Like a Moth to the Flame

"The horrors persist, but so do I." Staying silly. But also pissed off and not interested in your bullshit.

[weird-art-lover]

[thanatos-god-of-death]

I have one simple question for you

Are these pants the same pants

as those ones?

Was lestat wearing his pants from the trial when he humiliated Armand ?

[knight-in-shimmering-armour]

I was so busy deviling my minions this week that I forgot that next episode is an episode 5. Of iwtv.

[blorbo-wan-kenobi]

Thinking about this tweet big time

[professional-rat-eater]

Wait now I’m thinking about the use of colour in Armand’s costuming and the iconic purple shirt.

The entire time we’ve known him, he’s generally worn very muted colours. Black, brown, dark green, beige, etc. It’s always like he’s trying to blend into the background. It’s always very dark. Earth tones. Maybe there are slight uses of other colours, but the bulk of the outfits are always an Earth tone.

Daniel mentions Alice’s purple dress. The next day Armand is wearing purple. It’s a muted purple but it’s still distinct from what he usually wears. He breaks his pattern and switches to a jewel tone, from wanting to disappear to wanting to attract attention.

It’s certainly one of the only times but is that the only time we’ve seen him wear colour like that? During the interview when he’d yet to realise he was still in love with Daniel? An unconscious choice on his part?

[adrenaline-revolver]

I enjoy the fact that art imitates life imitates art going on with Armand.

Anne makes him to be a villain, is informed by fans that he is baby, concedes and makes him the multi layered individual we know today.

Daniel writes the book and arguably Armand is the villain, but he pours so much love into his descriptions that in universe fans agree he is baby.

The Show is made and now any time they try to short change Armand fans try to haunt the producer’s dreams.

Armand the king of the court of public opinion. Armand the people’s princess. For his next trick he’s going to manifest into our reality.

[lexdelioncourt]

You know how Daniel has a habit of saying things that will unknowingly come back to bite him in the ass?

"Shared a boyfriend."

"It's a telenovela."

"Where better to explore who you are, to find the right kind of love but in a public park."

Etc. etc.

Anyway, can't wait for him to get some memories back and for that "bottom twink" zinger to come back and haunt him.

Also old man should bounce on it now, too.

[softest-beigest-pillows]

dm aside that entire daniel/armand exchange was so funny because “did you actually not get tortured by me?? was none of it real???” “noo babe ofc you tortured me, you tortured me so well you’re so good at torture”

[tarmairons]

INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE (2022-) 

[keplercryptids]

I spent the afternoon arranging our books by size and color (and it’s so satisfying and looks amazing) and my partner came home and stared in shock at the bookcase and then said “i’m a librarian, you can’t do this.”

[keplercryptids]

him: you split up all the song of ice and fire books

me: yeah i know, they’re all primary colors, it’s perfect

him: [self-destructs]

[operativesurprise]

You’re a monster

[thetumblrofrassilon]

As a former bookstore employee, this hurts my soul. I mean, sure it looks nice, but how do you find anything?

[keplercryptids]

it has occurred me during this process that apparently not everyone thinks about books by what color they are? like, literally when i’m looking for a book, i picture it in my mind. i have a very…tactile experience with the books i read and idk! i thought everyone did that lol.

my partner was like “how will i find [this book] for instance” and i replied “easy, it’s purple” and he looked at me like i was a witch.

[holdmecloseandfast]

OP your brain is neat and I love you for it you funky little color-coded cupcake. But you’re still a monster.

[krsonmar]

This actually is interesting in terms of information-seeking behavior, which is a thing librarians think about a lot and often actually study (some library jobs require you to publish, and academic librarians, for instance, will often use the students at the college they work at to study how they search for information in order to figure out how to best provide them services).

When you go for an MLS (Master’s of Library Science, which is a thing, and which is usually required for “professional-level” library work [which is also a weird and contentious concept that I won’t go into here]), one of the things you study is the organization of information. This deals with how to determine what a book or other material is “about"—a concept we tongue-in-cheek call “aboutness"—and how to convey that to a potential user of the item and make it easy for them to find. Things like keywords and subject headings, do I put this book about how often wild birds attack aerial drones in with books about birds or with books about technology, if its a fictional novel do I put fantasy in it’s own section or mix it in with all of the other fiction, so on and so on.

OP is organizing books by how they would look for them. OP’s partner is thinking in terms of aboutness. This is a system that works for OP because it’s their personal library: they know basically what books they own and they only own books that are relevant to them, and if they know what the book looks like, that can be a quick way to find it.

In a library that assumes the public (or people who do not own that particular collection of books) are using the collection, that doesn’t work. Books are often re-issued in multiple covers, or re-bound in new covers when they get worn out, and if the user doesn’t know what the book looks like or is expecting a different cover, they’re lost. That’s why non-personal libraries used standardized cataloging systems like the Dewey Decimal System or Library of Congress System to organize a book by what it’s “about”, and then put books about the same or similar topics together, marked with labels and signage so a person unfamiliar with the book or collection can find their way to it.

Basically, OP’s system works for their own personal library, because it’s best suited to how the primary user—OP themselves—looks for books. OP’s librarian partner is coming from a background of thinking in terms of a public-facing collection, where aboutness is the key criteria and communicating it to a user unfamiliar with the collection is the priority.

And also, OP is a monster.

[byjove]

I do not agree with veganism as a moral standard. If it is your personal moral stance, that is fine. If you think humans eating meat is inherently immoral, I don’t want to deal with you, you’re hopeless. Vegan ideology behaves more like a sect of evangelical Christianity than a dietary choice.

[literallycrashingoutrn]

Veganism is better for the environment, but claiming that it's a morally superior choice ignores cultural and economic factors that make people eat animal products.

[byjove]

It is not inherently better for the environment. That is the thing. When you begin trying to explain that local, sustainably sourced animal protein is better for the environment than imported plant proteins that are farmed 3,500 miles away using slave labor, they start tuning you out. Down is better for the environment than polyester stuffing, leather is better for the environment than pleather. We should work on making animal agricultural practices more sustainable instead of trying to shame everyone into eating plant products that are also farmed unethically and unsustainably.

[onlytiktoks]

[orcboxer]

Things that work in fiction but not real life

torture getting reliable information out of people

knocking someone out to harmlessly incapacitate them for like an hour

jumping into water from staggering heights and surviving the fall completely intact

calling the police to deescalate a situation

rafting your way off a desert island

correctly profiling total strangers based on vibes

effectively operating every computer by typing and nothing else

ripping an IV out of your arm without consequences

heterosexual cowboy

[orcboxer]

This post breaching containment has taught me that a lot of people seem to think they can accurately profile complete strangers. For the record, no the fuck you can't.

[nicostiel]

He's doing so well

[spaceshipsandpurpledrank]

[toxxik-skintea]

That product being ‘watermelon-scented’ makes this so much worse

[thememedaddy]

[chromaticabrasions]

caramel frappe give me the strength to clean my room

[chromaticabrasions]

caramel frappe PLEASE

[chromaticabrasions]

#this art is so evocative. it feels like a goya painting 

thank you so much this is the highest compliment

[tintheelvenking]

OP did a lovely job with this piece. The pose they picked is a difficult one to do correctly and dynamically- the doubling over is hard to illustrate without making it look weird or poorly drawn, the low seat of the “pelvis” making the figure dip down lower (to emphasize the clutching motion of the hands) is a hard perspective to imagine without a reference. I liked the way OP chose to draw the shoulders, evoking both the hunching of shoulders that would be present in a fleshier painting and drawing out the strong, dynamic curve of the body.

The blood, the desperate clutch, the crying and the pose all suggest something religious, making the post all the more impactful with its drawing- The caramel frappe does not answer the subject, just as God does not answer the subjects of paintings who depicted the same theme.

It’s also intriguing where OP chose to put details. In amostly minimalist creation, the (relatively) detailed frappe, hands, and face guides your eyes in a a dynamic way- from the frappe to the face, then follows the line of the body out to the end of the legs- making the art more interesting to the eye.

I have a theory about the colors that I’m not sure is true, but I think the subject being black and white separates it from the frappe, which is fully colored. The blood, neither frappe nor person colored, acts as a connector between the two– the only ways the two subjects can connect are through touch and sight, both of which causes the human subject pain. Then again, I may be reading into things too much idk

[chromaticabrasions]

okay this is my favorite comment on this entire post