#i miss her!!!

[samipekoe]

maomao come back!!!!

[annamationsart]

some sashes…

[thiagodasilva]

happy euros, let us never forget our queen from the last euros

[hekateinhell]

Continuing on this, AR on gender and sexuality in TVC:

Anne's vampires exhibited androgynous freedom. The androgyne is a being who reconciles opposites and channels duality into greater power. The vampires achieved this on several levels.

"I've always loved the images of androgyny," Anne said. "They always have an intense emotional impact on me, whether it's a beautiful woman in the opera dressed as a man or rock stars changing and shifting it just gives me chills. I see the androgynous figure as the ideal figure." The relationship between Lestat and Louis, then between Louis and another vampire, Armand, has homoerotic overtones as male and female distinctions become insignificant, since vampires do not engage in genital sex. The new vampire is brought over into a dramatically changed existence with a gender-free perspective.

Anne wanted to write about a romantic relationship that would avoid the cliches attached to heterosexual couplings, and she was also enamored of the image of lovers as equals. "For me," she said, "the most erotic scenes in any book are those that take place between totally equally franchised human beings, so I always find a scene between two men much more erotic to write about or read about than a scene between a man and a woman." Having already written about homosexual attractions, the relationships between her vampires came easily and naturally. Gay populations were "coming out" and becoming a political force, giving Anne momentum.

[...]

Readers were invited to experience the blurred distinctions, raised to mythical heights. Becoming a vampire involved a merging of like minds in a way prohibited to people with fundamentally different perspectives.

Female readers strongly identified with Louis, and later with Lestat, because Anne provided for them a means to experience male qualities that society prizes so highly without a loss of the female-oriented perspective.

Anne was fully aware that women were being encouraged by the burgeoning feminist movement to value their own experience, independent from men, but she told one journalist, "I think I have a gender screw-up to the point that I don't know most of the time what gender I am, in terms of anybody else's thinking." As a result, the vampire imagery that she developed appealed as a sexual fantasy from various perspectives, from a heterosexual exploring a secret but socially forbidden allure in the perspective of another gender to a homosexual finding affirmation. Anne's erotic style gave these metaphors an added touch.

Like, Anne got it. She knew exactly what made her characters so enticing and evocative. TVC has always been such a safe escape for me and for so many others, and I don't know... it's just a comfort knowing that Anne not only supported us, but actually intended for us to blur the lines of gender in her work and play with the fantasy of it all.

[vulptilla]

The noise I made when I found this

[ibuprofenking]

ava silva is the embodiment of pure of heart dumb of ass

[faerun]

i think rosie never stopped feeling like a prisoner even after being named inquisitor and being elevated to a godlike status. it was always a gilded cage, at best. i think she saw her opportunity to run after trespasser and disbanding the inquisition was like letting out a breath she didn't realize she'd been holding for so long. i like to think she eventually met warden mahariel and finally understood why the warden-commander basically disappeared after the blight ended, and she did the same and spent the better part of a decade basically in hiding (until whatever happens in veilguard pulls her out of it)

[halliserres]

i invented a new challenge it’s called Try not to be extremely depressed because you went back home after visiting your online best friend and can no longer spend all day with them. i’ve already failed day 1

[teabookgremlin]

my phone keeps showing me this picture of iris

homophobic beast attacking a pride flag :/

[kingfakey]

I wish you nothing but strength for tomorrow! Losing a pet hurts like hell and at least for me it still hurts after years. I know Daisy was loved and you were also loved by Daisy

i sat on this for a day because i don't wanna bombard everyone with twtwtwtwtw business, but this means so much to me actually and trust me it meant a lot to daisy too. that kitten (9 year old senior kitten) had people all over the world crying for her.

we lost sevin on the first day of summer, and we're losing daisy on the first day of fall. might hurt less if there was more of a buffer between them, y'know? the silence in this house is deafening though.

there wasn't a thought in that cat's head 'side from love, love, love, half and half, love, graham cracker, more love, and my bed's already emptier. all my black clothes miss the cat hair. i had to put her bowl away because i might burst into tears otherwise.

luckily through the magic of therapy, good friends, and video game blorbos to take my feelings out on, with, and through, we'll all be okay.

[andichoseyou]

i cant wait for the eras tour to come back 😭

[royalarmyofoz]

🥵🥰🥺😍

[silkchiffon]

giggling at most of the posts in my hannah tag having the word weird in them. my weird girl of all time.

[chrisitsraining]

had a dream the other night where i was chilling in a dim waiting room with jill valentine sitting across from me

she was like slightly older than chris in re village there were clear age lines on her face and she had a skunk stripe in her hair

also she was manspreading

so yeah anyway i was swooning

pissed when i woke up and left longing even harder for a recent timeline appearance from her

[oh-katsuki]

i go about my day normally and then I remember what happened to nobara and everything is ruined.

[dazesanddoodles]

when will tabitha return from the war