Quoth the Raven

Call me Mel. Fuck AI. Proud Multishipper. Fanbinder. Louis de Pointe du Lac, my princess. 18.

[0n1ythisandnothingmore]

Bound copy of lifeline by @weather-mood and themasterletters!!! :)

[godsaint]

since season 3 is so cerebral it requires multiple rewatches i just want to make sure i understand...so when louis cares about human morality that's bad and when lestat cares about human morality that's good and when lestat doesn't care about human morality thats good too but when claudia doesn't care about human morality that's bad and when claudia and louis face violence from the family patriarch that's not real and also justified but when lestat faces violence from the family patriarch that is real and not justified and when someone calls lestat a slut it's good but when he calls louis a slut its bad and when someone calls lestat a monster it's not true/good but when he calls someone else a monster than that's true/bad and when sam participates in claudia's lynching that's bad but when lestat participates in the exact same lynching it's good and when louis grieves her its bad but when lestat grieves her its good but louis can grieve claudia as long as he's doing it as support for lestat's grieving but he has to apologize for having emotions afterwards because it's really selfish of him to take away from lestat's emotions like that

[daredevil-vagabond]

I am the soft stars that shine at night.

Do not stand at my grave and cry; I am not there. I did not die.

[licncourt]

Getting crazy déjà vu seeing posts from show-only fans sadly lamenting the hyper-objectification, dehumanization, and romantic imprisonment of show Louis as he gets passed between characters who continue to harm him in narratively vindictive ways until he’s stripped of all agency and half his personality and reduced to a desirable Thing instead of a person…. Rolin Jones recreating the Anne Rice trajectory of systematic, spite-driven dismantling of Louis’ character only this time racist. And much like the books I’m sure there will be no escape.. how lovely

[creekfiend]

I'm so glad that that truncated fucking ran-into-a-wall-at-speed tadpole-ass looking squirrel only lives in high altitude forests in Borneo bc this means I am extremely unlikely to encounter one in my day to day life. thank god

[tuftedpygmysquirrel]

Hello.

[creekfiend]

DID YOU MAKE THIS BLOG SIMPLY TO TORMENT ME

[tuftedpygmysquirrel]

I can go upside down.

[creekfiend]

WHERE IS THE REST OF YOU

[zooophagous]

I have been a sheep caretaker for like two days and already I'm like. Wow. I get it.

I get why these were some of the earliest mammals to ever be domesticated. They look up to humans with this sort of dumb but all at once innocent and pure and trusting expression. They're happy to see you. They follow you around. They like to be rubbed under their chins. Maybe its just some latent Scottish highland shepherd DNA I still have in me but I look at my sheep charges and suddenly I see why the love of God for humanity is so often described as a shepherd and his sheep. I'd fight a wolf for these guys. I'd go way the Hell out of my way for them. I'd carry their young for miles on my own back.

[upward-bound]

nearly 80k reblogs and how many of you eat lamb

[zooophagous]

The ancient shepherds I'm referencing also ate lamb lol

[chernozemm]

I think there's a great chance the existence of mirrors/reflective surfaces silently fucks Rocky up.

Like, Grace is in the bathroom, shaving, the curtain pulled to the side and suddenly he stops and says "stop touching my stuff". Rocky, frozen, somewhere behind him, can't fathom how Grace sensed that. He was so quiet. The razor is so loud. Grace's still facing away from him. What the fuck.

Grace repairing some panel or other and asks for a tool. Without even turning around, he says "no, not that one, the one to its left". Rocky's like are you shitting me. I know for a fact your hearing is ass. You can only see in one direction and I'm not in it!! What?!

[penandinkprincess]

the most maddening part of fucking ai getting pushed so fucking heavy is being told over and over that we HAVE to adopt ai or be "left behind" and YET?? FOR SOME REASON?? WE ALSO HAVE TO INVENT WAYS TO USE IT??? THAT THEN DON'T EVEN FUCKING WORK??? JUST TO SAY THAT THE COMPANY IS USING IT??

like it is fucking INFURIATING to be the person looking around and going "sounds like something the people who invented this and want to profit off of it are saying instead of something that's actually true" and getting positioned as someone just

[hinasho]

:(

[nattousan]

i'm in agony, SOMEbody please help me remember what the childhood book series was that centered around critters that looked like this:

IM IN HELL WHAT WAS IT

[hrrkikshoard]

Little Critter?

[nattousan]

THATS THE BITCH

[nattousan]

alright smart-aleks, what about THIS one huh?? the dude had a really cool shading technique where he just swirled (colored pencil?) around??

[cosmignon]

Parts :)

[nattousan]

YOU GUYS ARE TOO GOOD AT THIS WHAT THE HELL

[nattousan]

ok my partner wanted in on this, I have no idea what this is

[thecrabscycle]

I GOT YOU

[nattousan]

i'm never leaving this fucking site i stg i love you all.

OK

final one

for all the marbles,

this one doesn't have an illustration bc i think it was just a kids novel but i haven't been able to find ANYTHING about it on my occasional internet queries:

kids is staying with his (grandmother?) in the woods and she warns him not to look a fox in the eyes bc they're tricksy and will swap places with you. obviously that's the first thing the little boy does and gets body snatched by a fox who uhhhh proceeds to pig out with his new little boy human hands and the boy has to trick the fox into looking him in the eyes again to switch back...

thats all i got, it's an older book i wanna say from the 60's?? 70's?? kinda the same jist of "Little Rascal"

[dyketennant]

perhaps this?

[nattousan]

A DECADE OF SEARCHING THANK YOU @dyketennant IM ORDERING THIS IMMEDIATELY

[nattousan]

ok i lied i'm back bc this is fun and i get to share some of my most deeply cherished childhood books with you all

i cannot express how much these are from memory, that's how internalized these artists and writers have become, they're a part of me now

[cryptid-of-ohio]

The first one looks like The Spider and the Fly, though the poses are a bit different.

The second one is likely Stellaluna.

I’m not sure about the third one, I will keep searching.

[cryptid-of-ohio]

I think I found the third one, though I’m the least confident about this one. Is it Creature Tech?

Unfortunately it doesn’t have a praying mantis on the cover :(

[nattousan]

[penandinkprincess]

laughing about the idea of shane who has no real firsthand experience with curls (beyond messing them tf up while fucking ilya) trying to make ilya presentable after sneaking off with him to smooch but who just ??? seems to be making it worse?? oh fuck??

like his memories of hair fixing someone else are his mom finger combing his hair? but that appears?? to be making this worse?? oh god??? wait no?? stop getting frizzier!! be neater!! everyone return to your assigned curl!!

and ilya who COULD be helping is just. letting this happen. no help at all. shane increasingly is just making it worse and more obvious what they've been up to and ilya is just enjoying being pet and watching shane get flustered.

[riverlarking]

i love clicking on somebody’s ao3 profile and seeing the most nonsensical collection of fandoms. like yess let's live a thousand lifetimes

[depsidase]

[wifegideonnav]

gonna be honest i don’t know how many more ‘enter the 6 digit code we sent to your phone’s i got left in me

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

This phrase has already entered my vocabulary re: media criticism where like. The viewer has a concrete view of what they expect a story to be based on the tropes and cliches they're used to seeing together, and when that doesn't happen, they judge it as a failed depiction of what they assumed it was going to be instead of judging it as what it actually is.

"This show is problematic because the hero didn't kill the villain at the end": When does he steal the bread?

"These two characters who were close friends throughout the series don't kiss at the end! What the fuck?": When does he steal the bread?

"This feels like it's missing a conclusion! Like, the protagonist does bad stuff and because of a critical decision he makes as a result of his major character flaws, meets tragedy in the end! Where's the part where he learns better and brings is love back from the dead and becomes a good guy and gets a happy ending?": When does he steal the fucking bread??

[thetetra]

I heard this out as "When criticizing something, you must judge it for what it is, not what it isn't"

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

#this is why so many of us urge people to get a wider diet of stories

[64mpg]

ads targeted to women: omg you are thirtyyyy. kill yourself

[flannelgirlfriend]

I love this post so much my friend put it on my 30th birthday cake

[whyenn-reader]

you are not immune to inventing an arbitrary set of rules that only you have to adhere to