#dumb posts

[leaslichoma]

Toriel is a bad mom because she gets drunk in chapter 4 and doesn't offer any of the alcohol to her kids.

[switchywitchie]

Do me doggy style

and by that I mean euthanize me

[tumadmirer]

It's always, "Ooo, I cast fireball!"

"Ooo,I cast magic missile."

WELL, I CAST

INSTANTANEOUS FULL-TERM PREGNANCY

[maudlinmagpie]

I think I finally get why I'm so exhausted by the vampire chronicles/iwtv fandom post The Vampire Lestat release. I feel like one of the main reasons I love it as a series is because all of the characters are so complex/grey, and yet the fandom hatesss conflict between characters. The whole point of TVL is deconstructing the vampire casts relationship to trauma and history in the modern day, and how being immortal compounds these things, hundreds of years of life and history with other characters and theyre supposed to have done literally nothing wrong ever?? What?

Every (at least vampire) character in the show has done something that could be considered irredeemable, and yet they choose to still interact with eachother in different ways (a lot of the time this is revenge but that's besides my point). The characters also explicitly talk about this in the plot, like Armands "armends" go over his wrongdoings in the hopes that it can heal his relationship with others, and once he is rejected he lashes out in retaliation. He finally becomes a part of Daniel's life in part because of his inability to fix his relationship with Louis and Lestat.

Louis kills Bruce to try and bring peace to Claudia, but is so self involved and motivated that in the end it means nothing, it fixes nothing, and doesn't ease the guilt, Claudia makes this very clear to Louis directly. All of this and his relationship with Regina is based in guilt for mistakes he has made.

Lestat literally engages in incest, one of the largest taboos and fixture of Gothic media. Louis finding this out is obviously at first digusted before Lestat breaks and finally comes to terms with the extent of his abuse/trauma, which contextualises but doesn't excuse Lestats behaviour.

I am a Claudia defender till I die but she admits (through lestats retelling, which is do consider a very important note when talking about this specific point) that she made up the assault on the train because she wants to prove her power and autonomy in her own story, and that they aren't the only characters capable of manipulation and wrongdoing. Her final appearance is about how Louis and Lestat could never truly understand her because they refused her complexity as a character, which is in my opinion what the fandom does for all of the characters.

All of these characters are motivated and entrenched in cycles of trauma and abuse that have lasted literally *hundreds* of years, and I feel like removing the friction and grey areas completely destroys the characters and does a major disservice to the plot itself.

Lost my point, and I don't really have an ending, but I'm just baffled and frustrated.

[i-reblog-everything44]

To u they’re boring het couple #501, to me they’re babygirl #1 and babygirl #2

[phoenixqueenwrites]

Tav: Astarion, would you still love me if I were a wheel of cheese?

Astarion: Why?

Astarion: No.

[wonderinc-sonic]

Charmy IS a sticky hand child and anyone who tells you otherwise is propaganda.