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Bleach Painting I did of Louis de Pointe du Lac and Lestat de Leioncourt on a bench from season 1. Super hyped with how this came out.

On the back is the quote from episode one that Lestat says to Louis before giving him the Dark Gift.

On the outer sleeves are a cassette tape for IWTV and some vampire fangs with the Vampire Lestat logo.

#this rad OP #iwtv

hylialeia

listen it's not that I think epic the musical is a perfect adaption of the odyssey but it was an impressive passion project that knew what it wanted to be and knew what people gravitated to in the original work and it put significant effort into conveying this through its unique medium and tone to the point that hundreds of other people felt compelled to put effort into their own artistic interpretations of that version of the story. and that's really cool! and yes I would be more critical if it was a 100 million dollar project made by a professional because what the fuck do you mean you're a world-famous director and you cut the my name is nobody scene are you goddamn serious

#my feelings EXACTLY when I saw it 😒#like WTAF #honestly i hate C Nolan as a director - his films bore me to tears so it was better than I expected #watching it felt like being on a soundless conveyor belt through a picture book version of the odyssey w/all the most interesting bits cut

snowbairdd

LUPITA NYONG'O attending "The Odyssey" New York Premiere (July 14, 2026)

#LOOKIN LIKE HELEN OF TROY #haters can suck a lemon #she's literally one of the most beautiful people on the planet #imagine being so racist that you refuse to acknowledge that #couldn’t be me

tgatbc

bigbigtruck

ngl this is the only way i can see a comic through to completion, just do it how i want rather than trying to make anybody happy

#words to live by

kblupeach

Show me that bitter star. 🌟

#am i obsessed?#absolutely #I want to inject this series into my veins #I've been so sad lately and TVL and TTH were keeping me going this past month #the songs are so good 😭

damianimated

Did you ever have any really odd interests as a kid? I was weirdly fixated on old-timey things (and still am TBH) and forced to have trendy Pokemon shirts and fun Toy Story sneakers (that I also enjoyed TBH). I think American Girl and Anne of Green Gables are to blame.

Maybe I'm out of the loop or something, but I genuinely thought Pride month was supposed to be like...a month? Why has everything pride related everywhere just disappeared?

#rambles #I get it's rainbow capitalism to see pride branding and stuff everywhere to begin with #but like seeing everything disappear overnight makes me feel insane #idk when the little tumblr pride hearts went away either #but that was also kind of disappointing #our pride festival was today #and it was fun #but we also had a group literally blowing whistles and holding signs telling people they were going to hell there #which i had never encountered at any of the pride celebrations I've been to before #but just with everything going on in this country right now I guess it tracks #it just makes me kinda sad...or like just idk sad is as close as I can describe I guess #when you go from feeling like society is generally all right but improving to feeling that things (witnessing things)#are actively getting worse and more medieval every day ig it's just disheartening to think about the future #actually it's scary #the thought of getting married or even being able to work for my current org feels daunting rather than exciting #smh I hope all hope is not yet lost

lestatdelioncuort

THE VAMPIRE LESTAT Live at the Beacon Theater (x)

catsdelightful-deactivated20240

Hey artists, C. Spike Trotman, founder of Iron Circus Comics, just posted an invaluable thread on depicting different types of black hair. I’d do the thing where you screencap the whole thread and post it but it’s just too long (which is great because it’s a whole lot of useful information!) Give her a follow while you’re there.

Anyway, go check it out. I just wanted to save it and share it because I didn’t know how much I didn’t know!

misslunarose

This is an amazing resource, not only for artists, but for writers too! I love this!

{ID - tweet from @/Iron_Spike that reads, “Black Hair for Non-Black Artists: a Cheat Sheet Thread. Hi, folks! Just spur-of-the-moment decided to put together some reference for folks who want to draw/model black characters in their work, but arent confident they won’t make simple, obvious mistakes w/r/t black hair. END ID}

obi-mom-kenobi

I noticed in the comments that some people can’t see the thread, so I took screenshots for y'all!

More will come in reblogs, since tumblr has an image limit

obi-mom-kenobi

jamiegeode

@creatingblackcharacters !!!

inthetags

Reblog and put in the tags if you can remember where you got the shirt you're currently wearing.

#thrift store #specifically value village

simoneashley

Jacob Anderson and Sam Reid Interview With the Vampire Season 3 promo for Entertainment Weekly

#iwtv #😭

playwrongs

In King Ludwig II’s defense, if I had basically infinite discretionary funds, was accountable to absolutely no one, and was king of a country full of picturesque landscapes, you couldn’t stop me from building myself a big gay fairytale castle on a mountaintop either.

playwrongs

This post is spreading and I feel bad about it because it contains misinformation, so for the record: Ludwig II did not in fact have infinite discretionary funds. He only acted as if he did. He never dipped into the public coffers for his building projects, but he spent his own fortune extravagantly and borrowed heavily from everyone he could think of. By 1885, the year before his death, he was 14 million marks in debt.

insomniac-arrest

~ ✨✨ 14 million marks in debt ✨✨~

centrally-unplanned

I always find this inspiring because try to name another prince of a German state. What did the rulers of Hamberg do? The Grand Duchy of Hesse? Gone with the wind, no one knows them anymore. But Mad Lad Ludwig built a top 5 most famous castle in the entire world. Money is fake, castles are real. Go broke and die like a winner.

the-barefoot-hatter

EXCUSE ME, this is still wrong. He built 3.

Neuschwanstein, literally the inspo for the castles in Disney's Sleeping Beauty and Cinderella

Hohenschwangau, the practical castle

Linderhof, the final, the smallest, and the MOST fab.

Every room is incredible and the park is beautiful, but shoutout to The Bedroom, the biggest room

The Hall of Mirrors, which he probably wandered by candle light because he was a serious night owl

The Dining Room, with a wishing table that lowers to the kitchen, and rises with a crank, returning magically full of food

The Venus Grotto, constructed for the sole use of Ludwig to larp to his heart's content

A full artificial cave, it features a waterfall, fake stalactites, and a custom-designed swan boat floating on an artificial lake. The first electricity in Bavaria was generated here, to change the colors of the stage lights and to power Ludwig's fountain and wave machine.

Now THAT'S ~ ✨✨ 14 million marks in debt ✨✨~

marzipanandminutiae

I love that- and I cannot emphasize this enough -none of this was tax money

the public paid for zero of his fairytale castle hobby

rare European monarch W as far as spending money lavishly goes

#my boi #king ludwig ii #I'll never not be obsessed with him

Perhaps an unpopular opinion, but my friend and I were talking the other day and discussed how much more sense it would have made and how much more impactful Project Hail Mary would have been if the MC had been brown. And, like, any flavor of brown would have worked, but all of character threads make so much more sense if he was an immigrant or even just a Black person that "made it out," or whatever.

The lack of immediate family, working as a teacher in the field rather than doing direct work (because maybe the opportunities were harder to come by), how much more significant the betrayal of the body guard taking him out would have been if they had bonded before, in part, because they were both POC, and how much sense it would have made for the government to disregard his autonomy to choose whether or not to go on the mission all make so much more sense if he is a brown or Black person. Even the kind of humor present would have translated well in an actor like Lakeith Stanfield or Dev Patel 👀

I didn’t read the book because, sci-fi 🫠, and really just went because my partner likes that kind of thing, but just saying, I might have liked it a little more if he had been brown 🤷

#no hate the movie was pretty fun to watch #but I think our suggestion would have leveled up the film in a real way #not saying we're geniuses #but we kinda are #project hail mary

prokopetz

I think it's actually essential to children's moral development to be exposed to short stories moderately beyond their reading level where a bunch of fucked up shit happens and then instead of offering a moral lesson or any sort of emotional or narrative resolution it just ends.