tobi

i'm better than you.

[beaulesbian]

INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE 2.03 || 3.03 + 3.04

"When you helped me rebuild the Paris coven with your visionary conceit of a vampire theatre whilst sharing your body and blood, I artlessly assumed companionship which was, upon reflection, wish-fulfilling delusion rooted in childhood conflict."

[mareusu]

what is it about things being gender neutral having to also be ‘masculine’. like, why can you wear a suit and tie and call it gender neutral but not a dress cause that’s feminine. why can you call people dude or guy as a gender neutral term but not girl cause that’s feminine. short hair is neutral but long hair is feminine. i mean i know why this is fully a rhetorical question but let’s think about that

[tadc-crit]

I miss when Pomni had a personality outside of being helpful (towards Jax) (and basically only Jax)

I miss when Ragatha had proper focus on her as a character, and was allowed to occasionally be upset at others and not just at herself.

I miss the few moments when Gangle was explored, in terms of both her Bipolar and her responses to being abused.

I miss when Zooble got on Jax's ass more, and when xe had more potential as caer own character outside of her relationship with Gangle.

I miss when Kinger was allowed to be a person, and there was potential for others to reach out to him, and potentially even vice versa.

I miss when Caine was goofy. End of sentence, I just miss when he was goofy. Why did he have to lose his showtime-y personality when he became a good person that's fucking weird 💔

And I miss when I thought that Jax was gonna be nuanced and at least shoddily redeemed instead of just "she's a horrible abuser but it's okay because she was actually trans the whole time! Also she's dead now so no apology sowwy"

[master-throne]

so basically "I miss when the show was what it wasn't"

[yaoiblackmold]

Armand's confession was lowkey funny as fuck like what the hell was he thinking.

I didn't mean to say I love you so soon, anyways I was stalking you for 52 years and I also saw you fuck other men, btw you're bisexual remember that? Ummm any who, do you want to learn how to walk in the sun? Please say yes. Also Lestat is fucking his mom, haha isn't that weird. I want to be your maker please 🙏

He was literally throwing everything at the wall to see if it sticks.

[kuropin]

Idiots at the beach

[nutmegvautour]

[puddingandp1]

the gang's all here!

[arlo-skipp]

claim your badge here

[averybeautifuljune]

nene yashiro will always be my favorite manga/anime protagonist because literally no one is doing it like her. she's such a wonderful character. i always love the ones that take a really common stereotype for women or girls and flip it to make it much better and more interesting and nene is one of my favorite examples.. i love that she's so focused on romance but it feels more like a character trait than sexism because she's just so earnest about it. those kinds of emotions are completely congruent with the rest of her character and so it adds to her instead of detracting from her.

but also, she just loves herself so sincerely. she's so well adjusted that the story's conflict comes from her being too normal rather than too weird. she's insecure especially near the beginning but she never seems to be ashamed of the person that she is -- she feels remorse when her actions lead to something bad but she's not riddled with guilt over it; she dislikes her legs and her bust size but she focuses less on it as the series progresses. she develops as a character but her personality barely changes because 1) she's resilient and 2) she loves herself, in every sense of the word. she values who she is now rather than wanting badly to change.

maybe she's not super popular with boys but she has friends and people she's familiar with, she's kind, and friendly: she's just some girl, and the story works so well because she's so normal. she's scared of bugs, she's not very good at school (at least enough that she had to worry about remedial classes), she does foolish things, she's reckless and impulsive. she's only fifteen, and she's not used to this world, so what more would you expect from her? but she manages to survive through everything, she continues trying knowing she's going to die, she believes that everything will be okay as it is because she is stronger than she ever thought she could be. it's less that she changes as a person and more that she recognizes parts of her that she couldn't see before. i love you nene yashiro

[glass-lotus]

Guys can we all collectively make a pact where we all stop saying Tbhk and say Jshk instead. It's supposed to mean "GHOST BOY Hanako-kun". The "Jibaku" part has a double meaning as well, where it means "self-destruction".

[guiltfactory-moved]

the "my favorite character did nothing wrong" mindset is completely unappealing to me because i love thinking about all the things my favorite characters did wrong

[celebritysanctum]

[mikusyua]

i’m not transphobic but i really don’t like transfem jax….it just doesn’t make sense to me and i don’t like that this theory become popular after ep5, where jax wears a maid dress, bc for me this is just gender stereotypes (and yes i know there’s many other things that can be ummm interpreted as transgender but still it doesn’t make sense !!!to me!!! as i said before)

maybe for this opinion tadc fandom will beat tf out of me idk

[master-throne]

starting a post with "I'm not transphobic but" makes the rest of it look bad regardless of what it says lol

[rataa07]

The Phantom Of The Opera

[sanchensky]

White lies 🐝 (please read more under the cut <3)

So happy I finished this thing before ep 8 oof

Anyway, the comic was born out of

my thoughts about Caine's model lacking many essential facial features (as if he was never intended to show any emotions) and yet him being literally the most expressive character in the circus despite everything.

me being low-key obsessed with the implications episode 7 left us with. Players questioning everything they've been told and Caine being in the center of it all.

Just to be clear, I do believe Caine is written as a sentient AI who is just struggling to understand humanity and everything that comes with it. And I think these thoughts about him faking his emotions are inherently wrong within a story. He's oblivious and desperate but not malicious. But couple it with the fact that he's been lying about many other things (so far I'm inclined to think it was for players' sake in his own eyes) and that humans have been suffering for a while dealing with a literal god that doesn't understand them... Well, I have a feeling that they will doubt his motives and literally everything they know, rightfully so.

The amount of attention this little comic received is a bit terrifying and overwhelming and seeing all the different interesting interpretations people come up with I just wanted to explain mine own a little better <3

I want them all to be healed and happy, little guy absolutely included, but man the situation is rough, and the odds are against us

(Also please ignore typos, I'm hyperaware of them and even messed up writing my on name, i was really, really tired :') )

Update after ep 8: oh boy :')

[xribxrry]

bro got eaten in the womb

[tobiasdrake]

I just realized we seriously managed to go the entire Candy Kingdom episode, an episode about a world of candy where Caine is worshipped as their deity, without ever making a Candy Caine pun.