#unless youre rich

[sparklehoard]

Poll time

[tboynightmare]

christmas loses all it's joy and whimsy at age 9 me thinks

[gamergirl929]

It's just, so fucking sad, to see how many people have the same hate in their hearts that Donald Trump does.

[bruciemilf]

One of my biggest pet peeves is the justice league being labelled as " The Avengers of DC" and its like. No? The avengers are law enforcement. The Justice League are volunteers

[starmocha]

You know, it's funny how Sylus is very casual and nonchalant about people robbing him, but he gets highly offended if you think he's poor (spend only $1 million).

[lazylittledragon]

i'm just going to say it, i think that billionaires who actively choose not to use their hoards of wealth for good and then die horrifically in circumstances entirely of their own selfish creation is EXTREMELY funny.

[fayevalcntine]

The whole framing of Lestat as the sole symbol of patriarchy that fandom is so desperate to put him in doesn't work unless you deliberately ignore how he was also a victim of rape and abuse before he was turned. People want him to be fit into this strict role of "father figure/violent husband/perpetrator" that is only that and not even a whole person, and in doing so they need to push aside the fact that despite being his family's provider, he was also pushed into that role when his father forbid him from joining a monastery or gaining an education that he wanted. Lestat wanted to run away with a theater group as a kid, and actually managed to do so once Gabrielle gave him her blessing and monetary support in order to go to Paris. He didn't always want to be the provider, he was forced into that role and became despondent when he thought he would never get a chance to leave his home.

His new life prior to being turned is pretty much the antithesis to the whole "Lestat is a manly man who would sooner throw up than be compared to a woman" spiel: he lived with another man in Paris while also being an actor, having left his family and "responsibility" to them. The only family member he was ever close to was his mother, all the other male members shunned or ridiculed him. Add onto that the fact that his turning firmly placed him within the role of the damsel/victim: he's kidnapped from his bed by a stranger, taken into a tower and left to rot while being fed on for a week, before then being raped and violently turned all while never even being asked if he would consent to it in any normal circumstance. But you of course have to ignore all of this if you want him to only represent the aggressor/patriarch while Louis is the helpless unhappy matriarch of the family.

My issue isn't that I think Louis isn't a victim, it's that it's not unrealistic for Lestat to be an aggressor/abuser while also displaying traits that aren't regularly assigned to stereotypical depictions of male characters. He's abusive to Claudia while also having been a victim of abuse from his own family. He's not a good maker/teacher, but he also didn't even have one when he was turned. He's the provider/attempted protector of the family and seemed to like being that, while also having run away from his own family prior to this to act in a theater in Paris. He's a rich white man while also being obviously effeminate in public spaces, even to Tom's own bigoted humor.

Like Louis' own complicated story with being his family's benefactor and provider, you can't firmly place Lestat as being one thing or another in terms of gender ideals without deliberately ignoring parts about him that don't fit this. And I don't think it's an absolute necessity, when even in Louis' own story, Lestat isn't stripped of his effeminate mannerisms or behavior while also being the abusive maker/father/lover.

[cliveguy]

though honestly when people say "get therapy" they're not suggesting therapy, they're telling you to go be mentally ill somewhere else lol. if someone is struggling mentally in 2023 and not in therapy there's a pretty big chance that there's a reason for it beyond not considering it. and also most people who get therapy are still going to act mentally ill at times. because surprisingly a single session isn't enough to make someone act "normal"

[greenerteacups]

Hi GT,

Forgive me if this is a stupid question, but I absolutely love the recs you've given (you've introduced me to tomione, and I love it!) and I was wondering if it's possible to give you some recs in return? There are some books and fics that definitely have dramione / got vibes, and I was wondering if I could share them with you!

So glad you've enjoyed them! Feel free to rec me anything you want. I've read most of the classic recs in terms of fic and adjacent content (Cruel Prince et al), but I'll try anything that's well-written. My tastes run towards weird and/or audaciously creative stuff, and I can forgive a lot of weaknesses in plot on the grounds of (1) ambition or (2) character work. My turnoffs are instalove, protagonists who can't fail, and most Y/A (I'm not a hater, I swear, I just need characters who can say "fuck" when their leg gets chopped off.)

I'm also a fan of weird and fucked-up dynamics.(Wuthering Heights was my favorite book for a while, and as a teenager I wrote an AU in which the book ends on a long sex scene where Heathcliff fucks Cathy's ghost and then immediately gets murdered by Catherine 2.) Obviously, I am very normal.

[creatrixanimi]

god the replies on that last post are amazing. It seems that most people think "rich" means "makes more money than me" when the person saying that is well below the poverty line in many US states. Also obsessed w the "why are the replies on this post so US centric???? Americans think everything is about them." comment. man i wonder why a poll asking about salary in USD is US centric. I guess we'll never know.

[awesomebutunpractical]

I still think we need to put Tale of Two Stans on the shelf until the fandom has written two thousand fics about Gompers or something.

[fallout-lou-begas]

just realized that with the combination of the mods Lock Those Doors and Forced Entry, murderfreak can now very literally break into people's houses in the dead of night with a fire axe, and then, of course, axe murder and/or axe freak them. this is enrichment in murderfreak's enclosure

[seaquestions]

🙃🙃 cant wait to go home in 4 hrs

[venusinmyrrh]

working title: the only stars on the water

in the elite world of new york's rich kid social set, insecure, awkward claire sticks out like a sore thumb... until david, bored of his usual hobbies, decides to take her under his wing as a sort of community service project. as mentorship becomes friendship, claire blossoms into a confident young woman capable of holding her own at any party and catching any young man's heart— including, to her surprise, david's.

what is desire? desire is a restaurant. desire is watching you eat. desire is pouring wine for you.

[mrsecretusername]

can't write stories so I'm going to drop this scenario in the wild and let it run free, and hopefully someone will enjoy it:

some rich guy (swap pronouns as desired) hires a bodyguard, but not for himself - for his cat. Affectionate longhaired persian, goes with him everywhere, and he's wildly allergic to it. That doesn't seem to bother the rich guy at all, he just really fucking loves his cat, but his new bodyguard is one of us, already thought his employer (some kind of public figure) was hot even before he got hired for this, and is having one hell of a weird time with this job.

bonus if they know each other from some fetish forums online but the rich guy's the only one who knows it, which gives him reason to do things like make his allergies worse on purpose, ask the bodyguard to help him hold back sneezing fits long enough that he can take allergy meds, etc.

[lieutenantselnia]

Actually I think it's a bit unfair that I can't be an astrophysicist and a historian and a game developer and a marine biologist and an archaeologist and an author and a seamstress at the same time