Ulrika

Swedish middle aged fandom person. Right now it's IWTV all day every day. 🔞

[yebikey]

Jodie Comer

[girlinthebrightbluejeans]

When u take a screenshot bc Harry looks good but you get the double benefit of a sweater knitting design reference

[birdisland]

First look at Harry Melling and Jodie Comer in STUFFED

Love, death, and taxidermy collide in Stuffed, which TIFF described as “a gloriously twisted musical, one of the year’s funniest, most original, and unexpectedly heartfelt romances.”

Source: Dread Central

[girlinthebrightbluejeans]

Harry Melling by David Reiss for Photobook, May 20, 2021. X

[birdisland]

Dreamed I'd forgotten two bags inside my old school and went to get them but couldn't remember where they were and suddenly Alexander Skarsgård showed up and helped me find them. Then I went to give him a hug and somehow he had grown like 8 and a half feet tall and I only reached his bellybutton. Very wholesome dream.

[differentcatcat]

You didn't shave your legs for that?!?!!

Alex as Ray in Pillion swimming with Colin - here playing chicken.

[machetemand]

did you know you can personally dislike a character without viewing everyone who likes them as your enemy. you can also like a character without viewing everyone who dislikes them as your enemy

[birdisland]

People who want Daniel to die and never shut up about it are absolutely my enemies though, because frankly, that means they actively wish me ill and don't care if I and thousands of others have our hearts broken. I stand by this 100%.

[of-the-votives]

Wasted Assad's best look on one of the worst finales put to television history.

[sillystigmata]

Assad bts.

[armandssilhouette]

ugh this gorgeous man

[ileftmysoulinnorway]

THE VAMPIRE LESTAT | 3.07 | The Failures

[sillystigmata]

Babies.

[russiasgreatestlovemachineeee]

luke brandon field // young bela lugosi

[wizardysseus]

the thing about CC is that she did plagiarize. she was found guilty of plagiarism and banned from fanfiction dot net! she plagiarized pamela dean, among others, and lied about it repeatedly! it happened! and regardless of whatever else she writes, regardless of whether the publishing industry and her fans trust her not to do it again, regardless of how many times her wikipedia page gets scrubbed clean, that will always have happened! so it is not in fact cruel gossip, but a factually true statement, to say that she plagiarized and i'm not interested in supporting her or giving her the benefit of the doubt because she plagiarized and lied about it repeatedly! fuck!

[wizardysseus]

what really incenses me about cassandra clare — and forgive me for bringing this up again, but i don't think i've articulated this point yet — is not that i believe she is currently plagiarizing. any accusations i've seen about recent work seem to me to be superficial. but even if one could prove that she never plagiarized again once she started publishing, it wouldn't matter to me, because she chose to capitalize on her fandom history. while trying to distance herself from what she did, she made a brand out of the fanfic pen name "cassandra clare" and continues to profit off the reputation and fanbase that she amassed while she was, provably, a plagiarist.

you don't get to do that and bury the things that made you famous. as an individual, as a human being, she is capable of change and any other good qualities you may want to ascribe. but she built her career on lies. professionally, i don't understand why she gets to move on.

[toppingilyarozanov]

the worst part for me--worse than building her career on plagiarism--is that her career was also built on a truly reprehensible level of harassment. she told her followers to help get her unbanned from FFN (as if that would ever happen) and they spent months harassing the site owner and several abuse team members. one of them, after enduring extensive abuse, ended up in the hospital.

this was just the beginning of the harassment, though. CC additionally used her friend heidi, a lawyer, to send cease & desist letters and other forms of legal harassment against ppl. none of it would hold up in court and these sort of things weren't even heidi's area of expertise as a lawyer, but it still happened.

CC was such a terrible serial harasser that people started to leave her alone about the plagiarism stuff after a while because it was just not worth her blowing up your entire spot. not just with her lawyer, but with her minions who harassed targets on her behalf. getting a deluge of harassment is a horrible experience that hurts people, so of course people tried to avoid it.

i hate CC because she hurt lots of people. she did it intentionally, repeatedly, and with singular focus on covering her own ass no matter who she hurt.

she has the career she has now because of her harassment of fandom as much as the plagiarism.

[alessandriana]

receipts

fanlore article

[entretienavecunvampire]

Daniel! my beloved, my firstborn - have you heard of a website called archive of our own? the mortals have written thousands of stories about us, each tale dedicated to our love! beloved, what is an ‘omega?’

[yaoiblackmold]

shower ducky

[ladypaperwriterson]

I cannot stretch enough how OOC it is for Armand (in both show and books) to consent to being filmed like this.

I have strategically avoided IWTV fanfiction all this time because I wanted to keep my impression of the show pure (ironic, isn't it?) but, having been in multiple fandoms and having read loads of fanfiction in general over the years, I am convinced that there are exactly zero fanfic writers out there who would ever write Armand (or any other character really) as utterly OOC as these show people just did.

You know why? Because fanfiction is born out of love. People love the characters, and that's why they write. Yes, of course it's inevitable that sometimes the characters go a little bit OOC - but, mainly, they're still.the characters we all know and love. Hence the huge audience for fanfiction in general.

The show writers have proved in this season that they do not love the characters they're working on. Maybe they never actually did like them in the first place. They only love Lestat and their own OCs (Gabriella, the band etc). And they seem to have reserved most of their hate for Armand and Louis, and then Claudia and Daniel. And it doesn't matter to them how much the fans love these characters and these actors and are craving for a good adaptation; they simply do not care.

I just really feel so sorry for Assad, who poured his whole heart and soul into this role from day one, only to be completely sidelined, humiliated and betrayed in this way. Same goes for Jacob and Delainey, on a lesser degree.