#this is so true unfortunately…..

[owlpero]

free will is all about headcanoning your faves as autistic

[egophiliac]

WAIT when did he get FANGS

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

The Charcuterie Board, as designed by your votes! Thank you to everyone who participated; this was a fun challenge!

[artharakka]

Beautiful, But Broken

[rikitiki-infinity]

happy hulk happy life :)

[jthealien]

nobody talk to me.

if I start thinking about nox’s and deacon’s parallels for too long I start losing it, they both mean so much to me..

I really hope in season 2 we get some focus on their dynamic because it could be so interesting (and it already is tbh!!)

[arielluva]

[professional-rat-eater]

I need people in the IWTV fanbase to realise that you can appreciate a character in all their complexities and enjoy their precense in a story and still wish they had a slow, painful death scene. For non-book readers, I hope to be able to clarify a few things about why a certain character is so hated.

Keep reading for more nuanced Marius de Romanus slander:

I feel like I post at least once a day something about hitting Marius with a car or something and I do it mainly because it’s funny but it’s also because there is a very valid reason he is where a lot of people draw the line, despite the scale of morality in gothic literature being utterly different from that of pretty much any other literature, and drastically different from real life.

I love him for what he brings to the story. He is fascinating and I am excited to see him in season 3. He’s a brilliant character and I want to put him under a microscope and study him like a bug. He is still absolutely vile even for Anne Rice, something she even hints at here and there in her work.

I could go on and on for days about him, but to keep it short (edit: I lied), he met Pandora when she was ten years old and he was twenty five. What makes him particularly sick is nothing to do with vampiric morality, which we’ve seen is completely different, within the world of the books and show, from human morality. We get onboard with Lestat because we get to know him as a human and then watch how he changes as he gets used to being a vampire. Lestat was not a monster when he was human. Marius was.

If you disagree with that, you can think so if you wish as I do not currently possess the ability to control other people’s thoughts (but as soon as I do, I’m coming for you!) but please do not try and make excuses for him on that topic. Most people will not be open to that sort of debate. I know I’m not. Pandora was a baby. He should not have felt anything towards her other than a desire to protect her as a parent might. Yes, yes, gothic morality. But you need to understand that that is just too much for most people.

And you know who else was a baby, especially in comparison to Marius? Armand. Armand, who grew up to do awful things because of how he was treated. He was already being taken advantage of (to put it lightly) before he met Marius. If Marius had cared selflessly for Armand, he would have taken him from that brothel and tried to help him heal from the trauma. That is what real love would have been. You should not look at broken children and think to make them your lovers. All he was was yet another grown adult taking advantage of a boy whose spirit had been utterly shattered by what he’d endured.

(I’m not suggesting that should have happened or it would have been better, but I dislike the insinuation that Marius’s love for Armand was anything other than exploitative. It can be sincere, and still exploitative. I believe he meant it. I also believe he fucked Armand up more than he already had been.)

Murder in a fictional setting can be justified and overlooked, but as soon as anything involves children, you have to accept that you will lose a lot of people, even in gothic literature. That sort of relationship may have been more normalised thousands of years ago, but there were always people who objected to the concept. Even within the narrative of Anne Rice’s books, Marius’s actions are called out here and there (usually subtly) so even there, they are questioned. Compare him to someone like Lestat (I only mention him because for whatever reason, people like to group them together as irredeemable characters???).

Lestat’s actions are deeply toxic but people still like him because we understand why his behaviour is the way it is. As dreadful as what he does is, we are endeared to him because of his suffering and follow his journey as a vampire. He is twisted, but he is behaving according to what his trauma has turned him into. Armand is another example of this. Vile behaviour that is a believable response to trauma. There comes in the gothic morality again. We love them and know they are awful at the same time.

It is not that you cannot like Marius or characters like him. I do like him very much as a character, but you have to get on board with the idea that most people never will. The lines he crosses are unlike many of the others crossed by different characters. No one looks at Madeleine and Claudia and thinks it’s weird because Claudia is not actually a child. Armand was. Pandora was.

I could honestly make a separate post about book!Louis too and why I think the changes from the book were necessary to make people actually care about him, but it is similar. Harming/exploiting children and anything to do with slavery is a hard line a lot of people draw. Marius is still a multifaceted, interesting, complex, humanised character, as all Anne Rice vampires are, but he is deeply disliked for a very good reason. People cannot switch off how they feel about what he did, even if they are invested in the story.

(But also let’s be thoughtful about this type of discourse. Do not look at anyone whose favourite character is Marius and assume they are a bad person. He is a great character, he is just not to many people’s tastes. They likely just find him deeply interesting which he is.)

Anyway, after he gets his screen time and we reach the end of the show and he has gotten his chance to chance screen time, I vote we tie him up and treat him like a piñata.

[ashleyslorens]

AARON TVEIT & JOJO LEVESQUE Curtain call for Moulin Rouge! The Musical (July 23, 2024) 📸 Avery Brunkus

[wolfofcelestia]

MC, yelling in the other room: I WANT THIS WHOLE FAMILY DEAD. I WANT THE PARENTS DEAD. I WANT THE COUSINS DEAD. I WANT EVERYONE THEY’VE EVER LOVED DEAD. EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THEM DEAD!!

S: Isn’t she beautiful?

Z: What is she talking about? You didn’t bring her into one of your schemes, did you?

MC: SYLUS!!

S: Even the way she screams my name is beautiful.

Z: Ah. I recognize that tone.

MC: SYLUS, GET YOUR GIANT ASS IN HERE!! THERE ARE MORE SPIDERS COMING OUT OF THE CEILING AND I CAN’T REACH THEM!! DISGUSTING!!

Z: Glad I’ve been relieved of spider duty.

[xxplastic-cubexx]

[Ultimate X-Men (2001) #15: "It Doesn't Have To Be This Way"]

yall think he can play wonderwall

[timblrdrake]

Please confirm if Damian apologized to you. Report. -BTW

he… yeah? kind of?

this appeared on my desk this morning. so.

the back of the note says sorry

either way i can’t stay mad at him this is adorable

[purpleshadow-star]

And with this, I've joined the bandwagon.

[screamlet]

idk kinda feeling backed into a corner by post-finale fanon with like..... What Mature Grown Buck Would Do in His Grief. but, hear me out - unhinged grief-stricken abandonment-fueled "if you want to stop me you'll have to catch me first and i know you won't bother to chase me" behavior in the worst year of his life. idk!!!! what if he gave into his worst impulses and did unwise things!!!! gave himself things to REALLY cry about!!!!

[aerequets]

I had to download a new software for a class and it didn't make any sense + nothing I was trying was working, so I just angrily mashed my keyboard and somehow the whole interface changed and a tutorial popped up on my screen.

so to that person who asked if I'm Mr. Bean. Maybe

[vibiano]

vip having capo try on her outfits she’s made!!

"This doesnt suit me" It suits him.