#idk i'm tired. what a year.

[hekateinhell]

are these writers just ignoring context r.e. lestat’s violent deeds? it’s not a coincidence his most heinous acts (ex. david’s turning) exist in the same book where he’s hallucinating his dead child/trying to commit suicide/having a nervous breakdown. but, yes, totally: having him of sound mind & beating up the man he loves while cold-heartedly dragging him by his windpipe bleeding on the sidewalk… that’s the difference between anne’s lestat & a sadistic psychopath. but go off i guess!

I'm assuming you're talking about the article du jour:

Now, this is always a heavy and delicate conversation to have--for so many reasons--and I just want to be mindful and acknowledge that all rape is in itself an inherently violent act. That's not and never will be up for discussion.

So in the canon scene that the writer is referencing to when she specifies a "woman", the rape occurs because Lestat is blundering around in a human body for the first time in two hundred years. He has no modern concept of consent for when the woman he's about to get intimate with changes her mind from having wanted to have sex to NOT wanting to have sex, and this is when it becomes rape.

With that in mind, I'm not sure how it's a genuine, good-faith equivalent to what Lestat did to Louis in Episode 5. We know the beating happened; it's not going to get retconned later. They're telling us right here that this is how they see Lestat's characterization.

Context (as we keep saying) matters! And in case there's doubt, because I'm beginning to understand how tumblr dot com works: context does not equal justification; it is an explanation.

Anne Rice did say Lestat was "pretty much a bad guy!" But one thing he for sure never was is a sadistic torturer. So I guess the question becomes: what context can AMC give to explain this scene in a way that leaves the slightest possibility of redemption in the eyes of the audience for Lestat's character? Given what we know about how the show creators perceive him?

As an aside, I did see a few people trying to draw parallels between Episode 5 and the scene with Lestat and Armand outside Palais Royale in TVL. And it's interesting to me because I always saw that as an example of Lestat's early capacity for mercy. It was self-defense (very much outside of a DV context), but even so, in the moment Lestat was able to recognize that he had the advantage (or was given it), and he saw something of himself in Armand and felt a surge of sympathy for him, and so he stopped.

[lunarharp]

What led to this (orufrey comic, cw an uncomfortable/creepy scene)

[stlamb]

casting that these last two months of the year are gentle on everyone

[torchickentacos]

i will always shout praises of bi4bi but given recent discourse I feel the need to say that I love bi4het too! I just love bisexuality in general in its many forms, and anyone who only likes it when it's 'queer enough' for them is biphobic. Bisexuals should be able to bring their LaMe CiShEt BoYfRiEnD to pride without being made to feel like spectators and outsiders to their own event.

[willowwormwood]

I'm definitely late in terms of being a Hollow Knight fan, and maybe that's why it's so offputting for me, but seeing how many people seem to feel like they're owed Silksong and updates about it is really bizarre to me?

At this point I see people complaining about not getting any updates from Team Cherry and I'm like. Man, I wonder why they stopped updating people about the progress of the game. Slowly turning to look at the state of things.

Like I genuinely do understand being disappointed at the lack of news, but Team Cherry already has to live up to the hype of not only matching but exceeding the success of Hollow Knight. People are already going to be that much more critical of it, and you know there will be a flood of people when it does come out saying "oh it's not worth the hype it wasn't worth the wait this sucks", regardless of it's quality.

Genuinely I don't care if they take 30 years to make the game. I want them to take their time and make as good of a game as they can, a game that they're proud of and that's enjoyable to play. Especially in a time when it feels like a ton of bigger art companies are just pumping out sequels and remakes and stuff to make a profit like, let Team Cherry take their time man. They don't owe us art, they don't owe us a game.

[7-andahalf-rats]

GIRL HELOPPPPP THIS WEIRD CAT PUT ME IN THE ENDLESS HURRICANE AGAIN

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[princelancey]

Lance is such a let bygones be bygones kind of a guy, we should embrace that energy more often in sports tbh, it's never that serious

[pardonmydelays]

my job makes me want to kill myself but maybe spending all my money on theatre tickets is the way

[zebratimw]

[watery-melon-baller]

the evening bus at my college keeps not showing up so i have to walk through the woods and also past the singlular vending machine that sells coca cola. ive decided every time my bus doesn't show up and i have to walk home im going to reblog this to show how incompetent my school is <3

[tsnbrainrot]

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[imwritesometimes]

my family all of a sudden seems very concerned about the prospect of my brother moving in with his GF and me living alone.... as if I didn't live here by myself for a year+ when I first moved in and was much younger then and the house needed TONS of work and somehow I still survived.......

[zhongrin]

i see yalls asks but unfortunately i just got assigned a biiiiiig project at work at the start of this week. plus mid-year performance check is next month so obviously i really want to do well, and that means i'm probably going to do extra effort & focus on that... even tho i don't really want to lmao

anyway i'm probably going to be somewhat(?) inactive for the time being, sorry 🥲🙇🏻‍♀️

[backpackingspace]

Okay but yin yu needs a raise this yin yu is overworked that. Where is the Ling wen needs a raise content

[deoidesign]

I adore reading your rambling tags, don't stop posting things there 😩

Don't you worry. I think I might be incapable of stopping idk what happened I never used to tag ramble