#cursed interview

[hash-hexe-relit]

I swear i'm being cursed by some fey asshole by eating their delicious mushroom house or something. first time I try to go to the interview the transit hub gets closed due to a fucking bomb threat second time the interviewer has to go manage an emergency incident third time the Wifi Gremins consume all of my wifi's so I cant join the MS teams meeting. I'm kinda stoked to find out what happens when I try to do the interview for the 4th time, maybe they'll give up or maybe they'll lay some wonderful curse on me like "becomes werewoof when stressed" or some other useful kind of curse I can use to sew general chaos and disorder.

[yellenabelova]

She couldn't burn him. You cursed her into the darkness. You chose Lestat over her, time and time again.

[menasimagination]

"We saw you from across the bar and we like your vibe. What's your blood type btw?"

[minpage]

‘No one has painted me in over four hundred years.’

Based on one of the angels in Sandro Botticelli’s Madonna of the Pomegranate

Original artwork:

[searchingforserendipity25]

it's a good thing conclave didn't waste any time on making the stories about catholic orders and their in-fighting. and probably i shouldn't either because i am not informed enough about it to go on at length. pls take all of this w a grain of salt.

but i know in my heart of hearts that aldo bellini is a progressive liberal jesuit, the holy father's specialest most progressive liberal italian-american jesuit.

look at him. look at his glasses. those are the glasses of a man who did his dissertation on reinterpreting loyola through a contemporary reformist lens. academic wunderkid. has sooo much beef w the editors of american jesuit weekly. possibly the events of conclave are occurring in a better more beautiful world where aldo bellini is the editor of american jesuit weekly.

the late holy father for sure was a progressive jesuit also. vr pope francis coded. and low-key set him up as a successor. for a while, that seemed nearly a sure thing in some circles.

but there is the fact. well. the fact that everyone is tired, done and tired of jesuits, progressive or otherwise.

this among other factors meant he couldn't consider him the best option, besides whatever character judgement and uncanny machievallien prediction he came up with.

adeyemi has that benedictine swag which makes his potential election particularly seem like a breath of fresh air + reliable + lots of influence. tremblay is giving dominican drip and dominican corruption. and dominican flop. his nespresso machine? it's giving dominican also.

tedesco has to be an italian-founded order member. most hypocrital salesian of all times maybe?? this is unrelated to the fact that i was nearly enrolled in a salesian primary school and the weirdly panopticon-ish playground didn't pass the vibe check. and also because: consider tedesco rising in the ranks of an order created to help migrant workers...someone kick him in the head for me pls.

who even knows about benítez. i want to say franciscan but that might be just too on the nose. cistercian?? honestly it would work well if he is also without affiliation.

this lens does make lawrence's homily being interpreted as a campaign speech more understandable (and particularly funny).

because, as far as anyone can tell, he's fully running as an independent candidate. zero platform besides - if i fuck up i'll apologize and do better and be held accountable, which is more than any of you probably would.

and because he stands alone, he can be held accountable. he can belong to all, and not one faction only. as far as anyone can tell, he's burning bridges with bellini and rocking the status quo.

he is speaking to/from a place of frustration with institutional inertia and factionalism, he is using his position as dean to bravely promote a platform for internal change in the curia, he is offering doubt as an alternative to certainty, he is pulling an absolute wildcard move.

pity he didn't mean it.

pity the the only order lawrence is interested in joining is the most hardcore discalced carmelite experience possible.

you know how some people look into luxurious real estate listings like it's porn? that's lawrence w tiny monasteries. the sort of minuscule organization with not enough people for management to be necessary. too small for politics. as close to erasure as you can get in this world: no need to be useful.

serving god by existing only to meditate on him. a narrow slant of a life, at that. barely taking up space, barely casting a shadow.

his favorite is a decrepit wreck of a place in the middle of southern spain, nowhere. no wifi no speaking aloud no possessions. no shoes no food. no nothing, only prayer. and a big big sky overhead.

maybe that will fix his issues with reaching god. if that doesn't work he'll probably just wander into the tabernas desert and become an hermit. works for some people, supposedly; plenty of order founders seem to believe so, anyway.

[nenoname]

i really hope stan o war stories keep up the trend of stan obliviously collecting more magic/cursed artifacts than the actual anomaly researcher actively looking for them

[tvrools]

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[goryhorroor]

sapphic vampires + touch

the vampire lovers (1970) curse of styria (2014) the blood splattered bride (1972) nightmare classics: carmilla (1989) blood and roses (1960) crypt of the vampire (1964) interview with the vampire (2022-)

[petitesmafia]

was thinking how maybe it’s a good thing Sigma didn’t wake up and spill the deets about Fyodor’s past bc I just know Chuuya’s grumpy tired ass would’ve had a field day. just like

Sigma: i believe Fyodor is at least a few centuries old— Chuuya: DAMN Sigma: Chuuya: sorry. continue

Dazai: he's older than i thought... Chuuya: prehistoric even. that old fucker Sigma: Chuuya: my bad. continue

Sigma: he was captured by Bram Chuuya: who's that Sigma: the vampire king Chuuya: don't vampires like blood? why'd they want that anemic jackass Sigma: Chuuya: sorry. just curious

Dazai, muttering to himself: immortality? what could Fyodor be... Chuuya: a fossil Chuuya: but now that we killed him. fossil fuel Dazai: can u give it a rest i'm trying to think

[mugentakeda]

because it was you

[ikram1900]

Q: They say that the foreigners always learn curse words first. Does Flick ever drop any word like that

Gavi: Yes sometimes he does. Especially the "ey cabron (rascal/a*shole" he says that quite a lot. But he's learning and improving day after day"

[shorelle]

heard you're back together and if that's true - you'll just have to taste me when he's kissing you

[dysfunctionalcreature]

obviously all the characters in Interview With The Vampire have such tragic pasts, and they each have so many good lines of dialogue that beautifully capture that trauma, but the one I just keep coming back to is Armand saying, voice shaking, "No one has painted me in over 400 years". It's the sadness and resentment in his voice, the implications of it, partly he just misses Marius I'm sure, but I really think that it's more than that, Armand is so deeply insecure, I can't help but think that maybe he doesn't consider himself worthy to be painted, he says "No one has painted me in over 400 years" and I can't help but hear "It has been 400 years since I was worth painting"

[dreadfuldevotee]

Popular IWTV cosplayer(s) currently getting put on blast for posting about going on haunted plantation tours and taking photos of their (white) LDPDL funko pop out front like its a cute little photo op. And ykw I won't pretend to be surprised because non-Black people, American and Non-American, think of slavery as a foot note in their antebellum fantasy or, at best, a gotcha card when they decide they wanna be morally superior. Its not an IWTV specific issue because regular degular people romp through these plantations for weddings or to talk about everything but the black people who maintained this estate so that willfully ignorant tourists could gloss over their very existence. But a racist source material breeds racist fans and TVC is ripe with both so who is to sit here and gasp and clutch their pearls like we haven't been seeing the very thought patterns that lead to this kind of bullshit

[mittland]

“I’ve got a big ego and enjoy the attention. My son has a word: attention whore. You have to be one of those, otherwise why would you be up in front of thousands of people shaking your butt? When it comes down to it, I like the way it makes me feel. And the way that I can make you feel when I do it… It thrills me, it excites me, it gives me meaning, it gives me purpose.”

Bruce Springsteen, 2007

[f1-stuff]

Monaco GP '24 // Race Winner

"The special thing about this race is that it's such a small country that I've got everybody here... Exit of Turn 1, I had my best friends. In the pits, I had my family. Everywhere on the track I had friends. And that makes it so incredibly special... A moment I will never forget - I will keep inside of me forever."