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Cosmic Funnies
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One Nice Bug Per Day
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he wasn't even looking at me and he found me
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Didn't think anything could top the photos, but here we are.
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Laurent & Damen
From the Captive Prince trilogy by C.S. Pacat
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Waistcoat
1780s
unknown maker
Silk compound weave with silk embroidery and metal spangles
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The Vampire Lestat: One Night Only - LIVE at the Beacon Theatre Your Biggest Fan via SD_Comic_Con
I tried to narrow this down. I really did. Instead you get 54 of my favorite queer books, not including the series many of these are attached to.
Also some of these authors I've read their entire backlist or close to it, so I didn't include all of them. (Looking at you, Allie Therin, KJ Charles, Cat Sebastian, Lily Mayne, Foz Meadows, Tavia Lark)
Do we have any in common?
"I long to be that complete"
It makes me feel happy when thinking about these three cute guys appear in the same time and space😇😇😇
It's Secomb!vert,Quast!vert and Jaden!vert,I think Secomb!vert and Jaden!vert like dogs and Quast!vert is a big furry cat😇
一想到这样三个萌物会出现在一个时空里就会觉得幸福😇😇😇
是Jeremy鲨、PQ鲨和裁鲨🥺感觉Jeremy鲨和裁鲨都是狗狗,PQ鲨是毛茸茸的大猫,鲨鲨的猫狗二象性就是这样美味😋😋😋
NY观众实在是吃得太好了俺也想进那屋😭👊
i got a bottle of wine and that's me watching as you sleep at night and that's me laughing in the darkness as you dream all of the desperate desires of your life
Louis was her grieving self, after losing her daughter.
THAT is why she could not revisit him in depth. That has to be considered here.
and daniel? why do you think she didn't write more about him? it was simply that she didn't like him or didn't consider him relevant or it was something else? cause i think it would have been really interesting exploring daniel suffering after being turned into a vampire. it's a shame she didn't. And if i am not wrong, didn't she also got his surname wrong at times, like she called him Daniel Malloy? what's up with that?
Typo in editing?!
*chuckle*
But in all seriousness, and look, I am not saying 100% that this is the reason Anne didn't explore Daniel much after the DM chapter, but this was something that was openly talked about on my VC mailing list back in the day, about what might have been going on about that.
So the thing is, and people kind of get this confused, but in the book, Daniel did not have a drug problem; he had a drinking problem. And yes, you can maybe look at him becoming addicted to Armand's blood as the drug metaphor here, but at the same time, Daniel was also addicted to alcohol. Bourbon to be exact.
And that alcohol abuse problem is, in the end, what was killing him. And the bigger thing is, Anne was very likely drawing on her own experiences when writing about Daniel's alcohol abuse.
Because after her daughter died, she noted years later that she and her husband, Stan, both pretty much used alcohol to deal with the pain of it. IIRC, she basically said they became like F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald with how much they were drinking during that time.
So I think, to some extent, in regard to Anne having to put Louis away for a time because he was too linked to her feelings about her daughter and the pain of that, Daniel's character was a bit too linked to her experiences in how she first dealt with that grief.
And another truth is? It wasn't until after she killed off Armand at the end of Memnoch the Devil that she actually understood just how much many fans actually did love his character. Before then, she honestly did think the majority of readers hated him, which is why she did it. I think if it hadn't been for the "Armand Lives!" tee-shirts and stickers people wore to Memnoch book signings, she would have never brought him back.
So yeah, people who weren't there probably don't know it, but Armand was originally supposed to remain dead after Memnoch. And so, just like why Louis didn't end up getting replaced as Lestat's main love interest by David Talbot (because fans rejected it), Armand came back because fans wanted him back.
So I think, even though Daniel's character didn't do much at all in the final trilogy, that might also be why Anne likely even bothered to bring Armand and Daniel back together in the little way she did. Basically, it was something fans had been asking for since The Vampire Armand, the book where she basically brought Armand back. (Though doing so with a meta-comment passage towards those fans who had hated Memnoch and said that Armand killing himself over a religious symbol was OOC.)
Anyway, she didn't start setting Lestat and Louis to finally get back together until The Prince Lestat Trilogy. Before then, what appeared to be the final book in the series, Blood Canticle, ended with them very much not together, and her experimenting with a Lestat/Rowan pairing. Because, again, this was the period where fans were rejecting David, but Anne still wasn't interested in exploring Louis anymore. And Daniel was with Marius, having gone mad, and was being taken care of by him.
This came to me in a dream
I wonder if growth for elves is somewhat proportional to their lifespan? 👀
yes i know one of them is a podcast but these four have been haunting (ha) my mind this entire past month so here’s an approximation of my thoughts
(not to mention three out of four make either explicit or implicit reference to jorge luis borge’s “library of babel”)
We know that Laurent likes to play. And, according to Damen, he is a master of transformation; he doesn’t even need to make much effort to become someone else. I suspect that, in a different universe, Laurent would have become an enthusiastic theatre kid.
So. Which is your favourite of Laurent’s transformations?
“Pet”
“Charles”
“Lady Jokaste”
Whatever he was doing with that blue dress from the brothel to escape
the fire of mercury and sulfur
Erasmus & Kallias
From The Training of Erasmus by C.S Pacat
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As a result of tonight's savage russian attack on Kyiv—one of the worst I have experienced—a dozen cultural, educational, and scientific institutions were damaged.
Pictured here are the Chornobyl Museum, the Institute of Literature, the Knyharnia YE bookshop, and the National Art Museum of Ukraine. Several schools, bookshops, and the Kyiv School of Economics were also affected.
Not to mention dozens—if not hundreds—of residential buildings, markets, office buildings, and coffee shops.
Yet many people will continue celebrating "great russian culture" as if nothing is happening.
The Summer Palace
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