#of particular tastes

[canisalbus]

Is ok if I use Machete as a character for my DnD campaign?

I thought about it for a moment, and I'm sorry but I don't think I'd be comfortable with that.

[camellcat]

idk how interested y'all would be but seeing as I am constantly trying to rec things I thought it'd be easier if I just put everything in one place, soooo. here's a spreadsheet I've been working on lately! 90% is spuffy so for the most part y'all should have a good time here. if you're bored and looking for something to read, here you shall find lots and lots and lots of fun stuff to go through x)

feel free to share with me even more fics ofc! doesn't even have to be spuffy, though I'd probably prefer it. I'm always looking for something new to read and would love to continue adding onto the list

[repressedqueen]

okay, our boy has impeccable taste in men....

[aqun-athlok]

haven't stopped thinking about the fact that lucanis has tried to flirt with viago by just Giving Him A Knife. he is the dumbest man ever i want him so bad.

[hoarderheart]

How come you always have a boyfriend? How come you only want what you can’t have? Whoa. I know what I want, but I can’t have it. Besides you don’t want me, you just like too flirt. You’re just a complex manifestation of his memories designed to keep him distracted. The fantasy was far too real. No, guys, this is my life, this is the dream. It’s just a dream. Look, I have no illusions, okay? The life I live… It’s a lot of things, but it’s rarely happy. You know what? I'm a realist. I don't see much hope for us. No strings attached. Well, I’ve seen much stranger things happen. Damn, it’s good to see you. A hell of a lot stranger. Anything? Oh, sweet. Almost anything. He’s dead, all the way dead. Because of you. I’ll see you…I will. Is that really you? Part of me always believed you’d come back. Welcome home. But you’re always there, you know? Maybe if you didn’t up and leave us. I left, but you didn’t stop me. I should’ve stopped you. You’re the best friend we’ve ever had. You’re my best friend, but I just let you go. Man, I hope you can hear me… I know you’re in there…I know you can hear me...it’s me. We’re family. The people in your life, in your real life..? You ask, what about all of this is real. You’re my family. We are. People, families, that’s real. Out there, we need you to come back. We need you. We were a family and I didn’t wanna lose that. I need you. I forgive you… I’m sorry it took me so long...I’m sorry it took me ‘till now to say it. I love you. And I let it slip away… You’re our brother, I want you to know that. I love all of you. I need to say something. You don’t have to say it. You don’t have to say anything… Wait, there’s one thing… When Jack was dying…I made a deal. To save him. The price was my life. They’re not gonna get anything from me without agreeing to a few conditions. When I experience a moment of true happiness, the Empty would be summoned and it would take me forever. Why are you telling me this now? I wanted you to know…that when I do picture myself happy… I always wondered, what it could be…what my true happiness could even look like. There’s things, people, feelings…that I wanna experience differently than I had before. It’s with you. Or maybe even for the first time. I never found an answer. Because the one thing I want…it’s something I know I can’t have. But I think I know…I think I know now. Happiness isn’t in…the having, it’s in just being, it’s in just saying it. Why does this sound like a goodbye? Because it is. Whatever you’re thinking of doing, don’t do it. Don’t do this. I have to… You really suck at goodbyes, you know that? This is a better goodbye than the last time. You changed me, Dean.

I love you.

Goodbye, Dean.

I should’ve said, “I love you, too.”

[fisheito]

i just love how consistent kuya is in that we can recognise him based on his shoe style like. those are his thick heelies those are kuya's no other old man wears those booties

[somegrumpynerd]

Killer and Dust are both picky eaters send tumble

[jubileepizza]

Truthfully I don’t think ianto jones even had a thing for suits, at least not initially. In his attempts at seducing his way into a job he tested a variety of clothing and it was the suit which finally got results. Jack had a thing for (ianto in) suits.

[tragicvampireromanceisland]

Is there any moments when Jane almost reveals herself as Solarflare to Sammy, when protecting her (say the bullet scene from Superman 1978)

OH MY GOODNESS YES!!! so many times. i love that you specifically mentioned superman 1978, because that's actually my biggest inspiration for their dynamic!!!

sammy's pretty nosy (as reporters are LOL), so she usually winds up in trouble without even meaning to do so as she tries to gather info for her stories. she's always a bit confused as to why jane insists on tagging along...their initial relationship is actually a little rocky, because jane was just sort of dumped onto sammy to look after by her higher ups at work, and she sort of hinders her work sometimes (and sammy values her work VERY much). plus, she can be a bit too trusting of others, which sammy definitely isn't...

actually got inspired to doodle a version of the 1978 bullet scene for this au real quick!! so thank you for giving me the excuse to draw these two together LOL. also had to draw the scene right after that with the purse, because it's also a very sol thing to do. she's had a lot of close calls! but yet, somehow, sammy still has not figured it out....i'd like to think this happened pretty early on in their relationship, when sammy's just starting to come around to jane...

[chirpsythismorning]

Me when I’m reading a fic that’s a little too OOC for my taste, but the writing is superb and the angst is top notch…

[pynkhues]

Speaking of Louis, Lestat and masculinity, I think a point that people always ignore is that Louis' masculinity is important to him and he's attached to gender roles/preconceptions far more than Lestat/the way Lestat is not. I think it's communicated in the show pretty well. It's why he feels comfortable in the role of the successful businessman to Lestat's supporting spouse, but not when the power dynamic is flipped, and why Lestat feels comfortable to be the supporting spouse as well. Your recent post reminded me of the "Come to me" lyrics, and I think Lestat placing himself in the feminine role of Mélisande is another example of that. Plus the Marie Antoinette dress (note Louis being kind of uncomfortable with the camp of it all lol).

I totally agree, anon. I think the show's pretty deliberate with the fact that Louis' at his most comfortable in his relationships with both Lestat and Armand when he's acting as the businessman / breadwinner and they're acting as the supportive spouse. I mention it in the post I think you're replying to, but Lestat playing host at The Azaelia and helping to manage the staff - presumably without being paid - very much plays into that sort of dynamic, and it's one Louis seems to be repeating with Armand in Dubai given Armand's helping to effectively administrate the sales of Louis' art investments. It's a form of unpaid domestic labour which in a loving relationship, can be completely fine, but does often come with (perceived or real) connotations of roles and a certain power dynamic.

A huge part of that I think is tied to Louis' sense of masculinity and the role he wants to take in his relationships, but I also think it comes from a genuine place of wanting to be the provider, which has likely been borne out of the role he took with his mother and siblings as a young man. I talk about that more here, but I do think he needs to feel like he can look after those he cares about, and I actually do think it comes from a pure place even though it can be and is often corrupted by the fact that he's capable of real cruelty and vindictiveness when he feels scorned (i.e. he wants to provide for Grace because he loves her, and he buys her that holiday for her honeymoon, and he wants her to have the house to raise her family in, but when she disowns him, he doubles down on that out of spite not because he's letting her go and moving on, but because he's holding her to it. He knows she and Levi could never afford it without him, and he really rubs that in her face at their mother's wake. She'll always be living in his house, and that once meant something pure and good and loving, albeit paternalistic, and now it fundamentally does not).

I didn't really go into it in that last post, but I also think Louis being a voracious reader is something that gets misread a bit sometimes. Like these days, it can feel like being well-read is more common with women, particularly in online spaces, but I absolutely see the connotations on the show of it being partially a performance of class and masculinity. That's not to say I don't think he genuinely loves reading - I really think he does, and I love that about him - but this is the 1910s through 1930s when hypermasculinity and wealth was very much tied to being well-read, and a lot of contemporary authors from William Faulkner to Ernest Hemingway to Joseph Conrad, were both depicting and exploring manhood in ways that were pretty formative for a generation of men.

On top of that, reading was a symbol of class because the only people who had the time or capacity to do it were people who were both educated and had money. Louis sitting on a park bench in a three piece suit reading Charles Darwin of all people is absolutely a show of class and masculinity, and the fact that it dovetails into a conversation about diet, again, is a broadcast of wealth and status. Sure, we're talking about eating people, but if you're looking at it as a metaphor, it's symbolic of Louis having' choices about what he eats when, which is inherently about having the means and status to do so.

Plus I feel it's pretty important context for Louis and Lestat's bickering in 1.05 when Louis' reading Madame Bovary - Lestat calls Louis a snob, and Louis goes in by basically calling Lestat shallow and uncultured, which is a) very funny to me, personally, I love it when they're mean to each other, haha, but also b) I think very much evident of Louis' feelings of masculinity, particularly given it happens directly after he cites Claudia calling him the unhappy housewife. Again, Louis' rejecting that role - the house is a mess (so they've either fired their staff, or they've quit), Louis' not going to do it and neither is Lestat, and Louis' sprawled on the couch reading from his husband's library and dragging him for being too frivolous to read them.

Again, I think Louis genuinely loves reading, but I also do think for him it's fundamentally a part of his identity as a Cultured, Intellectual Man. It's why he doesn't take to the campiness of the Theatres des Vampires, or as you said, get involved in lestat's Mardi Gras performance (I'm always sooo fascinated by the fact that we don't get a reaction shot of Louis to that sequence at all - again! It feels loaded!) I think his sense of masculinity is, well, pretty traditionally masculine, and I think it's pretty vital to his self-image.

[pampanope]

Any Given Day At Shadow Company: Flirting

Flirting with your fuckable boss? Likelier than ya think!

((Making pple grind to lvl 1250 to obtain the hot Shadow skin is criminal😩 CRIMINAL

…no i don’t have the hot Shadow skin, this is me venting over it 💀))

[ironyscleverer]

5 Christmas/Yule/Winter Albums for Your Enjoyment:

the vibes are a spooky folkloric midwinter somewhere down the centuries in Darkest Europe (mostly England).

If on a Winter’s Night, by Sting

Ancient Winter, by Leah

The Castle of the Holly King: Secular Songs for the Yuletide by Shira Kammen

The Holly King, by MaddRegaeles Muse

A Feast of Songs: Holiday Music from the Middle Ages, by Barry and Beth Hall

Plus my own personal playlist featuring songs from all of these albums and more.

Happy listening!!!

[whyamiherewhosummonedme]

how are you alive

this isn't hate btw I'm just looking at the fact that you drank pure virus

I'm just cackling that my virus-drinking chaos has been noticed by people outside my immediate friend group. I reiterate that it was a bacteriophage - these viruses are specialized to infect bacteria, and animal cells - ie human - are simply so different that bacteriophages don't even recognize them as targets. In fact, it's a hot topic of study to weaponize bacteriophages for the sake of combatting bacterial infections. Already there have been numerous studies and trials regarding injecting a bunch of viruses into people who are sick to cure them - there was a huge case study in 2017, and interest has exploded since then especially.

What I'm saying is that my impulsive decision was actually a scientific breakthrough I promise. Please let me into your laboratory please please please

[robotclownindulgence]

Toxic yuri is all fine and good but as a lesbian™ it's starting to get a little tiring that so many of the more well-regarded wlw couples in more recent media aimed at adults end in tragedy

[yandere-daydreams]

watched breaking dawn prt. 2 for the first time yesterday... effervescent.