May

she/her | wannabe cool guy

[mayflowl]

Started that new Elle show and there’s ad placements dispersed throughout it every court-mandated 5 minutes and then actual ads for Elle Woods products and then a Facebook ad using a Destroy Boys song what in the temu labubu is going on😭

[mayflowl]

The Seattle kids look like if 200 teenaged MayFlowls sat in a circle and started a debate on ethics after a quick 20 minute TikTok-as-a-source doomscroll session what does this say about me and why did the writers choose to write it this way

[mayflowl]

Started that new Elle show and there’s ad placements dispersed throughout it every court-mandated 5 minutes and then actual ads for Elle Woods products and then a Facebook ad using a Destroy Boys song what in the temu labubu is going on😭

[mayflowl]

Love love love that (at least in the show) some of the characters are described as “The Vampire _____.” Like loooove The Vampire Lestat he’s so much cooler than Lestat the Vampire.

Also love that the characters with those titles (Lestat and Armand in particular) are called that because their vampirism, to them, takes precedent over their identity. Like Louis spends decades fighting his vampiric nature and trying to reclaim some semblance of humanity so of COURSE he isn’t a vampire before he’s Louis. He’s Louis the Vampire not The Vampire Louis atp in time. Lestat and Armand, on the surface level, don’t struggle with that the same way so they’re vampires first

[mayflowl]

Been going through an intense vampire phase and thinking about how vampirism is a metaphor for one relenting to one’s own deepest hedonistic desires and how the original goth movement was (in part!) a celebration of that hedonism and finding beauty the darkest parts of existence that religious society deemed sinful.

Thinking about how goth fashion, especially fishnets and corsets, started as a celebration and acknowledgment of pleasure and now are a trademark of gooner bait tik tok OF slop.

I heard someone defend the new wave of “goth ihop” type shit by saying that gothic culture has always had ties to sensuality but like!! The vibe was different!! I haven’t sat down with the new goth ihop employees and talked to them but like I doubt they’re making gooner bait with that in mind

Anyway take what i complain about very lightly I’m not in the goth community. I just love studying fashion history and vampires and it makes me sad to see the original spirit of the subculture reduced to an OF harem trope

[mementomauri]

I do have a fondness for how gothic and erotic lit had a certain barrier to entry. Like I do love more ppl getting into the vampire chronicles and I'll always be happy to have more Loustat fans but those books are weird and melancholic and erotic and philosophical and constantly testing boundaries and asking questions. And it feels like ppl are expecting or wanting "the vampire diaries but gay". The books have uncomfortable moments and the characters will do and say and believe things that make you double take but so much of the books are just "how moral can I be when nothing matters and I'm immortal?"

This isn't just a tale of gay vampires. It's a haunting philosophical treatise about life, mortality, morality, death, depression, incest, rape, love, regret, and the Pain Of Time. It can be fun and it can be gross and it can be wonderful but it's not for the timid.

[lovetheviking]

This

[magicmooshka]

my comic for terrible comic day 2026

[starlitsequins]

i dont mean to victim blame but why do these vampires keep talking to daniel molloy when they know he's daniel molloy

[demonpoppyseed]

Imagine if people watched Interview with the Vampire and it inspired them to think about how the past is in a very real way inaccessible to us and memory can be misleading even when you're not being dishonest and different people can have different experiences of the same event that feel emotionally true and are very real to the people who experienced them even if they contradict each other and often you will never be able to know what really happened and how this can make repairing damaged relationships difficult and threatening to a person's sense of self

[mayflowl]

Nah cuz I’ve never seen a piece of media that leans so heavily into the idea of an unreliable narrator I genuinely love it so much..

I think the US has such an individualistic culture now that people are forgetting how to understand perspective when interacting with others, much to our collective detriment. LOVE that all the characters are wrong and all of them are right all at the same time

[reticent-vampire]

literally

[lioncunt]

best character of all time

[shuploc]

Lestat de Lioncourt, the wolf killer 🐺

[offwegointothewildblueyonder]

wait...if you're manipulating me, and im manipulating you, then who's interviewing the vampire?? 😱

[moonyeyes]

Evil of my evil

[imwiremother]

‘‘shipping is fucking up how some of yall consume media‘‘ i do not ‘consume media’ i read books, i watch movies. like a normal person does. when was this term mass adopted, why is every work of art ‘‘consumed’‘. along with ‘’creating content’’ its terms the little lad on the monopoly box would use

[nextchapter]

really intrigued by how daniel's book is described as a "bodice ripper" and "steamy beach read" like do we think he took the time to write out some loustat smut scenes or are the passages describing french bengali smokeshow armand just so unwittingly and undeniably horny that you can practically feel the writer's sweat through the pages

[dahlia-molinas]

if christopher nolan was really the visionary and ground-breaking director everyone claims he is he would have cast ben affleck as penelope

[mayflowl]

Yeah yeah media literacy this literary analysis that all I know is that Lestat bought Halloween candy for the neighborhood kids so how bad can he possibly be??