#q interviews screaming
Explore tagged Tumblr posts
Text
well at least-
660 notes
Ā·
View notes
Note
Regarding your recent post, I'm not even shocked that a certain section of this fandom are still trying to pretend Assad fans are any more anti black than Sam fans. I've seen plenty of anti blackness from all corners of this fandom, from both Lestat and Armand fans. But somehow weirdos think Sam fans are woke and progressive in comparison? there were Samstat fans who wrote disgusting fanfic of Louis calling other black people 'gorillas' for fuck's sake and specifically to prop up Lestat. There were Loustaters who thought it was a brilliant idea to go to a slave plantation so they can pose for their OTP photos. The Lestat fans who gloated about Claudia finally getting what she deserved, until they decided to use her as a prop for lestat sympathy post s2. But it's convenient for them to focus all that energy and blame solely on Assad and all his fans, because it suits the narrative they've already developed in their minds.
When people were making rape jokes about Assad's character, I recognized some of those blogs. One of them was a Loustater who I distinctly remember talking about Assad derisively. Because according to this fan, he's supposedly replacing Jacob next season. Which is an insane take like these people do know who next season about right? It's supposed to be a TVL adaptation and Armand does have appearances in that story. But here's the thing, they don't mention Sam at all. Now why would they claim Assad (a brown actor who has already has been sidelined repeatedly in marketing and nominations) has more potential to replace Jacob and not Sam, who Rolin already stated was going to be the lead in s3? When AMC has already pushed for more samstat presence in s2?
Let's be real here, some of these people live vicariously through the Jacob/Sam dynamic and the validation they feel from it that they are resentful of obstacles to that. Even if it's another actor of color potentially sharing more scenes with Sam in the future. This is also why they took that rpf poll so seriously ("if you don't vote for my preferred coworker ship, you're anti black") It wasn't just this blog, literally other people who were downplaying the racism for the awards snubs were very similar in that they are very invested in jam conspiracies and/or more lenient towards Sam and other white actors on the show. This bias has been called out by several black fans who I follow.
IWTV fandom directs a very noticable amount of vitriol towards the cast of color on this show. And yes, this includes the Muslim brown actor who fans see as the source of all their problems apparently. Fans behave like they can pick or choose what is racism or not with the marketing and nominations. Jacob, Delainey and Assad have all been subjected to all kinds of nasty remarks that are racist and colorist before this season even began.
It is possible to care about both anti blackness and racism against South Asians. It's absolutely important that both are addressed. But I guess these fans think that only one of these issues matter while continuing to bootlick a white corporation. It's sad and transparent what's really going on here.
A SECOND IWTV FANDOM READ HAS HIT MY INBOX. I REPEAT A SECOND IWTV FANDOM READ HAS HIT MY INBOX. someone call the fire department y'all trying to burn down my house with this one hold on
first off. idk where all of you are coming from with these good good takes but keep making them and keep reading the hypocritical fuckers in this fandom for filth while you're at it bc you are right and true and correct. we have seen shit on all sides bc having your pet character to hide behind doesn't change the fact that your ass is racist, but there's something about the racism from so-called Sam fans that is like. how do you even come up with that. how do you look at what you just said and think that's ok to post. and most times it is about making the South Asian Muslim actor the big bad, just like how here in the US racist pasty ass motherfuckers hear 'terrorist' and immediately conjure up images of folks from the SWANA region/South Asian subcontinent. it's othering. he's not like us so we can use him as a punching bag and pin everything we think is wrong in the fandom on him
living vicariously through the Jam dynamic................................ anon truer words have never been spoken. i get it. maybe they latched on too hard to the unholy trinity of the Loustat + Claudia family in the early days of s1 before that went down the drain and mother and daughter headed off to Paris and so they love seeing Jacob and Sam interact for promos irl. for those Jam fans who might see this listen to me. i am holding y'all very gently rn. go outside and touch grass there is no fucking reason whatsoever for you to get so delusional about two coworkers/work besties that you will use that to give the corporation propping up the white half in content he is not meant to be submitted for over the other members of the cast a free-for-all pass. no. it's like using fly swatters in this place the amount of messages i've had to delete from my inbox this week bc they all start with some variant of 'but Sam' and i do not have the spoons to answer that foolishness again
jumping all around your ask in terms of the order in which i make these points so i apologize but heading back to the Loustat blogs that have it out for Assad for whatever reason (specifically the ones making SA jokes about Armand)āi remember seeing that post and just being instantly horrified. i'm talking cold sweats level of freaked the fuck out. just bc you think AMC is going to use the shift in main vamp focus to possibly give Armand slightly more screentime that means he's going to replace Louis and therefore you can now wish things i wouldn't wish on my worst enemy on him. what the actual fuck. in my mind there is a spectrum and this shit is on one end and the rabid Marius stans are on the other and they are both equivalently bad. those two are shaking hands in the center over ways to violate and overlook Brown bodies and ykw i'm tired of not naming names so i'll name the ones who made these statements in the first place (note: i'm putting them below the cut at the very end of this ask bc i don't want anyone to be triggered by that kind of vileness as a jumpscare when i still have things left to say. not worth it.)
ykw honestly the obvious attempt to get Black and South Asian IWTV fans to split down the middle over whose blorbo/actor experiences more racism is disgusting. it's just like when they're always trying to get the diaspora (mainly African-Americans + Caribbean people of African descent, although i have seen them get the West African brethren involved) to start infighting over stupid shit bitch when the cops pull us both over they're not going to ask for a geography lesson. they won't ask us if we immigrated or if our family's been here since before the fucking Civil War. they'll shoot us both and call it an encounter where the two of us were resisting and they feared for their fucking life, like they always do. kicking Assad to the curb to lift up Jacob or vice-versa is not going to get you brownie points with the other infinite amount of racists on this hellsite it'll just buy you time until they decide to kick you to the curb when you open your mouth (if you open your mouth) and point out anything about their blorbo + the way AMC is choosing to promote said blorbo. frankly not even bootlicking anymore we're deepthroating that shit all the way to the back no gag reflex. get up. your Islamophobic xenophobic posting and 'pick a side' propaganda is not the slay you think it is
(note: the Armand SA post in question is below this marker. if you think a trigger warning applies, it probably does. stay safe. don't open this shit if you can't handle it. i'll drop the usernames in the comments for extra precaution regardless)
i had to unblock their asses to get this and then i blocked them right back. fuck me for even having to see this again but i did it for a good cause
#inbox#q: anon#tv: interview with the vampire#interview with the vampire#amc iwtv#iwtv#assad zaman#armand#oh we eating today. we eating good today these takes are on point anons. now if more of you could find yourselves in my mutuals'#inboxes and not the ones that scream bloody murder when someone even thinks in Sam's direction it would be a good day#for me AND for them. i send you forth
48 notes
Ā·
View notes
Text
At the back of my copy of The Vampire Armand, there's an old interview with Anne Rice talking about creating that novel. I've never forgotten her answer to one of the questions... It haunted me for years.
It gives incredible insight into how and why she wrote such beautiful, brutal and broken characters, and what she endured in the creation process.
BUT before you read this, I'm going to STRONGLY warn you, it goes to very very DARK places
Q: What are your work habits for a novel?
A: Once I truly begin to write, I work obsessively, in twelve-hour days, punctuated by days of long sleep and vivid dreaming. Starting time and ending time are no longer important. I might begin at 9 A.M., or after noon or at eight in the evening. I go from there. I turn on the computer and write, write, write.
My room is a mess. Notes are scribbled on the walls so that I can look up at them at the appropriate moments and insert the date, the name, whatever, when I need it. Books are stacked so high that people have to search for me when they come into the room. Opened books with marked-up pages are stacked on top of one another.
I become suicidal. I go through a horrid despair some time or other before the final page, during which everything seems meaninglessāfrom the dawn of history to the very hour in which I am writing.
Iām intolerable to live with. But I spread myself thin over a number of loved ones and staff members so that no one person has to put up with how intense, hysterical, and miserable I am.
When I get elated and talk fast and furiously about wonderful aspects of history or the characters, or good developments in the story, people run away from me. I donāt blame them.
While the novel is being written, I try to avoid dressing for outdoors. No one can make you go out if you donāt have shoes on. Not even in the south. I wear long velvet robes and soft velvet slippers. I refuse to go out. All food is brought in. I eat hamburgers because they are easy to hold with one hand while reading and holding the book with the other hand.
In the middle of the night I read, sometimes on the carpeted floor of the bathroom, just because itās warm. I am wretched. I donāt care anymore about being abnormal. Writing is everything. Everything. It seems impossible to write the book. It seems impossible to lift a hairbrush to brush my hair. But I do it. I put on mascara every day that I write.
This period of intense work lasts about six weeks. Itās best that way. My imagination is overheated, and my memory clogged with data of varying importance. If I go over six weeks, I begin to forget things; I feel the loss of intensity and information and I become all the more self-destructive and obsessed.
The end of the book is a big event for me. A big event. I start screaming. I put the hour and the date at the end of the last page. I expect everybody to understand, at least a little. Itās a triumph! The darkness of destiny has been driven back for a brief while. I celebrate. I scream, eat chocolate, and sleep.
Right near the end of writing The Vampire Armand, I realized I had to return to Italy, especially to Florence, and at once I began to make preparations for the trip. As soon as the novel was finished and off to the publisherās, as soon as it could be accomplished, I flew to Italy. That gave me hope, a way out of a life threatening darkness that often follows the climax of a book. But I still ate chocolate and screamed.
While writing, I donāt want to rest. I donāt want to sleep. Why sleep? It seems stupid, except when weariness overcomes me like a giant cloud of poisonous vapor. Then I sleep fifteen to twenty hours. I tell people to go in and out of the bedroom and ignore me lying there, as if I were dead. I wonāt talk on the phone. I wonāt open my eyes if I donāt have to. I dream terrible, upsetting dreams.
I want to kill myself. But I canāt. I canāt do it to other people, and I have work that must be done, novels that must be written. So I donāt kill myself. Besides, I donāt think itās good to kill oneself. Itās a horrible idea. It has a horrible effect even on acquaintances.
I think a lot about people I loved who are dead. I think of how dead they are, year after year, ever more dead.
#interview with the vampire#anne rice#the vampire armand#the vampire chronicles#iwtv#the vampire lestat#louis de pointe du lac#interview#tw: sucidal thoughts#mental health#writing
697 notes
Ā·
View notes
Text
New Ryoko Kui Interview from Anime Expo 2024 (Summary/Commentary)
This interview is unintentionally hilarious. It's much shorter than the other interview, and every question was met with either a polite non-answer or a flat-out "No." Kui embodied this elf lady she drew for the entire thing:
Kui really wasn't having any of it. Every time the interviewer tried to ask a leading question about things the fandom thinks are extremely central to the manga, Kui basically answered no/I don't care/You're overthinking it/I wasn't suggesting what you're assuming I was suggesting.
My summary/commentary of the interview under the cut.
Please keep in mind these are my opinions, based on my knowledge of Japanese social conventions, and how I personally read the interview!
Q: Dungeon Meshi is about the power of eating in groups/family, do you have any food memories or recipes you can share with us that are important to you? A: No. (In other interviews Kui has stated that she doesn't like eating, other people seeing her eat, or watching others eat, and that she used to eat her meals in the toilet to avoid being around other people during meals. This is a common thing people who are shy, bullied, or socially avoidant do in Japan.)
Q: What meal in DM do you want to eat? A: None of them, I'm a picky eater.
Q: You obviously love TTRPGs. A: Uh...Not really... I've never played one, I just read about them for research purposes. (In other interviews Kui has stated she's never played a TTRPG because she doesn't have friends she can do it with. The fact that so many people in the world do have that many friends they are that close to was very shocking to her. She was amazed that people would actually role-play in front of other people. This, plus other things Kui has said in the past ("I'm not good at human relationships"), suggests that she's not very socially active.)
Q: Your fantasy ecosystem is so complex, how did you build it? A: I though about it, and then I used my imagination. (This is kind of an ice-cold burn. Like a writer saying "I wrote one word, and then another, and then I kept adding words until the book was done.")
Q: Do you love monsters as much as Laios? A: No. But I do like them a lot, and I've loved them since I was a kid.
Q: How'd you design Laios' ultimate monster? A: I used the childhood memory of wanting to design the coolest, strongest monster.
Q: A lot of fans think Laios is autistic, especially because of his fight with Toshiro. A: I wrote him to be a normal guy that anyone can relate to. I don't think he's special or unusual. Both he and Toshiro have problems and they both need to work on communicating better. (Kui saying she didn't write Laios as autistic doesn't mean you should shit on other fans who read him as autistic. All it means is that he's not canonically autistic, and you can't say "Laios being autistic is the foundation of the entire manga." Kui saying that she didn't intentionally write Laios as autistic doesn't invalidate the interpretation, it just means saying Laios is autistic is an interpretation, and not a concrete fact. Also worth noting that labeling Laios as autistic might come across as very rude for a Japanese person. Kui may not want to call Laios autistic due to social stigma.)
Q: Tell us about the Senshi fanservice. A: Calling it "fanservice" feels wrong to me. He's just an older man who doesn't care if people see his underwear, something I've experienced in real life. It might make some people uncomfortable but Senshi's just living his life, I thought that was funny. Laios is a bit uncomfortable seeing people in their underwear. (Holy shit. This answer is the equivalent of Kui firing a shotgun directly in the interviewer's face and screaming "it's not fucking fanservice." She's being VERY direct for a Japanese person, and implying that she doesn't like people calling the Senshi pantyshots fanservice, that she sees them as comedy.)
Q: But Senshi's handsome isn't he? A: All dwarves are handsome :) (This is a complete non-answer, and after that previous answer, it's very likely Kui is trying to brush the interviewer off. This is most likely Kui saying "Please stop this line of questioning/I don't want to talk about this anymore.")
Q: What inspired Marcille's dungeon lord dress? Her friends all make fun of her but I thought it looked nice. A: There's no specific reference. I made it up to look like her mom's dress and added a childish head covering. The dress is totally normal, her friends making fun of Marcille is a joke. They're just not used to seeing Marcille in that kind of clothing, so it seems weird to them. They don't actually think the dress is that strange or uncool.
Q: Did you expect the strong fan reaction to Marcille and Falin's relationship? A: I don't think about how the fans will react when I'm writing. (Another complete non-answer. She doesn't want to discuss the topic of Farcille and avoids it like a landmine. Honestly, good for her. She wants fans to feel free to think what they want and have their own interpretations.)
Q: Will you write a spin-off about Izutsumi getting revenge on the person who made her? A: Maybe, maybe not. Probably not. I think Izutsumi's pretty happy as she is and just wants to live her life.
In short, Kui's reaction to a lot of the fandom opinion questions was:
EDIT: Also, looking at the headline/page summary for the article, it's uh...insanely misleading.
"We sat down with Kui-sensei at Anime Expo 2024 to discuss the community of food, why Senshi is so sexy, seeing neurodivergence in Laios, and more." Kui literally said no in response to all of those questions, this summary of their own interview implies that there was anything discussed, and not just Kui telling them "no" to each question.
416 notes
Ā·
View notes
Text
Haven't watched anything KristSingto recently but he's right
You can think of fanservice what you want. But the moment you want to police or censor it, it turns into something really problematic. And this stance comes from 2 or even 3 different oppinioned sides but they ironically melt into the same outcome.
But at the end of the day most people forget / ignore, regardless of anything, fanservice still helps normalising public queer affection. And let's be real, most of the stuff in those stage and event shows are that... a show or even a performance! Do you protest at your local theater when they have queer characters kissing? Do you notice how this sounds in a sentence? Yes actors are real people and not characters but especially BL actors & idols still perform stage shows and kind of have a public enertainer persona. You notice how different they are on stage vs. in their personal live streams + nowadays most actors are even very honest about just doing fs for show & fun and often genuine (platonic) affection towards their acting partner but don't pretend to be actual dating (and the ones who do will most likely not lightheartedly come out with it like that... apparently there are exceptions but I have not enough insight on them to judge). You should watch some serious interviews or live stream (translations) of your favs now and then maybe to learn more about them and the industry, they are more than just pretty faces... Actors in just my bubble who talked open about the fanservice topic as far as legally possible at least: JamesSu, Perth Nakhun and I guess we can count Pavel and Nut as well.
What fans make out of it is a whole different story.... and one of the reasons people want to shut down fanservice as a whole. But imagine how lighthearted, fun and easy going this whole thing could be if we didn't had all these toxic naive fans who think every interaction is proof of actors dating (or worse: cheating) in RL. That mindset of "we are BL fans of course we are delulu" is not a joke anymore among some of them. They srsly take pride in that... babes you are part of the problem, stop encouraging it!
Then on the other side, being critical of some of the practices of the industry is one thing but it should not lead into backwards queer censoring... but that's what some are swaying to with their "real people queerbait" agenda or getting the cringes when (samesex) people interact romantically or erotically during live events (that's a bit of a you thing my dears. not necessarily in a queerphobic way but in a purity / shy way and that is a you problem to deal with not anyone elses problem)....
And a lot of people don't even understand or get what most people criticise about fanservice and just jump onto the ban-fanservice train. Without understanding the nuances nor the actual industry circumstances. Like one main argument here isn't even true. Lot of people assume actors get forced into fs. Which is not true (source: one of Perth Nakhuns Q&A vids, the 2. vid i think). BL actors usually know what they get into by entering the industry, decide with eo how much they want to do. Now that can still cause internal personal conflicts like one going over board or not playing enough but that's human miscommunication. Or companies can still be bastards but it's unfair to generalise it over the whole industry when we nowadays have companies who give their actors that freedom.
There are still some points to criticise, definitely. Like I personally dislike how MCs and sponsors sometimes treat actors during events or how fans scream at every little move or glance like crazy.... But the topic is a bit more nuanced (as always in this world) than how most people look at it. I just mean it really always sticks out when you talk with people about their reasons why they are anti fanservice that they just repeat after another with no sources or without actual up to date information or only look at it from one side.
I personally am in the middle. I only like fs when the actors have fun with it and are transparent about it. In the end it comes down to actors consent what they want to give to the audience (reason why it annoys me when people write "i feel like i am interrupting something here / am intuding their privacy" the actors consented! they want you to watch if you want to see it! consent babes! it is fine)
(when i see someone coming in with "but Krist is a homophobe" I will bite you. I am not even his fan and already researched what happened back then when I first saw those accusations when I got into BL 2021ish. It is really not that hard to look up the source and reports of people who were live pressent at the time to understand what went down back then. Ya know instead of believing rumors that twist and lie for rage bait)
#dr. thomas baudinette#didn't intend to write that much but the things i have seen the past months#kristsingto#bl drama#fanservice#thai bl#mileapo#fandom drama
302 notes
Ā·
View notes
Note
have you heard that jordan peele said steven yeun's character is the one that has the most in common with him. have you thought about how most of his cinematic career has been built around discussions of race and the traumas that come from racism. have you thought about how any media handling real and personal topics is a sort of emotional self-disembowelment on the part of the creator. have you thought of the glory and horror of being Seen. have you screamed
Have I? HAVE i. Have I thought about how Peele has discussed being objectified and tokenized on set, especially early in his career? Have I thought about what it's like to suffer real-life trauma in a space created for make-believe? Buddy, I haven't thought about anything else for days!!
I think one thing that makes this movie so visceral to me is that it's an exploration by a great popular artist on the human cost of making popular art. To me, the connection between Peele and Jupe is a link between the auteur and the cult leader ā both are people consumed & defined by stories, people who are compelled by a narrative and feel an urge to spread that narrative to an audience.
And I am really impressed by how hard Peele seems to work to reject the cult leader in himself as best he can ā to make art that enriches the lives of ALL THE PEOPLE WHO MAKE IT. Every interview is about how collaborative and present he is as a director. Obsessed with this Q&A for many reasons but this moment sticks with me:
KEKE PALMER: There would be moments where weāre going through different parts of this script, this story, from when we first rehearsed to when we were actually on set, or when we had an idea that happened that morning. I would be listening, my head would be down, Iād be listening to what Jordanās saying, Iām like, man this is deep. And I look up and thereād be just this one little tear falling. Man, this brotherās deep. JORDAN PEELE: Iām not afraid to cry as a director. KP: And heās chill! Heād be like, āThatās what happensā and tears are falling. Iām like, āAre you all right?ā But he keeps going and heās like āYeah, yeah. So thatās the thing.ā And then he just walks out.
To me, that reads as a person who is NOT JUST super smart and deep and creative etc but who is also aware every moment of how lucky he is to be doing what he's doing, and who is not ashamed of his own reaction to that gratitude. What's to be ashamed of? It's incredibly fun! He is having an amazing time! He's hanging out with people he likes and respects and coating actors with goop in the esophageal tube! What a job!
I wonder if, to be that thankful and that aware (and that collaborative), you have to have experienced the flip side; if you have to have been Jupe, at least for a little while. I wonder if the process of -- to some extent -- commodifying your own suffering (as capitalism practically demands that artists do in order to survive as artists) leads, almost inevitably, to a moment where you think, "I survived this horror and became a Star because I am the main character of reality: I am more special than other people, I have a special ability to communicate, I have a special destiny." That is a powerful story and a seductive one, but if you don't leave it behind, it will eat you and the people around you alive.
It seems to me like an extension of what Peele is exploring in Us--the notion that your contentment is entangled with someone else's suffering. Why you? Why not the person with all your qualities who for whatever reason never ended up where you are? Especially for creators with marginalized identities, right? "Am I occupying a space that should belong to someone else?" You can avoid that question by deciding that you have special individual qualities that make you the Chosen One, as Jupe does. Or you can accept that the question will always haunt you, that luck (LUCKY THE FINAL HORSE??) has no logic, and you try to spread your luck out and open your space up to as many other people as you can. Which you see Peele doing all the time! Gah!!
908 notes
Ā·
View notes
Note
hello could I be able to request a nsfw alphabet with older Tom??
If your comfortable tyyyy!
A/n: OF COURSE. Iāve always wanted to make one of these ENJOY! <3
thatās it Iām officially screaming for him getting down on my knees rn. LOOK AT HOW HE HOLDS THAT DAMN CIGARETTE OR HIS HANDS I donāt know how much more I can take before I completely die.
š©š®ā±š² š¶šš
š½š¶š·āÆš šā“š šš¶ššš¾šš <3
A=after care: he would be the best with aftercare now that heās older would definitely give you a bubble bath some nice candles lit everything to make sure your okay.
B=Body Part (favourite body part of his and yours): it would definitely be his cock I KNOW FOR A FACT heās very prideful about it and wonāt shut up about it with you š now yours definitely gotta say he loves boobs or ass depending on his mood big or small he would grab them at any time.
C=Cum: now i feel like Tom hm he would definitely use a condom butttt every once in a while he would cum deep inside you definitely would love to see it leaking out of your cunt (I canāt believe Iām writing this. š)
D=dirty secret of his: heās definitely dominant but he would wanna see you dominate him once in a while (I would do that.)
E= Experience (how well experienced they are) I know for a fact that this man has fucked some bitches back then 2000s so heās very well experienced knowing every trick to get you screaming and begging for more.
F= Favourite position: missionary and cowgirl my personal opinion he loves to see your face during sex gets him even more horny and absolutely loves your riding him gets him absolutely weak.
G= Goofy (Are they serious during sex?) yes heād definitely make sure that you and him get the pleasure you both want but during a quickie heād throw a few jokes here and there.
H= Hair (Do they trim?) it depends I feel like every month or so heād shave but other than that he doesnāt really mind
I= Intimacy (Are they intimate during sex?) fuck yes heād be kissing you all over giving you hickeys that man would go crazy
J= Jerking off š if heās away on tour that man would call you every night heād be jerking off to your pictures while heās away You dirty mf.
K= Kinks (one kink or more) OKAY NOW i feel like Tom would just have a little bit of a praise degrading kink maybe a breeding kink (somethings wrong with me. š) heād praise and degrade the shit out of you at the same time
L= Location (Favourite places to have sex.) For Tom I would say definitely a car or maybe a hotel anywhere at anytime.
M=Motivation (turns them on what gets them really going etc.) heād get horny at anything youād do sitting on his lap kissing him anything at all.
N= No (something they definitely wouldnāt agree too) i feel like Tom would not definitely not wanna do pegging
O= Oral (receiving giving) heās definitely into receiving he loves seeing your face messed up with drool and his cum but, he would absolutely devour you heād overstimulate you until you canāt take it anymore.
P= Pace (Slow and sensual or rough?) heās a bit of both honestly heād go slow until your whining and begging him to go more fast then heāll go rough.
Q= Quickie: this man is down for a quickie at any time.
R= Risk taking: Tom would absolutely take the risk he would not care about getting caught if you both are really horny heās down for it anywhere.
S= Stamina (How long can they last?) he could last for hours on end but after like 8-9 rounds heād tap out
T=Toys (would they own any?) hm yes and no he loves using his fingers and everything else to pleasure you but if he had an interview or anything heād definitely use one on you.
U=Unfair (teasing) Tom is absolute asshole when it comes to teasing heād have you all worked up whether itās kissing your neck whispering dirty things in your ear anything at all.
V=Volume (how loud they are) he would love loud girl he loves hearing you moan scream etc, depending on how into it he is heāll moan but other than that a few groans.
W=Woman (what type of woman he would date) he would go out with anyone personally he said in an interview himself āI just love womenā so basically any woman.
X=Xray (whatās packing down there) a lot man has got a whole package.
Z=Zzz (how fast they would fall asleep) he would fall asleep after you fell asleep making sure your looked after while he just holds you in his arms.
A/n: I absolutely loved writing this keep sending requests in!! Mwah bye cuties <33
Taglist:
@bunniesthoughts
@memzyyy
@itsmealaiah
@madzandmore
@il0vet0mk4ulitz
@jadedchar
101 notes
Ā·
View notes
Text
Imagine:
Heartsteel Members As Iconic BTS Moments
Contents: Funny moments, SFW
Word Count: 569 words.
Author's Note: Hello again! I'm sorry about my absence. This has been a busy week since I just graduated from college! I'm finally a certified translator! So, you'll see me around here more often 0.0
> In an interview, Heartsteel was asked what they like from one another. KāSante looked at Yone and said: āI like your brain.ā Yone felt appreciated and thanked him. After that cute interaction, it was his turn to say something nice to Kayn but he struggled to find a good thing to say about him. āI like your eyebrowsā Yone finally said. Kayn flexed his eyebrows on fleek to the camara before turning to Sett. Without a beat he goes: āI like your elbow,ā and then giggled. Sett felt offended by the weird compliment tried to elbowed him since he liked it so much.
> Kayn loves his fans more than any other Heartsteel member, so he screams the fandom name into a mic everytime he can. Kayn will scream āHEARTSBEAAAAAAAATS!ā at random times during interviews, podcasts, and concerts.
> In Japan, Yone explained to the interviewer that the other members of Heartsteel arent very good at speaking japanese. Out of nowhere, Aphelios says to the interviewer in fluent japanese: āI like your videos, your videos are so nice.ā āOh, well, he can speak a littleā Yone said dumbfounded.
> In another interview, Sett kept singing Despacito throughout the whole show, embarrassing himself. KāSante kept repeating that he was a rapper and not a singer, so people wouldnāt think that Heartsteel songs sound like that.
> The interviewer asked how they deal with girls and fangirls in their dating life. Ezreal simply answered: āI donāt thinkā
> At the Grammyās, someone ask who is the bad boy in the group. Everyone quickly looked at Kayn. He just smirked to the camera with confidence. āIām bad boy,ā he said with his ego up his ass.
> Yone was hosting a Q&A at a fanmeeting. He picked a question about them hanging all the time because of Heartsteel. āDo you ever get tired of eachother since you live together?ā he read aloud. Ezreal jumped from his seat and hugged Kayn over his shoulders. āNo, you are my bro,ā Ezreal said with a big smile while the punk tried to push him away, even if he liked the attention.
> KāSante has a tradition with Heartbeats at every concert. He will craft red hearts to incorporate into his outfit on stage or show in creative ways for the audience to show his appreciation for their support throughout his career.
> At a podcast, Aphelios revealed that he likes to draw, he even showed some of his drawings. The host encouraged him to post his drawing to social media. Aphelios said that his drawings were a secret. The host giggled and said: āNot anymore since this will be uploaded to YouTube.ā Aphelios stayed quiet after that fuck up.
> At a radio show, the host asked Heartsteel members to present themselves and say something most people donāt know about them. KāSante went first and thought about a secret he was willing to share. āIām hungry. Top Secret,ā he said, making everyone laugh at the booth. Sett confessed: āMy underwear is black.ā Everyone looked at him confused.
> At a Halloween Special, Heartsteel went to a haunted house. Sett tried to square up at every zombie he saw.
> They were playing air hockey at an arcade once. KāSante and Sett were playing against eachother. Sett hit the pock so hard that it flew out of the table and landed on Aphelios nuts. Everyone laughed at him while he was holding his balls in pain.
Order your own fanfic! (Starting price: $5 USD)
Masterlist.
#heartsteel#kayn#fanfic#fluff#shieda kayn#heartsteel kayn#kayn league of legends#ezreal#yone#ksante#kayn x reader#kayn lol#heartsteel ezreal#heartsteel yone#yone league of legends#aphelios#sett#bullet fic#imagine#x reader#sett x aphelios#settphel#alune#sett league of legends#league of legends#league of legend art#league of fanart
219 notes
Ā·
View notes
Text
I interviewed the organizers of the Media Fandom Oral History Project, and they shared about the project and what makes it important! The project collects oral histories (interviews) from fans about their fannish experiences. Oral histories help fans define for ourselves what it means to a fan, and they help preserve our histories for future generations.
The project needs volunteers! Email oralhistoryfandom (at) gmail (dot) com if you want to get involved.
The full interview can be found under the cut.
-Lianne, Fanhackers volunteer
Q: Can you briefly introduce yourself, the project, and its purpose?
Morgan Dawn: I am Morgan Dawn and have been a slash fanfiction fan since the 1990s. I entered fandom during the last years of paper fanfiction and the beginning era of online fandom.
The Media Fandom Oral History Projectās goal is to capture our history in our own words and with our own voices. The idea came when I was sitting at our kitchen table with my friend Sandy Herrold. We realized that fans talking to other fans in informal settings was the perfect way to showcase our community and our connections. What could be more fannish than talking about and sharing the things we love? We started interviewing fans at conventions, then moved to phone interviews and have finally switched the project into a Do-It-Yourself Mode with fans taking the lead interviewing their friends and choosing what they want to preserve.
The recordings are submitted to the University of Iowa's oral history collection and are available online. We are hoping to provide transcripts for all of the interviews. The University of Iowa has one of the world's largest fanfiction fanzine collections. You can see the list of interviews at Fanlore, one of the OTWās projects.
Franzeska Dickson: I am Franzeska Dickson and have also been a slash fan since the 90s. In my case, I started as a 13-year-old screaming about Scully on alt.tv.x-files during the first season. (I was a NoRomo, as I recall, mostly because I thought Mulder wasn't nearly good enough for her.) I remember being floored when I was told about fanfic. I have no memory of being told that slash existed. I guess it didn't seem like a big deal. I spent the late 90s and early 00s in anime fandom before swinging back to oldschool Media Fandom and later to other Asian fandoms.
I ran into Morgan at a con and informed her that her recording plans were all wrong and she needed the type of voice recorder that linguists use in the fieldā¦ I ended up with the recorder and the bulk of the early interviewing work.
Q: Speaking as if to someone unfamiliar with oral history and your project, why is the Media Fandom Oral History Project important?
MD: The recordings allow us to speak directly to future generations of fans and control the discussion of what it means to be a āfan.ā By having fans talk to other fans we bypass the dominant narrative of how fans interact with the TV, movies, books and comics. It is also an opportunity for marginalized members of our community to talk about their experiences. There has been much scholarship surrounding live action and anime fandoms. Some of it has been done by academics who are fans themselves and it has been wonderful to see the growth of Fandom Studies. But oral history offers every fan the ability to use their own words to talk about the things they remember and what matters to them.
FD: The early zine generation is rapidly dropping dead, and even when they aren't, I'm always running into younger fans trying to do research who have zero clue who's still alive or where to find them. If we wait for people to do their secondary academic research, it will be too late. Primary sources now or we won't have them!
The scope of fans who are interested in fandom history is much wider than the people who can make the right connections to talk to someone older. It's particularly true for early zines, but it's even true for something like Livejournal: I could rustle up thirty people in five minutes who'd be able to speak cogently on that fandom history. A lot of would-be history researchers currently in undergrad would not. For the future academics, the meta writers, or merely our curious fellow fans, it behooves us to record our history in our own words.
Q: What has the Media Fandom Oral History Project accomplished so far?
MD: We have completed 57 interviews. The first few years we went to in-person conventions and used a digital recorder to interview anyone who was interested. In 2017, a graduate student named Megan Genovese obtained funding and did 24 interviews over the phone in a single summer. During the pandemic, we moved into a DIY (do it yourself) phase - instead of a single person doing the interviewing, we now invite fans to contact their friends and spend an hour chatting about their fandom history. They can use their smartphones, Zoom/video conference recording or reserve a time slot on our international audio conference system.
We have recorded the history of some of the earliest slash writers, publishers and artists. We have preserved the memories of the first fan who created the first fanvid using a slide project and cassette audio tape. We have heard from fans who organized conventions and started letter writing campaigns to save shows. The interviews include filk singers, fans whose passion is meta, and fans who created and ran some of the first fiction archives. These fans are creators, organizers, supporters, and devotees and have so many stories to tell.
Q: In what ways do you hope the project will grow in the coming years? Or, what are your hopes for the project's future?
MD: Weāre a small project and it is difficult to scale with our current resources. By shifting to the DIY phase weāre hoping to encourage fans to take the reins of their fandom history and never stop telling their personal fannish stories. The DIY project also allows fandom communities to leverage off our existing āinfrastructureā - we can offer permission forms, an international recording platform (if needed), and a place to archive the interviews.
FD: All fandom history resources suffer from a strong predilection for the researcher's friends or their part of fandom to be the main focus. I hope people from very different parts of fandom will interview their friends about areas other people haven't found important or accessible enough to record.
Q: What help is needed, and how can people get involved?
MD: We need 2 intake coordinators to answer questions, e-mail and collect permission forms (Participants must sign a permission form allowing their recordings to be archived at the University of Iowa). We also need help with outreach to communities that may not be aware of the project - anime, BL fans, cosplayers, filkers, fans in other countries. This is not just a historical project looking backwards. We want to capture our community as it is today and hear from fans whose experiences differ. The central focus has not changed - fans participating in transformative fandom - reading, writing, creating fanfiction, fanvids, podfic, art, managing discord communities. But it all starts with intake coordinators who can keep track of participants and follow up to get the recordings. Each oral history also has a written transcription, as we want this project to be as accessible to as many people as possible. Weāve tried some automated transcription services, and the results are very uneven. This means thereās another opportunity for volunteers, people to listen to the recordings and to help transcribe the contents.
Q: Is there anything else you'd like people to know about the Media Fandom Oral History Project?
MD: It's a way for fans to be heard. They can describe their experiences on their own terms, in their own words, and take back some of the power of storytelling, rather than having others tell their stories for them.
It's a way to help preserve and honor fan experiences and fan history.
Envision you and your friends, talking about the things you love, your community, and what they mean to you, and describing and preserving these things for history.
Plus, it's really fun!
FD: If you don't want 'fandom history' to mean just one kind of fandom history, speak up while you can, whether that's here or in essays or in your own projects!
226 notes
Ā·
View notes
Text
ready, set, cope å½” aot characters
Ā» summary ā actor au scenarios/headcanons.
Ā» content ā overall fluff. various attack on titan characters, focused on erwin smith. might be ooc, this is pretty silly.
Ā» word count ā 515
Ā» my note ā iām going to post some of the things sitting in my drive to clear some space for assignments. š¢
Thinking about Erwinās appearances on set despite no longer being in the show for years now. That doesnāt stop him from coming from back time to time. He tries to attend every award ceremony to support his friends and the rest of the crew. The same treatment is often reciprocated when it comes to his award ceremonies.
One time, Zeke posted on his Instagram story regarding the filming season and how it was about to start again. Make-up set, props ready in the background. Other actors were seen sitting around in their uniforms. Erwin was there to give a surprise visit, giving him a side hug with a clapperboard in his right hand.
A month or two after an episode is aired (to avoid spoilers), Connie uploads blooper videos to his YouTube channel. One of the few moments that get really popular is Levi breaking character every few seconds because he can't stop laughing at the ticklish feeling of the bandages over his eyes and lips.
Eren and Jean stream video games on Twitch (scheduled on weekends) and are really great friends outside of the show. They often drag Armin into it, who isnāt great at games, but he tries. What matters to them is having fun regardless of what they do! They get into character once in a while, saying lines or coming up with something silly, and the chat goes insane.
Erwin ends up creating a channel to post vlogs every week or two. He gets active on social media, but he isnāt constantly up to date with trends. Heās a supportive guy though, and he learns the power of emojis the hard way.
Levi doesnāt have social media except for a Twitter account that he never uses (mainly to claim his name so no one else could take it, and thereās no profile picture). His bio is something simple that the kids come up with.
Moblit falls under this category of non-social media users but appears in posts of others.
Levi had no idea people were shipping his character with someone else, but he doesnāt get why. Thereās hardly romance in this story aside from Mikasa and Eren, itās mostly about war.
In a Q&A, he briefly admits that Eruri is cute but thinks Levihan has more chemistry.
During an interview, Connie once accidentally said a minor spoiler and Reiner tried to cover it up by flexing his muscles as a form of distraction. Mikasa laughed the entire time as the two freaked out, and Bertholdt had to tell them, āBe quiet before you guys say something worse!
However, 95% of the time, itās Eren who spoils almost everything about the showā¦ if it isnāt for Annie covering his mouth and Floch suddenly making weird āah-ah!ā screams to stop him from saying anything else.
Levi had brought duck tape to cover the poor boyās mouthāif needed, he claimed.
Petra and Oluo were in awe when they heard about AurEtra. She gives her support to Eruri and Aruani, while Oluo thinks love is the last thing to worry about in this tragic journey.
#aot#aot imagines#aot headcanons#attack on titan#attack on titan headcanons#snk#snk headcanons#shingeki no kyojin#erwin smith#erwin headcanons#zeke yeager#zeke jaeger#connie springer#levi ackerman#levi headcanons#jean kirstein#jean kirschstein#jean headcanons#eren yeager#eren jaeger#eren headcanons#armin arlert#armin headcanons#moblit berner#mikasa ackerman#reiner braun#bertholdt hoover#annie leonhart#petra ral#oluo bozado
106 notes
Ā·
View notes
Note
šŖ
we're going to dig up something from several of my writing playlists to answer this one bc every time this comes up on shuffle i physically cannot do anything. there is no way you can listen to Tumhe Dillagi Bhool Jaani Padegi, hear these lines in particular and come out sane on the other end i'm sorry. if you can then i don't know what kind of sorcery you're practicing:
Zakhm pe zakhm kha ke ji Apne lahoo ke ghoonth pi Aah na kar labon ko si Ishq hai dillagi nahin... (Stay alive facing wound upon wound Drink sip after sip of your own blood Don't complain, seal your lips This is love, not infatuation) Kuch khel nahin hai ishq ki laag Paani na samajh ye aag hai aag Khoon rulayegi ye lagi dil ki Khel samjho na dillagi dil ki (Love is not childās play Don't underestimate it, it is not water, it is fire, yes, a fire True love will make your eyes full of blood Love will make you cry tears of blood Don't think that falling in love is a game) Yeh ishq nahi aasaan Bas itna samajh lijiye Ek aag ka dariya hai Aur doob ke jaana hai (Understand that this love is not easy Think of it this way It is a river of fire And you must drown to cross)
(ask me about lyrics that i am not normal about pls and ty)
#inbox#q: flannelandsarcasm#NUSRAT FATEH ALI KHAN!!!!!#look i pulled these translations off the internet and mixed and matched them based on what phrasing sounded better#or felt more poetic to me based on the source material. i can't speak Urdu to save my life (i am trying to learn tho!)#so @ my Urdu-speaking mutuals pls feel free to roast me within an inch of my life if this is off in any sense#tbh nearly everything sounds better when it's not in English so uh. you have that#anyway Tumhe Dillagi. has me in a chokehold and will have me in one forever and ever and ever and ever andā#God. *screams*#tv: interview with the vampire#nusrat fateh ali khan
12 notes
Ā·
View notes
Text
By Marcelo FernƔndez Bitar [translated from Spanish]
In just over 24 hours, Louis Tomlinson passed through Buenos Aires and caused a commotion, with hundreds of fans crowding at the door of his hotel singing and shouting his name, and also occupying almost the entire block where there is a FM radio station where he went to give an interview.
The fanaticism generated with his solo career by the former singer of One Direction in Argentina is so great that in fact he will give a recital in the same stadium where he was in 2014 with the mega-boy band. It will be on May 18 in VĆ©lez Sarsfield.
Louis Tomlinson already has two solo albums and is touring the world presenting the most recent, Faith in the Future. It came out in November 2022 and surprised with his most rocky sound, close to the Brit-pop of his beloved Oasis, and less pop. It was number one in England and three singles came out, Bigger Than Me, Out of My System and Silver Tongues.
Hurricane Louis
The visit was really fleeting with the purpose of promoting his show next month, the old-fashioned way, when the artists toured the countries to advertise albums or tours, something they currently do on Zoom or with posts on their official accounts.
Louis arrived on Friday night and spent Saturday fulfilling an intense schedule of activities, to leave early the next day.
First he went to the VƩlez football field for a television interview which will be televised later by TN, and then he went to the radio station Los 40 Principales, where his fans filled the entire Gorriti street, between Ravignani and ArƩvalo, to witness an interview where eight listeners joined to ask him a question each.
He finally arrived at 4 p.m. at the Four Seasons hotel, where hundreds of other fans were screaming for him. There he gave a series of reports and chatted with ClarĆn in a room equipped as a small television set, with lights and a set with his name and the cover of the disc.
"Never, not for a second, did I think I would be going through some of the same experiences," he said, "that I was lucky enough to live in the band. I thought that was something unique. So being able to come here and feel the level of love and the incredible reaction on today's radio station, means a lot to me. When I imagined what my solo career would be like, I really didn't know what to expect.
Re-filling stadiums
At 32-years-old, Louis Tomlinson has the experience of having been part of one of the greatest pop phenomena of the last 20 years, with sales records and sold-out shows in stadiums around the world. And now he is repeating the fury alone, just as it happened just a little earlier with his ex-bandmate Harry Styles.
In Louisā case, he first sold out the closed Movistar Arena stadium in 2022 and now he goes through a huge soccer field like VĆ©lez.
Q: Did you think that being a soloist you had to start from below and sing in smaller places?
Louis: Yes, exactly. But it turns out that I can still play in big places, so it's great.
Q: Can we really talk about a mania of a "louistomlinson-mania"? Does it happen everywhere or is it special in Latin America?
Louis: I think that in terms of the level of similar intensity, and seeing what happened a moment ago on the radio station, that certainly doesn't happen to me everywhere. Let me put it this way: it's incredible to be so far from home and feel that level of love. I'm very excited to think about what the show will be like here.
Q: It's incredible that almost exactly ten years have passed since the last time you filled VĆ©lez. How do you feel when you return to the same stadium?
Louis: I feel very lucky to be able to play in those places again on my own. I also feel very, very proud of myself and my fans. I feel like we have created something that is quite special and we did it together. With them as listeners, but also as facilitators. That really helped my confidence and made me feel good on stage. It's a lovely relationship and I'm very proud of it.
Q: This tour started almost a year ago, how did it evolve with respect to the first shows?
Louis: I definitely feel in a good place right now with the show. Anyway, in advance I was excited about this tour because this album was designed for the live show. So I was excited to see how the songs would work. And the energy is great. I am very excited to show Faith in the Future to Latin America.
Q: How did the idea of making a live cover of Arctic Monkeys come about?
Louis: Arctic Monkeys grew up about 20 minutes from where I live. It was something very close, very fresh in the mind and obviously huge. I was growing up and I'm also a big fan. I usually do the song 505 because it's very pretty.
Often, with the versions, I probably think more about what I would like to sing than about what I imagine that everyone else would like to hear, which may be misjudged, but I'm enjoying it.
Q: When you were a teenager you sang Oasis songs and now you have a rock band that sounds very Brit-pop, almost closing a circle.
Louis: Thank you. I am very, very fortunate to have the band I have, but they also perform sonically and visually, everything that is really important to me. They sound absolutely incredible. I don't think I would be able to do this without my band.
Q: Live you also perform songs from One Direction. Did you feel that kind of shadow at the beginning of your solo career and now you are more comfortable looking back?
Louis: I think a bit about both things. I think that at the beginning of my career I would have been a little more worried about putting too many One Direction songs in the repertoire. What I wanted most was to spread my wings and show who I was. But I think that as time went by, the nostalgic moments are really charming. So it's like a beautiful mixture of nostalgia and it's very nice to do it.
Ping-pong
Q: This is the third time you have visited our country. If you had to describe your Argentine fans in three words, which one would you choose?
Louis: Passionate. Loyal. Affectionate. Thatās okay, isn't it?
Q: The soccer player Kun AgĆ¼ero said that there is a lot of talk to you through Instagram or Twitter. Have you ever met him in person?
Louis: Actually, we have never seen each other in person. Over the years we've talked a little here and there, but I never found time. I have a kind of crazy hope that he can come to the show.
Q: If you had to choose one of your songs, either from Walls or Faith in the Future, that reflects how you feel right now in your life, what would it be?
Louis: I would say that the name of the album (Faith in the future) represents where I am right now, but I think that in the future I would like to always be optimistic.
Q: And if all the One Direction discography was deleted and a song had to be saved. Which one would you save?
Louis: It's interesting... I would probably say Story Of My Life. That seemed like a real milestone. I would say it's a little more serious. And I also think it's a bit of a crazy song.
Q: You are a big soccer fan, do you have any preference for an Argentine club?
Louis: I'm very afraid to say something wrong... I'd better say that I love you all. (laughs)
Photos
Links
64 notes
Ā·
View notes
Text
Sonic is fighting Eggman on one of his evil lairs, nothing new. Tails helped him wreck some badniks but Sonic said he wanted to annoy Eggman by himself for a little bit, so the little fox wanders around the base, maybe he can collect some data to outpace Eggman before his next scheme, the control room is in the same place almost every time so he confidently enters the room after six seconds of hacking through the lock, a semi solid hologram of a girl with crimson eyes turns to him as he steps inside.
Sage, right, he remembers her, he suddenly also remembers that the āChaos Energy Use Effects On Non Organic Beingsā conference he wanted to see was airing live just at that time, but that was only because could see the program starting and being projected on the multiple screens of the room behind Sage. He keeps looking at them for a whole 10 seconds, then remembers where he is, and as he quickly returns his attention to the A.I. girl while he positions himself to fight, he notices she hasnāt displayed any security measures against him, he also noticed that while he was looking at the screens she only looked at him without stopping, not until now, as he can see how she turns her sight back to the biggest screen of the room without saying anything. He doesnāt say anything either.
He opted to watch the same screen as Sage, getting closer to her, apparently she didnāt mind him being here, if the fact that she didnāt stopped him when he sat on the floor just beside her said anything. He doesnāt remember how long was it since he sat down with her, he doesnāt remember when the yelling and fighting from the lairās entrance stopped, but thatās good to him, at least now they can hear clearly the presenterās q&a section.
The fight between hedgehog and madman stopped by the scientist request, as apparently he promised his daughter he would keep quiet that evening so she could enjoy her favorite talk show, a science one of course. The speedster agreed without much convincing, as he also remembered his little brother wanted to go home as early as they could to watch some investigatorās interview thingy.
They walked at a fast pace through the base looking for the fox kit so the old Egghead could kick them out of his house as soon as possible, the control room was the obvious answer for both of them if they wanted to find a curious boy on an evil lair, they didnāt expect to find said boy sitting on the ground smiling and talking energetically with with the translucent hologram A. I. Eggman called his daughter.
Sonic was no scientist, but he knew when someone was talking science, just as he knew how happy his little brother got anytime someone could keep up with him over physics, engineering, mechanics or anything of sorts kind of conversation, but the girl in front of Tails was speaking non-stop, loudly and expertly over some complicated calculations, and the kidās twin tails wouldnāt stop wagging as he listened. Sonic grinned, he didnāt understand what they were really talking about, but the scene in front of his eyes screamed chemistry.
Even if Eggman could understand what they were talking about, he paid no attention to their voices, nor the motion of the foxās tails, or how they both turned repeatedly to the screen behind them and then back to each other; focusing only on how his daughterās eyes glimmered when she listened to the foxās long answer to her comment, and the smile that they both offered each other when the screens turned off when the show finished. He never saw such smile on his daughterās face before.
#sonic the hedgehog#miles tails prower#sonic and tails#dr eggman#sage robotnik#sage the ai#tails and sage#they have great potential interactions#Sage robotnik respects Tails#Tails doesnāt know what to think about this specific a.i.#sonic fanfiction
91 notes
Ā·
View notes
Text
Narrative Frameworks in Only Friends
Something I have been tracking as part of the ongoing discussions about Only Friends is the use of the narrative framework for each episode.
So, I'm making this list specifically for tracking purposes, to note which framework was used for which episodes, if they repeat, and what they may be paying homage to. The goal is to update it every week.
We have seen three frameworks used so far:
1. Voiceovers: gives the audience specific insight into a characters thoughts and feelings; also a great way to provide exposition. It's more of an audio than visual framework, as we don't always see the character doing the voice-over because it plays over other scenes.
2. "Talking Heads" (is there a better descriptor for this?): The characters talk directly to the camera, interview/documentary style. We get to see exactly how they feel about a given moment because they are reacting to it at that time. Audio and visual. Homage to Love8009 (per P'Jojo).
3. Social Media (ft The Artist Formerly Known as Twitter): Not as insightful as the other two frameworks but does give context and a way for interaction, commentary, and exposition on a given plot. Visual. Probable homage to Together With Me, one of the first spicy BLs starring our kings, MaxTul.
Episode 1
Framework: Voiceover
Title: What's Your Role in a Bar?
Narrator: Mew
End Credit Shot: Mew sitting on the floor in front of his fish tank
Episode 2
Framework: Talking Heads
Title: M.F.M My Favorite Man
Narrator: Everyone
End Credit Shot: Ray driving
Episode 3
Framework: Social Media (Twitter)
Title: What Am I to You?
Narrator: Nick and Boston
End Credit Shot: Nick listening to TopBoston sex audio
Episode 4
Framework: Voiceover
Title: Emergency Contact
Narrator: Ray
End Credit Shot: Ray driving (repeat from episode 2)
So far, we have had a repeat framework with the voiceovers. If anyone can think of anything else to add, please let me know! (Also, the episode titles are in a weird q & a format, but I can't tell if it's coincidence or on purpose; either way, it's funny)
Tagging the Ephemerality Squad: @lurkingshan, @waitmyturtles, @wen-kexing-apologist, @chickenstrangers, @ranchthoughts, @twig-tea, @clara-maybe-ontheroad, @distant-screaming
Apologies to anyone I forgot!
#only friends the series#only friends meta#thai bl#ephemerality sqaud#I finished the episode and literally started writing this what even is my brain doing
186 notes
Ā·
View notes
Text
I honestly don't think people understand why this is so important to me - and yes, people should want to know why this is important to me. Let me tell you. Come closer. Closer. Don't be afraid.
IT IS IMPORTANT TO ME BECAUSE I WAS GASLIGHTED INTO THINKING QUELIOT WOULD BE A THING IN THE MAGICIANS YEARS AGO AND HAD TO SUFFER DEPRESSION EVER SINCE THEN BECAUSE I FELT LIKE NO ONE WOULD BE AS EPIC AS QUENTIN COLDWATER AND ELIOT WAUGH.
I watched these two characters have the most amazing chemistry and storylines ever and when the season finally came that they GOT TOGETHER I was like 'this is perfect, they work perfectly together, they are going to be endgame' and the show kept hinting they would be endgame cause 'peaches and plums, motherfucker!' - but they weren't! They killed Q off in a horrible way and he never got to see Eliot or tell him how he felt and vis versa ever again and then the show got cancelled and I have been living in emotional limbo for years.
And then Interview with the Vampire came along.
It came along and it gave me every single thing that I have ever wanted from two characters and keeps giving me what I want and PROMISES to keep giving me what I want and sure, some of your shippers out there might feel slighted because you didn't get what you wanted - WELL THIS IS ABOUT ME AND NOT YOU. I did my suffering! 12 (4) years of it! In AZKABAN!
I get the happy ending this time.
I get the characters who fight or find their way back to each other.
I get to have the endgame to end all endgames.
The rest of you can sit down and just LET ME HAVE THIS CAUSE I NEED IT.
This post will self destruct soon. I just needed to write it and scream it into existence for a few minutes.
#iwtv spoilers#amc interview with the vampire#jacob anderson#sam reid#the feels#louis de pointe du lac#lestat de lioncourt
22 notes
Ā·
View notes
Text
I find it really funny when people are like Milgram is up to interpretation. In the its not meant to be solvable it's meant to be a thought experiment. Because it does to an extent show that many people believe a good mystery and a thought experiment cannot coexist. Even though that's most of the mystery genre.
Mysteries especially murder mysterious are made with the intent to reflect on the nature and finality of human beings.
So it doesn't have to be one or the other.
Even funnier that this is being said all the while the creators could not have been more direct about these stories having concrete solutions/answers that can be discerned through interrogating what's been presented so far.
Like,
Note: This post will be heavily referencing the translation of the hallucination booklet Q&A by DoctorBunny.
Q.01 Introduce Yourself.
Iām Takuya Yamanaka. Iām the creator/planner/screenwriter for MILGRAM.
Q.15 Is there anything the guards arenāt aware of yet?
Yamanaka: Of course, there may be some minor details, but I donāt think there are any major points missing. The mysteries have already disseminated, I feel the full picture will be clearly revealed if the theories and wild speculations, which have been shared around the world, come together. As expected.
Q.01 Introduce Yourself.
Iām DECO*27. I work as the music producer for MILGRAM. I like Hatsune Miku.
Q.04 So far, whatās made you the happiest?
DECO: It makes me happy to see lots of people analysing the meanings I put in my songs! The theories get pretty close to the truth too, I thinkā¦ the power of all the guards is really cool.
There's just been a lot of implications that the there's an answer to these things.
Fun notes
This has absolutely nothing to do with this point but-
Q.07 Which prisoners are the easiest to write dialogue/music for?
Yamanaka: If I had to pick one, itād be Fuuta. Heās the type of person thatās pretty easy to write because his brain never shuts up. Other than him, Yuno and Shidou are relatively academic kids in theory, so theyāre easy to write because theyāre very clear when it comes to what they want to convey. [TL note just because its funny, the idiom Yamanaka uses is lit. āThere is barking in the inside [of Fuutaās] head]
Salamander, "It's heating up inside my head! I can't stop- I don't want to stop!"
Bring It On, "What I want to hear is the scream deep inside you!"
Q.14 What are you thinking about at the moment?
Futa: I wonder if this is what anxiety feels like. I want something I can rely on.
Futa literally in the middle of the night about his victim probably with little to no prompting (not even a fucking segue thought of his own).The entertainment value and mileage I've gotten out of this one fucking video is damn miraculous really. Man who's never had a moment not thinking in his life gets even more points to run around in his head due to the fucking voices in Milgram.
Like I know the covers are just fanservice/have nothing to do with why the prisoners are here but damn if it ain't good fanservice. Because the implication that before this Futa was just going of internally forever without pause is just mood as hell really.
Deco just dropping in the interview that Yuno's story is about the relationships between men and women too and not just a fucking baby, pfft-
Q.08 Which prisoners are the most fun to write dialogue/music for?
DECO: Mahiru! From the start writing about the relationships between men and women has been what you might call my forte, its enjoyable to make. I feel like this is also why I find Yuno easy to write for.
Just came out and said that shit. Yes, I made Deco's color orange because of this.
Q.18 Give a brief comment about the future of āMILGRAMā.
Yamanaka: There have already been plot developments that I personally wish I didnāt have to write. The guards have all chosen a very intense path. Itās frightening. Iāve also been ready to obey these choices since the start of MILGRAM, so I think we all should enjoy this story that can only be told once together.
I think the dichotomy between Yamanaka and Deco answers here is funny.
Yamanaka; there are some thing I wish I didn't have to write,
But I've been ready to follow through on these choices since the beginning.
DECO: Iāve already started writing the prisonerās songs. Itās hell. Please prepare yourselves.
Deco, "It's hell~ < 3 Please, prepare yourselves."
Fucking pick a god and pray as quote. That only makes me go don't threaten me with a good time- things are just getting interesting- Let's overheat in hell together. Meanwhile as a writer reading there are things I've written that I haven't wanted to is such an oof I'm sorry I get the feeling but it's really fun to watch. It's really something great.
Funniest team of all time-
Q.17 Represent āMILGRAMā in one word. Yamanaka: ćäŗŗć āPeopleā
DECO: ćåć āLiesā
I hope whatever Milgram turns into it's remains as enjoyable to make as it is to watch. Despite every up and down. Still it was funny as fuck that Yamanaka really went yeah there's never not noise in that guys head.
I'm looking forward to seeing what this hell looks like. Me when all the prisoners turn out to be horrid liars that have committed a pile of atrocities,
"Damn that foreshadowing was tight and followed up on amazingly. Keep it up please! I want to feel satisfied don't lose steam in the last half!"
I hope it gives that feeling to a lot of people.
14 notes
Ā·
View notes