#Vampire Diaries Spoiler

[sophsun1]

Interview With The Vampire – 1.04 | 2.06

[mossycakes]

and voted the peoples princess of the month is madeline, who read all of claudias diaries which detailed the last words of all of her kills while smiling, who then offered claudia her wrist and encouraged her to try a sip, who laughed in armands face when he said she would lose everything, who complained about her last ever drink of wine while drinking it, and who has done nothing but give zero fucks and provoke and flirt with her vampire girlfriend. she definitely went to the daniel molloy school of dealing with hot vampires

[lgbtiwtv]

Exclusive Special Preview of Season 2 | Interview with the Vampire

[junossay]

My contribution to Delainey Hayles fanbook!! Lil thing lve been working on

It's like: poster "Claudia's odyssey of reconciliation" and the kind of letter, you'll see

( Organized by: @nocontextlestat)

[sachaa-ff]

Yep that’s me 👀

[lenaluthorgays-blog]

Agatha fr turned off her humanity after nicky died

[mirefireflies]

lestat’s face when santiago starts reading from claudia’s diary…

[yelyahrodrigo]

How ~those~ 12 hours of Onyx Storm started - a testament to how much Violet loves Xaden

Obviously spoilers for Onyx Storm below!

These gifs are exactly how I envision Violet and Xaden's interaction at the end of Onyx Storm: Xaden is so nervous to show Violet his face, because he's worried the red veins are going to scare her away forever, but he believes in their future and believes in her love for him that he faces her anyway - and she proves him right.

She still sees her Xaden, not venin Xaden. She sees through the red veins, and still loves him, still agrees to do everything possible to save him.

It's a beautiful moment and they have such an incredible love for each other. Xaden is "baring his neck" to Violet once again, and she accepts him, no questions asked, because that's her soulmate, that's her husband, that's the love of her life who she will save!!!

[moonyplatt]

Family portrait loustat with they daughter, Claudia, gazing at the stars BECAUSE we deserve happy family content 😭

[silviakundera]

Does it feel like they're trying to redeem the dickless bore? idk if he's doing a con on her or they're showing he has real feelings for her wasn't the novel different?

One thing I'm really noticing in the Princess Royal (Grand Princess) adaption is that they will 'play it straight' with characters like Su Rongqing and the Emperor: giving the character similar dialogue and facial expressions as they would have in the novel -- except without PWX or LR's internal dialogue of 🙄 why u lying???

🙄 lol ok sure

😒 oh i see, back on your bullshit again

😤 the AUDACITY

😬 oh shit oh shit danger BE COOL

The consequence is that if you take everything at face value, the Emperor seems like a reasonable guy and not up for The Absolute Worst Dad award. Under the surface, the novel reader knows he is acting out a play and coldly calculating every interaction with Li Rong, the Crown Prince, and Consort Ruo. Every single scene with him, Li Rong is in peril and she knows it. She's pretending to be his sweet, obedient 19 year old daughter who believes in him and is following Pei Wenxuan's direction and acting as a puppet, making moves that he has already approved PWX to make. The Emperor's pretending that this play isn't supposed to end with LR and the Crown Prince taken down & the power transferred into Consort Ruo and the other prince's hands.

The viewer can just interpret all the words coming out of a character's mouth as facts & just believe everything they claim about their motives/real agenda as true. Or they recall the implied horrorshow of Life 1 and view all of these interactions with a cynical eye, questioning what else could be under the surface.

With SRQ, that guy is so fucking complicated. I think actually he's portrayed in character. Nothing we have seen isn't .... him. At least so far, as of ep 19 he aligns with the novel.

But 3 different factors: A) The music is romantizing him; B) The audience is given a couple internal-thought voice overs from him, which other antagonists don't get; C) With those voice-overs, the screenwriter has chosen to affirm his love for his brother and LR way earlier than the reader has it confirmed in the novel (where he is intentionally kept a total mystery for far longer, while the reader is the math lady meme, trying to piece together clues to figure him out).

And ultimately, when in SRQ's PoV in the drama, we have to deal with him being the hero of his own story. He is absolutely sincere about himself and, as has been revealed, in his own way he's sincere about wanting LR and his brother to have a good life this time around.

So does that mean the writer intends to do a swerve in the narrative arc and redeem him in the end? It's totally possible. Maybe?

However, not necessarily.

#1 There is a certain refrain from many of the great cnovel/drama villians: I had no choice! You all forced me to this!

We saw it from Shen Yurong in The Double, we saw it from Meng Yao/JGY in The Untamed, and in the novel (and I presume in the drama), we're gonna see it from Su Rongqing.

And it's the reason why they become villians who can't be saved. Because so many people suffer in life or experience unfairness. But they don't turn around and use this as an excuse to enact horrible cruelties on others.

Out of the billions of people in the world, few have no problems but so many of them actively chose to do good, or are willing at least to turn back and be better.

#2 imo the reason LR has historically been bad at reading people's hearts but has an exquisite read of SRQ, his flaws & darkness, is THAT'S HER FUCKING MOM. And I do think ep 16-18 put that out there in the text, if you're looking for it. He and the empress are the same sophisticated aristocrat who is clever & educated but with a narrow perspective limited by their privilege and desperate need to maintain the status quo. So sorry bro, but no wonder she might have settled for marrying you in the first life if you wanted to, but she was never gonna fall in love with you 💀.

PWX can see that SRQ loves her and he thinks that matters, so it scares him. LR has tender nostalgia for her empress mother and her former companion but she's all too aware that their love for her will not necessarily get in the way of stepping on her to protect the social structure of a powerful aristocracy class operating at a higher level above the peasants and restraining the throne. To them, this is safety and stability that guards the realm.

(ofc both those characters are complex and when it comes to LR's life & death we can't be confident on what they will always choose. that's part of what made all the palace drama aspects of the novel incredibly suspenseful. So many of the suppporting characters are layered and tho everything they do makes sense when it happens, you can't often predict people's hard choices when their back is up against the wall)

Story of Kunning Palace and The Grand Princess say that caring about people and trying your best to understand them, wanting what's best for them by listening to what's best for them, can make a huge difference. But not everyone is willing to change.

[emilyscastlevania]

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Now more than ever, in the next few weeks, the season needs to be watched on official plataforms.

With the return of House of the Dragons at the same time, try to watch it on amc+ during the broadcast, cable users of course. engage a lot on social media. use the hastags, it's very important!

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[cher-horowitz]

i really do believe one of the big parallels this season will be between louis and daniel and of course their inability to remember certain events. i feel like louis asked armand to take away/alter some of his memories after the trial. and perhaps daniel asked for the same thing or he learned too much in the 70s interview and armand stepped in to offer him a blank slate because he was so messed up from said interview….i don’t know….am i making sense? probably not lmao…anyway see y'all may 12th ✌️

[junossay]

Some more love for the letter to the poster of Delainey Hayles fanbook (^^)/

Original:

[hepaidattention]

wait but like an AU where JJs mom never died and he grew up a Kook, friends with the Cameron's, and always wishing he was friends with those Pogues always running around????

we also could say instead of Luke taking him in, Shoupe did, and he grew up as the sheriffs son?????

and him and Kie like hate each other as like Kook rivals?????? because Kie always wants to hang out with the pogues and he doesn't get it???? but secretly he DOES???? but it worries him because they're always getting themselves in trouble

and then one day he gets mixed up with a Kook and Pogue fight but Kie gets dragged into it and tries to stop JJ from beating up John B, and he listens to her because it's Kie.

but Rafe tries to punch John B and Kie gets caught in the cross fire and then JJ gets defensive over Kie, and starts fighting RAFE for JB????

and then John B, Pope, and Kie all thank JJ and start treating him like they kinda like him - they give him a nickname and everything.

and then one day, Sarah's been sneaking around with John B, and JJ accidentally catches them macking at Midsummers???

and Sarah begs him not to tell Topper or Rafe, and he agrees. He likes Sarah, way more than he ever liked Rafe or Topper.

but because he knows their secret she starts trusting him to continue to keep her secrets, and somehow he gets pulled into stuff he didn't ask for.

and then one day he sees Kie and Pope out, so he comes to say hi only to overhear them talking about breaking in somewhere. he follows them, afraid Kies gonna get herself in trouble, only to hear them talk about gold.

and they almost get killed, so he jumps into stop Kie from getting hurt, and now he's apart of the secret too??????

and he didn't know when it happened but somehow he's helping the pogues find a hidden treasure and his new found family is a bunch of crazy pogues he'd do anything to protect????

I NEED this AU. need it.

[nifftydeary]