#the revenant interview

[tomhardymyking]

Watching the video that 𝗧𝗼𝗺 uploaded yesterday many times and on a loop (if you missed it, it's in my previous post), and I just thought that I want to have him here with me 💖 I love and need him so much ❤️

P.S. : his little face in that video, how handsome and cute he is 😍💘

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Viendo muchas veces y en bucle el vídeo que subió 𝗧𝗼𝗺 ayer (si te lo perdiste, está en mi publicación anterior), y yo solamente pensaba en que lo quiero tener aquí conmigo 💖 Lo quiero y necesito tanto ❤️

P.D. : su carita en ese vídeo, qué guapo y bonito es 😍💘

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[squirrellypoo]

Behind the Scenes photos from Interview with the Vampire ep8 (201) “What do the damned have to say to the damned”

Sources: 1-5, 6, 7-10

[nalyra-dreaming]

Can I say how much I LOVE the way Daciana is written into the story. Like eventhough she is a OC it felt the most anne ricean thing that've seen so far. I think it has to do with the compassion with which she wrote monsters, specially vampires. It felt more like a tribute to her writing than just a remarkable and beautiful plot device. The way she foreshadows Madeline, Magnus, Nicolas, somehow even Gabrielle🖤

She just fit. So, so well. Old, disillusioned, broken.

And yes, the way she foreshadows so much?

And god the choice to make that revenant not only a simple mindless vampire but her beloved child. Someone she cherished, despite and maybe because of everything.

Not just a thing. Not just an abomination. Not just a… mistake.

[rebel-revenant]

Santiago was Louis' breaking point, and we do not blame him one bit. An original piece depicting Louis de Pointe du Lac from Anne Rice's Vampire Chronicles torching the Théâtre des Vampires.

Oh, and Armand, you're there, too!

[dreadfuldevotee]

my goood lestats turning is a complete horror show im obsessed. I really hope that they take it to the shit-your-pants heights it deserves, like I want some capital H Horror

[jaggedjot]

Though it is unclear whether the revenant vampire can even recognise language, Claudia continues to try to communicate with it. Claudia assumes that the reason for the revenant’s disinterest is due to her not being recognisable as a vampire. The dangers of drinking the blood of corpses was one of the first of Claudia’s limited lessons, and she now shares it with this stranger freely and without any sense of superiority. Rather than being wary after the revenant hurts her, Claudia seems giddy at the physical proof of its existence. Claudia is just as enthusiastic to meet a vampire that seems to be disabled as she is to meet one who is not. While Louis openly rejects the revenant for its physical otherness, refusing to accept it as kin, Claudia embraces it.

[domhnallgleesonhaven]

At BBC Radio studio promoting The Revenant, January 2016 🧡

[gleesonarchive]

[savagewildnerness]

Improvisation 67:

The Revenant.

[tomhardymyking]

It's inevitable to be speechless when you watch 𝗧𝗼𝗺 do this in a video, well, imagine watching this in person... 🥵💓🔥🤤

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Inevitable quedarse sin palabras al ver a 𝗧𝗼𝗺 hacer esto en un vídeo, pues imaginad ver esto en persona... 🥵💓🔥🤤

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[squirrellypoo]

Feeling cute, might delete later

(IG source)

[nalyra-dreaming]

whats claudia saying in the latest clip you shared? i can’t understand 😢😢

You mean when she… needles him?

“If he can’t take you to ballroom dancing and tell you you’re pretty (to) hell with him, is that it?“

*coughs*

You go girl. 😬😈🙌

[eyestrain-addict]

Louis: "I'm not a victim"

Also Louis:

[domhnallgleesonhaven]

Will Poulter and Domhnall Gleeson promoting The Revenant, January 2016 😁

👍🏻 or 🖕🏻?

Photo Chris Stark

[gleesonarchive]

[thanergetic-hyperlinks]

Tamsyn Muir's writing beyond The Locked Tomb

Y'all, turns out there's lots of imagery and themes in TLT that Muir was already playing with in her earlier fiction. A lot of it is easily available online, in which case I'll link to it. (The short stories that aren't can also be easily read if googled, to be quite honest—that's how I read The Deepwater Bride and Why the Mermaids Left Boralus). • The House That Made the Sixteen Loops of Time (2011)

5K. Short sort-of-cozy romance (?) with (you guessed it) a time travel loop. Explores a very queer potential relationship. CamPal enjoyers might find a similar sweetness.

• The Magician's Apprentice (2012, Lightspeed Magazine)

5K. This is the one that stopped me dead on my tracks. It features an older, male mentor figure called John (a “very ordinary man” with “dark eyes”) who introduces the young, female main character to magic that has a terrible cost—and to literature such as Lolita. This excellent post by @familyabolisher does an incredible job of analyzing the very deliberate intertextual links between TLT and Lolita.

• The Woman in the Hill (2015, Lightspeed Magazine, originally for Dreams From the Witch House anthology of Lovecraftian horror by women)

4K. Possibly my favorite! It's a straightforward Lovecraftian horror, centered on the image of the woman (is it human though?) trapped in an unnatural pool inside a cursed cave. Chain imagery too. It does something different from Alecto, mind, but you can see links, ways of playing with facets of a strong central image. It's fun to consider how reliable the two narrators are. Here's an analysis and afterthought from Reactor Mag.

• Chew (2013) 4K. Zombie abuse and cannibalistic revenge story ft. an uncanny woman revenant, told from the eyes of a traumatized German boy. I was strongly reminded of Harrow's conversations with the Body. Tamsyn gave an interview on the themes and her intentions. Interesting to read in light of Alecto, I think, although I don't think she's going the same route in TLT: “the idea of post-war rebuilding connecting to rebuilding the body of the zombie; a Frankenstein who once rebuilt doesn’t act as planned or desired. […] I love cannibalism […] it’s innately spiritual […] any afterlife she goes to, he’s going too.”

• Apothecia (2014, published on Tumblr and tapas.io)

Short webcomic where an alien monster tries to corrupt the ruthless human girl who holds it captive. Musings on responsibility and murder, mention of child abuse. The alien's speech patterns remind me of a Resurrection Beast. You get wonderful dialogue like “Murder is a profession. Job. Employment, you tiny leg dog. There you are, walking along. Walk walk walk. Now you are a walker. Good job. Special child. Murder is like this.” Art by Shelby Cragg.

• The Deepwater Bride (2015, Fantasy & Science Fiction Magazine)

The opening line is: “In the time of our crawling Night Lord's ascendancy, foretold by exodus of starlight into his sucking astral wounds, I turned sixteen and received Barbie's Dream Car.” Need I say more? Extremely fun. A novelette where a young queer girl from a clairvoyant family struggles with an apocalyptic event while being annoyed by another very plucky girl. Lots of descriptions with nerdy marine zoology terms. Close in tone to Gideon. In the background, someone dies EXACTLY like that one death at the end of Gideon, which makes me wonder what happened to make Tamsyn interested in this particular image. I also liked that Tamsyn is aware of Nightwish. No link, but you'll get a PDF immediately if you Google.

• Union (2015, Clarkesworld Magazine)

5.5K. Very weird, extremely Kiwi story about a town that gets sent lab-grown wives by the government, but they're not made the usual way so they're Weird and people have feelings about it. Fascinating and eerie description of non-human (in some people's eyes, sub-human) women (?) who cannot be observed to have recognizable feelings or thoughts, yet have some sort of inner life. Quite touching, very uncanny.

• Princess Floralinda and the Forty-Flight Tower (2020)

Short novel (~200 pages). Very funny. I was reminded of Coronabeth because the whole plot is “princess finds herself branching out into decidedly non-princess-like activities”, but other than that—this is a fairytale for adults about people who make eachother worse. No particular links to TLT but a very fun read with some gut punches. Extremely Tamsyn through and through, what with the dubious morality and all.

• Why the Mermaids Left Boralus (2021, in Folk & Fairy Tales of Azeroth by Blizzard Entertainment)

Set in the World of Warcraft universe. Haven't read this one yet, will report back lmao. As with The Deepwater Bride, no link but I easily found a PDF of the entire compilation. It's illustrated!

• Undercover (2022, from Into Shadow, Amazon Original Collection)

Haven't read it either. Will edit once I do.