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[momochimchim]

MUCHOS KEDAMONOS SISISISISI 😍😍😍😍😍😍💕

TE QUIERO MUCHO TAMBIÉN AAAA >3<💕💕💕💕💕

TAMBIÉN SUBO SISISI HEHEHEHEHHE 😈

DIBUJOS CON MI AMIGA @momochimchim !

HACE UNOS DIBUJOS TAN PRECIOSOS! 😫💕🛐

AHHAAAHHA LA QUIERO TANTO!💕✨

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Contexto: muchos kedamonos, O ZI O ZI

[thedailydescent]

While we're still wrapping our minds around the election results...

Can I introduce you to the Bkheet family?

Yahya Bkheet (@yahyabkheet-blog and @yahyabkheeblog) is a father of three who used to work in a coffee and spice factory. His wife, Sharbat, was a Geographic Information Systems (GIS) specialist, and recently celebrated her 28th birthday on Oct 31.

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Their children are:

Mira: an intelligent girl who loves playing, reading, and writing. At night, she cries herself to sleep from hunger pains. Recently, Mira also caught the flu, which her parents couldn't provide her any medicine for.

Dima: equally intelligent and studious, she's also like me, someone who loves to swim!🏊 In other matters of good taste, Dima loves fried potatoes. Everyday, she asks her father to buy some for her, but he is unable, as potatoes cost $23 per kg, and a bottle of frying oil $15.

Anas: is, despite everything, a joyful boy who loves to play and make his family laugh. What he wants more than anything, his father says, is eggs, which cost $2.30 for the price of one! He also suffers from skin disease from drinking polluted water, which is incredibly dangerous for one so young, if left untreated.

Yahya also has an elderly mother he is taking care of, who suffers from heart disease and diabetes, without any means to afford treatment.

Yahya's family is currently living in a damaged tent, and are asking for your help to rent a house for the winter.

What can we do?

Despite the fact that their gofundme page has been up since May 16, they are still sitting at €6,062 / €30,000, and have only raised €6 today! Two days ago, Yahya told me he was unable to feed his children at all that day, and was in despair. When he spoke to me, he sounded defeated:

Do not let Yahya abandon all hope now!

I do not believe that none of you have any money, especially considering the results of that parent income poll @serial-unaliver has done in the past. Even if you're not in touch with those parents, why wouldn't you be willing to lose a little comfort to provide some for others? You could give up take-out. You could walk to work instead of taking the bus/Uber. You could get donation food for the week and give up your grocery money to others in greater need.

Help Yahya buy some groceries today!

Fried potato ingredients + a dozen eggs: $46 + $15 + $27.60 = $88.60

Don't let his children go hungry again today. I have donated €33. Can anyone else contribute something similar?

This fundraiser has been vetted here and here.

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[yahyabkheet-blog]

Palestine will remain the issue of honorable people only 🇵🇸🍉

400 days of killing children, women and the elderly, destruction, hunger and fear

400 days of living in tents that do not protect against heat or cold

400 days of missiles, bombing and destruction

Save us, world, save my family in Gaza

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[lesbians4armand]

Mentioned a little on twitter earlier about IWTV characters and what element they correspond to but didn't elaborate so I will here and screenshot this post.

Louis - Fire

Maybe this is a little obvious but there is no way it doesn't fit. Beyind his arsonist tendencies (burning down the Theatre Des Vampires, and two other buildings in the book) and Claudia's beginnings and end, Louis has always been tied to fire. He is a very firey sort of character but not in the usual loud, bright sense, in the natural, destructive sense. And it's everywhere in his story. He describes Lestat as his coal fire, when he is made there is fire-the burning pews, he and Lestat dispose of bodies in an incinerator, when he kills the Alderman the rioters start fires, leading to him saving Claudia, "his redemption", from.In s2, one of his first scenes is sitting around a fire, he almost dies by burning twice, once in the Paris sewers and once on stage. It's all fire.

Lestat - Air

Now the most obvious connection here is Lestat's ability to fly, defying and mastering air, but the air goes back even to before Lestat is made a vampire and connects to his desire for freedom. Whether it was the cold, lonely air of Auvergne that he desperately wanted to escape, where he flew off with a troupe of actors only to be dragged back, grounded by his father and brothers; The bustling air of Paris where he finally felt free with Nicki, working in a theatre, free to spread his wings and feel the air, where he also was dragged again through the air to vampirism, then setting free his mother, then the Children of Darkness. Lestat is tied to the air because he is tied to freedom.

Armand - Water

How could Armand be anything but? So old, like water wearing down at a stone, but water has always been his since he was young, mortal. From the oceans and seas beneath the barely remembered boat from his homeland, to Venice, the city of canals he drifted through, fell into, and undeniably many of his first kills as a fledgling came to rest. Then, Rome, Paris, Dubai. All close to water, with rivers or seas or aqueducts so close. He sometimes lingers when boats come in to harbour, he would linger in the shipyard in Venice in his youth. He's always been so close to water, as his identity was as fluid as it, flowing and changing and growing and shrinking, drinking and being drunk from.

Daniel - Earth

Daniel, the mortal boy-reporter turned old man young vampire, the iron-strong link for the vampires to the world they no longer know, the ground they don't recognise beneath their feet. So sur of himself, going everywhere on the globe to find a story because he is the earth listening to it's creations, keeping the most untethered of them grounded. He is a grounding force, challenging Louis' memories, beliefs, embellishments, before coming to concrete truths. That is what makes him fascinating.

[superiorkenshi]

Something about Louis and the false illusion of choice he always have in his relationships. How everything with Lestat feels wanted by both side and maybe it was but from the start it was always Lestat who wanted Louis and Louis reciprocated with tought of equality in their love but was it really that equal between them?

And there is Armand who offer him a relation where he has the upper hand exept he did not have the upper hand. Armand wanted Louis to want him and he did but the relationship was based on a lie and so was his feelings for Armand.

And finally here is his fascinating boy, the first time no one found him, it was him who found his special boy. And he did not repeat the cycle of love trapped in lie. Louis let the boy leave and he make sur he will be alright giving him the key to believe in what he's capable to do.

I don't say that Louis didn't loved Lestat or Armand but I think his relationship with Daniel was almost as important as the one with Claudia cause he wanted it first and it's the first times he wanted something and was someone outside his relationships.

I love Daniel/Louis in a romantic way but I think the most important thing is their friendship. They are soulmate to me like I ship more devil's minion but I know that if Daniel souls has to meet someone again and again to feel complete it's Louis souls and they are so queer platonic coded to me-

[greedandenby]

Transcript of the French dialogue in IWTV S2 Ep6 - Like the Light by Which God Made the World Before He Made Light 

Attack at Madeleine’s shop:

[The song the attackers are singing here is the "Chant des Girondins", which was the short-lived French national anthem under the Second Republic (1848-1852). Here are the lyrics sung in this portion of the show:

"La France appelle ses enfants, – Allons dit le soldat, aux armes ! C’est ma mère, je la défends.

Mourir pour la Patrie"

Which translates to:

"France calls to its children,

- Come, says the soldier, to arms!

She is my mother, so I shall defend her.

To die for the motherland"]

Woman attacker: Bonsoir, Madame Éparvier !

Madeleine: Allez-y ! Faites vos dessins très ingénieux !

Bald attacker: Arrête de les laver et on arrête de revenir, hein !

Woman attacker: On l’a ! On l’a, la pute !... Madeleine est pas bien, elle a attaqué, t’as vu ?... Crie tout ce que tu veux, hein. Tes voisins s’en fichent.

Madeleine: Arrête ! Non !

Bald attacker: On va voir ce qu’elle a donné à l’Allemand !

Madeleine: Tu suces du sang… T’es un v…

Armand and Madeleine discuss her turning:

Armand: Tu aimerais être l’une des nôtres ?

Madeleine: Non, je veux être avec elle. Et toi, tu peux aller te faire foutre.

Armand: They always think they’re different. Stronger. Superior. Jusqu’à ce que la solitude arrive.

Madeleine: Monsieur, ça fait longtemps que je suis toute seule.

Armand: Tu seras un monstre.

Madeleine: Si tu fais de moi un monstre, tu feras que me transformer en ce que je suis déjà.

Armand: Tu vas manger des humains comme tu manges ta pomme ? Un par nuit, aucune pitié pour l’enfant, la mère, l’invalide ?

Madeleine: Je suis un humain et j’aime ma nourriture. Quand je serai un vampire, est-ce que j’aimerai ma nourriture ?

Armand: Comment choisiras-tu qui tuer ?

Madeleine: Je tuerai sur les bords. Les faibles d’abord, et occasionnellement je me livrerai à mes appétits.

Armand: Et quand les derniers vestiges de ton époque auront disparu ? Les voitures, les coiffures, les croyances ? Comment continueras-tu ?

Madeleine: Jeune homme… There’s been a war. Claudia! He thinks there’s something left of my era!... Mais quel con ! [not captioned, but she’s basically calling Armand a dumbass.]

Armand: Comment vas-tu survivre à l’éternité ?

Madeleine: L’homme qui vivait en face… La Gestapo est venue le chercher. On a entendu un coup de feu quand la voiture a tourné au coin de la rue. Et la femme qui habitait plus bas, elle est morte de faim dans sa chambre. Elle portait des vêtements très chics. Elle devenait de plus en plus maigre jusqu’à ce qu’un jour, je regarde par sa porte et elle était là, un squelette dans des vêtements chics. Parfois, je le voyais dans leurs yeux, quand ils étaient sur le point d’abandonner. Et moi, j’ai survécu. Moi, j’ai suivi mes instincts. J’ai trouvé l’amour dont j’avais besoin, même quand c’était un amour dangereux. And I have again.

Armand: Et que feras-tu dans quelques décennies quand elle se jettera dans le feu ? Parce qu’elle le fera.

Madeleine: Peut-être qu’elle le fera pas. T’en sais rien. Peut-être que je suis ce dont elle a besoin pour survivre.

Louis and Armand at the Sacré-Cœur:

Okay, this is a subtle one.

While Loumand kiss on the steps of the Sacré-Cœur, you can hear a man taunting them in the background.

He says: "Hé ! Mais vas-y hé ! Mais suce-le, tant que t’y es ! Sale pédé !"

Which translates to: "Hey! Well go on then! Why don’t you suck him off while you’re at it! Fucking faggots!"

This explains why Louis turns his head around for a second after kissing Armand...

Madeleine’s turning:

Madeleine: J’arrive pas à croire que mon dernier verre de vin soit un Chardonnay. J’aurais dû en prévoir plus.

Madeleine: La pièce tourne…

That's it for this episode! See you in a week for the next one!

Ep. 2 here

Ep. 3 here

Ep. 4 here

[justforbooks]

Icône du cinéma français, Alain Delon s’est éteint ce dimanche 18 août, à 88 ans. De sa révélation sur le grand écran au début des années 1960 à son César du meilleur acteur, retour sur sa carrière en sept films emblématiques qui ont campé son style.

Il était l’un des acteurs qui a enregistré le plus d’entrées en France, totalisant plus de 136 millions de spectateurs avec l’ensemble des films qui l’ont mis en scène. Alain Delon est mort ce dimanche 18 août 2024, à l’âge de 88 ans, ont annoncé ses enfants. La star du grand écran a marqué le cinéma français de son empreinte avec 90 longs-métrages, qui ont façonné sa réputation de légende et son style caractéristique. En voici sept particulièrement marquants.

« Christine » (1958) : sa rencontre avec Romy Schneider Alain Delon n’a que 23 ans et a fait ses premiers pas au cinéma un an plus tôt, dans Quand la femme s’en mêle d’Yves Allégret, lorsque l’actrice allemande Romy Schneider le choisit sur photo pour tourner avec elle dans Christine, de Pierre-Gaspard Huit. Il y incarne le lieutenant Franz Lobheiner, amant d’une riche baronne autrichienne dont il veut rompre, qui tombe follement amoureux de la charmante Christine Weiring, jouée par la jeune star du cinéma qui n’a alors que 20 ans. La première rencontre entre les deux acteurs, à la descente de l’avion, deux mois plus tôt, n’était pourtant pas des plus concluantes. La barrière de la langue les sépare et le duo ne s’entend absolument pas. Ils finiront pourtant par tomber amoureux et former un couple connu comme « les plus beaux fiancés d’Europe ».

« Plein soleil » (1960) : la révélation d’un « jeune premier » Deux ans plus tard, Alain Delon est choisi par le réalisateur René Clément pour jouer dans une adaptation du roman Monsieur Ripley, de Patricia Highsmith. Alors qu’il devait jouer le deuxième rôle masculin, il parvient à convaincre l’équipe de réalisation qu’il serait plus adapté dans le costume du personnage principal, Tom Ripley, qui colle plus à son caractère un peu « voyou ». Avec ce rôle, Alain Delon se révèle sur le grand écran et pose les jalons de ce qui deviendra son style, charismatique et un peu rebelle. « Personne ne savait qui j’étais. Le film qui a fait le tour du monde, a été la base de ma carrière », avait d’ailleurs reconnu l’acteur.

« Le Guépard » (1963) : la palme d’or à Cannes Alain Delon y incarne Tancrède Falconeri, le neveu du prince Fabrice de Salina (Burt Lancaster) qui se lie d’amour avec une bourgeoise, Angelica Sedara (Claudia Cardinale), dans une Italie du milieu du XIXe siècle marquée par le déclin de l’aristocratie traditionnelle. Adapté du roman éponyme de Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, cette fresque obtient la Palme d’or au Festival de Cannes en 1963 et devient un succès commercial et critique dès sa sortie. Alain Delon, au sommet de son élégance (moustache fine et raie sur le côté), y est l’incarnation de la noblesse. Le couple qu’il forme avec Claudia Cardinale entre dans l’histoire du cinéma. Le film comporte notamment une scène de bal devenue iconique, qui marque la victoire de la bourgeoisie sur la noblesse et où les trajectoires du trio principal trouvent leur aboutissement.

« Le Samouraï » (1967) : la consécration du « genre » Delon Cette première collaboration avec Jean-Pierre Melville donne l’un des chefs-d’œuvre de la filmographie de Delon, qui incarne le tueur solitaire Jef Costello. Fantomatique, inexpressif (son personnage n’a quasiment aucune réplique), obsédé par la maîtrise, avec son regard bleu froid, son imper et son chapeau : ce personnage est à la base du mythe Delon. L’esthétique de ce polar glacial influencera nombre d’autres cinéastes, dont John Woo ou Quentin Tarantino. La collaboration Delon-Melville accouchera d’un autre chef-d’œuvre, Le Cercle rouge (1970, avec Bourvil), avant Un flic (1972).

« La Piscine » (1969) : les retrouvailles avec Romy Schneider Mi-drame, mi-polar, ce film de Jacques Deray marque les retrouvailles entre Alain Delon et Romy Schneider, avec qui il a formé un couple mythique du cinéma français. Il n’y aura pas de retour de flamme entre eux mais la carrière de l’actrice allemande, alors en demi-teinte, redécolle. Plus de 3 millions de spectateurs plongent dans la piscine au-dessus de Saint-Tropez, fréquentée par le couple mais aussi par Maurice Ronet et Jane Birkin. Delon dira plus tard : « Ce film, je ne peux plus le regarder. Trop douloureux de revoir Romy et Maurice (morts en 1982 et 1983, N.D.L.R) rire aux éclats. »

« Borsalino » (1970) : son duo iconique avec Belmondo C’est encore grâce à Jacques Deray qu’Alain Delon connaît un vrai succès populaire avec Borsalino, où il forme un tandem iconique avec Jean-Paul Belmondo. Le film, histoire de deux jeunes voyous qui tentent de devenir les caïds de la pègre marseillaise, marque le point d’orgue du duo entre Delon et son rival, mais aussi ami. « Heureusement qu’il était là. Ni l’un ni l’autre n’aurait fait la même carrière sans l’autre. Il y avait une compétition mais aussi une sorte de stimulation entre nous. Ça m’aurait vraiment emmerdé qu’il ne soit pas là. Qu’est-ce que j’aurais foutu sans lui pendant cinquante ans ? » Le succès est au rendez-vous : le long métrage enregistre plus de 4,7 millions d’entrées et une suite, Borsalino and Co, sort au cinéma quatre ans plus tard.

« Notre histoire » (1984) : son seul César du meilleur acteur Malgré son immense carrière, Alain Delon n’a décroché qu’une seule fois le César du meilleur acteur obtenu en 1985 pour son rôle dans Notre histoire, de Bertrand Blier, sorti l’année précédente. Cette comédie dramatique, parfois absurde, parle de solitude et d’amour, autour de la rencontre dans un train, entre Robert, la quarantaine fatiguée, et une jeune femme désabusée, incarnée par Nathalie Baye. Le public ne suivra pas, mais la critique a majoritairement aimé ce film dans lequel Delon a pris des risques pour camper un personnage fragile, un ivrogne, bien loin de celui qu’il interprétait dans le Samouraï.

Alain Delon, qui avait commencé sa carrière à la fin des années 1950, était l’un des derniers monstres sacrés du cinéma français.

Né le 8 novembre 1935 à Sceaux (Hauts-de-Seine), Alain Delon fait ses débuts sur le grand écran à la fin des années 1950, dans Quand la femme s’en mêle, d’Yves Allégret.

Ces premiers pas au cinéma, il les doit à un « scout » qui les repère, lui et son charisme, lors d’un casting sauvage réalisé en marge du Festival de Cannes, à une époque où le jeune Alain Delon enchaîne les petits boulots. Quelques mois plus tôt, il était revenu d’Indochine, où il a servi dans la Marine, avant d’être renvoyé pour avoir, selon la légende, « emprunté » une jeep pour aller faire la fête. Un beau gosse un rien rebelle. Tout Delon est là, déjà.

Ce personnage de voyou magnifique, auquel sa nature semble le prédestiner, Alain Delon va l’étrenner, le perfectionner durant une bonne partie de sa carrière.

Très rapidement, on le verra ainsi incarner un tueur à gages dans Le Samouraï (1967), dans l’une de ses nombreuses collaborations avec Jean-Pierre Melville. Puis, dans Borsalino (1970), où il partage l’affiche avec son meilleur ennemi, Jean-Paul Belmondo, il prend les traits d’un éminent membre de la pègre marseillaise.

Toujours en 1970, dans Le Cercle rouge, il joue un autre bandit de classe, traqué par un Bourvil à contre-emploi. Mais, plus tard, les Français le verront passer de l’autre côté de l’insigne, dans Parole de flic ou Pour la peau d’un flic, film qu’il produira, comme une trentaine d’autres.

La rubrique des faits divers, celui qui ne cachera jamais ses attaches à droite la côtoiera également dans le civil. À la fin des années 1960, alors qu’il est au faîte de sa gloire, il sera ainsi entendu dans le cadre de la médiatique affaire Markovic, du nom de son ancien homme à tout faire yougoslave, retrouvé assassiné. La procédure, dans laquelle un ami d’Alain Delon, François Marcantoni, était le principal suspect, avait débouché sur un non-lieu pour preuves insuffisantes. Elle aura néanmoins perturbé le tournage du Clan des Siciliens, dans lequel il partage l’affiche Jean Gabin et Lino Ventura. Rien que ça.

Puis, au tournant des années 2023 et 2024, il sera l’objet d’une brouille entre ses enfants, Anouckha, Alain-Fabien et Anthony, sur fond d’héritage et de présence d’une « dame de compagnie », Hiromi Rollin. La découverte, quelques semaines plus tard, des dizaines d’armes que possède l’acteur dans sa résidence de Douchy (Loiret), finira d’alimenter une chronique qui aura quelque peu terni l’image de l’acteur.

Mais, entre-temps, Alain Delon aura peaufiné son autre facette, celle du séducteur à la gueule d’ange. Celle-ci crève l’écran dès 1960, dans Plein Soleil de René Clément et dans Rocco et ses frères, où Delon donne la réplique à Claudia Cardinale, sous les ordres de l’un de ses mentors, Luchino Visconti.

Ce séducteur patenté, les spectateurs le retrouveront régulièrement par la suite. Dans Le Guépard (1963), film-fleuve issu de l’œuvre de Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, par exemple. Mais aussi, et peut-être surtout, dans La Piscine (1970), film sensuel dans lequel Delon donne la réplique à Romy Schneider, son ex-compagne.

Plus que ceux qu’il forma avec Nathalie Delon, Mireille Darc ou, un temps, avec Dalida, le couple mythique qu’Alain Delon forma avec l’interprète de Sissi, contribuera à le faire entrer dans la légende du cinéma français, celle à laquelle, diront ses détracteurs, il était si conscient d’appartenir. Difficile toutefois, en regardant dans le rétroviseur, de le contredire sur ce point.

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[whencyclopedia]

Women Religious Crossing between Cloister and the World: Nunneries in Europe and the Americas, ca. 1200–1700

This book is recommended to advanced scholars of medieval and early modern religious history. This collection of essays focuses on how women participated in and were shaped by monastic and religious life. The contribution this book makes is to examine medieval and early modern gender history through a transatlantic lens.

Women Religious Crossing Between Cloister and the World: Nunneries in Europe and the Americas, ca. 1200-1700 is the result of a collaborative research project focused on the relationships between women and the “religious.” Edited by art historian Mercedes Pérez Vidal, a research fellow at Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, this collection of essays analyzes religious women from the Middle Ages through the Early Modern period through a transnational lens. The Société d’Études Interdisplinaires sur les Femmes au Moyen Âge et à la Renaissance (SEIFMAR) organized the research project, and its goal was to examine how women participated in and were shaped by monastic and religious life. As a transnational undertaking, the volume also takes a comparative geographical approach to women and religious life in Europe and America.

The collection originated as SEIFMAR conference papers that were developed into articles. There are seven essays in the collection. Each essay addresses one or more of the four themes from the conference including studying religious women across time, space, and category; examining women’s agency within and outside the cloister; analyzing race and social class among religious women and studying material objects through cultural networks as a mode of creating and extending power. The essays were written by European and Latin American scholars, and each essay concludes with findings and an extensive bibliography. Chapter One by Sylvie Duval examines “Female Dominican Identities” while Chapter Five by Doris Bienko de Peralta is titled “Transatlantic Circulation of Objects, Books, and Ideas in Mid-Seventeenth Century Mexican Nunneries.” The last chapter by Annalena Müller is in French and focuses on class-based feminine power at the convent of Fontevraud in the 17th century.

Vidal makes a convincing argument that scholarship spanning continents focused on religious women, agency, and the transmission of ideas expands the historiographies of empire, nation, gender, and class. The book illustrates that religious women were political and powerful purveyors of information and played a role in shaping religious identity inside and outside of the convent both in Europe and the Americas.

This is not a collection aimed at a wide readership. It is a text aimed at medieval and early modern scholars. While the whole collection could be beneficial in a graduate classroom setting, it may be too advanced for undergraduate students. There are individual chapters such as Claudia Sutter’s piece, "In Touch with the Outside: The Economic Exchanges of the Observant Dominican Convent of St. Catherine in St. Gallen," which would work well in a European medieval course illustrating the economic exchanges of the time through the lens of gender. Miguel Garcia-Fernandez’s article, "Beyond the Wall: Power, Parties, and Sex in Late Medieval Galician Nunneries," would be interesting to those studying gender and sexuality in a medieval history course. I would recommend this collection to scholars who are interested in the intersection between medieval and early modern gender dynamics concerning religious history. The book is part of a series focused on Western and Eastern Christian communities from 500-1500 CE and could be of interest to a broader readership to those who have some prior knowledge of medieval and early modern history. In other words, this is not a book for those new to the subject. Transnational academic histories of medieval and early modern women are rather limited in terms of scholarship, and this collection contributes to understanding women’s agency, the transmission of information, and power structures through the lens of the "religious" in a new and worthwhile way.

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[kilfeur]

Ce qu'un enfant ferait pour ses parents

Lors de l'épisode 8 de la saison 3, Rayla décide de rester à la flèche de tempête pour payer le prix de la faute de ses parents et Callum voit sa raison de rester comme une fierté. Dans l'épisode 9 de la saison 6, Callum a fait un bracelet de phoenix de lune pour qu'elle puisse revenir dans le monde des vivants. Dans le nid de Zubeia, Callum a utilisé un sort de lune pour connaître la vérité sur ce qui s'est passé ! C'est grâce cette information que Rayla a pu dire que c'est grâce à ses parents que l'oeuf est en sécurité et qu'ils ont pu le ramener à sa mère. Malheureusement, elle se sépare d'eux et bien que ça lui brise le coeur. Ses parents comprennent mais ils savent qu'elle aura une bonne vie. Ce qui contraste avec Claudia qui retrouve Viren car elle a besoin qu'elle lui montre le bon chemin, que c'est grâce lui, qu'elle a pu se construire. Mais Terry essaie de la raisonner car un mort ne peut pas donner de réponses. Viren était son phare qui s'est éteint dans les flammes.

Rayla décide de sauver Runaan lui rappelant qui il était, l'assassin mais aussi le père qui l'a élevée. Et par son amour et celui d'Ethari, elle le ramène dans le monde des vivants auprès de Callum. Tandis que Claudia en apprenant le passé d'un père aimant sa défunte fille. Cela lui permet de retrouver l'amour nécessaire, celui malsain et auto destructeur, pour exécuter le sort. Encore une fois leurs amours envers leurs parents se confrontent à nouveau (J'en parle plus ici). Rayla peut enfin tourner la page concernant ses parents. Elle avait quitté Callum pour traquer Viren, qualifiant même de vengeance dans la saison 4 pour avoir des réponses concernant sa famille. Alors que Claudia qui voit son modèle détruit, elle trouve du réconfort avec Aaravos en sympathisant avec sa peine. Quand à Terry, il trouve que cette histoire d'amour est devenu tordu par la suite. Aaravos la manipule en choisissant les bons mots pour décrire Leola mais aussi Viren. Il le qualifie d'un père aimant, un grand homme qui était prêt à tout sacrifié quitte à être mal compris. Ce qui se complète avec la phrase "peu importe si c'est ignoble ou dangereux".

En parlant avec mon ami, il trouve qu'il y a un contraste entre ces deux là, sur comment elles gèrent leurs deuils :

Claudia a longtemps été dans le déni en étant obsédé de ressusciter son père que quand ce dernier voit toute les erreurs qu’il a faite et qu'il décide d’en subir les conséquences, dans la paranoïa, sa fille croit que tout le monde l’abandonne pour au final essayer d’accepter la vérité.

Rayla se résigne à la mort de ses parents au début car elle les voyait comme des traîtres. Avant que Claudia lui donne les pièces deux ans plus tard pour qu'au final elle accepte qu'ils se soient sacrifiés en héros. Ramener ses parents aurait été égoïste de la part de Rayla, alors qu'Ethari attend toujours le retour de Runnan. Donc au final c’est Claudia qui a agit par égoïsme et Rayla par abnégation.

What would a child do for their parents

In episode 8 of season 3, Rayla decides to stay at the storm spire to pay the price for her parents' wrongdoing, and Callum sees her reason for staying as pride. In episode 9 of season 6, Callum made a moon phoenix bracelet so she could return to the world of the living. In Zubeia's nest, Callum used a moon spell to learn the truth about what happened! With this information, Rayla was able to say that it was thanks to her parents that the egg was safe and that they were able to return it to his mother. Unfortunately, she's parting ways with them and although it breaks her heart. Her parents understand, but they know she'll have a good life. This contrasts with Claudia, who finds Viren because she needs him to show her the right path, that it's thanks to him that she's been able to build herself. But Terry tries to reason with her, because a dead man can't give answers. Viren was her lighthouse, which was consumed by flames.

Rayla decides to save Runaan, reminding him of who he was, the murderer but also the father who raised her. And through her love and that of Ethari, she brings him back to the world of the living, back to Callum. Claudia, on the other hand, learns of the past of a father who loved his deceased daughter. This allows her to regain the love she needs - the unhealthy, self-destructive love - to carry out the spell. Once again, their love for their parents collides (more on that here). Rayla can finally turn the page on her parents. She had left Callum to track down Viren, even calling it vengeance in season 4 to get answers about her family. While Claudia sees her role model destroyed, she finds comfort in Aaravos, sympathizing with his grief. As for Terry, he finds the love affair twisted in the aftermath. Aaravos manipulates her by choosing the right words to describe both Leola and Viren. He calls him a loving father, a great man who was ready to sacrifice everything even if it meant being misunderstood. This is complemented by the phrase “no matter how vile or dangerous”.

Talking with my friend, he finds that there's a contrast between the two of them, in terms of how they deal with grief:

Claudia has long been in denial, obsessed with bringing her father back to life, but when he sees all the mistakes he's made and decides to face the consequences, in paranoia, her daughter believes that everyone has abandoned her, and finally tries to accept the truth.

Rayla resigns herself to her parents' death at first, seeing them as traitors. Then, two years later, Claudia gives her the coins, and she finally accepts that they sacrificed themselves as heroes. Bringing back her parents would have been selfish on Rayla's part, while Ethari is still waiting for Runnan's return. So in the end it was Claudia who acted out of selfishness and Rayla out of self-sacrifice.

[senig-fandom]

como tomo centro la llegada de Claudia Sheinbaum y como se encuentra ahora??? Saludos👋

-Ante todo, estoy intentando arreglar algunas cosas, Sur tiene que saberlo...

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Dejemos que pase un poco...

Aunque desde mi humilde opinión, antes tenia fe en MORENA, pero ahora lo veo igual que otros partidos de México, igual de hipócritas y habladores, como si cambiaran algo cuando todo siguen en la misma.

Así que le doy un año a la vieja, si no cambia algo para bien, no quiero saber nada de ella y lo que pase no me importara, ya no quiero mas justificaciones.

(En estos tres meses centro anda de rosa mexicano VwV)

Un saludo igualmente 💚🤍❤️ 👋

[calissarowan]

After I did Rayla, I couldn’t resist. Her new hair is just so pretty, and it looks so good in Enchantix! I’m so happy with this design! I made her Enchantix darker, because (and season six spoilers) her Enchantix moment would be when she performed the Infantis Sanguine spell to save her father. She didn’t sacrifice her life, but we all saw what she looked like afterwards. She sacrificed a big part of herself for her father, which is what you have to do for Enchantix. Actually, this is only half Enchantix. I have a personally-headcannoed fairy form called Asperix, which is basically Enchantix, but the evil version. It’s earned by betraying someone from your home world in cold blood, with no regrets. Claudia partially earned Enchantix sacrificing her soul for her father, and partially earned Asperix when she killed Sur Spraklepuff. So she has both at the same time. The Enchantix aspects are obvious, but the Asperix aspects are the dark gloves, the sharp border on the gloves, the heels on the sandals, and the dark colours. I went with purple and grey for Claudia, since purple is her colour, and also because I didn’t want to put any black or white on the outfit. Claudia is shades of grey; nothing about her is black and white. And her left sandal is an adaptation of her prosthetic! I included the leg to an extent, but it’s all ethereal. I guess magic could fix it, but I wanted her to keep that element. Her super awesome boyfriend that is my new favourite character (how could he not be?) made her that leg, and it had to get translated into her fairy form. Also, I love her wings. They’re so beautiful. But they’re darker than you think…someone please, please pick up on it! I’m really proud of this, so I’m hoping someone gets it. And she’s got so much star detailing because of Aaravos. She has an Aaravos theme. Because why not?

[indelicateink]

dreams, perversions, and desires continue on the Interview with the Vampire kink meme.

so many thanks to @vampire-dove for maintaining this anon kink meme for us.

sharing some of the prompts going on over there. to play: click on the form link on the left side of the page. please go add more. please fill prompts. have you anonymously wrecked your fav today?

Prompts [7/?]:

Lestat de Lioncourt/Louis de Pointe du Lac Gentle Sex, Tender Sex, Exploration, Warm and Fuzzy Feelings, Dominance, Bottoming

after over 70 years of topping and domming, louis is ready for someone else to take the reins when he starts over. finding his way back to being vulnerable doesn't come easy.

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Armand/Daniel Molloy, Armand/Marius de Romanus, Lestat de Lioncourt/Louis de Pointe du Lac Intrigue, Courting Rituals, Alternate Universe - Royalty, Historical Fantasy, Power Imbalance, Sex Work, Fish out of Water

Courtesan Armand has broken with Duke Marius de Romanus over his recent infidelity (well. His recent marriage of convenience. Very inconvenient for Armand). He’s not taking him back this time. Definitely not.

Knowing Armand’s weakness for older men, Armand’s former patron and good friend Marquis Lestat de Lioncourt introduces him to a lowly but charming scholar, Daniel Molloy, for a summer diversion.

Lestat’s close gentleman friend Louis thinks this is a disaster: for all that he’s a courtesan, Armand is not great at casual.

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Lestat de Lioncourt/Louis de Pointe du Lac Accidental Stimulation, Accidental Sex, Oops, Love/Hate, Bad Decisions, Regret, Simultaneous Orgasm, Chemistry, Huddling For Warmth, Naked Cuddling, Tight Spaces, There Was Only One Bed

Strangers Louis and Lestat are each surprised and pissed to discover there’s another vampire on board their trans-pacific voyage, and spend most of their time avoiding each other. When the ship has an emergency and goes down mercifully close to a deserted coastline, luckily Lestat is able to bring one of his coffins to shore, though it’s worse for wear.

The sun is coming up fast on their freezing spit of land, but Lestat is gentleman enough to share his shelter. Louis really, really wishes Lestat had brought a bigger coffin. Or dry clothes.

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Lestat de Lioncourt/Louis de Pointe du Lac Consensual Non-Consent kink: biological imperative

someone casts a curse on the hated inhabitants of the rue royale townhome not knowing they're actually vampires, not some other kind of supernatural creatures. the spell misfires into a fuck-or-die delirium.

lestat and louis are two years into their post-claudia depression era when they suddenly have to set their grudges with each other aside when hit by a misguided curse

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Lestat de Lioncourt/Louis de Pointe du Lac Period-Typical Racism. Forbidden Love, Segregation, Racism, Power Imbalance, Breaking Up & Making Up, Secret Relationship, Fear of Discovery, Closeted, Internalized Homophobia, Period-Typical Homophobia, Homophobic Language

Human AU — In 1963 New Orleans, Lestat and Louis are teachers at a desegregated elementary school where, despite his excellence, Louis is fighting to hold onto his job when more and more of his fellow Black teachers are losing their jobs to white teachers. He can’t afford to hand them any ammunition, which is why the heady adrenaline of his affair with fellow teacher Lestat de Lioncourt is NOT worth the risk—on too many levels to count.

Three times Louis broke it off with Lestat—for real this time—and one time Louis admitted this insecure devoted histrionic fool might be it for him.

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Lestat de Lioncourt/Louis de Pointe du Lac Teasing, Pining

high school au. desperate for his attention, theater kid lestat grows increasingly obnoxious in his bids for pending valedictorian louis to notice him before they graduate.

he slept with louis's boyfriend (before they broke up), he backed his car into louis's, he embarrassed louis while he was giving a report in class to relieve the tension, he dedicated his performance of hamlet to him, he made sure louis received more flowers on valentine's than anyone else, and he had a very public whirlwind seduction of the salutatorian to make sure her grades were too derailed to compete with louis's. lestat honestly doesn't know what it's going to take.

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Lestat de Lioncourt/Louis de Pointe du Lac Alternate Universe - Werewolf, Full Shift Werewolves, Werewolf Sex

lestat doesn’t reveal himself to louis as a vampire in the church—he reveals himself as a werewolf. he’s not looking to turn louis, but feeling freaked out about louis’s rejection of lestat and louis’s suicidal ideation, lestat has a strong need to claim louis in lestat’s werewolf form.

[thedailydescent]

Happy Halloween!🎃 

While you're here, consider saving a bit of what you were going to spend on candy today on one or more of these currently struggling fundraisers. I have donated to mostly all of these and can vouch for all of them:

Nesma Ahmed (@nesmamomen and @nesmamomenn)

Her fundraiser was doing very well up until the past few days, with only $71 being raised in the past 24 hours! Nesma's fundraiser is going towards providing for her and her 11 family members, as well as providing internet access for school, which costs $2 an hour if she wants the good quality. Her family also owns a donkey and a cat, who have experienced illness and/or injuries recently.

2. Shahad Ahmed/Farah Ahmed (@shah599 and @farahmoo2)

Shahad and Farah's fundraiser is going towards their education funding. They are currently taking online courses: Shahad who is studying to become a pharmacist, and Farah who is trying to graduate high school. They're currently having trouble finding time to study with the lack of good internet. Farah recently told me that she can't go to the internet point everyday (which takes an hour to walk to), otherwise, she won't have time to study. Shahad has also recently been threatened by zionists, which has made her terrified to come on here to campaign for herself. Please help support them during this time. They have only raised €15 in the past three days!

3. Hashim and Laila (@hashimsafadi)

Hashim has become shadowbanned here on Tumblr, so can no longer dm people, send asks, or notify others if he's tagged them in a post. This has made campaigning for himself and his wife Laila very difficult, as they're currently sitting at only €2,118 after six months of campaigning, and have not received any donations for more than a day. Please help them out during this time. You can also follow and contact Hashim through his Instagram accounts here and here.

4. Hazem Tannera (@hazemfromgaza)

Hazem's fundraising is currently struggling desperately. He is currently recovering from surgery in Egypt and is trying to provide for his ten family members in Gaza, one of which is his mother and three of which are children. He has only raised £529 since Oct 4, which isn't good enough, seeing as his family need rent for the small house their staying in, which costs about $750 a month. He has not received any donations for the past 24 hours!

5. Yahya Bkheet (@yahyabkheeblog and @yahyabkheet-blog)

Yahya is a father of three children under ten and is currently taking care of his sick mother. His family is currently starving, with his mother and children currently sick from either heart disease, skin disease, or the flu. The water they drink is polluted and they are starving, with Little Mira crying herself to sleep every night because she is so hungry! They currently living in a tent which is unsuitable for the upcoming winter, yet have only received €582 in donations since Oct 3 and have not had any donations for the past two days!

Please check out their urls in my search machine for more information and vetting proof.

(message me for removal from the taglist- I won't be offended!)

@claudia-de-lioncourt @maester-cressen @khanger @neptunerings @akajustmerry

@thedigitalbard @claudiaeparvier @beautyindiversity @nashvillethotchicken @anneemay

@undecimber-of-joy @neechees @buttercuparry @maoistyuri @mangocheesecakes

[kafkasapartment]

Claudia Cardinale sur un tournage, (Claudia Cardinale on a film set), 1961. Marc Riboud. Silver gelatin print.

[kiki-de-la-petite-flaque]

Claudia Cardinale et Alain Delon photographiés par Patrice Habans sur le tournage du "Guépard" (Il Gattopardo) de Luchino Visconti, en Sicile le 10 août 1962

[travelella]

Moulin Sur Mer, Saint Cyr, Port-au-Prince, Haiti

Claudia Altamimi