#reblog with your answer and why

[bruciemilf]

Alright yall, I need some help with a first world problem.

[kirby-the-gorb]

we are about an hour into rare disease day in my timezone! (it's always the last day of february, whether that's the 28th or the 29th.) the true prevalence of mast cell disorders is unknown, as they are often misdiagnosed or ignored. and mast cell activation syndrome, the most prevalent kind of mast cell disorder, only had diagnostic criteria laid out for the first time in 2010. so whether or not it's truly rare is really up in the air!

(personally I suspect it is just aggressively underdiagnosed but I'm not a research scientist or diagnostician right now. and even if it is rare, it's gonna be a lot less so than it was 5 years ago as certain respiratory infections are known to trigger it into visibility. that's what happened to me when I got mono at the end of 2015, further compounded when I got covid in 2022.)

all chronically ill people face a lot of hurdles when it comes to seeking diagnosis, accommodation, and treatment (all of which can be severely complicated by any intersecting marginalities), but rare diseases present a special challenge.

for example, I have an immune disorder. my immune system does not like being alive, my mast cells are way too jumpy and throw a tantrum over every little thing. you'd think an immunologist would be the one to treat me, right?

I've had 6 immunology referrals rejected in the past 9 months alone. multiple major immunology clinics in my major city tied to a major research university outright refuse to see patients with "mcas" written anywhere in their chart.

after 8 years of being debilitatingly ill, and suspecting it was immune mediated for 6, and getting it confirmed beyond a shadow of a doubt by the bone marrow biopsy last month, I will have my second ever appointment with an immunologist. another 2 1/2 months from now. the first immunologist lied to me about the reliability of the one available blood test, when I first came up with the hypothesis by myself 6 years ago, and forced me to abandon my (correct!!! now proven!!!) hypothesis for 3 entire years while we wandered around lost and got nowhere other than even more thorough process of elimination.

okay, well if my immune system is attacking me, maybe it's technically autoimmune? that's the rheumatologists instead of the immunologists, what do they have to say? dick all my dude, I don't have rheumatoid arthritis so they just shrug at me and go "idk, fibro? I don't know why you're here" and send me home with nothing. (I literally had a rheumatologist say to me, verbatim, "I don't know why you're here." buddy it's your job to read the chart and decide if I get seen or not, you tell me. at least he had a snazzy outfit.)

being chronically ill can be a terrible struggle no matter what, but a disease that is perceived as rare, accurate or not, adds a whole new layer of bullshit. (and of course there are much much rarer diseases out there, with even more hoops and dead ends and struggles and all-new layers of bullshit that even I don't have to deal with!)

anyway I'm having a shit time and using this awareness day as an excuse to productively bitch about it 👍

[alt-wannabe]

okay, imagine BAC is a real thing, like minecraft mechanics and tasks brought to real life. what would your assigned job be while running it?

[gremlinsminion]

But that's just the thing! The question of why lestat participated is (to me) the Crux of season 1 and 2 and when answered in season 3 (and I'm sure they will touch upon this part again), what we see will be the make it or break it for the show lestat.

The answer will either satisfy the audience or manage to completely drive away all book fans and lose (some) fans and stay with...significantly less.

Here's the thing. This isn't about stans or fan favorites or ship wars.

This is the core theme of interview with a vampire. It's the one thing that bonds louis and lestat for the rest of the chronicles it's perhaps THE reason they end up together in the end. Because they both had a child together, they loved her and they both had to survive her death and they grieve her together after all these years.

That's what iwtv is supposed to be. If the answer to his participation is "well he could have stopped it at any time but he chose not to cause he was still kinda pissed they killed him, or he only cared about louis and then changed his mind and felt bad about claudia too then sorry that's not iwtv, the vampire lestat the VC chronicles. The heart of the chronicles was this grief.

And not everyone has to like lestat but if they want the show to continue its vital to actually keep the core of the character and even elevate them when possible like they did with louis! Lestat-claudia-louis is at the heart of it, as the family unit. There was love there and it ended tragically.

I just don't think some fans understand how important this topic will be for the overall life span of the show. It's important that the love and grief of two parents who failed their child but loved her is shown, so the story can move forward. Otherwise how does louis forgive lestat? Why doesn't he blame him? How will louis reconcile with himself and with lestat if he ends up with the man who willingly burned his daughter? Or was willing to see hee burned

How do we go from "rehearsed a play that burned your daughter alive" to "it's not on you?"

Sorry to unload all this on you, but I have a lot of thoughts on this and my friends have not watched the show so I've no one to talk this with but I'd very much appreciate if you chose to post this (but you ofc don't have to!)

good point about how most of the viewers want to see Lestat. As the central character of TVC, he can’t be vilified too much I suppose. And interesting thoughts about grief, I don’t think about it much, but I’ve heard that Anne Rice started this whole thing as a way to cope.

[adhdo5]

Why do people keep putting comments on art and answers to tag games in the replies. Those go in the tags on your reblog foul beast

[musashi]

The Simon Zine looked fun but then the first thing I see on the blog is "no pro-shipping, including 'pseudo-incest' etc" God damn it.

oh ew nvm fghfshjsfhfg

[mokeonn]

Before I go to sleep I leave you all with this piece of advice: sometimes you don't actually have to answer big political questions, sometimes you can just say "I am not smart enough to know that, I just know the small things I do to help." Like you can often times completely avoid making a fool of yourself if you just say you don't know.

[stormblessed95]

You're still Jimin biased right?

I'm a little confused why you haven't been posting about the hate he (and his family) have been getting lately. At first I thought "Oh, maybe she's too busy", but then I see you responding to random Taekooker anons and it just feel like you're ignoring... or not caring about Jimin.

I really liked your blog because even while supporting Jikook, you still supported ALL SEVEN of the members. But now it doesn't feel that way (to me at least) anymore.

Also while I'm glad people are supporting Yoongi, lots of them are dropping Muse and Who to do so. That doesn't seem ok.

Jimin is selfless and kind, but he's an artist too and people shouldn't take advantage of his kindness even to help others. As ARMYs shouldn't we be supporting ALL of the members? We can show we support and love Yoongi while not abandoning Jimin. At least that's what I believe.

If you don't want to post about Jimin, could I at least know why?

Because honestly it seems like you're not actually OT7, and if not then I'd like to unfollow 🙁

Hopefully you'll answer me, even if it's not through this ask directly!

I still hope you're happy and healthy though 💜

[wizardpink]

Hi! I read your post-finale DM meta and I think it's very interesting. The point about Armand turning Daniel because Daniel eviscerated him and made him feel seen for who he truly is (in all his flawed, monstrous glory) felt very true to his character. So I get why Armand would fall for Daniel (eventually) and turn him. But I was wondering (and this is presuming that nothing like the chase or a relationship between them happened in the past), how do you see this Daniel, this vampire who seems to have his shit together and be pretty content with his vampiric life (afawk from the finale, tho this obviously may not be the full truth), falling for Armand eventually? How do you think that will develop?

@destielonfire First of all let me apologize for having no idea when you sent this, I never saw a notification so I hope it hasn't been too long!

I think Daniel's hot girl summer moment we saw a glimpse of in the finale is a ruse by the writers. It added an air of levity to the season finale and gave viewers (and eric!) the gift of swaggering badass vampire Daniel.

But season 3 will have the time to get into it more deeply and well, I don't think anyone ever has a great time after being turned, even if you are rich and famous.

I'm not sure Daniel has ever had his shit together a moment in his life. He says he did when he convinced Alice to marry him, but it must not have lasted long. He was never able to balance his work life with his family. I doubt he'll have an easier time balancing his work life with being a vampire.

I'm also leaning towards the reads on him that this is going to pull him right back down into his addiction issues, now that he's immortal. There are no (well fewer) consequences for substance abuse as a vampire, plus he has a whole new drug, blood, and all that comes with acquiring it. In Dubai we saw that Daniel was squeamish about eating wriggling fish. How is he coping with killing and eating people? I think we only saw one half of the story in the finale. We saw the alcoholic at the bar, buying shots for all his friends while everyone laughs and cheers. We didn't see the next morning's hangover.

In the books, Armand effectively drives Daniel insane to the point the point he falls in love with him, which is hella fucked up (and we love that), so I can see the show taking one of two paths here.

The first is they just adapt that method straight from the books. Lonely and desperate Armand chasing Daniel around the world trying to figure out how to navigate their future as master and fledgling (and understand what drove him to break his vow to never make another vampire for THIS GUY), eventually coming to the conclusion its because he loves him, and Daniel later doing the same. Because they're both trainwrecks impossibly drawn to forms of self harm.

The second is a little less inexplicable and a lot less toxic. Instead of Armand driving Daniel crazy with his psychosexual torture, Daniel does it to himself with his hedonistic desires and lack of self-control. He feeds and kills and feeds and kills, pushes away his family, friends, and collegues, ruins his professional reputation. And he can't understand why he can't stop, why nothing ever makes him feel complete, etc etc. And because he is his maker, because of their invisible cord, Armand takes responsibility for picking him up off the floor and attempting to help him deal with this. Because Armand's the one that gave immortality to a man who can't stop blowing up his life and the lives of everyone around him.

I also think that on a more specific note, Daniel in season 3 will continue to be the plot device that presents the backstory to the audience. I think he'll probably go on tour with Lestat to try to get that second book, and Lestat will share his story, which we know features not only Armand, but Armand's maker Marius, and other places and characters that inform the audience (and Daniel) on Armand's history, motivations, traumas, etc. Daniel has been learning about Armand as a side character and villain in all these other vampires' stories where obviously they're the main characters, the heroes, the victims. But slowly piece by piece he is putting together the Armand puzzle, and now that they're inextricabIy linked he has even more motivation to put the pieces in place. I think those glimpses into Armand's history are going to intrigue him, maybe even endear him to Armand. When they're reunited he wont be able to resist going straight to the source. Which is good because Daniel finding him fascinating is going to melt Armand.

Also I am a romantic. Sometimes there doesn't need to be a reason why two people fall for each other. Season 2 already showed us that these two have an energy. There are strong feelings there already, they can't keep their eyes off each other, can't stop sniping at each other like hissing cats sniffing each other out. Combine that with vampire loneliness and mutual freakitude and you've got a recipe for something.

[ruggiesears]

??? Why are people I blocked showing up to me normally as if I didn't block them

[viktheviking1]

Unhinged things adults said to me when I was a kid/early teen

(Part 1)

Adult: lots of babies are born in the fall because when it gets cold out, couples cuddle in bed and then things happen.

Me: *awkward laughter*

Adult: No, I'm serious.

[arson-09]

I am definitely gonna start writing nesta x Tomas fanfic or Tomas x Elain! Maybe we should also start writing about nests and emeries father🤷🏽‍♀️ I mean if we forgive abusers like tamlin and beron, why stop there?

ok babe… you do you sweetie. But do you mean it? or are you just butthurt?

but seriously, your missing ✨the point✨ and im not going to go off cause plenty of people have already made very well worded posts i shall link for you. Post 1 post 2

Also *we*? whos *we* Im not forgiving tamlin of anything cause of how i perceive his character. Im not saying *you* have to forgive him if you feel offended and hurt by his character. this aint no hive mind by god you can have your own thoughts just like i can have mine!

Remember anon, YOUR perception of the media does not equal how everyone should feel. If your panties are in a twist over people liking characters you dislike, to the point where your leaving silly anons like this, you need to check out of social media.

[good-omens-heritage-posts]

Do you have to put "good omens heritage post" on all your reblogs? Doesn't it go without saying since you are reblogging it? It ruins the posts when you do that.

idk how this works man i'm just doing what every other heritage post blog i've ever seen does

[sunnies-theory-of-happiness]

pov your classmates spend all their time playing STUMBLE GUYS instead of working on your HISTORY GROUP PROJECT so they have a shitton of WRONG ANSWERS that YOU have to fix