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a few months ago i was wracked with the Horrors (nightmares) & coped by sending @ghstbird deranged rashidposting takes from 3-6am
it’s been saved in my notes app for awhile, so as a midwinter treat pls enjoy 1k of comedic “what if ex-talamasca agent rashid needed a new job post-dubai & became daniel’s personal assistant/butler?”
Rashid’s cover is blown, which means his time as a Talamasca agent is over. It’s either desk duty for the rest of his life (a waste of his abilities) or quit and find something else he’s good at. Not surprisingly, all the skills you need as an undercover intelligence agent — on-the-fly problem-solving, fastidious attention to detail, implacability, reading people, blending into the background of any room you occupy — are the highly sought after traits of ultraluxury butlers/personal assistants.
Afterall, Daniel does kind of Owe Him One for helping him out in Dubai. The least he could do is offer some sense of stable employment, with fuckoff $ compensation that newly minted multimillionaire Daniel Molloy is now in the position of being able to provide. Fetching Daniel’s dry cleaning and handling his divorce paperwork is child’s play in comparison to navigating the volatile psychosexual energy of the Dubai penthouse.
The only problem is that it’s boring. Rashid is depositing hundreds of thousands of dollars into tax-havened bank accounts and doing very little to endanger his life in the process and he is bored. Naturally, his only course of action is to engage in Jeeves-levels of deep psychological warfare for sport.
(Daniel keeps buying white jeans, Rashid keeps burning them in the utility sink).
Daniel, quintessential Bertie Wooster that he is, is mostly unaware of this going on around him. He has not considered that the decision over whether or not he should wear a tie on his next tv appearance warrants the 5d chess. (Brat tamer Rashid is so good at brat taming that the brats aren’t even aware they’ve already been tamed in the first place). on the rare occasion Daniel does happen to notice the ironclad grip Rashid has on some minor aspect of Daniel’s life, he thinks its hot (something something giving up control & being put in his place).
As a matter of convenience, Daniel does drink from Rashid when he needs a snack, because hunting really cuts into his busy schedule of celebrity appearances and firing off expletives on twitter. Daniel was initially hoping it would be the like Louis-and-Fake-Rashid schtick in Dubai, but Rashid stays 100% dead eyed and implacable throughout le petit coup, which Daniel finds somehow even hotter. Occasionally, Daniel attempts to engage in the vampiric equivalent of edging Rashid during le petit coup, but when he reads Rashid’s mind to see if it has any effect, Rashid is doing to mental equivalent of a number station broadcast.
When Daniel is in his “why won’t my deadbeat maker fucking text me back era” he absolutely has Rashid roleplay as Armand. Rashid looks down on him with a mixture of disdain & pity and Daniel’s like “wow, you nailed that impression” and Rashid is like I’m not doing an impression, that’s just literally how I think of you 🫥
However Daniel is also out there lavishing Rashid with gifts of unfathomable $ bc he’s lonely & likes feeling like he can show off his own wealth & status thru like. wearing beat up converse himself but having Rashid decked out in the best of savile row. at one point Daniel has an extremely tired & long suffering Rashid tell dinner guests that he, Rashid, is “the devil’s minion, [and Daniel, the devil], grants his every wish”. everyone in the world is like wow Daniel midlife crisis much?
Rashid gets to blow off steam after a day of catering to Daniel’s most annoying whims by slipping into his Armand cosplay and being like “alright you pathetic worm, time to lick my savile row leather oxfords” to which Daniel is already like “put your cigarette out on me” levels of Into It
Real Rashid, smoking a cigarette: you were already divorced and won a pulitzer the year i was born, isn’t that interesting? Daniel: can yuo put that out on me?
Rashid’s personal feelings are deep down: 1) this isn’t actually the most Bullshit job he’s worked & the pay is actually commensurate with the predicted risk to his livelihood, unlike working for the Talamasca 2) he’s bored & getting to run a vampire’s life is the most fun a girl can have without putting his life at an untenable risk-reward ratio 3) Rashid thinks sex is pretty cosmically boring for the most part (beyond its function as stress relief), but knowing it pisses Armand off somewhere in the world adds a lil frisson to the arrangement that Rashid actually enjoys 🖤 he derives sexual enjoyment from being in danger & he knows Daniel’s freak behaviour will probably inspire Armand to rip Rashid’s spine out & slow cooker him in jealousy so he’s like “haha, neat :)”
Daniel is doing weirdo exhibitionist stuff like having guests to dinner and being like “okay, real rashid you sit in my lap and pretend to be fake rashid so i can drink from you” in the hopes that the psychic “wtf is going on” from his dinner guests is loud enough for Armand to catch the psychic wavelength and be pissed off about it. (it takes MUCH coordination to get their relative heights into a configuration that suits this).
Daniel gives Rashid a monogrammed locket of his blood to keep him safe from other vampires & Rashid openly rolls his eyes at the gift. (every vampire in a 100km radius has already clocked that Rashid is actually the one to Be Afraid of, not the coked up nepofledgling).
[will post part two later — will involve what happens when Armand gets wind of what’s going on]
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#experienced a love surge drawing this#souyo#yosuke hanamura#yu narukami#kanji tatsumi#rise kujikawa#naoto shirogane#yukiko amagi#chie satonaka#nanako dojima#I love when I get to write all their names it’s like a family renunion#persona 4#persona doodoloodle archive#puff z art archive
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I have a confession to make.
I find editing physically painful, I avoid it at all costs.
There. I've said it.
#fanfic#archive of our own#writers on tumblr#ao3#ao3 writer#ao3feed#writing#fanfiction#fowldom#editing#writers#writerscommunity#writers and poets#online writing#writeblr#fanfic authors#literature#fanfic meme#writing memes#funny#haha#lol#fandom#feral#reading#gen z#meme#memes#chaos#comedy
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hope it isn’t weird to barge into yr dms re: the mythology metaphors, but yr post sparked a thought in me! idk too much about Marius’ timeline, but I believe he would have been a contemporary of Ovid (exiled in 8 AD). the pursuit of Daphne, Leda, and Ganymede are all in Ovid’s Metamorphoses — a LOT going on in the poem re: sexual violence’s transformative effects (and this feels possibly significant in the context of vampiric “turning” as a metamorphosis?). the marble statues make me think of Pygmalion & Galatea which is also another passage in Metamorphoses that has weird implications abt consent. i am going to try to flip thru the footnotes of my copy later bc i haven’t refreshed my memory on ovid in a hot minute
not at all, I love talking to people on here - and I never considered that angle but it seems so obvious in hindsight! marius is very much a product of and clings to the prevalent ideas of his time in a way that’s not very subtle at all, transferring his belief systems to various fledgling vampires and using controlled imposition of literacy & culture as a tool of subjugation (which is a pattern of behaviour louis also emulates with claudia in the books), and it reminded me of a specific passage from an article on pederastic relations that I found relevant to the larger conversation:

I haven’t read the metamorphoses yet myself so it’s interesting that you should bring up pygmalion and galatea because they’re mentioned in the vampire armand too (perhaps indicating a conscious intent to reference ovid?), but it wasn’t in a context that made sense to include in the other post. The transformative role that seems to be such a common theme associated with sexual violence is very much in line with what the books do otherwise too, I’d say - they label all human victims ‘brides’ which has certain implications for marital relations as a large for vampires who seem to develop very dysfunctional companionships; louis himself also describes the turning of a human by a vampire as a sexual act, and a mutual and I also recently discussed how claudia’s own turning seemed to draw on a lot of language used to describe assault.
this is also slightly less relevant, but in the continued context of violence imposed through a controlled parcelling out of literacy, I enjoyed drawing comparisons between lolita and the vampire armand, specifically looking into language as a tool of violence even if I don’t necessarily think anne wrote that with conscious intent.
#I had classes earlier today so it took me a while to respond to this but it was such an enjoyable exercise - thank you for the ask!#tva is also such a hard book to analyse because her writing is flush with so many ideas about celebrating western supremacy unfortunately…#asks#archive-z#iwtv#tva#armand#readings#tw csa#text#history tag
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Got my first negative comment on a fic
#fortunately it's not too bad#just someone saying that a certain bit of dialogue was cringe#because it contsisted mostly of gen z/alpha slang (i get their slang terms mixed up sometimes tbh)#but like...#i'm not sure who walks into a fic tagged for meme references and doesn't expect any “cringe” stuff#:/#at least they left a kudos#fanfic#fanfiction#ao3#archive of our own#ao3 comments#writing milestone#fanfic writing milestone#my first hater 🥰
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In case anyone out there needs a copy
The U.S. Constitution, pasted in from the copy at the U.S. National Archives (you never know when the site might be taken down): We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and…
#A is for abuse of power#B is for birthright citizenship#C is for Congress which is first in the Constitution#D is for due process and also for Donald who is doing a coup#E is for equal protection and also for Elon who is collaborating in a coup#F is for FBI and also for foreseeable and preventable which all this totally was#G is for gee how about some ethics here?#H is for health imperiled when Trump defunded and gagged the CDC FDA and NIH#I is for inspectors general#J is for the judiciary but also for journalists#K is for king which is NOT what a president is#L is for law as in rule of#M is for Medicaid Medicare and all of our social safety nets#N is for the National Archives which I hope will keep our national history files even if told to delete them#O is for okay which this is not#P is for power of the purse which belongs to Congress#Q is for LGBTQIA plus folks who have a right to equal protection of the law#R is for are you kidding me?#S is for state sovereignty imperiled by ICE#T is for Treasury#U is for USAID#V is for violence which is what happened on J6 and which we need to avoid#W is for welfare as in of the people#X is for the crossroads we are now at#Y is for you try to write tags that make sense in alphabetical order#Z is for zero as in the number of thoughts Trump has ever given to his oath
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14 for the song meme!
14. a song you think is underrated
ok so full disclaimer if you're into prog-rock and its adjoining genres you will probably be fully aware of ELP and their fuckingly massive (and insane) discography, which in that case this might not be as underrated as you think it should be. for the rest of you who aren't though i picked this one specifically buckle up
you know those songs that have incredibly lush production in the studio master and then when you go on tour it's a 50/50 split between getting a live band/backing track to replicate that and saying actually 'no we're stripping this motherfucker down and we're doing it so good you won't miss the bells and whistles'? yeah. SYTMO is one of those. landed on my IWTV playlist at first entirely by accident when i misclicked on what i thought was a different song and ended up being this one but it has not fucking left since. there's so much going on here. if i really have to tell you that it don't mean a thing and it really doesn't matter when you're buried in disguise by the dark glass on your eyes though your flesh has crystallized with that kind of production in the back do you think i'm going to be normal about it yes or no
and then. like i said. shit's great in studio but when you get to the live versions where it's just Lake on the twelve-string guitar.......................... well fuck. highly recommend watching the video of the second embed bc that fucker's chewing gum. and the vocals are still that clear fuck me. i have been physically restraining myself from screaming at everyone i meet about this song and it shows bc SYTMO found itself at #68 in the list (the third embed is what actually ended up in my Wrapped but we need the full gamut for context yk). no more restraining i'm spreading the gospel stream that shit
(send me a number from this Spotify Wrapped ask game!)
#inbox#q: archive-z#emerson lake and palmer#was so hard picking what song to feature for this but SYTMO grabbed me and said write the words that i have given to you#so ykw. that's what we did. amen#spotify wrapped
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Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Stormlight Archive - Brandon Sanderson Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Gavinor Kholin & Lift Characters: Gavinor Kholin, Lift (Stormlight Archive) Additional Tags: Renarin is here for one sentence, Angst and Hurt/Comfort, Emotional Hurt/Comfort, Spoilers for Book 05: Wind and Truth (Stormlight Archive), Character Study Summary:
And the only good way through is together.
Gavinor retreats as far as possible from Urithiru's rooftop as he can. But friends don't let friends stay in the darkness alone, even if one of them has aged twenty years in the last week.
#I wrote a thing!#first time using the share option through ao3 instead of just posting a link#not that I publish a lot#wat spoilers#wind and truth spoilers#stormlight archive#gavinor kholin#lift#stormlight lift#I have *clenches fist* so many feelings about my boy!#Wyndle doesn't have any speaking parts so i didn't tag him.#I feel like he would be out of his depth here a little but idk.#fanfic#z writes
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Future Projects for the Summer and Beyond 2024!
Decapolice
I can’t lose you: After the Clown kidnaps and tortures Harvard, Carl goes on a mission to stop this horrid serial killer while dealing with the aftermath of it and his feelings with Harvard.
Master Detective Archives: Rain Code x Decapolice crossover
Donut Party: To celebrate a finished case, the team decide to celebrate with donuts, unfortunately for Harvard……
Childhood Friends au where Carl and Harvard are well Childhood Friends
Role swap au (Harvard=Carl, Manimani=Zhang, Mikey=Yellow-haired girl)
Fan cases with crime beasts
Analysis and Theories
Other one-shots which include the investigation team and other characters like Miase and Boston
A let’s play and first time experience and later review of the game when it comes out (hopefully this year)
Pokemon
Pokemon Legends: From Z to A: A story involving the main cast of X and Y (the player character, the rival, and their friends) stuck in the story of Legends: Z-A- Coming soon in 2025
Parallel Pathways: A crossover with Infinity Train with the main characters being Kieran and Emmet along with other characters
One-shots with the main characters, Kieran, Carmine, and the BB Elite Four
Theories on Z-A and Generation 10 when it is revealed next year or in 2026
Fakemon based on Florida
Miraculous
Imposter Girl Au: An Au where I tried to rewrite Lila Rossi into a much scarier threat than in the main series while giving a her (GASP!) a redemption arc!
Butterfly of Hope: An AU based on the movie’s ending focusing on what happened to Nooroo
A new butterfly miraculous holder considering what happened in Season 5 (Spoiler: it’s not Lila.)
Heroes of Tokyo: Au where Danganronpa characters get Miraculous get the miraculous instead
An au where Luka and Kagami are heroes separate from the main duo leading to a actual love square
Other Fandoms:
Reviews and reactions on Wakfu Season 1 to 3 (Hope that Season 4 comes out)
Play through of Digimon: Survive, Live a Live, and other games I have
Rain Code Au where Yuma’s parents are Kyoko and Makoto from Danganronpa because why not?
Island of the Slaughter starting the reboot cast
Total Drama crossover with a odd series
Other Works
Making more art (both tradintional and digital)
Writing my own original work
#decapolice#pokemon#pokemon sv#pokemon legends z a#danganronpa#submas#layton brothers#master detective archives: rain code#level 5#mermaid#detective grimoire#the mermaid’s mask#bakugan#total drama#my writing#fanfic#not my art#rain code#miraculous#wakfu
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#0906 piece you deserve your own tag atp#archive of our own#writing#music#what is x if not y z#class netflix#cla$$#dhruv and faruq#dhruv x faruq
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Possible fanfic crossover prompt: Dragon Ball Z crossover with Arcane. Goku meets Vi and Jinx's parents during the King Piccolo saga and becomes friends with them. This allows Vi and Powder to be friends with Gohan.
#ao3#fanfiction#archive of our own#dragon ball#dragon ball z#arcane#jinx arcane#violet arcane#crossover#fanfic prompt#I wanna write but I'll just emd up not writing it#This is so someone gets the idea
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Expanding my horizons.... Again.....
Posting the first four completed Chapters of "A Light in The Darkest of Tunnels" within the next week, on my Deviantart page. It's my first Multiverse #GoChi fic. Originally released on AO3, I'm expanding it's reach by publishing it on other forums and Blogs.
I'm also using my other stuff to expand the reach of all my writings for the most part.
My Deviantart page will also be a lore dump page as well for MANY of my Stories, ESPECIALLY with my Versions of Goku Jr and Vegeta Jr. Lore for each story is also always subject to change as well.
#dragon ball#dragon ball super#dragon ball z#alternate universe#dragon ball gt#super dragon ball heroes#alternate timeline#dragon ball fanfic#fanfic#fanfiction ideas#fanfiction#fanfics#fanfic writing#archive of our own#ao3 writer#ao3 fanfic#fanfic.net#dragon ball expanded universe
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I’m in the process of writing a fanfiction series of the Zombies movies that is also a self insert story! Zed meets and rescues a mysterious boy tangled in monstrous vines in an abandoned part of Seabroom and the boy has amnesia. Zed and his friends take their time to help him and try to help him recover his memories, and Zed notices a few mysteries around him after meeting the boy such as getting strange texts and seeing strange symbols
The fic is going to have lots of romance, mystery and a bit of tension, plus probably polyamory and lots of fluff too! I haven’t fully planned what’s going to happen but I am excited to share it ;u; I would recommend you be 18+ to read as it’s going to get spicy 👀
I have written the first two chapters! I have more planned
#entesi posts#my writing#fanfic#fanfiction#zombies#disney zombies#zed necrodopolis#addison wells#eliza zambie#bonzo zambie#romance#gay#queer#ao3#archive of our own#z o m b i e s
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Hey, people who know Star Wars lore! I need to read up on Twi'leks and Ryloth for a fic I'm writing. I checked the sources section on their Wookieepedia pages and put together a list of the books named there. Anything that's missing, or anything here that doesn't actually mention much about them? Using both canon and legends material.
A Guide to the Star Wars Universe Day Wanna Wanga - The Tale of the Twi'leks Die Wanna Wanga: Encounters of The Twi'lek Kind Geonosis and the Outer Rim Worlds Much to Learn You Still Have: 7 Things You Might Not Know About Twi'leks Planets of the Galaxy, Volume One Planets of the Galaxy, Volume Three Star Wars: Absolutely Everything You Need to Know Star Wars: Absolutely Everything You Need to Know, Updated Star Wars: Alien Archive Star Wars: Aliens of the Galaxy Star Wars Bestiary, Vol. 1: Creatures of the Galaxy Star Wars: Complete Locations Star Wars Expert Guide Star Wars Fandex Deluxe Edition Star Wars: Galactic Atlas Star Wars: Geektionary: The Galaxy from A - Z Star Wars Inside Intel: Twi'lek Culture Star Wars Super Graphic: A Visual Guide to a Galaxy Far, Far Away Star Wars: The Complete Visual Dictionary, New Edition Star Wars: The Ultimate Visual Guide: Updated and Expanded Star Wars: The Visual Dictionary Star Wars: The Visual Encyclopedia Star Wars Trilogy Sourcebook, Special Edition The Complete Star Wars Encyclopedia The Essential Atlas The Essential Guide to Alien Species The Essential Guide to Planets and Moons The Essential Reader's Companion The Movie Trilogy Sourcebook The New Essential Chronology The Star Wars Book The Star Wars Planets Collection The Star Wars Sourcebook The Star Wars Sourcebook, Second Edition Ultimate Alien Anthology Ultimate Star Wars Ultimate Star Wars, New Edition
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The Tumblr reblog sensation is returning. But like the Sayians or Shakespeare’s folios, it has the potential to develop in many forms.
Visit kamehamehamlet.com to be notified when we have more details.
Follow this blog for a peak behind the curtain.
And read on to learn more about the show, how we got here, and where we’re going.
Thank you for waiting just a little bit longer.
Revival Project FAQ
Who are you?
Hi! I’m Daniel Cole Mauleón (@writepictures), the writer of Kamehamehamlet. In 2015 I co-founded the theatre company Play-Dot Productions with KHH’s director Shalee Mae Cole Mauleón.
What is Kamehamehamlet?

Kamehamehamlet: Good Night Saiyan Prince, was an hour-long one act play, performed during the 2015 Minnesota Fringe Festival. It’s a staged retelling of Vegeta and Freeza’s battle on the planet Namek. Marketed as a Dragon Ball Z and Hamlet mash-up, the parody quickly shuffled off its weighted gi, revealing it was actually a Waiting for Godot spoof. After five performances, Vegeta hung up his helmet of spiky hair. Seven years later, K (@amokslime) wrote this incredibly gracious post on Tumblr, which inspired two people to reach out to me via Reddit to ask if I had a script or a recording of the performance.
I want to pause the semi-marketing voice and say a heartfelt thanks to K. Kamehamehamlet was brought to life by an incredible team of artists during a summer I’ll never forget. We got laughs at jokes, gasps at fight choreography, and we broke even on the budget (a Fringe miracle TBH). K’s post gave me the chance to revisit that show through someone else’s eyes. The mix of pride and humility it stirs up is truly indescribable.
If there is art which has changed you, and especially if the artist is still alive I encourage you to non-intrusively share that with the artist.
Is there a copy of the script?
Yes, I’ll speak more about that at below.
Is there a recording of the performance?
There was, but I genuinely lost the files. And that’s for the best, honestly. It was a last-second attempt, filmed from two cheap cameras (with different qualities and resolutions!), both at bad angles and with truly awful audio. Trust me. It’s better this way.
That said, I do have other archival footage from rehearsal's, tech, etc. that I look forward to sharing for those curious.
What’s next?
This is the question I’ve been asking myself over the past year and the reason it took so long to post anything. Especially since one thing I want to do differently this time is make sure that any artists involved are meaningfully compensated for their time and skill. However, I can’t plan without a better estimate of what kind of support we would have, and I didn’t want to share our intentions without concrete details. Right now, the best way you can support this project is by signing up for the announcement on kamehamehamlet.com and following us on Tumblr and YouTube!
The second best thing you can do is to share with others about this project, if I’ve learned anything reading through the comments on K’s post, it is that there’s a much bigger audience for KHH than I could have ever imagined, and you likely know at least one more person who would be interested.
And while I don’t want to promise anything I can’t deliver on, I will share that I’m planning on making the script available this year and I’ll be writing a separate post about that in near future.
Update 5/21/24: We've announced a staged reading for later this year! (Click to learn more) Update 6/11/24: We're going live on YouTube every Saturday through June to rally fans and talk about the project. This link will always take you to the upcoming stream. And this link will take you past recordings.
If you’ve read this far thank you so much.

Photography by Ann B. Erickson. Vegeta is played by McKenzie Shappell. Freeza is played by Cayla Marie Wolpers. Costumes by Sarah Noel Simon.
#kamehamehamlet#theater#dbz#dragon ball#shakespeare#hamlet#waiting for godot#vegeta#freeza#goku#this is about as good a place as any to share that...#I only just realized after spending a day in Adobe Illustrator that I've just made the IKEA logo...
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a bibliography for us Daniel Malloy freaks

(a loosely pulled-together reading list about print journalism, New York, the 1970s & 80's, and the AIDS Crisis. Most of the credit goes to @islandbetweenrivers who started this)
On Daniel Molloy, California Boy
The show never explicitly states if Daniel went to college, but since college students were exempt from the Vietnam draft, which ended officially in 1973, it could be interesting to imagine Daniel in Berkeley.
Slouching Toward Bethlehem by Joan Didion
The White Album by Joan Didion
Berkeley Barb archives (link) -- weekly underground newspaper that ran in Berkeley between '65 to '80
The Daily Cal First 150 Years (link) -- student newspaper at Berkeley
On Journalism
Iphigenia in Forest Hills by Janet Malcolm
From her reporter's seat, Malcolm observes that a trial is merely "a contest between competing narratives". (Guardian review)
The Journalist and the Murderer by Janet Malcolm
“"Every journalist who is not too stupid or too full of himself to notice what is going on knows that what he does is morally indefensible," wrote Malcolm in an opening sentence that caused a sensation in the tiny, self-referential world of posh American journalism.” (Guardian review)
The Freaks Came Out to Write: The Definitive History of the Village Voice by Trisha Romano
“The Voice’s origins were proudly amateurish. One early contributor was a homeless man recruited from a local street; equipment consisted of two battered typewriters, an ink-splattering mimeograph machine and a waste paper basket for rejected submissions. Morale spiked when a staff member discovered that dried pods used in fancy flower arrangements contained opium, which was boiled up in the office when the time came for a coffee break.” (Guardian review)
Note: The Village Voice was THE alt-weekly newspaper and it was run out of Greenwich Village in NYC. Lots of incredible writers start there and then move onto the Times, Vanity Fair, etc. Very much the sort of crowd a young Daniel would be mixed in circa 70's and 80's.
The Night of the Gun, by David Carr
David Carr redefines memoir with the revelatory story of his years as an addict and chronicles his journey from crack-house regular to regular columnist for The New York Times. Built on sixty videotaped interviews, legal and medical records, and three years of reporting, The Night of the Gun is a ferocious tale that uses the tools of journalism to fact-check the past. (amazing rec from @archive-z)
Note: imagine if Daniel did this and then fact-checked his way into remembering that vampires existed
Rogues: True Stories of Grifters, Killers, Rebels and Crooks by Patrick Radden Keefe
Keefe can paint complicated portraits of victims and vigilantes alike while covering their lonely pursuit of justice. He intuits why a Dutch woman who has exposed the crimes of her gangster brother might lie about her present whereabouts. He understands why a man who lost his brother in an aeroplane bombing might spend the rest of his life trying to find the culprit. Again and again, Keefe surmises that even the most detailed of investigations can only speculate about human motives. (Guardian review)
Note: the sort of deeply human longform profiles that feels like the sort of writing Daniel does, based on his masterclass clip and what he reveals in his interactions with Louis
On New York, New York (in the 70s)
Notes from Underground, by Eric Bogosian + Perforated Heart, by Eric Bogosian
In four billion years the sun will explode. But before that we'll run out of fresh water and before that we'll all die of some mutation of AIDS that's spread by coughing. It's not my fault anyway. I can't think about this any more today. I'm going to masturbate.
Note: The OG. What else is there to say.
Ladies and Gentleman, the Bronx is Burning: 1977, Baseball, Politics, and the Battle for the Soul of a City by Jonathan Mahler
In the long sweep of American history, of course, 1977 is not exactly 1865, 1941, 1968 or 2001. Yet from porn shops to gay bathhouses, from Yankee Stadium to City Hall, from the blackout to Son of Sam, from Rupert Murdoch's New York Post to the rise of SoHo and Studio 54, the city was living through what Mahler convincingly calls "a transformative moment . . . a time of decay but of rehabilitation as well.” (New York Times review)
Remain in Love: Talking Heads, Tom Tom Club, Tina, by Chris Franz (2020)
Frantz’s account of the early days, when the Heads lived in the pre-gentrified Lower East Side of New York, an almost literal war zone. While searching for a loft to live in, they viewed one building that was on fire. One spring afternoon, Frantz walked over to the now-legendary club CBGB to ask for a gig. The place smelt of “beer, roach spray, dog doo [the owner, Hilly Kristal, had a free-roaming saluki] and Chanel No 5”.
Winter’s Journal, by Paul Auster
Note: To me, Auster is one of the closest real-life Daniel Malloy analogues: born around 1950, literary career in NYC, moved to Paris in the 1970s for a few years, troubled middle-class background. Novelist though, not a journalist. There’s an anecdote in this book about a car crash that feels like a deadass Devil’s Minion fever dream. Crazy stuff. One of my personal favourites
On the AIDS Crisis
And the Band Played On, by Randy Shilts
The book chronicles the discovery and spread of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) with a special emphasis on government indifference and political infighting—specifically in the United States—to what was then perceived as a specifically gay disease
The Journalist of Castro Street: The Life of Randy Shilts, by Andrew E. Stoner
Biography of Randy Shilts that’s very helpful for imagining Daniel in the early 1980s newsrooms covering Karposi’s sarcoma
How to Survive a Plague: The Story of How Activists and Scientists Tamed AIDS by David France (2017)
It’s not easy to balance solid journalism with intimate understanding of a subject, and even harder to write eloquently about a disease that’s killing your friends and loved ones. France pulls it off, in his own words (his description of finding a college roommate’s panel in the AIDS Memorial Quilt is heartbreaking) and in letting his articulate sources speak for themselves. (SF Gate review)
Timeline of AIDS (link)
Overview of HIV (link)
And some films, just for fun
The Panic in Needle Park (1971): Drama film directed by Jerry Schatzberg. Al Pacino is a heroin addict and small-time dealer in Manhattan who falls in love with another addict.
Serpico (1973): biographical crime drama film directed by Sidney Lumet. Al Pacino is a hippie cop (yes, I know, its part of the plot) with one foot in the 1970s bohemian art scene
American Graffiti (1973): teen movie set in 1973 Modesto ("I'm just a shitty kid from Modesto"--Danny Malloy)
The Taking of Pelham 123 (1974): More grimy 1970s NYC stuff
All the President’s Men (1976): THE ABSOLUTE JOURNALISM MOVIE??
Star Wars: A New Hope (1977)
Cruising (1980): 1980 crime thriller written and directed by William Friedkin. Al Pacino is a cop (again) but this time he goes undercover in NYC gay leather clubs
Almost Famous (2000): Set in 1973, it chronicles the funny and often poignant coming of age of 15-year-old William, an unabashed music fan who gets the chance to write for Rolling Stone
Spotlight (2015): More journalism movies! The true story of how the Boston Globe uncovered the massive scandal of child molestation and cover-up within the local Catholic Archdiocese
everyone say thank you to @islandbetweenrivers for starting this, I just polished up our google docs and posted it on tumblr.
Also if anyone has something to add please let me know!
#interview with the vampire#iwtv#daniel malloy#iwtv fic#im serious i think there's so much more we can add to this list
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