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this is where my slop gets hidden from the main art page: (instagram.com/smooop) currently dykeposting my art of lisa cuddy, working on a cuddley/dykecuddy fic, and editing cuddy scenepacks lol anti colonial, antizionist, communist, abolitionist, trans rights 4ever

[wutheringcunts]

third cuddy of the season - irl edition!!!! when can i rest

[lioncunt]

the very idea that someone could sit down, watch lestat puke while still trying to rationalize the abuse, have a full blown panic attack over it when louis yells that there is no rationalizing this, and then go say it's consensual...that it's not portrayed as abuse...insane...

i also think a lot of people aren't really getting the *point* of louis' reaction. it's extremely harsh and judgmental and completely insensitive to the fact that lestat is being abused, but that is the purpose of it. the entire season is lestat attempting to justify it. this is louis saying that you cannot justify it. there is no rational way to justify that happening. and when lestat has a breakdown over it, they both sort of realize at the same time that this means lestat has been suffering incestuous sexual abuse for 200 fucking years.

it overwhelms lestat, and it clicks for louis. that's when he changes tacts, when he comforts lestat, when he gently tries to help him admit that it's been abuse all along in the bar. it's so realistic, such a necessary sequence.

i think there is unfortunately a knee jerk reaction people have to abuse like this, esp when it's mother/son, where it's just "gross", "weird", or "sick", as louis says. where the child is not taken to be a victim, somehow. i think the show is very honest in having this be louis' initial reaction, until he sees lestat's panic, until he properly thinks it through for a second. and then he gets it, and he feels horrible about what he said. again, it's just all very realistic and bittersweet. everyone involved did an incredible job with this storyline imo.

[lou-of-my-life]

additionally, that very instinct louis is informed by his own trauma from the 77 year abuse under armand.

they're both deeply traumatised individuals who kicked into defense mode simultaneously after that tape was leaked.

lestat, who always knew something is off about his dynamic with his mother, wanted to justify it and not face the ire of louis' judgement cause that would make him see the truth of the matter. his own mother, the person who made him, doesn't love him.

and for louis, who was fed lies and had memories altered to the point his sense of self is fractured, who had to live and be intimate with a partner who hid information from him, had to once again find out his first partner, who also had a habit of lying to him, might've deceived him for over a century in this regard. its in his specific words about having her portrait over their coffins (marital bed). the mother looming over them was alive and was actually intimate with lestat in a way louis was. that is his point.

the moment they looked at each other, it clicked and they reached one another. they're all that matters to each other at the end of the day.

[glorious-spoon]

spent forty-five minutes today helping an 87yo woman who does not own a computer or a cell phone try to set up an email account so that she could then set up a second account in order to access benefits. went with protonmail, because they don't require 2fa, but it turns out that while you can still make a protonmail account without authentication you can no longer use it to create OTHER accounts without it, and the benefits page she needed to get to required both an email and a cell phone to create an account anyway. asked if she wanted to try going in person to see if someone there could help her, and she said that she had, and they'd directed her to the website. she tried signing up with her landline, but of course that didn't work because you can't do SMS authentication that way. finally ended up writing up detailed instructions for how to log in and authenticate her account so she can drive to her severely disabled daughter's house forty minutes away because that's the only person she knows and trusts who has both a cell phone and a computer.

anyway i fucking hate mandatory 2fa and i think the people responsible for it should have to spend a year navigating their lives with no cell phone and no internet access beyond the public library pcs. fuck.

[abandonshapes]

oc

[abandonshapes]

ssssketching

[abandonshapes]

gills to lungs

[stigmatamxrtyr]

they worked tf outta her

[lioncourtz]

THE VAMPIRE LESTAT | Lestat's outfits

Costume Design by Lex Wood

[those-fucking-feratu]

god i just. man, this season was brilliant. i love that the purpose of this whole ride was to get to know lestat just as he is. an artist, a lover, a victim, a monster, a failure. the whole message of this season seems to be “no one can be normal about lestat, and lestat is incapable of being normal in return”, and it’s kind of crazy that it’s bleeding over into the fandom as well. he’s got his stans who think he can do no wrong, his overwrought haters who see him as a cartoonish villain, and people who want him to be what they see him as rather than who he is. the only person who sees him truly is, and will always be, louis. for better or worse, richer or poorer, headless or headstrong, it’s always been the two of them.

this is some of the most experimental and fascinating television i’ve ever seen, and i can’t wait to see where we go from here. whatever comes next, it’s going to be a hell of a ride.

[midnightchapter]

INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE | THE VAMPIRE LESTAT — 1.07 “The Thing Lay Still” — 3.07 “The Failures”

[kayla-denker]

The issue of trans women being sent to men's prisons isn't brought up as being a monstrous thing because of the misgendering, it's monstrous because we're sent there to be legally sex trafficked.

That's what V-coding is. That is why they are so adamant about sending trans women to men's prisons, because sex trafficking trans women within the men's prison system is an essential part of that system. Being misgendered by this isn't even an issue that's on our radar!

[loopnoid]

i've been told there's a repost of this silly old comic going around so here's the real one

[sivavakkiyar]

“Europe is literally the creation of the Third World. The wealth which smothers her is that which was stolen from the underdeveloped peoples. The ports of Holland, the docks of Bordeaux and Liverpool were specialized in the Negro slave trade, and owe their renown to millions of deported slaves. So when we hear the head of a European state declare with his hand on his heart that he must come to the aid of the poor underdeveloped peoples, we do not tremble with gratitude.”

— Frantz Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth (via howieabel)

[depsidase]

[niacart]

In a show full of toxic gay men, it’s the tragic sapphics that I care about 😔

[audible301]

Incredible “saying the most harmful things I can think of to my parents to try to make them feel the way they make me feel” performance from Delainey

can we give her an emmy

[xylophonetangerine]

[witemglitch-deactivated20260709]

It exists and it's called Portland, Oregon

[sanrio-stud]