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lots of shrimp tonight

[greater-than-the-sword]

When you're a kid you just take trees for granted. Then when you get to be an adult you realize that a fully mature tree cannot be created in an amount of time that fits in a convenient landscaping timeframe for love nor money nor all the powers of science. Then you realize that people are very very very cavalier about chopping them down

[godlessondheimite]

“ice water makes you sick” “ice water gives you stomach cramps” i’m sorry if i have a hardy and oxlike american constitution but unless you have underlying health issues, the only water temperature that should cause adverse health effects is if you chug a gallon of boiling hot water that has also been laced with nefarious chemicals

[usaginoir]

If you’re only focusing on Louis needing to apologize to Lestat, but not once considering that Lestat should apologize to Louis for years of abuse, cheating, cooperating on the murder of his daughter etc, and has never done that, and no the apology at the lynching does not count… when Louis has apologized to Lestat for the downfall of their relationship during the reunion… and the book was published without his consent and done in the context of him thinking Lestat exposing all his deepest secret and shame in bad faith to a crowd and wanted him dead in a lynching

I think you have R-cist bias and should examine why you judge characters of colors on a different scale than you do the white ones

[zombiezz]

I braced myself for the wave of Lestat apologists when TVL was about to come out but I'll admit its wearing on me already only at episode three lmao

Lestat's perspective is just as if not more skewed than Louis'.

He tells stories in broken fragments shrouded in intense emotion that change his memories into music videos or cartoon episodes. Do we really all thing his family spent ALL their time screaming at the top of their lungs at the dinner table bullying Lestat and Gabriella ? Or is it more likely they were layered just like any other character and just as flawed? Did they all deserve to be murdered, including children by their own mother?

Who's to say, its all told from Lestat's perspective and they are long dead! Im sure they were loud, abusive, controlling, but did Lestat tell everything exactly perfect like we all demand from Louis and Armand?

I just feel this fandom treats Lestat like he can do no wrong, and if he does he has a "very good reason" something other characters are not afforded. Every. Single. Character. is flawed, lies, abuses. But Lestat, arguably one of the most flawed characters, often gets a pass.

When Lestat lies or exaggerates, its because hes traumatized and trying to protect himself or because hes just so smart hes overpowering Daniel. But when Louis does it, it's because hes a liar and a bad person.

And one thing this fandom constantly forgets is Claudia ironically. We forget her perspective (which takes up half of the first season and likely half of the second as well) is from her DIARY. First-hand perspective unclouded by the thought of an audience. Sure, she has her own biases. But much less than any other character. She writes things as they happen, and thinking no one will read it. No reason to lie outright! but this is never considered when Louis' season is taken into question. His story is scratched out as all lies, even though it wasn't just his story!

I think this story is just so well written and beautifully made, and reflects so achingly closely to real life abusive situations that I find it upsetting that so many people boil it down to "Lestat my baby girl whos always correct" Its fascinating to watch real people get charmed by a fictional narcissist. Like yes obviously he has an abusive past that's how abusers are created! And they will do everything in their power to make themselves seem innocent. and it works so well that real life people are being tricked

[feefal]

Ive been posting art on this site for near a decade whilst bravely refusing to draw men, but the tension between Qifrey and Olruggio might be what finally makes me cave

[samglyph]

Dumb joke

[chimyssnoopy]

iwtv fans are just figuring out daniel is a piece of shit, and people who love him should know that.. we knew, i knew he was a piece of shit journalist who burned bridges with his family that his daughters refuse to talk to him anymore, every man in this show sucks i still like him and i know he is rotten and lives of getting the story right and he doesn't care about lines being crossed or the subject of his interview, i knew all that and i still liked him just like i love other characters knowing they are evil pieces of shit too. what makes me look at these people sideways is why you're just realizing/ saying that? my guess is it's because lestat is the one who's being exploited... louis, claudia and armand weren't enough for them to state that they hate him, and i think we all could guess why. armand knew this and he loves him despite of or maybe because of it, "it's his drug" "a splinter in coldness in you, is that what makes you fascinating?" it was so obvious from the start.

[yaoiblackmold]

Every vampire is all "oh drinking blood is better than any food, drugs, even sex" but I don't even believe them because all of them were literally made before the invention of really good drugs and before we got all the nice foods from the new world, so I don't trust any of their opinions. Lestat has never ate a potato and Armand hasn't ever even tasted tomaotes. The only guy I trust is Daniel Molloy who has probably tried every drug on earth, has definitely ate nice food and would be a valid judge on how good drinking blood really is.

[hesitantlyhappy]

iwtv seasons one and two was like being tucked into bed and read a heartbreaking story by Louis du pointe du lac. The Vampire Lestat is like your blackout drunk uncle trying to tell you an anecdote at a family gathering

[boccher]

the central conceit of white boy "comedy rap" genres is that they're too racist to recognise that most classic rap is already pretty humorous in many ways, on account of wordplay being fundamental to the form,

[boccher]

and also steeped in pop culture from the very beginning, like the rap scene was already making music about comics and anime and video games you don't need to segregate a new genre for that

[utopians]

it's been observed many times before but man it is kind of funny that Americans were so galled about the idea of foreign interference in the presidential election. Fuckkkkkk who would do something like that... Truly shameful behavior what kind of monstrous government would do something like that

[fairycosmos]

the issue with growing up in the 2000s and 2010s was like there was this really big push toward "accepting your weirdness" overall but they meant like idk wearing mismatched socks or something not being tangibly beyond the norm in any way shape or form

[machine-unlearning]

When I (M29) was a young boy (M7) my father (M35) took me into the city (X167) to see a marching band (M23, M21, M22, F22, M24, M25, F21, M

[machine-unlearning]

He said “Son (M7) when you grow up (F33) would you be — wait what”

[beemovieerotica]

out of context transphobic ganon

[beemovieerotica]

[nonlynear]

the losing dogs and i are engaging in insider trading

[mortalityplays]

the thing about being a contrarian (which I don't believe I am, but when I say so my friends smile knowingly and shake their heads and there's no getting out of that spike pit trap once you're in it) is that you must strive to be as contrarian (positive) as you are contrarian (negative). when you hate something instantly, you have to haul your own instincts up to the witness stand and badger them. where does your antipathy come from? is your evidence material or circumstantial? are you a reliable witness? when a friend introduces you to a friend and you see in the first split second that you were arch-nemeses in a past life, you must steel yourself and compliment their horrible shirt and listen to at least two of their jokes before you go home and pin their picture to the dartboard. this is how you work around your own prejudices, but more importantly it is also how you gather evidence that you were right in the first place and you're an astute observer of the human condition and not a contrarian just because your friends' stupid accusation is rhetorically impossible to refute. if anything they're the ones,

[thecrumbez]

Happy Pride Month to those two women dancing together in the foreground of the boat scene in Godzilla (1954).

I’m sorry your romantic foibles were overshadowed by a big ass atomic lizard thing.

[erratic-dragon-fruit]

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