mr goatman

bring me a goat

[izamun]

slowing my queue back down to twice a day

[penandinkprincess]

sometimes you see Takes™ that make you go "mmmhmmm okay yeah i see we both interpreted that differently based on what the show gave us, but i see how you arrived at your ideas even if they're different from mine," and then sometimes you see Takes™ that make you go "brother what show did you even fucking watch"

[cardo-de-comer]

Homes.

color thumbnails for fun

[hrhqueenoyanka]

[natgeofound]

An amateur orchid grower works in the window of his greenhouse in Silver Spring, Maryland, April 1971.Photograph by Gordon Gahan, National Geographic

[gummybearattacktheworldofdespair]

[cannibalcaprine-deactivated2024]

[bicreature]

I saw multiple people point this out on twitter, and then many people (predictably mostly white lestat fans) getting angry and saying they're reaching and making stuff up. This show doesn't do race-blind casting and is usually very deliberate in depicting how race impacts the story and the characters and their relationships. It feels very pointed to me that all the men that Lestat has been shown to be excessively jealous of are dark-skinned men of color, starting from Jonah in s1. I saw some people say he's so upset about Armand in the clip because Armand killed Claudia, but he literally says he could understand better if Louis had gotten together with Santiago, who also killed her. Lestat sees Santiago a lesser evil and a more palatable option for a relationship than Armand. He mocks Louis and Armand's relationship with innuendous comments implying their relationship couldn't have been sexually satisfying, kind of in the same way some fans act like Armand isn't a 'man enough'. Immediately after this argument is interrupted Louis touches his lawyer's arm and Lestat is Distraught

(source) (sidenote it never stops being funny to me how everything Lestat feels just shines from his face the least mysterious vampire ever)

I think people often take Lestat's suggestion he doesn't see race, it's just a human thing that doesn't matter to him, too much at face value as it clearly not true. He's completely aware it. The very first thing he says to Louis in the first episode is about his race and asking how he got in there. He uses fetishistic language about Louis and Lily and their skin color and romanticizes them as misfit beauties. When cheating on Louis he chooses the affair he maintains for years to be with a white woman because he knows it would feel particularly hurtful to Louis (i'm certain that was an intentional choice from both writers and Lestat in-universe). Lestat of course doesn't see himself as racist in any way and i think he would be very offended if someone called him that (like he was when Louis said being called a fledgling felt like being called a slave in s1). He thinks racism is wrong, nonsensical and tasteless. But i think he's also like many people influenced by highly racist culture(s) he's lived in for his whole life, and carries some ideas at least subconsciously. In the same way he seems to understand the abuse he experienced from his father was wrong, but then becomes a patriarchal abuser himself and refuses to see some of his actions toward Louis and Claudia as wrong.

I think Lestat is very scared and insecure that Louis could be sharing things with other people that Lestat can never share or even understand. Jonah was an old love but he was also a connection to Louis' black community. This Lestat's anxiety is actually most clear with Claudia, another person who he was very jealous of and started to almost see as a romantic threat against all sense. Lestat was instantly uncomfortable when he realized Louis and Claudia could communicate telepathically but he couldn't hear them. This knowledge that his (black) partner and daughter would always share an intimate connection he could never be a part of i think was a major part of him becoming more and more resentful and controlling.

When Lestat says he could understand better if Louis got together with Santiago it's worth mentioning that in addition to being white Santiago also slightly resembles Lestat (iirc Ben Daniels confirmed it was intentional). I think it would in some way be less upsetting to Lestat if the other men Louis has relationships with would at least have something in common with Lestat. It would be validation to Lestat that he's something Louis could want and love. Instead what many people have pointed out and i think Lestat himself is noticing is that most men Louis is interested in don't look anything like Lestat or have much other similarities either. I think the guy in the bar in the beginning of s1 who freshly turned Louis wanted to eat is the only one who kind of had a similar appearance to Lestat. Lestat has built much of his identity and self-worth around his romantic and sexual prowess and being a good provider, and when those don't work he's terrified. What does it mean to his value if other people, including people he may look down on, can give all that to Louis and Lestat has nothing to offer?

[pmamtraveller]

Satan Views the Whole of Eden, Gustave Dore

[willowbilly]

Early ethnographies and ethnohistoric accounts (Nelson 1899; Lantis 1946, 1947; Ostermann 1952; Zagoskin 1967; Himmelheber [1953] 1993; Jacobsen 1977) that documented Yup’ik lifeways, ceremonies, and folklore suggest that animals in Yup’ik society were conceived as conscious beings able to think, speak, and act as humans do—that is, as “other-than-human persons” (Hallowell 1960). This belief system endowed animals with agency and, hence, required hunters to use a variety of ritualized practices to communicate with and demonstrate respect to animals—a worldview that appears to have a significant time-depth in the North in general, and along the Bering Sea coast in particular (Jordan 2008; Losey 2010; Hill 2011, 2013). In this paper, we will use the term relational ontologies to refer to this set of beliefs, “in which animals and other ‘things’ act as independent, sentient agents and are constituted socially, through performative interaction” (Hill 2011, 120). Daily human–animal interactions, which occurred through speech, thought, and action, intensified during communal ceremonies that were designed to create a liminal time and space in which animal spirits were invited to enter the human world so as to honour and maintain the relationships between humans, animals, and the spirit-masters of game, who release animals to the hunter (Fienup-Riordan 1994; Jordan 2008; Hill 2011). Nelson (1899, 395) described mask festivals as events of thanksgiving to the spirits and power of earth, air, and water for giving the hunters success. The presence of animal spirits in rituals was invoked by means of masks, which were worn not to conceal but rather to reveal the unseen, to uncover another “person” (Ingold 2000, 123–24). Both stylized and realistic animal masks embodied transformation from one “person” to another, enabling animal spirits to incarnate in human form and humans to see as animals (Fienup-Riordan 1987).

—Mending the Breaks: Revival and Recovery in Southwest Alaska Mask-Making Tradition by Anna Mossolova

[tall]

[kldpxl]

Orion

[1anonyymous1]

[voltaspistol]

[rockergiirl]

yeah sure whatever

[the-quasar-hero]

You can tell a lot about a person by entering their mind palace and encountering their greatest fears and darkest hopes in a labyrinth reflective of their subconscious thoughts.

[pro-royalty]

Kelsey Lu x Tyler Mitchell (2019)

[asneakyfox]

the idea that restrooms, locker rooms, etc need to be single-sex spaces in order for women to be safe is patriarchy's way of signalling to men & boys that society doesn't expect them to behave themselves around women. it is directly antifeminist. it would be antifeminist even if trans people did not exist. a feminist society would demand that women should be safe in all spaces even when there are men there.

[asneakyfox]

btw this is maybe the single most key distinguishing feature of the terfy strains of radical feminism, the seed all the rest of it springs out of: they have absolutely no faith in the ability of feminism to actually destroy patriarchy. they do not think feminism can truly build a better world. they cannot really even imagine that possibility. they think patriarchy is an inevitable natural consequence of unchangeable biological facts, and therefore the goal of feminism can only be to mitigate the worst effects of patriarchy, not to get rid of it.

they can imagine a society where women get some designated safe spaces without men around. they cannot imagine a society where the presence of men is not inherently a danger to women.

[barbiehelmet]

the zendaya thing isnt even a new phenomenon by any means!! the article mentions margot robbie wearing the taj mahal diamond as well, and in addition to that i also want to remind people that diljit dosanjh's request to wear the patiala necklace for the 2025 met gala was denied by cartier because they said it was in a museum and could not be loaned. however they had no issues at all loaning it to emma chamberlain, a white woman, for the 2022 met gala, while they turned down the request of a punjabi man who wanted it to honor his heritage.

this behavior is nothing new. the global south and everything in it - the people, the culture, our heritage - is seen as nothing more than a decoration or commodity to colonizers. i don't even need to bring up the koh i noor or the entire british museum; these examples are recent and egregious enough on their own.

of course this is not to imply that any of the people involved here - zendaya, margot robbie, or emma chamberlain - had any sort of malicious intentions. but the ignorance is just as bad in my opinion. the ignorance is just as harmful, if not more. because it means we are not even an afterthought. it means that the real people and histories and heritages of the global south do not even register when these people are putting together looks for their movie premiers and met gala appearances. everything is just reduced down to a shiny piece of jewelry whose history they need not bother with. it's just a continued reminder of the way colonization affects us all even long after independence, of how barely-healed wounds keep being reopened even decades later. even now, we are being denied connections to our histories and heritages while they are freely being given out to those that have nothing to do with it and don't care for it. and i'm sick of it.