#i'm so tired of this fucking show

[mulderscully]

[journey-to-the-attic]

"karasu search how 2 cheer human up"

"karasu search difference between sad human and zoning out human"

"karasu search how long is it safe for humans to zone out for?"

(+ a longer look at each scene:)

[kandelia-mangrove]

Can we talk about how in the show Lestat and Armand are framed as narrative foils. Armand and Lestat who are both so aggressively theater kids, but Lestat who acts, who draws in the attention and holds it, and Armand who directs, who shapes and manipulates the narrative. Armand and Lestat's obsession with Louis and his love and frustration with his melancholy over Lestat and Claudia respectively. Who both felt second in his heart. Who fear loneliness above all else. Lestat taking what he wants to excess - no impulse control, and Armand letting things happen to him and trying to manipulate situations to get what he wants but never taking it. Armand, who even in the end, so much more powerful, never physically imposes himself on Louis. Armand who seeks complete control in subtle insidious ways. Lestat who seeks control in the physical. Armand and Lestat brought into vampire life in horrifying ways tangled up with SA. Armand who still talks about his maker with reverence, Lestat who hates his maker. Armand who pours all of himself into his partner, willing to shape himself into what they desire but ultimately needing control to feel safe. Lestat who pours all of his love into his partner but unwilling to change himself and ultimately cedes control in moments to maintain the relationship. Armand who clings to his breaking apart relationship for 77 YEARs, Lestat who let Louis go. Lestat and Armand who watch Claudia die, but one as a father and one as a murderer. Lestat and Armand so intense in their love but Lestat so painfully external and Armand so painfully internal as characters. Both constantly acting and putting on a face. Lestat as Mozart and Armand as Salieri (in the flashback scene!). Armand who loves routine and structure and repetion, Lestat who craves change and excitement. The calling cards are echos, who learned from who. Armand teaching Lestat the vampire gifts, Lestat teaching Armand a new way to live. on and on....

[thevioletcaptain]

i genuinely don't care how good a piece of ai generated art or writing looks on the surface. i don't care if it emulates brush strokes and metaphor in a way indistinguishable from those created by a person.

it is not the product of thoughtful creation. it offers no insights into the creator's life or viewpoint. it has no connection to a moment in time or a place or an attitude. it has no perspective. it has no value.

it's empty, it's hollow, and it exists only to generate clicks (and by extension, ad revenue.)

it's just another revolting symptom of the disease that is late stage capitalism, and it fucking sucks.

[lavenderspence]

you know, I find it extremely funny, how some of you all come on here whining about the smut to angst and fluff ratio, but don't bother to engage with the content you all demand writers write for you.

I don't know if anyone's noticed, but there's been a big ass drop in interactions for angst and fluff fics (fluff specifically, and I speak from experience).

so, before you all bash on smut writers, and make demands, how about you show some love to the already exciting fics that writers push out for you every day.

and before you all come to bash on writers for wishing people interacted more with their works, remember. fanfic is a free labor, the least you can do as a thank you, is show the writer some love. Okay?

woke up and decided to be controversial today, go me

[helielune]

and stalling only goes so far when you've got a head start

[deoidesign]

sometimes you gotta draw your characters as dogs. not even talking dogs just normal dogs. like what dogs would they be.

[essektheylyss]

I am so serious, I really think that Netflix is a fucking scourge the same way that the monopoly of the traditional publishing industry is.

The fact that I constantly see creators having to beg fans of established media, not even just popular shows but also massively loved adaptations, to watch and rewatch shows in a specific timeframe, because Netflix puts all weight on a crunch period of viewership numbers (with deliberately inflated goals to achieve) to determine whether a popular show lives or dies, as an excuse to put no marketing money behind it and then cancel it before anyone's contract is up for renewal (and therefore higher salaries), all while claiming to promote, and in fact having built their market share on, a business model of offering access to media to be watched at one's convenience, is literally like.

I'm not gonna add the "You best believe in cyberpunk dystopias because you're in one" meme but it really is a fucking blight upon the culture of anyone trying to tell any meaningful or enjoyable stories.

[reginamillls]

I think the deleted scene is simply showing you how much Buck is cared for by the people he chose to be in his life, and from someone who craved that care and attention for so long I just think that's neat that Buck has so many people now that do, and idk I'm just happy for him

[gi-nathlam-hi]

ROP production team literally can't win. People were complaining last season that they de-yassified Sauron and made him look like a boring-ass straight white boy (okay, fair). Now I keep seeing people getting mad that he looks like Legolas bc of the long blond hair and the ears 🙄 grow up.

[letmetellyouaboutmyfeels]

For $5 USD stop making everything about that goddamn show for five minutes.

[sovamurka]

i just KNOW that if sevika was a man, people would be shipping sevilco like crazy, making analysis of even tiniest bits of interactions, screaming "HOW CAN YOU NOT SEE ANYTHING BETWEEN THEM???"

[alasarys]

On your point about going off stream, I was actually wondering this too bc we know that’s what max did at first after Brazil, the days they gamed before Lando joined the streams. And max has never hesitated to go offline for him so it’s not like Lando HAD to be on stream if they wanted to game. So my personal guess is that Lando wanted to join and max was trying to create an actively positive atmosphere rather than promoting the whole hiding away/isolating thing or risk Lando perceiving it like they’re “coddling” him or whatever. And for what it’s worth, chat was surprisingly very receptive to it

Anon, you're almost certainly right. Sometimes there's no winning with whatever Lando has going on in his head, and Max just has to roll with it in the least harmful/most normal way he can.

[fiona-fififi]

"Why doesn't their side call out the bad behavior they accuse us of??"

Because they've blocked all the crazies on their side and aren't seeing it. Just like you're not seeing all the bullshit on your side because you've blocked all the crazies over there, too.

Also, they ARE calling it out. You just have everyone on the other side blocked, so you aren't seeing the callouts.

Like jesus fucking christ, can we stop generalizing giant portions of fandom based on the behavior of the worst fucking people in them?? Because I promise you, whether you are seeing it or not, there are really fucking shitty people in ALL corners of fandom.

[madelyn-cline]

okay so fuck outer banks

[sagesariadnd]

"If you ship this toxic ship there's something wrong with you." "If you like this character you're stanning war crimes." THEY'RE FICTIONAL CHARACTERS. FIC. TION. AL. CHARACTERS.

Fiction is entertaining because it's FICTION. NOT. REAL. I don't see anyone lining up to cancel Bugs Bunny when he shoves dynamite in Elmer Fudd's gun. Because you know he's fictional.

You KNOW the difference between fictional and real. I know you do. I promise you do. Please leave people alone.