#intro to the rest of my post

[covenantscribe]

Prejudgement: Jacob Anderson – Face of 'Woke' & 'Unnecessary'

Summary and disclosure:

This will be a series formatted post on the topic of Interview with the Vampire AMC and the reactions of Fandom before the airing of Season One. Following the conversations around the choices of casting and concentrating on the issues on some public takes.

This post will be used for reference in future posts on this blog. This post discusses racism. This post contains mature language.

Part One | Understanding: Permission, Author & Fandom

As a person who has been passively taking in fanwork for the majority of my life and not knowing it, I could not understand how it feels to be part of an hyper-active fandom. Nor did I understand how one feels to be in it.

The fandoms I have been a part of that I can compare to Interview with the Vampire is: Hannibal (HBO), Teen Wolf and Shadow Hunters.

By the time I came into the fandom it was already "dead" – meaning that the show had aired and 'finished' airing and not much discourse was around it. So what did I do to be considered part of this fandom and passively interacting?

Well I created pins, created Moodboards and watched some edits on YouTube and TikTok (when it became famous during 2020). And for a few of the fandoms I read Fanfics. Completed ones mainly mind you.

So imagine how unprepared I was going into Interview with the vampire fandom. Of course there was excitement. I was going to be one of those people that would see a Tumblr post on Pinterest and be able to say:

Who wouldn't be excited? I was there when Cord of Communion by weathermood was written which is crazy to say now that I think about. One of the most loved and well known Interview with the vampire Fics. I was there when the Helen of Troy meme started. It was absolutely insane. I felt like someone who had invested in Bitcoin and feeding off its success.

But I was not part of the fandom who came from the original text. And I - as someone who held themselves in high regard to come from those who read the books before the movies came into existence - put them in high regard.

This did not last as I realised that those who I put on high regard did not in fact want me - a black person - in the fandom. Or at least that is how I felt. Just as I felt when Ariel was casted black. I was quickly losing interest in the fandom I so desperately wanted to be in.

Let's start from the beginning:

On May 13, 2020 AMC announced that it entered an agreement to acquire Anne Rice's major literary works. It further continued to state in the article that Anne Rice herself was excited for her works to be represented so wholly and that she was more than satisfied with the deal. Anne Rice's son was also announced to be supportive and working alongside Rolin Jones.

It's acknowledged how big the franchise is with a large number of fans behind the works. This is said, paraphrased obviously, by Rolin Jones himself.

And I mean the guy is right. Damn is he right. Anne Rice works, especially The Vampire Chronicles in my experience, has a huge fan base. The Vampire Chronicles has, to this current date I'm writing in have over 3000 works on AO3. Has a different forum of Reddit from just the authors name to the works themselves.

And let's not forget those on Tumblr from tags to people dedicated to the series and the author.

Rolin Jones was making an adaptation of Anne Rice's works. Had permission to do so. Now before we go on let's look at the definition of Adaptation:

a film, book, play, etc. that has been made from another film, book, play, etc.: From Cambridge Dictionary.

A more descriptive meaning:

I am a firm believer that this would have changed and avoided many harmful idealogies and actions in the fandom. But I digress.

A fandom is described as to a community of people who are passionate about something, whether it’s a film, a band, a television show, a book, or a sports team. (x)

A fandom is important because it provides opportunities to connect with other like-minded individuals. It also serves a purpose of allowing easy discovery from an interest into another range of interest. More importantly: Fandom can shape and influence decisions of the media and how they interact with the show. Along with the creative decision of the creator.

The fandom of Interview with the vampire was already established from The Vampire Chronicles. People had a predispositioned idea on what to expect. The fandom in this time were, to no surprise, predominantly white fans. Not to say that no POC existed within this fandom that they were not the majority.

At the time of the announcement it did not make many waves to the unsuspecting people in the outside world. But the Fandom took note of this. [Obviously] Conversations and interviews were watched and re-watched of Anne Rice throughout the years and comments were made. This was about 4 to 3 years ago.

The casting was not released. No one really knew what was planned for these shows and when they would be aired. At this time I was still in my Hannibal obsession and the only thing about Interview with the vampire was from a meme with a white man saying: Not gay enough. On my Pinterest board.

So I cannot speak about my experience during this time in the fandom [though I do encourage people who were around this time to share your experiences with me if you want I'm curious how it was for different people] but the general consensus was trepidation and excitement.

I can understand this because not only did the fandom go around feeling like drug dealers in threat of getting busted by the police when writing and publishing Fanfic at the time but also Fanart and even Comics were made because of the love these people had for The Vampire Chronicles.

The fandom had an already made up idea on what this would mean for them. One of these ideas was definitely NOT a Black, Creole, 4b haired and green eyed vampire. Almost completely different from white, raven-chin length hair and green eyed Louis. But I'm getting ahead of myself.

At this time I can only imagine how the fandom was feeling about the adaptation because as much I can do further research and deep dive into digital foot print I do not have that kind of time in my hands at this point in my life.

Anne Rice works, I will say again, were celebrated and she was held in high regard by supernatural-loving fans. She was – and still – seen as the Mother of Modern Vampires and the depiction in media. She has influenced many well known and famous Vampire media such as Twilight and True Blood.

So I'm left with only imagining how it somewhat felt like for people looking forward to Disney live actions and the Teen Wolf movie. [The fandom was large in size but apparently not large enough to be a few hours of Google search away to be able to find out about the discourse around this point in time.]

But AMC worked fast (kudos to them honestly) and the next year around August of 2021. They came out with the main casting and...

Jacob Anderson was announced as our [cherished and loved] Louis du Lac of today.

This made waves in the fandom and lit the seat of the loyal fans to write about the current happenings in their fandom to all media platforms. Tumblr, Reddit, YouTube, Twitter X, etc.

As much as there were hesitant joy over it and encouragement over the happenings there was also...a lot of upset over the fans.

Shortly after this announcement Anne Rice died in December of 2021 [RIP🕊️]. She and her son had been working closely on the adaptation with Rolin Jones. Anne was survived by her son who stayed in the process of the production. This will ultimately be both significant and insignificant in the grand scheme of things regarding the fandom's reaction to everything before the airing of the Pilot episode of Interview with the Vampire AMC.

At this time I was also still absent from the fandom. Or rather I should say I was being introduced to the Pilot episode through one fated AMC TikTok promotion edit.

I was not online as much and thus wasn't affected as much during that time. Unknowing of the discourse around the Casting and the upcoming trailers brewing. I simply just saved the TikTok in my favourites and promised to watch it for later.

Though I can understand and sympathise at a certain point with the upset over the casting choices because as a book reader I can understand we do kinda gatekeep shit. But only up to a certain point because I get over it fast.

I understand what an adaptation is and what it means. It will mostly never mean a direct copy and paste of the book.

The cards had been shuffled and handed out and the game was about to begin. Word got around and before the airing of the Pilot episode of what would be the one of the most influencial piece of media to me, the people's feelings were simmering and were ready to burst.

How the audience reacted would forever determine what the Fandom looks now and how people interpret the characters. Unfortunately, in the long run, this transformation was not positive. But some, to this day would disagree.

Part Two | Reactions: Anger, Joy & Racism → Coming Soon

Part [1/?]

[d8tl55c]

[cozylittleartblog]

ok i saw somebody else i follow do this and now im curious because this blog is 10 years old. humor me

[neolxzr]

i know it wasn't just a dream

(au info: here)

[catboydan]

my very specific prediction for the upcoming AITA video: he'll open by explaining that last week on the gaming channel he had an 'AITA' moment himself [insert clips from the dan eye incident here]

then he'll lead into the vid by saying something like "and that inspired me to ask you all for your 'am I the hole' moments", and only then will he bring up that this time, he asked for specifically dating/love-related stories, leaving us to piece together that the intro is a dating/love related story via the maxim of relevance

[0ann3]

Quick doodle since my drawing tablet decided to give up so I'm left with no choice but to practice drawing on phone while I wait for someone to buy KAHDAKJSDH

Also drew a quick interaction with Yu since I was thinking about them while doodling Slilver

[crystallizsch]

hi so Yuuyu Laya is back??? i guess??? (he's gonna be neglected </3)

this is my previous post about him (a lot of the initial ideas are changed/scrapped now) and in a nutshell:

yuuyu (he/they) is my twst tinkerbell oc and who is one of the first batch of ramshackle members

he's not yuu/mc, he is just called “yuuyu” (which is just a nickname so not his real name)

the “real yuu” in question is in their second year and is officially the ramshackle prefect/housewarden

sneak peak of my very convoluted oc lore below the cut:

[iislak-mewu]

Īslak Mèwu intro post

Shishīkwa prana!¹ Welcome, travellers! I'll try and keep this post friendly and readable to non-linguists, I just wanna infodump about my language lol. This post has gotten a little long though, so apologies! Hopefully it serves well to give you a feel of it <3

¹/ɕiˈɕiə̯kʋa pʁaˈna/ PL~foreigner.PAT welcome

Consider this a formal introduction post to the conlang (constructed language) i've been making for like, over a year now at this point? on and off, mostly off tho lmao. The vast majority of stuff i've made is the grammar (this is very much my favourite area of langs lol, closely followed by the phonetics side of things), and as a result i really don't have many words or actual forms for things lol

Īslak Mèwu² (lit. valley's language) (or just Īsla for short) is a language spoken by the fictional Rūsawlitwā³ people. While the majority of them are a vertical transhumance culture, living in valleys and farming cattle (herders move the flock up and down the mountains in line with the seasons, while the majority of people live permenantly in the village), some groups have moved further afoot and are living in a more settled way in towns and cities in neighbouring regions.

²/iɐ̯ˈsla-k m��ˈʋu/ valley-GEN language (lit. "valley's language") ³/ʀuɐ̯-ˌsaʋli-ˈtˠaː/ cow-herd-AGN (lit. "cow-herders")

I'll start with Īsla's sounds, then give a (not-so-brief) tour of the grammar.

Phonology / sounds

Īsla has the following consonants: (If you don't recognise these symbols, you can find and listen to them here. You won't find ˠ in there, but it makes things sound more "dark".)

Īsla has eight short vowels, /i e ɛ a y ø u o/, along with the long vowels /iɐ̯, uɐ̯, iː, yː, uː, eː, aː/ and the rather distinctive syllabic fricatives /ʝ̩, ɣ̩ʷ, ɣ̩~ɦ̩/. These syllabic fricatives are high pitch, and often realised instead as breathy voiced vowels depending on dialect.

The syllable structure is (C)(C)V(C). Stress is assigned to the last "heaviest" syllable.

I am currently in the middle of reworking the past maybe 100 years of sound shifts, so this is subject to change (especially the vowel system)

Grammar

For the linguistics nerds among us, Īslak Mèwu is a synthetic language that features noun incorperation, a pretty free word order, 3 grammatical genders, split-S alignment, converbs, a shitty verb agreement system that will likely fall out of use in a generation or two (role marking is mostly done by the case system and emphatic pronouns), and TAM is typically marked via auxiliary verbs (tbf these are a lot more irregular so you do get decent verb agreement thru this). I'll explain these features briefly and how they work in Īsla:

Noun incorperation is a process where nouns and verbs are put together (compounded) into one word. We kinda have this in English - think about mountain-climbing, berry picking, horse riding, dishwashing, etc. In Īsla, this is MUCH more common than in English - this is used for basically every conventional activity. Natives talk about dinner-eating, sheet-changing, cow-chasing, dust-sweeping, fish-chopping, etc. These aren't always obvious from the words they're made of though! "whisky-swimming" actually means "to have thrown, to have deliberately lost a game", named for drinking games where people deliberately lose for the aim of getting drunk.

Grammatical gender. Like in French, German, etc. Īsla has 3 of them, and verbs, adjectives, pronouns, and determiners (think English "some", "most", "the", etc) "agree" with nouns in gender. Case markers merge with the gender markers.

Auxiliary verbs are little "helping" verbs that convey grammatical info alongside a more meaningful verb. English has these - "I will do X", "I should do X", "i have done X". Īsla verbs operate in basically the same way, but they come after the main verb, not before:

/niəsɛ sˠɣ̩mˈmuːs-a ɫʋin/ 3M.SG:ERG cook_dinner-NOMIN 3M.SG.IMP "He should cook dinner" /niəsɛ sˠɣ̩mˈmuːs-a tˠʋo/ 3M.SG:ERG cook_dinner-NOMIN 3M.LOC.COP "He is cooking dinner (for a while)" (lit. "He is in cooking dinner")

Case marking: Like in languages like German or Finnish. Little suffixes added to words to show what their role is in the sentence. In Īsla, the cases are the agentive case (do-ers), patientive case (things that have things done to them), genitive case (possessors), dative case (recipients of things, destinations, also used for expressing opinions as in "to me, X is cool"), the locative case (locations), and ablative case (sources and instruments).

Split-S alignment. ohhhhhh boy. this is FAR too complex of a topic to properly get into in an intro post like this, but the short of it that, Īsla just, can't make up its mind about what case to mark Ss with? For ease of writing, I'm gonna use "S" to refer to the only noun in an intransitive sentence (e.g. in "he walks", S is "he", but in "he hits him", there is no S, because this is a transitive sentence)

In Īsla, the main verb chooses what case the S should be in. There are two (main) categories of this:

"Unaccusative verbs" - S is marked with the "patientive" case (the case given to e.g. "person" in "i chase the person") /ˈtaːmu-∅ miɐ̯ˈlij/ person-PATIENTIVE lie "the person is lying down"

"Unergative verbs" - S is marked with the "agentive" case (the case given to e.g. "person" in "the person chases me") /ˈtaːmy jeˈiɐ̯s/ person:AGENTIVE walk "the person walks"

However, this case preference is overridden by most auxiliary verbs. For example /ʀom/, the inchoative auxiliary (="to begin Xing"), demands an agentive S: /ˈtaːmy ˈmiɐ̯lja ʀom/ person:AGENTIVE lie-NOMIN 3N.SG.INCH "the person starts lying down" /miɐ̯ˈlij/ "to be lying down" is typically unaccusative, but the presence of the inchoative auxiliary means that /taːmu/ is marked with the agentive case, rather than the patientive case as in the earlier example.

On the other end of that, /xe/, the past tense auxiliary, demands a patientive S: /ˈtaːmu jeˈiɐ̯s =xe/ person-PATIENTIVE walk =3N.SG.PAST "the person walked" This is the opposite thing - "walk" suggests an agentive S, but /xe/ overrides that.

The actual system is ofc more complicated than this, but this is enough for a quick overview.

I'm gonna stop talking here, before I make a post so long no one will want to read it, but there's absolutely more posts coming! …when i can fit them in between coursework and the adhd distractableness ofc. Hopefully this has given you a decent feel for the language, and please send asks about stuff if you're interested!! (i hope i've explained things ok) There's a lot I didn't touch on here, and a lotta detail I've left out, and I'd love an excuse to talk more about this stuff <3

[rem0n-art]

Wait, hold on a diddly darn minute...

....I just noticed...

I've been drawing Scraps' head as an octagon...

while her head is actually a hexagon...

[storge]

ZENG YIXUAN as Ashina Yunyi Weaving a Tale of Love Season 2 (2023)

[simmersofia]

New story coming soon

[phoenix-clan]

Haha hehe hoohoo... it is time for me to announce what I've been working on all this time and what my plans for PhoenixClan are going forward hehehehe...

I am pleased to announce that PhoenixClan is being remade and reworked on its very own ComicFury page!!!

Long explanation and rambling thoughts under the cut for those curious as to the direction of PhoenixClan going forward:

To be honest I was only going to remake everything up to 4 part 1, but when I looked back on it all I really regret pretty much every part I've made pre-7. I think it all could have been handled much better by me, the art looked sloppy and was often rushed, and it was bugging me that it wasn't as good as it could have been.

At the end of last year, I was even debating on ending PhoenixClan altogether and moving onto a different comic project I have been extremely eager to write. I also debated making that project on the side as I continued to chug through PhoenixClan.

Ultimately, I came to a realization that the reason I was dragging my feet on making more PhoenixClan was because I felt like the early parts of PhoenixClan were half-heartedly made, and I was just going through the motions with every subsequent part so I could get to the better plot moments. I should have been truly dedicating my time and energy to it, and making sure I was happy with the pacing and writing.

This is not even mentioning how terrible the character writing was when I first started! I had no clue who any of these characters were yet and instead of doing practice comics and drafts to understand them better, I just wrote the comic without even thinking about who each of the characters were as people. Now that I have a better understanding of them all, I cringe at those early characterizations.

I truly do love the story I've been writing with PhoenixClan, and I want to share it all with you. But I thought that I was bound by unspoken rules that a comic can never be reworked or remade, and thus I was left with a story whose contents I truly adored but was hindered by my amateurish first attempt.

I will not be deleting any of the previous parts of PhoenixClan, and I will still include them in my website and blog directories. I will simply partition the new stuff from the old stuff, so you can still enjoy the early beginnings of PhoenixClan. I will still be uploading new PhoenixClan parts here as well, so don't worry if you don't want to make the jump over there!

However, from here on out I'm going to be creating all of it from scratch again. I want to be a better author, a better artist, and a better comic creator for PhoenixClan. It deserves that much.

And yeah now it's also all gonna be uploaded to ComicFury on top of that lol

I only have a default template look for the site rn but I'll see about doing some more unique stuff with it in the future :)

[krabokot]

INTRO POST!☣️

Hi!💣

I am a trans guy from Poland, I can speak English and Polish.

My pronouns are he/him [I don't mind it if you use they/it on me]

You can call me Karl/Karol, but I'll also react to Krab, Stu, Roach, Bell, or Diler [I just enjoy silly nicknames people make up for me]

I am a minor!🪳

I am a self taught artist, so expect lazily drawn, low quality doodles from me...

My current* interests are: slasher horror movies, cod, F1, sharks and most games I play [too many to name each individual one..]

I enjoy a lot of music bands as well, like Hollywood Undead, Oomph!, 3OH!3, Ice nine kills and many more!!!

BYI⚠️

Please, keep in mind that there's always a chance I might include some slight gore in my art. I'll always try to put a warning on it, but beware if it triggers you!

DNI⚠️

Transphobes and homophobes, actual creeps and predators, people who ship illegal stuff, mean people.

MY STRAWPAGE!!!

END OF INTRO POST PLS BEFRIEND ME...

[berryblonde1975]

intro post <33

heyy my name is kaylei

im literally a minor so please don’t be weird

let’s me mutualss <3

my interests include: music, movies, books, poetry, writing, collecting pieces of physical media, baking, girlblogging, fashion, finding motifs and connections, etc..

favorite movies: bones and all, beautiful boy, brokeback mountain, girl, interrupted, lady bird, call me by your name, perks of being a wallflower, little women (2019), 10 things i hate about you, aftersun (fav directors:luca guad. sophia coppola)

fav music artists: the 1975, lana del rey, harry styles, jeff buckley, fiona apple, ethel cain, niall horan (seen 1x in concert), charli xcx, gracie abrams (seen 1x in concert), noah kahan, phoebe bridgers, zayn, julien baker, louis tomlinson (seen 1x in concert), role model (seen 2x), bob dylan, sam fender, the smiths, radiohead, del water gap, liam payne, the doors, hozier (1 upcoming show)

fav books/authors: SALLY ROONEY, Kafka, Nic and David Sheff, Plath, Bukowski, De Beauvoir, Moshfegh,

liam payne . rest in peace my love

my letterboxd: https://boxd.it/6RCX7

[vessel-of-hermanubis]

❈ hey, hey, hey! ❈

Sorry, were you looking for me? Hello hello, I'm Sethos! What can I do for you?

Sethos speaks like this! Actions are like this. // and ooc text like this! //

tags:

#vessel's own consciousness - ic #further investigations - reblogs #a new follower - asks #decaying scripts - anon asks #hermanubis's rest - ooc

rules:

dni - discriminatory people, bitches no nsfw just be nice! ...possible sethoscara warning :)

// Hi there! I'm the admin of this blog; please ignore if I'm out of character sometimes, I don't know Sethos very well yet but I am in the process of doing more research on him and the way he behaves. All in all, just have fun and be polite! //

[puppy-steve]

connor. multifandom.

previously -> werepuppy-steve

ao3 | writer's tag | fic recs | answered asks | venmo | my posts | wip tag

(registered users only)

🍂 gold-skinned eager baby - M, WIP

series rewrite, childhood friends, secret relationship

🍂 mamma mia (spit your love on me) - E, 1.8k, complete

transmasc eddie, puppy play, dom bottom eddie, sub top steve, mommy kink, breeding kink

🍂 a whole lifetime - E, 1.6k, complete

rockstar eddie, older/married steddie, daddy kink, dom/sub, babygirl steve, birthday sex

🍂 sugar sweet as dixie crystal - E, 4k, complete

established relationship, high school sweethearts, transmasc steve, aspec steve, daddy kink, nipple play, emma verse

🍂 it's the spirit of the season - T, 3.8k, complete

established relationship, christmas fluff, crack treated seriously

🍂 i'll be your if you'll be mine - E, 1.9k, complete

hand kink, spit kink, daddy kink, secret relationship

🍂 she put her love down soft and sweet - E, 5.7k, complete

modern au, dom/sub, aspec steve, transmasc steve, daddy kink, emma verse

🍂 they said it all comes down to you - T, 1.5k, complete

demon eddie, sacrifice steve, soulmates

🍂 there's comfort in the panic - G, 1.2k, complete

panic attacks, established relationship, lex's spicy six spring fanworks challenge, hurt/comfort

🍂 silent spark - G, 4.1k, complete

animal crossing au, pining, fireworks date, lex's spicy six summer fanworks challenge

🍂 [ hiraeth; ] - series, WIP

appalachian eddie, established relationship, eddie munson's extended family

🍂 farmer steddie - light dom/sub, older married steddie, steddie dads

🍂 tiny hands, little feet - teen dads au, no upside down, transmasc steve

🍂 steddie run an onlyfans - rockstar eddie, married steddie, modern au, transmasc steve, daddy kink

🍂 graduation - modern au, famous corroded coffin, steddie dads, emma verse

🍂 fourteen hundred hours - modern au, famous corroded coffin, established relationship, fluff

🍂 if i ain't got you - fight/make up, slow dancing, fluff

🍂 promise you forever - appalachian eddie, established relationship, drunk dialling, fluff

🍂emma verse - modern au, famous corroded coffin, steddie dads, transmasc steve

🍂 eddie's bad day - fluff, comfort, established relationship

🍂 steve's bad day - fluff, comfort, established relationship

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