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A comic about book bans, ppl's continued dismissiveness of asexuality, and ppl's lack of understanding around what it means to be queer, and why they should be worried about book bannings.

I'll add smth here cos I learned after posting this on IG that people still aren't entirely understanding how scary and dangerous this is. Ppl kept saying to me 'I can still buy your book in shops though' or 'Its okay, I'll order your book into my library!'

I dont give af about my book lol No one outside of Ace ppl ever read it, its yearly sales don't even cover a month of expenses for me.

The thing you should all be concerned about is that a totally benign unheard of book about someone's every day life is being banned. And those laws listed above are passing through US government right now. One of those laws would make it so that any teacher/librarian in the US could lose their job/go to prison for simply sharing 'ideology'- and I don't mean only lgbtq folk, these laws are attacking black history, civil rights history, disability rep in books. Just talking about these things will now legally be considered a 'dangerous ideology'.

And once that's set into law, the US government has backing via law to go ahead and say 'if these books aren't legally allowed in schools, then they shouldn't be allowed in shops, either.' And from there it sets up a great argument for 'The dangerous content in these books is lawfully being removed from public, shouldn't we be lawfully removing the people living out/promoting this ideology too?'

I can see why ppl don't fully understand how dangerous book bannings are, if they're not familiar with the history of fascism. If you're interested, there are plenty of graphic novels that share this history via first hand accounts- Maus, Persepolis, Banned Book Club.

But guess what? You're on limited time to get these via libraries...cos all three of these books are on banned lists too, and they got nothing to do with lgbtq rep, and everything to do with warning ppl about fascism.

And the US government knows it can get away with this, because they are passing these laws as we speak and barely anyone is doing anything about it or talking about it. I've been trying to talk about it for years and no one does anything except say to me 'don't worry, I'll buy your book!' or say its a badge of honour that I have a banned book.

So I'll emphasise once more. If you live in the USA, PLEASE CONTACT YOUR REP ABOUT THESE LAWS!

vampirebrainrot

The only sane and well person in this house is Fareed rn Doctor Fareed gonna survive this shitshow by the power of Not Being There and DGAF

I’ve already seen people mention how the body parts are almost definitely being sold, but I haven’t seen anyone say anything about this. My friend noticed that when Sua’s arm is being cut off the words ‘auction time’ flash on the screens. Does this mean auctions are being held RIGHT AFTER each round???

Not to mention when the round ends the screen above Sua says win, so in alnst she would have lived and Mizi would have died, so in zombie stage is the winner the one who was chosen by the crowd to have something taken from them. The ‘winner’ is whoever the crowd likes more and therefore can have more parts sold?

#alien stage #alnst #zombie stage #mizisua

What if this is Mizi’s mother??? It shows this right after Mizi slap Sua on the cheek, in this scene she has a bruise, what if it’s cause her mother slapped her and that’s why she thought of this moment????

#alien stage #alsnt mizi #alnst #zombie stage

missyfrs

to be a fly on the wall for a conversation between these two

snaplight-anxiety

alex rider is so awesome because I think too hard about it and get a nosebleed. like yeah it’s already a subversion of the child hero fantasy but it’s also a total narrative about avoiding grief. about being kept away from it. it’s about the support of denial as a reaction to death. Alex is never allowed to sit down and grieve for his uncle— he avoids having to think about Ian at all, and is never made to; he is proven right when he sticks to the belief that Jack is alive instead of having to deal with what it means if she isn’t. so what is alex rider but a story about grief? what is alex rider but a story about the incredible lengths a boy will go to to avoid having to grieve at all? what is alex rider but a boy who is unable to face reality and whose reality refuses to face him. all of the books and the paths alex travels are just metaphorical time loops, repetitive adventures where he cannot get back to reality. He can’t escape the cycle. He can’t help but return to it. The whole thing is just a testament to how far someone will go to avoid their grief. so like. how am I supposed to get past that.

rocktheholygrail

sirpompet

I find the idea of Castiel getting jealous over Benny and Crowley funny because the whole time Dean was making his side pieces look for and help his boyfriend.

patchouii

No thoughts head empty just the fact that Hannibal canonically likes cheek-rubbing and nuzzling people he’s intimate with like a cat

Funny that Will, the biggest dog person ever, ended up with a mushy housecat of a husband who probably purrs or smth

yusiyomogi

What happened to my show, man? 🫩

Rolin knew it was coming but it really is true. WTF have they done to it? He talking about these two being the weakest episodes but season 3 is supposed to be their strongest season, according to him, despite the fact that seasons 1 and 2 didn’t have a single episode this weak.

And we’re 2/7 episodes in which means a tone flip even by three is going to still be jarring. This is really how it’s gonna be going forward. Horrible pacing, fast food writing and a life story told through 5 second long flashbacks

Like Lestat saying {paraphrasing; Yeah, I wasn’t there for these scenes (between Louis and Daniel) but I’m going to tell you what happened anyway and you just have to believe me} is such damn lazy writing. Lestat’s such a reliable narrator that he can even tell about scenes he wasn’t even present for? Like he’s omniscient now?

I do like that they’ve made it clear that Lestat is not comfortable with the relationship between him and his mother but even then, Gabrielle is like a parody villain who has done everything but cackle manically while tying someone to the train tracks and what is with that accent?

I am honestly gutted. Lestat and Louis are side by side my favorite characters and I wanted so much better for Lestat and Sam. There were some gorgeous moments; the concert, the music and the end scene with Daniel and Louis. They really are missing Louis as a tether between seasons, tbh because as soon as Louis hits the scene and when he and Lestat are in the same place, the whole vibe changes (and I did feel this too during season 2 when Lestat was absent) and the scenes with Daniel and Lestat in episode 1 were very strong but IDK, it’s already such a decline in quality (everything but the acting which remains stellar as always) when compared side by side to 1x1 and 2x1

i think there's a bit of defensiveness in rolin saying that this is their best season yet. i'm still not sure how much he was just trolling his actors and his audience with tvl, because it's genuinely comedic how much he was hugging tvl book and promising "everything you ever wanted from tvl". i do think it was his artistic vision for the season. i do think he loves the end result, in the same way people tend to love and feel protective over their ugliest messiest art works (speaking from my own experience).

i also suspect that this is the season where he felt like he was the closest to what he wanted to do with this show. reread the draft for s1e1. many things that were removed in the final version of the script (because they were weird and didn't fit the overall tone) found their way to s3. rolin tends to support collaborative process, and i think the writers' room for s1 and s2 was powerful enough to deliver consistent tone and thematic integrity, which rolin accepted. but tvl is his baby, so he's the one making decisions and he had two people who weren't experienced playwriters in the writers' room for this season. you can really tell the difference.

i think the show is also greatly suffering from online discourse that surrounds it, because while s2 only had one episode that more or less gracefully commented on the state of the fandom (s2e7), it feels like s3 is way too aware of what fans are talking about. and i think inconsistences in the framing, like lestat saying that he wasn't there for louis and daniel's conversation, is like a cheeky commentary on s2e5: a lot of people were confused how louis could hear what lestat says to armand, so now they're making fun of this. and lestat's jabs toward the book are already meta as hell. it's just... i did expect some metatextual bullshit this season, but so far it feels very shallow.

anyway. i wish i wanted to say more, but i really feel like i'm just dealing with someone's underfunded underbaked personal art project and i just can't take it seriously. i know what's coming and i know there will be moments i'll love and there will be moments that will ruin my love for this show forever. i'm really just tired. i really thought we had something to look forward with this show, yknow.

banchie

i've been phasing the phrase 'google it' out of my vocabulary and going back to 'look it up'. fuck you youve lost your generic trademark privileges

skyrigel

+ dead wife montage

hannibal-lecters-cock

Hannibal’s love language is acts of service.

unfortunately the service is murder.

yaoiblackmold

I was so caught up in the Daniel smoking a hookah horniness that I didn't notice that he isn't actually *smoking* but sucking blood through the hookah looking pipe

couldnt-think-of-a-funny-name

sorry the fact that lestat went and bought halloween candy- and still went to give it out despite the fact he was in the middle of a breakdown- just for kids to show up at his door dressed like his dead daughter and two of his exes. absolutely killing me.