#coding vs no code

[puppydoggraham]

(source for poem: two-bees-poetry)

[leonardcohenofficial]

lmao i know this is so low stakes but i do not know how to explain to people that the man from midcentury television you are obsessed with is almost definitely not in fact queer coded, you are reading a character through a queer lens

[kandelia-mangrove]

Can we talk about how in the show Lestat and Armand are framed as narrative foils. Armand and Lestat who are both so aggressively theater kids, but Lestat who acts, who draws in the attention and holds it, and Armand who directs, who shapes and manipulates the narrative. Armand and Lestat's obsession with Louis and his love and frustration with his melancholy over Lestat and Claudia respectively. Who both felt second in his heart. Who fear loneliness above all else. Lestat taking what he wants to excess - no impulse control, and Armand letting things happen to him and trying to manipulate situations to get what he wants but never taking it. Armand, who even in the end, so much more powerful, never physically imposes himself on Louis. Armand who seeks complete control in subtle insidious ways. Lestat who seeks control in the physical. Armand and Lestat brought into vampire life in horrifying ways tangled up with SA. Armand who still talks about his maker with reverence, Lestat who hates his maker. Armand who pours all of himself into his partner, willing to shape himself into what they desire but ultimately needing control to feel safe. Lestat who pours all of his love into his partner but unwilling to change himself and ultimately cedes control in moments to maintain the relationship. Armand who clings to his breaking apart relationship for 77 YEARs, Lestat who let Louis go. Lestat and Armand who watch Claudia die, but one as a father and one as a murderer. Lestat and Armand so intense in their love but Lestat so painfully external and Armand so painfully internal as characters. Both constantly acting and putting on a face. Lestat as Mozart and Armand as Salieri (in the flashback scene!). Armand who loves routine and structure and repetion, Lestat who craves change and excitement. The calling cards are echos, who learned from who. Armand teaching Lestat the vampire gifts, Lestat teaching Armand a new way to live. on and on....

[amalifox]

I'm back

[kathrahender]

So let me get this straight:

You're okay with your children watching murder scenes or worse things in media, but when two boys/two girls kiss is suddenly too much for you.

Do you realize how horrible does that sound?

You prefer your children watching something ilegal and immoral (like yk, killing someone) over letting them watch two persons showing that love has no gender.

Very logical.

Very very logical.

And not inhuman at all.

[shitpostingkats]

Dick Simmons is such a character. One time he suspected his boss/millitary commander/adoptive dad liked a wrench slightly more than him, so he stole a tank and tried to blow up his own house.

[rosstrytobe]

Also the differences are not subtle anymore because:

THIS IS A PLATONIC GOODBYE HUG WITH THE BESTIES

THIS IS A ROMANTIC CODED HUG IN THE RAIN

[pouletpourri]

yeah

[stealingpotatoes]

some no context spyscrapper shit from the cult of cal kestis server <3

[444prilsbae]

[valtsv]

dragon and their rider both posting photos of each other captioned "when you're mean to me this is who you're being mean to" but with very different implications

[amalifox]

Hey

[wintermav]

Not Ryan naming Hugh’s boobies veins Harold and Harriet…I have so many questions.

[p1ctur3]

Potential reason why dark is so evil: Dark's sense of right and wrong is completely messed up by being friends with chosen.

Dark's code dictates that dark needs to destroy chosen but by being chosen's friend, he is defying his very reason of existence, the most wrong thing a killing machine like him could do. Dark is created as a killing machine first, character second, his sole purpose is to oppose and get rid of chosen, the most incorrect choice he could ever pick is to side with chosen yet he does, it is just as weird as a toaster turning your bread cold and soggy. This probably had made dark feel like he had done something terribly wrong during his entire friendship with chosen, and in a way, he did do the worst thing he could, defy his only line of code in the most extreme way, not only does he not do as his code says, his friendship with chosen is a direct rebellion against his very code, his main purpose. How is the wrongness of terrorizing the internet to compare to the wrongness of betraying the very essence of your existence? How is the morality of your actions supposed to rub you the wrong way when most of your existence is considered wrong by your very code?

To take it a step further, dark probably even enjoys doing the wrong thing, an act of rebellion. If rebellion brought you the most important relationship you ever had, would you want to follow the rules? If doing the wrong thing brought you companionship that you could have never imagined, would you even want to do the right thing? By being friends with chosen, dark had grown to love rebellion and doing the wrong thing because they had proven to be the better choice, and it doesn't help that chosen did follow through with the terrorism earlier on which only cemented the idea in dark that being evil is the better choice.

On another note, dark is probably the most robotic of all the Hollowheads and has the least amount of freedom from noogai, he is not only named which dictates his fate, he also has a mission assigned to him, his reason for existing extremely clear without much room for interpretation. To put into perspective what he had done, it's like a robot to act out of its code, to do the direct opposite of what it was coded to do, it is simply wrong, yet that was what happened. In a sense, chosen did break dark before dark got to destroy chosen, getting dark to betray his own code and work together.

[aipurjopa]

this program creates a world that is destined to be destroyed over and over and over again

flat colors ^ — ^

[coulrozzgrub]

guess who my favourite character is