#and Matador ofc

[i-just-like-games]

THE TAGS YOU LEFT ON MY VEGARYUKEN POST MADE ME SO SO SO HAPPY THANK YOU... YOU UNDERSTAND THEM AND YOU UNDERSTAND VEGA.... They make me so unwell.... Vega deserves love and happiness and I know in my heart ryu and ken can give him that....

Omg thank youuuuu!!!!

I played street fighter games w my family as a kid but didn't really get into the story until this year. Vega was my sister's main as a kid and became my fav when I looked into his backstory. He's just sooooooooo .

I think your post rewired something in my brain, because before, I def appreciated the tragedy of his past, but I never considered how a healing arc could go for him. Just couldn't picture it. But Ryu and Ken are PERFECT for this and maybe the only ones to say 'I could fix him' and succeed. And I think he adds something to their dynamic as well.

[solzticesoulz]

Omg I hyperfixiatate on stories TOO MUCH WHEN IT COMES TO VAMPS.. ANYWAY..

Guest(listener oc, in my head) Shes columbian-american, a party gal and supposed to start her modeling career but ofc things happened.

And uhhh I added matador gothic ocs too for funsies🔥

@escapedaudios

[thisispoggers]

Heyyyy! I've got fandom questions for yaaaaa

1) What is the best season of Supa Strikas for you?

2) What team in the Supa Strikas Universe would you play for?

3) Any headcanons?

OOOOOOHHH QUESTIONS FOR MOI??

1. Best Season?

Season 1 is my favourite as it is my literal start to the series! But when it comes to best season then I’d say Season 6 cuz they got bangers, El Life is my favourite of that season cuz El Matador is far too funny and I just love him sm

2. What team would you play for?

None cuz I’m not athletic and I trip on thin air I’d probably go for either Technicalli or Orion cuz I get to have access to tech cuz I’m a player?? Hell yeah!

3. Headcanons?

K so

Jomo is still alive and kicking (HEHEHEHEH pls laugh I’m funny) but he kept up a lie so Vince doesn’t actually know his true whereabouts (and plotting something too idk) (I need more Jomo Lore istg)

Shakes learns a couple other languages cuz Brislovian took him down a rabbit hole and now he knows a bit of Spanish and Japanese (Tiger helped!)

El Matador hosts Guy’s Nights at his place where he would spill the latest gossip and force everyone to have an everything spa day cuz in the off-season he’s so done with bunking with them and having to deal with the STENCH of the room cuz istg these guys don’t even have extra socks and still kept using the same pair for practice and on the game

Blok knows how to sew cuz he would repair his plushies and he would sometimes make quilts and other handmade stuff for the team

Rasta has a small personal library that he stores books he collected over the years, he reads in his free time and often recommends his favourites to the rest of the team

North Shaw takes the guys out camping whenever they got the time and often times it ends up in disaster either cuz El Matador is trying to escape to civilisation and got lost or North tried to climb the tallest tree and almost fell

Cool Joe hosts karaoke nights at his place (or plan with Rasta!) and would have to fight off Klaus and El Matador off the microphone cuz those two suck at singing but they always hog the machine

Tiger sometimes talks with the Nakama Team during off-season (behind Ura Giri’s back ofc) cuz he reconciled with them after the entire “Between Friends” incident, him and Miko chat more often tho

Big Bo won prettiest Supa Strikas Member in an online poll and he sometimes jokes about it to El Matador (he doesn’t care that much cuz he finds it funny but El Matador was salty about coming in 3rd)

Klaus often talks Shakes’s ear out about his nerd findings and somehow Shakes can keep up with him cuz he also knows the lingo (he also knows how to bake!)

[ravers8fantasy]

🥀Don flamenco head canon's🌹

Yes even tho he's an opp im gonna give him a chance:

- started boxing around 20 (hes 23)

-before boxing he was just a bullfighter, and didnt become a matador until he was older (the title matador is given to a bullfighter who has killed a mature bull correct me if im wrong chat😭)

- Carmen is a flamenco dancer and they bonded over their love for the dance

- before Don sleeps he keeps his toupee (wig thing which btw is the wrong shade of brown) in a locked box out of fear someone steals it

- sometimes smells like roses, sometimes smells like sandalwood, sometimes smells like 2 cans of hairspray with a light hint of hair gel on top

- ugly cried in the locker room toilets after little mac thunder cunted his toupee of his bald head

- keeps a collection of all the sports magazines where he has appeared on the front cover and looks at them when hes feeling sad (either that or he goes to carmen for comfort)

- much to his suprise Carmen actually loves his forehead, and whenever he feels insecure about it she tells him that theres more space to leave forehead kisses which always picks his mood up

- on multiple occasion's has had to search the locker rooms for his wig due to Aran hiding it

- has caught Disco trying on the wig and Mac taking pictures to which he corrected the placement of it on Disco's head and told Mac to take the photo at a better angle

- he has great sportsmanship and sees the boxers as different people outside the ring (although for mac, not so much, not after he sent his wig went flying)

- tried to play guitar one time for Carmen but split his nail somehow and vowed never to play again

- has a horror movie worth scream and isnt afraid to use it as an SOS alarm whenever aran comes near him in the locker rooms

- does club and club's hard because ofc he knows how to dance

- his favourite animal is a lion, he takes pride in himself like one too

- patriotic af will defend the art of bullfighting till he dies

- has bad eyesight so he asked carmen to wear an outfit which makes her stand out against the crowd when she watches his matches

- poked himself in the eye and started tweaking on the floor whilst trying to do guyliner before the rematch against mac

- bro got whiplash after seeing the portion sizes of food and well the size of america in general

- snores. One time the major circuit had a sleep over together and he blamed bear hugger for the loud snoring everyone heard during the night because he was embarrased to admit

- dramatic af and although he says he is trust worthy he defo snitches on the boxers he doesnt like (he gasps and pretends he said nothing when meanwhile super macho man is fighting for his life against the paparazzi asking him if he's lying about his age)

OK THATS ALL THANK YOU🤓

[inchidentally]

sorry this is so dumb to do but I feel insane about this charlos fan art it's so so so much

El Matador ripping the flag that shields Ferrari's legacy and literal "show pony" as the title says. the flag replacing the red rag to the bull. the Matador and the bull being one and the same - a graceful strategist and a rampaging beast half blind with rage. 'gagged' and 'strongarmed' to Charles by the bit in his mouth that also looks like a neck training harness. the sheen of tears or sweat beneath his eyes. dressed in Spanish red opposite Charles' funereal black, dipped red in the Matador's blood. the dance of their figures where each is pulling in the opposite direction (oh failed team strategy). the sword bisecting them in a way that it appears Charles is blindly thrusting the sword into his own stomach, especially the way his body twists/writhes. and how it pierces Carlos with so much force that it thrusts his chest out but he looks determinedly forward. but it also connects them and binds them by blood/suffering ?? g o d

and ofc the F U is so good - and my nerd friend says it could also represent 'fugit' meaning 'flees' or 'flies' as in someone trying to escape or someone speeding away. and that could represent either of them tbh.

[murfpersonalblog]

Hello! I have been engaging in your analysis recently and I am satisfied by how thorough and sourced they are. I have been thinking about the possible parallel between Gabrielle and Louis of late and I was wondering if you think anything about it being possibly explored in the show. Gabrielle is masc presenting so I wonder if Louis' feminity will also be explored. There's so much I'm wondering!

Omg thanks so much for asking, and thanks for liking my stuff @timotheeronan! Tuck yourself in for a long AF post, cuz I've been wanting to get things off my chest about Gabrielle for a while (X X).

I FULLY expect S3 to make parallels between Gabrielle & Louis, yes. Their complex power dynamics with Lestat as Mother/Son, Fledgling/Maker are interwoven with their roles as spouses: Gabrielle as the Marquis' literal unhappy housewife AND Les' temporary Blood Spouse; and Louis as Lestat's metaphorical "unhappy housewife" and endgame Blood Spouse; and the ways they BOTH broke away from this to forge their own identities separate/free from him; "I'm companion enough for myself now."

On top of this, there's the CRUCIAL exploration of gender expression Gabrielle goes through. Gabrielle is so iconic, as someone I've seen over the decades labelled as everything from a feminist icon to masc presenting to GNC to nonbinary to trans to etc etc. It HAS to happen, I'd be shocked & appalled if it doesn't. Esp. considering how Les reacts (both positively AND negatively), wrt those aforementioned socio-gendered power dynamics & roles.

Cuz like I've BEEN stressing wrt Les' Matador pjs & Mardi Gras dress (X X); and Louis' power suits & cardigans: clothes are just ONE aspect of a larger societal framework these characters are operating under (x x x x). There's a "visual hierarchy of power" Carol Cutshall describes, where clothes reflect MORE than just gender expression, but also reflect power: agency/autonomy/freedom, or the lack thereof. Gab's masculine presentation goes farther than just her outward appearance on the surface. Deeper, there's what it says about how she felt about her her immediate relationship with Lestat, and her broader treatment & place in her family, and the world at large. Clothes can be a form of resistance; a power move.

So if S3's take on TVL goes the direction I hope/think it will, Lestat's Redemption Tour will be part defensive/reflective, as he deals with his repressed traumas and the many wrongs done to him; but also the many wrongs he's done to others: Louis & Gabrielle (and ofc Claudia & Nicki).

Cuz contrary to what braindead fans/stans lead people to believe, AMC's adaptation is 100% about the cycles of abuse & trauma; and how power imbalances between vampires are merely a reflection of IRL social inequality due to things like class, race, and gender; which vampires just DELUDE themselves into thinking they're above; but meanwhile can't help but perpetuate--cuz they ARE still human.

Whatever this "documentary/tour" manifests as, Les is gonna have to be confronted with the ways that his actions in the past impacted his actions in the present; so that Les realizes he needs to course-correct in the future, to become a better person/monster/vampire "WORTHY of Louis' love" and forgiveness.

But he also has to reconcile with his mother; when Gabrielle finally reappears after ~200 years of deliberate radio silence (x x). She follows him on his tour when he pisses off the vampires of the world & they try to kill him (& Lou) for blabbing about their secrets.

In QotD, Les, Lou & Gabe share close quarters with one another for Les' tour. When he's is kidnapped by Akasha, Lou & Gab team up together as they grieve his absence & wait/hope for Les' return, forming their own bond.

So I'd bet Monopoly dollars that AMC's take on TVL & QotD will be an effing circus full of funhouse mirrors being held up to their faces, as they all see aspects of themselves (reflections of the past repeating itself) in each other. It's gonna bring up uncomfortable truths; but help them all better understand/realize WHY Les is drawn to Gab & Lou and loves them so much, but also where he went wrong with both of them; and where they went wrong with him, too.

And it all boils down to Family vs Freedom.

Les' oppressive nature come from his overwhelming outpouring of love. Lovebombing is his love language; overcompensating for how he felt insecure & inadequate & ashamed. He wants what's best for his loves, but he also thinks he KNOWS what's best for them, too. He hated being poor country-nobility, broke as a joke in that crumbling chateau. He was ashamed. When faced with the horrific reality of his mother dying, his grief's wrapped up in wondering about the things she'd wanted, & fantasizing about the all things he'd wanted for her.

Cuz their relationship, as strained as it was, was marked with "grand and loving gestures" of GIFT-giving.

Les saved both Gab & Lou's life when he Turned them. Lou was suicidal (& no doubt careening towards alcohol poisoning); while Gab was dying of consumption. The Dark Gift is his ultimate show of love for those Les turns, his way of saying: I love you, I want you to live forever, and I wanna live WITH you forever, "be my companion;" we can keep each other company forever. But because vampirism is damned/cursed, the gift comes at the price of him potentially losing them anyway--cuz vampirism gives them power, and ultimately: freedom. (Hence: Les' abandonment issues.)

For Gabrielle, an 18th-century woman trapped in that awful chateau with that awful abusive husband raising awful abusive sons, books were her escape from reality; and her library was her nest/shelter.

We don't get much of Gab's POV/thoughts, but Anne Rice talked at length about how books & stories & writing were her outlet/escape; her Dreamworld when she was lonely/depressed/grieving/etc.

"Sometime in that year when seven-year-old Alice was gone for hours every day, my personal dreamworld was born, the detailed and complex paracosm in which I started to live the major portion of every day with my own secretly imagined characters. I know for certain that the dreamworld was in full swing by the time I was eight, and had been with me “forever.” And several of the characters who peopled that dreamworld then in 1949 are still with me today in a vivid cast of thousands.".... "Now and then I abandon the ancient dreamworld. But I have never since 2005 abandoned the primal dreamworld, the most important one, the one born to me when I was a little girl, the one that existed from the 1940s up through the early 1990s without interruption, and that is with me now every day. I myself am not in this dreamworld. There is no place in it for someone like me. I’ve had fantasies of actually discovering it, or being somehow transported to it, but I play no role in it whatsoever. I watch and listen and inhabit its various characters individually, just as I do characters in my books.... "Before I draw the obvious comparison between this dreamworld and the world of the Vampire Chronicles, I want to make several specific points about the dreamworld...." -- Anne Rice: Alphabettery

Gabrielle H A T E D being jailed/cooped up that chateau as much as Les did--heck, she likely hated it even MORE; cuz unlike her son (a MAN free to go out and hunt & act & preach--if his father let him, ofc), a WOMAN/"tradwife" was to be seen not heard.

Some of the only times she really makes herself heard--exerting her limited agency/autonomy/freedom--is when she's FIGHTING Les' FATHER the Marquis, to DEFEND HER CHILD's agency/autonomy/freedom (the Mama Bear to Lou's Papa Bear with Claudia (x x)).

Cuz ironically, SHE was the breadwinner in the family--it was HER dowry money that financed everything, when the shiftless de Lioncourts went broke generations ago. (And we see the same family dynamic with Louis' family, where Papa DPDL ran the estate into bankruptcy, and Levi Freniere mooched off of Grace--how "tradwives" had to become independent & self-sustaining & break social norms & become the surrogate head of the household when the patriarch let them down; and how that affected Lou's struggle for self-worth when it was left to him to become the (reluctant) man of the family--it's a VERY familiar scene fort Les, and another reason why he felt akin to Louis. But (as usual) Lou FAILS where Gabrielle succeeds--he loses the Azalea, and becomes a cripple after getting dropped 2km from the sky; so Claudia becomes HIS mother, defending him from THEIR p.o.s. patriarch, Lestat; exerting her own limited agency--but pressuring Lou to do the same (the Murder Plot).)

She squirrels her jewels under her pillows, withholding her money so the Marquis & her sons don't BLOW it all; withholds her knowledge/literacy cuz they don't value/respect it; withholds her affections cuz they HAVE blown it. Gab's outnumbered in that medieval castle stuffed to the gills with toxic masculinity; she hates her husband; pumps out sons he raised to disrespect & ignore her; is isolated in the middle-of-nowhere Auvergne; & depressed AF. She resented her life; and comforted herself with books. She loved Les the most, but she kept him at arms length too. Les loved his mother the most, but he resented her, too.

I see so many posts about how "selfish" Gab is, and I'm like this is the same exact nasty AF attitude people have against AMC!Lou. They're DEPRESSED, ffs! The same women online who go on & on about feminism & misogyny & female autonomy/agency & how men don't understand/respect postpartum depression and battered-wife syndrome; and then look at Gabrielle AND Louis like they've got two heads just cuz they don't kiss blorbo Lestat's arse 24/7, like wtF????

YES, depression can express itself as petty spite & meanness/coldness & resentful hostility. Gab never taught Les how to read, cuz the books were her comfort/escape FROM motherhood/reality; just like Lou's books were his comfort/escape FROM vampirism/reality (read: violence/homosexuality/marriage/Lestat). It's an ANNE RICE self-insert about her lifelong "Dreamworld"--ALL of her characters represent parts of herself at different times in her life.

They're UNHAPPY, and only find pleasure in the fantasy of stories--ofc Gab wouldn't want Les intruding on her Me Time by teaching him how to read--esp. when Les could be sent to the church to learn instead--which he was. (Unfortunately, his father only wanted him there long enough to learn the basics, not to commit himself to the church as a priest.)

Art imitates life--fantasy tv shows about vampires included. Les' behavior is PATENTLY familiar, and I fully expect S3 will mirror plenty of celebrity scandals involving IPV--Chris Brown's Apology Tour to the press immediately comes to mind, after he beat the breaks off of Rihanna. There are countless IRL cases where battered/abused/depressed women are negligent to their kids; and those kids grow up to be abusive to their own partners & families:

"Rocky was...high-strung, jittery. Energetic. (His family describes him slightly differently, as quiet and sometimes devious, also on the shy side.) Before he shot himself [and his wife Michelle Monson Mosure, and their 3 kids in 2001]...he’d written a message on his arms. No one was meant to see it, and no one can exactly remember what it said. Something like 'I deserve to go to hell.'" "Rocky was quiet...troubled, rebellious, but he loved the outdoors. Fishing, camping...the outdoor stuff, the quiet, even his real name, Gordon, he shared with his father. The nickname had come from his dad when Rocky was a baby, a tribute to the boxer Rocky Marciano. Gordon and his first wife, Linda, had three kids, of whom Rocky was the eldest.... When they divorced, Linda gave him full custody of all three kids.... [Gordon] had met someone at work pretty quickly after he and Linda separated: Sarah.... Although the kids had always had some trouble with school, after the move Gordon and Sarah discovered the kids were further behind than they’d realized, and though they hired tutors, the kids remained behind. None of them wound up graduating. Gordon claims that Linda planted the kids in front of the television or dragged them around with her wherever she went during the day, shopping or whatever. “Instead of teaching them ABCs and all this, they hadn’t gotten any of that,” Gordon says. When I spoke with Linda she remembered things differently, of course.... Rocky was in trouble after the move almost immediately.... By seventh grade, Sarah and Gordon knew Rocky needed help. They sent him to Pine Hills, the home for troubled boys.... In a family counseling session once, the therapist asked Rocky if he was sad his mother had left, and he said...'Yeah, it was better after she was gone because then we got to hang out with [Dad] more, but not have the big fighting between them.'" -- No Visible Bruises: What We Don't Know About Domestic Violence Can Kill Us, by Rachel Louise Snyder

-- Letellier & Island: Men Who Beat the Men Who Love Them: Battered Gay Men and Domestic Violence

Lestans keep acting like he's called an abuser out of thin frikkin air; that there are no parallels b/t Loustat's dynamic and IRL cases; and that Les's above censure just cuz he's nicer in the later books. Yeah he gets better--cuz he got REJECTED by Gabrielle/Nicki/Louis, BESTED by Claudia, HUMBLED by Akasha, DUPED by Raglan, TORTURED by Memnoch, and CHALLENGED by Rhoshamandes! Les LITERALLY went to Hell, for crissakes!

(x x)

Les pulled ish on Lou that he would NEVER pull on Gab, specifically BECAUSE she's his MOTHER. Les had a HARD time divorcing that image from his mind, even when he reveled in the power vampirism gave them to be free, and live the lives they'd always dreamed of back at the chateau.

Even when he knew she was The Vampire Gabrielle, and he was her Maker/companion/paramour, he held onto that image of her as his mother--"my mother's boy, my mother's man" (a la the pilot script).

The Vampire Gabrielle fully embraced her new identity; being an apex predator (better than even Les did; she's a BAMF), shedding all human attachments & trivialities (the social constructs of long hair & dresses; morals & mores alike). But that came at the cost of her shedding her her motherly role too. She was finally TRIUMPHANT: POWERFUL & FREE, and she dressed accordingly: as a man, with all of the societal affordances, liberties & freedoms that entailed.

(Gabrielle & Nicki & Louis are even tied together through Paris' Ile Saint Louis, where Nickistat lived & loved; and where Les turned Gabrielle.)

Patriarchal male privilege and vampiric gendered liberation for Gab works similarly but differently/separate but equal than it does for AMC!Louis, not just cuz of his sexuality, but esp. cuz of his race. As usual, Gab triumphs where Lou fails. Although he IS a man, he's a gay BLACK man, which put him even lower on the racist/sexist social hierarchical pyramid than a white woman (Gab included). From slavery times (Gab) to Jim Crow (Lou) down to the Civil Rights Movement, the youngest white girl (called "Miss") had more rights than the oldest Black man (called "boy"). For all Les' promises that he & his fledglings would be "equals in the quiet dark," white male Les was the ONLY one with rights over BOTH of them--as such, they're both on similar levels in Coven Master Lestat's household; even when they tried to exert their own autonomy. (The same holds true for Lou & Claudia, ALSO put on the same level.)

Les was just as conflicted with book!Gab's newfound freedom & choice of victims as he was with AMC!Lou's, for opposite but similar reasons, all boiling down to how HE thought his fledglings should act. On one hand he encouraged embracing vampiric nature, while on the other hand wanting to curb their killing to fit human laws he swore didn't matter anymore, like wtf--am I a lion(court) or a housecat? He was a pisspoor teacher to Gab AND Lou (and yet people wanna point the finger at Gab & Lou for leaving him, or blame megaladon!Armand for taking advantage of Lou' & Claudia's ignorance, like HUH?!?)

[EDITED TO ADD:] Lou & Gab are both oppressed by societal/gendered expectations. For Gabrielle, tradwife domesticity/femininity was her performance, her CAGE/JAIL. The masculine ideal for her was being someone like Wolfkiller Lestat: a macho hunter, slaying dangerous animals in the wilderness, dressed in men's clothes with her hair cropped short; not being called "Mother" anymore or having to raise kids & deal with her psycho husband.

[EDITED TO ADD:] But that macho-masculinity was performance for Lou ("Did I WANT to pull a knife on my brother? NO."). He was a "rougher thing, then," passing as straight, and it made him miserable. He wanted a completely opposite life (the domesticity of being boo'd up at home with his man, always dressed in cardigans, "smothering" his daughter Claudia, and just being a homemaker)--but what is the opposite of masculinity but femininity? What's the opposite of a businessman but a tradwife (the feminine ideal pre-feminism)? How can his pride/life as a Black man tryna be respected in a white world survive without nosey white women like Antoinette & homophobic white cops always asking about his 1 bed upstairs? For Lou, domesticity/"femininity" was FREEDOM--until Les took advantage of Lou's vulnerability and the townhouse became his CAGE/JAIL; and he became just as miserable as Gabrielle was--cycles cycling.

And unlike Gabrielle de Lioncourt, who had the honor of being Les' biological mother/maker/creator (the one who knew everything about him), with the almost sacred idea(l) of her in his head as his childhood champion/savior that allowed him to defer to her and accept her wanting to do & go her own way, even as he clung to the idea(l) of his "Mother" that made him resent her abandoning him (again); Louis had no such privilege.

Les was HIS Maker--"I put you on this earth." "I chose you!" Lou was CREATED to be Les' person: his bespoke companion; groomed & Vegas Married to not know a thing about Les' past/nature that Les didn't want him to know; seduced to love the monster first (not the man). Les expected Lou to be happy; not reject Les/vampirism & read books at home rather than go on sexcapades & killing sprees; ashamed of his true nature full of "self-loathing" he projected at Les.

Even when Lou was too weak & hungry to have sex, he still spent his time reading; and cuz Les can't read his mind, it's the best way to shut out everything and focus on his fantasy rather than his body's needs, let alone Les' emotional needs. He gets so much worse during the Great Depression, when Claudia's gone & he's given up all pretenses that he's anything but the "unhappy housewife;" and Les gives up the pretenses of not resenting Lou for "not honoring the Blood [read: ME] as he should." Hence: Ep5; "crushing what you cannot own;" and Les pissing all over Lou's name & reputation in the Trial; as abusers often blame their victims, or outright lie to make them seem crazy, evil, or abusive.

Thankfully, Les has already come face to face with how effed up the Trial was, and how badly his participation in the Trial/smear campaign hurt Lou's feelings; "Come to Me!? Those were HIS words! F-- you!"

So while I fully expect S3 Les to emphasize his own childhood traumas & abuse, and while I fear Gabrielle will carry the lion's share of censure in Les' POV (and in the fandom) for abandoning him, hopefully Les doesn't do what many abusers do and make it all about him and his man-pain. Hopefully he's candid about how Gab was wronged too (by his p.o.s. dad & brothers, AND he himself); and that his resentments towards Gabrielle bled into his resentments towards Louis. But I ALSO expect Les to still have self-improvement to do--TVL/QotD is NOT where he pivots from being an a-hole to a saint; he does some ATROCIOUS stuff in those books, and in TotBT.

The Prince Lestat trilogy is Les's final redemption arc, his pride humbled & then rewarded--and even then he's still a work-in-progress ("I'm, a lot, I'm not perfect").

Lou (& Claudia) emancipated themselves from Massa Lestat after the Murder Plot (or at least, Lou tries to--Loustat canonical endgame, after all). But they only get back together after a long period of on/off stints, as Les gradually figured out how to be a normal effing person for once; and how to respect Lou's agency/autonomy/freedom.

Likewise, his relationship with Gabrielle also vastly "improves," as she, like Lou in PLAtRoA, finally decides to live with Les at the renovated Chateau de Lioncourt; letting go of the past to build something new.

But he STILL can't help but revert to treating her like his bride/wife, doll, and mother, all in one (until she gets sick of it, ofc, LOL).

At Prince Les' celebratory Winter Solstice fete in BC, Gab dresses to the nines as the belle of the ball to please him, as Queen Mother of his Vampire Court; just as Lou's his Prince Consort/Blood Spouse. Les gets everything he ever wanted, his happily ever after, and AR tries to make you feel he "earned" their forgiveness, but YMMV.

TL;DR:

Regardless of what Gab presents as externally, or the way she WANTS to be treated; the way Lestat TREATS her is consistent with the way HE thinks it is appropriate for her to be treated BY him--same with Louis. Gender/sexuality/race be darned--Les "wins" by virtue of being the white cis male protagonist & hero of TVC. 🙄

So yeah, I expect/hope S3 will show a lot of subtle/nuanced parallels & even explicit intersections b/t Gabrielle & Lou. But I don't expect them to dump it on us all at once, cuz this process of accountability, forgiveness & acceptance is protracted over the entire length of TVC, all the way to the very last book.

Hope my long AF rambling & tangents answered your question even a little bit, omfg. 🤦😅

[trans-luis-serra-navarro]

OK GOOOOOOOO READ THIS POST FIRST I WAS TRYING TO REBLOG IT BUT TUMBLR WOULDNY LET ME ADD ANY MORE PHOTOS OR TAG ANYMORE PEOPLE CUZ IM USING THIS POST AS A JUMPING OFF POINT!!!!!!! GO FOLLOW @theprestigegirly AND @cloverisnonexistantbro !!!!!!!!!

I had @void-detective ask me a few days ago if the ornaments on Luis’ jacket had any particular meaning and as with everything I fell down,,,,,, one hell of a rabbit hole HDNWHWNEHDNX

So, first off; I couldn’t find any super definitive answer to what was on his jacket but I have some pretty good theories!!!!!!!

@vespereargentum and their friend on Twitter helped point out to me that the floral designs are really reminiscent of old Spanish Renaissance furniture and like yeah!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I mean look at it!!!!!!!!

These photos aren’t very good but you get the gist!!!!!!!

Why would Capcom put visual designs from FURNIATURE onto clothing I have no clue, but considering the fact that almost every single detail of Luis’ character down to the damn rings are extremely purposeful I’m sure we could pick up some pieces!!!!!

It also kinda makes sense, like,,, character wise too y’know- Valdelobos was a glorified Catholic cult and obviously they kept a very old-fashioned mindset so visuals-wise it makes sense!!!!!

@ 11cool also pointed out that his jacket has a lot of similar motifs to Matadors and Traje De Luces which they have their own post you can check out if you wanna!!!!!!!! Ofc there brings up the whole issue of y’know, Bad spanish stereotypes and bullfighting etc etc but this whole post is just throwing stuff at the wall in complete honesty!!!!!

And like the og post and @cloverisnonexistantbro said there’s a not for none Chance that the designers were trying to play into abstract windmill motifs would would be super cool!!!!!

@theprestigegirly and @kaychen666 were also kind enough to point out that the flowers on his jacket kinda look like poppies!!!!!!

And I think most people already know that poppies are a pretty common symbol for death (especially after war which I’ll touch on in a second) which. Y’know. Would be just SUCH A FUN AND SILLY DETAIL if true HAHDHENDHSJ

And like the og already has put so eloquently there are just,,,,,, S O many lil design elements of Luis’ that are so perfectly purposeful,,,;,,,… down to the fact that Luis has a gun from WWI (Realistically probably passed down from hsi grandfather, who would have probably had to have lived through Spanish civil wars (yayyyyy we love generational trauma yippeee another thing to add onto Luis amirite /lh)) and down to the fricken rings he wears and what fingers he wears them on!!!!!! (One of the rings for instance is of the Virgin Mary and it’s supposedly said that wearing a ring on the fingers Luis does symbolises leadership and compassion etc etc etc Yknow ring logic HDBEHEBXHX)

So like idk!!!!!!!! If anyone who actually has knowledge of Spanish culture wants to chip in PLEASE PLEASE DO!!!!!!! I’m the whitest Mf on planet earth there’s only so much justice I can give Luis BSNDHENDJSNSJ

Tl;dr: until Capcom or somebody whose more of a professional in this field outright explains what little design details like that mean for certain I’m just throwing stuff at the wall and letting people see it HDHEHEJEID

[archivedjuice]

Top 5 DD rogues 🫵

FUCK

i dont remember his name but he's like yellow kilgrave purple man but soooo much more fun. he has ONE issue in v1

le matador. come BACK TO MEEEEEE. istg if they make his character from a less racist pov he could be so cool

muse ofc

bullseye. my boy bullseye

stilt man. i love his costume and the fact that his first course of action when finding out his secret identity was not to try and kill matt. no no. he tries to sue him

game: put 'top 5' anything in my ask and i will answer ok go

[angeart]

Grian has long hair as a butter cup right

And scar had long hair in like. Season 8 I think I forgor

boom scar helping Grian take care of his hair and stuff

YES. absolutely.

(scar had long hair at the start of s9, elven ("matador") scar <3)

grian is growing his hair out, but he doesn't know the first thing about proper hair care for his new length. scar is right there, by his side, ready to assist. excitedly, he explains everything to grian, shoves products at him (natural ones, ofc, just what he knows from his elven days) and just generally helps him take care of his hair.

sometimes, when grian allows, scar braids his hair.

sometimes he braids flowers into grian's hair.

(it's the best thing ever okay)

-

this is also making me think of our buttercats au and scar and mumbo helping grian take care of his fur (he's very fluffy) (and mildly traumatised-)

these things are so precious.

[oshimaoshimaoshima]

when u get this, list 5 songs u like to listen to, publish. then, send this ask to 10 of your favorite followers (no pressure ofc)

Thank you for the ask dear!! It’s a bit hard choosing since my music taste is all over the place. 🧙🏼‍♂️

Bloomer- HOA (UNDERRATED BAND, it’s like Korean The Beatles [ive never listen to the beatles] but shhhh only oshimanation gets to know this band since I like gatekeeping..)

New Soul City- Dixies Tantas (another underrated band but it’s between me and oshimanation only. 🙏)

A night to remember- laufey and beadoobee (I cried listening to it for the first time shit was that good.)

Mary’s theme- Stelvio Cripriani (honorable mention is Femina Ridens by the same composer!!)

Matador- Butterbones (I love feeling like a depressed nicotine addict 28 yr man on a train whenever I listen to it.)

I’m gonna add Heavens and Once More to See You by Mitski here too cuz it’s a crime to me to NOT atleast habe a Mitski Song in here I DONT MAKE THE RULES.

I FORGOT TO ADD KUSHU BURANKO BY PLASTIC TREE ITS ONE OF MY FAVS TOO. 😭😭😭

[eggbagelz]

@hairasuntouchedaspartoftheamazon OH WELL IF YOU INSIST!

Theres a few reasons behind the matador jacket, part of it is the idea of a bullfight being a "dance of death", the concept of a glorious battle leading to a noble death, and the idea of fighting as an artform. Orwell, as a zonerunner, feels a sort of kinship with the bull, as something bred and trained to fight until its last breath before being executed. Bc life in the zones is a constant life or death situation, the idea of a sport that's extremely bloody and that results in a death that's considered to be noble would obviously have a lot of meaning [and thats ofc without the fact that orwell is mexican american and finds double the personal significance in "being the bull" so to speak].

His epaulets, as mentioned on the og post, say "die bravely, live furiously" which is like. The idea of fighting till your last breath, but also living as an act of rebellion in of itself. If you die in a fight you become a martyr, but while you live you have to continue to fight for what you know is right

The jacket's embroidered with marigolds [associated w death and the brevity of life, and another tie to his heritage] and has the mask of the phoenix witch [the at the time a sort of quiet myth abt a death like figure] on it, and finally punking it out w spikes and patches falls into the whole "would you destroy something perfect in order to make it beautiful" ideology of the zones

[mamadarama]

https://www.tumblr.com/mamadarama/754734633405595648/hi-question-do-we-have-a-name-for?source=share

that sounds perfect! I'm pretty sure there is a whole entire circus inside wataru's hair of you try to open it like a curtain. he might even invite his roommates to work there, like, coraline style. I can totally see mama being a matador, while sora cuts subaru in hald with some sparkly chainsaw and subaru just giggles the whole time.

LMAO YEAH that checks out, he already keeps doves in his hair. i briefly thought abt the four of them being in a circus before when i thought of the name.... madara was a daredevil*, subaru was the ringleader, wataru was a clown (ofc) and sora was an acrobat :D man now i wanna draw that .....

also wataru actually did cut sora in half for a magic trick once !!! shu cried in public .

* sword swallowing, motorcycle cage, ring of fire, etc

[skitskatdacat63]

Hi Catie!

Fake Amnesia, for the Vettonso ask game 😄

Hellooooo!!

So ofc when you say amnesia as relating to Fernando, I can't help but think of the time where he, supposedly, actually got amnesia. I can totally imagine him just abusing this as an excuse all the time to Seb. Like "you won championships??? Wow that's shocking. Sry it's the amnesia yknow." And saying shit like "Well I lost the memory in the amnesia, surely it couldn't have been that important 🥱" Pretending his memory is very fragile, and Seb can't ever bring up his championships bcs it'll hurt Fernando to much to hear he's lost sjfkfkf

I think in every AU, he had the electrocution amnesia like in real life, but like in real life in goes away pretty quick, but ofc he doesn't reveal that. In boy king au he falls off a horse, and keeps conveniently "forgetting" just how he became king, and starts bragging to Seb. I think he would use this as a way to kinda cut himself loose from being so rigid actually. Pretend he's forgotten all the bad times, and he's free to be his young self again. In matador au I think he has genuine amnesia after getting gored by a bull, and momentarily remembers what it was like when Seb was his assistant. So he uses this, and in boy king au, as a way to be free to be kind again, freed from the shackles of self awareness. Yea, he knows he doesn't have amnesia, but others don't, so he's free to be as open as he wants without consequences, because everyone is just going to think he's being loopy. Though I'm dying at the thought of him accidentally saying something super sappy, and he's like, whoospies it's just the old amnesia kicking in, I forgot where I was-

[docmbrainrotz]

x3 First post and it's gonna be

Docm77 and Scar chaos ofc

Wip of a project Im doing + idea for rp request

Doc drew in a deep breath, feeling his eye water as he did so.

Oh, god no. God no no no no.

Raising his hands to his head, all he could do was stand with his mouth open. His fingertips dug through his hair, digging into his skin.

His tomato garden blazed in a violent inferno, he didn't even know if there was anything to salvage- He was a scientist- He could break reality but he couldn't fix this. "What did you DO?" He whipped his hand around, grabbing that fucking matador-mattress-elf?? hot guy by their shoulders.

*Scar stumbled over his words, but all Doc could do was shake them. Standing over the man, it took everything to keep Doc from snapping.* "You used Flaming arrows? FLAMING ARROWS? You ruined my Garden! I've spent years on this!"

"I-I can fix it, I have a water bu-"

"WHAT is a Water Bucket going to do against this?"

Doc's words became exasperated as he stepped back, clutching his head. Pulling at his hair, he felt himself hyperventilating. At this point, he was choking from how sharps his breath had gotten. No no, those fucking pesky birds- That hot guy had ruined his deepest passion: Sure, he had tomatoes growing scattered around: On his flagpole, in the Hall of Goat, but this had many different breeds, cucumbers, onions, carrots. He didn't mind initially when Scar tried to surprise him with their arrows, but how could he be so fucking careless?? Without even realizing, in the dry heat of the edge of the perimeter, the firey arrow had nestled itself into the thick veins of his golden cherry tomatos.. A small flame quickly consumed the wilting leaves and wooden frames.

"I-I.. iM .. Im so sorry, Doc, I really.." He couldn't find the right words. Scar stood there, the wind that carried the violent blaze tearing through his clothes. Stepping away, he used his elytra to launch himself back into the air- "I'll be back! I'll fix this!"

*Doc crossed his arms over his chest, watching the fire that had overtaken his garden. The resolve in his heart surely blazed hotter than *this.* His nails dug into his arms as he let out a deep breath.

The hermits flew over his head. Pearl placed a shulker, handing out splash water potions, buckets of water...

...While he stood there, watching in anger, his friends *tried.*

Working around the outside, they made sure the plants were soaked so it wouldn't spread further. The splash water potions easily ate at the fire, yet someone.. doc felt more defeated. As the fire was extinguished, he saw the charred remains. Maybe he was content to let it keep going, not wanting to see the full extent of the damage.

His friends asked if he was fine, but their words were just buzzes in his ear.

It wasn't until it was all put out, his friends by his side, that he finally snapped out of his daze.. "I..-"

"Hey, it's okay. Let's get you inside." Gem spoke softly, seeing the sunset beginning to dip in the distance. He nodded quietly, leading his friends into the Hall of Goat.

"Doc. I'm really sorry." Scar said again, clearing his throat. He rested his hands on his lap, leaning forward in his wheelchair. He could float with his wings, but indoors he always needed his wheelchair still.

"I know you worked so hard on this garden, so I promise to help you rebuild every inch of it. I-I mean, Pearl wants to as well."

Doc looked at Scar. His anger faded away. This was still his friend, the one who made his favorite and most comforting place in hermitcraft: Scarland.

Still, the resentment built up like bile in his throat. He still wanted revenge for the hundreds of hours last. His tunnel bore, his tomatos, then what?

"I.. see.." Doc spoke, trying to calm his shaking voice. His accent was harsher than usual, "you'll.. rebuild it. Help terraform.. the burnt land."

[musings-of-a-rose]

Getting to Know Me Tag Game

Thanks to @nerdieforpedro for tagging me!

Top Three Ships: that I've written or read or? In popular culture, Natasha Romonov x Bucky Barnes (after being Winter Soldier). It never happened in the films but it does happen in the comics. I know it says 3 but brain no work lol

Favorite color: Teal, dark purple, blue, and green

Last song: oh gosh. I was listening to my Garrett Hedlund playlist last night because my 9 month old daughter is in love and it comforts her.

Last Book: I'm in the middle of several books because I keep running out of time to actually finish them before my loan is up on the Libby app. But definitely check out Flash in the Pan by @wynharper. And currently patiently waiting for her new published edition of Days of You and Me, as well as her Frizzyverse!

Currently Watching: We just finished Loki season 2 but I'm going to go back and rewatch TLOU for zillionth time. As well as finishing Matador with Gabriel Luna.

Current Obsession: tyring to figure out the best schedule with my new client so it doesn't feel like I'm working 14 hours a day lol

Currently working on: I have an ever growing list of whips (@theewokingdead says I collect them like a niffler collects shiny things), but I'm trying to finish up:

Falling Slowly: Tommy Miller x f!reader (this one is winding in a story I've wanted to write about Joel as well)

Jump Then Fall: Javier Peña x ofc Vanessa Morales (I haven't posted in a while in this one because I'm still mentally trying to sort which way some small but major details goes)

Meet the Millers: Joel, Benny, Will Miller x f!reader, a reverse harem (I had originally ended this one way back in March of 2021, but I always had a few ideas that just wouldn't fit in the story line. I decided to end it but much to my surprise, people loved it and asked for more so I'm adding more. And definitely adding Tommy somehow. Which means literally back to the drawing board for smut scenes)

I'm also working on some non fanfiction books! I've got about 4 of them planned and started a couple of them. I haven't started social media for them yet really, but you bet I'll be sharing here when I do if anyone is interested!

Country I want to visit: most of them. Most of the countries. I can check Colombia off my list but I really want to go back. I loved it there!

No pressure tags: @astoryisaloveaffair @rhoorl @mermaidxatxheart @a-reader-and-a-writer @prolix-yuy @lowlights and anyone else who wants to join in!

[inkingpink]

muriel is the chicken whisperer, ofc

but is jin the mole catcher, frog juggler or squirrel matador?

Yes. All of them.