#discourse with the vampire

[foreignswaggersession]

yes louis and armand had filthy kinky sex between this:

and this:

y'all felt this, don't lie. feel free to argue with the wall. and don't just take it from me:

[seashantystanaccount]

70s SAN FRAN FIC IDEA::: Daniel's a part of the burgeoning disco scene, Armand hasn't danced in a hundred years and is really awkward. The love of the community helps him find his feet, their kiss is lit by the disco ball's spinning lights

I really see Armand as this scrooge-like character lol? Like he tries to avoid vulnerability through power, "enduring", and in doing so closes himself off to the joys of life, the fleeting nature of each moment. Permenance doesn't exist even for vampires. ?

[teslacoils-and-hubris]

You just know vampire discourse would be insane

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🧛‍♂️ dr.acula follow

Cannot stand these freshly turned vamplings pretending like it doesn't matter if you're drinking virgin blood or not. As if unpure blood doesn't literally weaken vampiric powers 🙄

🦇 baby-batz follow

Wait omg is this true??? Is this why I've been having so much trouble staying in bat form??

🧛‍♂️ dr.acula follow

If you can't control wolves with your mind or turn into ominous mist it's literally because nonvirgin blood is basically poison. Like yeah you can drink it if you're starving but why would you do that to yourself intentionally?

🦷 fang-fag follow

op doesn't know what they're talking about. The virgin blood thing was made up by a bunch of victorian prudes who only hated sex more than they hated women. the fact that op (who had already been a vampire for decades when the myth was started, if you believe their bio) should be Very telling.

🩸 blood-fan follow

People will try and tell you that there's something wrong with you if you vampiric powers don't come naturally to you, but it's literally fine. You have all the time in the world to figure yourself out. Literally. You'll get there I promise

🧛‍♂️ dr.acula follow

You're all degenerates undeserving of the gift of eternal life after death

🦷 fang-fag follow

Lmaoooo not op showing their whole ass! XD

💀 stake-my-heart follow

But what about the blood types thing? Couldn't this be like the blood types thing?

🦷 fang-fag follow

For the last time, feeling better after drinking blood of the same type (or compatable with the type) you had in life is a well documented scientific fact with actual evidence behind it. We know blood types are real and affect blood. Virginity is a made up social construct, which has absolutely no impact on blood at all. Red blood cells can't tell if you've fucked or not

🫁 childofthenight follow

op trying to find a tasty snack

[thisshitisridiculous]

okay but daniel molloy pulitzer prize winning journalist who wrote a book in the twilight of his career about how vampires are real and now only comes out at night definitely has an actual cult following

[sleevebuscemii]

headlines indicating lestat as a suspect in the mysterious murders of his fans have a million replies from lestat pfp accounts saying ‘actually disgusting to spread rumors perpetuating the stereotype of gay men being violent predators about one of the few queer icons we have in the rock scene right now. yall say you want queer representation in historically white conservative cis het misogynistic male spaces and then tear them down. the internaized homophobia is palpable. touch grass.’

[redstonedust]

i think vampires that drink from animals should be considered more unethical than ones that drink from humans. "ohhh its vegan" bitch no it isnt. youre gonna drain that poor wild deer and leave it woozy and weak to other predators? you're two steps left of a poacher. just go to your local gay bar and you can find 100s of people that would willingly sign up to being bitten if you dont mind them being a little freaky about it.

[yearnerspermit]

I’ll be honest the way some people talk about this show makes it sound less like they’re interested in the messy nature of people failing and remorse and guilt and atonement and redemption and regret and the capacity to change and the inability to undo what’s been done and unforgivable actions and maybe forgivable people and how you face all of it and continue to live and endure. and more like they want to be sitting in that jury, determining who’s guilty or not guilty, deciding a sentence, and walking away satisfied in the result being final

[thevoidlookedback]

Armand is not an iPad Baby, he is an iPad Grandpa and I will stand this mistaken understanding no longer.

[angelofthe2000s]

Buffy reboot please do not revive the Bangel vs Spuffy argument I am so tired

[foreignswaggersession]

iwtv ep. 11 (s2ep4) misconceptions pt. 4

now to tackle another big one - y'all are silly about the bench scene. when louis tells armand he used to be good at running things, y'all rushed to call him a pimp (derogatory).

fine, louis used to be a pimp, so ok to compare. what crosses the line is acting like armand is in the position of louis's prostitutes (who are not sex slaves, btw). why? listen to the advice he gives armand:

this is not advice a pimp would give a prostitute - it's advice a pimp would give another pimp, his equal, advice for how to manage his own enterprise. he's putting himself in armand's position and telling armand what he would do. just like louis "managed" finn o'shea and his prostitutes, armand manages santiago and the coven. armand recognizes this and firmly states that he's not willing to give up leadership of his coven (🧐i wonder if this will be relevant later), but listens to the rest of louis's advice.

frankly, it's ridiculous to think louis is being anything other than kind and generous when he tells armand that he can decide what he wants to do with his life:

which leads into the one of the most romantic moments in the show:

levan akin knew exactly what he was doing with this scene, and y'all are the ones who refuse to take it for what it is - sexy, foreboding, and romantic at the same time. y'all stopped letting the tale seduce you - i guess not enough blondes were on screen.

[seashantystanaccount]

I find Armand to be so realistic in how the kinds of people who do terrible things generally also refuse to take responsibility for them. When Armand says "I could not prevent it" I think he means it, like how his trauma paralyses him in a state of learned helplessness, unable to claim agency over his life choices. Like there's this knot of unresolved pain that he doesn't know how to deal with, and it leads to him only seeing himself as the victim, even as he victimises others.

[darnmand]

Look if you can’t handle Louis being a flawed character, then you really need to take a step back and evaluate your own bias before you start accusing other people of bigotry. Because the bottom line is lionizing or idealizing Louis just because he’s black is just as if not more harmful than villainizing him. I have said this about Armand, and the same goes for Louis. Viewing solely as a victim of the things that happen to him denies his agency and locks him into objecthood. Yes, Louis experiences racial oppression. And yes, Louis has many good qualities but he is still flawed because real people are flawed. He is selfish, materialistic, and often cruel. But I love that about Louis because it makes him sympathetic. It makes him feel real. It makes his character arc more powerful. Part of loving a character or a human being is being able to recognize their flaws and accept them. You cannot claim to love a character but deny them the right to be fucked up sometimes. To err is to human, and denying poc characters (or people) the right to err is denying them their humanity.

[and-fishing-equipment]

it is funny as hell actually that zamasian antis started yelling "THAT'S INDUSTRY PLANT RPF!!!" and all it did was make zamasian shippers go "wait that actually makes me super hard" and spark a phenomenal wave of new fics

[saudad3]

The ultimate woobification of Remmick and other white characters of Sinners needs to be studied and put in a psychology textbook somewhere,,,, some of yall would write fics about literal klan members if they were hot enough.

[susandsnell]

[brontes]

I had a thought today about all that vampires lose in the twilight lore. Sure sure they’re fast and strong and invulnerable BUT they lose the chance to earn things because of that. The Cullens are rich but like…that just happens when you invest for three centuries. They can lift incredible amounts of weight…but just by nature and not because they’ve built up to it. They build projects and make paintings and learn…but they will always lack the satisfaction that comes from managing those accomplishments amidst the regular demands of life. Edward was seventeen…he never got the chance to earn anything by the sweat of his brow or the burning of the midnight oil.

Beyond just the bloodlust, they miss out on the regular daily challenges that make our time and pleasure meaningful. Something that is easily overlooked by teenagers reading a love story but honestly something heartbreaking to contemplate.