liquorice is not a crime

the lack of bean and pickle emojis is ○ she/they ○ please address me as either bean, pickle or oh captain my captain

[jaegerprom]

Gabriel Picolo did the twelfth night thing 😭😭

[supersonic1994-archive]

8am incest study

12pm cannibalism debate

12:30 tea break

1pm necrophilia discussion

3pm eroticism

6pm dinner + beer

[dharmaart]

A painting of some horses crossing a river in a more impressionistic style. With this painting I focused on the colours and opted for less detail.

[8-bitbasil]

some devils minion in honour of the new armand clip 2day ^_^

[coldeveryseason]

i've seen a lot of people defend the increase in uncritical antiblackness and racist scripts in tvl/s3 by saying "well lestat and daniel are racist white men, ofc they make racist comments" and it's like, well yeah that's true but they shouldn't be making racist comments with the exact same voice and with seemingly the exact same pov. lestat is a french aristocrat from the late 18th century who grew up in a rural backwater and then moved to paris at the height of the french revolution, during the enlightenment when many modern ideas of "whiteness" were being defined, lived in new orleans during the jim crow regime in the early 20th century and then was significantly isolated from human society until 2022- daniel is an american man (possibly of jewish or armenian heritage since he's played by luke and eric) who grew up middle class in modesto california (a small city that had a significant population increase during the post-wwii baby boom) in the late 20th century and spent most of his adulthood in liberal urban centers around the states. there's little to no overlap in their lived experiences- lestat was in his shack era for the vast majority of daniel's lifetime. they come from radically different cultural contexts and even though they would both have racist views that fit the norms of white supremacist society, they wouldn't have the same racist views or express their racism in the same way.

but the show has both of them speaking in the same irreverent, quippy voice and cycling through the same types of jokes in a way that makes it clear this is what the writers think is funny, that this is a reflection of the writers' (esp rolin's) racism. rolin said the audience was gonna feel the whiplash of the show suddenly being taken over by lestat and feeling like we're in lestat's head, but the tone shift fails bc it specifically doesn't feel like we're in lestat's head or that the kind of narration and dialogue we're immersed in reflects lestat's character in any meaningful way- instead, it feels like rolin has taken the fact that the show is now set mostly in the present day and the general premise of "lestat is chaotic and terminally online" as a free pass to use lestat as a mouthpiece for his own voice and sense of humor. lestat isn't just any random mid-30s rockstar edgelord on tour, he's a specific character with a specific background, and while it's believable that he became terminally online and obsessed with pop culture in the 3 years since he reunited with louis in s2ep8, that doesn't mean all traces of his past and the history that shaped him is gonna vanish from the way he speaks, narrates and views other people.

for a season that's meant to be all about digging into lestat's character and everything that made him who and what he is, the writers seem to have completely disregarded that when shaping lestat's voice this season- and why "oh well aren't they supposed to be racist white guys anyway" isn't an excuse for the racism we're seeing in the scripts. (and honestly even daniel's voice, even though his context is a lot closer to the context the show's writers would have, doesn't always land right- a man who spent most of the 70s/80s in gay bars wouldn't be calling a 6 ft tall beefcake a "twink" and his septuagenarian ass wouldn't have adopted the 2020s derogatory use of the term where people use "twink" as a substitute for "fag" either. he'd just say fag.) if the writers had done more research and had lestat doing archaic 18th-century racism pulls while contrasting that with his misuse of 2020s slang he doesn't fully understand, if daniel was actually speaking like a white guy who survived the aids crisis and cut his teeth as a journalist in late 20th century good-ol-boy newsrooms, i could give the show more grace and say there was some intentionality behind their dialogue- but everything so far just points to the writers themselves thinking "so armand is an abused sub bottom, that's his defining trait" and shoving dialogue about that into every other character's mouth without thinking if that specific person would actually say or think that. there's no reason a 265 yo french former rural aristocrat, a 72-yo usamerican journalist, and a 20-something french-canadian bookseller should be making the same kind of "armand is a beta bottom lawl" comment- but they are doing that in the show, bc the writers think it's funny and expect the audience to laugh along with them.

[redlipstickresurrected]

Rob Pointon (British, b. 1982, Staffordshire Moorlands, England, based South Cheshire, England) - Chimney Stack, 2025, Paintings: Oil on Board

[botticelli-angels-minion]

Nobody has ever seen and understood unactualized potential in a piece of media like the person who made Daniel old in the amc adaptation.

[miche-perez]

"Is that your man? Yes, thats mine." 😌

Armand/Daniel nation how we feelin' this weekend! 😩

[operakings]

victuuri redraw they live on in my heart forever

[neptuniite]

self portrait

[sibmakesart]

[teh-nos]

writing out my probably wrong night manager 2 finale theory, featuring a large amount of money and the one thing roxana definitely knows that roper does not.

the latest twist was roxana switching sides to roper, but she doesn't really know anything does she? if there's a plan already she doesn't know it because she got left in that house for most of the last episode. if the dudes have come up with something between them they haven't told her. she could be used to give pine some lies, but he doesn't seem to trust her enough and where would she have got new information from since the last time he asked her for the plot?

but she does know that teddy has indeed been 'susceptible' and roper knows that but he's thinking his son's been heartlessly seduced for espionage reasons. and the thing is that roxana's always been on the periphery of basically everything that's going on in the plot but

she has always

been there

while the men ignored her.

Even when she seems to be the one literally pushing them together, they kind of just forget she's in the room.

Which we have not really discussed much, but even here on The Yaoi Website someone will occasionally comment on the weird extent to which Roxana doesn't get to do much and is on the least emotionally significant side of the triangle. She was right there watching Teddy be susceptible.

And speaking of being susceptible to seduction

her direct attempt failed and if you add up screentime I don't think any female character in either series spent this much time around Jonathan Pine without him trying to shag her. So she might conclude that he's just not into woman at all (and Roper knows it's not that!) or he's more interested in someone else (see above).

This is arguably the most valuable piece of information she can give to Roper, whether she's aware of that fact or not.

Fear her, for she has seen many tumblr gifsets and is even in some of them, pushed off to the side and maybe we kind of forgot she was there at the time.

At this point I will like everyone else round here assume that Teddy will die tragically. Some people think that like the dogs he'll get shot by Roper for betrayal, and maybe he will but the scenario might be a bit more elaborate.

For instance, the 300,000,000 USD that they keep bringing up. It has a practical use in funding this mission to Colombia but we keep being reminded that this money exists and where it came from and who has it and etc.

My BOLD CLAIM is that Roxy's slash report + Roper's knowledge of S1 + this large amount of money that's lurking in the background = Pine and Roper both have something to offer each other to get the other one to cease and desist.

Same as last time.

[ratfc]

Finally the Night Manager is bringing the plot point we all wanted to see in spy fiction: Male spies having to seduce gay villains

[cosmonautroger]

Hilma Af Klint, The Swan No. 1

[oldbutchdanielmolloy]

this is basically how it went right

[pien-art]

Kira <333

I've had the image of her combing her leg hair/fur stuck in my head since I first made her redesign. ouuugh body hair <3

[ericvilas]

The ultimate question of life, the universe, and everything, is "what the fuck is 6 7"

The computer, sadly, misinterpreted the space as multiplication.