make records on my own, can't go out in the rain

[apoptoses]

“In Venice, he’d looked out of his room at the Danieli, to see Armand staring from a window across the way.“

The hotel Daniel checks into early in his and Armand’s relationship, the Danieli, is fascinating.

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[abnormoinfo]

new ebbits! new site!

[poison-liker]

this is probably my favourite comic of all time jsyk

[sonic-gems-collection]

can someone explain this to me?

[shadeddaxion]

Sure thing! For convenience I’ll refer to the guy with his arms in his pockets as SG (shorter guy) and the one on the computer as TG (taller guy).

In the first panel, SG sees TG playing on the computer and is disappointed. SG puts a lot of value in the idea of “making things,” specifically “art,” and thinks TG is just wasting their time

So he asks them if they wouldn’t rather be “making something” instead of just playing games and listening to music, implying that TG isn’t doing anything worthwhile or creative with their time

But TG replies that “interpreting is generative,” meaning that even if they spend their time just doing fun stuff, the mere act of enjoying something is creating an experience and an interpretation. Talking about something, dancing to music or sharing a piece of art with your friends IS “making something,” and each of those can be worthwhile and artistic.

SG leaves, complaining he “can’t be an auteur of [interpretation].” Auteur is a movie term that refers to a filmmaker with artistic control and vision enough to be considered essentially the singular creator of the resulting work of art. Turns out, SG doesn’t just want to “make things,” he wants to make things he and others see as “important.” He wants to make art not for the sake of art, but for the sake of being recognized and praised for his art.

This comic really speaks to elitism within the artistic community, the idea that art needs to meet certain standards to be considered art. SG’s viewpoint is really traditionalist, that art need to be “approved” and validated in order to be considered “really art;” while TG recognizes that art can be as little as just talking about what you love.

TLDR: Art is for everyone, not just some sort of social “artistic elite.”

[abnormoinfo]

ooh i love the explanation

[trickstertime]

Rebloging for that in depth and not even a little snarky explanation. 10/10

[jv]

Short Guy is me in my 20s.

Tall Guy is me if my 40s.

[bitter-limelight]

Let Daniel be his own fucking character without making it all about Armand challenge

[bubblegum-blackwood]

Okay but you know what would have been a really cool concept for VC if Anne hadn't gone the route she did? Daniel Molloy, vampire ethnographer, using his infinite time to seek out other immortals and record their stories.

[heartisamusclethesizeofyourfist]

What's particularly frustrating is how easily it could've been prompted, given his arc with Marius in late canon - Marius was out there doing ethnography in Gaul when he got turned! I feel like this is a subject they have to have discussed at some point, and maybe a thing Daniel has missed from his mortal life given that, you know, he literally met Louis while interviewing people!

There's also my flat-out disbelief of the claim that David was responsible for publishing Blood and Gold. Daniel was right there in the other room overhearing everything said between Marius and Thorne and, I remain convinced, writing it the fuck down.

You could argue all sorts of either Marius-centric or Armand-centric motivations for his publishing it, but as OP says, Daniel is more than his relationship with Armand, or anyone else, and the biggest reason for him to do so is that whether you regard his intended readership as "the coven" or "the mortals who bought all their other books," it's a corker of a story: two thousand years of memory, with a number of previously unrevealed details that shed new light on a lot of people and relationships in the books. How could any reporter worth his salt resist bringing that to a wider audience?

I think there's also a large element of "thanks Marius, but also fuck you, seriously" in there: in the brief time we see them together in BaG, Marius is both ensuring his survival and taking every opportunity to belittle the turn Daniel's creativity has taken of late. Some of you will know of my headcanon about Daniel being autistic, and let's just say that we are not a people who take underestimation kindly. Or any insult to a special interest...

But you don't need that headcanon to see a man chafing at the limited way he's seen, and the distance from the work that previously defined him to his present-day experience.

[mamoru]

Your Body Position Impacts How Quickly Pills Kick In, New Study Shows

Laying on your left-hand side may make for slower pill absorption.

oh wow! hey if you take pills check this out. new medicine taking meta just dropped.

according to these models, out of the 4 tested postures, the best position to digest pills is laying on your right side. standing upright has a similar time to laying in your back at twice as much as laying on the right side, and laying on the left side is the slowest by far.

laying on right side: pill dissolves in around 10 minutes.

standing: pill dissolves in 23 minutes. laying on the back has a similar time.

laying on left side: pill dissolves in up to 100 minutes.

https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0096877

definitely worth a lot more research.

if you want your medicine to kick in fast, try laying on your right side! if you want your medicine to kick in slower, try laying on your left side.

[sweaterkittensahoy]

This makes sense! I learned from a doc that if you have gas pain or nausea, you turn on your left side to make it easier for your stomach to send stuff through. The goal in turning left is to NOT absorb, but to release.

Turning on your right can make nausea/gas pain worse because it has to fight gravity to exit your stomach/body. So, yeah, lying on your right would make things absorb faster because it's going into the stomach lining, which is the point.

[archouai]

Righty-tighty, lefty-loosey

[variksel]

i hate you ai art i hate you "unalive" i hate you youtube premium i hate you twitter 8$ checkmark i hate you nfts i hate you therapy app advertisements i hate you non-chronological timelines i hate you instagram reels i hate you subtle tiktok filters that cant be turned off i hate you family bloggers i hate you ads on true crime episodes i hate you facebook i hate you vr glasses on chickens i hate you dystopian social media

[jellogram]

I love Vincent Price cuz that dude is always doing something fucked up. "Oh, I've lost my sculpting abilities, let me just coat people in wax to make statues" "Oh no, my wife is trying to kill me, let me fill a pool in our basement with acid and kill her first" "I'm a scientist now? Better scare the shit out of people to find out if they have bugs in their spines" "Now that I'm aged, let's hire a bunch of homeless people to kill off theatre critics who gave me bad reviews" He never misses. Every movie with him he's doing some fucked up shit and I never get tired of it. Yes Vincent coat that bitch in wax

[thememedaddy]

[thoodleoo]

is there anything better than an ancient greek hedgehog figurine? i think not

[thatlittleegyptologist]

Not to counter, but rather bring up in equal measure, I present Ancient Egyptian Hedgehog figure: 

[scienceandfandoms]

It’s blue… humanity really has spent thousands of years making the same goddamn shit huh

[ursula-ecphrasis-ursula-deactiv]

The Egyptian hedgehog is my favorite, but this one from Iran comes in at a close second.

Look at the wheels! The symmetry! The little snub nose! Somebody’s kid, you just know, was absolutely obsessed with these things and wore their parent down until finally mom or dad was like fine, FINE, I will make you a hedgehog. (A super fast hedgehog that you can race with, cause it’s on wheels.)

[jewishpangolin]

Since for some reason, this reblog chain doesn’t include the Greek hedgehog, here it is.

[forthegothicheroine]

Centuries of humanity going “Look at this funny little guy.”

[gatheringbones]

[“It is not unusual for people not to be able to handle or tolerate having what they think they want. Beneath the urge to have or not to have is usually another layer that navigates our lives. There is an unseen, unconscious part of us that might go against our conscious goals and even attack and undermine them. In fact, everything we don’t consciously know about ourselves has the power to control and run our lives, in the same way that the riptides below the surface of the ocean are its most powerful forces.

We are especially conflicted when it comes to change. Behind the wish to make money, have a career, or have children, we might locate resistance to change, a hidden ambivalence about growing up, and a struggle with separation and loss. We might want a romantic relationship but at the same time resist or reject it, often because we need to protect ourselves from being vulnerable, abandoned, out of control, or consumed. Some are unconsciously loyal to their original families (particularly if they perceive that family as superior to other families), which makes it hard for them to belong to anyone else. Others feel emotionally responsible for one of their parents and therefore anxious about separating and leaving them. They maintain their childhood structure and worry about changing their position, being loyal to their family myths and legacies. A change is a slight goodbye to our past: to our childhood, to our familiar roles, to our known selves. To develop, to create, is to separate and live the future as opposed to cherishing the past. An unprocessed past will not allow us to move forward. It will hold us as the gatekeepers of our history.”]

galit atlas, from emotional inheritance: a therapist, her patients, and the legacy of trauma

[some-1one]

[flat-fish]

[inthetags]

Reblog and write your blorbo's name in the tags but put your first suggested tag that comes up

[tumblrrr]

[shyce-overgod]

First guy got better

[ode-on-a-grecian-butt]

Illustrations Show Size Difference Between Prehistoric Animals and Modern Descendants

[synebluetoo]

I take back everything I ever said about my ancestors. Like sure I have anxiety and debt but at least I don’t have to fight a semi truck with teeth and an appetite. Fuck that noise.

[dammitjean]

Disagree. We Have To Go Back

[nat-20s]

unironic number one most important and useful writing tip I can give you is to make your women weirder. If your female characters are feeling flat or one dimensional give them a odd lil obsession or hobby. ESPECIALLY the sexy characters add a little “strange and offputting” spice in there and I’ll 1000% guarantee they’ll become better. Listen to me. Listen to ME it’ll work or your money back let the femme fatale give live newts to people as thanks and she’s become a more engaging and realized person.

[catchymemes]

[starswift-borzoi]

Green Collar Boy voices his opinion about getting his nails trimmed.

17 Days

[valdrake]

I swear to God he says “fuck you” in response to being called a good boy.

[starswift-borzoi]

Good Lord! He does say “fuck you” where did my sweet innocent pup learn this phrase?!

[mayothompson]

that’s Snoopy