#especially after THE INTERVIEW

[yardsards]

i needed to express a sentiment in the creative stylings of @dunmeshiminimumwage

[the-yearning-astronaut]

ART just came alive as a character, and it’s so cool when that happens, when you kind of have a character sort of buried in the story. When they actually come on stage it’s like, oh, this is going to be an important character. And the more I worked on [Artificial Condition], the relationship between them became central to that story, not necessarily Murderbot finding out about its past on this moon, but that relationship. So after [Artificial Condition] was done and I was starting to work on [Rogue Protocol], I was really thinking about Murderbot’s relationships with the other characters and thinking... it’s like I really feel like ART is probably the love of Murderbot’s life, even though that’s not how they see it. That this is central, it’s going to be a really important relationship, and in some ways it makes a lot more sense for Murderbot’s most important relationship – I mean, its most important relationship with a human is Dr. Mensah – that it would have a relationship with another being who is more like it than a human is – so yeah, people who see it that way are pretty correct. That was what I was thinking about when I was writing it.

~Martha Wells, in an interview with SmartBitchesTrashyBooks, regarding the writing of Artificial Condition and how Network Effect is an aroace agender romantic suspense novel.

[quote lightly edited by me for clarity]

[hermit-frog]

happy danlou day to those who celebrate (why does Eric sounds like Tommy Wiseau while reading that quote? i hate him)

[puppyeared]

i feel like im not making any sense but does anyone else feel like there are stories that let u run with them and ones that spell everything out for you

[noirve]

they just read each other for filth like that, then stayed together for another 50 years anyway. it's like when you know someone well enough to be able to say the things that truly hurt—why even leave? who else could know you like that? something something shiv calling tom post-fight to say she's always been afraid of the underneaths, of the worst thing the other person is thinking, but now they know! and once you've said the worst things, you're kind of... free? which is her last resort attempt at saving her dying marriage instead of just divorcing. that's post-'73 loumand to me except it's just armand actually because he deleted the whole argument from louis's memory oops

[batbabydamian]

Met Joshua Williamson at NYCC during one of his signings! He said of all the characters he wants to protect the most at DC, it would be Damian because that’s his “baby boy” 🥺 Said he’s tired of people hurting Damian since he’s already gone through so much his whole life.

Asked him 2 questions!

What accent does Damian have?

Others have asked him but he doesn’t want to say, because he wants people to talk about it! He mentioned Damian has only lived in America for 4 years, and would naturally have an accent.

Who decided on Damian’s new hair?

Simone - Joshua said he didn’t notice it at first and then he was like “UMMM IT KINDA LOOKS LIKE TIM…”

He let it go because he thought about how Tim has had different hairstyles, and Damian is young and still growing.

[lucy-moderatz]

[petrovna-zamo]

[littlecutiexox]

As soon as my last interview is done, I'm treating myself to new gym shoes and The Hobbit book

[mermaidsirennikita]

I enjoy Lestat/Armand as much as the next girl but I gotta say I find it real weird that so many Interview fans are focusing on this idea that Armand’s pain over Louis and Lestat’s lingering relationship must be about this idea that Lestat has never loved him and not about the fact that this man he’s been with for decades, who has loved Armand (in a relationship with VERY weird power dynamics I should add) is still clearly in love with the ex who loves him back

“But in the books” yeah I know but the SHOW has focused (rightly so) on Armand’s relationship with Louis far more than his relationship with Lestat at this point and I don’t know there’s something real fucking weird about people making every character beat in Armand and Louis’s relationship not only about Lestat (because certainly, on Louis’s side Lestat is almost always there on some level, and I’m sure Lestat feels the same about Louis) but about Armand’s unrequited love for Lestat

It’s this combination of infantilizing Armand, one of the most physically powerful characters in the narrative, and kind of reveling in this idea that he’s sexually undesirable, and that Louis is an also-ran for his affections when the SHOW’S narrative has given us comparatively little about the Lestat/Armand dynamic. We know way more about Louis and Armand than we do about Lestat and Armand in the show.

Like “oh Armand can’t tell Louis that Lestat loves him because he’s always wanted to hear those words from Lestat” lol I’m sure that hearing Lestat say that was rough but perhaps it was also rough to, after listening to hours of his husband obsessing over Lestat, consider telling his husband Lestat loves him still and open that door even further??? Perhaps it was about Armand’s feelings for Louis, more so?

It looks really weird, especially in the updated context of the show.

[vampire-dove]

I think the issue some people run into when talking about/writing Interview With The Vampire is not being able to grasp someone can be both a victim and a shitty person, that these things can and do coexist. None of the characters in IWTV are solely good. And that doesn't make them less of victims in other regards. Victim and shitty are not antonyms of each other.

[loving-jack-kelly]

Do we think one of Charley's kids is named after Frank bc to me. There's a little Kringas with the middle name Franklin. and every time Charley sees it it makes him sad because how to explain to his son that he's named after somebody Charley loves so much, Uncle Frank who used to be here all the time and used to be so silly and make him laugh when he was little, and now Uncle Frank doesn't visit anymore and now Charley gets sad every time Uncle Frank comes up in conversation and now when little Daniel Franklin Kringas asks if Uncle Frank can come to his birthday party or his baseball game or how come it's been so long since Uncle Frank came for supper, Charley has to take a deep breath like he doesn't know what to say. and when Evelyn and Charley are telling their kids the stories of their names it's so easy to say Hannah is from Grandma Kringas and Alexander from Mama's brother Uncle Alex, and Josephina Mary, well, Aunt Mary still visits sometimes. But Uncle Frank? How do they talk about Uncle Frank? He's still their uncle, but they don't see him. Where did he go? Why did he go?

[fayevalcntine]

The whole "Claudia is now his sister"/Louis' sibling comparisons are never gonna sit right with me because that's never going to erase the fact that Claudia exists as a vampire partly because of him. Their relationship will never have this clearly defined role of siblings in the same manner Louis had with Grace or Paul, even if he was their older brother and was implicitly given the role of providing for them as the successor and manager of his family's estate. Because Louis was never responsible in part for their creation, the reason why they existed the way that they do in terms of behavior and life itself.

It also makes his betrayal of her all the more heartbreaking in ways that him and Grace drifting apart never will. He was her father, and didn't provide emotional support for her. She had to turn the tables and try to assume the role of being on an equal level because of this failure but this doesn't make him not choosing her any less painful than it did the first time. Even as they shift roles, take or give emotional responsibility one has towards the other, the fact that Claudia exists the way she does because of him and Lestat will always be there.

[reverendsrevenge]

he’s so pretty in this interview but omg this part was so awkward 😭😭

[cinna-bunnie]

having vague thoughts about E3 and the current state of AAA game development in general..

like yeah direct promotions have had more of an impact than Big Events for me, and the main thing I'd want to see out of E3 are trailers for new games or the conversations that follow online - but a few points on that

I can just as easily look up “new games for [platform] [year]” on youtube

Something about the way AAA games are built these days makes me get bored of them ⅔ of the way through, if I even make it that far, on top of them charging more for less content and hiding away the rest behind multiple DLC packs

I've mostly been buying indies the past few years and have gotten a lot of fun out of them; they continue to deliver a nearly unrivaled experience of fun gameplay mechanics and interesting/emotional stories at a ridiculously low cost

I also have emulators for going back and playing old games I really liked so I'm not exactly desperate for new games

and idk!! weird to see E3 officially ending but I also think the landscape is very different these days including the game companies themselves. I'm not a game dev so I can't rly speak to what the change has looked like on their end over the past 10-20 yrs.

[teplejtrouba]

i have managed to actually do a hobby for the first time in months. yippee