#episode retell

[umblrspectrum]

go read Memento Nori and Like the Stars and What Friends Are For and just generally all of Ad Astra Per Aspera by LadyDaybreaker on ao3

[r0setyler]

nobody in the doctor who fandom talking about billie piper and michelle greenidge in the new show 'kaos' together, aka rose tyler and carla sunday

[somegrumpynerd]

Everyone sleeps in dadmare's bed for the night

Well, almost everyone sleeps

[katbirdy]

I honestly think the Legend of Vox Machina exists 1- in canon and 2- is a historical fiction w/in canon. It's an elaborate retelling of what actually happened (the streamed campaign). Obviously the people that were there know what happened, but really who's going to sit through a longwinded retelling of it including all the shopping episodes.

[genericpuff]

i have nothing to say about the newest episodes of LO

so I'll let past me from the year 2022 say it instead

because everything they said a year and a half ago ironically still applies today and i don't even know how that's possible but it's where we are 💀😭

[pynkhues]

https://www.tumblr.com/nalyra-dreaming/762934616351031296/theres-something-ive-struggled-to-understand

I always wondered about what the anon asked as well. Care to share your reading?

I more or less agree with the OP's answer that it's about Louis not wanting to be connected to Madeleine, but I think the motivation is probably different?

My read is that episode is really about Louis trying to let Claudia go, and that he's acknowledging the complete dissolution of the family unit. After all, if Lestat and Louis' turning was a wedding, and Lestat turning Claudia was Lestat giving Louis a daughter, Louis knowing that Madeleine and Claudia are a love match in a lot of ways turns him into the father giving his daughter away on her wedding day. Turning Madeleine isn't about love for him, nor about having a child, it's about seeing his daughter as a grown woman ready to start her own family without him.

The acknowledgement of Claudia as an adult is not one he's ever genuinely made before - something s2 makes very clear with Claudia having to pose as his daughter again in wartorn Europe, Baby Lulu being the female diminutive of Louis, and then, even more tellingly, with Dreamstat explicitly referring to her as such - and while she's been pulling away all season and trying to force Louis into independence, it's been something he's pretty clearly very resentful of.

Madeleine though forces his hand, because Claudia finally choosing a companion splinters the last leg of their family unit for good. Madeleine is a stranger to him in the way many children's spouses are strangers to their in-laws, and Louis doesn't have Lestat to share the weight of that with anymore (and he doesn't have Lestat because of Claudia, which deepens the resentment). All he knows - which he discovers through turning her - is that she loves his daughter, and I take Louis trying to get the blood out of himself as a bitter and wounded sort of wedding gift.

He wants to give them their freedom, but at the same time the depression he experienced as an empty nester in New Orleans has already set in, he has to live with the fact that his attempt at a family has ended, and Armand's never been as satisfying to take things out on as Lestat was, to say nothing of the fact that he - as Assad put it - doesn't give a fuck about Claudia. At least Lestat gave a fuck, even if he usually gave the wrong sort of fucks, haha.

So yeah, I think it's a sort of attempt at a resentful wedding present, in a lot of ways, to try and give her this thing without being a part of it, and a real attempt to let Claudia go as his daughter.

Little does Louis know though, Claudia's the gothic heroine of this story, and she's not ever going to get out of her father's (or step-father's) house.

[retellingthehobbit]

Drawing while listening to podcasts is so funny, because like— This page from the latest chapter of the Hobbit comic adaptation was brought to you by the Magnus Archives!

I think I started drawing this page to MAG 166: The Worms, and binge-listened to a lot more gruesome horror after that; and in the end I created this bit of Martin-Blackwood-approved art:

[shy-sapphic-ace]

Guys should I write a Dracula musical. Should I???

[indelicateink]

tagged by @hereticaas -- thank you!

make a poll with five of your all time favourite characters and then tag five people to do the same. see which character is everyone's favourite.

okay so I have zero chill on EpisodeSevenWeekendEve and i'm going to kind of bend the rules here. they're five different characters, but they're all the same character--kind of. is he my fav characters of all time? HE IS/ARE TONIGHT, FRIENDS.

which lestat is your favorite lestat: lestat as recounted by louis, lestat as written about in claudia's diaries, lestat as relayed by armand, louis's 1940s dreamstat hallucinations, or the real lestat, whom we have yet to meet televised as of 21 june 2024?

(no sixth opt-out/nuanced/all-of-the-above/none-of-the-above option, you are brutally forced to choose)

if you are reading this, I am tagging *you* to do a five favs poll, too

[whosname]

Landlady: WHAT ARE YOU DOING WITH MY IIIIIIIIIIIN????!!!!

[Id. Gintama fanart. Three panels. 1. Shinpachi and Kagura, with a handkerchief on their heads, dancing while making a silly face. 2. first panel is Tae serving some sake to a guest. second panel is Gintoki with a smug smile while playing the shamisen. 3. The Landlady entering the room desperately crying . end Id.]

[sobecomesomethingelse]

the problem with podcasts with great writing and excellent production values is that they don’t have more episodes for me to listen to

[ineachretelling]

Monster Month 2: The Dead Are Rising continues with giggling slumber party energy as Jas, River, Callie, Kyle, and Charley all discuss the rare instant cult classic, Lisa Frankenstein, and how it's a more faithful adaptation of the original novel than even the host initially thought, how it also replicates the dynamic of Mary and Percy Shelley, and how it's a perfectly told dick joke. Hollywood, please let Zelda Williams and Diablo Cody make more monster movies. This podcast contains swearing and discussions of sexual activity, sexual assault/molestation, grief, death, mutilation, and ableism.

[gintama-polls]

Gintama Episode Tourney

Episode 32, "Life Moves On Like a Conveyor Belt" After losing his memory, Gintoki starts working at a factory making Justaways. The second half of the Memory Loss Arc.

Gintama: A New Retelling Benizakura Arc The Benizakura Arc, on the big screen.

[realityisdulllonglivefiction]

just started watching Oh, My General! and can I just say

MA’AM

DROP HIS ASS

Oh my gods the ml is so unappealing and the the general is so hot ma’am please I’ll be your wife I’ll be your concubine you do not need to submit yourself to that I’ll submit myself to you instead for your considwration

[downtherabbitholewithlucy]

Storytime with "THE LIQUIDATOR"

[cjbolan]

Just saw the latest Percy Jackson Episode 6. IMAGINE a live action Emily Windsnap looking like the very last scene of that episode (also the lotus casino reminds me of the M-drug)