#& rice obviously

[pyr0frnzy]

Ughhhh they’re so stupid i hate them

[captaincleverusernamehere]

(Ignore the fact that I use tiktok while reading this post) Anyway, LOVE theater kid tiktok. Right now my fyp is literally:

“The Mean Girls movie was so good, maybe even better than the stage show. The instrumentals and vocals were insane, the cinematography was on point and the comedy and casting were perfect. And Reneé Rapp was so hot”

“The Mean Girls movie was an atrocious monstrosity missing all the good songs and good singers of the stage show, and the instrumental, timing, and key changes were Not It. And Reneé Rapp was so hot”

[anthony-crowleys-left-nut]

for that one person on my twitter fyp ages ago who posted "who up deviling they minion right now" i want you to know that it's never left my mind. thank you

[tamlindudley]

I’m honestly tired of people saying it’s hard to like Tamlin when Lucien is right there. Like, fabulous that you like him more, but not all of us have to like the sassy characters with the ability to spin words the way he wants. Sometimes it’s okay to like the sweet ones who only flirt when their feelings are genuine. It’s okay to like the soft ones. It’s probably why Feyre fell for Tam too considering it’s somehow baffling to y’all. It’s okay to like Tamlin over Lucien and Jem over Will and Simon over Jace and Lancelot over Gwaine. It’s just tiring to have people mock your tastes just coz they have different tastes. I’m so damn tired. It’s like you have to have a specific taste or you’re doomed in fandom.

[corvidcas]

i think part of the reason people are so hateful about fat people is because theyre not fat, even though they put little to no effort into their diet and daily activity levels. even if they dont live healthy lifestyles and theyre not trying to, and theyre still a "normal" weight. and because theyre ignorant and resistant to learning about how peoples bodily functions vary wildly, anyone who is fat must have brought it upon themselves by being extra lazy or extra glutinous and if they were normal they wouldnt be fat and its soooo easy to not be fat because look at them theyre not fat. which is so fucking stupid because so many people complain about how skinny people exist without "earning" how skinny they are, theyre literally just like that even if they eat tons of food because they're trying desperately not to be skinny. but the opposite cant be true for fat people apparently. fatness is always a direct consequence of abnormal habits apparently.

[rapha-reads]

To those of you wondering (aka no one), I finished both The Vampire Armand and Merrick and I have a lot of thoughts and feels. I'm skipping Blood and Gold for now to go directly to Blackwood Farm (I'll read B&G later), but first I'm going to read something else, just to take a break.

TVA thoughts: man, Armand is messed up. And extremely compelling. But so messed up. As always, the theme of faith crisis, which seriously reaches new heights with these bitchy vampires, is not something I can fully immerse myself in, but it was fascinating to see his numerous metamorphosis. I liked how he bridges Western and Eastern Christianisme, especially through art. Now I'm thinking that if Rolin Jones makes him originally Muslim in the show, that could expand even more the conversation on how faith, and especially Abrahamic faith, has been in conversation for thousands of years and could be such a rich, diverse and spiritual, intellectual and artistic theme. I can already imagine some fascinating discussions comparing (not in a superior way but in a complementary way) coming from Muslim faith to Roman Catholic faith, the way book!Armand talks about the richness of his life in Kiev Rus despite the poverty and ascetism, and the richness of his life in Venecia despite the luxury and abundance.

As for Benamin and Sybille... I don't have much thoughts about them. Sybille is one of those female characters AR seemingly favors, not so much human as a nymph or a dryad, "perfectly splendid". And Benji is a caricature of an Arab child. Nuance? 401 not found.

Merrick thoughts: David for the love if everything, shut. The. Fuck. Up. Holy moly. I like David, I do, but damn the entire recollection of his history with Merrick was looooooong. I'm here to see Louis haunted by Claudia and haunting Lestat's coma, not how hard you're pining for the kid you practically raised! Also. ALSO. You're just going to leave that whole thing with the Olmec or possibly another more ancient Mesoamerican civilisation without ever giving us more? That was the most interesting part of it all! The vodoo history, the connection between Louisiana and Caribbean vodoo and old Native South-American religions! More about this, less about Merrick's perfect breasts, I am begging you. (It is at this point that the reader of this post realises OP is 100% definitely ace and more interested in books and witchcraft than breasts and whether a 70yo man can still get it up - also, hey, Anne Rice's vampires are practically asexual and their lust and pleasure is mostly derivated from blood, with some notable exceptions like Armand and Marius, and a love relationship between two vampires is then based on romantic love and blood sharing, so can I hear a hell yeah for some ace representation or are we still conflating eroticism with sex)

Another thing I kept thinking about throughout the book is how Louis is perceived by his fellow vampires. Since basically the second book, since we've lost his own POV, everybody who's ever said anything about him (so Lestat, Armand and David) have insisted on two points: how very weak and meek Louis is, and also how irresistible, beautiful and charming. Granted, I've known Louis first through his portrayal on the show (hi Jacob you're so fiiiiiiine), and then through his own narration in the first book, but I've never had the impression that he was weak. Beautiful and seductive, yes. Weak? I see a human man going through tragedies and still enduring, going through vampiric transformation and then suffering for decades the loss of his humanity, struggling with reconciliating both sides of himself, but mostly I see a vampire who rebuilt himself after losing everything without sacrificing his sense of self. I see Louis as very strong actually (up to the point where resilience breaks, because resilience cannot be sustained on a long term, but that's another debate). He knows who he is, and don't you know how hard that is? He doesn't cling to faith or pride. He knows he's doomed, he knows he's monstrous, he knows there's nothing he can do to change that, and instead of railing against his fate, he goes on about his undead life. He gets his books and he reads them, he surrounds himself with literature and what little comforts he thinks in his shattered self-esteem he deserves (his ragged sweaters and soft trousers); let's not lie to ourselves tho, Louis doesn't like himself, or more exactly he doesn't care about his corporeal body - what matters to him is his mind, and once again, this author is extremely ace and also very aro and very nonbinary, so Louis to me is very much ace and agender coded, though really not aro, because his love for Lestat (and sometimes his fondness, shall we say, for Armand) is the only thing that can rouse him up from his literary slumber.

...

Oh, man, I have a lot to say about Louis, for how little he appears in the books so far. Still have BF, BC and the PL trilogy to devour. So I guess you can say, for as much as Lestat is occupying my entire brain, very much like him, my favorite is Louis? Yeah, that tracks. Melancholy, quiet, dark-haired green-eyed monster with more humanity than humans, preferring his solitude and the company of books to anyone else, hopelessly and helplessly devoted to one person, expert in brooding and grieving, literature specialist, not very attached to his physical self. Yeah. I'm not surprised.

[blckasf]

[lestatthevamp]

Guys absolutely no joke I am haunted by the recent ep of IWTV

[ikram1909]

https://www.tumblr.com/ikram1909/760330792823095296/what-the-hell-just-happened-to-rice

Did he do something stupid

I'm not sure??? Like I'm still confused wtf happened here 😭😭

[pizzazz-party]

i dont know how to bring it up to yall but “fallen warrior miyamoto” is actually dead. i’m not kidding about the ghost part. he lived and died at the tail end of the sengoku period and haunts ROTTMNT’s present day new york, because his swords—his physical link to the world of the living—are part of an invaluable samurai exhibit based in topside new york.

(he also haunts the clubbing scene in the Ghost Quarter of the Hidden City every Friday night, but that’s not immediately relevant.)

and usagi—the one who’s little and seventeen and not dead because his branch of the timeline got interrupted during the battle that was supposed to kill him—finds Fallen Warrior Miyamoto incredibly annoying.

[sofipitch]

Okay ghost tour guide in NOLA said she had only seen Eps 1-3 of the AMC show but she remembers seeing Jacob Anderson walking around NOLA multiple times. Like not as an actor she just said "how do you not notice a guy like that?" and he showed up in a show she was watching later

[ambrosykim]

i never realised how poor i was until i got a job lol

[cookinguptales]

I hope you can get some rest, I'm sorry to hear about the Covid :( . Sending kitty purrs and wishes for recovery

Thank you. ;;

I'm not 100% yet, but I'm improving! I can leave my bed for a few hours at a time now and I ate a real meal yesterday. lmao. Small victories!

[lestatthevamp]

RIP Théâtre des Vampires

You would've loved Frat initiations

[khytal]

never underestimate the power of putting rice in soup