“flirting” aka staring at u and when u look back at me i look away very fast so u wont see that i was staring at u
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“flirting” aka staring at u and when u look back at me i look away very fast so u wont see that i was staring at u
good questions to ask tarot
in my opinion you can ask the tarot anything, but here are some ideas for those who don’t know where to start
Love/Relationships:
- What kind of partner would be best for me?
- How will I know when I’ve found the right person?
- Is my heart ready for a relationship?
- Is the person I’m interested in right for me?
- Is there anything I need to know about the person I’m interested in/dating?
- Are there any red flags in my relationships that I’m oblivious to?
- Is the person I love deceiving me in some way?
- What purpose does this relationship serve in my life?
- How can I build more emotional intimacy between me and my partner?
- How can I attract love into my life?
- What’s the biggest obstacle in my relationships?
- What stops me from getting emotionally vulnerable with my loved ones?
- How can I be more sensitive to my loved ones needs?
Career/Life Path
- How can I become more open to understanding my life’s purpose?
- What would be the result of pursuing the career I have in mind?
- What should I do to figure out which career path is meant for me?
- What obstacles do I need to overcome in order to achieve my goals?
- Are the goals I’m working toward right for me?
- What can I do right now to better align me with my life’s purpose?
- How can I unlock my hidden talents?
- What skills do I possess that I can utilize to get closer to my goals?
- What’s the best strategy to advance in my career path?
Feeling Stuck/Depressed/Anxious
- What is the root of my emotional turmoil?
- Why am I still carrying this emotional baggage?
- How can I let go of emotional burdens stopping me from being my best self?
- What is the reason that I feel stuck and directionless right now?
- Where can I find my next new adventure?
- Why does _________ bother me so much?
- What can I focus on to clear my mind of what’s weighing me down?
- What action do I need to take to be more emotionally balanced?
- How can I find what makes me happy?
Relationship Troubles or Break-ups
- What is the root of the problems in my relationship?
- When did these problems start to cause conflict?
- Should I try to stay and work things out or should I just move on?
- Is my relationship causing more harm than good?
- I know this relationship is bad for me but I don’t know how to leave. What should I do?
- What purpose did this relationship and its ending serve in my life?
- What was I able to learn from this experience?
- How can I ease my mind and let go of my grief?
- Why did this break-up have to happen?
Spirituality
- How can I become more aligned with my spirituality?
- What purpose does spirituality serve in my life?
- What does my higher power look/feel like?
- What does the universe want me to know right now?
- How can I open myself up to receive messages from the universe and/or my higher power?
- How can I gain more awareness of my subconscious mind?
- What’s blocking my intuition?
- How can I become more in tune with the universe’s vibrations?
- How can I find my spiritual purpose in my life?
- What action can I take to strengthen my spirituality?
You!
- What’s something unique about who I am?
- How can I gain more awareness of my identity?
- What best describes my personality?
- What is a trait that others can see in me that I’m oblivious to?
- What kind of hidden talents do I possess?
- How can I unlock my true passion?
- How can I be more confident in my self-expression?
- What’s a good way to learn to express my true emotions?
- Where do you see me in the future?
- What do I still carry with me from the past?
Stelena + 10 songs
#love is a compromise #stefan salvatore doesn’t dance #what he did with elena wasn’t dancing #he took her hand #he moved his feet #he held her #he touched her #sometimes he had probably even let her lead the way #because he knew how much she enjoys it #it wasn’t about dancing with her #it was about loving her #dances stopped being dances #and hugs stopped being hugs #they stopped being something that displeased him #not when they had her name written all over them #but it’s not fair #because it is true #stefan salvatore DOESN’T dance #and stefan salvatore DOESN’T hug #he dances when he’s buzzed because she’s now holding his brothers hand and he needs to forget it #it was never about dancing #or hugging #it was about love #and it was about elena #and now both of those things are gone
stelena + forhead kisses/touches
Stelena + Urgent Hugs
Just felt like doing this, lol.
*none of these are my gifs*
THE VAMPIRE LESTAT 3.07 'The Failures'
Even now, still thinking about him.
LOVE ISLAND USA SEASON 8 OG³ (Episode 1 → Episode 33)
LOVE ISLAND USA SEASON 8 Bryce & Trinity (WINNERS OF LIUSA S8)
七夕 VALENTINE'S DAY 24H 2 0 : 0 0 - first kiss
I ❤️gossip I ❤️eavesdropping I ❤️asking nosy questions I❤️ looking for and acquiring information. On account of my curious and inquisitive nature #mynature
"What did you say to him after a 77-year ghosting?"
people focusing on the writers feeding them with “transfem lestat” while ignoring the vehement antiblackness they're putting the black gay man through kinda perfectly encapsulates the priorities of white queer fandom
also this is a secondary concern compared to the pervasive and gleeful antiblackness on the show, but lestat's line in s3ep7 that feeds into transfem readings feels like another example of this season going for "tell, don't show" and expecting fanon and fannish interpretation to carry the weight of what they aren't depicting onscreen. the s1ep7 marie antoinette drag scene is one of my fave in the whole show- and i mentioned before s3 aired that after rolin cited rocky horror and hedwig and the angry inch as s3 influences back in 2024, the lack of rockstat drag onstage felt like a glaring omission and was possibly tied to amc's corporate queerphobia given the obvious double standards in how they depict m/m and f/f v m/f intimacy. if the show wanted to make the idea of lestat being genderqueer or some form of transfeminine firmly canon, we could've seen a whole arc play out in s3 especially with gabriella coming back into lestat's life. imagine if drag was a consistent part of rockstat's look and stage performance, and esp around gabriella he insisted it was all for show, meaningless, he was just clowning, and as her control over lestat's music career and lestat himself increased we saw her steering him toward more conventionally cismasc presentation...and then we got hit with the quiet honesty of the line where lestat admits he does wish he was a woman sometimes as a resolution to a season-wide narrative that's primed for further exploration in s4. (this would also be in the hypothetically well-written s3 where lestat faces what he did to louis and claudia more firmly too, instead of 6-7 eps of wheel-spinning and darvo, and safe to say he would not be saying this to the apparition of louis' brother come to comfort him while louis is being tortured). they could've pulled on late 18th century ideas of gender that would've been formative to lestat (male performers performed fem roles then too- show him playing a woman when he was human and having a euphoric experience, show him interested as a child in the markers of femininity and womanhood that gabriella possesses and she rejects etc) being gnc/genderqueer/nonbinary/transfem/gnc (whatever your interpretation of lestat is) in 18th century france and then the early 20th century new orleans and then north america in 2025 are extremely different- your lead is an immortal vampire who's lived through all those eras, explore that.
but instead of doing any of that, instead of engaging with lestat's gender in any kind of arc, the show adds a throwaway line (in a season of throwaway lines) that can be interpreted depending on viewer bias as 1) lestat genuinely expressing some yearning for womanhood and being trans canonically or 2) still-cis lestat just saying he wishes he and louis had a heterosexual relationship to begin with bc it would've made their lives easier- like even though their relationship would've still been illegal if they were a m/f couple, they at least would've had paul and maybe the rest of the de pointe du lacs' acceptance- and plenty of casual viewers are gonna walk away with the 2nd impression. (and speaking of the de pointe du lacs, louis mentioning he was molested is another one of the throwaway lines with paradigm-shifting impact that the show doesn't care to explore in any depth- why bother developing things onscreen when fans will do the work for them and praise the writers as genius for hinting at depth instead of portraying depth onscreen??)
so many choices this season feel like the writers checking off boxes to confirm fan theories bc they seem cynically aware that a lot of people are watching the show less out of care for good storytelling but more to "win" whatever stan or ship war they're personally invested in. they're lines and moments meant to be screenshotted and shared on socmed for the fandom to talk about, pithy quips that can fit into 1-2 screenshots in subtitles and reposted with more pithy quips. the show doesn't care to explore lestat's gender in any deeper form but it does want fans losing their minds over some form of trans lestat being confirmed (with plausible deniability bc amc is the queerphobia network now)- the show doesn't care to explore devil's minion in any deeper form or show how armand and daniel started plotting together but it does want fans losing their minds over past devil's minion being confirmed, etc.
and this is only if you try looking at the arc (and lack thereof) of lestat's relationship to gender in isolation- when you put it back in the wider context of this episode and this season's antiblackness and the nonblack writers' choice to have paul's spirit (even if he isn't meant to be "real" or at least not represent paul's real thoughts) praise and comfort lestat while louis gets graphically tortured by his lynching director in the same episode. (and the white showrunner has already admitted he felt more for armand than louis in that scene and claimed the "apology" louis was coerced into via torture to be some kinda real moment of understanding, rather than louis doing what we saw him do in s2 and try to appease armand when he's helpless and armand holds his life in his hands.) like with the merrick scene in s3ep6, it doesn't matter what in-universe rationale for these choices are, it doesn't matter whether any of this gets revisited or recontextualized with "oh ghost claudia was lying just to hurt louis' "oh paul's spirit wasn't even real" "oh we were totally tryna critique armand's violent antiblackness" bc the problem here comes down to the nonblack writers' decisions and the choices they made in the real world when crafting this story. this show has had a persistent problem since s1 of depicting the onscreen brutalization of black bodies with far more vividness than it does nonblack bodies, and if a nonblack main character is doing the brutalization (lestat, armand) you aren't supposed to hold it against them or expect these choices to have longterm narrative consequences- the camera lingers on claudia and charlie's charred and "melting" faces as they burn but when daciana, nicki, magnus, bruce, antoinette or madeleine are burning, the camera's far quicker to cut away. and this is a deliberate choice- they weren't just pointing the camera at people spontaneously combusting, they had to allocate an effects budget and invest time and energy into showing black bodies burning with graphic detail. they had both delainey and roxane in the vfx makeup chair for their characters' murder scene, but only claudia's death was shown vividly while madeleine burning was a few brief seconds of ash scattering away.
and i simply can't enjoy any form of this "jangling keys in front of the fandom to validate popular interpretations/ships/theories" writing bc it's such a cynical bid from writers who want and expect their viewers to be satisfied with crumbs that we build elaborate headcanons around instead of expecting any form of depthful storytelling or care from them, especially when it comes to their black characters. fans being content with the show just going down a checklist to validate or debunk specific theories and fans not demanding anything more of the writers than perfunctory expository dialogue is exactly what this writing team is counting on.
also theo is right bc if your only reaction to people criticizing the nonblack writers' choices is to be like "neener neener femstat canon" (black folks critiquing the antiblackness and sharing their reactions to the show depicting this level of gratuitous racialized violence toward black bodies have already received comments along those lines) when that has nothing to do with the antiblackness being discussed here, that's ghoulish. like read the room
i cannot emphasize enough how detrimental it is to the quality of the entire show when you have writers who don’t understand and care for louis enough to write him with the love he deserves. as a black person, as a victim of abuse, as someone with complexity who isn’t reduced to his past. he used to be written with love, but suddenly he’s written with contempt that doesn’t even try to mask itself as love. this season’s level of disregard for him makes everything else feel soulless and empty. is this just how he's gonna be written now? is he going to be the narrative's punching bag every single season? we cannot continue like this