the style of a woman, the kiss of a man

Bruna. Early 30s. Bisexual. Brazil. I've got a film degree. Sometimes I post mature content, so I'll ask to only follow me if you're 18+. This is a multifandom blog. Expect lots of Hannibal and Star Trek. Also Vampire Chronicles. Interview With The Vampire the show too. And lots of Black Sails. Lots of movies. There will be on occasion rock bands and singers. Also books and TV shows and random stuff. 🖖 🏳️‍🌈 🎸

[v-e-l-v-e-t-g-o-l-d-m-i-n-e]

I don’t plan to leave tumblr unless staff literally throws me out, but since we don’t know what’s gonna happen with the hellsite, if anyone wants to keep contact in other social media just in case:

BlueSky (empty still)

Instagram (barely use it, but)

Dreamwidth (empty but still there)

Pillowfort (also empty)

AO3

Edit: every time there is a Tumblr Is Dying scare I bring back this 2018 post for a few days. I just edited it to replace the twitter link with my empty BlueSky since I don’t really want to get back at twitter at all

[mikelogan]

REST IN PEACE, DOLLY PARTON

January 19, 1946 - August 25, 2026

[startrekladies]

Nyota Uhura & Erica Ortegas in 4.03 "Human Best Friend" STAR TREK: STRANGE NEW WORLDS (2022–)

[v-e-l-v-e-t-g-o-l-d-m-i-n-e]

Why is writing your resume such an excruciating task....been dragging my feet for weeks, but I think I may be almost done

[abandonshapes]

LdPdL

[aenslem]

Una Chin-Riley in 4.03 "Human Best Friend" STAR TREK: STRANGE NEW WORLDS (2022–)

[rocktheholygrail]

Hannibal (2013-2015)

1x07 || 2x10

[erdenmaedchen]

Call us the Sickbay Boys™

STAR TREK Balance of Terror | S01 E14

[coffee-in-that-nebula]

We're so robbed we didn't get a Voyager mirror episode.

[ds9vgrconfessions]

Idk. "Living Witness" was better than every DS9 mirror episode combined. Ds9 wrecked the mirror universe tbh.

[ninapekoe]

I wonder who that’s for 🔵

[evviejo]

STAR TREK: STRANGE NEW WORLDS // S4E2 The Griffin Incident Space is limitless in its beauty and in its terror. Whatever you encountered, the only thing that matters is that you survived.

[tweedfeather]

Some quotes from Rob Wilkins about the Terry Pratchett Estate’s experience during the writing process for Good Omens 3:

“We had no place in the writer’s room.”

“During that time, you are told what is going to happen.”

“If [Neil] is leading the charge, then we as the estate have no input at all.”

“We were pretty much impotent at that time.”

Rob said Amazon lied to him regarding the input the Terry Pratchett Estate would get to have over the GO3 scripts.

We were all lied to.

Good Omens 3 was never Terry Pratchett’s ending. It was always Neil Gaiman’s ending.

[ben-sisko]

SNOW BEAR (2025) A Hand-Drawn Animated Short Film by Aaron Blaise

[nicoleanell]

Best Lawyer in the Game

[aphrostiel]

my attempt of saavik in lower decks style

[irismit]

An issue I’m having with season 3/tvl show Loustat and Lestat’s characterization in the show in general is that they cut a lot of his more sympathetic characters traits.

They cut Lestat being the breadwinner of his family, something that was integral to the dynamics in the first two books (both because it was a representation of how proactive he is as a character (the major contrast between him and Armand, while also being the reason why he got Akasha and Marius’ attention) and because of the conflict between him and Louis, Lestat being impoverished old money who grew up having to put food on the table and barely getting an education pre-turning while Louis was (in Lestat’s eyes) new money and very rich through no work of his own (being a plantation owner)

Book!Louis spends most of early iwtv bragging about how he is the one keeping Lestat in luxury and feeling superior because of his early education (despite Vampire!Lestat being his equal)

The show made human!Louis a selfmade bread winner (being a black man in Jim Crow America and becoming a pimp because the plantation money had run out) to make him a more dynamic character, which was over all a good choice when you’re writing a tv mc, book!Louis being an avatar of parental grief and depression is a big reason why he has so little screen time in later books

The problem is that the writers (presumably, based on what they did) decided that they couldn’t have both of the main characters sharing that trait (which would have made for an interesting “started at similar points but chose to go in different directions with it” dynamic), instead deciding to make Lestat a passive character who never decided to (with Gabrielle’s support) take the reins over his own life by becoming the head of the family he couldn’t escape, instead just staying at home for an additional decade, even changing his escape to Paris to being something public and planned enough that Nicki’s father gave him meeting instructions

Taking some of Lestat’s positive traits away in the show could be a good thing, considering his book version is notoriously a bit of a Gary Stu, except for the fact that him being so proactive is what is supposed to be the impetus behind most of the major events in this story (see above about his dynamic with Armand, Akasha and Marius)

“You can’t script a Hurricane” says Armand in the show, echoing a consistent sentiment throughout the books, only for Lestat to be consistently pupeteered by multiple characters throughout AMC’s series, Armand, Gabriella, even Marius leaving him in charge of Akasha for a decade (to go on holiday?) before he decides to try feeding her his blood

They stripped Lestat of his connection to humanity (something that was supposed to be the emotional through line for most of the coven of the articulate (aka the various book pov characters) which just kind of leaves you questioning why he does anything he does, when he isn’t being led by someone else or reacting to other characters’ actions

[rocktheholygrail]

Hannibal (2013-2015)

2x10 || 3x13