Riki/ The Befuddled Dumbass

She/Her Call me Riki- Interview With The Vampire Era. Fic writer and fanartist. I'm an adult. DNI: Jiraiya stans, Hinata stans, Sakura stans, NaruHina/SasuSaku stans, Damijon, any form of incest. IAsk is OPEN please I love babbling about fandom

[ultfreakme]

My Commissions are OPEN!!!!

(Further details can be discussed once a request is made through any of my listed accounts!!)

[ultfreakme]

Lestat's current rock career making him look like he's cosplaying a character from Louis' book is like, imagine if a guy walked around deciding to call himself Alucard from Castlevania. It's possible Louis as he is got credited for the book, so in a way, Lestat's rock persona from others' POV is him kinda being Louis' fan.

[politicalprof]

Well, you know, some bathroom graffiti offers insight.

[madfishmonger]

Red marker handwriting on a bathroom wall. Text reads:

“Boss made a dollar Granddad made a dime But that was a poem From a simpler time.

Boss made a thousand Gave pa a cent But that penny paid the mortgage Or at least it paid the rent

Now Boss makes a million And gives us jack Smugly blames the workers For the labor that he lacks.”

[a-krogan-skald-and-bearsark]

And the words of the prophets are written on the subway walls and tenement halls.

[ultfreakme]

Armand's kinda looking like a young Hrithik Roshan in 3X01. Is it just me?

[ultfreakme]

I do think to make a good story adaptation of Anne Rice's IWTV-verse books, you have to do stuff she'd hate.

[shadyguyno5]

So this dc rp svr im in is doing mermay for the last week of may, and i drew “selkie jay” as an art trade

I am very proud of my chibi

[mavericks-circuit]

Tbh. If Jon putting earth-49 Jay in extreme danger and getting him hurt (though unintentionally) because he needed comforting wasn't some sort of foreshadowing for their relationship idk what is

[ultfreakme]

My one thing about WHA so far is that the damaging-to-helpful spell ratio between the Brimmed and Pointed Hats is very skewed. Like yes, the laws exist to ensure people aren't creating Black Hole and Gun spells, but the premise so far is also that neither are correct. It's kinda difficult to see that when the Brimmed Hats have not done a single spell that actually helps people.

Shirahama'a a smart storyteller so I'm just gonna wait and I hope in the next arc, we see a Brimmed Hat do a spell that is undeniably helpful and also breaks the laws.

[claudia-lioncourt]

JACOB ANDERSON for The Vampire Lestat Backstage Pass, Episode 1: "Detroit"

[gaypeople]

I was glad to hear you also felt the episode wasn't the strongest... I think I've been a bit nervous about this season because I wasn't sure how they'd handle the tone shift, and I think I can appreciate this as an opener where things are just craaazzzyyyyy maybe to give a bit of shock value, and to indicate how much Lestat is flailing without Louis, but idk... I think I need something more grounding eventually, something a bit less overwhelming and something a bit more like Daniel's interview framing device. Even if I know Lestat is a very different narrator from Louis and this tone change was always going to come.

I guess my feelings are ambivalent but that makes me so sad!! Because seasons 1 and 2 are the best tv i ever saw in my life and I want that feeling back. Hopefully things will settle down a bit for ep2. Also you have the best iwtv blog out there ok just wanted to mention have a nice day!

i feel you SO much on wanting that feeling s1 and s2 gave us back. the pilot is objectively one of the greatest pilots/eps of all time so it's obviously hard to top, and s2's season premiere was stunning and hit me right where it needed to. this ep just didn't have that level of impact on me in comparison. but unfortunately for me i was expecting a certain version that i made up in my head the last 2 years and well,,, that's my fault. and it’s not all bad!! there were some things i genuinely did love about this ep (the opening scene, the concert scenes were SO good and cinematic, the way samstat narrates is unreal). we don’t have to like every writing choice made and that’s okay. being critical of the things we love is always a good thing regardless of what anyone else says.

also!!!!! you’re so sweet, thank you for loving what i have to offer on here 😩💖

[ultfreakme]

Lestat disrespecting pronouns makes complete sense. Lestat is a misogynist and has a billion layers of internalized racism. His scope of empathy is confined to his own identity. He will challenge homophobia and any criticisms against his identity and choices but he won't do the same for others.

Like we saw that man dismiss Louis' very valid anger at the white businessmen in Storyville. He didn't lift a finger to actually help in a meaningful way, and when Louis killed Fenwick(?), his reaction wasn't to reflect on why Louis chose him of all people to kill. He thought Louis had gotten around to killing, which is blatantly not the case. Lestat did exactly what he did with Louis; say surface level things and commentary while not behaving any differently. That is literally the root cause for why his relationship with Louis fractured.

He loves Claudia but it's the same with her too, he never saw how her race and her previous experiences as a human impacted her ability to trust and function in the world. I know the whole train interaction is being challenged as a complete lie, but something Lestat did made Claudia feel like he saw her sexual assault as trivial.

Lestat in pop culture is a queer icon, a symbol due to how much he deviated from that time's norms. But in-story he was still rather, I don't wanna say conservative but, more conforming than you'd think.

[love4bingge]

idea i had thismorning and turned into a shitpost

[astruma2]

[girlcaligula]

Posting here my ‘taste in characters that tumblr would cancel me for’ bingo:

[shymagnolia]

so I got into grad school today with my shitty 2.8 gpa and the moral of the story is reblog those good luck posts for the love of god

[shymagnolia]

okay so i just got my dream job??? a week after applying to it?? and now i’m thinking….maybe this is the good luck post

[flagellant]

…..not even six hours later i got an offer of a well paying full time long-term job with free room and board in queens in nyc, allowing me independence and a way to escape an abusive situation and an unhealthy environment

likes charge reblogs cast, folks, this is the good luck post

[coffee-or-hot-cocoa]

i need all the help i can get for finals

[finnglas]

Hey so

the last time I reblogged this post right before I got a great job, in a permanent work-from-home position, with benefits, retirement, and a salary literally 3x what I was making before, doing something I really like. 

So you know. 

This might be the real one, y’all.

[avhira]

I could use some luck

[genderqueerpositivity]

Minnesota’s Giant Rainbow and Leather Pride Flags

June 28, 1998. Both flags measured approximately 50 feet wide and 75 feet long.

[ryuutchi]

Friendly reminder that the leather flag predates almost every other flag. We owe this community to leather daddies and kinksters

[nightmarechamillian]

In the era of corporate sanitization never forget it was leather daddies and S&M folks who protected some of the earliest pride parades.

[interestingmistakes]

Reblogging this manually. Op doesn't want credit for fear of being terminated.