#i might be jumping ahead but

[lemonluvgirl]

But honestly, Valency Stirling just wanting her own little dust pile really freaking spoke to me. And it made me feel in ways that I was not even aware I could be made to feel. Like that's all anybody really wants. Just their own thing. Whether it's a career, or a degree, or a family, or a partner, or just a freaking house in the woods where no one will bother you.

Human beings ultimately just want something to call their own. That's just for them. Big or small it doesn't matter. Whether you are a nerdy little nobody or an A-list celebrity.

At the end of the day, you want your dustpile. You need your dustpile. Because it's yours.

[biillys]

billy hargrove: in every scene — 3.01 chapter one: suzie, do you copy?

[thestarrysparrow]

............escargo..........

[waitmyturtles]

[pynkhues]

Speaking of Armand and Lestat and survivors not understanding other’s experiences, do you have any thoughts on how Armand and Lestat see each others experiences and, for that matter, how much they really know or understand about what the other has been through? I tend to think they’re both exceptionally poorly matched to get each other’s brand of trauma if that makes sense.

Also to tack onto the other anons ask about Armand, have you read The Vampire Armand? Might just be me but I can’t see how on earth half of that stuff could be adapted. I audiobooked Interview, The Vampire Lestat, and the Vampire Armand and while I totally get Rolin and Co.’s interest in adapting the first two books I have no clue how to handle the stuff in TVA in a visual medium.

I agree that they're both particularly poorly matched to understand each other's trauma. It was interesting actually in getting to that section of The Vampire Lestat again, because i'd forgotten that Armand just like, rifles through Lestat's head almost immediately upon meeting him and pulls out what he wants, including his turning with Magnus, so if the show sticks with that, presumably Armand would have a fair amount of detail of what happened to Lestat? I'd forgotten too that when Lestat tries to counter and rifle through Armand's head, Armand just like. bombards him with insane images to toss him straight back out again, which is a very fun and very visual detail that I hope they adapt now, haha.

As for how much Lestat knows - - I don't know! I'd kind of presume not too much, given Armand doesn't let him into his head in that way, and they don't speak much about anything outside of Paris. They could change that for the show, of course, and it'd be interesting if Lestat had that context when meeting Marius given the audience now does through Armand telling Louis, but again - - I think you're right in that Lestat probably wouldn't get it.

After all, the era that Lestat's from, courtesans are an incredibly normal (and sometimes even respected) part of French aristocratic society. The fact that Lestat's father was too poor to afford them doesn't mean Lestat wouldn't have been socialised with the concept, particularly once he was in Paris, and I don't think Lestat would really interrogate the intricacies of Armand's story beyond that, at least not with Marius. Even working in the brothel - - well, he was around the ones Louis ran, right? And being sold into sexual slavery by his parents is, of course, utterly horrific, but I don't know. Like you said, in a lot of ways, Lestat and Armand almost feel written as characters to be capable of feeling totally toxically about the other's experience, because Lestat spent his own childhood trapped by his horribly abusive father and so a part of me can see Lestat reading it that at least Armand got to escape and find a path to social elevation.

As for Armand's feelings about Lestat, I kiiind of touched on this in my fic, Hold Me Close and Hold Me Fast, but I think there's an interesting factor with Armand who's been so groomed and is so used to being commodified himself that wouldn't really see Magnus' abduction of Lestat as anything other than perhaps Magnus having shoplift the body of a beautiful boy where Marius bought it (hell, I could even see him feeling a little superior with that in the resources and etiquette of his maker).

Because that's kind of what happens, right? Marius buys Armand, Magnus steals Lestat, they're both kept and used as humans (albeit for very different amounts of time) before they're turned (albeit in very different ways given Armand wants the dark gift and Lestat doesn't). If anything, I can see Armand finding it a bit distasteful, but this is also just a reality that he's been socialised to think is pretty normal. Hell, not even just normal - - good. Armand's been groomed by Marius to think what happened to him was a salvation, and I don't think it's out of the realm of possibility that he sees it as the same for Lestat, who in his mortality was an abused, unloved, uneducated penniless aristocrat.

It's ugly, but I think with the context of the time periods they're from, it makes sense.

[sh0tah0ney]

proship tmnt server 💙💜🧡❤️

hey, note that I made a proship TMNT server with ore no otouto. he's not too bad (/aff) and we have lots of channels and some emojis. it's pretty sweet u guys should stop by :3

server's mixed age (13+) so keep that in mind, but all ships friendly. we're also system friendly and radinclus ofc. also we got a ticket entry and people-run security system so not just anybody's gonna be strolling in seeing everything.

it's kinda intended as a mixing pot server both for younger shippers who don't yet have a space they can safely explore whatever they like in an anti ridden fandom, and older fans who don't mind saying hey to younger fans and maybe giving our sagely advice now and then ~ (read: telling them not to publicly release literally all their personal identifying information on the internet lol) but anyway. it's a super tiny server it's very chill, no pressure to interact any way u don't want lol.

(and we still have a strictly 18+ zone so dw it's not strictly "sfw only no fun or dick jokes allowed" I prommy)

sooo if ur interested in joining (even if it's just to lurk or say hi) u should drop in :3 we'll have snacks ~

[labyrinthofcrystals]

second part is done! next one is a sick fic, and I'm Struggling bc idk which pov i should write it in: goblins/2nd person or normans/3rd person. 95% of this series is written in 2nd person pov aka gobby's pov so maybe?? ill try normans?? plus its a fever dream scene so i think normans reaction to that is better/needed more

[spikeyjo]

also uh im kind of not thinking about it much because its insane. but if everything goes right (and i mean a considerable amount of things that probably wont go as planned) but if they DO... i will have a major surgery in like two weeks

[fatelcved]

may i impulsively offer a sweet kaiya for your inboxes in this trying time?

[marzzthehuman]

remember VBS is the only unit that is split up into 'partners' so you should treat it as such.

(this is kind of different for shipping BUT!! this is just in general)

leo/need, MMJ, wxs, and n25 are all one group. they all perform/make music together. no one is divided into a specific pairing. no two characters are specifically separated to be one pair. they are groups of people who perform together and most of the time perform in that one group.

vbs is a group formed of two pairings. the whole reason of this group being formed is that they have a better chance of surpassing rad weekend. sometimes the pairings perform together, but they are still their own pairings. (akito calls Toya 'partner' because they were partners before vbs was formed and STILL ARE. same goes for anhane.)

[kakusu-shipping]

7, 8 and 9 of the Age Gap ask game for All Might!

Scrimblo I haven't thought about in a while <3

7. Do you notice any big generational differences between you?

Oh tons! Mostly in the way Mr. Yagi speaks about his early hero career and how different hero life is now, there's been tons of laws passed sense Mr. Yagi was a kid to protect Heroes against lawsuits by Civilians for damage done on duty, and even more passed stripping someone deemed a "Villain" of their rights.

We both agree it's definitely been a change for the worse.

8. Does the age gap in your relationship lend itself to a power dynamic, or are things balanced between the two of you?

I'd say we're pretty balanced. I may be a lot younger than Mr. Yagi, but he's a very gentle and kind person, and the idea he might have some kind of power over me is something he worries and frets over a lot.

9. Have you ever faced judgement for your difference in age?

Another thing Mr. Yagi worries about a lot! He's such a worry wort.

No, not really, though I have a feeling Aizawa said something to Mr. Yagi back before we got together, some sort of "It's none of my business but," kind of warning against getting involved with a younger college, he seems like the type to speak his mind about that kind of thing.

But other than that, no, though it's probably because we're not very public about it. I'm sure Mr. Yagi's fans would have something to say about it..

[supercantaloupe]

i think probably the funniest thing that my dad said to me today was when he was remarking how different me and my sister are and he was like. she prefers being in out in the wilderness, you're happy in the middle of the city; she's training to fight wildfires and you're this crazy skilled musician; she would jump out of a plane and you like to work in the library; she's even gay

and i was like. Well,

[nemesis-is-my-middle-name]

i guess the corollary to the umbrastaff become a conductor's whistle (which i'm still not 100% sold on but it feels like the best option right now) is that ingo and emmet are. bards. which i actually feel like it maybe fits? they're both good orators! for ingo in particular. using mainly his voice and a whistle. he's loud! and enthusiastic and encouraging! his version of Power Word Kill is just The Whistle from oop

[alectoperdita]

Chapter 3 of What you can't bury was a fucking pain to write and get to the draft stage. But now that I've left it to marinate for several weeks, it's not so bad re-reading it. Edits may actually be easy for this one. (Whereas chapter 2 was the opposite, easy to write a first draft but then a pain in the ass to edit a dozen times). Is it because there's only half a smut scene in this chapter and the rest is plot? 😂

[rainia]

also I’ve been having fun coming up with another lil dnd oc for my sister’s BF’s campaign. I think my two dnd ocs would probably NOT get on at first, too much rival sibling energy. This new character’s going be a real skrunkly guy but the campaign itself is going to be interesting I think LMAO. I think I’m used to a much freer and more goofy (chaotic) tone, and sister’s bf is much more rules focused. So we’ll see how it goes.