the experience of reading interview with the vampire is that every so often there’s a passage that you will read before you will unfocus your eyes and breathe for a moment. then you will slam the book down and meander in circles around the room, hands on your head, looking much troubled, and you will shout “LOUIS!!! louis, holy fuck!!! by god!!! LOUISS” and then you will sit back down and read it again
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Radio silence from both Georgia and Anna with the occasional bs post from Anna about her “Mama’s Mabli Moo”. Wonder what they’ll do when the press tour begins. More specifically when Michael and David go on that show on Monday and everyone goes insane over them
Oh, so very much to unpack in such a brief period of time! Yes, we are finally getting Michael and David back together on a TV interview and I, for one, could not be more ecstatic.
To your points, Anons #1, I did notice that, apart from the Insta post you mentioned, Anna has also joined Threads. And now we also have the story that @phantomstars24 mentioned, and I just...
I do not at all believe it's a coincidence that she joined Threads when she did, just four days before Michael and David were to start doing interviews together. (Interestingly, Georgia does not appear to be on Threads, which is likely because she has other actual things to post about now that Staged has ended, whereas AL does not.) My supposition is further bolstered by AL's Insta story, which is a clear effort on her part to remain relevant, despite the fact that no one is going to be interested in this once tonight's One Show interview airs.
(Also, on what planet is any of the above "dirty talk"? Is this supposed to be a callback to/flat-out copy of Georgia's screencap of her text conversation with David about breakfast? Because it's not even close and the cringe is next level. At least we know she stayed in Wales this time...)
That said, whatever we are in store for on The One Show, it is most definitely going to be extraordinary, and the talk of social media. We know that Michael is going to be the champion of all things Ineffable Husbands and give us all sorts of feral, brain-breaking moments, but I have a feeling that it's David who is going to be the real revelation this time around. We've already gotten these eye-opening quotes from him in SFX magazine:
And given how vulnerable and open David has been lately, it would not be at all surprising to see him open up further around Michael. He and Michael are even closer now than when the first season was filmed, and we will no doubt see it reflected in their rapport, and in how happy and relaxed they are around each other. (Dare I also add "in love"? I don't think we can rule it out. And if there’s even a hint of that, it’s going to be plainly visible, and it won't just have to do with the characters...)
Which then brings us to the clipping that @feuerkindjana has helpfully shared, and that I think really sets the tone for today's interview. I recently talked on my blog about how Michael was saying four years ago that the lines between the character and real life were blurry for him, and now it's four years later and he's saying that is even more so the case than before.
"Everything that has happened in-between plays into coming back to these characters. I am sure it is all feeding into it."
This mirrors what I've felt for some time now, which is that the relationship between Michael and David has and did inform the relationship between Aziraphale and Crowley in season 1, and now that is doubly true for season 2. And Michael is telling us this, is blatantly saying that what we will see on screen this time around isn't just the characters--it's him and David, and what we're going to see absolutely would not be what it is if it weren't he and David together in these roles.
But it's the last sentence in the clipping above that really gets me:
"It's very difficult for us to know how that is informing the characters and their relationships."
"Very difficult for us." Us. Not him. That alone makes my heart ache, because it reinforces Michael's previous remarks about not seeing his role of Aziraphale as independent from David as Crowley. It's that he's speaking seemingly for David, as if he doesn't even have to think twice about this being the way David feels, because he absolutely knows it is.
It's also how the "us" evokes the feeling of what we will now see in season 2, with Aziraphale and Crowley being on their own side, and echoes what David said in the article quotes above. That they are relying on each other in a way neither of them expected, and more than they would care to admit. That, taken together with Michael's comments just completely and utterly wrecks me a little. (Or a lot…)
So yes, given all of the above, I think we are in for an incredible time on the One Show today. I've had folks DMing me about all the emotions that this day is bringing up, and I can't help but think that if the prospect of them being together again is making us weepy, how must it be affecting Michael and David. Truly, I have no doubt we will find out once the show airs, and I am beyond excited to watch...
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that's why i wrote that i wonder if it makes me look mental, it's more of a reflection of me than them. and that's the thing about celebrities and all forms of "rpf", we're talking about the shadow of the shadow, twice removed, because no matter how many songs and interviews and books and documentaries there are, we'll never know those people 🥴 that's just my opinion and how i approach parasociality, that even in a real life, possibly intimate relationship, you always see someone through your own eyes and use your own unique tools to make sense of individuals and of the world. there's no ultimate truth, not inside your best friend or in the relationship of those brothers from manchester, it's just my perspective and your perspective and all of it is coloured by what we've experienced and uhh who we are
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Min Kim ?
Vice Magazine, Volume 8 Issue 4
VICE: When did your studio burn down?
Min Kim: Last March. I had been having a lot of fire dreams right before that and they were influencing my work. I must have done hundreds of paintings and drawings and sculptures with flames in them. Then my whole block burned down. My apartment and my studio. Everything. I only have one drawing left from that series (pictured here).
Have you done any fire paintings since then?
I’ve done enough of those. Sometimes I feel like I started that fire.
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