the crowning evil

we can even go so far as to love each other, you and I.

[comicaurora]

What are your thoughts on the Goncharov meme, if I might ask?

tumblr has gotten so good at constructing fandoms completely divorced from any source material that they've finally cut out the middleman and just started making shit up

[m-oshun-deactivated20251105]

I gave up on Ewan Mitchell’s chameleon face before realizing I must spread the modern bob Aemond agenda

[wherestoriescomefrom]

why did you people come up with russian names for what is supposed to be a movie set in italy. what was the thought process here. why does she sound like she walked out of a tolstoy novel

[wherestoriescomefrom]

an insane response, but i can't fight this. carry on

[slashmarks]

Incidentally, this is a great example of why it is absolutely vital to defend human rights in all cases; the instant people work out which categories are publicly viewed as indefensible, they start figuring out how to fold other types of undesirables into those category.

Eg. Pornography criminalized? Great, information about birth control, sexual education, and writing by feminists and LGBTQ people are all pornography now.

Terrorism? Literally all activists are terrorists if you put a good enough spin on it! Easy.

And, of course, “sex offenders” includes teenagers who take nude selfies, sex workers of basically all kinds, LGB people in jurisdictions that criminalize gay sex, often trans people in ones that criminalize crossdressing…

[theaudientvoid]

“The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one’s time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at all.”

[discodeerdiary]

I am unironically a scoundrels’ rights activist

[theseulgis]

SEULGI, ‘The ReVe Festival 2022 - Birthday’ - ReVe POWER  

[leztat-deactivated20230701]

Let me ask you, Daniel. Do you contemplate the life of the rabbit before you cut it? Or do you simply cut?

[leztat-deactivated20230701]

INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE S01E02. “…After the Phantoms of your Former Self”

[onlymywishfulthinking]

"I was his, and he was mine." [x]

[dichenlachmandaily]

Dichen Lachman in a conversation about race, discourse, diversity & representation with regards to her new show Altered Carbon. (more) (video)

[post-futurism]

she fucking killed, uh, what’s his name, ryan gosling

[midshipmank]

“Dorian” is such a lovely name, but every time I look for its origins, the internet tells me that it wasn’t a thing before Oscar Wilde, and, knowing Oscar Wilde, that probably means he did actually name the protagonist of his only novel after a historical Greek style of architecture.

[housmania]

Actually, we do know the origin of Dorian’s name!

Before Oscar Wilde, the last modern work where the word “Dorian” was prominent was J. Addington Symonds’s “A Problem in Greek Ethics” (1883), where he talks about all the different tribes of Greece–especially the Dorians–and how they were all fond of comradely love ™ and alla that. It’s basically the first article to go, “Actually…the gays are cool? We stan?” and all the gay kids went completely crazy over it for, like, the rest of the century.

So yes, Oscar Wilde absolutely sat down and read this article talking about the “heroic ideal” of “Dorian love” and then went and wrote his book 8 years later like, hell yeah, this is FOR THE GAYS, and I’m going to give my protagonist the GAYEST NAME POSSIBLE.

[helloitsbees]

wait so he was named after a group of people from a specific area of Greece who were known for being gay? that’s…that’s like if someone wrote a book about a gay woman and her name was literally Lesbian

[nicksuckseggs]

Found a pdf of Symdonds’s essay

[bicreature]

No but the way the fandom is always talking about Louis performing masculinity but rarely about the way Lestat (who is literally a performer!) is kind of performing feminity? And it’s working! Like many fans talk about him like he’s this submissive female-coded step mother but it’s just an act! If you ignore his superficial campy cunty aesthetics and gestures that cause people to read him like that and look at the way he actually acts it’s actually consistently extremely domineering and aggressive and hypermasculine! One of the reasons why he feels so comfortable acting outwardly feminine is that he is really a masculine person and is so confident in it he doesn’t see a reason perform superficial masculinity. Like we can sit here all day comparing Lestat to all the terrible mothers in fiction and it’s fun but when you look at the way he actually ACTS and IS that’s a Father. Like that’s a Man. In the worst possible way

[dictee]

You People need to stop tagging gifsets of lestat saying “come to coffin” with female hysteria or mother behavior or whatever .?? He’s ordering louis and claudia to clean up after him? and then demanding their presence in the room where he makes them all sleep so they can’t run away or have privacy ???? First of all the racial dynamic. second of all the racial dynamic. third if we’re gendering his behavior and placing it in the nuclear family configuration it’s never going to be female or mother or wife lol. I understand that he swans around like a diva but his personal affect is different than the role he assumes . which is explicitly stated . like fifty times . jailer maker father .

[got7]

top kpop title tracks of 2022: TAEYEON - INVU

[cypresssunns]

its pretty convenient how so many people's perspectives on louis haven't so much expanded to include his failure to protect claudia and himself from re-traumatization and violence as those opinions have seemingly grown into excising him of his status as lestat's victim.

[reloha]

@cypresssynn: #swear to fuck if louis were still a white man yall would understand this#becoming part of an complicit in systems that have ground you down to nothing#does not magically void the violence that begot those circumstances in the first place#cypress vs iwtv

[cypresssunns]

its pretty convenient how so many people's perspectives on louis haven't so much expanded to include his failure to protect claudia and himself from re-traumatization and violence as those opinions have seemingly grown into excising him of his status as lestat's victim.

[bugmeyer]

Hellraiser Explorations

Last year I did a few rounds of concept art for Hellraiser(2022) with David Bruckner. If I had to pick an IP to take a swing at, this would have been in the top 3. Big thanks to David for bringing me on to this project and letting me play with his toys.

These pieces represent some of the first work I turned in. Check out my other posts to see how the project evolved. Lots of ideas here were left on the cutting room floor, but I was pleased to see the split arm gag (last image) made it into the movie! How cool is that.

[thatonequeeraunt]

Diversity win! The two men that are planning on killing you after this party are publicly making out