#fascinated by them

[strunmah-mah]

It's been decades and there still hasn't been an explanation, or even wondering from DC as to why Willis Todd has Shiva's number. Given the introduction of the Order of Shiva in the current Batgirl I'm just going to have to assume he was founding member of the Gotham chapter.

[smalldicksantiago]

Lestat would be pissed about not getting that I love you but I think it makes perfect sense why he didn't, idk how much of loumand is a lie and them playing themselves and how much is true but they're hinting that the reason Louis couldn't say he loved Lestat is because of just how much he loved/loves him truly the embodiment of if I loved less I might be able to talk about it more whereas with Armand it's so easy to say "I love you" "love of my life" which we know are lies and even Louis knows are lies judging by dreamstat mocking them which is just Louis' psyche.

so what i got was that louis just loves lestat so much that he literally can't voice it? it's just so overwhelming for him? interesting.

with paris era loumand, i think that it's just armand that loves louis. louis doesn't love armand. not yet anyway. he might in the future but louis, in a way, is just using him right now.

[sailermoon]

anyone else ever pause and watch these

[marshmurmurs]

gonna start giving the default icon+untitled blogs until the next one of those follows me before i shoost

[odetokeons]

♱ Nosferatu (2024) dir. Robert Eggers ♱

+ bonus

[cronchy-baguette]

finished severance in one night yesterday and i'm obsessed

[eydilily]

would you bite the hand that feeds you?

[passerinesoncaffeine]

I'm bothering you with questions and statements. What's your favorite bird? The world needs to know.

*gasps* (thank you)

I have. A lot of favorite birds and probably one overarching one. I'll say like. Three of my runner-ups to spare the world.

Fairy wrens! Silly, pretty, little bastards!

Magpies my beloved because I too am an avid hoarder of shiny objects.

Great eared nightjars because I am in love with the fluffy dragon-bird.

My favorite favorite birds though are always hummingbirds <3. They have a lot of sentimental value to me, and I'm fascinated by them.

[puppppppppy]

who is your favorite AA character? 👁️👁️

ziska… I hope capcom brings her back someday

[mfdragon]

They’re bonding ✨

This is kinda like a practice comic to get me back into drawing these robos. But also I think Blitzwing and Sumdac would totally hang. ✌️🕶️✌️

[yourangle-yuordevil]

[Birds of a feather AU] Absolutely incapable of asking each-other out normally in every single universe <.<

[disgracefulthings]

Mobei-Jun: How should I court Qinghua?

Luo Binghe: Try giving him a gift. There are many things you can give to a human that can be considered a courting gift

Mobei-Jun, handing something to Shang Qinghua: Here, have this neat-looking rock

Luo Binghe: I don't think-

Shang Qinghua: This is amazing my king! This is a cool rock! I'm going to show it off to everyone

Luo Binghe: Huh

[baby-prophet]

older couple sitting on the bench across from me almost completely silently playing a card game

[ravencromwell]

Rereading Dickens Christmas Carol for the first time in a long time. And the more I reread, the more it strikes me how seamlessly a queer reading could slip within these pages. Not an especially twee reading, wherein all Scrooge's troubles start and end with grief over Jacob Marley's death. For we know that Scrooge was a "Tight-fisted hand at the grindstone, Scrooge! a squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous, old sinner!" And we know that he and Marley were "two kindred spirits"

And perhaps that very fact makes the similarities to queer life, unintended as they most likely were by Mr. Dickens, achingly poignant to me. Scrooge is, we're told, "secret and self-contained and solitary as an oyster." How much that resonates, for so many of us who shield our innermost selves but from a select group of friends. And we know that Scrooge and Marley were, at the very least, certainly that for one another. Scrooge is Marley's sole mourner; his sole executor and beneficiary; and even Dickens notes, "friend." How reminiscent is that of queer couples across history, estranged from their families?

Scrooge lives in a set of chambers that once belonged to Marley—clearly Dickens wanted us to believe Scrooge gave up his own dwellings after Marley's death to economize. But with only a flicker of change, those chambers become _their chambers, rented by Marley as the senior member of the couple. The place is so desolate Dickens notes "one could scarcely help fancying it must have run there when it was a young house, playing at hide-and-seek with other houses, and have forgotten the way out again." The perfect abode for two queer misers who wanted no one prying into their business.

Marley's name is still above the door of Scrooge's counting-house: a mark by which, no doubt, Dickens meant to convey Scrooge such a penny-pincher he couldn't bother to have it changed. But a thing can be both! mark of frugality to ludicrous excess and! mark of mourning. "sometimes," Dickens opines, "People new to the

business called Scrooge Scrooge, and sometimes Marley, but he answered to both names. It was all the same to him."

This is why "death of the author" matters so much, in expanding our interpretations of texts. It is vastly far from the lens Dickens would have intended. But, the idea of a ghost of queerness, so taboo in the society it could barely be glanced at sidewise in this tale that is all about the inexplicable and yet that lingers over everything becomes an astonishing lens through which to read this book. Thinking of Scrooge as a queer man, his "melancholy dinner at his usual melancholy tavern" becomes a eerie prefiguring of the hollowness of days spent by Isherwood's A Single Man. In this universe, little wonder Scrooge doubly hates mention of time with family, marriage, etc. when the precise nature of his grief is both unacknowledged and unacknowledgable.

And readings like this are vital, because the uncomfortable truth is, discrimination doesn't "discriminate between sinners and saints", to borrow a Miranda phrase. It is easy, in my liberal circles, to fight for queer people who hold "the good sorts of politics". But what about men like Michael Hess, culpable for supporting Reagan even as his contemptuous homophobia let the aids epidemic run rampant? How much harder is it to remember Michael had a partner? That he deserves empathy and compassion for being practically tarred and feathered out of the party upon his own aids diagnosis?

Expanding our imaginative universes to include queerness, not as redemptive panacea, but merely as one aspect of identity, personality, often in vicious conflict with others. Even! as we consider those stories equally worthy of being told feels vital if we're ever to truly express the complexity of what queer humanity looks like.

[carabas]

"He used blood magic against you. He betrayed us. He pulled you into that prison."

...Illario. That's Illario. They might as well be talking about Illario instead of Solas here, except Illario is all Lucanis has left, so he can forgive Illario for anything. But now all those things that were done to him have also been done to Rook.

[tawnysoup]

the fritter (frin critter)