#he was the bankroll

[sophsun1]

Queer as Folk – 5.11: Fuckin' Revenge

[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.

[fauvester]

clays 11.. a professional robber organizes a ragtag team of thiefs to steal a fortune and his ex-fed ex-husband from his frenemy casino magnate martin van buren

[age-of-moonknight]

“Death by Voodoo,” Storm (Vol. 5/2024), #2.

Writer: Murewa Ayodele; Penciler and Inker: Lucas Werneck; Colorist: Alex Guimaräes; Letterer: Travis Langam

[clonerightsagenda]

While I judge his youthful naivete in going 'wait, the military killed people???' I support Edward Elric sapping government resources for years and then immediately leaving when he got what he wanted. Same energy as the guy who took a job at a software company, fixed one bug, and then quit.

[aphel1on]

problems with writing fic set in fantasy historical china

"i want lan wangji to knit"

wikipedia informs me knitting did not reach china until the 1920s. devastating

[weepylucifer]

Pffftt sure, Kim 😂 lmao Steban wishes

[not-poignant]

Alex 🤝 FFS Ef: trying to convince their healthcare providers to not provide a sliding scale fee

The healthcare providers like 'omg how do I deal with these guys, seriously.'

Look is it my dream for all of my healthcare providers to charge me less because they take one look at me and know I could do with a break? Yes. Yes it is. Do I get to repeatedly live that out in fanfiction? Yes. Yes I do.

Fictional worlds get to be (slightly) more merciful than the real world, when I'm writing them, lmao.

(Also honestly I have had healthcare providers do this. Not always, but enough that like... I know how that mercy feels. I once burst into tears because of it. We have *some* free healthcare and then some *very expensive* healthcare. This is a place where I get my cancer treatment free but have to pay $650 outright to see my psychiatrist for the initial appointment, and then $350 for every subsequent 15 minutes. Without insurance, that's just...painful - but like without it, I think I'd be dead maybe so).

Anyway, yeah, living my fantasy life through these characters and I'm sure a few other folks who have dealt with needing to pay for healthcare are doing the same fsaldkjfdas

[pikachu-says-peekaboo]

"And you're watching the Disney Channel!"

[anymousse]

Lorcana Headcanon-Magical Girl Avengers

Messing with the cards in Lorcana gives me lots of ideas for decks, plus some headcanons.

First, I have an Amethyst Magical Girls deck I want to build that consists of Elsa, Madam Mim, Lena and Magica, with some other random cards I want to throw in. Then I find the Sorcerer's Tower card and a bunch of Magic Broom cards and suddenly I get a headcanon for a Marvel's Avengers type story where the Magical Girls are the Avengers and Yen Sid (or Mickey) is Tony Stark and The Sorcerer's Tower is their headquarters. And the tower needs to be cleaned, so the Magic Brooms clean it, but they're also allies you can use in battle.

[wanderingarcherviola]

Tobi: *sells the gems, horns, stones he's picked up along the way*

THE REST OF THE PARTY:

[wutheringheightsfilm]

how many times do we have to tell libs that biden is not gonna fuck you, like

[buildoblivion]

you know what I like most about the new dw episode is that the monster story is a bit naff and beep throws the tone off a bit and it’s all a bit cheesy at the end BUT everything is made with such care and excitement and energy that I had an absolute blast anyway

[opheliapurple]

If two candidates hold the same views on issues 1 and that issue is genocide

And they are both genocidal psychopaths

I’m not voting for them.

I don’t empathize whatsoever with this “well it’s a trolley problem and yeah it sucks but you can’t let the genocidal maniac with the red tie win amiright” coping and I don’t think I ever will.

If 24 HOUR LIVE COVERAGE OF GENOCIDE WITH THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE BEGGING AND PLEADING FOR HELP IN 4K EVERY DAY FOR MONTHS isn’t enough for you to say “there is no looking past this issue. This is something I can’t compromise on.” I truly don’t understand you and I don’t understand how you can donate and advocate and protest and then VOTE FOR THE GUY ACTIVELY DOING IT.

You can’t trolley problem genocide, you can’t divvy it up into a million small sins and sort through them until you find the least offensive pile and sigh over how monstrous the choices are.

I find it viscerally terrifying than genocide isn’t the red line for so many people, that burning people alive in refugee camps isn’t enough for people to decide the person responsible isn’t fit to lead under any circumstances. That people can see what’s going on and power through as though genocide is a single solitary point and not a cascading culmination.

You’re not saving democracy or keeping America from becoming a dictatorship, if you’re voting for two genocidal maniacs who are both trying to criminalize protestors ITS GONE BABY. KISS IT GOODBYE.

Biden is trying to give more funding to police than ANY OTHER PRESIDENT BEFORE HIM. He is NOT the safer less extreme option, he just wears a blue tie.

Vote, for the love of all that is holy, vote. Vote locally, vote for your president.

But I want to make two things abundantly clear.

One, voting third party or for literally anyone who isn’t currently funding and protecting ethnic cleansing on a scale beyond imagining isn’t fucking sabotage.

It’s not stealing a vote for the blue tie psychopath. He didn’t earn it, he’s not even trying to. He hasn’t promised or campaigned or done literally anything to win votes because he’s relying on threats. On everyone being too scared of the psychopath in the red tie.

It’s not the voters responsibility to convince themselves to vote for a candidate, and I genuinely pity how many people have let democrats twist that responsibility until they threaten voters FOR them.

Two, if you vote for Biden, you aren’t pro Palestine.

You might wish they get out okay, hope it gets better, feel positively toward their liberation. But not enough to do more than black squares did for the blm protests.

Did that piss you off? Am I wrong? Am I condescending af and being a hypocrite?

Go ask a Palestinian then.

Go on.

I find it so strange and funny that these conversations happen again and again, but weirdly no one ever lets Palestinians weigh in on the trolley problem.

Go on, explain it to them. That you’re going to pull the lever for their peoples’ track, but it’s not because you don’t care. You care so much!! You’re helping actually, just imagine what Trump would do instead.

Really, there are Palestinian Americans, they should get it.

You donated, you boost videos, you advocate, they’ll understand. So tell them who you’re voting for.

Prove me wrong.

By existing as a citizen in and paying taxes to the imperial core, we automatically hold complicity in imperialist oppression because we are literally footing the bill for it. That is just the basic nature of being born to privilege in systems of oppression in general. We can be disadvantaged and marginalized in every single other consideration and we still have to understand and cope with this, and ensure we leverage it as effectively as possible.

Voting abstinence/sabotage does not absolve us of our responsibility to do everything in our power to lessen harm, but it DOES show that when our personal morals aren't satisfied, we retreat into (imperialist, this time) privilege to 'wash our hands' of the situation and declare it's not our fault and it's not our problem.

[romanceyourdemons]

a little obsessed with the story of how giacomo casanova was sharing a gondola with this random guy who suddenly started having a seizure, and casanova had some medical training so he stabilized the guy until the guy’s physician could be called. and then the physician bled the guy and put mercury ointment on him, which caused everything to get worse to the point that a priest was called to administer the guy’s last rites, but then casanova stepped in and washed off the mercury ointment despite the doctor yelling at him not to. and the guy recovered and turned out to be super rich and powerful and in gratitude bankrolled casanova’s debauchery for years until casanova got himself sentenced to five years in jail for blasphemy. also at one point he got shot through the hand in a duel and doctors wanted to amputate it but he said no it’ll be fine and it Was

[syndesinae]

PAUSE. TRUMP HASN'T EVEN PICKED A VP AND HE'S STILL THE PRESUMPTIVE REPUBLICAN CANDIDATE?