food :)

any pronouns, gender's too much of a hassle to care about. bisexual I reblog a lot so if you feel like I shouldn't have reblogged something tell me

[machinot]

Nobody calls each other “terminally online” anymore. I think that’s because everyone is terminally online now. Jobless too. And ugly as fuck. Stains all over our shirts. Stupid as well

[cryptotheism]

HOW TO BECOME FAT

(from the Ashmole translation of Secretum Secretorum)

[conzoop]

happy skeleton warrior week, keep those bones strong!

[prontaentrega]

fanart i made of rodrigo de paul being sacrificed to gro goroth

[mari-otsu]

[tbposting]

by straining the full force of all of my media literacy i am able to discern the subtle hints that something homosexual is happening here

[kuropin]

More silly stuff

[retroactivebakeries]

[lesvegas]

i fucking hate gender bro what the fuck is any of this shit

[frenchtoastee]

[abandonrun]

me 15 seconds into a male on male zoom call: actually you know what? *territorial chimp noises*

[catgirlforeskin]

[aimseytv]

how it feels being the only lesbian

[aimseytv]

i just realised i didnt add 'in my friendgroup' and now it just looks like i got rid of all the lesbians and i'm sad about it

[mozilla-firefucks]

First cavewoman to notice grugetta's back looks really nice when she's banging rocks together

[androidtrashfire]

I genuinely did overall like the concept of Magnus just being an obsessive fan. Like, in the moment, it really made sense and worked for me.

Again though... There's a lot to sort of unpack, or at least acknowledge, in terms of what they changed.

In the book, Magnus is going through a veritable hoard of tall, able-bodied, blond-haired, blue-eyed white men, because he's trying to find the "strongest" person he can to leave his legacy and fortune to before he ends himself.

The racism implied in this is a feature, not a bug, because The Vampire Lestat is Anne Rice's intentional, racist, pro-white-supremacy manifesto. Once Lestat is turned, he begins to embody the power, privilege, "burden" as a foremost protector of the West, particularly "modern" Western philosophies and "morality."

Lestat finds Magnus gross and scary and disgusting when he's initially kidnapped. But the minute he's turned into a vampire his perception changes entirely and he falls in love with him (this is how everyone falls in love in TVC, instantaneously and usually without explanation). He is deeply saddened when Magnus throws himself into the fire, leaving Lestat without direction for his new role as the paragon of white perfection, a gap that will later be filled by Marius.

Reading these books as an adult, it would always be a strange idea to adapt them without any acknowledgement of Anne Rice's open, blatant, and foregrounded white supremacy. But you COULD do it. People have been doing it for years in fandom, either because they didn't like it, or more often because they didn't really understand how to read it for what it was. (Or in the worst cases, because they DID understand it and DID like it.)

I wouldn't think that not addressing the racism at all is the best move, but like I said. It's physically doable.

The problem now, though, isn't that they chose not to engage with it at all ever. It's that they very much DID choose to engage with it and Lestat's racism overtly in s1.

Having Lestat's turning have NO element of white supremacist framing to it now... just... doesn't bode well for the weird gap of understanding - the functional amnesia it seems we're all being expected to have - around the concept of race and racism in the show.

Especially as it pertains to 1. Lestat as a character, and 2. Lestat and Louis/the Unholy Family.

[bifauxnenarmand]

as an armandhead I think the lack of armand screentime this season is the greatest mercy they could’ve given us and him. did you ever consider he was spared from more character assassination and bad writing? he got to escape the horrors till the last episode #myfinalgirl

[upsettingandunfortunateclasshate]

My son's tattoo hurt me deeply

When Tess Morgan's son came home with a tattoo, she was griefstricken. She knew her reaction was OTT (he's 21) but it signalled a change in their relationship

This is gold this, absolute gold, the most over the top melodramatic hysterical ridiculous thing I’ve ever read

[brawlcloud]

This is actually so interesting to read- it’s from 2012 but its full of the same anxieties, even some of the same phrasing that many of the guardian’s later pieces on transness use. really hammers home how much of the terfism that emerged in the late 10s was middle class mothers angry at a loss of control over their adult children- whether that be their bodies or their friends or their opinions- and making that everyone’s problem because they have the power to do so

[monkey-cat-vivi]

He says, “I’m still the same person.”

I look at him, sitting there, my 21-year-old son. I feel I’m being interviewed for a job I don’t even want. I say, “But you’re not. You’re different. I will never look at you in the same way again. It’s a visceral feeling. Maybe because I’m your mother. All those years of looking after your body – taking you to the dentist and making you drink milk and worrying about green leafy vegetables and sunscreen and cancer from mobile phones. And then you let some stranger inject ink under your skin. To me, it seems like self-mutilation. If you’d lost your arm in a car accident, I would have understood. I would have done everything to make you feel better. But this – this is desecration. And I hate it.”

[quasi-normalcy]

Also just the classism of her associating tattoos with “vest tops, dogs on chains, broken beer glasses”; like, just say you hate poor people

[confusedgiantpanda]

See I don’t even think it’s Lestat favoritism because nothing I’ve seen has given me the impression that the writers actually like Lestat.

[decomposingfungi]

how can you be more racist than anne rice

[decomposingfungi]

how can you be more racist than anne rice

[decomposingfungi]

how can you be more racist than anne rice

[t0ast-ghost]

Can’t explain it but they’re really cunty in this photo

[vulcussy]

Art grad student answer: it's the contrapposto.

This is a counterbalanced pose where the weight is rested on one leg and the hips and shoulders are tilted in opposite directions. It emphasizes the curves of the body.

[lord-valery-mimes]

Cuntrapposto.

[katelyn-danger]

Cuntrapusso

[fork-in-the-bottomless-pit]

Cuntrapussy