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that's a happy ending, kindness in action can do some good here and there.

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you're fucking kidding me

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Fleabag 2.01 Interview with the Vampire 2.07

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one of my absolute favorite genres is “a comedy that makes you laugh out loud and then completely wrecks you emotionally” like I love looove when something is genuinely hilarious but also punches you in the gut with sadness, grief, or loneliness. so many people underestimate the comedy genre and don't realize how powerful it is when it's used to explore serious topics

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you can start anytime.

you can brush your teeth in the middle of the day. you can wash the dishes at 2am. you can do things outside the normal times assigned by society.

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he’s an unreliable narrator TO YOU. i believe him

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Susan Sontag, from As Consciousness Is Harnessed to Flesh: Journals and Notebooks 1964-1980

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another deranged drawing from my demented mind

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a lesbian said that her favorite iwtv character is armand and I said oh I'm suuuuuuuure. like lesbians have a relationship with armand that is so deep and meaningful that it can only be compared to dionysius and his bacchantes.

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something I've gleaned from/have really been ruminating on from the Jacob Anderson and Sam Reid interviews is that their characters are such subversions of what they are. Louis is filled with primal rage, he wants to hurt people, he is hungry for violence, yet he overcompensates and smothers his instincts with elegance (borrowed directly from Jacob's interview). I feel that Lestat does something similar but inverted-- he is filled with desperation for love, he is pathetic in his seeking it, he wants to own someone, yet he veils this vulnerability in cruelty and affected indifference. I feel that there is something really intrinsic to their relationship in the facades hide behind.

there are multiple lines in the show about the idea of this mutually cannibalistic type of love, where the prey becomes at last the predator, but I specifically think that the following exemplifies this dynamic: "I... a vampire, was being hunted. With every breath, every heartbeat, every sidelong glance, Louis was saying, 'Come to me.'... How do you know that it was not your own voice, Louis? Speaking your own unspeakable desires. Screaming them in the darkness in the hopes that I would come to you!" (Lestat in S2E7, "I could not prevent it") and "I was being hunted. And I was completely unaware it was happening." (Louis in S1E1, "In throes of increasing wonder") These quotes, and their dynamic as a whole, reminds me of the essay "Love of the Wolf" by Hélène Cixous in Stigmata (forgive the long excerpt):

I think this essay is a really apt lens through which to view their relationship, and I'm curious if this work or those similar played any role in the characterization of these characters.

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If this pops up while you’re scrolling, I wish you unconditional love and massive success.

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Maybe I’m just a lil ill over Ten’s mini monologue during the End Of Time because not even a couple episodes prior to the finale of his run, where the entire history of the world is changed because Donna never met the Doctor and really saved him from himself, but that episode also did show, not to him, but to Donna how much of an impact he has, how many lives he actually does save, BUT HE DOESNT see this! The one person who could remind him of all the good can’t ground him in this time. On top of the fact that the Daleks (despite their only purpose being inflicting destruction and death??) guilt him about all the people who sacrificed their lives for his sake/the sake of other so that he is in such a fragile state of being where his mindset is left to “I could do so much more”. FUCK!

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i've always been curious how to watch River's episodes of Doctor Who in order from *her* perspective

and it is exactly as twisted and knotty as you'd think:

For anyone curious (and def not recommended if you haven't already watched these eps at least once): Spoilers ahead.

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A Good Man Goes to War (Baby Scenes) (s6e7)

Impossible Astronaut (little kid scenes) (s6e1)

Day of the Moon (kid scenes) (s6e2)

Let's Kill Hitler (s6e8)

Closing Time (s6e12)

The Wedding of River Song (most of it) (s6e13)

A Good Man Goes to War (Adult River scenes) (s6e7)

Impossible Astronaut (Adult River scenes) (s6e1)

Day of the Moon (Adult River scenes) (s6e2)

The Pandorica Opens (s5e12)

Big Bang (S5e13)

The Time of Angels (s5e04)

Flesh and Stone (s5e05)

The Wedding of River Song (s6e13) (garden scene only)

The Angels Take Manhattan (s7e05)

The Husbands of River Song (2015 Christmas, Listed with S8 on stream)

Silence in the Library (s4e08)

Forest of the Dead (s4e09)

The Name of the Doctor (s7e13)

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The Tenth and Fourteenth Doctors with the wonderful Donna Noble too

Parallel portraits

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GENTLE MOONLIGHT