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shannon’s death is SOOOO STUPID. to me. they couldn’t figure out a good way to resolve the plot so they just fridged her. i wish we could have seen her and eddie get divorced and become best friends again as they resolve their issues :((

one of my “if i had infinite time and energy” projects would be a fic in which shannon is injured but not killed by the car and even though she’s divorcing eddie, he’s also the only one she can have help take care of her during her recovery, so she has to move in. and suddenly she + eddie + buck have to navigate what it all means to have her back in the home but not back in a relationship with eddie, especially re: parenting chris. because now they’re going to have to all directly address that buck has taken on more of a parenting role in the last year than shannon has and how uncomfortable it is for all of them to address that, not to mention how weird it is for chris himself. what does it mean to be watching your sort-of-ex-husband (who you both love and resent—though not as much as you resent yourself) unknowingly fall in love with someone else in front of you while you’re painfully aware of the ways you’ve failed your child together? a very tangled web i am probably never going to actually weave

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I think 50 shades of grey did so much damage to BDSM writing in fic and like not because I think fic writers were taking inspiration from it, but we did get a lot of detailed explanatory posts about all the different ways in which those guys were Doing It Wrong, which is not in and of itself a bad thing but since then everybody got so hung up on making sure everybody in their fics was nothing like 50 shades of grey and actually demonstrates that yes I do understand the principles of safe sane and consensual and the traffic light system and safewording and aftercare and checking in that now everybody fucks like a 101 handbook and I think we've only just recently started to recover from it. love me a dynamic where it's two repressed freak idiots who accidentally invent BDSM all on their own and have to come up with the strangest most deeply harmful ways of navigating that situation

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Funny he doesnt smile till margaret grabs it. Was she the intended target. Did everything play out exactly as he planned. Has he killed before. Will he kill again.

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it’s necessary to fight back against adult content bans obviously because it leads to queer bans, but also, you cannot forget that we must fight back against these bans because adults have the right to make and enjoy adult content. no credit card company has the right to censor what we look at. yes, this includes the “problematic kinks” and stuff you think is gross and bad. just as we deserve to be openly queer online, we deserve to enjoy adult content without fear of total censorship, and it’s absurd how few places there are to do that online nowadays

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Yeah so unfortunately, my friend was right. Muttering 'I'm gonna put on the greatest talent show this town has ever seen' darkly to myself is not only vastly funnier than saying I'm gonna kms, but is also somehow more concerning to anyone who might overhear it

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Margarets repression is interesting compared to BJs like obviously shes been here way longer than BJ has and has been army for even longer so her ‘six different kinds of passion looking for an exit’ is different to BJs volcano under the surface. See how shes the midpoint between hawk and BJ see what i mean.

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Is this a rock band claudeline au!!???? Yes, because they fucking deserve it 😌

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it was nice seeing you at the devil's sacrament

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The journalist as vampire metaphor brainworms are wriggling in SO deep. I’m so obsessed. Daniel was already exploitative ofc and now that it’s been literalized through him subsisting off (marginalized) blood he’s taking stories by force. I just know he’s using that mind reading for evil. They’re doing such exciting stuff with his character.

And I love that he’s clearly not done being the audience stand-in, what with all the painting Louis as a liar. They’re callling out a very specific sect of fans I fear.

Me, excitedly: they’re letting them all be bad people!! 😍

I’m SO excited to delve into the themes of Daniel Being An Asshole. I cannot emphasize how much Daniel being correctly pinned by Armand as essentially exploiting Louis and his story even as Armand is correctly pinned by Daniel as… [gestures vaguely to his whole deal] is integral to my enjoyment of DM, and Daniel as a character. Because he IS a white outsider with relative privilege, and he IS constantly using racially charged language to break through Louis’ narrative and to knock him off guard. As much as he’s doing this for Louis, as much as he gains respect for Claudia and Louis throughout the narrative, he was also a weak human using his STRUCTURAL advantages to try and gain equal footing. And also he’s just lowkey a shitty old white man. The SRK comments towards Armand. Interrupting the prayer. Calling him rent boy. Calling Louis specifically a pimp. ‘Equal in the quiet dark’. The cracks about Claudia and her assault.

Peepaw sucks bad in a VERY specific way that a lot of old white journalists do. And it’s not a huge leap from eating people’s lives to sustain his own assent to eating PEOPLE to sustain his lifestyle. Consider how he published his journalism about the AIDs crisis and then presumably re-closeted and presented himself as straight, allowing his ‘insider’ status to profit him without suffering the consequences.

My favorite line in QotD describes Daniel as a perfect hunter. He and Armand are both the insect that’s eaten a thousand lives.

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Double child prodigy whose spy work was so secretive his cover story was that he was working in the nuclear program and quit music to teach undergraduate math classes on the strength of a bachelor's degree from Harvard and refused interviews for the last 20 years of his life including when he without explanation put all of his music in the public domain is such a delightful mid-century American character. Plus he invented the Jello shot. They just don't make them like that anymore. They probably can't.

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"save me, substance abuse!" i cry. before you can moralize to me about the dangers of addiction, a noble and powerful steed gallops into the room - my horse whom i have named "substance abuse". you learn an important lesson about making assumptions. i snort a line off its back

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watching 20 year old tv shows is all fun and games until you realize how far we’ve backslid on certain social issues

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DC Fanfic Writer: Oof, I haven’t read every single comic about this character… what if everyone thinks I’m a fraud and a fake fan and my fic just sounds ooc and everyone starts Um Actually-ing me in the comments—

DC Comic Writers: Yeah, that seems like something this character would do based upon the brief scroll I took of their wikipedia and the single Elseworlds comic I read in 2006. Let’s make it canon.

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Some screens of a higher quality video of the teaser (spoilers, of course)

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So, lots of interesting things there. First off:

Lestat wrote "NEVER FUCKING HAPPENED" on the train scene.

The girl here is most likely Baby Jenks, that we see also here taking drugs

Same blue shirt

Gabrielle is putting her hand in a wound on his leg?

And this is definitely post Wolfkiller

Daniel has a weird camera and is filming something?

Can't show it in a screenshot but here the crowd is completely frozen for a few seconds

Someone giving Lestat IWTV (to sign? A fan maybe?)

Raglan and Rashid inspecting the book

Girl what is that

SAM!

This gets shown for half a second so no idea what could be causing this (Claudia?)

The tradition of cunty eyeglasses continues

Gabrielle's turning

Baby Jenks is fine! Not turned apparently? No idea what the white stuff is

Gabrielle jumping on Lestat (or Magnus? But it looks like a skirt)

Gabrielle post turning when she sees her trasformation, most likely

Lestat's turning, I am psychologically not ready

Pink corset! The logos in the back is Immortal Properties (Louis' new venture?)

And that's all I could find that wasn't visible in the original teaser that's been circulating! Hope we get a HQ version soon!

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Gee i wonder who the culprit of the broken bench prank is. You dont think it was. I mean it couldnt have been.

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when you save alarms for specific things but then you just keep reusing them. like sure wake me up at the chocolate milk alarm, what do i care