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a little drawing of this quote from the books

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what was that you said about… memory?

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the author's barely disguised longing to be a real person

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i hate daniel molloy’s lying ass trying to say he was at a gay bar in the 1970s just to interview people. You were there for dick and cocaine don’t play with me boy

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Oh, great, this guy. Let’s all heap lethal blows on him

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Need to finish four books this month if I want to keep up my two books per month average. Fuck.

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Depressing detail I noticed in the I Lied To You scene: while all the named characters get to dance with the past, Sammie is the only who dances with the future. While there some descendants around the Juke joint, Sammie was the only one who got to truly dance and sing with his. The rest of the cast only danced with their ancestors. What a heartbreaking way to foreshadow that Sammie is the only one who gets out to see the light of the next day.

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Love that in the books Armand just goes around adopting little blond human freaks.

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preacher boy

(EDIT: now on inprnt!)

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now. I love Louis but my god is he frustrating at times. I love Armand but I also hate him but I also kind of respect the audacity. Claudia was unapologetic but also petulant, and it pained me to see her burned away to ash. Lestat is a diabolical diva and for the longest time I couldn’t fathom liking him again (for what he did to Louis) but then. BUT THEN. the end. amc really said we’re all complex characters in this household. and the acting said hold my beer. complex? That’s a walk in the park compared to these hellbreathers. I seriously love them for making a show about vampires and actually making me confront the twisted morality/debauchery/dynamics that come with that. And I love them all anyway. they saw that we were starving and said YOU WILL BE FED. and I gulped it down.

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Can I touch ur femoral artery

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Please stop saying mean things about Armand. He was raised like a leashed animal in a circus cage and now that he’s out of the cage he doesn’t understand he’s no longer leashed. He doesn’t understand that he’s grown up and not a child who can only get pushed around and exploited. I know he’s 500 years old and terrifying and all-powerful, but please stop being mean to him.

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ok, little thing i haven’t seen mentioned about the david tennant/catherine tate staging of much ado about nothing: it, alone of all the stagings i’ve seen so far, actually nails this one little (but, i think, significant?) detail in the story, which is that benedick, at the end of act one, gives himself a goddamn makeover.

like, there’s a ton of gifs and pics of tennant as “hot mess” benedick, running around in denim skirts and jorts and hair he hasn’t brushed in weeks all during act one (when he isn’t in uniform). because it’s funny, and it’s supposed to be funny: this staging is not at all precious with beatrice or benedick and makes fun of them quite a lot. and it’s great!

(image described: a screencap of david tennant as benedick, wearing a superman tee-shirt, jean shorts, chunky sandals, with sunglasses on top of his head. he is holding a can of beer with a silly straw. this staging is set in 1982.)

but the moment he hears that beatrice is secretly in love with him?

well, as his friends immediately note and make fun of him for:

LEONATO

Indeed, he looks younger than he did, by the loss of a beard.

DON PEDRO

Nay, a’ rubs himself with civet: can you smell him out by that?

CLAUDIO

That’s as much as to say, the sweet youth’s in love.

in other words: he shaved, is wearing cologne, and has basically gone ahead and given himself a good old fashioned romcom makeover to win the girl. this is in the script, but rarely really done anything with — the kenneth bragh version has a bearded benedick who doesn’t shave, and also doesn’t change his clothes — but in this staging?

(image described: david tennant as benedick, now wearing a white button down shirt, tucked in, black slacks, and what looks like boat shoes. his hair is tidy and slicked back. incidentally, he’s currently ranting to himself about how much he sucks at rhyming, because how is he supposed to be a Proper Shakespearian Love Interest if he can’t even manage verse???)

when not in uniform, benedick now spends the rest of the play in polo shirts and proper trousers, his hair slicked back and brushed (even if he doesn’t actually shave). he gives himself that makeover, in other words, and i just think it’s a nice nod to the source and a nice visual representation of how immediately eager he is to stop pretending he doesn’t have a big old crush on beatrice and wants to win her over asap.

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its really beautiful when you accept that you simply arent going to be falling asleep on a given night. anything can happen after that. you can even fall asleep