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btw jayce was happy when they started making Man Of Progress merchandise, but viktor was HAPPIER. viktor saw jayce’s ugly mug on that ugly mug and immediately bought a stock of 15 to drink out of at all times, including at fancy cocktail parties where it’s absolutely bad manners to pour champagne flutes into a coffee mug

but this is not because he’s proud of his boyfriend. no, of course not. he’s happy for hextech's success, sure, but he's doing it because he hopes his ruthless and relentless mockery of jayce's celebrity status will keep jayce humble and down to earth (it doesn't)

for viktor's birthday, jayce hand paints a custom "VIKTOR OF PROGRESS" mug for him. he refuses to even touch it so from then on these totally platonic besties use mugs of eachothers' face every day

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I think my favourite part of IWTV is how often Rolin Jones and the cast bring up Anne in interviews.

Whatever your personal view is of her aside, it is incredibly rare for the people behind an adaptation to speak with such reverence for the source material and for them to actually follow through too. I think it’s easy to look at IWTV from the outside and think “oh, I’m not watching that. They changed (x,y,z.)” and yeah, they did, but did they change as much as you think?

Sure, some characters look different and are different ages and the timeline is a little different but, at least in my opinion, everything they’ve done feels like a natural extension or a logical next step for those characters and the story. If Daniel was allowed to age, that is how he would act. Claudia being a little older only highlights the justified anger she had regarding her age in the books. Louis’s blackness being woven into the story is far more poignant and sympathetic than him staying a mopey, whiny slave-owner (in fact the race changes of all the characters only adds to what their overall arcs were already about.) Armand’s youth was coveted as it was supposed to be but he also aged out of it, making his story somehow even sadder because he had to watch as time took away the only aspect of him he had been taught had value, and now his face is frozen forever as a reminder of that.

And they always bring it back to Anne. If an interviewer tries to ask about the creativity of their plots, they say it’s all Anne. They certainly deserve the praise but no matter what, they mention the source material. Rolin carried that beaten up copy of The Vampire Lestat in every interview he’s in just so he can show the interviewer where season 3 really is. It’s in his hands. It’s all Anne’s work. They’re just building on it.

And I feel like half the time I watch an adaptation, the creatives behind it don’t really get what it’s about. Maybe they keep the basic elements, but the soul of the piece is usually lost (looking at you, every Dracula adaptation ever made) but with IWTV, they’ve shown that the spirit of the piece actually might be the only thing that truly matters. You can change so very much and have it still be the same story with the same point to it.

And I think it hits a little different too because she’s a female writer and so often the work of women is downplayed and trivialised, yet here this group of deeply talented, creative people are, refusing to let you forget that this woman is, was and always will be a pillar of the horror genre, and that has to be the ultimate honour as a writer. To have people care so very much about what you made. To be understood so deeply.

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IM GONNA BE SO UNSPEAKABLY ANNOYING

Oh yeah he’s coming! Via the official instagram.

I feel in my blood we’re gonna get at least one song before S3 & we can all write theses of analysis on it, like the good psycho collective we are!

🥹🖤🤘🎸🩸

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Cottagecore Jayvik still in my head

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𝗶𝘄𝘁𝘃 𝘁𝗲𝘅𝘁 𝗽𝗼𝘀𝘁𝘀; 𝗽𝗮𝗿𝘁 𝟭𝟱. 𝘥𝘦𝘷𝘪𝘭'𝘴 𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘦𝘥𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯.

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Meljayvik discourse is so funny to me because each member of the throuple/love triangle is a part of one or more marginalised communities so you can’t ship any of them as a duo because you’ll be called a bigot for leaving the other one out

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I don't think it'd hit me how much of her characterization as a jinx Jinx had internalized. Like yeah there's the name, the tattoos, but there's also the fact Enemy establishes of her viewing all of her relationships as enemies, how in Goodbye—which is Vi's perspective—she's refereed to as "my enemy" how Ekko engages with that perspective she has of herself "ma meilleure ennemie" meeting her on her terms, not denying what she's done, and how she sees herself, but follows the observation up with an "and".

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Louis and Lestat are crybabies TRUE but Louis also takes photos of all of Claudia's firsts. First day of school? Click. First birthday party? Click. First play-date at their house? Click. First play-date at a FRIEND'S house? Click. First lost tooth? Click. First report card? Hold it up and say cheese :D

Free that long-suffering baby from her cringe loser fathers!!!

this ask reminds me that i have this sketch of louis taking photos of claudia/ claudia taking photos of louis from my pile

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love to read 70s!DM fic where Armand fights it tooth and nail but he still gets absolutely enchanted by Just Some Guy Daniel Molloy from Modesto, Nowhere

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Jayvik fandom we need to do better. There is no choice here. “I’m not racist therefore I’m not one of the bad ones!” Is not good enough in ANY capacity. It means NOTHING if you repeatedly let it slide in silence.

When you see racism in this fandom, call it out. Don’t stand in the background- actively make a stand against it.

And no, “but __ fandom do XYZ” means nothing here. We aren’t talking about them right now, we’re talking about our community and the repetitive incidences of racism towards characters such as Mel and Sky.

Racism doesn’t belong in ANY fandom space and nobody should be comfortable with sweeping it under the rug like it’s no big deal.

If you’re feeling uncomfortable with people starting to collectively group jayviks negatively all while sitting around and twiddling your thumbs while members of our fandom make and say the most vile things about black characters, then maybe you need to unpack why you feel that way and why that’s your priority.

If you have Twitter (X) I suggest you unfollow, block and report arcaneindetail while you’re at it. They deserve no platform.

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Shauna finally reflecting on the past and it’s to come to the conclusion that they had fun out there doing terrible things like no, bitch, you had fun terrorizing everyone.

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i love how s3 finale completely flips our perspective on the hunt from the pilot. half of the girls weren’t even hunting. van standing over the pit seemed so menacing in the pilot but now it’s just heartbreaking. mari being pit girl, not because the wilderness chose but because shauna chose. mari was only wearing a nightdress so she could use her clothes as a decoy. and turns out mari was a decoy while the others tried to get rescue. misty removing her mask and smiling not because they caught mari but because they’re getting rescued and there’s nothing shauna can do about it. the hair on the antler queen costume wasn’t a collection of various victims’ hair, it was just mari’s. this whole time we thought it was all the girls collectively giving in to the hunt and the wildness of it, but really it was just shauna, along with lottie and tai. none of them wanted to do a hunt, none of them wanted mari to be chosen.

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Still can't believe travis martinez does drugs so he can be a lesbian and also his younger brother. Win for travnation

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oh so ur telling it's been Them since the start. it's been misty and nat the day misty took off her mask in the pilot and pushed her broken glasses up on her face and smiled. not bc she found power in the hunt or pleasure in the kill, the way we were meant to believe all the way back in s1, but bc she was able to help nat get away w the radio and find rescue. this is where the unwavering devotion starts. its like. nat is crowned leader in s2. misty kneels. nat punches misty when she finds out abt the transponder (and keeps the secret for 25 years) and in the wake of it? misty still fucking kneels. i feel insane.

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"And the hole was like twenty feet deep. I thought I was gonna die in there. Like Baby Jessica." YELLOWJACKETS 3.01 | 3.10

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heavy is the head

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Watching La La Land for the first time and I can confirm cinema peaked when Damian Chazelle decided to blend a classic 2010s romcom with the struggle of the modern artist and mid-century technicolor musicals