Mara's pantry

Mara | 26 | she/her | digital & traditional art, photos, fandom (and honestly just whatever suits my fancy) | blog with my furby and dolls photos - @amaranthinedilemma

[jackdawwhat]

pov you call your employer the cuntessa, you aired his marital drama to the entire world and now you’re making him a musical documentary, you have your Pulitzer and you’re going to get your Oscar, you love being a vampire, you’re not on speaking terms with your old friend or your maker but you’d fuck them nasty given the chance, you’re a fledgling and you ripped off another vampire’s head to save your aforementioned boss while he’s high out of his mind. You’re the real cuntessa Daniel Molloy

[magneticrabbit]

[sillystigmata]

Help me

[m-au3-blog]

Two bitches telling each other

“I don’t have trauma”

[skyrigel]

[unusual-suspects]

x

[universxall]

two baddies

[callstoyoulikethewildgeese]

cursed bird site hive-mind

[fanqiees]

happy pride month from iwtv the world where gay is the norm and straight a minority

[bifauxnenarmand]

the only character who could truly match the vampire armand’s freak is misty quigley and i’ll forever stand by this

[bifauxnenarmand]

I think they would give each other the love they both need

[baker-chan-senpai]

the director and his mother gremlin

[veryintricaterituals]

Nepo-fledgling can walk in the sun, even if not for long, at TWO years old, when both Louis and Lestat cannot do. He is the most special vampire, truly a Mary-sue for our era

[j777les]

That Louis/Armand balcony scene from s2, except it's Daniel with a boombox under Armand's window sometime in the 80s

[high-in-the-tower]

Vampire Lestat monster high collector's doll would save us

[jaynovz]

Listen. A lot of John Silver meta posts are like 75% there. And the part that gets on my nerves is the *intent*

Assertations that this character is constantly purely calculating and self-aware and consciously scheming and in control are the things that really rub me the wrong way. It discards the strength of the performance and editing and script and the things that that performance indicates as far as expressing vulnerability or lowering the mask.

Does he still keep like five different layers up even while trying to lower two of them? Yeah, of course, we see that on screen.

But for me where a lot of these Silver takes fall short is failing to acknowledge that the character himself doesn't even realize that he's lying half the time because he's the best at lying to himself. And that it's self-defense mechanism and survival instinct and that it's just like breathing. It's a default state.

For many of these interactions, especially with Madi and Flint in s3 and s4, he often thinks he's being truthful.

Anyway, it would be good for people to keep in mind that John Silver is not actually a malicious super villain and is in fact a deeply traumatized and tragic figure.

[jaynovz]

Something else that I see pretty frequently that's been weighing on me--

The assertion that Silver showing vulnerability specifically via his disability is a conscious and malicious manipulation. Frankly, not only does it creep insidiously into ableism when folks assert that he is using his disability as a manipulation tactic, it also doesn't line up with the rest of what we're shown in canon which is that this is a person who the very implication of being taken care of or being weak makes him want to crawl out of his skin.

He says this point blank to Muldoon in 3.2, in fact, and then again to Madi in 3.6, and then again Flint mentions it in 4.9 on the cliffs. That he knows Silver finds it intolerable to be seen as weak, but for the sake of sword training it's going to be better to use the crutch.

There are many other examples but those are the three coming to mind right now. John Silver is a man whose worst fear is to not be able to run and to not be self-sufficient and then the narrative puts him in his worst nightmare.

Therefore anytime he lets the walls down and allows himself to lean on someone, for Madi and Flint both, this is in fact a big show of trust and love. The narrative itself communicates this to us through the aforementioned conversations and, on a personal level, it echoes resonantly into the real world--

For my disabilities and for the disabilities of the people closest to me... Yeah, that's how it is. You only display that weakness to people who are heavily vetted, who you trust and love. Because of how cruel the world is and how unforgiving and unwilling to empathize people usually are. It's a leap of faith every time.

So yeah, just food for thought when you're writing meta about the character. Think about how it sounds to call a disabled character manipulative for showing vulnerability with regards to their disability.

[aquatransmissaest]

Did the crew notice that Flint kept dedicating actual time and effort into maintaining his physical appearance under continued threat of gruesome and terrible demise. Everyone is splayed out on deck decaying beneath the pitiless sun raving about how the lord has abandoned them. Silver is gutting eels and catching on to pathetic fallacy through the power of desiccation and driving his mountain of a friend out of his goddamn mind about it. They are rotting away and they look like it. Yet their grief-riddled bloodthirsty ex-navy ultra-despotic mass-murdering gayass captain that they really fucking hate is still dressing head to toe in black and holing up in his gloomy fucking quarters to shave his own head and groom his beard to picture perfection. Suicidally depressed but won't get caught dead looking sloppy

[rxttingcorpse]