Titles are Hard

Here for the memes and meta-analysis to feed my fandom obsessions

[kittymand]

when fans of other characters are saying daniel needs to die that just means he’s being the daniel i love. literally about to come in his pants listening to lestat recount traumatizing and heart breaking moments. somebody get him a shirt that says “your trauma is my porn” or “keep trauma dumping i’m close”

[angeluary]

🎀🩰🦢🪷 - megan thee stallion, instagram post

[animentality]

[achievement-hunter]

[textandimageenjoyer]

[transmechanicus]

Good naps will have you sleeping in poses usually reserved for dead insects

[hinasho]

Looking back that “You’re still Louis the Pimp, paying a whore to sit in a room and talk with you” ruined everything because that’s not even what a pimp does. And now we can’t ever escape it even tho Louis hasn’t displayed “Pimp” behavior since the 1910s. Lily, Daniel, and Regina are Louis being a John. He is the customer paying them for a service, not the boss making money from their work.

Fuck you Daniel, fuck you forever

[hinasho]

Daniel across all three seasons:

[l-dpdl]

i wouldn't bother engaging with the mass anons or accounts that will twist words and argue in bad faith because they're maybe young or unfamiliar with the meaning of certain terms. and for obvious other reasons. i almost wrote a whole essay about each word and how fandom uses every single one wrong because most know nothing about sex work. a pimp doesn't pay shit. louis ran a brothel--a place providing room and board for sex workers where johns go, and takes a cut of their earnings--a pimp. a john pays for an escort/sw time or whatever happens after such as louis with lily, lestat with lily, fenwick with bricks ---all johns. louis paid daniel's saggy ass for an interview. he's just salty he never got a taste.

also why is it never discussed that lestat is a frequent john, he paid and fucked lily, then ate her of course, he's paying dee pharma for sex, drugs and blood--john. going to a strip club with mom (normal behavior) to see women titillate his desire-john

but he's never in these conversations...hmmm

[thevtuberlestat]

the difference between interviewing louis and lestat is that louis has spent the past decades ruminating in depressed silence and it’s going to be very hard to say something he hasn’t already thought to himself. daniel can say “have you thought about how your kid’s death was your fault” and louis will be like “extensively.” meanwhile lestat has been living in such avoidance loops that you ask him if he’d stuttered as a child he won’t answer because he needs to have a party drug orgy about it 

[yr-tiktok-mom]

[maswartz]

[jonny-r217]

[wholeheartedsuggestions]

don’t over think it. don’t stress yourself out too much. it’s just sunday.

[poopemoji]

im dizzy from laughing at this image

[maxbytes]

no fucking way it wasn’t original character this whole time 😭

[raythebiguy]

Rip to the “leshawna ball original character” believers

[guerrillatech]

[no-passaran]

Unaffordable rents are linked to premature death, Princeton study finds

Renters burdened by unaffordable housing costs may be at a higher risk of dying sooner, according to a new study published in Social Science

[teabree-shark]

[a-krogan-skald-and-bearsark]

I remember when I was a kid being told rent and utilities should never exceed 20% of your monthly income.

[afriblaq]

black and white photos have been lying to you.

As I was doing research on this thesis the photos of lynching really got me. I rarely have immediate jarring reactions, but seeing a hanging body with people seemingly joyous around stings.

We’re not so far removed from it. Those are some of our grandparents and even great grandparents. The evolution of technology can blur the lines / create a distortion.

Don’t let the grain fool you.

[wisteria-lodge]

One thing I'm really loving about the perspective shift between Interview with the Vampire and The Vampire Lestat is how Lestat and Louis appear in each other's narratives, through each other's eyes.

Louis sees Lestat as this primal force of nature who looks like a romance novel hero, can effortlessly control any room, is "preternaturally charming," impeccably turned out, no one can say no to him for long.

but we get in LESTAT'S head, and suddenly he has scars and a tangled mane of hair, people are constantly talking over him, he sweats, he's getting beat up and his clothes are getting destroyed in a non-sexy way, he's flailing around wildly with NO idea what he's doing, people (lestat included) think he's untalented and annoying.

And LOUIS, well. Louis clearly sees himself as uncanny, reserved, compelling but a little off-putting. He is other: cut-off from humanity, holding his emotions and relationships at arm's length.

Then we see him in The Vampire Lestat, and it's like no. This is the warmest, cutest, sexiest, coolest, most capable and most desirable man who has ever walked the face of the earth.

[bitterhalf]

[iain stirling voice] tonight... a hot new bombshell enters the villa... and things. get. heated.

[newsmutproject]

Studies show that approaching youth with a bystander-intervention model is actually a lot more effective for reducing sexual assault, and it is also more enthusiastically received than programs that bill themselves as anti-rape.

We can tell youth that they are basically “rapists waiting to happen” (anti-rape initiative), or we can tell them that we know they would intervene if they saw harm happening to someone and we want to help empower them to do that (bystander intervention). The kids jump in with both feet for the latter! It was amazing to see children (and young boys in particular) excited to do this work and engage their creativity with it. Also, studies show that not only do they go on to intervene, but they also do not go on to sexually assault people themselves. Bystander intervention also takes the onus off the person being targeted to deter rape and empowers the collective to do something about it. It answers the question in the room when giggling boys are carrying an unconscious young woman up the stairs at a house party, and people are not sure how to respond and are waiting for “someone” to say or do something.

Richard M. Wright, “Rehearsing Consent Culture: Revolutionary Playtime” in the anthology Ask: Building Consent Culture edited by Kitty Stryker

[beatrice-otter]

This is also, btw, how the US drastically reduced drunk driving in the US. Telling people they shouldn’t drive when intoxicated made absolutely zero difference. A slogan-and-ad-campaign for “Friends don’t let friends drive drunk!” changed drinking culture. Going after the bystanders is quite often the most effective thing to do in any social change.

[verymerrymart]

[verymerrymart]

[mildmayfoxe]

1) any stretching is better than no stretching

2) any vegetable is better than no vegetable

3) statistically you will never be the worst person at anything, there is always someone in the world who is worse at stuff than you are