#right in my asks where it belongs

[tftjaspasaur]

🍓🍒🍉 🫐🥝 also raspberry and plum but there aren't emojis for that oops

-🌜

!!!!! hey I’m kissing you btw and giving you little bites all over

[wildsaltair]

Maximus "slayer of men and my ovaries" Meridius

[pynkhues]

Hey :) I've been thinking about slight parallel between "i wanted him dead, i wanted him to myself" and "i had to bring him under my control" (i hope I'm not misremembering Armand's quote lol). Both of those scenes had lestat soaking up adoration, in both Lestat is not as okay as he looks (ptsd from Magnus and knowing about murder) and he's entertaining crowd trying to cover up his fear. Both Louis and Armand saying one of the most beautiful lines in show ("in the centre of the whispering gallery..." and "summer fruit in the dead of winter" etc). Both Louis and Armand being unhinged. Both Louis and Armand having plans that will lead to Lestat hurting?(Murder plan and... well, Armand trying to "bring him under control". Louis was justified though). The only difference is Louis in relationship with Lestat and is wanted back, while Armand is being stalker lol

You can kinda see those scenes reflected in ep3 when loumand are talking about being hurt by Lestat. Louis is being genuine, while Armand is telling a story about his broken heart so Louis thinks Armand, just like him, is Lestat's victim, while in reality it's Armand who violated Lestat.

What do you think? Am I reaching or there's parallel here?

Thank you for your writing!

Ooo, I don't think you're reaching at all, anon, I think that's a really astute observation! I tend to look at the scene in 2.03 often through the lens of Magnus having discovered Lestat on the stage, not Armand (and the fact that there are multiple mentions of him in this scene, from Armand calling Magnus one of his deserters, to the mention of Lestat's turning, to Armand using the mind gift to tell Lestat he's Magnus' bastard while he's on stage), but I think you're right that the scene parallels really clearly with that sequence at the murder ball too.

In a lot of ways, it actually makes sense that it touches on both. We don't know how the show's going to adapt Magnus yet of course, but assuming they keep it relatively close to the book, all three scenes are real meeting points of love (however perverted, in Magnus' case that may be), desire, violence and possession, and pairing up at least these two I think emphasises - in Armand's words - the effect Lestat has on people. He's somebody who's coveted in his entirety, and while there are layers to what that means and how that's acted upon, it really embodies that sort of dark eroticism that's so important to gothic literature.

It also makes me wonder if it's a further nod to Armand trying to rewrite his and Lestat's history as similar to Louis and Lestat's, which makes sense, given it's a further way to entrench Louis' worst feelings about Lestat, and also a way for him to control the narrative.

[micamicster]

Not to be insane but. I do not like the post I saw months ago that said louis turned claudia against her will when “she’s made it quite clear she wouldn’t have wanted to be turned” ok like first of all. That’s not what she said. What she said is she’s full of rage about how she didn’t have a choice. That she might have had choices once but those choices were taken away. Which is really about the unfixable tragedy at the heart of the parent-child relationship aka that the parent cannot avoid doing things that will irrevocably shape the child’s life and the child does not have a choice about it. Most fundamentally of course that the parent decides for the child to be born (turned) and the child has no say in the matter. And it’s not right! They deserve to have a choice! But it is an inescapable part of the parent-child relationship that the child has no choice. Like not to be a pediatrician about it but this show IS about children’s rights

[dishesoap]

does anyone have recommendations for fictional media that has like. actual lesbians in it. not like supergirl Two White Skinny Girls, One Blonde and One Brunette Kiss media, or "its implied lesbianism!!!" but just regular fucking lesbians

[hasarjunadoneanythingwrong]

arjuna’s hair looks like it’s the type to curl but is also on the thick and heavy side so if grown out would mostly only curl at the ends due to gravity

....perhaps i shouldve clarified its not so much that i cant imagine it so much as i can imagine too many versions of it and im not sure which suits him best

[comradecowplant]

so things are not going well with my new elderly socdem friend unfortunately.

[singswan-springswan]

the little mermaid but it's kanera

[eclarinet]

same soup... different day

[ardri-na-bpiteog]

I feel like having a housemate is fine for people who are really chill and laid back and I am not those things

[why-fucking-bother-anymore]

I swear I've gone through every emotion known to man.... (And then some) today...

[rosicheeks]

4:35 and I'm thinking about putting a baby in a certain sexy Tumblr mutual

👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀

[a-wins-a-win]

ivy robinson is the prettiest boy and I mean that unironically in a gendered way

[crossbackpoke-check]

Sometimes, I will come across your blog and read certain tags on certain pairs because, What? What? How are your thoughts my thoughts? How is someone else expressing (so perfectly) what I thought existed only in my head? The references (warm leftovers, please. Feel horribly proprietary over that poem.), the memes, the word choices. I know we all grew up on the same internet, but it's like we grew up in the same corner.

It rattles me each time it happens and yet, the next time I return, and wander through, reading along as if we were walking through my local arboretum and you were rambling and I was nodding along. Consider this ask my version of a reply in the arboretum world.

i-

when i got this i just had to sit there and read your message a few times because that is one of the loveliest compliments i’ve ever gotten and i hope you know i am overjoyed to be here rambling to you 💕 to have touched you in some way!! to form a connection!!! and all i can say is thank you and i love you and i would love to go for a walk in the arboretum with you any time

[miabrown007]

mal in the grishaverse is to alina what jacob in twilight has been to bella. in this essay i'll...

[nerdie-faerie]

hi this is really random lmao but would you be able to send me your post that was like "Hoping the sunny spell ends before I get home..."

i've been trying but i can't find it anymore :'(

What the fuck 😅

I had no memory of a post like this but was like it vaguely sounds like something I might say so I'll see if I can find it. Tumblr's search function was useless as always so I tried to ctrl+f in mass post editor but nothing showed until I'd loaded more posts. I got back as far as summer 2020 before I tried again and I found it for you. How the hell you remember this post I don't know but here she is apparently this post is nearly a year so that's fun

No idea why you wanted it though but glad I could find it for you