if i saw you every day forever

30+ year old fandom veteran. Current obsessions: Fullmetal Alchemist, RoyEd, Hannibal, as well as Classic!Doctor Who, Doctor Who EU and Jodie Whittaker (although i don't blog about those as much). Fandom activities: fanart

[dear-ao3]

[campsis]

Eden Kalif, Good Cats

[weardes]

Armand + hands

[hellotailor]

The Vampire Lestat: The Queen of the Damned

In episode 5, “New York,” Lestat strips back his rock-star facade and confronts his memories of Akasha.

"There’s no way of knowing how Claudia might have behaved if she'd lived to see 2025, but Louis’ fantasy is embarrassingly shallow, opening with Claudia smiling sweetly and telling him that she missed him (would she really??) before segueing into small-talk about Louis’ latest business ventures. Much like with Daniel Molloy and Miss Lily, he’s paying someone to listen to him—now with an increased level of emotional baggage. Is Regina doing a convincing impression of Claudia? Obviously not! She’s basing her entire performance on secondhand accounts from Daniel’s book. Her job is to enact a vague outline of a happy family dinner, and in the same way that people manage to fall in love with chatbots, Louis’ imagination does the rest of the work.   In reality, Louis and Claudia’s relationship was far more contentious.  Much of their conflict stemmed from Louis feeling a sense of ownership over Claudia, leading all the way back to the moment of her turning: a horrifying scene where Louis dragged her body across the floor like a ragdoll and begged Lestat to give her the Gift. In the years after her transformation, her fathers kept her in a childish role that she quickly outgrew. The casting change from Bailey Bass to Delainey Hayles became an unintentionally effective transition point between Claudia’s adolescence and adulthood, when she and Louis began living as brother and sister. The complexity of this relationship can’t be translated into a staged hangout with Regina and her actress friend."

[hellotailor]

re-upping this because Fansplaining just lifted the paywall for recaps 4 and 5, making them available to free subscribers!

[tragicburnout]

i feel like there is a sleep in me that needs to be slept but each time i sleep i don't sleep that sleep

[palmer]

I’ve had enough of you… GUARDS! Impregnate this man.

[dearestloveliestdarcy]

[esarity11]

how daniel molloy feels after trying to conduct an accurate interview about vampires, but his subjects are louis de pointe du lack of information, lestat de lyingcourt, armanipulator, and claudead.

[ghirahimbo]

starting a compilation of my favorite "no thank you" buttons from when they want you to subscribe so bad

[kelp-kelp]

More from the notes:

[aiyexayen]

adding to the collection

[deadbeatmaker]

hannibal and will weren’t even toxic. all of that was normal

[deadbeatmaker]

armand is also normal

[homoquartz]

if you spoke to lestat or louis about your pain, they would say, "your pain? what about MY pain?" but if you spoke about your pain to armand he would say "let me lobotomize you and you will never feel pain again." he has a solution-based mindset and we could all learn from him.

[nohopethiswillallendintears]

” love and sex make us human! “ actually it’s selecting all images with a traffic light, but whatever, mate

[bobbole]

Anthony Machuca, Wake up Steve, our bowls are empty

[mug-of-beans]

“The old magic persists thanks to it’s unfathomable power.”

No, the old magic persists because the new magic can’t run the legacy spells I need to do my job, and keeps trying to install spirits I don’t want or need onto my orb.

[aqueerkettleofish]

Look, if the new magic didn't have a personality construct that kept trying to tell me which spells to use, maybe I wouldn't still be using the old magic.

[wizard-council-bureaucrat]

Yes it had a deep blood cost, but at least it was a one time sacrifice and not this monthly bloodletting nonsense new age magic has

[wizard-archivist-official]

The old magic is robust enough to survive a decade of use and it's compatible with every wand, staff, scroll, and charm in our collection.

The new magic stops working after three days and every spell uses proprietary runes.

Our preferences, as an archiving institution, should be pretty clear.

[charlesoberonn]

You try to get guidance for the new magic and the king's sorcerers maybe will answer you in a few days with an unhelpful suggestion to buy the newest orb.

You need guidance for the old magic and a dozen retired middle-aged wizards will pop up to explain it to you rune by rune if necessary.

[hinamie]

In the dazzling light, I was searching for you

[what-even-is-thiss]

You’d think that once you finally get long term access to a cat and your yearning to have cat access is fulfilled that you’d become slightly less obsessed with seeing people’s cats but no if anything it gets worse

[what-even-is-thiss]

Now that there are two whole cats in my life I have become even more obsessed with cats. Tell your cats I said hi.

[what-even-is-thiss]

I am reminded every day why I love cats because they’re right there, doing cat things, being absolutely adorable and committing cat crimes. They are friends with me and are so soft and also sharp.

[skyrigel]