Cat butts?

Mostly wrestling nonsense. Also, other kinds. Have currently been blindsided (again) by Brad Dourif. Scans from my collection of DS9 / Trek magazines are under the 'Trek Article Scans' bullet in the sidebar.

[clarkgriffon]

BEST OF BTVS: Rupert Giles — Season Six

[loving-the-world-since-00]

[lioncourtz]

THE VAMPIRE LESTAT 03.07 | "The Failures"

[ldpdlarchives]

[lestatdelioncuort]

A second thought save them all from my provoked rage...Where is Louis?

[platoapproved]

“When it was offered me I said no. I tell you I said no. With my last breath, I said no.”

— THE VAMPIRE LESTAT | Part IV - Chapter 4

[lioncourtz]

THE VAMPIRE LESTAT 03.07 | "The Failures"

[lioncourtz]

THE VAMPIRE LESTAT 03.07 | "The Failures"

[texasbama]

THE VAMPIRE LESTAT 3.07 'The Failures'

[iwtv-ann]

The fault was mine. All mine.

[thevampirecaspian]

The way he looks at Louis <3

[endiness]

"Get out," I whispered. The word trailed off and suddenly my voice swelled again. "Get out," I said. And again my voice didn't stop. It merely went on until I said the words again with shattering violence: "GET OUT!" — THE VAMPIRE LESTAT, Anne Rice

[xroub]

The Vampire Lestat S03E07 | "The Failures"

[leaveharmony]

The v interesting thing about this show is when it leaks for some folks sooner than others and you accidentally see reactions in the tags

Like really, really strong GATCHA WE TOLD Y'ALL WE TOLD YOU SO AND SO WAS IRREDEEMABLY EVIL AND THIS IS 100% PROOF OF THAT UNDENIABLE BY ALL PEOPLE EVERYWHERE

And then you actually see the episode and you're like...what the actual fuck are you talking about, you wrote seventeen paragraphs over something that flashed on screen for less than two seconds

[leaveharmony]

Ok this thrifted waistcoat was practically entrapment: bright red genuine suede with elaborate black embroidery, eight dollars, and sitting at the very end of the rack so it could be seen two steps in the door. I’m gonna have to take a trip to the unknown land known as a dry cleaner’s, but it’s just so fuckin cool I could not resist. Where would I ever again come across a bright red actual leather waistcoat again lol.

[leaveharmony]

So as the dry cleaning bill, which would have included it being spirited to their specialist facilities in Toronto, would have come to over $100, I did about 15 minutes of halfass research, bought a $12 container of Woolite, threw the fucking thing in the washing machine for the 20min cold water express wash and wished it godspeed. Dad got “I don’t think that leather…” out of his mouth before he saw the exhausted look on my face and for once, even he chose to to stop talking.

It has emerged intact. Wet, of course, but intact. Now, according to legend, it hangs to dry and then I brush it up a bit with the suede brush I got at the shoe store, and if it dries stiff I find ‘suede conditioner.’

But it might be fine as it is. Or it might be ruined forever! Who knows. I have ceased to care about it or indeed anything else.

Frankly, if I’d opened the door to find it had morphed into a very small, living red cow that moo’d at me in disapproval, I probably would have just said ‘Yeah, ok’ and given it the rest of the pea sprouts to munch on.

[parkchanwoohoo]

[brehaaorgana]

for the last time: if there's a sexy naked lady with long flowing hair and MAYBE a diaphanous sheet or flower crown; lots of swirlies and ribbon like curving LUSCIOUS shapes; very lush foliage (acanthus leaves, elegant flowers) and all kinds of fauna — both especially waterside (lily pads, lotuses, reeds, cranes, dragonflies); lots of green; everything is a lot of iron, stone, stained glass, mosaic, and carved wood; the windows or their frames are very Shaped; the lights are soft yellow; or it's a font with lots of line weight variation; feather tips are rounded; everything reminds you of france, vienna, or japan and something vaguely mediterranean; OR it's literally a Parisian metro station

— then it's art nouveau

and if the sexy lady has a bob cut or a hair cap and is wearing a column or flapper dress; there's a lot of geometry like rectangles, arches, rays, and diamonds; angels have super sharp wings and a lot of muscles; everything is steel, concrete, marble, gold, and red velvet seats; everything is VERY angular; and all the foliage is basically papyrus fronds; things feel vaguely Egyptian or Turkish or Mesopotamian; the fonts play with being very skinny or very thick and are sans serif with extra lines; or Gatsby would be found floating dead in that pool

— then it's art deco

[brehaaorgana]

And if looks kinda like art nouveau

— with lots of lush flora, tiny insects (like dragonflies) or graceful birds, stained glass, iron, warm golden lighting, lots of wood and wood carving (but now it's more wood paneling), a stylistic fondness for Japan, line weight variation in the font, and tile (but this time it's carved or sculpted on, not tiny mosaic)

but you're worried it's art deco

— because the forms (especially foliage) are very symmetrical and slightly more angular or blocky and graphic looking, things are more rectangular than circular or curvy in architecture, the patterns repeat more often, and more of the lamps are pyramids or rectangular, and there are nods to Egyptian or Ottoman style, and they used the color red (probably in an accent chair or carpet rug)

BUT there's no steel, concrete, gold plating or gilding, marble, big muscles, spiky or radiating diamond shapes, angular people, or flappers,

AND the vibes are jacobean, gothic, or spanish mission revival; they love some brick and stone; the wallpaper is an explosion of colorful pattern that could give you arsenic poisoning or help depict a descent into postpartum psychosis in a famous short story; but there are NO people to be seen, not even sexy ladies,

— then THAT is the arts & crafts movement.