withering away

oil painter 👩🏽‍🎨 you think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world but then you read - james baldwin

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ANGELA BASSETT as Rita Vampire in Brooklyn (1995) dir. Wes Craven

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On Armand being Muslim

In Islam there is belief of a supernatural and unseen world that is referred to as The Ghaib. I don’t think it’s beyond Armand to take time exploring about a place within the the Muslim world where he could exist as a supernatural being; especially if he was born into a Muslim family this is something he may have already known. If Jinns can be muslims and live for over 1000 years, then this can be a plausible and a resourceful reality for Armand.

In islam, there is a transference of our soul between each of the 6 realms. One of these occurs once a dead body is buried and the last person leaves his grave, the soul transfers into the Barzakh. According to this, Armand would still have a soul. His transference was to The Ghaib instead, maybe his soul is hidden there, which poses an interesting question about vampire lore wrt their souls.

Having said that, we also know Armand de nothing doesn’t know himself. He asks, ‘am i my history i have endured?’, it echoed in my chest when i heart it because there is a yearning to know himself beyond his trauma. So every so often he reinvents himself. He adopts the identities of the places he lives in. In Paris he has a parisian accent, in Dubai, Molloy thinks he is Native. It’s possible he adopted a Muslim identity after he was turned. I don’t think any of these identities are ‘fake’ per se. He is trying to fit the armand shaped hole in his life.

The core tenet of being Muslim is repentance, so I think the whole Muslim guilt thing is also complicated and fun to contemplate. I won’t write on it, as I’ve seen other people already share on that.

It might be more interesting for the show to explore in an implicit way? I’m also just finding out that in the books: 1) there is a Muslim vamp already, 2) Armand is riddled with Catholic guilt so maybe they will explore Muslim guilt.

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[lexdelioncourt]

I CAN'T BELIEVE EVERY SINGLE ACTOR EXCEPT SAM REID HAS LEFT IWTV AND SEASON 3 IS JUST GOING TO BE HIM DOING A ONE MAN SHOW WHERE HE PLAYS ALL THE PARTS 😭😭😭

[degeneratedworker]

“Solidarity with the struggle of the people of Palestine”, 1970s, Cuba

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adia coulibaly by barry lategan for vogue italia march 1998

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[allhailthe70shousewife]

[rasolomonwrites]

Love that Louis asked no questions after seeing lestat stop time, read minds, and levitate while drinking his blood during sex but the first time he sees lestat find a woman attractive he's fucking flabbergasted like Louis can write all that other shit off as lestat just being French but he draws the line at suckin on tiddies he will be asking questions

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Chris Johnson, Women Making Clouds, 2000

[loumandaniel]

claudia's early diary reading like a fairytale. the vampires that rescued her and locked her away on rue royale. the magical disillusionment as she aged. madeleine and her snow white’s apple. true loves kiss breaks the spell

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Shirin Neshat, Women of Allah 

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sheyumboe

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In the 1976 adaptation of Carrie, Brian De Palma based Carrie’s posture and walk at the end of the film after Gustave Moreau’s 1851 painting The Study of Lady Macbeth.

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Buchan Caves, Gippsland, Australia. 14th April 1930.

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no one has painted me in over 400 years (unfinished)

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