#talking**

[saphushia]

To me etho is a guy who has a 50/50 chance of treating even the most lukewarm ice breaker questions as having the security breach potential of being asked for his full legal name and address.

He'll tell you entirely unprompted that he hasn't bought a new toothbrush in 8 years but if you ask him what bands he likes he'll be like 'oh, you know, this and that' and just names some video game osts if you press him harder. He's like a pitiful dog in this way

[mcyt-genderfluid-week]

she gender on my fluid till I mcyt

[zaptrap]

when that tumblr communities thing comes out for everyone, i predict the jay fanclub is just gonna be ppl crying over jay while simultaneously taping his face to a dart board and getting straight bullseyes

[dykekingofhell]

With episode three of this season coming out this weekend, with the trailers making it seem like we’re going to be getting some 1700s flashbacks and some of Lestat’s backstory through the eyes of Armand, this is an interesting moment to discuss Lestat’s age and its role in the narrative of both the show and the novels. People frequently discuss how impact the aging up of Claudia from 5 to 14 is, but if you look at the rest of the cast and their novel counterparts, basically everyone has been aged up to various degrees, including Lestat.

Lestat’s age is changed both in terms of how old he was when turned into a vampire and how long he has been a vampire. In the books Lestat is turned quite young, at age 20, and he has been a vampire for about ten years when Louis first meets him in Interview With the Vampire. The show however is quite different with Lestat having been turned in his early 30s and already being a little over a century old when he encounters Louis. What I think most exemplifies this difference is the fact that Lestat’s mortal father is still alive at the beginning of the novel and is present as a character, something that seems bizarre if you are only familiar with the show canon. 

I think this shift makes many of Lestat’s actions read as if not less sympathetically in the show, at least differently. First is the fact that in the books Lestat is still very much learning to adjust to vampirism when he meets Louis. He isn’t a master of the dark gift, and he still holds some ties to his mortal life even if he doesn't talk much about his past; like his father is living with him and Louis for a period of time. So there is much less of a gulf between him and Louis when it comes to distance from humanity which in some ways makes their relationship read as more balanced. Like the reason Louis is able to partly forgive Lestat at the end of the novel is his realization that Lestat is also a lost soul who doesn’t hold all of the answers about vampirism.

Second, Anne Rice’s vampires tend to exhibit arrested development, being somewhat permanently stuck at the age they are turned, and so in the books Lestat’s instability and outbursts often read as a kind of youthful impulsiveness and immaturity which I think is lost in the show. 

And with all of this, I am really interested in how they intend to write his relationship with Nicki which we will begin to see next episode. Like so much of Lestat, this relationship is defined by the brashness of youth. This is a story of two young men who experience what reads as an explosion of a first love and leave their families to run away together in Paris. It feels like a coming of age story. So I’m really wondering how their dynamic will change with the two of them likely being about a decade older.

[concorp]

i think we can all agree that the D.R.A.G.O.N. ending is just fed propaganda right. we already know they’re incredibly unreliable narrators.

[rthwrms]

i'm finally uploading a bunch of art from the archives and scheduling them to post so its not overwhelming lol

[knifearo]

Hellooo! I'm a movie fanatic but every movie I seem to find has atleast a side plot of romance and I can't relate for some aromantical reason. Do you have any recommendations for movies that don't have any romance in the plot?

ough dude i'm with you the search for ANYTHING non-romantic is so frustrating. unfortunately for the sake of this ask i don't actually like watching movies that much so i don't have many recommendations and i definitely won't promise to have anything new but! i will tell you movies that i like that happen not to have nonromantic plots :)

clue (1985) is a favorite of mine forever. it does not have any romance, but what it DOES have are (mentioned) sex scandals, clever wordplay, several murdered husbands, and tim curry playing a silly little guy :) what else could you need. movie of all time

going through my netflix for anything else... to my memory the old guard (2020) does not have any romantic subplots in it!!! those immortal bitches have other shit on their hands. if there's romance it is a long time ago. definitely a movie i enjoyed :)

man i just do not watch movies. action movies sometimes just do not have the time for romance which is nice... snowpiercer maybe? would say that john wick has a lovely lack of romantic involvement except that the whole series starts with his wife dying but. if you can stand him grieving his lost love and then having no romantic attachment to anyone else he kills a lot of people and gets a dog :) some really lovely platonic relationships in that film series to me.

nope (the movie)?

what we do in the shadows (the movie) doesn't have anything in it i think! just fun vampire times, to my memory.

that's all i got, friend... aro people please drop recs in the notes. your service is needed here. this is what community is for (providing good movie recs) <2

[c00kietin]

sorry for no art, today was just really nice and I honestly was too distracted to draw :')

[p0stmortem]

Hey, you know your favorite character? Yeah, the one with an interesting face shape and unique features? Well we put them in fandom and they're drawing them with a basic, conventional face shape nowadays. Uh huh, no wrinkles or anything. I'm sorry dude, yeah they completely changed the nose.

[naceless]

The homoerotic relationship between a sword and its scabbard

[jakeperalta]

I'm curious. what job would you do if money was no object (you just automatically had an income you could live comfortably on)? including work like volunteering, studying etc. please share in the tags :)

[potionofinstantdamage]

BDUBS THE THING (1982) DUB LIVE IN THE YOUTUBE COMMENTS

[oneshimaru]

Ponies 🌈🐴✨

This started out as just a fun pinkie pie sketch, but I'm really proud of how these turned out! 🥰💖

[concorp]

fits finale was just as devastating as expected if not more so. we really got the bad end huh ;-;

[bioshzrd]

this random ass guy who’s entire bit is that he can move like this is the only good wesker fan ever