My Nerdy Escape

Blogging about my obsessions. She/her. In my 30s. Asks are open!

[batdarkladyvampir]

Masterlist

Pedro Pascal Characters:

Dieter Bravo

At The Garden Inn Masterlist

Dieter Bravo/ curvy female reader 18+

Frankie Morales

Cinnamon and Spice Masterlist

Frankie Morales/ F!Werecat Reader 18+

[mementomauri]

I do have a fondness for how gothic and erotic lit had a certain barrier to entry. Like I do love more ppl getting into the vampire chronicles and I'll always be happy to have more Loustat fans but those books are weird and melancholic and erotic and philosophical and constantly testing boundaries and asking questions. And it feels like ppl are expecting or wanting "the vampire diaries but gay". The books have uncomfortable moments and the characters will do and say and believe things that make you double take but so much of the books are just "how moral can I be when nothing matters and I'm immortal?"

This isn't just a tale of gay vampires. It's a haunting philosophical treatise about life, mortality, morality, death, depression, incest, rape, love, regret, and the Pain Of Time. It can be fun and it can be gross and it can be wonderful but it's not for the timid.

[lovetheviking]

This

[lioncunt]

best character of all time

[justallthecolors]

the duality of man

[faetouchedandfangs]

hey. you are supposed to be uncomfortable by louis paying regina to act like claudia. it is creepy and gross. it is also desperate, grief-driven, unhealthy, and sad. AND it makes total sense for a man who built a name for himself by profiting off of women's bodies. louis' actions this season are not out of character, because he has shown us time and time again that women, particularly black women and Claudia specifically, are not people that he fully respects. louis has always treated Claudia like an object, like something that is "his". and if you feel icky or upset by the current storyline, good! that's what it is there for. idk why people are surprised in season three that the show about evil vampires is going to depict them as evil vampires.

[winkypants]

“Mother!! The 500 year old child sex slave/reluctant cult leader is being unethical!! The two 300 year old french vampires who only had each other and never had ANY agency until a few months before their murders are being WEIRDDD!! The 100 year old Black American vampire who was closeted and performing hypermasculinity his ENTIRE life keeps doing dumb shit!! The 2 year old geriatric deadbeat addict dad vampire is throwing ANOTHER egocentric tantrum!!!”

Grow up! They are all murderers and they aren’t human anymore ANYWAYS.

(But maybe I’m just old and an OG fan of Anne Rice).

[thebibliosphere]

I am down with a migraine. Very dizzy. Expressed a desire for potato chips because I thought the salt might help.

Holly Mop who was beside me in bed got up and trotted into my office. Came back into the bedroom and very daintily spat out a single potato chip.

Which has revealed two things:

A) that she does understand more of what I’m saying, and in true Shih Tzu fashion,chooses not to listen and

B) there’s a stash of stale potato chips somewhere in my office I’ll need to find tomorrow.

Emphasis on tomorrow

I’ve got a Dogtor to cuddle today.

[professional-rat-eater]

The scariest part of the 52 years of stalking isn’t even the stalking. It’s that Armand knows every bad thing Daniel has ever done and he doesn’t care.

Daniel knows he’s an asshole. He’s potentially the most self-aware character. He knows he hurt his ex-wives and his daughters. He understands that they hate him and he frequently validates their decision to do so. He gets it. He’s not hiding from his mistakes. He knows what he’s done. People leave him because anyone sane would. There’s no malice there. He knows who he is.

But here is this beautiful, ancient creature who has lived through some of the most incredible periods of human innovation in modern history, who lived in Renaissance Venice and witnessed Paris return to its former glory after World War 2 , who has been exposed to some of the most important works of art in history, who has had so much time to absorb humanity and all its most impressive creations, and this creature tells him he’s in love with him, some random kid he met half a century ago by chance.

And not just that he’s in love with him. That he was actively in love with him while he was doing all the terrible things. None of it ever mattered. Armand has seen every shade of Daniel’s soul, more than anyone else ever has, and he is in love with him because of it. It is one thing to have your mistakes exposed, it’s another entirely for someone to see them and decide to stay.

Armand has so freely given to Daniel what he has been trying to find for himself for half a millennia. The only thing he has ever wanted: to be truly known and accepted for everything you are, including the unseemly, ugly parts. How utterly and completely terrifying.

[soliloqueeer]

I think this is the most dangerous and beautiful aspect of their relationship. As an addict, so much of your life is wrestling with the disease and the way it impacts those around you. Imagine all of the shame and guilt left in the wake of the things you did a rock bottom. Armand is someone born centuries ago who exists completely outside of the spectrum of contemporary human morality. Imagine someone being a spectre to the worst things you’ve ever done and still loving you. It’s salvation but it can also be damnation. Because humans have limits, no matter how much they love you. So what happens when the devil loves you for all the damned things you’ve done?

[irisbleufic]

When a human says “I love you unconditionally,” there’s this sense of wistfulness because…no, there are always conditions. You just haven’t found those limits yet. Pray that you never do.

When a vampire says “I love you unconditionally,” fuck. They’ve seen and done it all. Whatever you’ve done, it can’t possibly be worse. The worst in you is a feature, not a bug. It’s just true.

[veryintricaterituals]

And he turned him... He saw everything, the good, the bad, the horrible, the very ugly and he said: you should have eternity, I think you should live forever

[deadbeatmaker]

when I’m hungover half to death and someone brings up the round of shots I initiated

[lioncunt]

the very idea that someone could sit down, watch lestat puke while still trying to rationalize the abuse, have a full blown panic attack over it when louis yells that there is no rationalizing this, and then go say it's consensual...that it's not portrayed as abuse...insane...

i also think a lot of people aren't really getting the *point* of louis' reaction. it's extremely harsh and judgmental and completely insensitive to the fact that lestat is being abused, but that is the purpose of it. the entire season is lestat attempting to justify it. this is louis saying that you cannot justify it. there is no rational way to justify that happening. and when lestat has a breakdown over it, they both sort of realize at the same time that this means lestat has been suffering incestuous sexual abuse for 200 fucking years.

it overwhelms lestat, and it clicks for louis. that's when he changes tacts, when he comforts lestat, when he gently tries to help him admit that it's been abuse all along in the bar. it's so realistic, such a necessary sequence.

i think there is unfortunately a knee jerk reaction people have to abuse like this, esp when it's mother/son, where it's just "gross", "weird", or "sick", as louis says. where the child is not taken to be a victim, somehow. i think the show is very honest in having this be louis' initial reaction, until he sees lestat's panic, until he properly thinks it through for a second. and then he gets it, and he feels horrible about what he said. again, it's just all very realistic and bittersweet. everyone involved did an incredible job with this storyline imo.

[brian-kinney-apologist]

I can’t believe I finally have the three of them in one frame with delainey’s claudia specifically but at what cost

[mistressvera]

I want to be your maker

[moonyeyes]

and then there were three

[franniesbridgerton]

This is a century-long lie. You hung her portrait over our coffins in New Orleans. It's sick. You're sick.

We're unnatural beings! And this-- this is the half-human soul that you conveniently whip out whenever you want to win an argument!

What argument you got for fucking your mother? It's sickness. Maybe the source of all your sickness. But my god! Seek a professional!

episode 6 of THE VAMPIRE LESTAT

[yayxstitch]

I am always packing scissors and memes.

[necromancelena]

*baps you with my paws* *baps you with my paws* *baps you with my paws* *baps you with my paws* *baps you with my paws* *baps you with my paws* *baps you with my paws* *baps you with my paws* *baps you with my paws* *baps you with my paws* *baps you with my paws* *baps you with my paws* *baps you with my paws* *baps you with my paws*

[angrymurderchild]

[thatone-highlighter]

Reblog to bap the person you reblogged from with your paws

[maelancoli]

the writers did so fucking well at portraying and deconstructing the over abundant amount that lestat in the text romanticizes his abusers. he calls it the "seduction of magnus" multiple times throughout the vampire chronicles instead of admitting he was preyed upon. when you read the books you have to look between the lines of his flowery prose and avoidance but the show took a corny over the top music video style approach and then slammed it next to a full blown ptsd flashback to make sure the audience did not have a chance to misinterpret or mock anything and i respect them for that

[chaoticdelinqueerwithglitter]

Op, the tags deserve to be here too!

[leveragecentral]

every leverage dynamic ⮎ eliot spencer & nate ford

to be honest, when you're not on the receiving end of it, watching him mess with somebody's head is pretty impressive.