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[userarmand]

armand & lestat + age regression

[probablynottola]

He's got that "good at hurting your feelings" technique from his mother's side

[mortalityplays]

something you learn fast and necessarily when you get into the habit of writing is that you are riddled with blind assumptions, prejudices, unpractised rhetoric and all kinds of unchallenged cicada shell thoughts that were left stuck to your mode of being when bad ideas fled you. most people get to move through the world behind a kind of modesty veil that divides their internal thoughts from their external observations, but you have to take that off when you write. you have to suddenly present the whole world to itself nakedly, without the kindness of someone who can stop you mid-sentence and say "hold on, I know you, you can't possibly mean that". people are often scared to show their work to an editor in case the editor points out what they look like without their modesty veil, but god, christ, hell and heaven, you have to be more afraid of what the whole world of strangers will see if you don't let someone pick the cicada shells off you first.

[casualobserver777]

Don't be afraid.

Just listen to what people say and let it be what they say, and investigate it within yourself. Writing is hard for sure, but other people have shells too. Don't shame yourself.

[steadynightruins]

Louis trying to get noticed by being not like the other girls and reading during the Vampire Lestat concert

[lioncourtz]

THE VAMPIRE LESTAT 01.01 | "Detroit"

[solardrop]

JACOB ANDERSON for THE VAMPIRE LESTAT: BACKSTAGE PASS

[knifelesbianjo]

THE VAMPIRE LESTAT | "Detroit"

This is a very serious show believe me

[reticent-vampire]

oh i’m sure

[sugarcarnation]

MY SHOW

[alsoknownasallison]

listen im as loustat as they come but some of yall NEEEEEED to take the shipper goggles off from time to time and actually engage with the text as the form of art it is. I just saw someone say "I came here for loustat not lestat and his mommy issues" YIKES MY GUY!!!!! THIS IS THE TRAUMA SHOW!!!!! IT IS HERE TO DISCUSS AND EXPLORE TRAUMA!!!!!

OPEN YOUR EYES AND EARS AND TAKE YOUR PHONE OUT OF THAT DAMN HAND WHILE YOURE WATCHING!!!!!!

[icantspellthings]

Daniel saying that he's going to take his musical documentary about the lead of a flopping rock band who pretends to be a vampire all the way to Cannes is so fucking funny, stay delusional king, never change.

[sizzlingsandwichperfection-blog]

i think what makes tumblr great now is that nobody gives a shit? Like, there is NOTHING to be gained from being on here except the pure joy of making stuff for people and with people?

If you're on twitter or threads or reddit, and you say, "Oh, I had a terrible experience with Delta Airlines. They canceled my flight and then booked me into a hotel room with a stranger," and you tag Delta, there's a chance Delta Airlines itself will come and apologize. Maybe even give you some SkyMiles or something.

But if you complain about a terrible airline experience on tumblr, all you can hope for is that someone might come along and write slash fiction about two guys who get booked into the same hotel room by Delta Airlines.

You can't gain social capital by being here. Nobody knows who you even ARE because your user name is, like, some randomly generated phrase or else an obscure reference to hockey sex books.

I'm not saying it's perfect, of course. It's a super toxic hellsite that eats the ashes of its former self to survive. But it beats twitter any day, and not only because twitter is owned by a raving mad white supremacist fuckchild.

[sanhunpo]

Wanted to draw smth out of my comfort zone and to experiment with techniques more, (struggled a lot due to it) but really I just really liked looking and drawing Isabelle adjani :)

[seasonofhorror]

POSSESSION (1981) dir. Andrzej Żuławski

OBSESSION (2026) dir. Curry Barker

[the-hearth-and-the-wild]

You must save what you can of your life; you mustn't lose it all simply because you've lost a part.

Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady

[marzipanandminutiae]

about halfway through the Bostonians and I feel like Henry James' attitude towards feminism isn't entirely antagonistic, but more a sort of bemused "what's the big deal?"

it reminds me of that thing I was talking about in the notes on an Importance of Being Earnest post a while back- this historical attitude you see (as a joke back then and as a serious conspiracy theory now that we're starting to get more rights) that Women REALLY Have All the Power And Men Just Pretend to. indeed, male MC Basil Ransom- or as I call him, Ransom Stone Mountain Jack Daniels, III -seems to dismiss the notion of women lacking civil rights entirely because his female cousin is independently wealthy and he is poor

you can never quite tell how much James' narrator is on his side, since there are a few "I'm just saying what HE thinks; don't shoot the messenger!" asides about him. but there is definitely a mild disdain, minimum, for feminist characters even when Ransom is absent

James does have sympathetically-portrayed female characters express apparently genuine interest in feminism. then again, he seems to have been at least casually opposed to women's suffrage in real life. overall, the vibe I get is dismissive rather than antagonistic. sure, he supposes there are likely issues that need fixing, but all of the women he knows personally are fine as far as he can tell, so they're clearly making a fuss over nothing!

(also those curious Female Celibates are such a stuffy, serious, no-fun lot who never go to parties and want to keep pretty young women from flirting with men and having a good time. it must just be because they want to ensnare them into a life of ascetic activism! that's why they feel dread at the idea of a Particular Friend getting married! duh!)

(there's an essay in me somewhere about the idea of lesbians as dull and joyless in 19th century society, because they were perceived as romance-less since Romance Is Only A Man/Woman Situation and anything else is platonic friendship. it was wild)

I will say that, taken separately for his attitudes towards their cause, he does deliver a polite skewering of performative activists that will ring true to many modern readers. some are more concerned with their own fame and fortune than improving things; others, with the drama of the struggle to the point where they almost hope they fail because life would be dull with no battles to fight. if he weren't also skewering legitimate progressives who, for example, have given all of their money to various philanthropic causes over the years, I'd definitely be chuckling along in parts- we've all known people like that, here on the progressive side of things, after all

[casualobserver777]

It's interesting because (and it's been a while since I read the novel) but in The Portrait of a Lady, he had one of the male characters be very jealous of the women. Jealous for what they were, as people, and that was half if not all the reason for the antagonism. So while he may have been dismissive and against the idea of feminism, he wrote the most decisive moment for me to explain some aspects of male violence that happens. A sort of entitlement, yes, but jealousy on some level. It is hard to explain, but that character very much was jealous of her as a person, and that was interesting for a male writer to touch upon.

[veryintricaterituals]

"Was it raining, Louis?"