#i just want my louis edits

[rainbowsuitcase]

I do often wonder what it feels like to like the popular thing.

"Dude what are you talking about, you're literally a Marvel stan-" I know, that's not what I mean.

I mean like... Okay, example, Destiel. You don't have to search it out, you don't have to force your algorithm to show you, it just does, because it's popular (on Tumblr anyway). I don't follow anything Supernatural related and I still see it.

And I like the jokes, but I honestly couldn't care less otherwise. The only SPN character I actually care about is Sam and maybe Jack (but he's in the later seasons that I didn't really watch so...). And so much of the fandom is focused on Destiel that is sometimes frustrates me when I have to go out of my way to see what I want instead of it.

That kind of thing.

What does it feel like for your opinions to align so much with the popular fandom consensus? To not have to go out of your way to see your faves and biases, to not have to be careful about what you interact with, lest it fucks up your algorithm and you have to do it all over again. To not have it even work most of the time.

More examples.

I really like Louis Tomlinson but I've never been on a site where the algorithm didn't try to shove Larry and Harry Styles down my throat when I started interacting with posts about him. (Naturally, I ignore those posts, but they're such a big part of the fandom that ignoring them makes the algorithm stop showing me posts about Louis too. I've honestly given up.)

My BTS bias is so far from the most popular member that my FYP doesn't even show me posts with him, like, period. (Not to mention how many people who don't stan BTS actively hate them and/or the fandom, and/or make awful jokes about them)

And then there's my whole thing with Captain America where none of my irl friends even like him and so when I have to ramble about him I have to go scream into the internet void and hope it screams back.

So, as someone who always seems to fall for the fandom underdog... I just wonder what it feels like to not have to do all this.

[lizardkingeliot]

That can’t be all there is.

[platoapproved]

iwtv ships + book quotes

[delicatepointofview]

gonna have to deal with people missing the point of louis singing 1d songs in festivals... don't get me started on the other covers

[justthinkingaboutlouis]

Louis at the Tecate Pa'l Norte 2024 Press Conference.

[mortemain]

LOUIS MANDYLOR as Rafe Calderon in THE FLOOD (2023) dir. Brandon Slagle (my original gifset this is based on can be found here: (x)

[manchesterau]

xfactor usa - story of my life

[spacedlexi]

wow i forgot just how Atrocious the quality was for my twdg stream 💀 guess im just gonna Have to do another one

[pharawee]

"Can I kiss you?"

BEYOND THE STAR · Episode 3 · [ 1/2 ]

[louisgayvodka]

Wasting my time when it was always you, always you

[dreamings-free]

Louis at a wedding in England 21/9/24

[lizardkingeliot]

I had taken seven thousand souls by then. But Lestat was the only one that felt like murder. Semantics, surely, but it's how I felt. He came by invitation. My distraction from the monochromatic landscape. The gray of an obliterated road, the gray-brown of a charred and bullet-ridden city.

[pynkhues]

I've been obsessed with "to your beacon in the gloom" (definitely one of the five most beautiful, hottest, vivid, and psychologically acute fics I've ever read), and I am a truly insane amount of happy that you're writing a fic where they have the magnus discussion and apparently do lots of other things, I truly cannot wait--I want more of Louis and Lestat from you, always. But I also wanted to say how amazing Hold Me Close and Hold Me Fast is. You're genuinely an incredible writer, you're one of those writers where I feel like, this prose is as fantastic and insightful and vivid as a lot of acclaimed novels I read. This fic is so creative and sure-handed, the way you move back and forth through different versions of Lestat in Louis' imagination -- it's just such a high level of skill, I'm in awe. And then how devastating it is to read the way you capture Louis' love for Lestat, his lust for him and the ache for his beauty, and above all his desperation to be close to him and these futile efforts to dig deeper and find out more about the person he loves so much, when that's impossible now. This passage particularly gutted me: 

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“What did Magnus do to you?”

It’s instant, the way all impishness vanishes from Lestat’s face, and he’s not wounded like he was before, but his eyes are glassy, his mouth a little open, like he has to leave it that way to remember how to breathe.

“What do you think he did to me?”

And Louis remembers that night when he told them the little details, the scraps of something bigger. Remembers the room and the dead boys just like him and the tower and the week in the maw of a monster, and there are too many gaps and Louis needs to know every way Magnus ever touched him almost as much as he needs to never, ever know.

In front of him, Lestat’s hand trembles, as he raises a hand, touches his lips, but - - Lestat didn’t tremble, not like that, and it’s quick, the picture. Claudia, touching her lipstick up in the mirror, her hand shaking.

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I'm so glad you're writing about Lestat and Louis dealing with Magnus. I need that. This passage is just unbearably wrenching, and "Louis needs to know every way Magnus ever touched him almost as much as he needs to never, ever know" captures something so visceral about dealing with this kind of pain and trauma. And connecting the Lestat-hallucination's trembling hand to Claudia (which was such a devastating moment in the show)...brilliant. 

Anon! This is such a beautiful ask to receive, thank you. I feel like that first fic in a new fandom is always so tricky, because in so many ways you're learning how to write the characters, and I was probably a bit ambitious with that one given the place Louis and Lestat are, so to know that you liked it so much is just - - yes, a bit magic. Thank you again.

And yeah! It's been interesting to try and get into both their heads for a conversation about Magnus given the way information about Lestat's past has typically had to be provoked out of him in the show - particularly Paul and Lestat's confrontation about Lestat's relationship with God and his father in the pilot and, of course, the in-show conversation about Magnus only being had as a part of the deal to move back home. I'm hoping it'll feel built to in a way that's pretty authentic in the fic and not something just plunged into (I finished editing the first scene last night, and I'm a little worried it's a bit long and people are going to be like 'what?' haha, as it's Louis at a gallery and doesn't involve Lestat at all, but I hope it feels it feeds into everything that happens afterwards). We'll see though!

[zzrrbbitt]

How did you mod that support screen of Alcryst and Celine because I didn't know I wished for casual outfit supports till I saw it. Jade and Louis could also benefit from it cause of their big armor.

it's not a permanent fix, but with the use of the mod Cobalt there's an option to let units wear their battle outfits in support conversations, combine that with a mod that allows units to wear more outfits that aren't in vanilla (like BOAMO and Emblem classes & more) lets you basically let any unit wear any outfit during supports, bond convos, battles etc.

and yeah, i absolutely agree lol, i think these two can benefit from it especially in scenarios where they...really don't need to be wearing all that armor if theyre just having casual conversation

[justthinkingaboutlouis]

Faith In The Future World Tour - San Juan - 05.05.2024

[covenofthearticulate]

i’m so close to finishing this stupid fucking fic i can taste it