#interview with a monster

[chobbemoe-art]

The sacrificial lamb.

Discord people almost pitchforked me for this one so, here is fluff too lmaoo

The father and son I fear.

[ladyxgaga]

Lady Gaga reiterates her stance on the current state of LGBTQIA+ rights with Zane Lowe during The MAYHEM Interview for Apple Music

[bl00dfroma-fairy]

[lizardkingeliot]

There's the blood-drinker.

[this-world-of-beautiful-monsters]

do you ever think about how crazy it is that in the last book of the tvc series ar had a whole entire mural of every single vampire in the tvc universe, including absolute randos nobody gives a shit about, but very loudly failed to include Daniel or acknowledge his absence or imply that a character by that name ever existed in her books. and THEN the very first shot of the show based on those books was

[nicholasachavez]

I love how Nicholas obsessing over a band is like us obsessing over him and Cooper is that other part of us saying that's okay 🙈 And I also love how Cooper is reassuring of Nicholas' enthusiasm, and Nicholas' face to his support, they're so precious | source

[mmelolabelle]

Armand is someone who has been has been trained (in brothels, by Marius, and by 500+ years worth of life experience) to adapt himself to what the people around him want. Throughout seasons 1-2, different people get very different versions of Armand, depending on who they are and who’s retelling the story at the time.

It’s the primary way Armand protects himself, whether he’s a teenage sex slave or the oldest, strongest person in the room. It’s how he controls people. Fundamentally, it’s the only way Armand knows to make people love him (an approximation of love at least). Worse, it’s the only way Armand knows how to love — by twisting and contorting himself into whatever form he thinks his current obsession wants or needs him to be. He even does it to his victims for crying out loud.

And then here’s Daniel, who is constantly seeking authenticity and truth. Who’s bullshit detector is never “off”. Who cannot tolerate any kind of masquerade, manipulation or lie – no matter how kind or well intentioned. Not out of any moral or ethical objection, but because Daniel simply cannot leave things well enough alone once something attracts his attention. He has to know. He has to see where it goes and how it ends.

“It’s my job, I’m built this way”

“It’s in your nature, Mr Molloy. Couldn’t get out the door without lobbing one more bomb.”

Daniel knew something was off about “Rashid” from the beginning, so he began to pick the situation in Dubai apart until Armand revealed himself. And then he kept going until he completely destroyed the narrative Armand had spent 77 years constructing.

Daniel deliberately and systematically pulled “Armand, Amadeo, Arun” apart and laid him bare with nothing but but a laptop, some free time, a near-suicidal disregard for his own personal safety and a mouth that just wouldn’t quit.

There’s power in being seen, in being known, ugly parts and all. What would it feel like, to be completely exposed like that for the first time in centuries?

So yeah it makes sense to me that Armand, who puts on all these acts and artifices to draw people in, but which only serve to ensure they’re kept at a distance, would turn his big sad orange eyes on the person who blew them all to smithereens and be all “…I wanna do this forever, actually.”

[chobbemoe-art]

This is canon guys trust

Leafdust becomes a bad influence

What is this? An april fools crossover episode?

@chobbemoe-art

[chobbemoe-art]

Hiyayyayayaya. This is my first time doing an Ask call on tumblr, so I'm very excited. This is my friend and I 's au, if anyone needs a synopsis of it, this is the tldr:

[ The Tulpar project is an investigation started by Taxonomist Grant Curly and Neurologist Jeremiah Zare as independent research of the Kăkóv (monster) gene expression. Although many years passed before achieving any progress, upon the anonymous donation of Semimonster material, and the following extraction of DNA, the genes were finally isolated after the integration of Genetist Anya Skvortsov to the project.

After this discovery, Polle Labs® began to sponsor the research and activities related to the research moved into the industrial facilities offered by Polle Labs®. The research brought a good stream of information for years until the untimely disappearance of Head scientist and author Grant Curly. His whereabouts remain unknown, but his coauthor has continued the research in his stead although with much less success in discoveries and achievements.

Dr. Anya, responsible for the isolation of the Kăkóv gene and its plasmid multiplication techniques, had been compiling documents, reports and illustrations for advanced research. Between that outlook and what remained of her personal diary, a disturbing view of what happend before her own disappearance and the incident called "The Pony Fires" is shown.

This is a documentation and restoration project made by Anonymous volunteers, Polle Labs® refuses to give any statements and/or collaboration for this effort. The countless lives lost working for the Tulpar project won't be forgotten, we will make sure if that. ]

So yeah, that's the synopsis, sooo vaguee so ask away! Tehehhe. Here are some refreshments of how the peps look like:

☆ Dr. Anya Skvortsov

☆ Head scientist Grant Curly

☆ Lab assistant Daisuke Sato Flores

☆ Mechanic Swansea Harold García

☆ Coauthor Neurologist Jeremiah Zare

[ladyxgaga]

[redscrawl]

save me allegorical monster… save me…. save me beast that serves as a literary symbol… save me

[lilacs-in-the-wind]

Watched the entirety of interview with the vampire and y'all lied about this being a gay vampire romance when it really was about gay vampires being haunted by their terrible decisions as spouses and parents. And the mistakes are so irredeemable that you can't even begin to contemplate a way forward and find true peace in your long immortal lives as vampires without being haunted by them at every turn. Lowkey obsessed with the show now.

[micropaloma]

monster fucker devil's minion au because i can

[hangonsnoopy19]

Something I love is that Daniel fixes his mistake.

In ‘73 his original sin is that he jumps in and rants mid-interview about how he deserves the dark gift and Louis doesn’t understand the meaning of his own story. He interrupts in order to haphazardly ‘explain’ Louis’s own story to him and impose meaning on an incomplete narrative, which you shouldn’t do as a journalist and can’t successfully do anyway without knowing the whole story.

Present day, he interrupts again - this time stopping an emotional spiral - and tells Louis to keep telling the material details of his story. Ignore the existential implications and focus on getting all the pieces together. “Sidestep the big picture; get the story straight first.” Finding meaning comes way later. Meaning doesn’t mean anything if parts are missing. You’re going to go to pieces and lose yourself completely if you don’t hold on to the narrative thread. Let the tale seduce you.

The man is totally and completely a journalist now, and he’s right. Memory is a monster.

[this-world-of-beautiful-monsters]

the Arun/Arjun thing is ridiculous I can't get over how showmand's birth name is like one letter off from the name of the vampire Marius extrajudicially murdered for being brown mean in Blood Communion, on top of Rashid also being the name of a kid that Marius killed in Blood and Gold. like what if your father symbolically killed you over and over again in earlier versions of your narrative echoing back through time, in addition to the time he actually killed you in canon proper. crazy.

[lykoiii]

Papa did you bring me silver?

Papa did you bring me gold?

Did you come to see me hanging by the gallows pole?

some warm ups of them i did + claudia lineart