#rices reblogs ^_^

[ken-doll-roy]

I expect some people's initial gut reaction will be to say no- I was conflicted too. However, upon reflection, I have to admit that I do see the appeal of vampirism...

I don't think I'd want to live FOREVER, but like... Maybe a few centuries? Just to see what it's like?

And the perks of super strength, no physical pain, impossible beauty, and the ability to feel a deep spiritual connection through blood sharing with another vampire...? Not too shabby....

(I'm aware I'm glossing over a lot of the trauma, but it's just something I've been thinking about like A LOT so I wanna know what other people think!!)

((I'm also aware that there's a huge amount of variation in what it means to be a vampire that is dependent on the source material. So please do reblog and share your thoughts, it doesn't just have to just be abt iwtv vampires))

[yourfaveisintersex]

Momonga from Chiikawa is intersex, aromantic, (canonically) agender using it/they pronouns, and its variation is Polycystic Ovary Syndrome (PCOS)!

Requested by @peripaltepsy

Intersex flag-only edits under the cut!

[estrellami-1]

I’m curious

[kagooleo]

happy belated halloween to my fluffyrice (and their little rice ball 🍙)

[eliotdrawings]

vaguely attempts old man yaoi

[ufonaut]

You've let things spiral out of control, Alan.

JSA (2024) #7

(Jeff Lemire, Rafael de Latorre)

[hexjulia]

hey sorry your boyfriend was grafted to a poplar tree. he started sprouting leaves and everything. yeah no his circulatory system is intertwined with that of the tree now we can't just cut him off. I think he's growing catkins.

[leroibobo]

The problem of poor nutrition among the urban poor was not only of interest to those engaged with industry and labour, but also to militaries—and thus there was also a military impetus behind the project of identifying protein requirements. During the Boer War of 1899-1902 the British military had struggled to find sufficiently tall and healthy recruits: 40-60% of would-be soldiers failed to meet the statutory height requirement (compared with around 10% in 1845) and this was suspected to be the result of poor nutrition in situations of urban poverty. A committee was set up to investigate, and the nutritional scientists they interviewed were confidently able to pinpoint the root of the problem: too little protein, especially meat and milk (although excessive drinking of overly-stewed tea was also considered a major worry). At the same time, it was feared that problems of public health might be a symptom of the “deterioration of the British race” instead of the result of poverty. The two explanations were intimately connected, since meat-eating in particular was increasingly understood as a site of racial difference and imperial superiority. Meat was believed to be necessary for bodily strength and was at least connotatively linked with desirable psychological traits like bravery and rationality; when it was found that certain populations (particularly in the US, Australia and Germany) had particularly high intakes of meat and that many Asian and African populations particularly low, this offered 19th century thinkers one possible explanation of imperial power and domination as a consequence of natural law (“the effeminate rice- eaters of India and China have again and again yielded to the superior moral courage of an infinitely smaller number of meat-eating Englishmen”). In India, distinctions were made between colonial subjects according to whether their traditional diets promoted ‘courage’ and ‘strength’. Rice in particular was condemned for its low protein content and wheat and lentils identified as preferable — but vegetarian diets of beans and grains were still fundamentally poverty diets compared with meat and milk.  The ‘ability’ to go without eating meat became a racialised symbol that could be weaponised in conflicts over labour and Asian immigration in the US (“you cannot work a man who must have beef and bread alongside of a man who can live on rice”). Institutions in the colonies offered European scientists opportunities to undertake nutritional experiments on populations “limited neither by unwillingness nor small numbers” which identified increased protein (meat, dairy, and possibly wheat) consumption as a means of improving the yield of colonial labour; thus the development of nutritional science was both informed and facilitated by racist-colonial beliefs. That said, it is hard to untangle racial from nationalist motivations here, as meat-eating also played a role in competition between western nations: the USDA saw evidence of US national superiority not just in the “starvation diets” of India and China but also in the fact that US protein recommendations were higher than those issued by European scientists.

Blaxter, T., & Garnett, T. (2022). Primed for power: a short cultural history of protein

[gremlinsminion]

But that's just the thing! The question of why lestat participated is (to me) the Crux of season 1 and 2 and when answered in season 3 (and I'm sure they will touch upon this part again), what we see will be the make it or break it for the show lestat.

The answer will either satisfy the audience or manage to completely drive away all book fans and lose (some) fans and stay with...significantly less.

Here's the thing. This isn't about stans or fan favorites or ship wars.

This is the core theme of interview with a vampire. It's the one thing that bonds louis and lestat for the rest of the chronicles it's perhaps THE reason they end up together in the end. Because they both had a child together, they loved her and they both had to survive her death and they grieve her together after all these years.

That's what iwtv is supposed to be. If the answer to his participation is "well he could have stopped it at any time but he chose not to cause he was still kinda pissed they killed him, or he only cared about louis and then changed his mind and felt bad about claudia too then sorry that's not iwtv, the vampire lestat the VC chronicles. The heart of the chronicles was this grief.

And not everyone has to like lestat but if they want the show to continue its vital to actually keep the core of the character and even elevate them when possible like they did with louis! Lestat-claudia-louis is at the heart of it, as the family unit. There was love there and it ended tragically.

I just don't think some fans understand how important this topic will be for the overall life span of the show. It's important that the love and grief of two parents who failed their child but loved her is shown, so the story can move forward. Otherwise how does louis forgive lestat? Why doesn't he blame him? How will louis reconcile with himself and with lestat if he ends up with the man who willingly burned his daughter? Or was willing to see hee burned

How do we go from "rehearsed a play that burned your daughter alive" to "it's not on you?"

Sorry to unload all this on you, but I have a lot of thoughts on this and my friends have not watched the show so I've no one to talk this with but I'd very much appreciate if you chose to post this (but you ofc don't have to!)

good point about how most of the viewers want to see Lestat. As the central character of TVC, he can’t be vilified too much I suppose. And interesting thoughts about grief, I don’t think about it much, but I’ve heard that Anne Rice started this whole thing as a way to cope.

[queerquaintrelle]

“Lestat is bi,” I say into a microphone.

The biphobes and media illiterates boo.

“They’re right,” come a soothing French voice and an astute writerly voice.

The voices in question are Anne Rice and Lestat de Lioncourt himself.

[ufonaut]

JSA (2024) #2

Written by JEFF LEMIRE Art by DIEGO OLORTEGUI Cover by CULLY HAMNER Variant covers by JEFF LEMIRE and LEANDRO FERNÁNDEZ $3.99 US | 32 pages | Variant $4.99 US (card stock) ON SALE 12/4/24

Flash back to the events leading into the previous issue as the JSA investigates a break-in at the observatory of Ted Knight, the original Starman. How was the JSA separated, and where is the Tower of Fate? What caused the rift between Jade and Obsidian after the disappearance of their father, Green Lantern Alan Scott? And what is the Injustice Society of America plotting?

[tohruies]

the end of the work day draws near hehe—i would like to spend the rest of my day after that here with you all if you don’t mind!! (๑•̀ᴗ•́๑) 🌷🤍

[blatterpussbunnyfromhell]

Interview with the vampire, Anne Rice

[handthattakes]

Arctober Day 6 aka Vi’s Terrible Horrible No Good Very Bad [Several Months]