- Timothy Snyder. The first and perhaps most important lesson from On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons for the Twentieth Century (2017)
Snyder's new book, On Freedom, was published in 2024.

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- Timothy Snyder. The first and perhaps most important lesson from On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons for the Twentieth Century (2017)
Snyder's new book, On Freedom, was published in 2024.
Sam Reid as LESTAT DE LIONCOURT
THE VAMPIRE LESTAT | 3.02 "TOLEDO"
I love how some fics are called shit like "They Only Shoot The Birds Who Cannot Sing" and it's like the most insane porn you're ever read and then some fics are called Spit On Me and it's 18,000 words of the most achingly id-scratching prose you've ever read and they're both. They're both so fucking good. thank God for fanfiction.
New fan artwork: „The Vampire Lestat“ (played by Sam Reid). Season 3 of „Interview with the Vampire“ will be released starting tomorrow and I cannot watch it right away, but I found some nice photos on the IMDB page of the series, like the one which this drawing is based on.
I used a pencil and coloured black pencils.
By the way, my hyperfixation about the series is alive and well, so I might draw or paint some more fan artworks about it.
Dangers of working on a set.
That’s what I said.
Okay but you forgot the best part! During the scene where Aragorn, Gandalf and the other Main CharaktersTM ride ahead to go shout at the gate (and talk to the mouth of sauron in the extended edition) they were very firmly told only to ride up ahead “this far” because that area was cleared and beyond that it wasn’t.
But. Viggo Mortensen is absolutely mad and lead them just…. a bit farther than that. Everyone else was very scared they might blow up any second. Viggo said it “added a little extra tension”.
#they just don’t make behind the scenes stories like lotr anymore
Viggo was just Like That™ for the whole trilogy, taking method acting to extreme levels:
he would spend multiple days walking overland to locations in full pack, sword, & armour when everyone else was travelling in trucks
refused to use any prop swords that weren’t actual steel
basically lived in the forest in-costume, sleeping rough under the sky, even fishing & foraging for his food when possible
often spent hours in the barn just bonding with the horses. He adopted the horse he rode, Uranus, after filming ended
repaired all his own gear by hand, which was often since he never took it off
had a tooth knocked out during filming but had the crew simply glue it back in place so they could keep filming
the instructor who taught everyone swordplay said Viggo was the best swordsman he had ever trained
carried his sword literally everywhere & practiced non-stop, resulting in the cops being called when locals reported “a wild man swinging a sword around his head" outside a gym in Wellington
an orc actor fucked up & accidentally threw a dagger directly into Viggo’s face, but Viggo just deflected it with his sword. They kept that shot
infamously broke 3 toes kicking that helmet but stayed in-character & sold his very real scream as part of the scene. They also kept that shot
Viggo insists on doing his own stunts; in The Two Towers where Aragorn is unconscious & floating down the river, the strong current pulled him underwater for so long that a rescue team had to go in to save him. Viggo survived by grabbing a boulder on the riverbed and pulling himself to the surface
It’s probably more accurate to say that Aragorn played Viggo Mortensen in the off season, so I’m 100% unsurprised to hear he put a whole crowd of fellow actors in genuine mortal peril for a 12% increase in authenticity
wow I hate his guts now
I'm in the mood to be That Bitch.
1. He did camp out in his gear. They were deep into filming and he was playing a frantic game of Catch Up. This will be important later. Also, almost the entire cast and crew camped out to get the sunrise shot during the race to find Merry and Pippin. It wasn't that weird.
2. You got me here. All I know was he was trained with a full sword -QUICKLEY- and wanted to match the stunt guys.
3. Again, he did something like 2 nights camping to get a feel for the costume. Ripped out stitches and redid them himself so it could be seen. The fishing was the night they ALL were camping.
4. They wanted to do the stunt on the river bed, that meant becoming a co-worker with an unfamiliar horse. It takes a minute. And yes, they got along famously. He also bought Arwen's stunt double her horse in the film because she couldn't afford him.
5. If it was small enough, yes. But this goes back to him doing it deliberately for the look. Which had the approval of the costume department.
6. It was a joke. It was not glued back on by crew. He went to a dentist and was back shooting in the afternoon.
7. Bob Anderson (i might be wrong on his name, to lazy to check) choreographed e v e r y b o d y who held a sword in a movie for many decades. It's a he'll of a compliment, especially when you add no previous experience and an extreme time crunch.
8. E X T R E M E T I M E C R U N C H. There was a local diner or pub that he went to just about every day that had a spot for him to keep the sword so nobody tripped. The cops were called in the first few days because he had to make up for the first 3 months of practice he Did Not Get.
9. Many of the stunt coordinators were quite impressed with him. That was a planned shot. When the stunty tried to show Viggo how to do it, he couldn't get it. They were going to scrap it and that's the accident. The guy did it the old way and Viggo just knocked out of the air. OF COURSE they kept the shot.
10. Again, if your actors do something great, it goes in the movie. Why is this a question. For a bunch of those running shots, Viggo had his toes, Gimli stunt double (Brent?) had bad knees and Orlando had a cracked rib from a horse stunt they kept in the movie.
11. Yeah, that scared the shit out of everybody.
They filmed this for over a year. Several second directors, can't remember the actual title, multiple locations at the same time. Everybody on Helm's Deep went a little off, that's where to headbutting came in. Astin was hurt. Bean does not fly in helicopters so he got dressed and ready and climbed the damn mountain every day to film in the snow. It took him over 2 hours and he did most of it in the twilight because he had to start so early.
And every damn person in that movie gave it everything, actors to crew. Why do you think it still looks like a billion dollars 25 years later??
Anthony Head, the British actor known for his roles in 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer' and 'Ted Lasso,' has died. He was 72.
this is gorgeous.
I'm crying all over again.
What a time to be alive. 🥹❤️🔥
the vampire lestat at the beacon theatre ✕ 02.06.26
She is everything to me The unrequited dream
The Vampire Lestat: One Night Only LIVE | Full Performance & Concert
Full fancam
THE VAMPIRE LESTAT Live at the Beacon Theater (06.02.2026)
my favorite song from last night. apologies in advance for any adlibs and screaming, you know the vibes
If I had a nickel for every piece of screen that had a great first one, then fucked with the second like it didn't matter because the third was going to fix everything but then didn't have/ruined the third because Reasons/the second sucked so bad it killed off the maker's interest/ability to put out a third so we're left with this amputated thing that was at one time a really beautiful piece of work I'd have three nickels which is just too many nickels and feels like a worrying trend.
The Eight Mountains (2022) | dir. Felix van Groeningen, Charlotte Vandermeersch
Sebastian Stan by Chuck Reyes for Esquire Malaysia (2026)
Good Omens
coloured pencil drawings
Reposting a couple of old pieces from the archive