ravi !!

he/him . transgender . loumand 🙏🏼🙏🏼

[lamplightshade]

maybe this time i will use a proper tagging system . will try to remember to use #ravi thinks if i ever make original posts

master doc of resources for aid in various countries (palestine, congo, haiti...)

[lizzibennet]

i am once again asking you to watch the 2019 shakespeare in the park production of much ado about nothing

[reticent-vampire]

ASSAD ZAMAN as ARMAND — Interview with the vampire 2.04

[wizardarchetypes]

never thought this day would come but i’m currently having a customer service experience so bad right now that i’m defecting from the employee regiment and joining the customers in their next battle. i don’t know who i am anymore.

[wizardarchetypes]

experience that makes me research local customer service supervisors for a global corporation and tag them in a LinkedIn post, to fall upon their mercy.

[wizardarchetypes]

long story short i have worked for a call center in customer service before and i knew something was not working out. i've had to call about this issue 5 times in 4 weeks because it's still not resolved, and each time the conversation has ended i've asked for an email confirmation of our conversation and a ticket number so i can call back and reference it with a new representative.

well every time i've called, the new representative has been like "i'm so sorry, but there's no ticket by that number. i have no record of you ever calling about this. i'll start a ticket for you."

finally, the fifth time i nearly burst into tears of frustration and i said "i don't want you to start a ticket for me, because it will be the sixth ticket created for this same issue. every week, one of your colleagues tells me they'll create a a new ticket for me, and then nothing happens."

they said, "i'm sorry but i have no record of those tickets existing." and i was like i KNOW. but they doooooo what is happening.

finally i got transferred to a supervisor's supervisor.

if you've ever worked in online customer service, you know that when a customer calls with a problem, you create a "ticket" that puts that issue into the system. if you can't resolve it, it goes into a ticket queue, where other people with the ability to resolve it select it, put it into their personal working queue, and resolve it.

well after 30 minutes of searching, this supervisor tells me, dumbfounded, that she's discovered a completely unique queue she's never seen before, where my tickets have been going somehow. a pocket universe queue that no one has access to or can edit or select from, not even her. she has no idea what's happening. she's like "yes, here are all your tickets, and no one can open them or comment on them or resolve them.....this is crazy......" and it's JUST my tickets in there. no one else's. of tens of thousands of customers.

all professionalism fell by the wayside. i told her i've worked with those queues before and also found that totally wild. she was like "what the hell is going on...." and talked me through everything she was seeing and how gobsmacked she was. we were both like "this is one for the books truly"

tells me she's going to have to bring this up above herself because this is a really big error on like, a coding level, that she has no idea how to resolve. tells me she will personally call me back tomorrow to update me.

four days pass with no word.

i call customer service again. random agent. explain the entire situation, including that last bit.

agent says "i'm sorry but i have no record of those tickets existing. i'll have to start a ticket for you. rest assured, it will be resolved."

i said, "no it won't be. it never will be. because they're in the special queue."

clearly not believing me, they said, "i've heard nothing about that. i'll start a new ticket for you."

[threedollarsdotcom]

dont worry about the deadlines if you dont think about them they get farther awa;y

[artseamoni]

Innocence Lost

[yaoiblackmold]

I think the 2×05 Loumand fight scene for as scathing and mean as they were to eachother, it also kind of shows how much they did love and know eachother. Because they were both poking at eachothers sore points so precisely and pointedly, you don't just randomly have this sort of emotionally hurtful information about someone else unless they think you're trustworthy enough for them to confide in you about their deeply held worries and insecurities. Like to me it is a sign that at some point in their relationship Louis felt secure enough to talk to Armand about how he was afraid that Claudia hated him, and Armand felt comfortable enough to discuss his childhood with Louis. They know precisely how severely they can hurt eachother because they've been granted that knowledge as an act of trust. And I really think that argument was their breaking point tbh, like why bother telling your partner anything anymore if they're just going to throw it in your face after an argument.

[my-dailydreams]

[i-draws-dinosaurs]

This picture is NOT CUTE

they are making her use Window 8. unimaginably cruel

[bifauxnenarmand]

[bifauxnenarmand]

jassad chemistry so good they keep attracting homophobes by just being close to each other

[theaterard]

ooh mama the deathlike pallor of your face and also your meep! and are those tears in your eyes after being slapped? mama!

[todevilonesminion]

Amadeo, ca. 1525

Original Painting: unknown Italian painter, ca. 1480-1525, tempera on wood, 18x18 in.

Color and edits: me, digital painting

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If you’re a nerd, further information about the irl piece and my thought process below.

I was browsing through the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, looking for any potential Armand pieces. No real standouts, until I found a curious entry.

The Palazzo di San Martino Gusnago (now Palazzo Pastore) lies just outside the small city of Mantua, and in the 16th century, it would have been maybe ten days travel from Venice (depending on how you made the journey). In a small room in this palazzo, you would have been greeted by an interesting decor choice: the exposed central beam and the upper portions of the walls were lined with faces. Portraits of random men and women, real or imagined--all done, it would seem, by the same unknown painter. There were once at least 44 in total, though some have disappeared and others have been divided among the world’s art museums. The Met has 12 of them.

The paintings have been studied a little, though not extensively, and there has been little consensus on who may have painted them or when. The Met has likely not photographed the pieces in decades, as no images are available in color. According to the exhibition history the Met provides, none of their twelve panels have been on public display since 1947. This may be because they're in delicate condition; a lot of chipping and cracking is visible in the Met's old black-and-white photos. Tempera can be a brittle medium, made all the worse on a wood panel that expands and contracts with changes in humidity and temperature. And so, these twelve mysterious portraits are stowed away in the depths of the Met's vast storage, largely forgotten.

Of the 12 panels in the Met's collection, I liked Number 8 the best. This, I thought, could be a very badly whitewashed Armand-- the face shape and features like the mouth and eyes could work, as would the shoulder-length dark curls, but the anonymous youth in the painting was much too pale, and the nose wasn't quite right. But then I remembered I have an iPad and rudimentary digital art skills. After adjusting the shape of the nose, I essentially used the same process as digital artists who lay down values in grayscale and then go back and add color. I think I ended up with 15-17 layers of various blend modes and opacities.

I didn't realize until after I was done that, in TVA, Marius dresses Amadeo in blue multiple times.

[gerardwaysbob]

[hollanovcat]

yuri loumand

[leviathan-supersystem]

weird that this is happening all across the usa at the same time. oh well. probably doesn't mean anything.

[nerdreamer]

[alysmond]

INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE (2022–)