#fare book

[if-you-fan-a-fire]

"Sent to Industrial School," Kingston Daily Standard. July 17, 1912. Page 12. --- In juvenile court this morning a 16 year old lad was sent to the Industrial School. He was found guilty of having stolen a fare box from the Street Railway Company. Another boy who was implicated in the theft was remanded. There were five in the crowd, and warrants are out for the other three.

[heybiji]

[cbrownjc]

Hi! Hope you don't mind but I wanted to ask your opinion on some stuff we learned in ep 6 and possible repercussions for Daniel's character. So we get the super heavy-handed wink wink nudge nudge "body switch" line from Raglan, which imo definitely implies they are gonna go there at some point - body switching *will* be a thing.

Before this, I was actually pretty hopeful that at some point, Armand was going to turn old man Daniel into a vampire. Not sure yet how and when it would happen, but it felt like they were building towards it (also having not forgotten the super sus levodopa treatment from probably-a-vampire Dr. Fareed). But if they're going to introduce body switching (and it feels significant that this line was said to Daniel so I doubt it will NOT involve him at all), then that no longer makes sense, right? Why bother turning old man Daniel when they're gonna body switch his spirit with what I suspect might be a cloned younger version of him (played by LBF ofc)? I realize I'm making a lot of assumptions here lol but the hints are there, aren't they? Mostly I just really don't want Eric to be written out of the show - I'm so attached to his version of Daniel (though I also want to see more of LBF - I'm so torn lmao).

Where do you think they're going with this?

Hi,

Okay, so. IF older Daniel is turned and IF the body switch is still in play, I feel there are multiple scenarios going on as to where this could be going.

The first thing we have to look at is who we might see turn older Daniel if it happens. (And which I already predicted after last week's Inside the Episode for ep 2x05 gave away that the IWTV book was going to be published I think very likely is going to happen this season.) If it's Armand who does it, then it is 100% Daniel who is being turned. If it's Louis -- or anyone else -- who does it, then it 100% is not Daniel who is being turned IMO, but Raglan James -- no matter if it's Eric that we see getting bitten, drained, and turned by Louis . . . or any other vampire.

Because this show did not go to all the trouble it did in this latest episode (2x06) to specifically discuss how Armand has never once in his whole vampire life made another vampire and then not have him be the one to turn his one-and-only book-canon fledgling.

So if we see anyone other than Armand turning older Daniel at some point? Then that is Daniel's body being turned, but Daniel's actual soul/spirit/consciousness will for sure be somewhere else. Even if we don't actually see the switch happen beforehand.

If this is the case, Daniel's soul/spirit/consciousness will be in some other body -- most likely Justin Kirk's -- and I can see a scenario where Daniel doesn't want his older body back because it's now a vampire. So a new body is made for him -- via clone or whatever -- by Dr. Fareed that is younger, but not super young or something (and played by LBF -- whom I myself have already pointed out is 36 years old right now . . . meaning he could realistically play someone 40 years old IMO).

So this way, Daniel is still human, just in a different body now. And his older body is now a vampire and . . . IDK, goes off to join in on the Great Conversion thing, I'd guess. Or, maybe James just goes off to do what he did in the TotBT book but then, maybe something goes wrong with him in Daniel's older body -- maybe he's not fully anchored to it or something because this is the first time he's ever jumped bodies. Or maybe something else goes wrong (put a pin in this). And so James jumps bodies again, but he now wants to be a vampire again really bad. Which now sets up for him plotting to steal Lestat's body and the whole TotBT storyline.

However, if we see Armand turn older Daniel? I do think they could still be setting up for the body swap but, IMO, it might go more like this if they are:

Older Daniel gets turned and, just like his book counterpart, goes mad sometime very soon after he is. And I think the earlier in the show's run that Daniel gets turned the more likely we are headed toward the book scenario of Daniel losing his mind after he is turned. Because even I have kind of glossed over the fact Daniel being turned by Armand didn't lead to a happy ending for them both -- not right away. Things actually went really bad for them for decades afterward. Daniel went mad, and he and Armand were separated during that time he was, for over 20 years before Daniel finally healed and reunited with Armand again.

And while I don't think Daniel's turning on the show will lead to a +20-year separation -- because Armand and Daniel have already done that on the show -- we are very much not out of the woods on older Daniel going mad once he is turned IMO. I think Daniel going mad after he's turned is not only very much in play but will happen at some point if he is.

And, in the show? Daniel might not just go mad because he's unable to deal with what he now is or he's angry at Armand about, well, a whole lot of things. IMO, the body swap hints might also point to something, even more, being at play here. (Pin!)

This, however, is where my thoughts on these things get a bit more possibly depressing because -- I'm not 100% sure that turning older Daniel would cure his Parkinsons. Because Parkinson's isn't like cancer or being poisoned or dying from being shot or something. Parkinson's is specifically a neurological disease.

And one thing that the books have shown is that The Blood does NOT cure something neurological.

In the books, one of the twins, the vampire Maharet, was blinded before she was turned. And she isn't able to just take some human eyes and put them into her empty eye sockets and have that work permanently. The human eyes just continue to die within her eye sockets and that is because even The Blood can't heal the nerves connecting them.

We also see that The Blood doesn't help with neurological problems with the character of Mekare -- the other twin -- in the book Prince Lestat. Now, I'm only up to Chapter 15 of that book, but I have read past the part in that book where Jesse talks about Dr. Fareed examining Mekare, particularly her brain. Because while Mekare had her tongue cut out before she was turned, something happened to her mind as well. And this is what Jesse says was discovered after Mekare was examined by Fareed (via a CAT scan and other ways):

"They said Mekare was mindless," said Jesse. "They said the brain in her head was atrophied. They said there was so little indication of brain activity that she was like a human in a coma, kept alive by the brain stem alone. Apparently, she'd been entombed for so long, possibly in a cave, no one knew, that even her sight had been affected. The powerful Blood actually hardened the atrophied tissue over time [. . .]"

What this tells me is that there is probably not going to be any reversal wrt Daniel's Parkinson's once he's turned. Daniel's brain, and nerves, might just do like Mekare's did -- harden at the point they are at now. Keeping things forever in the degenerative state they are at whenever he's turned.

The Blood can kill cancer cells, destroy poison within the body, eradicate diseases like TB from the body, and even heal cuts and wounds. But it doesn't seem to be able to do anything for neurological issues, going by the books. It freezes things where they are when you are turned wrt that and does not repair them.

So older Daniel going mad after he's turned? Might not just be because of being unable to fully deal with now being a vampire. It might also be because he was turned while his body had health issues that even The Blood cannot fix. And while he will no longer age or die, Daniel might still have his body's neurological issues that were there when he was turned, just now forever frozen in that state where they were. Just like it remained so for the twins.

The show specifically focused on Daniel's shaking getting worse in episode 2x02 when he was under emotional stress/duress, which is very much a Parkinson's thing. As I know I've said more than once, I took care of my mom for 10 years while she had Parkinson's, and because so I've hyper-noticed these things -- the camera very much sometimes focusing on Daniel's shaking this season. Daniel's shaking was even commented on by Louis just last week.

And if Daniel is turned soon, well . . . imagine having to live with something like that for eternity?

And so just like with Maharet and her eyes, which Dr. Fareed figured out how to give her permanent ones that would never die in her head, (and also knew he could give Mekare a new tongue but, at least as far as I've read that offer hasn't been accepted -- and doing something for her brain was likely out of the question given that she was the Sacred Core at that point meaning her brain was fused with Amel's spirit . . . operating on that would very likely put every vampire in the world in danger), maybe this will have Dr. Fareed coming up with a new, cloned body for Daniel that don't have those neurological issues?

And then maybe that body gets stolen by Raglan James in a later season and we get the TotBT storyline that way? I can see being one way into it.

As it is, I know that making bodies for spirits to occupy does become a thing in the books after Prince Lestat. So their being able to do so is likely going to be established at some point -- and this could be one way they do so.

But, either way, if older Daniel is turned anytime soon, these are the two ways I can see it going afterward, and probably why they are also dropping body swap hints as well along with it. Because I don't think Daniel being turned is going to be simple, or lead to something happy right away. Again, it didn't in the books.

And really, this all just kind of backs up why I wasn't ever really feeling Daniel being turned anytime soon. But I realize now that my wanting the show to wait before they did so was the more happy way I was looking at it to go.

But this is Gothic Horror. And while I don't think Eric will be "written out" right away or something, I don't think whichever scenario I've given for all of this will lead to something happy. Not for a long time. There is just too much already in the source material that points to it not, IMO. And I think the show is very much setting up for that as well with the hints it's clearly dropping wrt all of this.

[mademoisellebianx]

Vampire Chronicles Side Characters: Fareed Bhansali

[living-the-gay-fandom-life]

The way Gideon the Ninth is making me lose it, straight up isn’t funny anymore. I’m literally scream crying about these batshit insane lesbians and I just CAN’T DO IT ANYMORE! If they don’t get their happy ending I’m running away and becoming a SAD LESBIAN HERMIT!

[lordansketil]

I finally got my hands on an English translation of one of Carême's cookbooks and holy fuck, no wonder Prinny got so fat, oh my god, the illustrations of the grand set pieces, the amount of butter and alcohol that went into the sauces and glazes, reading the names of the dishes is nothing to knowing how much champagne, how much madeira, how much caviar, how much crayfish butter, how many truffles cut to resemble olives, the amount of prime meat that was used for stock, and how many of the most extreme versions of these recipes are à la Régence. This food is so rich it's insane. You couldn't even make it without a small army of cooks. No wonder everyone hated Prinny. I was not prepared for just how fancy this food was. The giant menus for the Regent's banquets are nothing without the recipes and illustrations. Oh my god. It is not like Victorian dining. This is the last gorgeous gasp of rococo drenched in butter and champagne sauce.

[thebeautifulbook]

VIKING TALES by Jennie Hall (Chicago/New York/London: Rand McNally, 1902) Illustrated by Victor R. Lambdin.

source

[silentgrim]

determined to become a danger to society by getting my drivers license

[episims]

Cloud "Ugghhh. My back feels like there was a boulder under the mattress."

Julian "A bad sleeping position?"

Cloud "I blame the bed! I doubt the military has ergonomy among their criterion for purchasing these things."

Julian "-just a short shower, but my beard needs tidying up, too-"

Jonas "Take your time. I'll keep her occupied for a while."

Jonas "Any story requests?"

Aurora "Dad!"

Jonas "Yeah, not an option. Your dad deserves the beauty break."

Aurora "Ah...!"

Jonas "This book seems to have unicorns and bears. No preference, no right to complain."

[sunless-not-sinless]

one thing i love about tumblr is the queue. i have it so five reblogs a day will go up cone rain or shine.

but the queue has a max size of 1_000, so that could mean 200 days between me seeing a post and reblogging it. 200 days. even at ~30 days ive forgotten most of the posts and theyre fresh to me when i see them on my dash.

200 days. thats a pretty long time.

posts ive made have been dead for months and then suddenly someones queue came around and theres a new spark

whenever i see current political posts i fast reblog and queue. sure pretty much no one sees my posts but i see them! i get to be reminded of important events the collective consciousness stops talking about them!

if im ever too ill for screens my blog remains the same.

its my memories that i chose to share with my future self. its something there even when im not. its a reminder its nothing its jokes its memes

yknow what? its comforting

[katabay]

HELL YEAH after. several months*, I finally got my hands back on the translation of the Musketeers I was reading, and also watched Les Trois Mousquetaires: D'Artagnan! we are so back, baby. 2024 is the year of the Musketeers

*my laptop died spectacularly and irreparably earlier this year, and my collection of musketeers PDFs was among the casualties of things I hadn’t backed up yet. all of the visual references I had been slowly collecting are gone too, but that’s fine because I can finally finish reading the books

[000marie198]

Alright!

Who agrees that Sharpshot is a cameo to Book!Toothless?

Adding on, who agrees that this guy from the first movie is a major cameo to Book Toothless?

(Little guy challenged a freakin' Night Fury dozens of times his size and was all smug and confident he'd win)

Even better, who agrees that this Terror from the first movie and Sharpshot is the same dragon and this same dragon is a cameo to Book Toothless?

[wavesoutbeingtossed]

I made a very responsible choice today

[apollolynx98]

Why has no one told me before that The Divine Comedy is a fanfic of Dante meeting his idol (Virgil)?

It's literally a self-insert. A Y/N (Dante) x Virgil.

If I had known, I'd read it sooner.

[nightcolorz]

Imagine ur a 18th century country boy from a very Catholic French village and an abusive family that stifles ur identity and self worth, and imagine u get ur first taste of freedom and happiness when u run off to the city to be an actor. Imagine how happy u r getting to explore urself and Imagine the joy when ur embraced for it. Imagine u only get a glimpse of that life until ur kidnapped in the night by a devil who fundamentally alters ur body and ur appearance to the point where ur reflection in the mirror is unrecognizable. Imagine ur given no explanation or understanding beyond "you are a predator who has to take human life now." You're like, "what unforgivable sin did I commit to deserve this" from ur perspective there is smth so cosmically wrong with u that u have been eternally fated to live an existence of ultimate evil until gods light strikes u down. So imagine u spend decades and decades trying to justify this reality to urself, trying to live with yourself and accept yourself as smth that u can only perceive as inherently evil. Then imagine at one of your lowest points someone with ur same ailment approaches u and explains that he's a scientist who studies ur kind. Imagine how mind blowing it would be when he speaks of u not as smth removed from what is natural entirely, but as a biological organism. Suddenly ur not an agent of the devil, but a being that functions as part of the natural world. U don't kill and drink blood because ur smth evil, you do bcus its where ur body gains its energy. And then imagine said scientist says hey btw, if u don't mind, to help me further my research id rlly appreciate some samples of ur DNA. I've found ways to alter the changes in our bodies temporarily also so that u can experience sensations u haven't since u were transformed, if ur interested. Girl I'd give him my sperm too tf.

[persa-tra-i-miei-pensieri]

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[...] indicandone una argentata con un logo circolare nero con su scritto "Disc Power".

Cit. "Voglio fare la Dj!"