#contributing to to the ecosystem

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[ladylyra]

[mutedeclipse]

so im about to fight that thing.

[glitterarygetsit]

Why do you comment?

Was discussing fic commenting practices with a friend the other day, and realised we both comment on things for different underlying reasons. So I thought it might be interesting to make a poll about it! Why do you comment? Do you see it as a one-on-one interaction with the author, or as a way of supporting the community? Is it a form of payment or the start of a dialogue?

I think there are a lot of different and valid attitudes to this, and I’m curious to see what different readers’ thought processes are! I’m sure that for most readers, multiple of these answers apply—try to pick the one that feels most important to you, and please do expand on them in the tags if you like!

[gay-fae]

something that always gets me about louis is that he is so soft and sensitive at heart. he cries at operas, he dances with his family, he gives his sister expensive gifts, he loves to wear fun & stylish clothes, he takes photos and collects art, he loves his daughter, and he loves being in love.

and yet everything seems to trample that softness, whether it be the rugged masculine persona he has to uphold for respectability in NOLA, or the racism & homophobia he is regularly confronted with, or his bad marriages with lestat & armand, or his difficult relationship with claudia, or his struggle with vampirism/killing. and yes, he holds some of the blame in the marriages and much of the blame for claudia, purely because he was desperate to be loved and was willing to do shitty things to get that. and that is my point (yay we love flawed characters!) !! many of louis flaws are motivated by this inner tenderness and desire for affection.

all of these difficult things he goes through push him to act tougher, more assertive, more certain. lestat points out in ep 1 that louis conforms to all these roles that aren’t truly him. but after becoming a vampire, that never really stopped.

so post failmarriage with armand i like to imagine that yes, louis makes up with lestat, but he also finds himself again outside of the context of a romantic relationship and allows himself to be soft in the ways his circumstances haven’t allowed him or he hasn’t allowed himself before. because that’s louis’ whole thing, isn’t it? “botched vampire”. too gentle, too sensitive to be a cold killer like the others and cursed to be anyway. too soft for his own fangs.

[muchmossymess]

"Oh man jentry chau vs the underworld was GREAT I loved the characters and the plot so much, I wonder what other people think-"

[suitlooncannibalism]

whatever. go my fucked up yuri

i dont have a very set story for this au yettt mostly just random sets of events loosely connected together but im having fun

main thing is that they kill people yeah ^_^

[tubbytarchia]

Netty..................:(

[marq-lynch]

As someone who absolutely despises having to figure out other social media platforms can I say I appreciate the community on Tumblr that collects and reposts everything so much? Yes the search function is still abysmal, but who needs notifications turned on for Instagram or TikTok when I have HD rips of the gayest parts of the video, 36 screenshots, and 6 new memes cycling between a dozen of my mutuals within half an hour of every promo drop?

[garden-variety-snail]

[bestanimal]

I vote like or love on all of them bc there is genuinely not a single animal I dislike :3 they r all wonderful and awesome little critters

I would love to say that as well but unfortunately I am not very fond of leeches and horseflies, and parasitic worms like the ones that make snail eyes go wonky 🥲

[zootzar]

"Pur, it's drooling on me."

"Stop complaining, it's kind of cute. In a stupid, ugly way."

@verm1c1de YOU.

I BLAME YOU FOR THIS, VERM.

[wackywatchdotcom]

got yet another art idea last night... i fear it may be long until i post more polished art

[cloudslou]

abbi last weekend!

[krytus]

daniel being like the Point of miyagi do is to be a safe haven 😌 we must allow troubled kids to find US instead of searching for them 😌 and thennnn he finds out john kreese isn't dead and pulls a terry in the ensuing downward spiral :')

[edelweiss-buttons]

I’m an absolute hoot in the group chat (only one person in this chat knows tma)