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Now, the problem with having lots of writing ideas, is I have to focus on one to work on.
A side effect of this, is that the selected project immediately looses its lustre as soon as something shiny and new shows up. (This post is being updated as old projects are completed and new ones added). Now, for posterity:
we need to bring back actors not playing a single sexually normal character in their entire career
I wonder how many drafts it took before “fag” was removed from Butterscotch Bitch
I’d like to formally thank everyone for NOT posting about IWTV season three yet, universally, nobody is posting about it yet, nobody is allowed to post about it until my Pandora essay is done, I swear to Maharet guys I’m trusting you, it’s me and a massive international fandom against the world, we can react to episode one on Tuesday 9th 00:00am AEST (after I’ve submitted my essay)
Yes, the title is from Butterscotch Bitch. Never doubt me. Everyone is free to post thank you for Not Posting, something people definitely did out of respect for me personally <3
I’d like to formally thank everyone for NOT posting about IWTV season three yet, universally, nobody is posting about it yet, nobody is allowed to post about it until my Pandora essay is done, I swear to Maharet guys I’m trusting you, it’s me and a massive international fandom against the world, we can react to episode one on Tuesday 9th 00:00am AEST (after I’ve submitted my essay)
Imagine how many great, weird, awesome stories would exist if writers actually wrote instead of scrolling on tumblr
u know what i didn't come here to be attacked like this
Daniel, or the Boy Without A Novel (from Interview With The Vampire)
I was giving an imaginary contributors Q&A at an academic conference (the maladaptive procrastination is really getting out of hand) and I think I worked out why there’s no extended treatise on Daniel Molloy in the novels.
There are (broadly) two types of novels in The Vampire Chronicles.
1. “Hello, I am going to ruminate on the trials and tribulations of my immortal existence”
2. Unfortunately, Lestat has fallen in love again.
There is occasionally crossover, but no book really exists outside of this framework. A novel with Daniel, The Boy From IWTV could not exist within this framework. The way he was written lacked the type of core philosophy and history Rice needed to latch on to for a further exploration of character. Lestat would not fall in love with him in the way needed for a type 2, because he wouldn’t be interesting (fascinating) to Lestat, outside of the way that every mortal human is eternally fascinating.
And the real desire, a type one book, would be impossibly because Rice did not write contemporary history. “Lestat has fallen in love” novels are broadly contemporary, and “Hello I will ruminate” novels are historical fiction. A Daniel “I will ruminate” novel would not have the authorial luxury of plantation life, Imperial Rome, Renaissance Venice, or Actual Atlantis. There would be no allowance for deep religious or philosophical questions on the meaning of life and existence. Not because Daniel is incapable of these things, but because “the boy” did not have them in a way that fit into the broader conversation of The Vampire Chronicles.
A type 1 Daniel Molly novel begins in the early 1950s when he is born, deals with a little over twenty years of human life, and then crashes headfirst into the vampiric world in 1976. It skims past the material covered in Queen of the Damned, and picks up with a young vampire who has no connection to the human world: no family, no friends - at least none outside of the connections he had cultivated with Armand.
This could be a deeply interesting story (I know for a fact, because I plan to write something similar in the future), but it is hardly gothic. It is contemporary, it deals exclusively with living history, and there is no chance to question the changing of the times. There is no opportunity to paint Daniel with the brush of times gone by, to grandfather him into historical atrocities, to use his story to ask complicated questions about religion and free will, at least not within the framework that was established within the series.
There is no Daniel book because he is a modern man, and only Lestat is allowed to have modern stories. Interestingly, this is why television Daniel has more leeway: he has existed long enough, and lived a complex enough life that he could very well have enticed a Ricean book about him. We shall see.
Sweetie Pie’s feels borderline like a Stefon bit
Character I am writing: I really need a name.
Me: I’ll find you one, but I’m really not sure where to find one.
The beautiful celebrity who I am in love with:
[boss music intensifies]
One day I’m going to say “she kicked her pussy up the wall” in casual conversation.
There was an explosion at the journal factory so I have to tell you all I got an 86.5 on my essay. Critical analysis. Art history. Gay. Final week of the semester this is the encouragement I needed to ACE the rest of my assessments. I hope. Fingers crossed. (Reaches for the white monster and the methylphenidate hydrochloride.) it’s going to be a busy week.
Also my dad is interstate for work and he doordashed me donuts to celebrate my essay marks I LOVE MY DAD
“I actually wish that every single subject could be take separately, so I could really dedicate myself to a single topic, and each individual assessment could have my full attenti—” (remembers part time study exists*) “WELL MAYBE I JUST WANT TO BE IN SCHOOL FOREVER!”
Also known as: while I currently have the capacity (time, energy, intellectual resources) to complete all of my end-of-semester assessments, for at the very least the research essays, I do wish this was my One Singular Topic and I could dedicate myself to this alone with no interruptions. Unfortunately there is a conspiracy against me and everything is due at the same time because that’s how semesters work.
Can I research how Judy Chicago and Adrian Piper were differently impacted as artists by the Woman’s Liberation Movement, and the failures of second wave feminism to uplift working class women and women of colour in all areas of life but specifically post-modern art, AND research the lives and expectations of women in early imperial Rome (under Augustus and Tiberius) and their political, literary, economic and marital lives and the reception of this through Pandora by Anne Rice, AND whatever Shakespeare BS I’m going to pull out of my ass for my personal essay (look, sometimes you have a lot of assessments and you make the pragmatic choice to pull some BS on the one you know you’re going to do well on) AND blah blah blah second draft short film script? YES! Yes I can do all of that. However, it would be nice if I didn’t have to do it concurrently.
I am accidentally doing something on American feminism in the 70s and American feminism in the 90s and as an Australian it’s annoying but as someone trying to keep a solid timeline of notes it’s BREAKING MY BRAIN! Yesterday I had to talk myself out of reading the entirely of The Second Sex plus two additional volumes of commentary (good life choice, I am not a philosophy student and I do not have the time for that level of research on a secondary text).
Honestly this post is just venting about how much I love my subjects and I feel like I’m having to cut corners with all of them. My annotated copy of Pandora is sitting on top of my library copy of Feminism and “Race” by Kum-Kum Bhavnani and I can’t give either of them appropriate attention and it really sucks.
This post was just supported the be the dialogue/part time joke in the first paragraph. I mean, I guess I needed to vent but WOW. Signs indicate that I should take a chill pill. If you got to the end of this you’re amazing and I love you. Mostly saying that because statistically speaking you’re one of like three mutuals I have who give a toss about study/academia, while I do say ILY to random strangers (see footnote) it’s usually directed at ppl I know. This is 5 paragraphs now I need to crash. Bye :)
TL;DR - SEMESTERS SHOULD BE MORE THAN 12 WEEKS LONG I LOVE CLASSES AND STUDYING AND MORE TIME TO LEARN, AND MORE TIME BETWEEN ASSESSMENTS WOULD BE REALLY FUCKING BENEFICIAL
*part time study is super cool if you are studying part time I love you
So I’m watching the movie Cleopatra from 1963, the one with Elizabeth Taylor.
Can someone explain what that entrance into Rome was? Like holy fuck. It was beautiful, but a little over the top maybe?
Mark Antony wearing what is basically a mini skirt brings me joy
Oh, from a British perspective, this movie is flippin' hilarious (but not for the actual film itself, surprisingly)!
"Cleopatra" is one of the most infamously over-budget films of the sixties, at the tail end of the Classical Hollywood era. A significant portion was due to be filmed in Pinewood Studios in the south of England. Tons of costumes, props, sets and all manner of film-making stuff was created, set up and compiled. Millions of dollars were spent on it.
And then the production was abruptly moved to Italy.
But -in an extraordinary case of financial mismanagement- the filmmakers left virtually everything in Pinewood. All those costumes, props and sets were just abandoned.
Now, you're probably wondering why this is funny. Well, here's the thing; Pinewood Studios has lots of other films being made all at once. It's one of the main (if not the main) film-making centre for the UK, and was even more so back in the sixties. And one of those other film-making teams were the team behind the "Carry On" series of low-budget British comedy films.
Who promptly took virtually all of those sets, props and costumes.
And made a film using them.
And called it "Carry On Cleo".
It's one of the most popular British comedy films of the sixties, and is a send-up of the various epic historical' films that "Cleopatra" was part of. And it was a huge financial success in the UK (in no small part because the filmmakers got most of the high-quality sets, props and costumes for free).
So, basically, while Hollywood got a overbudget epic known more for the scandal involving its leads, British audiences got a surprisingly good-looking comedy film with tons of silly jokes.
if they dont release an armand poster today i’m crucifying lestat btw
lestat lives to see another day
you know what yes 🩷 as a treat
Airports are elaborate scams designed to sell Frieda McFadden books
Broke: reinterpreting someone’s personal post to be about The Character
Bespoke: reinterpreting deeply interesting and significant anthropological and philosophical writings on East Asian art and literature to be about The Character
