can i sleep? can i PLEASE sleep?

she/they | 🎀lesbian🎀 | multi-fandom | doodling is a thing i do sometimes

[awakefor48hours]

Every once in a while, I wish the friendship meter from the Sims was real so that way when people tell me "I used Chat-GPT" they can visually see just how much respect I just lost for them in that moment.

[berkelbites]

One time an acquaintance told me she entered Snape's star chart into chatgpt and I could physically feel that meter dropping three separate times over the course of her sentence

[reticent-vampire]

The Vampire Lestat 3.06

[lazy-ladybug]

dude is so excited to ruin everyone's night

[jinsai-ish]

Armand gave the man eternal life but this is literally the best gift he has ever given Daniel.

[sapphire600]

[empire-of-light]

THE VAMPIRE LESTAT 1.06 Montreal Devil's Minion overtaking Loustat as the Nr. 1 Interview with the Vampire ship on ao3 11.07.2026

[nortism]

I actually love the Louis and Regina subplot because it really is a continuation of the way Louis has always treated women, as a source of emotional labour that he can throw money at and have them make him feel better. It’s Miss Lily all over again, it’s “paying a whore to sit in a room and talk with him”. Making Claudia was always about Louis’ feelings under the pretence of saving her from the fire. He wants to save Regina from poverty but it’s all to make himself feel better. She sees through him but she’s so broke that she can’t afford to say no

[charmingpickles]

that was my face too 😵‍💫

[crowned-crimson-flower]

Danmei is a very unique genre of queer literature which both centers and de-centers queerness. None of the Danmei I’ve read have been essentially “about” being gay. They’re just stories of life, of magic, of fantasy, of love, in which the main characters happen to be gay. Which is a kind of representation I have often seeked from western media and related intermediaries because why is every gay story, a coming out story? Is there not more to queer people than that?

However, while capturing the personhood of queer people; Danmei also captures the queerness of people because none of these stories would work if the characters weren’t gay/queer

Wei Wuxian’s absolute buffoonery of misunderstanding Lan Zhan’s feelings in a decade long telephone game in which neither of them open their damn mouth would never work in a non-queer story because between a man and a woman romance would be the natural assumption of everyone around them and therefore wouldn’t leave space for confusion. The misunderstanding of their romance is so closely tied to the plot succession that the plot would be… non existent without it

In TGCF Xie Lian and Hua Cheng’s absolute aspirational love is literally in the backseat and front seat of the story. Not too different from a classic hero’s journey but instead of the hero being one person, it’s two people. They are so intertwined with eo that they become one character and witness a lot of the story together. Witness being a very interesting word choice. Their queerness doesn’t drive the story but replacing one of them with a woman would dampen the effect— it’d remove the uncertainty, the confusion from everyone around them, the genuine slow burn of the romance. There’s also this idea of Hua Cheng falling in love with Xie Lian so far separated from concepts such as gender or whatever which wouldn’t have been hammered home in a straight romance where those conversations aren’t always had between the audience and the story

And Erha.. well obviously. Half of Chu Wanning’s “this is so inappropriate” spiral wouldn’t exist if he was a woman. And, the idea of Mo Ran being a “cut sleeve” builds up the under current of his character being so far dismissed by society because he’s seen as immoral. Which just wouldn’t serve to the same effect if he was into exclusively women because so was every other character.

Not in a single one of these stories is queerness and homosexuality the central theme of the story yet without them, the romance wouldn’t be the same. Liking the same gender as you comes with baggage in our society which is so heteronormative and that effect has to exist in the person characters become for them to be authentic but at the same time, limiting that effect only to produce coming out stories/falling in love stories is unfair. Danmei mends this through a middle ground where the plot is the focus but it doesn’t exist in a vaccum, it exists in queerness itself

[newtype-exe]

Kid with a bluey backpack on the flight to Sydney this must be his mecca

[thevampirealina]

armand got the memories in the divorce 💔💔💔

[couldnt-think-of-a-funny-name]

armand confessing to stalking daniel for 52 years, panicking when daniel doesn't find it romantic, and basically yelling LESTAT FUCKS HIS MOM!!! to divert to attention off his feelings. incredible.

[grotesquisite]

Is this a rock band claudeline au!!???? Yes, because they fucking deserve it 😌

[danielsarmand]

and also another thing. daniel molloy is not a freshly made asshole. put some respect on his name he was always a huge fucking bitch AND a cheater AND a shit father and his sarcasm has been a steady stream for the whole duration of the series so don't you come crying to me about him being mean and over-the-top and a parody of himself that's the original right there and you've known him for two seasons don't pmo

[hyperfixation-s]

real armand stans clapped and cheered when he made larry kill himself

[maelancoli]

and also it's always about claudia. the story remains about two fathers haunted by the memory of their daughter. lestat's music becomes raw and vulnerable and pure when he is haunted by claudia, when he allows himself to think about her again. the entire album is being rerecorded because of claudia. akasha will awake because of the pain of lestat losing his daughter. the story is claudia.

[cloudabserk]

me to my irl friends: despite his many flaws & crimes i still find armand quite charming

me on here to you guys: armand is like if a kitten was an angel. he should be the judge jury and executioner of our society

[reticent-vampire]

literally