The Night Diarist

Carpe Noctem

[tulinokkaelain]

them!!!!

[thenightflower]

ASDFASDFASDFASD

Vampire Lestat Trailer and it looks and sounds fucking amazing.

Hnnnnggggg

It’s the middle of the night but I’ll post a full gif set in a few hours.

Great title graphics

Babystat!!

Madam!

Blurry screenshot but he looks very much like Hugh Panaro from the musical.

Loulou. 😍

The man. The monster.

The Devil’s Minion.

[imsobadatnicknames2]

I think it's really funny how the practice of bleeping out profanity is not only completely ineffective as a censorship tool, it's had the opposite effect of creating an environment where it's ridiculously easy to edit apparent profanity into footage that doesn't actually contain it. Like you can just grab any audio or video clip and bleep out anything and people will automatically mentally insert profanity in there it fucking rules.

[kyleblackpaw]

my favorite example of this is the count's song from sesame street where they censor the word "count"

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

This is the greatest thing humanity has produced

[lasgalendil]

QotD is so funny. Armand literally brings a newborn baby to a boss fight. Does the baby do anything plotwise? Is he the chosen one? A last minute mcguffin? No. He's just there.

Daniel Molloy, the world's youngest vampire, comes face to face with Akasha, the world's oldest vampire, and despite having visions for the whole book he brings no skill, no weapons, no prophecy on how to defeat the big bad world-ending evil, just tells his sugar daddy "kick her ass, babe, I've got your blender" while Armand dissociates and in the end Akasha is killed by NONE of the assembled male heroes.

Also Akasha aka the big bad was the literal embodiment of bioessentialism and radical feminism and the death penalty and she got curbstomped by the belief of restorative justice and free will meaning every person and humanity is capable of both good and evil and are shaped by societal forces and we have to choose the radical act of changing self and society towards peace and goodness which sometimes means violently killing a genocidal fascist for the good of humanity.

...and Daniel Molloy was there, you know, a random reporter who witnessed the whole potential world-ending apocalypse but LESTAT is the one who writes the book and still dedicated a full third of the narrative to Devil's Minion.

Anne Rice was crazy for this.

[lukelemon-art]

Who ordered a Daniel sandwich?? 🩷💚

[thenightflower]

This is absolutely gorgeous. I would argue it’s an Armand sandwich because he’s the meat and Daniel are the bread. 100% here for an Armand sandwich on Daniel bread.

[ladyofthecreeddraws-archive]

"Down, boy."

[panerasexual-deactivated2017100]

drop whatever you’re doing right now and climb a tree

[nintendowii2011]

its pitch black outside, and freezing cold. I think ill climb a tree tomorrow

[panerasexual-deactivated2017100]

you climb that fuckin tree right now

[likes-dinos]

I’ve literally never seen this post on my dash when it is not after dark and cold as balls. I’m beginning to think this is a conspiracy to get us eaten by some nocturnal tree demon.

[the-place-where]

everybody put in the tags at what time you saw this

[thenightflower]

4:30pm 40°c (104°f) and it’s too bloody hot to climb a tree.

[fighto-art]

"Your life, Sir, I must have it,"I whispered. "The blood of thieves is strong, isn't it, Sir?"

Sharing book Armand for book Armand enjoyers like me

[proffbon]

TTotBT Louis be like:

Coming over to use Lestat's DVD player and shaking my head the whole time so he knows I disagree with it

[thenightflower]

Louis accusing Lestat of wallowing in rank materialism while at the same time watching In the Company of Wolves in his murder husband’s luxury apartment, sitting on his comfy velvet couch in a sumptuously carpeted room will NEVER not be funny.

Louis is one of those people who complain about hot cross buns being sold outside of Easter while simultaneously putting them into their shopping basket.

[umulata]

✷𝔱𝔥𝔢 𝔰𝔲𝔫✷

𝐔𝐩𝐫𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 ✵ Positivity, freedom, fun, success, vitality, joy, confidence, self-expression, good luck, openness 𝐑𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐞𝐝 ✵ Excessive enthusiasm, sadness, unrealistic expectations, ego, conceitedness, oppression

Lestat for the gorgeous IWTV Tarot project! Wanna get your own deck? Go follow @/iwtvtarot on IG and never miss an update!

[eliestela]

Wow.

This is SO GORGEOUS.

I literally have no words.

[sillystigmata]

The earring…the greys…

[kinkydorah]

hhhhhelloooooo

[m-au3-blog]

@some-punishment there’s more! 🔥

[thenightflower]

“I am not here.”

[thenightflower]

Lestat trying to make his dusty murder husband dress in nicer clothes and brush his hair in literally every book:

[some-punishment-deactivated2025]

"I would like to go into San Francisco with you. I would like that very much. Will you take me with you?"

I couldn't immediately answer. Again, the sheer excitement was excruciating, and the love I felt for him was positively humiliating.

"Of course I'll take you with me," I said.

We looked at each other for a tense moment. He had to leave now. The morning had come for him.

"One thing, Louis," I said.

"Yes?"

"Those clothes. Impossible. I mean, tomorrow night, as they say in the twentieth century, you will lose that sweater and those pants."

-The Vampire Lestat

[thenightflower]

“I turned around. Louis was standing in the door of the room opposite, across the hall. I drew in my breath. I didn't say a word.

He was outfitted entirely in the new clothes I'd ordered for him, a long black riding jacket, sleek at the waist and flaring, and a pale pink European-linen handmade shirt. He wore a tie of green silk, almost exactly the color of his eyes, and there was an emerald ring on his finger of that very same green. Bit of handkerchief in his breast pocket to match the tie, and fine-cut trousers of black wool and sleek boots fitted to his calves like gloves.

I was unable to speak.

He'd put on these clothes for me, and I knew it. Nothing else in this world would have prompted him to dress like this, or to have brushed all the dust out of his glistening black hair. And the hair he'd left long on rising so that it was full as it had been in the old days, wavy, a little unruly, curling just under his ears. Even his white skin looked polished. And a scent rose from him of a rare and expensive male cologne. That too, I had sent for. That too, servants had brought here along with my other gifts.

Silence. I could scarcely breathe.

I sensed he understood. He crossed the hall and put his arms around me and kissed me on the lips.

"This is what you wanted, isn't it?" he asked.”

[thenightflower]

Lestat trying to make his dusty murder husband dress in nicer clothes and brush his hair in literally every book:

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

we need more vampire characters who are squeamish at the sight of blood. that's a comedic goldmine and it's just sitting there

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

"why do you look like you're about to faint you literally drink blood" yeah and YOU eat steak but i bet if a cow showed up and randomly split open its viscera you'd be grossed out too, fuck OFF. you're telling me if i slaughtered a chicken in front of you with no warning, that wouldn't freak you out in the slightest??? get out of my ASS Randy

[mevil]

being black in any art community is such a strange feeling cause you’ll see just blatant racism being expressed in others art and you have to just casually ignore it, for your sake if anything, colorism being something that’s just fundamentally there in every artist and you deal with it cause it’s not worth it in the end to even think of it too hard let alone even mentioning it, it’s definitely something

[creatingblackcharacters]

Hello nonblack reader of this post, I think you ought to share this one so that you and your peers can actively remind yourselves 1) of how your Black peers feel when you tolerate antiblack racism in your art spaces for entertainment and 2) that we notice it, but don't believe it is secure around enough of you to bring it up 🙏🏾

[vampire-dove]

Anne Rice, creating TVC: And when ALL the ships are problematic, none of them will be.

[sleepymarmot]

Caught a round number for once!

[sleepymarmot]

hold on wtf

I never delete my own posts. I reblogged a dozen new posts since the 136k count. Is the number glitched or is something eating my blog?!

[sleepymarmot]

This happened again!!

October 31st:

November 3rd:

I definitely didn't delete anything. What's happening? I'm scared.

[sleepymarmot]

November 19th:

November 23rd:

I waited for about a week to see if the count would go down or up on its own. It didn't. I don't know what to do. Tumblr didn't answer to either of my previous emails.

[sleepymarmot]

This happened again.

January 8th:

January 10th:

I don't know what to do.

[sleepymarmot]

It seems like some of the disappearing posts came back?

Today, 7 PM:

Today, 11 PM:

I definitely didn't publish 75 posts in the span of four hours. I guess I'll need to do another full backup of my blog and compare the results with the backup I did earlier this week...

[sleepymarmot]

Yesterday, I waited until the counter showed exactly 140,700 posts, then did a backup. The script found backed up 140,630 posts to my computer.

Apparently, there are 70 phantom posts on my blog that are either hallucinated by the Tumblr stats counter because of some sort of bug, or are broken and inaccessible to the backup script. These have been the two possible explanations the entire time: either the counter is broken, or the actual posts are. I'm still no closer to the answer. At least I have a specific number now. When the post count jumps up or down again, I'll try to see if the difference is still 70 posts, or if it changes too.

[sleepymarmot]

Here we go again!

Friday, January 31st, 16:37:

Saturday, February 1st, 0:06:

Interestingly, the day when the 70 posts came back, January 24th, was also a Friday. So was January 10th. So was November 22nd. So was November 1st. So was July 19th!

It seems that something happens to my post count on Fridays at around 22 hours MSK. I'll need to keep watch next Friday night.

[sleepymarmot]

I saw it!

Friday, February 7th, 21:31:04:

Friday, February 7th, 21:49:22:

So something or someone really does change my post count on Fridays at around 22. This time, it was reduced by one.

Unfortunately, I wasn't smart enough to back up my blog before the change. I did run the backup script afterwards, in two different ways, and the post count was exactly the same as the official one. I even counted the posts on my blog since the last backup manually, and didn't see anything missing.

I see two possible explanations:

On Friday night, Tumblr deleted one of the posts I made/reblogged during the past two weeks. (In this case, the missing post was real and is now lost forever.)

During the last week, the post count was accidentally inflated by 1, and some kind of routine database rescan that runs on Friday night fixed the error. (Which doesn't explain why the same scheduled operation added 70 phantom posts to my count two weeks ago.)

Plans for the next Friday night: back up my blog beforehand, and if something changes, back it up again and compare the results.

[sleepymarmot]

70 dead souls time!

The last time these phantom 70 posts were added was on January 24th. The time between January 24th and February 4th is three weeks. I wonder if this always happens every three weeks or if it's a different cycle.

I did another backup just to make sure; the extra 70 posts were not in it, as I expected, with the script saying that it "found empty set of posts".

[sleepymarmot]

No change in the post count this week. I'm not very surprised. I will be surprised if the counter doesn't go 70 posts down next Friday.

[sleepymarmot]

This week really did find a way to surprise me.

The post count didn't change at the usual hour. Instead, for the first time since becoming aware of the problem, I finally caught two posts having disappeared from my actual blog.

These two posts were both reblogs from the same OP who was deleted by tumblr this week. My guess similar events are also the origin of the rest of my "phantom posts". This is close to what my original suspicions were (that the "phantom posts" were from deactivated blogs or blogs that had blocked me — both proven false). It would also explain why support didn't answer my tickets on this topic — if they know, they probably aren't allowed to explain. The timing of my original discovery last year is also not far off from the time I vaguely remember the current wave of deletions started.

I am intentionally not citing the url or even pronouns of the user in question because I don't want to attract attention and risk further damage to my own 13 year old blog. If you know you know. What's strange is that I can still see reblogs of other posts from that user on other people's blogs; whatever tumblr did, it wasn't site-wide and instantaneous.

It will be interesting to see if the phantom post count increases the next time it is recalculated. If it does, I'll consider the case closed.

Moral of the story: social media can remove anything from your account at any time, without you even noticing. If there's any data you value, duplicate it somewhere.

[sleepymarmot]

This week, the 70 phantom posts got subtracted from my post count again. Let's see if the next time they're added to the count, there'll be 72 of them.

[sleepymarmot]

This week, Tumblr terminated two more blogs I'd reblogged from. 11 posts made by one of them and 2 posts made by the other are now gone from my blog. Still not naming names, but I'm tempted. This website is becoming increasingly unstable, and people should know that our blogs are having posts removed from them regularly.

Oh, and the phantom posts got added back. 70 of them. So these "phantom posts" are not the same thing as "reblogs from terminated blogs". The latter disappear permanently and don't reappear in the post count afterwards.

[sleepymarmot]

This week:

1 more post got deleted from my archive, presumably because the OP was terminated. This brings the number of reblogs deleted by Tumblr from my blog to 16, and the number of their OPs to 4.

Today, the 70 phantom posts got subtracted from the post count again.

I think I'm the only one who knows that our blogs are having posts deleted from them. Nobody else mentions that, even on the popular posts about the necessity of blog backup.

[sleepymarmot]

This week:

70 phantom posts are added back to the count at the usual time.

10 posts deleted from the archive, all from the same aesthetic blogger. An extremely old one, too: my first reblog from them was in 2012. I thought these kind of blogs weren't the typical subject of staff's ire, but apparently not. According to a few posts that a search for the url gave me, the blog has been gone for years, and I've no idea why Tumblr decided to fully terminate it and delete reblogs from it now. Wait, are they freeing server space by removing data from fully inactive users? If so, this is going to be a disaster. A huge number of blogs are deleted/deactivated but survive through reblogs; if Tumblr actually starts deleting these reblogs, it will wreak havoc on everyone's archives. Extremely worrying prospect, and sadly realistic if Tumblr is in so much trouble they're trying to cut down costs.

[sleepymarmot]

This week managed to surprise me again.

On Friday night, the 70 phantom posts were subtracted as usual... along with one other. I wasn't checking the count often, so I don't know if that happened simultaneously.

Expecting to learn of another terminated user, I checked whose post was missing... and it was my own. My very first Doctor Who gifset. The post's own page and the post within the /tagged/ page on sleepymarmot.tumblr.com were completely gone. However... it occurred me to check the /tagged/ page on tumblr.com/sleepymarmot... and it was still visible there. It got flagged as explicit, apparently — not as "potentially mature content", like many posts on mobile right now, but flagged and hidden from anyone but me. Obviously, the post was entirely sfw, it didn't even have a fleshy color scheme that sometimes triggers the algorithm. I filed an appeal, and within a couple of hours the post was restored. It appeared again on both versions of my blog, and was included in the backup. However, the post count wasn't corrected. Right now, the official count shows one post fewer than I actually have. I wonder if it will get corrected next Friday, or if I'm stuck with it forever now.

Now I'm wondering: could the same process be responsible for the reblogs of other people's posts that were removed from my blog — only they couldn't be restored by OP's appeal, because their OPs were terminated too? If so, perhaps these posts still exist on the server, just inaccessible to anyone but the admins.

[sleepymarmot]

To recap: over the past few months, I have recorded 26 reblogged posts disappearing from my blog.

At some point during this one past week, 44 more were deleted. Almost twice as many as in the last half year combined.

43 of them were reblogs from a single art/photography blogger, ranging from 2012 to 2018. 1 was from another user whose name I don't recognize, a picture of kittens, reblogged slightly more than a month ago.

This brings the number of reblogs that staff removed from my blog to 70.

[sleepymarmot]

This week (or, more correctly, fortnight)'s updates:

The number of the missing posts is now 73. The new missing 3 are:

2 reblogs from 2014 that are still visible in the tag on my blog in the dashboard view, with the label "This post was flagged because somewhere in your reblog there might be sexually explicit content." I accessed this exact tag on my blog a few days ago, and I know someone else did too. I even saw the label on those two posts, but didn't think it was new or significant. What if Tumblr runs some kind of check on posts when someone requests to view them, so old posts can suddenly get flagged when someone browses a page that includes them? I guess this would explain the disappearance of a bunch of very old aesthetic posts from my blog. This can probably be tested by going deep into my archives and checking whether that would make my count go down? I want to message the two OPs of the posts, but I actually don't know if even the OP can file a review request when the "explicit materials" are claimed to be in the reblogs and not in the post itself.

1 reblog whose OP was banned a long time ago. I guess the staff really nukes each post by hand, huh? I wonder why they bother; this post was, of course, entirely innocuous, just like every reblog from other banned users I've had erased from my archives, and if the staff are trying to wipe all records of the user's existence from the records, they're very bad at it, because OP continues to be very active under a new url.

[sleepymarmot]

I thought Tumblr has ran out of things to surprise me, but there's a new development.

This week, my post count changed from 145 432 to 145 360, so it was reduced by 72. 70 of those were the usual "phantom posts". I checked to see what the other 2 were... but I could detect no deletions. The difference between my downloaded archive and the blog online is still 73 posts. So either my math is wrong somewhere, or the number of the "phantom posts" (I still have no idea what those are, btw) has changed from 70 to 72 for some reason. I guess I'll see in a week or two when they are added back to the count... Now that I look at last week's numbers, there was a 2 posts difference that I didn't catch; perhaps when the number of posts changed, the 2 posts that still exist on my blog but are marked as mature were added to the "phantom posts" count, i. e. were cut and pasted from the "main, visible" count to the "phantom" count instead of disappearing altogether. This would explain where the previous "phantom posts" came from.

[thenightflower]

Following because I love a good mystery..