Morally Dubious Sorcerer addicted to Blood Amulets

Aromantic Asexual -- Ao3 AngrilyBubbles Love me some sweet sweet media analysis - Yes, I do go to school for it "I am the Devil's Minion and he grants my every wish" -- IWTV killing it with the delicious toxic gays

[angrybubbles]

Symbolism and Death in Interview with the Vampire - A Series

So Vampires, right? The living dead, the feeding dead, death's cold embrace... vampires are both a manifestation of death-gone-wrong, as well as the symbolic representation of what brings about death. We can see this in formative vampire media: Dracula, the blood-sucking monarch, Nosferatu, the plague of mortal desire (sexual and not), Carmilla the aristocrat exchanging the blood of youth for beauty and long-life.

If a Vampire is symbolic of Death, what does it mean when Death makes choices? Chooses who it kills, why it kills, who it loves, how it loves? These essays are here to lay out what each character symbolizes as Death through their actions, victims, and role in the story.

These are by no means comprehensive, nor are they specific character analyses. They are tools to lay out a way to engage with the subtext of the themes of Death within the show. The goal is to help enrich the story and understanding of the characters.

Louis - Grief and Repression

Lestat - Drama and Passion

Armand - Slow and Justified

Claudia - Childhood Innocence and Resentment

-- Decided not to do Daniel yet, I'll wait for s3 --

AMC IWTV Meta

Claudia and What Makes her a Monster

Loumand Divorce, Loumand tried, Loumand Bench Scene and Gothic Rain, Loumand and Art, Loumand are each other's Victim Types, Why Loumand Work Together

Armand and Memory Ability, Armand Threatens Santiago Scene Breakdown

Daniel and Parkinson's, Daniel and AIDS, Daniel's Sexuality and AIDS, Daniel's Narrative Role, Daniel "Dog-Boy" Molloy, Daniel's Book

Louis's Mental Health vs Relationships, Louis and the Philosophy of the Aesthetic

Daniel and Louis Lifeline

Devil's Minion Turning, Devil's Minion Flaws

Phones and Perspective S3 Theory, s3 Armand is Hungry..., Danlou Conflict s3

AMC and TVC Blended Meta

IWTV and Love/Hurt, The Anne Rice of it all, AMC IWTV is Postcolonial, Marius and the Horror of Benji and Sybelle, Muslim Santino Headcanon (Beta)

Armand Backstory Theory, Armand: Death Drive and Religion, Armand's Abuse in Loumand/Devil's Minion

Marimand is CSA taboo, Marimand is about Renaissance Orientalism, Marius and Stoicism (Beta), Marius and Vampiric Character Flaws

Other Meta

Gothic Horror Quick Hint, Gothic Horror Incest and Taboo, Gothic Lens, Uncanny Abstractions - Unreliable Narrators and Narrative Frameworks, Unreliable Narrators and "Lying"

The Talamasca is not Queerbaiting it's about how spies use people 😭

You'll find Incest/fauxcest, Marimand, and other conversations around underage relationships on my blog, so follow at your own risk.

All of my art is tagged #art of mine 🥰 personal posts and general posts are tagged #thoughts and musings, and fics/microfics are tagged #fics of mine.

[azspot]

“Because the truth is, tech doesn’t have an image problem. It doesn’t have a message problem. It has an intention problem. What’s wrong with the axe murderer who broke into my house is not that he hasn’t successfully persuaded me to buy into his narrative. What’s wrong is that he’s trying to kill me with an axe. Similarly, when you launch a product that’s designed to put millions of people out of work, block access to sources of verifiable truth, replace human creativity with slop, and lower the barriers to every sort of atrocity, the problem isn’t that you haven’t told the public a good story about those things. The problem is that you are trying to do them.”

— The 40 Most Rage-Inducing Problems in Tech

[santhipoma]

[curiositysavesthecat]

Do you think it's weird and/or predatory for a 13 year-old and a 30 year-old to be best friends if they're not family members or related by blood? Assuming everything is innocent and platonic. Nothing romantic or sexual.

Yes, it's weird and predatory

It's weird. But not predatory

It's predatory. But not weird

No, it's not weird or predatory

Remaining time: 5 days 7 hours

*This poll was submitted to us and we simply posted it so people could vote and discuss their opinions on the matter. If you’d like for us to ask the internet a question for you, feel free to drop the poll of your choice in our inbox and we’ll post them anonymously (for more info, please check our pinned post).

[creelson]

unpopular opinion but I don't think there's anything weird or predatory about an innocent friendship

[dianxiacantastemolecules]

The question is why the fuck is a thirty year old hanging out with a 13 year old if not in their family?? The only other relation that could have them interact is through teacher/student and bring friends like that would be weird as fuck

[creelson]

found family? the kid not feeling safe in their house? the adult wanting to help? family / teacher / school isn't always a guaranteed safe place. should the kid and adult each have friends that are their own age too? sure. but if their friendship is genuinely innocent then I think the problem isn't them but people who project their weird and predatory thoughts onto them

[the-bar-sinister]

Don't forget shared hobbies?

A 13 year old and a 30 year old could reasonably meet at a tabletop gaming store, a fiber arts group, a book club....

[audacityinblack]

They could literally just be neighbors. This whole isolationist thing of never even talking to the people you live closest to is new and weird.

[olderthannetfic]

When I was 13, an art teacher who worked for my mother (who ran after school programs) got into the X-Files. This was season 1. Neither of us knew anyone else who was into it, and she wasn't very online given that this was 1994, so she had nowhere else to discuss it. I'd call her every Friday night after the episode, and we'd obsessively go over it.

I'd probably have called her my best friend at the time, though I very much doubt she'd have said the same, partly because having One Single Best Friend and being super weird about which of your friends gets this coveted spot is not something middle-aged people care about.

Some of you have very weird ideas about 13-year-olds living in hermetically sealed bubbles. Frankly, many neurodivergent weirdo 13-year-olds who grew up to be Tumblr users were far, far better at talking to adults at that age than at talking to other 13-year-olds. Many of you would have had a way happier year if you'd also had an old-ass "best friend" to talk to back then.

[aro-ace-chaos]

I’m so tired of the “why do people hate aspecs, they aren’t doing anything?” argument. I know that it is an attempt to support us, but it fails so spectacularly to understand aromanticism, asexuality, and any other aspec identity that it’s actively frustrating.

We are doing something. We’re rejecting allonormative ideals and that’s a massive thing to do. We’re actively fighting not just to help other aspecs, but to help everyone, because amatonormativity (and allonormativity as a whole) hurt everyone. Single people who want to find a partner but can’t also deserve to be able to exist.

There are so many issues with the expectation of marriage, including:

A single income isn't enough to get by anymore

Having a spouse is almost necessary under the current medical system

Society shames and pressures people who are single to get into relationships constantly

Rejecting allonormativity means fighting against these things that hurt everyone.

So, no, aces and aros and other aspecs aren't "doing nothing." We're doing quite a lot.

[fforsythiaaa]

Once when I was in undergrad, someone described something as “problematic” in class and our professor was like, “That’s cool, but ‘problematic’ doesn’t really mean anything. It means that the thing you’re describing has a problem, and in and of itself that’s not bad. Art, especially, should always have problems, or else it’s not interesting and not art, either. It sounds like you’re trying to say that this is bad, but you don’t want to say ‘bad.’ Is that right?”

So from then on whenever one of us called something problematic, he would make us talk it out until we could name the “bad” thing we were hinting at. In this particular class, 7/10 it was some type of oppression, and the remainder was like, “I’m uncomfortable because this is very new/confusing/pushing boundaries that made me feel safe.”

Once we stopped calling things “problematic” and stopping at that, class got way more interesting and... we all had to say, like, “that’s racist” or “that’s misogynistic” or “ew capitalism gross” out loud, which a lot of us had never done in a classroom before. Or we had to be like, “Uhhh... I’m not sure what’s so bad?” and confront our own beliefs and that was maybe even more useful.

Anyway. Whenever I see the word problematic, I can’t help but think of this professor being like, “Good starting point, now let’s get specific.” I think when we have to commit to saying “that’s ___” it requires a lot more careful thought about the truth and impact and complexities of whatever we’re claiming. Sometimes there really is some bullshit afoot, and also sometimes it’s art, and it should be full of problems, because that’s what art is.

[sillystigmata]

“Don’t stop”…EXCUSE ME

[angrybubbles]

Assad: nooo don't ask me about my Armand playlist, it's personal 🥺

Also Assad: ah don't stop

[lexdelioncourt]

SOURCE TV INSIDER ON IG

IT'S NEVER BEEN MORE SERIOUS

[angrybubbles]

What if this is Marius's depression hair cut because he misses the Renaissance and Amadeo?

Maybe he just lost his lil' hat

[angrybubbles]

I love her

Also Anusree hiding behind Rolin's Arm 🥰

[teaftermoon]

dragon age inquisition scenery gouache sketches

source

[yusiyomogi]

i never really thought about it, but claudia and louis both had their artistic struggles in s2e4 in a very interesting parallel that highlighted their differences.

i think the way madeleine openly despised "my baby loves windows" was exactly something claudia needed at the time. claudia was a good naturally charismatic actress tired of the theater. deep in her heart she wanted a friend who'd say: "that whole thing is trash actually" without being afraid to hurt her feelings or somehow "ruin her happiness", which wasn't even there really. i don't think louis could say it out loud, despite feeling the same way, because he was always her parent first and foremost. and maybe claudia wouldn't even like hearing it from him anyway.

and we can see that louis himself, as he struggled to accept his lack of skill and talent in photography, needed someone to be soft with him instead. he wanted to be an artist still, but all he got was a harsh criticism and ridicule. ofc louis would tell people how he didn't need to be coddled and hyped up, but he imagined dreamstat being there on his side, supportive and gentle in his advice. it's interesting how fundamentally different their needs were.

[angrybubbles]

Her blush 😊

[sillystigmata]

Involve me.

[wildeoscars]

🤘🏻🔥🤘🏻

[halorvic]

The Close, Prolonged Contact Myth

Knowing how a virus spreads is essential to public health, but people keep getting it wrong.

A man goes to a birthday party, sits next to someone with hantavirus, catches it, gives it to his wife, and dies. His wife then infects 10 more people at his wake. Another guest at that same birthday party has no interaction with the index patient except to say “hello” as they cross paths, but that person gets sick too. One index patient, 33 subsequent infections, 11 deaths, four waves of transmission. This is from a meticulously documented hantavirus outbreak in Argentina in late 2018 and early 2019, published in the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM). Nearly the exact same Andes strain of hantavirus caused the recent outbreak on the Dutch cruise ship MV Hondius. Yet from the moment this latest outbreak hit the news last month, public-health officials have been claiming that this virus is spread through “prolonged close contact.” The evidence is not nearly so reassuring.

[...]

As an expert in what we call “exposure science,” I have spent a career conducting forensic investigations to understand how diseases spread and what we should do about it. As a member of the Lancet COVID-19 Commission, I chaired the Safe Work, Safe School, and Safe Travel task force, and was an early proponent of the theory that COVID spreads through the air. There was evidence early on of airborne transmission, which my colleagues and I tried to draw attention to. We modeled the early-2020 outbreak of the disease on the Diamond Princess cruise ship and found that 90 percent of the spread was through aerosols, not contaminated surfaces, but the CDC didn’t update its guidance until late 2020. I am alarmed to see the same pattern playing out now. Hantaviruses usually originate in rodent feces. Someone cleans a dusty area that has rodent droppings, inhales the particles, and gets sick. Only the Andes strain of hantavirus is known to be transmitted from human to human. In the outbreak documented in NEJM, the virus spreads without physical contact or prolonged exposure. One patient gets sick after simply crossing paths with someone who was ill. Two others are infected while seated at tables meters away. One person infected five others within 90 minutes at one party. The NEJM authors suggested that the virus spreads through the air. Although the NEJM evidence is clear, officials have kept repeating “prolonged, close contact,” so I wanted to be sure I wasn’t missing anything. Last week I spoke with a physician who was on the MV Hondiusas a passenger but who jumped in to help treat infected passengers after the ship’s official doctor got sick and was evacuated. He told me that the original treating doctor and staff were definitely in close contact with the first patient. But the others who got sick? They had merely shared space in the dining room and the lecture hall, and had not had close contact. We’re now at 10 confirmed cases from the ship, which aligns with the prior outbreak dynamics: one person infecting many, no close contact required.

[...]

This matters because medical teams treating patients need to know how they might be exposed. When infected passengers go home to quarantine, their households need to understand the risk. As passengers fly back to their home countries, contact tracers need to know which exposures matter. The doctor who treated patients on the cruise said on CNN that he relied on goggles, a gown, and hand-washing to protect himself. But given that this virus spreads through the air, an N95 mask and a strong ventilation and filtration system would have served him better.

[...]

This outbreak is not likely to spark a pandemic, mostly because the hantavirus is less contagious than influenza, measles, and SARS-CoV-2. But given just how little experience we have with this virus, any certainty is hubris.

May 12, 2026

[simoneashley]

Jacob Anderson and Sam Reid Interview With the Vampire Season 3 promo for Entertainment Weekly