Garden of Everything

sonia. 30s. sometimes i doodle.

[ainosgarden]

a miracle without a revelation a saint with a vengeance

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*Louis's sword based on the sword held by Archangel Michael, the angel of death, portrayed as the bronze statue atop the Castel Sant'Angelo, designed by Peter Anton von Verschaffelt

*the family of flowers of death based on the woodcut art Death and the Flower by Akseli Gallen-Kallela, born from the artist's grief over the death of his young daughter

[jvoljvolizka]

Lomochrome color ‘92 Sun-kissed

[danielxarmand]

IWTV 2x05 — "Don't Be Afraid, Just Start The Tape" TVL 3x07 — "The Failures"

[pynkhues]

Something clicked into my head when you said lestat associates his softer parts to his femininity because isnt that what gabi is doing by presenting as feminine with lestat because despite gabi always being awful to lestat he doesn't see femininity as an act of violence the way he sees maleness and thats were she keeps him tied to her by presenting a softness through her appearance despite her action says otherwise. If gabi was masculine presenting she won't have control over him because his looking for softness and he doesn't see that in masculinity in maleness he won't want her near him because his reminded of the horrors his gone through because of it he won't seek her out because what he wants is a mother not a father and her not being that means she has no hold on him. He likes her femininity the same way she likes his masculinity its the presentation of masculinity=power,freedom,dominance and femininity=nurturing, love,softness they have a distorted view that they have to act a certain way for being their gender because of society and their environment.

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I think that's definitely a part of it when it comes to their particular dynamic and his tangled up feelings and understanding of these things when it comes to the de Lioncourt family unit. I think it's important to pull them out, because I don't think Lestat necessarily has these same feelings outside of the family he comes from (I don't think he really ascribes these sorts of gendered feelings for instance to Nicki, Louis or Claudia, at least not on the same level, which I think goes back to this idea of the whole de Lioncourt family really having been enmeshed with one another, not just Lestat and Gabi).

Gabi presenting more femininely around and for Lestat is a thread in the books, of course, and it is, I think, tied to this idea of her doing it as a means of comfort when Lestat is distressed. How much of that is tied to her desire to genuinely bring him a degree of peace, versus how it may help to shroud her abuse to appear in a way that nurtures the child still in Lestat, even subconsciously, is an interesting set of ideas to unpack. I'd also add to that - and I do think this is where we're heading with the show - that I think her dressing more femininely around him is likely a reflection of her own trauma too, and the way she still feels shackled to womanhood around Lestat by nature of being his mother.

How she uses sex after all isn't just a tool to control him, but also a knife to try and sever herself from this thing that happened to her, because Lestat isn't just her son, he's the living product of her rape and the endless violation of her mortality. Those things tangling up and making her incapable of fully embracing these masculine parts of herself around him makes it all so complex, and I think lends itself to this idea that they're both performing around each other in ways I don't think either of them particularly want to.

[gruntsandpoetry]

1x01 // 3x07

[corporaloretsev]

They did not, in fact, cancel it.

[abandonshapes]

gills to lungs

[lioncourtz]

THE VAMPIRE LESTAT 03.07 | "The Failures"

[fashion-runways]

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[sesiondemadrugada]

Thomas W. Schaller.

[endiness]

[lioncourtz]

Jacob Anderson, Delainey Hayles, and Sam Reid behind the scenes of "The Failures"

📸: Sophie Giraud/AMC

[ainosgarden]

do we know if they improved the contact lenses this season or was sam actually performing all that stage miracle last night vision-impaired?

[ainosgarden]

Visit Original Link

lol my question has been answered. he was really up there half-blind doing all that. remarkable.

(full podcast here)

[ainosgarden]

new update: he was half-blind AND half-deaf up there doing all that lol

[endiness]

Then I'd lie there and think of poor little Baby Jenks, as she had shown her to me, spiraling upwards; I'd see the varicolored lights enveloping Baby Jenks as she looked down on the earth for the last time. How could Baby Jenks, the poor biker child, have invented such a vision? Maybe we do go home, finally. — The Queen of the Damned, Anne Rice

[ainosgarden]

what is your interpretation of the silver threads lestat sees?

hi, i believe the silver threads is something they have taken out of the book the queen of the damned. i don’t know if you wanna get into book spoilers so warnings ahead, but basically when baby jenks dies, she sees these sparkling silver threads that connect all vampires back to akasha, or amel to be exact. i interpret it as the life thread of a vampire, their soul in a way. that passage is a very powerful ending to the baby jenks chapter in qotd, and i was really moved that they chose to use it for lestat’s last moment, as it made the season beautifully bookended, with baby jenks introducing lestat to the existence of soul in ep1 and then him experiencing it first hand in the finale. it’s also a subtle bridge into the broader universe surrounding akasha and amel and vampiric origin in s4.

[limitedseries]

The Vampire Lestat— "The Failures" (1.07)

[endiness]

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