Ginger375

The place where I indulge my hyperfixations.

[pattonoswaltshieldagent]

If I had a nickel for every all powerful, God like malevolent being that was born in ancient Egypt and was the first of their kind that got reintroduced to modern audiences on surprisingly good TV shows this year then I would have two nickels. Which isn't a lot but its still weird that it happened twice.

[ginger375]

Kay, watching X-Men 97 this week made me squeal and giggle and scream.

Firstly the squeal: I love Polaris so damn much. Having the little auroras floating around her to visualize her powers was a nice touch.

The giggle: the entire time Danger was on screen, all I could think about was the All-New X-Factor run where she asks everyone on the team if they can bang.

The scream: EVIL GAMBIT OMG

I really hope the Deathbit design is more than just an inverted colour palette.

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[dalekofchaos]

[folkbard]

Okay this is going to be looong but bare with me. I’ve seen a few comments trying to pit Lestat vs Armand in their ability to cope with their traumas and making it like Lestat is better for it. AND I NEED TO RANT…Allow me to paraphrase a comment that I saw.

✨“Lestat has had traumas and he hasn’t mindfucked people around him the way Armand does”✨

Okay first off… WTF ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT?

Did you watch Season 1? Have you forgotten that Lestat dropped Louis from the sky?? How he killed that opera singer???How he killed that priest??? Do you think those are actions of someone who hasn’t taken out his traumas on others and mindfucked them too???

Do you have object impermanence? You know…what babies have?

I’m sorry if I’m coming across as mean, but I’m just seriously concerned about people’s inability to remember things as soon as they are presented with a shiny new toy, and as someone who has had EMDR sessions, people dismissing or ranking traumas just hits a sore spot for me.

Secondly, we haven’t actually *seen* Armand’s traumas and backstory, we’ve only heard a fraction. And it’s horrifying already. You have no real point of reference to try and make this into “Lestat was just born better” thing. What we know is the following… he was sold by his parents at the age of 12 to a Ship’s Captain, that Captain then sold him to a brothel where he experienced such severe abuse he can’t really remember his true name, he was then sold again at age 15 to Marius a vampire who groomed him, then turned him to a vampire when he was dying from a mystery illness, then was kidnapped by a cult (i have my suspicions that there’s more to this story. He was sold again by Marius is my theory) they “killed” his maker but who’s actually alive, but he doesn’t know this and oh yeah, who referred to him as a rotten boy to Lestat. I’m sure his maker was wonderful/s to him.

Thirdly, there’s something that Lestat has that Armand hasn’t had so far (until very recently) ✨Lestat found Louis✨

Despite how it ended, clearly the time he had with Louis has been crucial for Lestat’s continued development.

Meanwhile, Armand spent centuries underground without a Louis. Ruminating in darkness for years and years until Lestat came along. No wonder he became obsessed with Lestat. He probably thought he had found love at long last. But nope.

Lastly, are you aware that psychotherapy wasn’t a thing back in the Renaissance period? They either thought you had imbalances in your bodily fluids or you were possessed by a demon.

People who are looking at this show through a modern lens are missing out a crucial point in the show, which is these vampires are stuck in their time period and their old state of mind! Yes, physically they change clothes and learn new ways to adapt but mentally they’re stuck. It’s a curse not a blessing despite them calling it ‘the gift’

#“But it’s no excuse. He chopped-”

<It actually irks me whenever people *immediately* jump to the old ‘it’s no excuse’ shtick whenever you try to have a nuanced discussion about people with mental illnesses and tragic backstories who can’t function properly in society…‼️Because it’s never helpful! Because it usually comes from a place of judgement not of compassion and understanding, which is what actually helps people‼️>

Anyway, let’s play the game…

# Ehem…Louis has chopped a few heads as well, funny that no one really mentions that. The only reason why you bring up Armand and not Louis is because you care about Louis, and you care about him because you’ve been seeing things through HIS eyes and not Armand’s. Be honest you would be pro-Armand if the story had been about him. There I’ve said it.

#“He killed Claudia”

#Claudia was just another vampire to Armand, an abomination that should have never been created because she was just a child, in his twisted way he thought it was a mercy.

Again you only care about Claudia because you’ve been seeing her through Louis’ eyes.

It’s about perspective.

The takeaway of the story is not who is better or worse, it’s about how memory is the monster, because memories are shaped by a single perspective. YOUR perspective, THEIR perspective. And your perspective is always shaped and clouded by your pain and trauma. You will never know the complete truth. In real life and in the show too.

[unheardoracle]

Your dialogue is stiff because everyone is being too honest

Great dialogue can come from radical emotional honesty. But in most real conversations, people

dodge questions

answer indirectly

lie (badly)

change the subject

crack jokes to avoid serious answers

lie (convincingly)

say half of what they mean

tell the truth but get so anxious/angry/defensive others now think they're lying

If your dialogue feels unnatural, it might be because everyone is saying exactly what they think, or articulating their thoughts too well. Try letting characters hide things instead.

Subtext is where tension lives.

[lestatdelioncuort]

A second thought save them all from my provoked rage...Where is Louis?

[rocktheholygrail]

The Vampire Lestat (2026)

[charmingpickles]

PURPLE!! 💜

Episode 7 The Failures photoset 3

[phantomqueen]

my storytelling final! or, that week i almost went blind cross-hatching!

it’s a couple weeks old at this point, but i’m still proud of it (all that cross-hatching…) even though looking back at it now i can see a ton of flaws or things i just could’ve done better. maybe i’ll redo it one day.

the page colors are kind of wonky because they’re photographs; i didn’t have a scanner big enough for the pages.

hell yeah monster/human friendships

[immabethehero]

Awwww, cute comic!!!

[mckitterick]

[rip-quizilla]

[artistformerlyknownasbutttrumpet]

i was training a young person at work, and she referred to sexual assault as "SA" out loud, and i immediately was like, "no, it's sexual assault, call it what it is," bc idgaf if the algorithm overlords have taught y'all that you should fear direct language, how tf do any of you expect to ever address real issues with any amount of seriousness if you can't even say the words? imagine an advocate looking a sexual assault survivor in the eyes and asking "did he grape you?" it's absolutely fucking absurd, but these young interns and new hires are coming into an environment where we deal with survivors of all different kinds of abuse, and they're coming with the mindset that the words are as bad as the actions, and that makes them shitty at the job and look juvenile af

i HATE self-censorship for a lot of reasons, but being in crisis work makes it even more frustrating. who are you censoring for? like i am being so fr, WHO are you censoring for? have you even thought it through? people who have been raped know that they have been raped. if someone attempts suicide or is grieving someone who did, saying "sewer slide" isn't going to protect them from any of the feelings. a murder victim's family isn't going to feel better bc you said "unalived" instead of murdered. if anything, it's just extremely invalidating and othering. it's saying "what happened to you is so bad that i won't even say the word," which is NOT trauma-informed care. you are not protecting survivors/victims when you self-censor. the ONLY things you protect when you self-censor are the puritanical ideologies that are being encouraged by rich fascists who want your money and obedience

say the fucking words, guys. just say the goddamn words before i go insane!!!

[franniesbridgerton]

This is a century-long lie. You hung her portrait over our coffins in New Orleans. It's sick. You're sick.

We're unnatural beings! And this-- this is the half-human soul that you conveniently whip out whenever you want to win an argument!

What argument you got for fucking your mother? It's sickness. Maybe the source of all your sickness. But my god! Seek a professional!

episode 6 of THE VAMPIRE LESTAT

[reticent-vampire]

couldn't be more over him

[sixbigideas]

like. that was claudia. the real claudia. for the first time. and she was awful. and that’s Correct. the claudia we knew this whole time — that was claudia as told by louis. recalled as softer and smaller, in the same way lestat was recalled as larger and more aggressive.

once, maybe, she loved louis, when she was truly still a child. and of course he had to believe she always did, at least a little. but through the years following? by the time she died, a grown woman still reduced to his daughter? what love would she have left for him?

she was a vampire. and good at it. she was always lestat’s daughter. she is every bit the evil of his evil.

that scene wasn’t character assassination. louis’s retelling for the first two seasons was character assassination.

[lioncourtz]

silly husbands, never change