  -i have decided that ellie and joel did talk on the porch. but something about this conversation with gail bothered me -- not the lying through her teeth. but the your final moment with someone doesn't define your whole time with them. while it's true (especially since their final moments were horrible ones), i don't believe that this ellie has the emotional wherewithal for that kind of a sentiment. or if she even believes it? it just did not sound right from her. maybe I'm not giving her enough credit, but still. also why are we doing what seems like a first therapy session in this way. i wonder what gail gets out of these and who tells her to do them -(IFFY/BAD for this one) seth and carlisle and the town meeting. this is another one that i am still turning over in my head. it might be more of an iffy than a bad, but let's talk it out (you have no choice, i am talking it out here). the framing of this to me is supposed to be two extremes -- the high road and the low road -- and then ellie choosing where she wants to walk. and us choosing where we want to walk. forgiveness vs revenge. moving on vs vengeance. the core battles of part ii, no? i think ellie's speech is interesting -- even if we are essentially told she doesn't give a fuck, she's giving it because she has to -- and it raises more themes i wonder if they will explore. justice vs revenge, community vs strangers, us vs them. there is a lot of that in part ii -- a lot of it insidious, if you look at it a certain way -- but a lot of the emotional/ethical conflict in the game that you experience as a player is what you are doing at ellie/abby's hands. i can't tell if this writing is telling us how to think? or giving us options and then proving later that it's simply not black and white, not what seth or carlisle were saying. we'll see. this ties into seth helping ellie and dina -- i don't think this is bad, i guess, because it's proving what i just said. who do we accept help with when we are desperate? our enemies. this will return with abby and lev. hm.

-and finally. THE FUCKING TENT. WHAT THE FUCK WAS THAT. ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME. YOU'RE GAY I'M NOT? I ALREADY DID? dina is pregnant and she and ellie haven't even KISSED AGAIN. in the game ellie doesn't know dina likes girls, but it always seemed to me that after joel dies dina does not fuck around and makes it clear to ellie that she is there for her as her friend and also as her girlfriend. maybe I'm mad about nothing maybe I'm overracting but the whole thing felt so flippant to me and like dina was messing with ellie (which maybe she would have done BEFORE they were on a life and death revenge mission) what the fuuuuuuuuuck are we going to do about this you guys. what the FUUUUUUCK

wow that was a doozy. i think they're just going to keep getting longer. lmk what you thought! apologize if i do not reply -- i like to hear your opinions! i am just lazy <3

[lunasdestiny]

Hi! Wow, you answered that ask faster than I thought you would XD (I am gift headcanon anon for clarity). And yeah, I probably should have sent an ask before with the headcanon I had that the rescue bots suffer varied levels of survivors guilt before I sent that other one for context, whoops. (Spoilers: long rant ahead, (and also may get a little dark?) I don't know where boundaries lie, I'm sorry) I know Rescue Bots is a kids show and can't really go in depth with the war like in Prime, but I really wished they had little snippets with the bots having 'reality checks' every once in a while that cybertron was gone and struggled with that fact. Blades feels it the most because he is an anxious mess that lets his thoughts get away from him. So the fact that they went into stasis only to wake up and find everything/everyone they known and loved was gone for millions of years…that would mess anyone up real bad. And the fact it was all gone because of a long, brutal war they completely missed by sheer luck?! That's not something you just brush off.

I can imagine in the beginning Blades remembering friends/family he'd love to talk to about earth and his new mission only to get slammed by the reality that those bots he talked to a few days ago are long since gone and he can't talk to them ever again! PLUS the fact that Decepticons hit Rescue Bots first thing in the war and Sigma 17 were the only rescue bots to survive the bullet! The last four of their kind. I refuse to believe Blades didn't immerse himself in human movies and internet so he wouldn't spiral. He knows deep down he's not responsible for what happened, nor could he control anything afterwards, but after seeing new cybertron it's really hard not to think about the people he knew that don't get to enjoy this new peaceful world. And he feels he can't confide to Bee because how do you tell a war veteran with serious trauma that you feel guilty because you took a nap for millions of years only to wake up and play hero with humans while he and his team battled horrors beyond your belief just to survive everyday of a brutal war that killed your whole planet and everyone on it?! You do not dump 'Sorry I wasn't there to watch all of these terrible things you experienced, but I kinda sort of wish I did so I can feel I deserve to be here and enjoy this without my spark eating itself alive from thinking about how many suffered while I got off scott free'. Nope, nu-uh, not saying anything, hey look at that new thing! That looks like fun hahaha!!!

(I am so sorry this got so long (and got a little too dark?). I honestly love Blades to bits but sometimes I do wish they were more in the Prime continuity so we can get more backstory/inner thoughts/growth from their characters.)

OHhhhhh mANNNNN 😭😭😭😭😭

Dw I have the same wishes for any show I watch but I guess that's left for us to interpret!

Tho I imagine Blades does have a boiling point. Kinda a follow-up on the last ask you sent as well, but Blades and Bee are staying at a place during their time in Cybertron. Bee returns to the room only to see Blades with his back turned and making little sounds. He asks if he's okay only for Blades to turn around and he's just crying big Ghibli tears

Of course seeing Blades cry makes his whole world stop so he goes up to immediately hold him. Blades of course tries to make a joke but it just makes him look more pathetic.

"H-Heatwave said we couldn't cry. He's such a liar! I've done it before a-and I'm doing it now!" But he can't hold it in anymore and his voice breaks with a sob "I'm sorry!' "What are you sorry for?" "I'm supposed to be enjoying this trip and I'm ruining it!" "You're not ruining anything. You're upset...Blades you can talk to me...you dont have to but you can."

That's when it all spills out.

"I just can't stop thinking about everything from before! I miss my family! I miss my friends! I miss the rink! Everything I remembered from home is different or gone! I could have seen them off but I missed it all because of a stupid energon eater! And while I was in stasis all of that got destroyed! I should be grateful that I didn't experience the war but I feel like I'm being tortured! I know it's not true, but for some reason it feels like my fault! AND NOW IM RUINING THIS TRIP BY BEING SAD ABOUT IT!"

Bee just holds him tighter. He knows he can't exactly relate, but he wants to comfort Blades as much as he can. So, while holding him, he lets Blades have a good cry.

"What can I do to help you feel better?" *sniff* "I like this actually..." "Good. You've been holding in a lot, haven't you?" "Mmm..." "I can't say I relate completely. But know I'm here for you if you need anything. Even if it's just for this." "Thank you...Heh. It's funny. I remember getting teased a lot for being a crybaby back when I was younger. It got to the point I tried my best to hide somewhere whenever I did." "Sad that we weren't friends then. You could have cried around me if you wanted. Knowing how I was, I probably would have tried to make you laugh by doing something stupid." "Hehe...It would have probably worked. I was easily amused." "...Tell me more." "About what?" "What were you like back then. Maybe other stuff...If you want to, of course." "...Sure."

They end up falling into recharge in each other's arms.

[outlying-hyppocrate]

i have officially returned. ask me anything.

[icewindandboringhorror]

"We can get through this by working together, reach out to your friends, community is all we have, a social network will be your security in the world, now is the time to lean on others!"

I do agree, and it's scientifically sound (pretty sure there is data about how people with better social networks live longer and etc) but also....augh..... what about the severe social issues, difficulty to leave the house, physical issues which lead to like zero socialization energy a majority of the time, etc. etc. Social support can be a replacement for structural support, but.. I guess I just wish it didn't have to be. Community is extremely difficult to build, even moreso if you're someone who has issues with social cues or group conversations or even just being around others in the first place. And blah, nuance, of course I'm just complaining or maybe being too negative or maybe misunderstanding, but, I hardly have the energy to brush my hair once every 2 months.. how am I supposed to maintain a wide social network and be active in a Community and Join Groups lol... sometimes it kind of feels like "er.. well if thats my only option then...... ruh roh". It's overwhelming

[pynkhues]

Not a baiting ask: I don’t recall any of the characters dressing more androgynously as the books went on, save Gabrielle? There are passages of Louis and Lestat wearing lace, pearls and velvet frock coats in the modern day, in reference to 18th c. fashion: Is that what the other Anon may have meant? That’s not an androgynous sartorial choice with historical costuming in mind, though, it’s Louis dressing in the fashion of his human era. (Perhaps there is a misconception from a passage in which Louis wears lace and pearls at Armand’s urging, or someone sharing such passages with intent to mislead other fans about the canonicity of Femme Louis or Femme Lestat beyond Anne’s personal identification with them, which has happened before and will happen again.) In the show, Louis dressing in lace, pearl and velvet would be Louis dressing in a colourful three piece suit in the style of the 1910’s.

(x)

Ah! Thank you for the correction, anon, I didn't remember any either, but I'm hyper-conscious of only having read through Memnoch (and having read most of the books I have quite a while ago, although I've been re-reading TVL recently) so I chose to take the ask in good faith and assume perhaps something happened in later books. That could very well be what the anon meant, but perhaps you're right too that there are scenes being taken out of context.

[toastling]

Sleepless in New York at 6am, the neighborhood breakfast attempts to express a coherent thought about an incoherent nag of his past ten years

[brinnanza]

trying to embrace a lifestyle called the weird old guy in a reddit post about a weird old guy

[mieczyhale]

one of the guys that runs a reaction channel i've been watching for ages just announced that they're ending the channel next year bc he got a job offer and he's getting married and he's thinking about his family and his future and like...

my son in christ you are 21

i literally want to fucking die

[fuckfuckfvvkfuckfuvkfuckfvckfuvk]

i'm tired

[dmumt]

genuine question is having a flatmate ever a pleasant experience

[outlying-hyppocrate]

jang keun-suk is attractive in a way that makes me want to bash his face in. annoyingly pretty. if that makes sense.

[misskamelie]

Head in my hands, I'm doomed, this can't be going on for this long good grief. What the hell does my subconscious want to tell me. Hate the pms hormonal storm