Madly Empirical

I <3 tea, riddles and the ruins of ancient civilizations

[asliceofoceanmist]

this is how the conversation went right?

(based on this:)

[theside-b]

[reticent-vampire]

Assad and Luke via Assad IG

[wildeoscars]

CONTROL IT!!!

[simoneashley]

#IT'S NEVER DEVIL'SMINIONOVERRRRRRR The Vampire Lestat After Dark 1.04

[thecactifindahome]

So here's the thing. Imagine there's this Italian restaurant you really like, the food is good and there's a fun little water feature or something. A little after you start going there, you start hearing rumors that the owner is going to change directions, and eventually they put up a sign out front saying they'll be closed briefly while they overhaul operations to go in a more chicken-centric direction.

Okay, you think, I really liked their Italian, but maybe their chicken will be pretty good. They'll definitely keep their existing chicken dishes, and I like those.

The day of the grand reopening arrives, and you find that your favorite Italian place is now a topless bar that serves hot wings. The hot wings taste like ass and they're blasting club music so that you can't really talk or anything. You are pretty disappointed, and say so.

"What are you even complaining about?" A fellow patron says. "They were always going to become a chicken wing titty bar, you can't complain just because you wanted them to keep doing Italian food. They don't owe you anything and this was always going to happen."

"That's a weird and stupid thing to say, but whatever," you reply. "These are still really bad wings and I don't like them."

"Actually, they're great wings, you're just tasting them wrong," says your interlocutor. "Anyway, you're an idiot if you stop coming here just because the food tastes bad. If you keep coming, it'll start tasting good, also they're probably going to bring back the Italian food. You have to trust they're going to stop being a shitty hot wings strip club, but also it's awesome that it's a hot wings strip club now. You probably didn't even really like the Italian food if you don't love these garbage wings."

[calliticebergs-blog]

lestat fans mad at the writers for removing armand biting lestat kill me lmao. They never question why the show doesnt frame lestat biting and forcefully turning 14 year old claudia as rape but want that framing for another character in an insanely hypocritical way

Me and another screener had a talk today. Armand does something pretty shitty to Lestat later in the season, so it's not like they are making him innocent and fangless. But in the past they were lovers, nothing is going to change that.

[bifauxnenarmand]

I love him so much what is his problem 😭😭😭

[userarmand]

ASSAD ZAMAN as The Vampire Armand Interview with the Vampire: 3x03

‘Hello. My name is Arun.’

[userarmand]

We think you should take some time away from the theatre, Nicki.

[gabriellelestat]

re: nicki saying lestat and armand had sex in the hôtel de ville. you guys need to understand - the hôtel de ville is translatable to ‘city hall’. it quite literally housed the radical municipal government that was responsible for various revolutionary movements and reforms. it had, in very recent history, engineered the dismantling of the monarchy and the establishment of a republic. in simple terms lestat and armand were having sex in a government building

[calliticebergs-blog]

Can you confirm or deny that Lestat wanted to kill Claudia in 1x07?

I can't. It's not brought up. I don't think they are going to retcon this part though.

[emmaharwoods]

SEVERANCE 2.04 | Woe's Hollow

[anguilliforme]

the "tallest waterfall in the world" thing is by far the funniest lie told by lumon im genuinely not sure it can be topped

[kitschky]

and maybe we're doomed but oh my love which one of us is orpheus?

congrats to severance for becoming my second fav anticapitalist-media-referencing-greek-tragedies

[yammz]

[glitzybutt]

I appreciate that Gemma was fed the line that mark had moved on and had a kid with someone else and she was like ‘zero chance that man has gone outside since I’ve been gone’