normal about fate vs free will (lying)

Marina. Any pronouns. Bi/genderfluid/gray ace. 24. White. TME. Mobile about/links. Theater and audio drama blog that started out as a riordanverse blog, so that comes up occasionally.

[annabelle--cane]

Noma Dumezweni and David Dastmalchian in Season One of Apple TV's Murderbot (2025)

[buddieloustat]

Their matching cunty little glasses

[gaypeople]

THE VAMPIRE LESTAT - 3.02 “Toledo”

[flopstat]

THE VAMPIRE LESTAT 3.02 TOLEDO

[reticent-vampire]

The Vampire Lestat 3.02

[knifelesbianjo]

[...] get me a frame of pretty green eyes again.

THE VAMPIRE LESTAT | "Toledo"

[usermovies]

How'd you get down here? I told you to go to the roof.

[vamplire]

LET’S ALL LIVE

[verymerrymart]

[reticent-vampire]

[annabelle--cane]

interview with The Vampire Lestat s3e2 thoughts:

1) really interested in how the povs affect the format of the show, like the france flashbacks are in english now and the hair and makeup come across as much more overdone. louis's mind is full of beautiful gothic set pieces while lestat is schlocky and melodramatic.

2) so lestat grew up in a violent and oppressive household where both he and his mother were deprived of freedom and subjected to strong patriarchal control, and though he formed a very close bond with gabrielle because they were sort of "on the same side" and she was the only one who was kind to him, she wouldn't actually do anything to protect him when his father and brothers got physically violent with him and he ended up being the one to save her from their household. I think I can guess where he picked up the template for the situation he later put louis and claudia into.

3) chewing very hard on that daniel/louis scene. we're absolutely seeing it through The Lestat Filter but I love how shifty and guilty daniel is being, you can really feel that he knows louis is being sooo gracious with him and that he's already squirming with discomfort about how he's going to further exploit that graciousness. he knows damn well that he's royally screwed him over and that he's just gonna keep doing it and that louis is still the only person safe enough for him to ask some vulnerable fledgling 101 questions.

4) oh louis. can everyone just be nice to him forever? hasn't he suffered enough? of course he thinks he's been seeing claudia, he just found out that a bunch of his core memories were either based on complete lies or mechanically altered, of course he'd doubt whether she's really dead. why is this fuckass talamasca guy who can't even pronounce "rashid" trying to exploit his trauma to use him as a hit man. also I'm 99% certain I've heard assad zaman give the same "I don't have a preference" answer when asked about the stressed syllables in his name.

[annabelle--cane]

well. at least lestat and gabrielle appear to be doing aftercare.

[maidenczar]

google search "how to want"

[maidenczar]

google search "desire for beginners"

[mouldybrie]

[henrykudhirai]

[wishful-seeker]

I would like to see more people talk about how jobs treat disabled employees.

I used to prep, wash dishes, and cook at mellow mushroom. I had chronic pain that wasn't NEARLY as bad as it is today, but it was still very debilitating. I told my employer "i cannot stand more than 4 to 6 hours. I CANNOT do shifts longer than this due to my illness." And even though i made my boundaries VERY clear, everyday i worked it was 8 hours at the least and 10 or 12 at the most. I would go up to my manager and say "look i really need to leave, my shift is over, my chronic pain is killing me." And he'd say "we really need to here, you HAVE to push through." And so i did, and after one, ONE month of that job my crps got incredibly worse to the point where i could no longer walk my dog around the block which was .5 miles. I quit, and that was FOUR years ago, and ever since that day I HAVE BEEN BEDRIDDEN AND HAVE TO USE A WHEELCHAIR. It is my biggest regret in life.

My best friend who has seen my whole journey has recently developed undiagnosed chronic pain, and she is in the EXACT same scenario i was 4 years ago. Busting her ass at a pizza place with extreme pain that hurts her so much she tells me "im in so much pain i don't even feel like a person." She doesn't feel LUCID. And her manager and coworkers are saying the same thing "if you don't help us you will let us down, we'll be in the shit."

That job thats hurting you isn't fucking worth it. I promise you no money is worth losing all your physical abilities and never getting them back. Your coworkers and boss do not give a shit about you, so don't you dare suffer for them. They will never understand your struggle and they will never try. They truly think being understaffed is worse than whatever pain you experience. They would rather you permanently damage yourself than inconvenience them. FUCK THEM. DON'T FUCKING DO IT!

[wishful-seeker]

I see people outing their shitty companies they worked at in the reblogs and I just want to say KEEP DOING IT

[siltslut]

I love not having opinions on things

[siltslut]

uh I mean. I’m neutral about it