#i hate doing these

[hangesextra]

I remember I was laying on the couch in need of a new thing to love. It was January 27th 2023, and I was bored. I was going to go to my school's play in a bit before. I was on Instagram and saw some poster for a new show. I didn't think much of it, but looked again. I was like "Hmm that looks interesting." and I went to look it up. I found the idea more interesting. So after the play when I got home, I went and started the first episode.

Somehow, I automatically grew to love the series. It was that one thing I didn't know I needed. And I was so into the series, I loved every part of it. After watching the show, I know I had to read the books, and I did. I LOVED the books. I was so excited for the rest of the story in the show, I was so hopeful for a 2nd season.

But just today we got the news. The show was canceled, and I'm so sad about it. Like seriously, this series idk, I loved it and still do. It snuck up on me, Creeping straight into one of my favorite series ever.

I'm so mad at Netflix for this. They canceled such a good show and I despise that. But I do want to say, I'm so glad I had the chance to find the show. There was so much love and passion put into the show by Complete Fiction and their crew. The set, all of it. The casting was AMAZING, Ali, Ruby & Cameron just stole the show. They brought these wonderfully written characters to life. And Jonathan Stroud, who wrote this incredible series. I was blown away by all of it.

This has become my comfort series and it will stay my comfort series. It feels like a home somehow? I love it so much. <3

I just want to say tho, please I don't want to see this fandom die. It's an incredible fandom with such amazing people, who I'm so glad I met. You all make me smile and laugh. I love talking to everyone and sharing my ideas with fans who get it.

I want to still continue to do that, I've never really felt like I've belonged, but this fandom has been so welcoming, and truly I feel like I belong in this online community.

Let's continue making content and not die out, just bc stupid asf Netflix canceled it, doesn't mean we can't still love the series. Also let's hope another service can get the rights to show so we can MAYBE get another season.

[xpoisoned-stardustx]

*vomits*

Ok bai

[valtsv]

stuck between "psychological horror statement" and "objectively the funniest thing you could say to your real flesh and blood dad" in the father's day card aisle

[marfian]

So act 3 huh

[the-real-google]

To celebrate pride month I've decided to make a part 2 of the killing transphobes post since it was given a community warning. (🚗🔨⚒️💥)

LIMITED TIME OFFER:

For every note this gets I will kill one (1) acephobe AND one (1) arophobe with my bare hands.

[dreamingteen]

[cloudyydraws]

UY! PHILIPPINES!!!! PHILIPPINES!!!!

[meyerlansky]

ON the subject of undernegotiated kink in fanfiction. i think we should talk more about how the concept of "not talking about it" is just as much wish fulfillment for some people as "in-depth, therapy-speak conversations where everyone is clear and understood" is for others

like yes, in reality the antidote to shame is open honest conversation with someone who will validate your feelings and wants blah blah blah but SOMETIMES what i want out of my fanfic is characters being understood without having to expose themselves in that way. SOMETIMES it's fun to not dismantle the shame and repression all the way and to instead treat that understanding-despite-not-being-clear as the fantasy

[dxkjf]

Elita please he's trying his best :[

[callisteios]

i made a character uquiz. i 100% promise you that you will get a character you know AND like

[noodles-and-tea]

How the gentle wind,

Beckons through the trees,

As autumn colours fall.

[juiche]

a moment of peace before the whole world shatters 😇

get your own print here ❤️

[prouvaireafterdark]

listen I know it's heartbreaking that Claudia dies and it's understandable to wish she didn't, but let's please not accuse the writers of fridging her. to do so is a fundamental misunderstanding of the story and is frankly insulting to the intelligence and skill of the writers of the show.

Claudia's death, and the overwhelming grief and regret her parents experience because of it, is quite literally the point of the entire story. she dies because Anne's daughter Michele died of leukemia when she was five years old and there was nothing she or her husband could do to prevent it.

writing IWTV was how Anne coped with the unimaginable loss of a parent losing her child. she created a story about a little girl that could not die and then killed her anyway. Claudia's death is a senseless, unavoidable tragedy, just like Michele's was. the grief that haunts Louis and Lestat for the rest of their lives is the same grief that haunted Anne and her husband.

so when you're accusing people of killing Claudia off to benefit a story about two men, please remember that in real life sometimes parents lose their children. please remember Michele Rice.

she's the reason Claudia exists.

she's also the reason Claudia cannot be saved.

[lovelenivy]

mouse bites™

[inkskinned]

this is just my opinion but i think any good media needs obsession behind it. it needs passion, the kind of passion that's no longer "gentle scented candle" and is now "oh shit the house caught on fire". it needs a creator that's biting the floorboards and gnawing the story off their skin. creators are supposed to be wild animals. they are supposed to want to tell a story with the ferocity of eating a good stone fruit while standing over the sink. the same protective, strange instinct as being 7 and making mud potions in pink teacups: you gotta get weird with it.

good media needs unhinged, googling-at-midnight kind of energy. it needs "what kind of seams are invented on this planet" energy and "im just gonna trust the audience to roll with me about this" energy. it needs one person (at least) screaming into the void with so much drive and energy that it forces the story to be real.

sometimes people are baffled when fanfic has some stunning jaw-dropping tattoo-it-on-you lines. and i'm like - well, i don't go here, but that makes sense to me. of fucking course people who have this amount of passion are going to create something good. they moved from a place of genuine love and enjoyment.

so yeah, duh! saturday cartoons have banger lines. random street art is sometimes the most precious heart-wrenching shit you've ever seen. someone singing on tiktok ends up creating your next favorite song. youtubers are giving us 5 hours of carefully researched content. all of this is the impossible equation to latestage capitalism. like, you can't force something to be good. AI cannot make it good. no amount of focus-group testing or market research. what makes a story worth listening to is that someone cares so much about telling it - through dance, art, music, whatever it takes - that they are just a little unhinged about it.

one time my friend told me he stayed up all night researching how many ways there are to peel an orange. he wrote me a poem that made me cry on public transportation. the love came through it like pith, you know? the words all came apart in my hands. it tasted like breakfast.