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Terfs and Minors DNI

[habitualfacepalmer]

I think Eric Bogosian is game to keep doing the show as long as it lasts (unless there's stuff we don't know about his personal life, which fair) but given his age, the show would be remiss not to have backup plans in mind for if EB ever does need to step back:

Daniel merely moves off-screen. This is very simple and effective and leaves a window for EB to cameo as able. The source material accommodates for this as well, unless they plan to do something else w Marius.

Daniel is body-swapped. This seems likely even, given Daniel always seemed like a stand-in for David Talbot. Musical chairs ensure where ultimately Lestat ends up in Gru's long lost twin brother while Daniel ends up in...Raglan, maybe a new actor altogether to bring some new blood into the show in case Justin Kirk has other projects that'd keep him from committing to a main cast role.

Daniel gets de-aged by Fareed's mad science to promote Luke to main cast. This may be controversial because Old Maniel is so beloved for various reasons, so many fans may prefer to see Daniel continue to be played by an older actor. But Luke's been with the show since S1, he has established chemistry with the cast, we know he can replicate EB's mannerisms as Molloy; logistically it makes a certain sense. In story? It'd have been earned, to say the least.

[knifelesbianjo]

[...] get me a frame of pretty green eyes again.

THE VAMPIRE LESTAT | "Toledo"

[barbie-verse]

I’m convinced that in my mind, to me, Shane nags Ilya about one thing and Ilya nags Shane about one thing, it’s the same thing, they’re both such huge hypocrites about it and that’s treats for Anya. No she can’t have more it’s bad for her Ilya!! Shane looks at Anya too long and decides that she should get a little tiny handful of treats. Ilya sees that Anya listened and stopped barking through the windows and she just is such a smart sweet baby she knows everything she listens to her papas so well she just HAS to get more treats. And Shane catches him and goes on about how she’s had too many she can’t have more.

Those are two grown men who do not need to be nagged on basic hygiene and household cleaning and such. They do need to be nagged to stop feeding their dogter too much, guys, it’s out of control, David got a call from their vet last week she might need to go on a doggy diet. Boys. Boys stop arguing it’s both your fault.

I am firmly of the belief that the only reason shane didn't order a million toys and a luxury dogbed for their montreal home was because ilya beat him to it. yes, he teased ilya for doing it, but he would have been just as bad.

[howmanyholesinswisscheese]

Biggest fuck-up ever is that people have to pay to become doctors

[howmanyholesinswisscheese]

Like unironically we should be subsidising at least 50% of their educations. What do you mean we have a shortage of doctors we should have surplus. What do you mean they’re being overworked they should be treated like royalty, they can fix human bodies

[howmanyholesinswisscheese]

I don’t care if some of them are only doing it for the money. I don’t care if all of them are only doing it for the money. Intentions don’t matter to the stitches in my nana’s leg or the ten billion other lifesaving treatments we all get at a detriment to their finances and mental wellbeing. Entire cities are kept alive by just a couple thousand of them what are we DOINGGGGG

[devils-autoclave]

The Twilight baseball scene, all the songs being about Louis, she was out there doing boots on the ground journalism!!! Asking all the important questions

Take notes Mr Molloy

[omens-of-what-is-to-cum]

Okay justice for Ilya Rozanov, a man who notably managed his entire families finances and his dementia-having fathers caretaking since he was literally a teenager, while also essentially raising himself to be an elite, generational athlete by himself.

like what is this ‘Ilya needs the threat of a sex ban to pick up his socks’ slander or this ‘Ilya has terrible financial literacy’ misinformation or this ‘Ilya only eats junk food and needs to be forced to eat his veggies’ tomfoolery

[artemisprowls]

#something very heteronormative is going on here…#<prev. and something very orientalist as well not to be the friend who is too woke.#there’s something to constantly writing the one non-western character as singularly in need of civilising in a way that like.#flies directly in the face of the character the canon has actually given us.#we’re all playing in our sandboxes &c. but the canon isn’t only a suggestion😭 not when the alternatives for it too often rely on bias

[cognitohazardous]

no one is stupid in quite the same way as a tumblr user

[hollowboobtheory]

"What if we find a way to keep fetuses alive outside the womb" that already exists, it's called the NICU and it took decades of advancements in medical science and technology. it takes an entire team equipped with state of the art technology to keep a fetus alive outside the womb. because it cannot perform basic life-supporting functions like breathing on its own. this isn't an anti-NICU post tbc. I'm actually considering the nicu as an option after going back to school because I really like fetuses and babies, I think they're neat. but the fact remains that it takes an entire team of doctors, nurses, respiratory therapists, and more to keep a micropreemie alive. and most abortions occur even before the point that it becomes possible at all. "viable" doesn't mean ready to be born. it means it is possible to keep it alive thanks to medical science developed by the same "abortionists" whose executions you're always calling for.

[hollowboobtheory]

also, it's not an "after birth abortion" when they "let" micropreemies die, it's fucking hospice care.

[borntomeowworldisafuck]

absolutely. and to add onto this, i was a nicu baby, and i was a late term abortion. when i was still in the womb i was dying inside my mother, so they had to induce her extremely prematurely to save our lives. there was a very high chance of me dying because they took me outside of the womb before they knew if i could survive on my own, but the chances of me and my mother dying if i stayed inside her were 100%.

the procedure to remove me is medically and legally a late term abortion. i was aborted, and it saved my life. if they hadn’t aborted me, my mother and i would both be dead, my siblings would have been left with a dead mother, and i would have never even gotten a chance to live a single day. and now, people are being denied this procedure and dying because it’s literally an abortion!! mothers and their babies are being killed because their doctors are not allowed to perform life-saving abortions.

on the same note, my sister was recently denied an abortion. which is to say, cleaning out the already dead fetus after she had a miscarriage from a wanted pregnancy. they refused treatment unless the DEAD fetus was actively killing her, because the procedure to remove it is medically and legally an abortion. they basically said to her “come back when you’re dying of an infection or sepsis or something, until then you just have to bleed out.” my sister could have died from this, people HAVE died from being denied abortions after having a miscarriage. if she was one of these people, my sister would have been dead, my mother would have to live the rest of her life without her daughter, and my nephew would have had to live the rest of his life without a mother.

sick and tired of people saying to me “yeah, but that’s different. you can’t really call those procedures an abortion, they’re not really an abortion.” yes it is. it’s an abortion. any procedure that entails unnaturally removing a fetus and/or baby from the womb before they’re sure it can survive outside of it is an abortion. if it wasn’t, people wouldn’t be being told that, sorry! we can’t do that! you’ll have to come back when you’re already dead. i was aborted, my mother had an abortion when she was pregnant with me, my sister needed an abortion after she had a miscarriage. all of these things are ABORTIONS! and now mothers and babies are being killed, murdered by these anti-abortionist fuckers and the laws they put in place to “save and protect poor, innocent lives!”

[bingeswithmum]

I'm all for the centaurs giving ilya some good natured teasing once Shane and him are married but why do so many fics act like ilya is this irresponsible chaos gremlin that the centaurs expect Shane to handle?

Most of the centaurs knew the Ottawa version of Ilya for three years before they were outed. He wasn't being unhinged, he had stopped partying or even socialising, spending most his time with his in laws. He whipped the worst team in the league into shape. He was a great friend and he loves charity and kids and dogs and his team. Why are we acting like he was something they endured until Shane got there?

[spaceshipsandpurpledrank]

[spaceshipsandpurpledrank]

@drukhari

[0n1ythisandnothingmore]

Love Daniel realizing Louis glazed the SHIT out of Lestat and he’s actually kind of a loser.

[joeyclaire]

my mom’s trans allyship is on another level

[joeyclaire]

she once called my friend’s deadname “that stupid thing his mom calls him”

[asideoftrashplease]

I was once talking to my 75 year old Chinese dad in passing about a trans friend of mine not getting along with her family and he asked why and I said err, because she's trans, dad.

He asked: "Oh, was she the only son or something before *waves hand*?" and I was like, warily, no she has two brothers. And he responded with a great deal of confusion: "Then what's their problem?!?!"

Later on: "Anyway, even if she WAS the only son, that's not her problem, that's THEIR problem. They should have had more sons if they were going to be bothered about it."

[jackdaw-kraai]

Knowing what I know about chinese culture there’s something so beautifully simple about his logic of “no son to carry on family name/look after them in old age/all the other stuff? Skill issue! Should’ve had more sons! Should’ve kept the family unit strong yourself! Blaming your daughter for your own failure of family planning is W E A K!” and then he learns there are more sons and it completely breaks his train of logic because if yes to more sons then why issue?? You have two others and you’re mad you don’t have three?? Whack. Greedy.

I can already envision him as an ancient lord of a powerful house looking down his nose at the latest messenger bringing gossip from the house of his offspring’s friend and going “now they have a daughter to marry into another family for powerful alliances and two sons to take over her former duties and somehow they’re still complaining about their good fortune? They shall not survive the winter.” and then sipping his tea with all the grim satisfaction of someone about to watch an unnecessary soap opera of drama unfold from a safe distance or something

[asideoftrashplease]

That's a funny image for sure, though I think if there's a typology of Chinese philosophical mentality, there would likely be a spectrum from "Confucian patriarchal lord" to "Buddhist monk / Taoist hermit" and my dad renounced at 18, was a monk for a time, before coming back to work for his family since they were poor 🤷 it was what 3 years after we gained independence from the British so the economy was probs a mess.

When he found and married my mom, he was nearly 45 and they had so much trouble conceiving that he went to a Guanyin temple supposedly "magical" for praying for children. When I was born (not a son, also an only child until now), my mom said, "when you prayed at the temple did you ask for a son?" He said, "Aiya, everyone is asking for sons, so I said any gender is okay. If I asked for a son, maybe we wouldn't have gotten a child because Guanyin's son quota is already used up. Do you want that to happen?" My mom laughed for days about "son quota" and continues to tell people about it today, but her honest answer was: "Any child is okay."

Jokes on them. They didn't specify a gender, so Guanyin Ma gave them a non-binary child!

More seriously: my dad doesn't care about sons. When I told my parents that I wouldn't marry or have children, I thought he might be disappointed, but he wasn't. Then again, maybe I should have expected that, given he tried to become a monk at 18 🤪 I think he said the thing about sons to poke fun at people who care too much about sons because he frankly thinks it's all a bit ridiculous. In his eyes, a child is a child, so what's the point in caring about gender? If the child "changes" gender, does it make a difference?

When I first spoke to my mom about trans issues, still closeted at the time, she said, "I don't understand why they feel the way they do, but they aren't hurting anyone so don't bother them. They are normal people just minding their own business." I said, "I agree, but on the topic of not understanding: Mom, do you think that when we reincarnate, we are always born into a body of the same gender?" In Buddhist stories, there was a lifetime in which Guanyin was reincarnated as a cow or ox, and in repayment for my birth, my dad does not eat beef till this day. Gender or species isn't constant in the cycle of rebirth. My mom said, "No, you're right. Whatever thing that carries on has no gender. I was probably male, human or animal, in one of my past lives." And she has supported trans rights even more ever since.

[slobonmynov]

Thinking about #myshane as a big “I can do that” guy. Physical skills just work for him. Maybe he’s supernaturally blessed, maybe it’s his superior mind-body connection, maybe it’s maybelline, don’t ask me, I just call it like I see it. Here’s a non exhaustive list of things Shane has watched someone do, said “I can do that” very quietly to himself, and then proceeded to do with little to no forethought or practice:

Backflip (much has been posited about Shane’s skills but this post got me thinking about the fact that Shane probably saw another kid do a backflip one time, thought “I can do that” and proceeded to do it perfectly the very first time)

Beerpong (it’s honestly not even fun to play against Shane. Even the fact that Ilya Rozanov is only average at best, and therefore hilarious to make fun of, is not enough to make up for the fact that Ilya’s husband, no matter how drunk he is, sinks every shot, every time. Doesn’t even ask for re-racks. You can cause all the interference you want it does not matter. It’s UNNATURAL.)

Dunking (originally discovered in Juniors during some downtime at an exhibition match in Michigan, rediscovered when the Centaurs stage a friendly pickup game at a park on a day off, and then after that they make him do it every time they’re in the vicinity of a hoop and a ball)

Any and every viral dance routine (TO BE CLEAR he has no natural rhythm when left to his own devices. Even DrunkShane is merely bopping his head and sort of swaying his hips out of time. But let him watch a few minutes of a choreographed dance? It’s 5, 6, 7, over for you bitches. Ilya takes advantage of this the most obviously, but Harris has been known to use dark powers of persuasion to get a backwards snapback + short shorts wearing Shane to perform a tik tok dance or two for the camera.)

Catching a frisbee with his teeth (ok technically he saw a dog do this. And technically he was a little tipsy, on the beach with the boys. And technically he did chip an incisor but it was a fake one to begin with so what’s the harm???)

[tinylilhollander]

I know that Heated Rivalry is one of those pieces of media where COVID never happens but what if it did? Imagine the lockdown shenanigans.

Shane and Ilya are obviously hunkering down at the cottage together. There's no hockey, but they don't know for how long, so they're still training all the time. They're doing interviews and having to make it look like they're in completely different places. Ilya has to keep being reminded that he's supposed to still be back in Ottawa.

Ilya's teammates keep asking if they can be in a lockdown bubble together and he's gotta be like "No, can't do that. I'm not taking any chances." But now they're worried because he hasn't seen or been around another human being in months and they've noticed that even before lockdown he made more jokes about killing himself than the average person, so they're stressed to their eyeballs about his mental health.

Meanwhile Ilya's living the kind of domestic fantasy with his man that he didn't think they were going to get until retirement. For the first time ever most days he can truly pretend that he and Shane are the only people in the world. Sometimes David and Yuna come over for dinner because they are also isolating at their cottage. But most of the time it's just endless hours of just the two of them and neither of them could be happier. Their biggest decision every day is when and where to fuck. Some people are getting into sourdough – Shane and Ilya have committed to learning one new sexual position every day.

I just think that lockdown would have been the ideal codependent situation for Hollanov.

[to--love--and--be--loved]

yes but ALSO when lockdown ends and they have to go back to living apart they (especially Ilya) have the biggest crash out you can imagine

[timberwind]

you can post on tumblr even when you're trying to take a break from social media it literally doesn't count. it's like pepsi max, or pescatarianism

[juicydangler]

[habitualfacepalmer]

Can I say something controversial?

I think Louis may have uh embellished the Don Pasquale thing, like I could buy that one of all the things Lestat is denied happening.

Not because I think Lestat is above lying about what he was doing during the 1800s. I think he probably did lie a lot to avoid talking about either his dirt nap or Akasha while also making himself out to be impressive and worldly to Louis and Claudia (ex. the chess tournament).

But I just finished rewatching S1 and S2 and it sticks out that Lestat spoke to the Tenor in Italian, and Louis by his own admission only knows English and French. Lestat could have been truthful or lying about seeing the opera premiere and being Pasquale's "acquaintance" earlier in the episode, but Louis shouldn't really have a clue what exactly Lestat said to the Tenor unless he asked Lestat for those gory details later. Which, well, doesn't feel like something Louis would want to relive with Lestat given his stated disgust with that kill.

The very next episode, Louis attributes "Wolverine Blues" to Lestat, which Daniel immediately clocks as weird, and which Lestat disputes in the modern day and we never hear him try to claim credit for in any flashback. That one bit at least is Louis either badly misremembering or, more likely, hyping up Lestat. Which is really about justifying Louis' infatuation with Lestat ("he had a way about him") and it appeals to Louis' own pride, which is no small thing in the narrative.

There's also still the question mark over the mixed up with the Stein photos. Calm down, I am not about to propose Louis himself mixed in those photos. That'd make no sense. But it's a parallel situation if Armand planted those photos; Armand trying to both coddle and elevate Louis by co-opting artistic credibility from a recognized artist in his medium. And in both cases we can see Louis and Lestat reacting in anger and embarrassment at the misrepresentations of their resumés by their (former) partners to others (Daniel, both times). Because that is embarrassing!

Especially for people like Louis and Lestat who are not portrayed in the narrative as, like, actual generational artistic geniuses. Louis can snap a decent photo and appreciates art enough to spot great talents who will sell like hotcakes later, the same way Lestat is a competent musician and spares musically talented humans as a credit to the species. Louis' dig at Lestat for playing like an automaton (taken directly from the book) reflects Louis' own inability to really capture his subjects on film except by happenstance. Lestat acknowledges in the TVL pilot that he's actually the one holding back the band despite drilling them in technical prowess for a year and eventually agrees with his own critics that, yeah, his song "Long Face" kinda sucks. Louis and Lestat are both more knowledgeable than 90% of people about their arts and it's due to this knowledge and appreciation that they're utterly mortified by the Steins and the "Wolverine Blues".

[divorcedwife]

studying history is like. here's to another beautiful day of not being pregnant and of having no obligation to ever be. thank you women who fight for abortion and contraception and independance from men for another beautiful day of not being pregnant and of having no obligation to ever be