You said you're a pro shipper? That means problematic shipper which means that you either ship abusive relationships or children with adults, etc. do you ship those or something gross like that?
my brother in christ you cannot be more wrong and I'm so tired. also if you ask a random stranger this in real life, a random stranger who's mature enough to understand the difference between fiction and reality, they will look at you like you speak gibberish.
proship stance = anti harassing real people over goddamned fiction. your kink is not my kink and that's okay. don't like don't read. there are some prompts that trigger the fuck out of me. I don't read it. I don't even like it. but I will defend its rights to exist because
1.) it is fiction
2.) no one in real life is harmed
3.) it cannot harm you unless you go searching for it, knowing it will upset or trigger you
4.) a lot of victims and survivors cope and heal through fiction, a safe and controlled environment
5.) censorship is a fascist tool. once you allow one thing to be censored because someone somewhere doesn't want it to exist, anything and everything can and will be censored.
but if you want to know my ship, it's myself and your dad ā¤ļø
iwtv continues to be so smart in its portrayal of memories and trauma, the way lestatās memories of his family are so obnoxiously loud, everyoneās screaming all the time for no reason and everyoneās acting like caricatures, like an actual assault on the senses, as if lestatās mind is filled with unbearable noise every time he thinks about them. lestatās memories coming at him all fragmented and loud and violent, attacking him and beating him into submission as he desperately tries to escape them is such an interesting contrast to how louis would carefully weave a thread of his past pretending the glaring holes in it werenāt there
what if your situationship asked you to be his lawyer because a rockstar trashed his tacky hotel and requested to meet him but he lied and set the meeting up himself because the rockstar is his ex that he wrote a book about insulting him page after page after page and he wanted to ragebait him into talking to him and get yelled at in french
Hey, remember when, after Talamasca EP 1x01 aired, I asked why the hell Daniel was still working with the Talamasca in the first place?
š¬ 0Ā Ā š 6Ā Ā ā¤ļø 37Ā Ā·Ā Really, it's kinda crazy that, knowing Daniel Molloy and what he's like, knowing how much he clearly -- from this first Ta
Well, I'm asking it again:
Why the hell is Daniel still working with the Talamasca in the first place!?
Because, like, I know I can't be the only one who caught that The Talamasca appear to be the ones producing Daniel's documentary, right?
So, first they published the Interview with the Vampire book (which Daniel said they rewrote passages of), and now they are producing a documentary Daniel is making about Lestat's rock tour that is a response to that book?
And look, yeah, I'm being kind of sly in "asking" why Daniel is still working with the Talamasca. Because yes, I damn well do think the answer fits into my broader theory about what I think is going on with Daniel in general.
But the bigger point within even that is wondering why the Talamasca are doing all of this?
Well, okay, more specifically, why does the Amsterdam Motherhouse branch of the Talamasca appear to be doing all of this?
š¬ 0Ā Ā š 11Ā Ā ā¤ļø 51Ā Ā·Ā Reblog by @cbrownjc Ā· 7 imagesĀ Ā·Ā I saw your post about the Amsterdam mother house being behind the publication of the boo
Like, they also want to take out the Fang Gang, who appear to be following the doctrines of The Children of Darkness with their whole "Armand Told The Truth" tattoos and such. But who even knows if that is the whole story going on there?
Are The Talamasca trying to help along The Great Conversion? Slow it down? Make sure it goes in a specific direction?
And again, Gabriella not only knows about it, but also seems to be all for it?
So again, what's the advantage of them publishing the IWTV book and now producing the documentary about Lestat's rock tour as well?
My current guess is that they are actually trying to wake Akasha up, but... why? That's something that only benefits if you are trying to stop the Great Conversion, but given how things ended during the first and only Talamasca season, that doesn't look to be what they are trying to do.
In fact, they -- or again, at least the Amsterdam Motherhouse -- appear to actually want to help up the number of vampires in the world:
So yeah. Whatever is going on, it is certainly, I feel sure, leading into something to do with Akasha. I just cannot figure out, for now, what angle the Talamasca are playing wrt to that when it comes to everything they appear to be doing...
I fucking hate how so many people see incest and think "wow this is such a weird freaky kink" or "haha parental issues, Oedipus complex, Sigmund Freud was right" and not "oh my god this person is being abused".
I can't watch this season until the 19th so I've been trying to avoid any IWTV content on social media.
But I accidentally clicked on Reel Rejects' reaction to episode 2 and caught a glimpse at the comment section. I ended up scrolling through pretty much the whole thing and yep based on what I've heard I'm definitely dropping their channel.
Like Jesus Christ. How am I, a dumbass teenager posting shit for fun, somehow more media literate than a bunch of grown ass adults who literally get paid to critically analyze media?
I haven't seen Episode 3 yet, of course, but I can already tell what's coming via the previews and what screeners have said. And if that episode is as harrowing as it is being said to be? I honestly just hope some channels/reactors drop reacting to the show afterwards if they really keep not getting it after that episode.
Like, the show getting rec'ced to people who were fans of Heated Rivalry was inevitably going to lead to this, sadly IMO. Because yeah, a certain someone within that react channel is clearly viewing this show through an HR/Twilight/TVD lens. And this show is very much not that. And it has never been that, even back during Seasons 1 and 2.
Yes, both Heated Rivalry and IWTVL have gay romances in them, but the comparison between the two shows stops there. Because they are not the same when it comes to genre, tone, and narrative themes.
One is a Romantic Sports Drama. The other is a Gothic Horror Romance.
With emphasis on the Gothic Horror first.
Anyway, given all the rest of the Vampire Chronicles source material that will be adapted going forward? Things are very much going to keep moving in the Gothic Horror direction, with even more disturbing things set to happen.
So I'm hoping Episode 3 finally gets that across to people who, for whatever reason, didn't get the obvious about it all with Episode 2. But if not, well... all I can hope for is that they drop the show, because their reactions will not be appealing to watch, given that just a basic lack of understanding will be omnipresent in them.
a scene where time stands still and daniel feels armand is near please š«¶
Yesss, I love that. Thanks for the prompt!
Full fic under the break and here on Ao3.
Why Do Birds Suddenly Appear?
Armand/Daniel Molloy, T
During the interview in Dubai, Daniel had been convinced that the so-called āvampire bondā was absolute horseshit. Something Louis told him ā and himself ā to justify taking Lestat back, choosing him over their kid time and time again, and still being this hung up on him eight decades after their rather dramatic divorce.
Daniel just didnāt buy it.
Claudia didnāt let her ābondā with Lestat keep her from attempted patricide. The nightmares Lestat had about his maker werenāt because he missed him so much. That kid Bruce had just shrugged when asked about whoād given him the gift.
Nah. Vampire bond, schmampire bond. Try that line with someone else.
So heād been extra pissed off when it had hit him that first time.
Time stopping, everything around him fading to gray, the only sound left in the world the rushing of his own blood. A gentle squeezing around his heart.
At first heād thought he was having some kind of cardiac event or a stroke, but then heād remembered he was immortal now and functionally invincible. And then heād felt it. Him. Armand.
Everywhere.
He wasnāt actually there ā at least, Daniel didnāt think he was ā but at the same time he was. He was in Danielās heart and soul and capillaries. On his taste buds. Making the hairs in his arms stand on end and his head spin. Pulling at him.
All there was was Armand.
Nothing else mattered anymore.
Daniel couldnāt even come up with a good metaphor for the experience in the moment, it was so overwhelming.
Heād come up with one later, though. These little moments, raptures, whatevers... They felt like Daniel was goddamn Lizzie Bennet and Armand Darcy was the only other person on the immortal dance floor.
No, it was worse than Pride and Prejudice, actually. It was some saccharine Bridgerton shit, complete with period-inaccurate clothes and an invisible string quartet performing a classical rendition of (They Long to Be) Close to You.
And the dumbest part was that Armand wasnāt even there. Daniel knew that for sure now. He hadnāt been there for any of the times it had happened.
It was just Daniel, by himself, in the middle of the street, on the subway, in the crowd at one of Lestatās concerts.
Yearning.
Daniel was fucking yearning. And for what?
Some asshole whoād given him immortality against his will and then pissed off before the bite marks had even closed up, leaving him to figure it all out by himself? His deadbeat vampire dad?
(If he was completely honest with himself, which, despite his illustrious career in truth-seeking and knack for self-deprecation, Daniel had never been much of a fan of, heād have to admit that the dumbest part was actually the fact that he liked it. He liked feeling Armand all around him and inside him. He became a little bit less pissed off with it every time it happened and instead found himself feeling sad every time it ended. Felt himself yearning even when it wasnāt happening. Found himself dreaming of Armand ā daydreaming of Armand ā taking him in his arms and holding him close and telling him that everything was going to be alright, beloved.
It was absolutely ridiculous.)
And then Daniel had finally talked to Louis again, after over a year of being iced out over the book (which, okay, publishing it without asking or even telling Louis had been a dick move, but wasnāt Louisās entire story about how leopards didnāt change their spots?). Anyway, heād opened up to Louis, told him, āHey, that vampire bond? I get it now. I really get it. I understand what itās like.ā
And Louis had looked at him like heād grown another head and might want to talk to Dr. Fareed about that. Sounds weird, followed by one of those patented De Pointe Du Lac looks of judgmental-yet-distinguished distaste.
Maybe Louis just wasnāt in a place where he was ready to admit it happened to him, too, Daniel told himself. He was still pissed off at Daniel about the book, after all, and not exactly on speaking terms with Lestat again just yet. Or maybe it was just that the fact that Armand was Danielās maker gave Louis the ick.
Or maybe what Daniel was experiencing hadnāt ever happened to anyone before in the history of vampirism.
Heād joked to Louis that the only thing heād inherited from his ancient first-time-parent maker was the Low-Hanging Balls Gift, but leave it to Danny-Boy Molloy to be the first immortal ever to develop the Why Do Birds Suddenly Appear When You Arenāt Even Near Gift.
Either way, Daniel didnāt feel great about his talk with Louis and his response to Daniel and Armandās supercharged vampire bond. So it was probably some kind of karmic justice that, barely ten minutes after Daniel had left Louis with agents Rashid and Raglan James, it happened again.
From one second to the next, the park heād been crossing faded to nothing, the people and dogs and fucking squirrels that had been in it dissolved into the atoms they were made up of, and Daniel was hit by a wave of longing so all-encompassing it almost knocked him flat on his ass.
But it was different this time.
That fuckass vampire bond had only just closed its hand around his heart and wormed its tendrils into his lungs when the nothingness around him parted like the sea and there he was.
The Devil Daniel and Louis had just been speaking of.
Not the feeling of him, not the idea of him ā no. He was actually, physically there, in the park. In the flesh. In all his technicolor splendor.
Great hair, blazing eyes, a slightly lost look on his face, an actual halo around his head (if you squinted). Birds appearing, stars falling from the sky, goddamn choir music blasting from invisible speakers. It was a miracle Daniel didnāt fall to his knees then and there.
Suddenly, the world came rushing back, like someone had dumped a bucket of ice water onto Danielās head.
āHello, Daniel,ā Armand said.
And it took Daniel every ounce of restraint he had left not to immediately close the remaining distance between them and throw himself into his makerās arms.
I hope everyone noticed that Louis is doing the same here that he did with the interview.
He's reaching out.
His projection of the "call for help" is actually an admission, because the band was booked to play at his hotel, the call for the meeting came from his side, and he is suing for damages to get Lestat at the table (despite knowing very well that the Fang Gang did the damage), and he pretends to be confused when Lestat leaves, while at the same time trying desperately to build a connection (with the buying up the merch there, too).
Because Lestat is not returning his messages.
And the "emotionally unavailable" one in the relationship to Lemuel?
Is actually Louis. (As Jacob also confirmed in the RT interview a few days back.)
