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She/her. Co-host of Fascination and Frustration podcasts.

[penandinkprincess]

loustat has truly (to me) never been more couple than louis calling lestat and asking him to look at regina and tell him if she really looks like claudia.

like they are NOT on good terms this season, but this is a moment of, "i am showing this painful, infected wound to you because you have a matching one, and you are the only one who can do this for me." like this is a big, extremely vulnerable ask from louis.

and even lestat's quiet "yes. okay." in this request even though things are bad, because this is a request of one parent to another and thus sidesteps the conflict of, "we are supposed to be something to each other, but you didn't even call when i was shot." like louis is louis and the great love of his life, but louis is also the person he raised a child with, and that bond still stands strong enough to call a favor in on.

and louis's tone when lestat brings up claudia's eyes and louis jumps in with, "i know, right? there's no spark." and there is SO MUCH pain in it but also such a moment of, "she was our child and you know her like i did. you know her eyes. talk to me about her because it's the only way she can still exist, and you are the only one she can exist for me with. she was ours."

like there is SO MUCH piled on their relationship, but the way the core of it is, "we are parents without our child, and the only thing stronger than love between us is grief."

[fandiagnosis]

THE VAMPIRE LESTAT 3.3

[djarinmuse]

I literally love all of you, but as a Tumblr veteran, Tumblr's main feature is the reblog feature. It is the beating heart of the dashboard and the foundation for a chronological timeline. The For You page here should not be your default setting.

You guys have got to start reblogging stuff you enjoy, especially, specifically gifs and fan art but also fics and fan theories or even hot takes if you're not afraid of a lil discourse. I'm tired of being the first or third reblog for a person's post and then seeing my blog's followers do nothing but hit like, while blogs sit there with no new posts in months or years!

Reblog more stuff please. Thank you, have a good day.

You're not even going to reblog this post are you 🫩

[triassictriserratops]

fandom dies in the likes. You HAVE to reblog.

[strangersteddierthings]

I wish we could get a clearer image of this. It looks like it lists everyone and their full names. We could finally have a last name for Jeff and Gareth and a (more or less) canon name for Unnamed Freak....

[sheldarp]

These are my name guesses and I’m assuming part of the text says Top Right or Row and Bottom Right or Row because yearbooks do that and it makes sense with the word blobs.

HELLFIRE CLUB MEMBERS Top Right or Row:

1) Mark W-something-ending-with-G?

2) Edward Munson (obvs)

3) Gareth Fuller?

4) I? I? (But double I feels crazy)

5) Brian Clark (maybe Mr. Clark’s kid?)

Bottom Right or Row:

6) Daniel or Darrell? F or P? (But D-something-ending-with-L for sure on that first name)

7) Jeff W? M? (no idea on that last name)

8) Cory, Cary, Gary? Hoffmann or Hopkin?

9) and Clara or C-something? (I really wanna know who she is!)

[rutherinahobbit]

Became weirdly preoccupied with this.

I see:

Mark Young

Edward Munson

Gareth Fuller

Tony Taylor

Brian Clark

Daniel Payne (maybe??)

Jeff Walker

Gary or Cory Harris

Clara K or Y - so Yin or Kim perhaps?

[sandersstudies]

Yesterday I almost cried because my baby cousin ran up to my grandmother and was like. “Ha! Buhbuh ba ha.” And she said okay you want to show me something? And he led her over to the garden patch and crouched down and pointed at rocks and plants and was like. “Ah. Habah ba ah” as she listened attentively.

And I was like that happened 1,000 years ago. Probably 10,000 years ago. Maybe 100,000. The youngest human in a group went to the oldest one and said to the best of their ability “come see.” And the adult went.

[3liza]

this is such a beautiful post it doesn't need my dumb addition, but i can't fit this in the tags. at the archaeological site Dolni Vestonice in the Czech Republic there are a bunch of really really fascinating finds and I'm only going to tell you about one tiny detail of one of the most interesting sites in the world.

at this settlement 20-30,000 years ago there lived a person who appears to have been a sort of sorcerer-grandmother-ceramics artist and her workshop was preserved very well in the sedimentary layers. her hut where she had her kilns was full of little sculptures of animals and people that seem to have been made to explode in the kiln on purpose, we're not sure why but nevermind. the relevant detail is that when you sculpt something with your hands and then fire it, your fingerprints can be preserved in the surface of the clay forever, so we have fingerprints of ancient ceramics artists that have survived for tens of thousands of years. and one of the major artifacts from Dolni Vestonice has a fingerprint on it that is so small it could only have belonged to a child

so this shaman-grandmother-sculptor, who was buried with her pet fox by the way, had children running through her workshop and touching everything she made while she was at her mysterious work of creating the world's oldest ceramics, none of which appear to be bowls, bottles, pots, or any "useful" items at all, but rather a collection of animal and human and sometimes anthropomorphic figures, some of which appear to be self portraits. exactly the same as sandersstudios' grandmother being led to the garden by an excited baby. we've all been the same for 30,000 years.

[adhd-merlin]

I love how they made gaslighting one of Gaius's main character traits

[adhd-merlin]

@dollopheadsandclotpoles I hope this is real because it's hilarious

[unfortunatelymerlin]

#if you look at gauis' entire everything for more .5 seconds you're like 'wow shakespearen levels of moral complexity here' #but merlin is constrained by being a genre of show that can only be described as 'Hijinks' and so it's like #ah yes that's our ensemble cast's designated Funny Old Man. look at him he's raising an eyebrow in disapproval! #and like he is a damn funny old man icon! legend! beleaguered mentor dad to wizard jesus and babysitter to the magic hypochondriac king #except by rights its like hang on dude shouldn't you be like fundamentally broken inside. #stood by and facilitated the genocide of your own people and destroyed a way of life you had dedicated yourself to preserving #tried to save as many people as you could but had to essentially be choosy about how many you saved to be able to help more but also #to keep your own head. oh and also the guy who ordered the genocide is one the only friends you have left and you genuinely care about him #even though he's patently nuts and is directly responsible for the deaths of half your other friends. and he's your BOSS. #you end up looking out for young vulnerable terrified extremely powerful magic users in the heart of camelot #one of them you (tho this is hardly only half gauis fault tbf) inculcate into your own paranoia and loyalty to the monarch that #he becomes a shell of himself dedicated to protecting the king more than any of the ideals he came to the kingdom with #and the other just about goes mad after years of terror that the man she loves as a father would burn her a death for being who she is #and was so desperate for community she went looking for it in ways that went very Wrong when community was in fact there the whole time #but was lying to her face about it out of (genuine but misplaced) paternalistic care #literally gauis what the hell. i want to study you like a bug #sorry this was a funny post and look what ive gone and done to it dhejd

@princessithaca

[katherynefromphilly]

I never looked at Gaius the same way after I heard, on the Destiny and Chicken podcast, either Michelle or Ruth say that Gaius was basically Merlin’s older self from the legends. They’d split the character of Merlin in two.

So all the shit Old Merlin got up to in the legends, and all the old man and gaslighting behavior that the mythical Merlin got up to was now assigned to Gaius as a character instead. In the show you can even see Merlin evolving into Gaius by season 5.

Am I misquoting you lovely folks @f-f-podcast ?

[rutherinahobbit]

I think it was Mark-Allen’s comment originally, that Merlin+Kilgarrah+Gaius=merlinfromlegend which certainly felt like an ‘oh my god of course’ moment for me. Makes so much sense.

[cute-catts]

The orange rose is very thirsty

[dais-yyyy-deactivated20250224]

Dame Maggie Smith

1934-2024

[guerrillatech]

[politicalhobbyist]

[f-f-podcast]

The Hunger Games: Catching Fire PART 2 – FASCINATION AND FRUSTRATION

We are having Thinky Thoughts about The Hunger Games: Catching fire.

This is Part 2 of our conversation.

[aostrek-236]

Loveeeeeed this conversation!!! I was super excited to see a Part 1 and Part 2, can’t wait to listen to Mockingjay in July. ❤️❤️❤️

I agree that the final shot looking down at Katniss is very strange, especially because - if I remember correctly - in Mockingjay, Katniss is not fired up, she’s broken by the events of Catching Fire. So I don’t see how you end on a “I’m the mockingjay, hear me roar” note when she should be just devastated and scared. Unless it’s just a movie thing because you want people to come back for the third movie. I don’t remember the end of the book well enough, unfortunately, to know if that’s how Book 2 ends, I’d have to check.

I also loved the analysis about Finnick - I don’t know why, but it never occurred to me that Mags might have had a way out if he could have kept her safe long enough. That makes his panic when she walks into the fog all the more heartbreaking - I took her death almost as a foregone conclusion, but he had a little bit of hope. 🥺🥺 Crushing.

Also, have you guys given any thought to talking about Ballad of Song and Snakes? I haven’t watched it yet myself, but I think it might be really interesting because it kind of ties in with Ruth’s questions about Snow’s competency. I think his backstory might explain some of why he’s soooo obsessed with Katniss and why he’s gotten a bit complacent (?) in his tyranny, why he lets himself be almost pulled around by Plutarch. Maybe he could see the bigger picture before, but now he’s too arrogant or too blinded.

Last question - will you be reviewing Mockingjay Part 1 and 2 separately or as a whole?

Again, loved this conversation, love to hear your guys’ analysis, as always. Can’t wait for Mockingjay!! ❤️❤️❤️

[rutherinahobbit]

So glad you enjoyed the conversation! Thanks so much for the message. We’re so excited about getting to Mockingjay!

We will be talking about the 2 films separately, if only to avoid a 12hour podcast episode 😅

Glad you liked our discussion of Finnick. He such an interesting character! So crunchy.

It did occur to me that some of my questions about Snow might be answered in the prequel - honestly I don’t have very much interest simply because of the grimness of setting a story at the START of this dystopia rather than the end… so likely we will not be going into that one.

Thanks again so much for getting in touch! These conversations have been so much fun.

R x

[pineapple-split]

Ok ALSO (and then I promise I’ll shut up and dive in to the celebratory rewatch): EVEN IF IT WERE TRUE that Black Sails only has queer subtext (and let me make it clear, it absolutely is not true) that still doesn’t invalidate it as a piece of media?? The queer characters aren’t the only reason we love this show. We love this show because it’s beautiful.

It’s heart-wrenching. It dares to ask the questions “what if your civilized society isn’t all that civilized? Who does it leave behind? Whose blood is it built on? What lengths will people go to and what will they sacrifice for even the tiniest bit of agency and freedom in a world that is actively trying to kill them? Are they justified? Can you even make that judgment call?”

It’s a story about storytelling. It has narratives within narratives and foils and tragic flaws and parallels and overarching themes that begin in the very first moments in episode one and last all the way to the end. It’s a Greek tragedy put to the screen. It’s still so hopeful somehow, even when so many things fall apart. It’s the epitome of “the love may not have been enough but it’s important that it was there.” The writing is wonderful (mostly, I have a few hangups but that’s not important here), the cinematography and score is almost reverent. People who worked on this show still gush 10 years later about how it was their masterpiece.

Those headlines of “the best show nobody watched”? There’s a reason for that. Those of us who love Black Sails love it passionately, and the complex and wonderful queerness of it is only one of the reasons.

[kabaks]

when black sails said “having your story go unrecorded in history is violence” when it said “having your story misrecorded mistold distorted manipulated and defiled by history is violence” when it said “being defined by someone else’s story is violence” when it said “being unable to escape your own story is violence” AND when it said over and over and over again: “just because there is no story doesn’t mean there WAS no story” like enough. ive had enough. release me

[glorious-spoon]

every time my dash is full of vaguing i'm torn between my deep instinctive nosiness and the rational knowledge that i probably do not actually want to know

[raggedy-spaceman]

THE SANDMAN Interview | Neil Gaiman, Tom Sturridge and Cast Talk Netflix Series AKA Tom Sturridge ready to fight everyone for The Sandman bless him.

[greentealycheejelly]

Death, for day 8: Wings of this Sandman themed inktober event.

[greentealycheejelly]

This is the same picture as the original, just with a dark background. My original intent was for her dark wings to be very visible on a regular white background, but for the wings to disappear (and for the stars to appear) for someone using dark mode. But somehow my transparency trick didn't work, and people just never saw the second version. So this is me trying to fix that. 😅

[michellemisfit]

I was called for Saturday Night Sunday Morning picrew duty by @heymrspatel @mybrainismelted @deedala @too-schoolforcool @juliakayyy @lingy910y @tanktopgallavich - thank you <3

This one’s very me. They have a round face option (yay!), I wore this exact outfit yesterday, when Ruth clipped my back and sides, and my fringe is currently too long. So yeah. Very accurate picrew! <3

Tagging @rutherinahobbit @faejilly @jrooc @katspace @hellofavillain @howlinchickhowl @a-chilleus @palepinkgoat @lynne-monstr @whatthebodygraspsnot @whatwouldmickeydo @energievie @thisdivorce @toughpaperround @tsuga-of-mars @thepupperino @crossmydna @creepkinginc @southsidestory @depressedstressedlemonzest and @darlingian, because I don’t like not tagging you, even if I know a picrew is the furthest thing from your mind right now 🤍🩵💙

[rutherinahobbit]

[actual-changeling]

In the spirit of encouraging people to comment on fanfics while also making it easier to do so, I feel obliged to share a browser extension for ao3 that has quite literally revolutionized the comment game for me.

I present to you: the floating ao3 comment box!

From what I've seen, a big problem for many people is that once you reach the comments at the bottom of a fic, your memory of it miraculously disappears. Anything you wanted to say is stuck ten paragraphs ago, and you barely remember what you thought while reading. This fixes that!

I'll give a little explanation on the features and how it works, but if you want to skip all that, here's the link.

The extension is visible as a small blue box in the upper left corner.

(Side note: The green colouring is not from the extension, that's me.)

If you click on it, you open a comment box window at the bottom of your screen but not at the bottom of the fic. I opened my own fic for demonstrative purposes.

The website also gives explanations on how exactly it functions, but I'll summarize regardless.

insert selection -> if you highlight a sentence in the fic it will be added in italics to the comment box

add to comment box -> once you're done writing your comment, you click this button and the entire thing will automatically copied to the ao3 comment box

delete -> self explanatory

on mulitchapter fics, you will be given the option to either add the comment to just the current chapter or the entire fic

The best part? You can simply close the window the same way you opened it and your progress will automatically be saved. So you can open it, comment on a paragraph, and then close it and keep reading without having the box in your face.

Comments are what keep writers going, and as both a writer and a reader, I think it's such an easy way of showing support and enthusiasm.

[gallusrostromegalus]

HERE'S THAT BITCH IVE BEEN LOOKING FOR

[aidaronan]

This one that puts the little O in the corner glitches on my computer/browser and will mess up my stories when I go to edit them. I'm not sure if it's bc I'm a Mac or because I'm a Firefox, BUT - Here's another version if anyone else needs it bc that above version doesn't work for them. Pastebin link. You'll have to "create new script" on tampermonkey/greasemonkey/whatever and paste it in. In this one, instead of the little O, you get a gray "floaty review box" button amongst the other buttons at the top of the story (bookmarks, mark for later, share, etc.) This also adds some first/last chapter shortcuts on applicable stories, which I don't personally use much but there ya go.