A (planet hitting the sun)

queer millennial. any pronouns. communist. sometimes NSFW. 18+ only. right wingers, terfs, nazis, zionists, bigots, xenophobes, antis: fuck off. writer on AO3. “Ná habair é, déan é.” main media: ATLA, MDZS/CQL, IWTV/TVC. Here there be monsters.

[crithir]

“My dream was to see the world, over time. The real dream is to make a world—to see the people and still want to make a world.”

— The Gilda Stories, Jewelle Gomez

[tboy-molloy]

Seeing Assad Zaman at the tvl concert makes me feel the same emotions as when I saw Princess Diana in the revenge dress for the first time

[bloodyspector]

Don't ask

[crithir]

Ahem

NIGHT ISLAND AND TRINITY GATE BITCHES

[pinimi]

the devils minioning is off the charts

[crithir]

Assad Zaman

[crithir]

Anyway in this heyday of queer vampires, someone should adapt The Gilda Stories

[crithir]

I am so tired of seeing the “well do we really want Bad Trans Rep now” line of reasoning with regard to Gabrielle and her relationship with Lestat and her gender identity/expression, and I cannot stress hard enough that this was not some inevitable dilemma that the production found itself stuck in because Gabrielle never groomed or sexually abused Lestat in the books. If she did in the show, that is a narrative they decided to create and run with. It simply does not exist in the source material. And so all of the hand wringing about oh well we don’t want to see a gnc/nonbinary/genderqueer/trans person being a groomer and sexual abuser on our tv screens now do we? rings hollow, because this was never some inevitable dilemma that the production is just trying to find a careful and sympathetic way out of. If it’s a dilemma at all, it’s one that they created for themselves, not one that the source material presented them with.

[ratbebes]

niam i love vampires

[crithir]

In light of this interview with Assad Zaman about the vampire Armand

Nerdist Character Profile: Assad Zaman on Armand From THE VAMPIRE LESTAT

In this Nerdist Character Profile, The Vampire Lestat's Assad Zaman dove deep into the complex character of Armand.

and this one where he shared 2 songs from his Armand playlist (thank you Assad)

Assad Zaman Shares Songs From His Armand Playlist Ahead of THE VAMPIRE LESTAT

In an interview with Nerdist, Assad Zaman shared two songs from his incredible secretive Armand playlists. His selections are incredible.

Allow me to share the first 2 songs from MY Armand playlist that came to mind when I read Assad’s comments about Armand’s relationships to survival and power

Muse - Survival (from The 2nd Law album)

and Staying Power by Allie x

Don’t forget to click and share the article links if you want to see more of that in the future!

Better yet, in honor of Assad sharing with us, I challenge you to post the article links and 2 songs from your own Armand playlists, or 2 songs that you associate with Armand.

READY SET GO!

[inkivaarinensart]

"Curses of vanished elders echoed down on me: too pretty, too soft, too pale, eyes far too full of the Devil, ah, the devilish smile." -The Vampire Armand

(closeup pics under cut, do check them out!)

Started reading "The Vampire Armand" (I'm half-way through atm) and ougghhhh... Armand... Amadeo... I'm going to get a hammer and fix the baby bash some skulls in.

(Edit: fixed the colours a little, was a bit too orange)

[princesssokphanny]

A once-in-a-lifetime shot — the moon perfectly framed by a rainbow. Caught at just the right time. 🌈 🌕

[29hyperfixations]

Happy pride gang !!!!!!!

[fascinationstreetmp3]

Unconscious death… the fate of all mortals. Hmmm... but we are conscious death! That would make you a bride. Do you know what it means to be loved by Death? Do you know what it means to have Death know your name? — Interview with the Vampire

[mikufanclub]

remember when teachers would tell you to fold paper hamburger or hotdog style. kind of sounds like some fake shit but just another example of burger centric american thinking

[mikufanclub]

non americans in the tags doubting if this is true. you think burger is a fucking joke to us??

[crithir]

broke: jgy fixit where jgy marries into the lan, hands over xy to nmj, doesn’t seek approval from his father, leaves the jianghu, etc etc

bespoke: jgy fixit where jl tells jc that mxy!wwx Bad Touched him and jc immediately kills wwx and nhs plans fall apart

[lioncourtz]

gremlin 🖤

[fabourious]

I’ve gotten around to reading The Vampire Armand so here are my thoughts about the child in the attic. (I’m currently only on chapter 2)

The child in the attic reveals a much deeper part about Armand I believe. The first sentence of the book reveals he came to seek comfort in the presence of the ghost of the girl who was murdered in the attic. David Talbot then comes and informs him that the child was not murdered here and Armand would not find her ghost. Armand then sort of realizes his foolishness, almost as if he’d known her ghost wasn’t here but still sought the validation. The possibility of comfort in someone who experienced the failure and effect of their environment, the nuns would’ve been the ones to kill the little girl (which then Armand again thinks himself silly for thinking in the first place, due to the caring nature of nuns.) This reveals Armand’s attempt to grapple with the concept of: even someone who appears nice and has that reputation, someone you’re meant to love and perhaps do, being capable of harming you so terribly. Which is perhaps something he tried to believe, and maybe he would’ve in the comfort of that child, the validation. But he didn’t. Because the child wasn’t there, the comfort wasn’t there. The comfort is never there.

He also says “no ghost to comfort me. Why should a ghost come from some savory rest for my sake?” Which also gives us a view into his own self worth. Maybe he thinks his own seeking of an explanation for his contradicting feelings about Marius as silly. That he shouldn’t feel this way.

But then again! That’s just a theory!