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[valiantlyinvainn]

Welcome to @valiantlyinvain !!

🎀Green | she/her | AO3

🎀My posts: HR memes and txtpts | HR thoughts etc

🎀I ramble, I read, I watch, and I write. Follows from @sielaltruist.

🎀This blog is a literal spam of legion of fandoms, so proceed with caution😘.

Thank you, @cursed-carmine, for the beautiful dividers.

[arloize]

Testing out the new procreate brushes :]

[ redbubble ]

[kinkydorah]

troy and abed with the vaaaaaampires 🎵

[janinegregory]

requested by anonymous

[kiaraspeaks]

Can't wait for the 'Work Husband' episode where Gregory and Jacob both believe they're Janine's work husband but it turns out that it's a random nurse we'll never see again who happens to be played by michael b jordan

[userarmand]

louis + grounding armand when he starts to spiral

2.04 / 2.06 / 2.05

[elinordash]

JACOB ANDERSON looking gorgeous as Louis de Pointe du Lac in INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE  (PART 2)

So for all you cowards out there talking shit, talking about taking a run at me, hear this now and hear it plain. I own the night.

[ttrpnstt]

there's a lot to be said when a white european ginger christian character that's known for his breathtaking beauty and labelled an angel for it in a book series is race bent into a brown muslim character and suddenly he's no longer an angel or beautiful but a crazy psychotic gremlin that's repeatedly kicked down for being submissive in bed and his childhood sexual abuse and exploitation is thrown back at him everytime by (mostly) white characters and his religiosity is suddenly nowhere to be found but is conveniently repeatedly compared to nazis in various ways and is considered a failure of a bisexual man because again he is submissive and recipient in bed rather than a promiscuous masculine bisexual man that everybody fawns over (lestat) and again he was a victim of pedophilia sexual slavery and racism but his ideal partner that would "cradle him" is an old grandpa white man who's a racist rapist that calls him a rent boy and a submissive twink sociopath.

give the writers all the awards yall they deserve them!

[death-by-sc0tland]

oh they made that fucking zionist the showrunner for the adaptation of a book that has two prominent characters from palestine yeah this shit is about to be unwatchable

[userarmand]

release the alan taylor cut

[certifiedlurker]

You know I genuinely feel like the Hannibal show has done some irrevocable damage in fandom spaces that primarily discuss American media. Why is it that every violence on screen is now seen as inherently erotic, resisting or outright rejecting any further reflection on what such a scene may mean, even from a Doylist perspective? Like I truly feel that tumblr fandom spaces, which are dominated by american media and disproportionately consists of white Americans and Europeans, have become so blinded by the tag of "cannibalism as a form of love" that they forget there is a larger world out there where cannibalism was literally a facet of colonialism-> white British colonialists digging up mummies to ground them into powders to consume<-and thus will continue to dismiss every concern and insist that every such violence depicted in a TV show is inherently queer and erotic. I have seen this happen in Sinners fandom. How some fans managed to interpret Remmick's lust for owning/controlling Samie's soul as queer, when it was clearly about the colonial lust of gobbling up countries, cultures, societies in favor of building an empire, I won't know. But I think it's the same problem with IWTV fandom where brutalization of a Black body onscreen is seen as erotic just because the show is set up within a queer narrative. I don't know what these people mean about not watching "enough Hannibal"- I certainly have never watched it, but suppose in anyway if the Hannibal show was half so serious about setting up a narrative (and I am assuming it didn't cause then it wouldn't be this popular amongst white queers lol), where it spoke about how white western societies, which now tries to distance itself from the violence of colonialism it inflicted upon the world, while still flaunting its ill begotten wealth ( almost all white posh neighborhoods, expensive restaurants maintained via cheap labour, high end dinner scenes with ingredients imported at barely any cost and exotic fruits available all year round etc) cannot really get rid of those tremendous facets of violence and hence it turns it inwards and you have a white serial killer, colluding with the law/cops as a forensic psychiatrist ( in real life whom did the white serial killers target- why do so many black women, brown women and native american women end up missing with their cases getting buried and hushed up?). And what if in a later season it completely retcons all that, retcons all the hints and narrative about colonial violence suffered by black and brown bodies and instead absolves Hannibal of all his violence, then wouldn't that be shit? That same thing happened with IWTV. I don't why there is this obstinate refusal to accept that. Like literally people who tout media illiteracy behind such widespread backlash against TVL like that second screenshot, tell me exactly what conclusion do you draw from having two black bodies graphically brutalized on screen by a brown character who may or may not be a Muslim, who may or may not have had an oppressed caste identity- while the character who was canonically chosen for immortal life for his white skin, blonde hair and blue eyes and who throughout the season has flaunted his superior vampiric blood, gets to have just a little bit of pecking at the dinner table, even when in earlier seasons he had beat his spouse bloody and crossed an ocean to participate in a lynching.

[loveridden1999]

best poster ever (translation: "this time, last rites")

[drolta]

no because why is Lemuel leaning in so close!! arm around princess’ shoulders like he’s not playing about her!!!!!!!

[syn4k]

"lock in" is probably one of the most important phrases to enter the public lexicon in the 2020s

[joyflameball]

[armandlastnamemarius2]

Interview With The Vampire 2.05 Don't Be Afraid, Just Start the Tape

[crazykuroneko]

Important video to share!

[vorreitenertiqui]

The camera zooming into Rolin laughing at this part specifically during the DM line read 👀 Which, apparently, is exactly Rolin's type of humor:

Throughout S1-3, to quote Snequanimity:

"Armand, we are constantly told, was a catamite. He's a twink bottom. He was a limp, passive ragdoll for sale. His daddy groomed him into a little bitch. He's emasculated, a beige pillow, his sexual performance is so-so, he's desperate and needy, he's a pussy and a betaboi. In short, he's too gay, not Lestat's ideal of a masculine bisexual man. like this is some kind of corruption of character, being the receptive partner in anal sex" 

Recently, ONE journalist has FINALLY commented on this

and that's because the journalist himself is a gay Indian man: