#for america at least I think

[torturedblue]

ONE

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WEEK

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AWAY

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[royaltea000]

This man has no idea how close he is at all times to being attic wifed

[meidui]

“It kinda feels personal.” | for @catws-anniversary ♡

[dkettchen]

[matoitech]

i met a famous person outside of the grocery store !!!!

[keiksy-cake]

England's page 4 from the Hetalia Collezione

[Pls remember I'm no pro in jpns, pls don't be mean to me 🙏]

[sunflowerpieivan]

Two frozen demons doing their job. I am glad I drew them! I already drew them in my AU, but separately so it doesn’t really count.

[aniseandspearmint]

About covid being over: are we just meant to put our entire social lives, our entire society on pause forever? My mental health plummeted during lockdown and will take years to recover. Now that there's vaccines and crowd immunity and less deadly strains we ARE meant to learn to deal with it as a given, the way we have with many deadly diseases in the past, and move on. So for the sake of life moving on at some point it's **normal** to treat it as a cold, and I'm saying this as someone who's lost people during the pandemic too. Please do not fear monger.

No, but you SHOULD care about other people enough to still mask.

I am NOT fearmongering.

Covid is still dangerous, especially to the many MANY people who are immunocompromised and people who cannot get the vaccines (for whatever reason).

I know several people who THIS YEAR caught permanently disabling covid, despite all being fully vaccinated.

I am not saying you have to quarantine yourself anymore. That was NOT a thing I said. There is a world of difference between wishing that other people cared enough to MASK, a thing that is NOT HARD AT ALL, and demanding that people still observe full quarantine protocols.

Plugging your ears and closing your eyes and refusing to listen when people are still justifiably worried, and not listening to experts that haven't been pressured by the government to say 'COVID IS NOT A THREAT ANYMORE YAAAY!!!' just makes you a fool.

I know that's harsh, but it's the truth.

Hospitals are no longer required to report covid cases and covid deaths as such. This is a GIANT RED FLAG that people are happily ignoring so they can feel safe.

[heatwa-ves]

my post canon designs and some headcanons!! this is two years after the end of royal 💖

[mostlyvoid-partiallyflowers]

The most recent episode of Interview with a Vampire let's us see Lestat's side of the story and see how it compares to Louis' accounting of their relationship. As a result, it reaffirms just how unreliable of a narrator Louis is, but it also further illuminates elements of his character that the director and writers have been playing with since the beginning of the show.

There's this part in the episode where Lestat turns to Louis and apologizes and it's framed with Lestat turned to Louis on one side and Claudia on his other side. They're the angel and devil on Louis' shoulders, but who is the angel and who is the devil? And as my friend said, Armand and Daniel are placed into that same dynamic with Louis later on. We are being asked to decide who to trust, who's telling the truth, who's the good guy, but the fact of unreliability robs us of that decision.

This whole story is about Louis, he's the protagonist, though not the narrator, and he is constantly being pulled in two directions, no matter when or where he is in his story. He's a mind split in two, divided by nature and circumstance. He's vampire and human, owner and owned, father and child, angel and devil. He's both telling the story and being told the story. His history is a story he tells himself, and as we've seen, sometimes that story is not whole.

Louis is the angel who saved Claudia from the fire but he's also the devil who sentenced her to an life of endless torment, the adult trapped in the body of a child. He's the angel who rescued Lestat from his grief and also the devil who abandoned him, who couldn't love him, could only kill and leave him.

He's pulled in two directions, internally and externally at all times and so it's no wonder that he feels the need to confess, first to the priest, then Daniel, and then Daniel again.

He's desperate to be heard, a Black man with power in Jim Crow America who's controlled by his position as someone with a seat at the table but one who will never be considered equal. He doesn't belong to the Black community or the white community, he can't. He acts as a go-between, a bridge, one who is pushed and pulled until he can't take it anymore. He's a fledgling child to an undead father, he's a young queer man discovering his sexual identity with an infinitely experienced partner. He's confessing because he wants to be absolved, that human part of him that was raised Catholic, that child who believed, he wants to be saved. He wants to be seen.

Louis wants to attain a forever life that is morally pure, but he can't. He's been soiled by sin, by "the devil," as he calls Lestat, and he can never be clean again. Deep down, I think he knows this, but he can't stop trying to repent. He tries to self-flagellate by staying with Lestat and then tries to repent by killing him, but can't actually follow through. He follows Claudia to Europe to try and assuage his guilt. He sets himself on fire, attempts to burn himself at the stake, to purify his body, rid himself of the dark gift.

Louis is a man endlessly trying to account for the pain he has caused and he ultimately fails, over and over again, because he can't get rid of what he is. A monster. He's an endlessly hungry monster. He's hungry for love, for respect, for power, for forgiveness, for death. He's a hole that can never be filled. He can never truly acquire any of those things because he will always be punishing himself for wanting and needing them in the first place. He will never truly believe he deserves them and as a result, can't accept them if they are ever offered. He can never be absolved for he has damned himself by accepting the dark gift and thus has tainted himself past the point of saving.

[therossgarden]

I’m sorry. You’re telling me that both my OTPs consist of two queer, 100+ year old, non-human men who started off as friends and eventually developed a bond so strong that no other relationship ever compared to it?

That both reunited in the present after being apart since the 40s?

That both consist of a blond and a brunet, and that one has shoulder length hair?

That both shoulder-length haired men have a nickname involving the word “wolf”, were turned into a killer by an older and powerful man against their will, which fucked their mind up so badly that they eventually ended up beating the other man of the couple to a pulp, and resenting themselves for it?

That both these men were held captive, tortured, and mind controlled into going against the other one?

That both blonde men worked as “actors”, and were willing to die by the hand of their brunet friend/lover????

AND THAT I HAVE A MAJOR CRUSH/AM A RAGING APOLOGIST OF BOTH BLONDE MEN???

[loosethreadsofyoursoul]

i just spent my morning learning the 9-1-1 magnet theory lore and now i can’t see straight

[that-binchh]

as much as i love reading cherik fics, i do have to turn off my brain every time because every fic seems to have a line or two about how mutant issues is the most pressing social injustice. and like as a black person, that line is so tone deaf to me because racism in the x-men world is both visible and invisible, which is actually so true to reality that it lowkey makes me sick.

[skinnypaleangryperson]

Everything has been so pathetically genuinely terribly cringe to me lately, to the point where I don't get joy out of anything anymore, but I'm trying

I'm aware enough to know that this is a side effect of severe depression and stagnance and mundaneity and generally being sick of being alive and hating everything for it

[uncanny-tranny]

I'm not sure how many people truly recognize this, but the United States is only truly prepared for war, both in our land and on land foreign to us. We aren't equipped to help our citizens when all of our energy goes toward hypermilitarization and state-enfored violence. Frankly, as long as we have war mongering, the people will never be prioritized. If there is no war, it will be manufactured.

[bumblingest-bee]

i love comparing audience reactions from bootlegs of assassins bc the more recent the production the more the audiences seem to really Get It. in 1991 they're very hesitant to laugh at the jokes at first; you can kind of sense the discomfort in some scenes even after they've warmed up to the tone a bit. in 2004 they're more comfortable and a bit more enthusiastic but it doesn't seem to click. then you get to the 2017 encores staged concert and the 2021 revival and it's like some switch has flipped and it resonates, it lands, it hits home. the crowd roars at every joke because it's ten times more cathartic. the themes are painfully familiar now: the disillusionment with our political system, the constant cycle of gun violence, the sense that nobody listens, the rise of violent political radicalism - sondheim was so ahead of his time it's not even funny.