#this is the single exception to my rule

[histoires-en-bouteille]

Me: As soon as I am done with this MA thesis, i will never write any essay or thesis ever again idc idc IDC

Also me: --and so that's how I decided to write a thesis about my OCs and their completely fucked up, absolutely unhinged life.

[karotka]

I've been rewatching IWTV and what's clicked for me were Armand's motivations for betraying Louis. On first watch I thought it was such a confusing and irrational thing to do. Now, obviously it was capital B Bad etc., but we all know that, boring question. But was it a logical (≠justified) decision to pick the coven? I'm starting to think it kind of was 🤔

The café scene is so heartbreaking, makes me kick and scream at the screen, Armand on his way to end it all and Madeleine asks why Louis doesn't want him to know how much he loves him, and Louis confidently replies, “he knows.” Reader, did he know? I feel like part of the tragedy is that it didn't really matter at that point.

Press pause on the betrayal of it all and look at the facts from Armand's perspective:

Louis is suicidal. He has an expiry date, the coven vampires don't. Louis is suicidal, the coven is forever 😂😂 To quote Lestat, “There is one thing about being a vampire that I most fear above all else... And that is loneliness. You can't imagine the emptiness, a void stretching out for decades at a time.” Armand asks Madeleine, “What will you do, in a few decades, when she throws herself into the fire?” and then finds Louis in a pool of blood, his wrist slashed. He voices this to Louis much later – when he has no right to demand anything from him, but the sentiment stays true – “You left me for death. Will I be on suicide watch for the next 1,000 years?”

Louis straight up murdered his previous lover. Now, we know it wasn't all that, but Armand didn't. Major red flag, anyone? “I killed him and he fucking had it coming.” And he DID, but that's beside the point, isn't it? Especially since we know Armand is just as capable of domestic abuse :') He knew that Louis wasn't the kind of person who would just take his shit forever. If you want somebody to trust you, don't let them know you took part in the murder of your ex, heartfelt advice from both of them.

Speaking of exes, Louis is SO not over Lestat. I mean, neither is Armand, they're such a train wreck of a relationship :D But yeah, Louis is not fully committed to Armand, denying publicly that they're companions, hallucinating his ex in the bedroom or while Armand is sharing his traumatic past and, most damning of all, refusing to join the coven.

From Armand's perspective, he's risking it all for Louis and Louis a) doesn't appreciate it at all, and b) refuses to do the bare minimum of getting along with his family. (If someone treated my daughter-sister the way Armand treated Claudia, I'd kill them with my bare hands, but Louis acts like he doesn't mind. Can you imagine me without the burden of her? :/) (and yeah, he could just leave his shitty cult, the same way they could have left each other during those 70 years. Shitty stability > loneliness, I guess.)

A minor point maybe, but the moment you know that Lestat is out there and wants revenge, that only adds to the expiry date part. Especially once Lestat is cooperating with the coven, because I imagine that while Armand is OP enough to fight the coven, all of them + Lestat might be a bit too much. Maybe Armand even hoped once Louis is out of the picture they could get back together? We don't really know what exactly was going on behind the scenes but Lestat's sheer existence is bad for loumand... It is what it is.

And Louis just... repeatedly ignores Armand's warnings. I mean, they both knew Armand was going to execute him that one time. They tried to make it work but Louis was living on borrowed time from that point. Add Armand's apparent MO of “everything I love must eventually burn down so I will take control of the situation by orchestrating the downfall myself” et voilà. He was given a choice and he chose.

And THEN he betrayed the coven for Louis at his most unwell. Iconic!

[sesamenom]

been poking around at a numenor-based pokemon region for the past year or two

here's the concepts for the grass gym leader (he's basically a dancing-bear selkie) and his ace pokemon Laurelord (based off laurinque + the white tree)

[shartfinz]

I should be allowed to attack customers like actually

[butterflysnowflake]

grateful for Beetlejuice Beetlejuice for giving us the autistic zaddy representation we so desperately needed + deserve, truly (Wolf)

[jimmyspades]

Taking a stand

[quietwingsinthesky]

at some point i am going to have to force even to go back and deal with donna & tentoo & rose & all and everything they ran away from. and that will probably involve them losing tentoo’s chameleon arch watch by giving it back to its rightful owner, whether she chooses to open it or not. and that is. not going to be a very fun or stable time for them.

[maybe-boys-do-love]

Aof Noppharnach series really depend on the actors conveying that beneath whatever antics they’re getting up to, they are carrying around at least fifteen years of grief and sadness

[lemonadeandlanguages]

I would like to apologize to everyone I ever told French grammar is cool. It is, in fact, the devil itself :|

[loving-jack-kelly]

went mead tasting today. why we use grapes is beyond me honey is way more delicious.

[advancedscurvy]

if i am paying more than $30 for any article of clothing it had better be fucking natural fibers and not plastic

[coldflasher]

currently one week into a two-week stay with a terrible relative who needed help recovering from an operation and because i'm the only competent adult who was willing to do it (my dad literally lives with her but is both incompetent and unwilling) and i just. do not know how much more of this i can tolerate

she has the most TERRIBLE opinions and every morning when i sit down she'll just say something AWFUL and i have no choice but to respond because how on earth can you sit and listen to someone say something so repugnant and NOT say something. the one good thing i can say about her is that she isn't a tory but every other terrible evil little box you could tick, she probably fits it

i'm sure you're wondering, quite fairly, why i have even come here knowing this is the case. just to clarify, she has NEVER been this overtly awful before. like don't get me wrong, i knew she had some questionable opinions and i've butted heads with her about her views before but it's never been on this level. i think that now i'm an adult she feels free to go full mask off with everything and i'm like listen i'm usually in favour of unmasking but in this case can you put that shit back on, right the fuck now, preferably with superglue. and then apply said superglue to your mouth

the only reason i haven't just fucking walked out already is because my brother is coming down here on wednesday to see her for the first time since he started on testosterone, and i am genuinely concerned about how this woman will react because like. i'm sure saying she's also a transphobe will come as a shock to no one and for obvious reasons no one has told her... but when she actually sees him and hears him speak in person i feel like she's going to you know. catch on. fairly quickly. and i need to be here so i can back him up against the potential fallout and so i can get him out if things turn nasty. like it's not that i think she'd be able to DO anything, she's an old woman and she's just had surgery, but like. i'm obviously not gonna leave my brother to deal with that shit by himself

but yeah every minute i spend here is slowly crushing my soul to powder and making me feel unwell at the idea that there are real people who fucking think like this. and not only do they think it but they're willing to SAY IT and think it's a normal fucking thing to believe!!! and then when i go "what the fuck is wrong with you" and argue back she acts like there's something wrong with ME!!!! LIKE I'M THE BAD PERSON??? HUHHHHHHH???

[if-loki-was-a-fox]

When it comes to fanfics and ships (/r or /p) and whatnot, I am not generally much of a petnames person, but I am a sucker for when they call the other "my [name/title/etc]"

Idk why but it's just very sweet to me

[landwriter]

first lines/last fics x10

thank you for the tags, @serenailith and @virgo-dream! never gotten this one before!

Share the first lines of ten of your most recent fanfics and tag ten people. If you have written less than ten, don’t be shy and share anyway.

As a child, Duncan had been frightened of the dark. -from the upcoming Oaths chapter

Hob Gadling loves the way living language changes. -The Death of Translation

It’s just like love, but it's not. In the winter, falling ash can be mistaken for snow. -Just Like Love

Once upon a time, there was a boy born in the summer, whose destiny was winter. -Flower King

It was not, actually, love at first sight. -Emissary of the Night

The sound of waves lapping against the shore makes it seem like they’re saying hush hush hush, but you are hearing it wrong. -Black Shore

There are two things that Dream does only once a century. -Border Country

Hob stood alone inside a lovely limestone cathedral. -Saint Morpheus

It may surprise you to hear that many in my life think me unfeeling after my outburst, but I am certain you will wish they were right by the end of this letter. -Unsent Letter from Dream of the Endless to one Hob Gadling, circa June 1889 (not quite a fic but we're only at nine haha)

Hob tipped his face up to the sun and shut his eyes. He breathed in deep, and let the smoke from the burning heather sting the back of his throat. He was going to get piss drunk tonight. He’d earned it. -Oaths (the actual first lines lol, just to hit ten)

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Tagging @mandolinearts @delta-pavonis @teejaystumbles @tj-dragonblade @hardly-an-escape @that-banhus @slythernim @dsudis @pellaaearien @wordsinhaled if you're down!

[dat2ndaccount97]

So Yesterday at work during the Afternoon Group Huddle (Team Meeting), I aksed my manager if he's actually gonna keep the giant inflatable pumpkin up through Halloween this year or take it down a week early and put up the inflatable Fire Truck Santa Claus early like last year.

FOR CONTEXT I TOOK THIS PHOTO ON MY HALLOWEEN NIGHT SHIFT. WE HAD A GIANT INFLATABLE CHRISTMAS DECORATION UP ON HALLOWEEN NIGHT AT MY WORK.

Anyways My manager laughed when I asked and said he'll try so I'll keep you guys posted on what happens.

[arctic-hands]

fucking EVERYTHING is talking about the damn brain worm and I have to close out almost every damn tab or app and shudder and scream "ABSOLUTELY NOT"