same old song and dance

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[thehighgatevampire]

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[obskurity]

Evil Dead Burn - Thya - Deadite

[thehighgatevampire]

went shopping for work shoes and my mom was like your formal shoes are pretty old you should get new ones. one task checked off another created.

[thehighgatevampire]

52 works in the trinity gate tag.

[seeliequeene]

Mary with the Child and Singing Angels (detail), Sandro Botticelli, 1477

[thehighgatevampire]

"why didn't some people like the armand plot in the s3 finale? i thought we all liked armand because he's evil?" first of all i don't think he's evil secondly just because someone is evil doesn't mean they'd do any evil thing. i almost deleted this post because that is such an elementary statement but i guess i have to get the blocks out

[bambibllog]

vivienne westwood ss97 & samuel cirnansck spring 2012

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[thehighgatevampire]

the way some people view tvc characters man…that “this is the evil vampire show!”/“anne rice intended for us to not cast moral judgments on her characters!” bandwagon so many people have jumped on…it makes fans read characters as either totally blameless or way more intentionally harmful than they are. plus it stops them from wanting the show to give them interesting portrayals.

[thehighgatevampire]

the gay vampires cannot exist outside of morality because we do not and we are the ones perceiving them.

[thehighgatevampire]

i fear i didn’t explain the type of fan i meant well enough but i’m hoping since most of you have seen those types of fans you know what i’m referring to

[thehighgatevampire]

the way some people view tvc characters man…that “this is the evil vampire show!”/“anne rice intended for us to not cast moral judgments on her characters!” bandwagon so many people have jumped on…it makes fans read characters as either totally blameless or way more intentionally harmful than they are. plus it stops them from wanting the show to give them interesting portrayals.

[portaltomb]

this lettuce smells like dog

[iamoutofideas]

you bought dog lettuce

[swarnpert]

[armandgoth]

yes armand just needs to be loved. only took them three seasons to acknowledge this universal truth amidst the complete and callous humiliation of the character while calling him every single slur available in the dictionary. when you think about it, we got truly all types of slurs: racial ones (calling him a “gypsy”), homophobic ones, ones shaming his sexual preference, ones making fun of his past (“tart”, “rent boy”, “rag doll”) as though it were his choice and not a horror tragedy of being trafficked as a child. so many creative ways to debase him over the past few years, while giving us barely two short scenes of providing some shreds of understanding to him. i am serious i do NOT want them to ever adapt tva. i hope they stay away from it forever.

[snequanimity]

so they changed armands race not to say anything about the character or his history but PURELY to write him as a complete villain who abuses black characters and who effectively draws blame away from the white lead

im not even tagging this critical bc its just facts

[snequanimity]

i just cant get past it. they cast a brown actor not to do anything with his backstory as a kid trafficked into europe for sexual exploitation, but simply to make him an over the top bad guy who seems to have gotten worse over the last 2 centuries instead of making any progress

they cast black actors as two main characters just to have one of them be subjected to extreme physical tortures that never happened in the books, and to make the other a lying manipulator who doesnt matter beyond her abuse serving other characters' stories

they set themselves up as the Thoughtful Nuance Show and then gave us this? they pretended they were taking these. characters seriously and then butchered them on multiple levels, undid all their own work, bait and switched their devoted and engaged fans, and for what? tiktok jokes?

[cookbookbutch]

Christopher Nolan’s Odyssey used occupied land as a film set. That feels like a betrayal | Mohamed Sleiman Labat

The decision to shoot in Moroccan-occupied Western Sahara, where the Indigenous people can’t tell their stories without fear of imprisonment

The simple act of holding a camera in my homeland of Western Sahara can be a crime. When Sahrawi film-makers and journalists attempt to document everyday life under Moroccan occupation, they can often end up in prison cells. For the Moroccan regime, a camera in the hands of a Sahrawi threatens its official narrative that Western Sahara is part of Morocco. In contrast, when celebrated international names in the film industry wish to capture an ideal picture for an epic journey, and decide that our land is exotic enough to shoot the desired scenes, they are welcomed, escorted and granted access by the same authorities that usually deny us that right. [...] Nolan’s choice to film in an occupied territory highlights the extractivist practices embedded in the western film industry. Western cinema has often been complicit in mining stories and immaterial culture from the global south at a scale no smaller than the material resources mined by the western colonial industrial complex. International film crews parachute in, shoot our faces, clothing, dunes and material culture, then fly off. For them, it seems we are simply decorative elements for their sets and back in New York, London or Paris, they gain prestige, box-office returns and awards. For Nolan’s Dakhla shoot, he appears to have neither sought our consent nor considered the ethics of in effect helping to prop up and legitimise Morocco’s occupation, thus making the space even more unsafe for Sahrawis living under it. He is actively participating in a state-sponsored PR campaign designed to legitimise an illegal occupation.

2026/07/16

[thehighgatevampire]

it’s so awesome that book daniel couldn’t make it to jesus age and didn’t have a job

[6mayhem]

when the fanartist draws ur ship growing old together but you lowkey envisioned them as dying tragically at 27 after a 5 year substance abuse spiral 😭😭😭