#post episode interview

[buddieisgoingcanon25]

Here’s the post episode interview. There’s gotta be a reason they’re putting Ryan and Oliver next to each other in these interviews. Don’t you think?

[loumandivorce]

their achilles heels cut the way slaves' were cut. the monstrous racist caricatures drawn. louis depicted as a violent, unstable, and predatory man. not allowing them to speak. the abuser crying about his loneliness as the entire crowd cries with him. louis begging on his knees and telling lestat he'll never leave him, will do whatever he wants, will always be happy, if he just turns claudia. even when lestat admits his faults the crowd sides with him. armand saying lestat took the pieces of louis life and reframed them to build an effigy to lestat as if he didn't do the exact same. claudia telling lestat and louis it was never about her. "i could not prevent it" as he controls an entire crowd. claudia singing "i dont like windows when they close" as she dies. louis buried in rocks and the rocks in the dubai penthouse. the absence of metaphor is striking.

[egophiliac]

bring back zooterkins, the best 17th-century swear word

I don't normally do Just Characters Swearing, but. ...this kind of wrote itself and then wouldn't leave my head. it comes from both a piece of character-writing advice that has always stuck with me, and also my conviction that Leona is 1000% funnier as a character if his dialogue has to stay G-rated. let Kalim say fuck, but don't let Leona say bastard.

(I'm sorry)

[kensatou]

what if we were teammates of 19 years who said things like "i remember watching you play in latvia, thinking how lucky i was that i was going to be your teammate" and "sid saved me" and "only for pittsburgh, always with sid" and "i just always liked him from the start. always have. always will"... and we were both boys

(and what if sports reporters wrote alpha/alpha romance about us. what then.)

[sandushengshou]

[moondustinfj]

[drolta]

iwtv + text post part 51

[vorreitenertiqui]

samssad nation we up

[keykidpilipili]

Kayne is so freaking hilarious for putting the rest of the King inside Arthur during season 3. He gave his blorbo the opportunity to traumatize the guy who broke his legs right back and to make him yearn for his love.

[ripleyscullies]

daniel molloy cathedrals everywhere (carol cutshall ARE YOU LISTENING)

[lizardkingeliot]

I remember being out of my body at the time. I was in Paris. But also in New Orleans. Lestat took me there.

—

The way these two got locked in a memory together so vividly they both went out of body. Louis confirms this through words, and we can see Lestat was also experiencing it by the way he was looking down on the stage in Paris, then it cuts to a shot of Louis in New Orleans, and when we cut to Lestat there in New Orleans he raises his head again...

There is some interesting stuff happening with the POV here. The way we're getting Lestat's POV via Louis. The way their POV is exactly the same in the moment. I'm not sure if we're meant to take this as a literal out of body experience they had together, or more of a metaphorical odyssey due to the memory being so clear and intense for both of them with maybe... a little of that fledgling/maker blood bond coming into play? IDK! But there sure was something happening between them on that stage in that moment.

Also!! I'm still chewing on this but... the way Louis frames it in Paris vs the way he frames it in Dubai. In Paris he outright denies that what Lestat is saying is true, even though he's recalling the memory so clearly he feels out of his own body as it's happening. Then in Dubai, he says he didn't think it at the time (in spite of the whole out of body thing), but now acknowledges that Lestat's version was accurate. Just... something about the subjectivity of memory and what we know to be true vs. what we WANT to be true and how we can sometimes paint ourselves in a much better light not only for the sake of those around us, but for the sake of how we view ourselves.

[katabay]

PAGLUIB

way back in like. march?? I took a stab at writing some kind of kabitserye type of story but it was a mess: it kept veering off into murder mystery drama territory because I was reading a lot of murder mystery novels around then and it Wasn't Good because I hadn't tried writing mysteries, let alone murder mysteries, before lmao

I did write a handful of short mystery stories since then, so next year I might take a stab at this idea again now that I'm no longer jumping head first into a genre pool I don't know how to swim in :)

[riickgrimes]

"The key thing was of course, the fact that Rick has PTSD and that's very much what's driving a lot of his behavior and being in a place of that level of vulnerability, back with the love of his life in that way.

It's also the thing he fears, the loss of her. It manifests itself in a way that is visceral and leads to the lovemaking not just being about love, but the revealing of pain and trauma and fear. That informs Michonne, that she can't just blast him into making sense. There's something deeper going on here that he can't verbalize. She has to help him get through in a different way. So she gets to see him, as well, as he reveals what's really in there, the wound. That's going to happen most likely in that most vulnerable space." — Danai Gurira

"Yeah, I think it is about pain. As Danai just said, it's about him wanting her and then fearing what he's about to unlock again. He gets to sort of articulate it in the scene further in the episode, when he gets to say that, 'I can't do this again. I haven't got the capacity to do this again. I've worked out how to die and live again.' So it is an absolutely necessary scene that allows Michonne to realize that there's something really broken here, more broken than she's ever anticipated. [...]

So the scene was about a real intimacy, a sort of frightening intimacy. This is a part of his personality he has shut down. It's almost like he's trying to stop himself from feeling this love again. She sees that and she just says, 'Just trust. We're back. We're the same...' I find it very moving. I think it's a very, very moving scene, because it's about them connecting in a way that he's had to deny for seven years. He's denied that connection for the sake of living on in this half life for the CRM" — Andrew Lincoln

Andrew Lincoln and Danai Gurira Discuss Episode 4 of The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live

[schrutexbucks]

i WILL hold his slutty little waist interview with the vampire tweet round up

43/xxx

[drolta]