[verywolf589]

WHY MUST SHE BE KEPT? AND WHY IN THIS PLACE SHE MUST BE KEPT? AND WHAT DOES IT MEAN IF YOU ARE NOT ASKED? AND WHAT DOES IT MEAN IF YOU ARE NOT ANSWERED? AND WHAT IS IT TO SEE AND TO KNOW, BUT TO BE TOLD YOU HAVE NOT SEEN. YOU HAVE NOT KNOWN. AND WHY IS HER TONGUE CUT OUT? AND WHY IS HER DEATH PROLONGED AND WHEN WILL IT STOP AND WHO WILL STOP IT? AND WHY MUST THEY, MUST WE, MUST I, MUST HE, MUST THEY, AS THE MILLENNIA, UNFOLD? WHY THE GIRL CURLED? WHY HER EYES LOWERED? WHY ON THE SIDE OF THE ROAD? WHY LIMP IN THE STRAW? I AM THE GIRL! I AM THE GOD! I AM THE VOICE! I AM THE SONG! I AM THE NIGHT AND I CAN ANSWER! I CAN ARRANGE IT! I CAN SAY RISE, AND I CAN SPEAK! AND I AM HER! AND I AM SHE! AND I, I, I, I AM THE ANSWER! 

[maelancoli]

the writers did so fucking well at portraying and deconstructing the over abundant amount that lestat in the text romanticizes his abusers. he calls it the "seduction of magnus" multiple times throughout the vampire chronicles instead of admitting he was preyed upon. when you read the books you have to look between the lines of his flowery prose and avoidance but the show took a corny over the top music video style approach and then slammed it next to a full blown ptsd flashback to make sure the audience did not have a chance to misinterpret or mock anything and i respect them for that

[chaoticdelinqueerwithglitter]

Op, the tags deserve to be here too!

[nortism]

I actually love the Louis and Regina subplot because it really is a continuation of the way Louis has always treated women, as a source of emotional labour that he can throw money at and have them make him feel better. It’s Miss Lily all over again, it’s “paying a whore to sit in a room and talk with him”. Making Claudia was always about Louis’ feelings under the pretence of saving her from the fire. He wants to save Regina from poverty but it’s all to make himself feel better. She sees through him but she’s so broke that she can’t afford to say no

[trueloveandotherscificoncepts]

Also really interesting to me that Louis only proposes this after he finds out she does sex work. Like, I don't know if it's necessarily a conscious connection he's making, but he definitely feels like this is someone whose time can be bought. Just like Miss Lily's time could be bought...

[rocktheholygrail]

The Vampire Lestat (2026)

[optimisticrunawaygalaxy]

I Love germans "Da ist hopfen und malz verloren" like man we cant even make beer out of that guy

[3liza]

do you live in seattle (the american city)?

yes

no

Remaining time: 3 days 6 hours

please reblog to get this poll out of my bubble, i want reach

[3liza]

so ive been meaning to do this poll for a while because my hypothesis is that seattle is the most Tumblr city, likely in the entire world. tumblr has a huge american majority userbase obviously, but just for comparison going forward, only 0.22% of the american population lives in seattle. as of this reblog, this poll is showing 4% of respondents are seattleites. given, this isnt scientific at all, because my blog just has a lot of seattle connections and seattle followers, but it's still an impressive bias

[today-tastes-like-honey]

Friedrich Merz, looking at Germany's declining birthrate: "Unacceptable. We must cut parental leave down to 33% and prohibit people from switching to part-time work. That'll teach those lazy good for nothing no-child-having young people. That'll fix this economy."

[thestrawberryfool]

It's easy to stay motivated to get outside and go places when Guillermo del Toro is walking behind you, pushing you forward with his psychic powers.

[superdaisypowerhour]

"if i had a time machine i would go back in time and kill hitler"

I would put sea mines around medieval britain. i would give hannibal barca ww2 era heavy artillery and tell him not to stop till he starts seeing gauls. i would give boudica a fucking abrams. i would appear before jesus like an angel and tell him "you gotta stop. not cause theyll kill you, youre fine with that, surprisingly, but because your fanclub is gonna spend about 1500 years making everything worse for everyone, everywhere." I would take a glock back in time and shoot romulus, shoot remus, and shoot that damn dog too just to be safe. i would be on the side of christopher columbus' ship in a scuba suit planting c4 on that bitch like rainbow six siege. i would be waging a one woman campaign of terror across andalusia to prevent the reconquista. i would be getting way out in front of that shit is what im saying,

[ladypaperwriterson]

"You simply cannot trust Louis, he's a completely unreliable narrator and every single thing he ever said should be put to question! It's so good that we finally have Lestat's version, which is obviously the only true one - so good to finally have a reliable narrator!"

The reliable narrator:

[kitduckworth]

We cannot live in a world that is not our own, in a world that is interpreted for us by others. An interpreted world is not a home. Part of the terror is to take back our own listening, to use our own voice, to see our own light.

St. Hildegard von Bingen (1098 - 1179)

[eldritchbauble]

You're just a mammal. Let yourself act like it. Your brain needs enrichment. Your body needs rest. You feel hunger and grow hair. You need to pack bond with other sentient things so you don't become unsocialized and neurotic. You are biologically inclined to seek dopamine and become sick when chronically stressed. Outrage about hedonism is made up to place moral value on taking pleasure in sensory experiences. I am telling you that if you don't let yourself be a fucking mammal, as you were made, you will suffer and go insane. No grindset no diets no trying to be above your drive for connection. Pursue what makes you feel good and practice radical rejection of the constructs meant to turn you into a machine. You're a mammal.

[swanprincex]

i hope you dont mind, i was posessed by these words until i drew this little zine and i just thought id put it here

[whimsical-catacombs]

literally every problem i've had in my adult life has been solved by open and honest communication. which is fucking stupid, first of all

[whimsical-catacombs]

like i can't even just a little bit solve my problems with wanton violence? for real??

[whimsical-catacombs]

i'm like a caricature in a children's show. "and then Whimsy took a deep breath, made a few polite phonecalls, and everything resolved itself 🥰" fucking hell man when do i get to punch someone hard as fuck in the jaw

[sassy-cass-16]

one thing that I think is fucking hilarious about the iwtv/tvl perspective shift is the way Lestat repeats himself but the context reframes him in the most pathetic way possible

like when he’s yelling “VA TE FAIRE FOUTRE” at Louis while he’s slamming the incinerator door shut in season 1, and then in the divorce court scene in tvl he says the same thing but he sounds like a whiny gay housewife. queerest line read in the whole show, I’d call it a hate crime if it wasn’t so accurate

and then the contrast between him whispering/hissing/drawling “I have the blood of Akasha in me” in season 2 and then his weird blithe tension in the tour bus in tvl when he says the same thing. Like he’s a middle school edgelord saying he has an everything-proof shield on the playground. Wild shit

something something, Lestat doesn’t understand how he could be threatening to Louis because white men with privilege don’t see how their actions appear to marginalized groups, his perception of himself is coloured by both self-aggrandizement and self-loathing, Louis told the story as it appeared to him and Lestat is doing the exact same shit, something something this show is still about how storytelling depends on the storyteller, something something. yeah

[yourladyjane]

Favourite Chaotic Duos - Part 6/?

Phil Dunster as JAMIE TARTT & Brett Goldstein as ROY KENT in Ted Lasso, 3x02: “(I Don’t Want to Go to) Chelsea” (2023) || dir. MJ Delaney

[dykeferatu]

stuck in a creative rut when i wish i was creatively rutting!! or something. whatever. puts my hands in my pockets and walks away slumped

[chimaerakitten]

Black Sails really is like

Flint: [brutally raw and yet also poetic monologue about the nature of colonial “civilization”]

[HARD CUT]

[CAPTAIN VANE is wearing a HENLEY from old navy INSIDE OUT]