#all that aside the book was great

[thetimetraveler24]

Over the weekend, my brother and I went to Chicago for the Chalice of the Gods book tour event. We went a day early to spend some time in the city and do touristy things and some guy came up to us. He handed us some pretty neat postcards of the city and started talking about how he was selling them to raise money for poor people. And immediately alarm bells are going off in my head because all I can think about is that scam where they put a bracelet on you and scream and you to pay for it. So I just let him finish his spiel and nicely say we don’t have cash. We gave the postcards back, and left.

I don’t know if it really was a scam or not. I don’t want to look it up because I don’t want to feel shitty if it’s not a scam. But it was so scary to be away from my parents, to be in charge of myself and my brother (as if we aren’t both adults, but he’s still my baby brother) and not know what to do. And it was even scarier because I don’t think my brother knows to look out for anything suspicious because he’s exactly that. My brother. A guy. Whereas I’m not a guy, very obviously female, and I’ve had it pound into me by literally the entire world that I have to keep my head on a swivel or something bad can and will happen to me.

People suck. And they ruin it for people who actually need help and kindness from strangers. And they give me more trust issues than I had before I grew up.

[duriens]

hear me out. Daniel publishes his book - vampires all over the country want to take both him and louis out - Armand (fresh from his divorce with Louis) sweeps in and starts sticking to Daniel like a leech with the excuse that Daniel is in danger and he feels partly responsible (also he lost the object of his obsession desire and he feels lost, purposeless, who is his God now? which God should Amadeo love now?) so he starts acting as sort of a bodyguard ('chase' part of the book); Daniel is annoyed and worried and ill but also can't really have a voice in the matter cause Armand decided for him (Armand takes care of him even when he doesn't or can't) so when rockstar lestat decides to publish a book he goes to the same man who's already published one about vampires and demands for his truth to be heard (yes it becomes a biography and not an autobiography) ((yes it is STILL an interview with a vampire)) (((yes Daniel has once again an important role in psycholanalyzing and humbling these vampires))) and Armand is ofc very much there cause no way he'd leave his fascinating, ill boy alone with Lestat, he needs to take care of him (and once again overseer lestat's version and make sure he doesn't humiliate him utterly, dear God)

also at some point Louis is there cause, it's a reunion, man. at some other point the vampire Sam shows up

[bigcats-birds-and-books]

Books of 2024: THE GREAT CITIES DUOLOGY by N. K. Jemisin.

[highqueenofashandstars]

For anyone who argues that Chaol is not the most relatable character, during the entire duration of Tower of Dawn, I, too, wondered what Dorian was up to.

[dreadfuldevotee]

AMC's Interview with the Vampire is already perfect, but even more perfect when you do not give a fuck about whatever anne rice actually wrote

[puhpandas]

as someone who isnt super excited for sotm for certain reasons I am really glad that like. it's clear that since ruin theyve been setting up for carnival and sotm IS carnival. so now that carnival is finally coming out, afterwards theyll be moving on to other plotlines since the main villain stuff is sorted out

I'm just rlly happy to finally see a clear direction for how the story is gonna be playing out with like "okay these games were leading up to this so after this will be open possibilites" instead of like. absolutely no info about each upcoming game and being left guessing before it releases and just having to wait and see what's in it and if anything you're looking forward to will be in it

it feels like they have a plan and a solid direction for what they're trying to do and after carnival releases thatll be all that buildup coming to fruition. & we already know from the Scott interview that theres another release 'beyond sotm' that's 'super exciting' so maybe thatll be focusing on another big currently untouched (which is basically all of them) plotline, or even the big campaign game that dawko has been calling security breach 2

[aeolianasio]

its sick and fucked up that theres no depiction of the carapace cross anywhere. things with wings is the best ending but theres no iconography to go along with it

YOU

YOU GET IT

[vivacia-18]

I'm about halfway to two thirds through You Feel It Just Below the Ribs, and asdjasdlkajsadjal

The reveals, the implications, I can't even - mentally I'm rolling on the floor frothing at the mouth. I want to go back and listen to season 3 and season 1 all over again, holy shiiiiit

[kinsbluestars]

Ahjjjhhh

[unnonexistence]

i typed out a whole poll post asking people whether i should buy the pacific rim final breach graphic novels thru the kickstarter (which is fully funded but ends soon), because i couldn't decide, but then i checked shipping estimates and the shipping estimate for canada is ONE HUNDRED CANADIAN DOLLARS jesus christ. no. sorry but no.

[inke-ri]

Didn't expect to watch The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes on release day (here anyway idk about the rest of the world), but my final veredict is Maiah Wynne's version of the songs on Youtube still trump everything in the movie by a mile.

[sixofravens-reads]

Indigo book haul arrived today! Life Ceremony and Earthlings are gifts for a friend who I really hope doesn't check this blog whoops and the rest I got because I'm weak and Indigo gave me a bunch of plum points so I got like $20 off my order.

I now have all of Princess Jellyfish! And yet have only read up to book 3, whoops. Somehow comics and manga keep falling by the wayside this year (maybe because I moved my shelf and it's no longer in my direct line of sight all day?) but at least when I get back to it I can read the whole series at once! Also very excited for Know Your Station! Gailey is one of my favourite writers and I can't wait to dig into their comics.

[magentagalaxies]

hey so i'm not making a DNI because i don't want to (i initially had a longer attempt at articulating a reason and then i realized i don't have to explain more than "i don't want to") but the past few blogs that have followed me are very harry pottter focused and given the actions and rhetoric of jk rowling i'd appreciate it if any blogs who prominently post harry potter themed content would kindly refrain from following me.

you can probably still reblog my posts, not bc of my moral stance but bc honestly i don't really notice who reblogs from me unless they have a huge red flag in their url, but in terms of following my blog i'd prefer it if harry potter bloggers could just not

and i know there's always the excuse of separating the art from the artist (like people who continue to post about harry potter but end every post with "fuck jkr tho"), and not everyone even knows why jkr is a horrible person bc a lot of the discussion is very online (that's the reason this is worded so empathetically, i'm assuming harry potter fans who follow me are in either of these two camps but if you're just an outright terf then go fuck yourself of course). but even if you're entirely dedicated to balancing every harry potter post with a post about hating terfs, the fact that harry potter is still being promoted in a way that's uncritical of the content itself makes me uncomfortable and by making the harry potter brand maintain relevance that's still supporting jkr no matter how many times you put "fuck terfs" on your blog

disagree with me if you want bc i can't control whether people post about one of the largest fandoms in history, but i can make a statement being like "hey if you follow me and your most recent posts are all harry potter gifsets i will be blocking you so honestly for your own convenience please don't put in the effort of following me"

[boookfreeak]

if I had a nickel for everytime I've read the sentence "It is a truth universally acknowledged that" in a book, I'd have too many nickels to count, because it has happened too many times to count

[realitys-ex]

One kinda fun/odd bit about Discworld is the place of Jews/Judaism in it (no, this probably won't go where you expect).

So there are the 2 obvious places and one arguably subtle/debatable place:

Feet of Clay/Golems very clearly drawing from Judaism (though in subsequent books that was toned *way* down)

Omnianism is a very clear stand in for/amalgamation of Christianity, Islam, and Judaism (the amount of each is left as an exercise to the reader).

and Lastly / debatably many people find a similarity between the description of the Dwarf religion and Judaism (I am not stating I agree, just I would have been remiss if I didn't bring it up)

Now the one thing that kinda gets forgotten is that: Judaism as a whole independent religion is somewhat confirmed in Discworld leaving arguments about the above somewhat moot! (you can't have a stand in for a religion if you already have the religion itself).

In both Feet of Clay and Fifth Elephant it mentions Vampires working at Kosher Butchers (for those unaware blood is not kosher so it needs to be drained extra well from meat, a perfect job for a vampire).

Now what does that actually imply? Absolutely nothing.

PTerry often had off the cuff jokes, as well as mucked about with continuity (remember how Trolls originally would continue to grow until they died, and could get up to the size of a small mountain, which only came up in one of the early books and was ignored in the rest?) and (I am sure) just liked that joke and did not intend to imply any theological ramifications or serious world building from it.

But dammit, it is (to me) incredibly funny to step into a (semi) serious discussion about Judaism in Discworld and completely derail it with a throw away line.

[acreaturecalledgreed]

left a comment in this post saying that asking for a plot description isnt the same thing as demanding ppl decenter the queerness of their story and thats bot accusing them of "pandering"

that we'd love queer centered stories we literally just want a plot description

and got blocked