[venacaava]

[everoutoftouch]

If you have Spotify reblog this and tag what your number one song on your “on repeat” playlist is.

[pettydemon]

[divenlydecayed-deactivated20260]

Did you hear a new love language just dropped? yeah its crazy. Its called just fuckin biting them.

[k1ntsug1-r0b0t-g1rl]

reblogging this but shaking my head the whole time to show i don't believe in love languages

[drchucktingle]

YOULL NEVER TAKE MY EM DASH

[uknow]

Felissa Rose as Angela Baker

SLEEPAWAY CAMP (1983)

[mckatkat]

Okay one last thing about The Vampire Lestat on AMC and then I stop:

fucking bravo to the goddamn actors.

I had so many issues with this season, and so many of them acted the fuck out of it without having a lot in the material to support them. If anyone in this entire production is good at their jobs, it's the casting department; they are better than the writing deserves.

I especially want to highlight Joseph Potter (Nicki), Sheila Atim (Akasha), and the MVP of me having any part of a good time this season, Damien Atkins (Magnus), but so many of the smaller performances were great too.

Delainey Hayles is a magnetic actress and deserves a great career for decades to come, Jacob Anderson kept doing the work and should have been in award contention for season one, and Assad Zaman deserved to have gotten the amount of screentime his character warranted from the source material so he could murder the fuck out of performing it, because he would have, and it would have been awesome.

Sam Reid: like, fuck, what can I even say, man. Selfishly, I wanted the season to be good because you play a great goddamn Lestat, and even when the script was working against you you turned in a great Lestat, and as someone who is mourning the adaptation we could have had in so many ways... thank you for caring as much as you do, and being a fantastic actor, and doing as much as you could to bring this performance together for people who care about this character as much as I do?

Even though I hated the season, I saw that, and I really, really appreciated it.

[kolumander]

a vision in my head of armand in a latex vest... i like to imagine this being a photo daniel took in 1981 and kept in his wallet or on his person.

[userarmand]

ASSAD ZAMAN The Vampire Lestat: After Dark

[gloomylesbian]

by Ami Thompson (@AmiThompson_h on Twitter/X)

[eosphoroz]

Bringing back what matters...

[sillystigmata]

Happy Freak Friday. (Only freaks can see this post)

[writertobridge-deactivated20230]

Saw this on Twitter and wanted to share.

[campyre]

A huge reason why Queen of the Damned (2002) flopped so hard was because they wanted to skip over The Vampire Lestat and focus on rockstar Lestat only (minus the few pieces from TVL that they needed to shittily adapt so viewers had any semblance of context)

And now that’s exactly what AMC did with season 3, too, but instead of having a decent soundtrack and good visuals to make up for some of it, it’s all shit from a butt

[reticentvampyr]

the thing about the queen of the damned movie, too, is that in addition to the soundtrack and stylistic choices that appealed to the alt kids in the early aughts, it did...whatever it is that it did...earnestly. it flopped earnestly. it's become a cult classic in part because, while failing as an adaptation, t's an absolutely cuckoo-bananas fun-time vampire film in its own right. anne rice purists love to hate it, or hate to love it. horror and vampire enjoyers just love it period.

tvl doesn't stand on its own as much as amc begs us to believe it does. i know many of us are treating it as separate to cope, but when you look at it on its own, it's...not even a vampire story. without the gothic vampire foundation of the first two seasons, this one views like a showrunner's 7-hour crash-out and ... not much else.

you could argue rolin jones just wanted to write a vampire rockstar story, but to be honest, we don't see enough of the foundations of rice's vampire lore fleshed out in it to even say that. we don't see the exploration of nicki's turning and aftermath, daniel's is done offscreen. part of the appeal of the book TVL is lestat learning about the workings of his monsterhood, via marius and akasha and through trial and error, because magnus abandoned him. we get fleeting lore drops at best, offhand mentions of offscreen dynamics at worst.

plus, you can't force your way into being a cult or camp classic; it has to be largely unintentional. the dialogue this season was so try-hard, written in the pursuit of viral memes and giffable moments, from nearly every character regardless of whether it fit or not.

experimental formatting in the arts is great, but it shouldn't be at the expense of consistent characterization or audience comprehension. when do you cross from self-referential nudge-winking into the total dilution of a story, where nothing anyone does or says matters or carries any weight?

[wetorturedsomefolks]

love island should introduce a "scheming eunuch" islander who is like a smart and completely asexual islander exempt from being kicked off or being made to participate in any challenges and they're just there to provide advice and be a sort of sounding board for the other islanders when they need a disinterested party to talk things through with. but the scheming eunuch has secret goals unbeknownst to anyone e.g. a cash prize for talking a certain couple into breaking up etc.

[userarmand]

pretty face #1 and pretty face #2

[bigjeansss]

Let me light it for you, boss 💨🚬