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IWTV S2 COSTUME DETAILS, Carol Cutshall for Emmy Magazine (2024 Issue #5)

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Published April 22, 2024

Findings

Between Jan 3 and April 28, 2023, 317 tissue samples were collected from 225 patients, including 201 residual surgical specimens, 59 gastroscopy samples, and 57 blood component samples. Viral RNA was detected in 16 (30%) of 53 solid tissue samples collected at 1 month, 38 (27%) of 141 collected at 2 months, and seven (11%) of 66 collected at 4 months. Viral RNA was distributed across ten different types of solid tissues, including liver, kidney, stomach, intestine, brain, blood vessel, lung, breast, skin, and thyroid. Additionally, subgenomic RNA was detected in 26 (43%) of 61 solid tissue samples tested for subgenomic RNA that also tested positive for viral RNA. At 2 months after infection, viral RNA was detected in the plasma of three (33%), granulocytes of one (11%), and peripheral blood mononuclear cells of two (22%) of nine patients who were immunocompromised, but in none of these blood compartments in ten patients who were immunocompetent. Among 213 patients who completed the telephone questionnaire, 72 (34%) reported at least one long COVID symptom, with fatigue (21%, 44 of 213) being the most frequent symptom. Detection of viral RNA in recovered patients was significantly associated with the development of long COVID symptoms (odds ratio 5·17, 95% CI 2·64–10·13, p<0·0001). Patients with higher virus copy numbers had a higher likelihood of developing long COVID symptoms.

Main takeaway

Covid leaves active viral RNA and virions in even "mild" cases. This can result in long covid and possible long-term asymptomatic spread or mutation in some cases.

MASK UP. STOP THE SPREAD.

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"And, of course, if one gets Covid and develops long Covid, they might become disabled and thus disposable under the same narrative that helped sicken them in the first place."

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We went to the storage unit yesterday and now all my baaaabies are together on a shelf for the first time in over 15yrs! 🥹

I originally read the first four books in 1994 in paperback, but went back and rebought them in hardback in the early 2000s when Anne Rice was unfashionable and they were cheap on eBay. Nearly all the others I bought when they were released.

If you’re a tv show fan and you’d like my opinion on which order to read the books in, have a read of this post.

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Chapter 3 has been posted ♥️

Title: it’s like a best friend, but more

Pairing: Louis x Lestat

Tag: au/human

Summary: “What’s a soulmate?---It's the one person who knew you and accepted you and believed in you before anyone else did, or when no one else would. And no matter what happens, you will always love them. Nothing can ever change that.”

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Reasons to watch Interview with the Vampire

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The Laws of Being a Vampire

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It’s not the same fabric though - if you zoom in on Lestat’s it’s a single, solid red stripe.

On Armand’s scarf it’s two thinner red stripes next to each other.

So it could be that perhaps Armand commissioned his scarf based on the memory of fabric that Lestat wore 200 years previously, but his memory is a bit off (shock, gasp? Not in my “memory is a monster” show?).

sharing this because I cannot seem to find the user’s tumblr but

But this is making me completely insane. I am shaking. I am actually SHAKING MY HANDS ARE SHAKING due to how extremely intense this is. To think of Armand keeping fabric of Lestat’s? To think of him wearing it? On his outing with Louis? Ohnfnsjaiajwnsjjss I want to scream or throw up or throw myself to the floor. This is not normal behavior but it is absolutely normal behavior for Armand! THE FABRIC IS THE SAAME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

link to the tweet

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HIGHLIGHTS FROM THE SFX INTERVIEW

• Rolin Jones hints that some of Daniel’s backstory will be explored 👀

• Sam talking about a plot twist that occurs this season that isn’t in the books, he mentions that he initially struggled with it as it was different but with the later books after IWTV in mind it makes more sense

• The producers were nervous that Louis and Armand’s relationship wouldn’t be able to live up to the relationship between Louis and Lestat and were unsure how they were going to compete, they realised that it needed to be different

• “In a strange way, it’s more sort of old fashioned romantic as opposed to the almost carnality of the Lestat/Louis relationship.” - Mark Johnson on Louis and Armand’s relationship

•Jacob talking about Armand being resistant to the interview and why the interview is happening in the first place being important parts of the season

• “In terms of what he represents, part of it is like, I need to try something new, I need a new feel, but that almost instantly backfires. So he represents something different. But it’s kind of like same shit, different vampire.” - Jacob Anderson on what Armand represents to Louis

• Jacob talking about how Louis carrying Lestat on his shoulder gives him a blindness to everything Armand is and isn’t

• Rolin saying it was tough for Sam and Jacob to not be together as often this season

• More confirmation from Rolin that Sam will be front and centre for season 3

• Praise for Roxane Duran’s performance as Madeleine

“ Roxane is phenomenal. She’s important for us also because it is such a male-heavy show, so it’s good to have another woman who has the strength to take on Claudia.” - Mark Johnson on Claudia and Madeleine’s relationship

• “She’s longing for someone to pick her and put her first. She’s actually got a lot of love, but her circumstances make it hard for her to admit that. She has a line where she says she keeps trying and they all go wrong, which sends her down a path of resentment for herself and what she is, and all the others that she’s known.” - Delainey Hayles on Claudia’s journey in season 2

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Suddenly struck with a need to explain to you how boat pronouns work (I work in the marine industry).

When you're talking about the design of the boat, you say "it".

When the boat is still being built, your say "it".

When the boat is nearing completion, you can say "it" or "she".

When the boat is floating in the water you probably say "she", unless there is still a lot of work to be done (e.g. no engine yet) then you say "it".

When the boat is officially launched and operating, you say "she". If you continue to say "it" at this point you are not incorrect but suspiciously untraditional. You are not playing the game.

If you are referring to a boat you don't really know anything about you may say "it" ("there's a big boat, it's coming this way"). But if you know its name, it's probably "she" ("there's the Waverley, she's on her way to Greenock").

If you are talking about boats in general, you say "it" ("when a boat is hit by a wave it heels over")

If you speak about a boat in complimentary terms, it's "she" ("she's a grand boat"). If you are being disparaging it may be it, but not necessarily ("it's as ugly as sin", "she's a grotty old tub").

If she has a boy's name, she's still she. "Boy James", "King Edward", "Sir David Attenborough"? The pronoun is she.

If it's a dumb barge (no engine), you say it. But if it's a rowing boat (no engine), you say she.

I hope this has cleared things up so that you may not be in danger of misgendering floating objects.

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i love them, your honor

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...help.

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It's never a bad time to objectify that man.

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You can also read this comic on my AO3 or twitter. No other notes this time, the comic's under 'read more'.

DEVOURING An 11-page IWTV (2022) fancomic about the vampire Armand facing his worst nightmare. Made by verimuru in 2024. Trigger & content warnings: Nightmare, nudity, heartbeat, death scare & depiction of a dead body, crying, biting, sucking blood, intense despair and self harm. Only for mature audiences, this one. This is a heavy one, dear reader - please take my warnings seriously and also care of yourself. Other content notes: Hurt & comfort, happy ending.

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Our life is shit.

It’s been shit.

It is shit.

It’s gonna be shit again.

Stop feeling sorry for yourself.

A shit life beats no life.

- Louis de Pointe du Lac (source)

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In the White Room (L'homme Lestat)

Chapter 17/20

He was back in the white room, its walls dazzling as the bright lights illuminated every tile. It hurt his eyes. So he shut them while evaluating his situation.

His arms were bare, as were his feet. While he’d been asleep someone had removed his suit and redressed him in a tank top and loose fitting trousers. At least they’d not left him naked.

No doubt they had found the tracker. He wondered how far Armand and Louis had been able to track his movements since he’d been collected from his hotel. When the sleek black SUV had pulled up and he’d been escorted inside, he’d not put up a fight. The men were armed and he’d not been inclined to deal with either bullet holes or fried nerves courtesy of a taser.

The moment he knew that Oksana was safely being flown back to the tower house, he’d blocked his mind from Armand’s. It wasn’t that he wanted to hide his thoughts, melancholy as they were, but to keep Armand from planting suggestions – as he was wont to do. Naturally, he’d try the same if he was in Armand’s place and had his gifts. The problem was that he would have been far more easily swayed to go on the run from Section, with Louis and Oksana in tow, than even Armand suspected. But he owed it to the others, young vampires, still trapped and tortured by Section. He owed it to them to facilitate their escape from within.

Read more here: Chapter 17

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Lestat de Lioncourt || Lump -The Presidents of the United States of America