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Eric Bogosian performing #83 Sheep

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i’m going to crush this video up and snort it

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this 2.08 outfit got overshadowed by the vampire leather jacket and it deserves justice

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armand de gorgeous

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I personally adore Eric Bogosian’s interviews because I, like so many of us of a certain age, had to grow up with actors discussing their queer roles where it was always how grueling and mentally draining it was to play these tragic stories out where horrific things happened to their characters and the struggles of doing the gay stuff. And now we’ve got a guy who is vibrating with excitement for any chance to talk in detail about how playing a gay role and doing gay stuff on screen is the coolest best most awesome thing to ever happen to him in his 7 decades of life. It’s just so joyfully refreshing. We didn’t use to have this kind of thing. And I’m so grateful for it now.

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The listener.

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inspired by René Gruau's Woman With A Fur (original under cut)

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i luvvv him smm!!!

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The very beginnnig of 1x01 is actually so efficient a introducing the character of Daniel. It opens with an ad for his online class, a natural context for infodumping facts about his career. Then it cuts to Daniel on the couch, watching the ad with a facial expression and body language that tells you everything: Meh. The driven, idealistic Daniel from the ad who wants to help the younger generation? An old, bored man sitting on the couch. Then he does a puzzle, and his hand shakes, hinting at the Parkinson's. It also provides a first glimpse at the bite mark on his neck.

I think that most people, even if they have not read the books, they have seen the movie, and if they have not seen the movie, they have at least heard of it. Interview with the Vampire is a classic, and the title of the first novel alone is iconic. Showing old Daniel with the bite scar tells the viewer that a version of that interview has happened.

Then Daniel gets a package in the mail, and is on the phone with his doctor, because he is worried about the latest Corona variant. (I've seen complaints about how the Corona references make the show dated (and that is bad), but those scenes take place in 2022, so acknowleding Corona is not any different from acknowleding WW2 in 1939.) He's worried about it, considering his health situation, but he still ends the call when he sees who sent him that package, and what it is: Louis de Pointe du Lac, bitches, (the titular vampire from Interview with the Vampire) and it's a box of cassette tapes (the titular interview). Then Daniel digs out an old cassette player, which is in a box with some pink toys, and this tells you that Daniel had daughters in the 1980's/90's. And Daniel's facial expression says that the whole vampire incident in his youth was a bit traumatic and getting mail from Louis is kinda a big thing. Then comes a voice-over of Louis' voice reading the letter as we transition to Dubai, providing more context, and that's less than five minutes, and I find it really well done!

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He can’t keep getting away with this.

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he invented frowning

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will always love iwtv for being a show that refuses to be confined to a single aesthetic. we have period drama balls and post-wwii parisian chic and 70s drugs&depression and depressing postmodern dubai penthouse and armand's fuckass ipad and rock concerts and divorce courts legal disputes all in the same show ugh no other piece of media is doing it like iwtv

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s3 teaser cleaned up a bit

i might try to touch it up further if no one else does

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Jacob Anderson being a sunshine during the 2025 sdcc