[jeanritchie]

paul mccartney after becoming the worlds first straight man to experience a lesbian breakup: i want a horse 🐴 i want a sheep 🐑

[choatic-bumblebee-agenda]

the generational gap between me and the people my age who were allowed to watch spongebob

[hypokeimena]

all those posts that are like "why am i researching currency debasement in the 1860s for a fanfiction no one is going to care" are full of shit, i just DNFd a fic for being obviously incorrect about the history of plumbing

[hypokeimena]

my people have found me.

[hypokeimena]

#i think the underpinning perception to me re: this kind of thing #is that it’s what convinces you on a gut level that the author doesnt know what theyre doing and is not thinking seriously about their story #whether this is true slash accurate or not varies #but supposedly ‘ little ‘ things can be strong & clear indicators that an author didnt think through their scene and just wanted a specific #aesthetic or moment that accidentally hurls the reader out of immersion in the story #forex - an example from some prev tags - horses being tacked up in the middle of the night #just in riding gear for no reason like theyre cars that can be parked in a garage and just be ready to drive #a ‘ little ‘ thing but it’s like. fully immersion breaking. like oh thats not a real horse. these characters arent interacting with real #horses. they are Means of Transportationing With Aesthetic. and from there it’s such a quick slide into oh these characters arent real arent #engaging arent compelling #bc theyve accidentally fallen thru a hole where the author forgot to put down story (via @silentwalrus1)

[jobeeart]

i want to be your maker. help you walk in the sun. gift you rothkos to hang in your house. what do you mean it's too big. ok i'll buy you a bigger house

a companion piece to this

[loving-the-world-since-00]

Where is his head?

[antigone-deactivated]

i think one major problem with TVL (among others) is the framing device being lestat's recordings instead of daniel's documentary. the use of the interview as a framing device in s1 and s2 allowed the story to delve into multiple POVs (daniel's, louis', armand's, and to some extent claudia's as well, via her diaries) as well as enabling the narrative to explicitly challenge the unreliable narration of the characters, which works beautifully for the themes of the story ("memory is a monster"). lestat's recordings in contrast lock us into lestat POV and lestat POV alone, and make it so that this POV goes completely narratively unquestioned. (and note the racist double standard here, of the white character's POV not being subjected to ANY narrative scrutiny while racialized POVs are. if this is the unreliable narrator show, then ALL narrators should be scrutinized). not only does this completely drop the ball on the show's theme of memory, it also makes every scene that does not have lestat in it just. extremely confusing. this is briefly addressed in ep2 but like?? are we nonetheless expected to ignore the framing device and take those scenes at mostly face value? alternately are we supposed to interpret all of them as lestat's fanfic of events he only knows about second-hand? HOW does lestat know about what happened when he wasnt there? if its all supposed to be second-hand info and/or we don't have any idea of how lestat knows any of this, presented from lestat's POV alone, how are we supposed to trust ANY of it? it could be argued that these questions will be answered in s4, but even if that's true, this nonetheless makes s3's framing both overly contrived and less coherent. the choice of lestat's recordings as a a framing device also makes the existence of daniel's documentary pointless, and robs daniel of any meaningful plot relevance or narrative purpose (armand could absolutely have Done All That without daniel's involvement, but honestly dont even get me started on armand and how they mishandled him this season). using daniel's documentary and associated interviews as the framing device as we'd initially anticipated would have allowed more complex, multi-POV storytelling in line with seasons 1 and 2, enabled a continued commentary on the theme of memory, circumvented the framing problem that arises in all scenes where lestat is absent, AND given daniel a proper narrative purpose. and i truly cannot come up with any reason why they'd make lestat's recordings the framing device instead - other than not wanting the white character's POV to be challenged by the narrative.

[tarmairons]

INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE (2022-) | S03E07

[kairennart]

Waiting (moving)

[dauascnlly]

Scully and her colorful jacket in Darkness Falls

[tepkunset]

I feel like simply calling JK Rowling a transphobe isn't strong enough anymore. Like. This is not your grandpa calling you by your deadname at a restaurant kind of transphobic. This is her wanting to eradicate all trans people (with an extra special hatred towards trans women specifically). This is her trying just that by personally funding transphobic hate groups with millions to push around laws in the UK. It is not hyperbolic to call her a dangerous, genocidal maniac.

It's not about cancelling a problematic writer. It's about literally trying to save lives by denying her as much money and power as possible.

[rosenkranz-does-things]

one of the greatest commissions I've ever gotten

[everyonehatesstrudel]

After rewatching chicken run i realise what a lot of people who want "enemies to lovers" are actually looking more for a "1930s screwball comedy couple" vibe

[dogpuppy]

[reticent-vampire]

You two hug it out for her too?

[crikeyoryland]

DAVID BYRNE // Life During Wartime

STOP MAKING SENSE (1984)

bonus:

[stephexmachina]

proposing a new genre of fiction called an anti-romance where u r presented w a couple at the start & the story is about their emotional journey towards a catastrophic break up

[princessrhcenyra]

COMMUNITY ⇢ 3x13 | DIGITAL EXPLORATION OF INTERIOR DESIGN