#what to do in new orleans

[rustycopper4use]

The Intern!

He looks very polite.

also side note, everyone is like intern definitely dated Stacy, which I love HOWEVER here me out what if they dated Stacy’s mom. (Ehh get it, like the song-)

[specialagentartemis]

Sarah Sisko’s whole deal is so horrifying and messed up and DS9 just kinda. Glosses over it

[nashvillethotchicken]

Reconstruction ended in the US in 1877, and during that year, as well as the years immediately post civil war, there was an especially huge push for black people to find loved ones who were sold off the other states or countries during slavery, especially those who had children fathered by their masters as their masters were the ones who sold off the child/ren or had the best information on finding them. People would send letters, put ads in newspapers, even take trips themselves to go find loved ones that they had lost due to the scurge that was slavery. And I keep thinking about Louis du pointe du lac, sending all those messages to find his daughter that was sent out of state by her white father

[showtoonzfan]

Maybe it’s just me but the way both these characters are from New Orleans, POC, and French Creole, and yet one of them sounds like they’re exactly that and the other sounds like an average white dude.

Like no offense to Edward Bosco, I love his voice acting and he’s very good, but holy shit you can just tell that Alastor being mixed creole was a last minute decision. I’m blaming Vivzie in this, not Edward, because while Alastor does have that 1920’s old Atlantic accent but he certainly doesn’t sound of his heritage, compared to Nico where the accent is clear. Of course I know that not EVERY person or group sounds exactly the same, so maybe this is a nitpick but still.

[frodolives]

PAUL McCARTNEY in NEW ORLEANS, 12 FEBRUARY 1975 (X)

[anglerflsh]

Hi I'm a complete stranger to you. Based on the 2 pieces of info I know about you I'm going to assume you love to lie and are actually a horrible person living a glamourous life in new orleans

ah! my lies, discovered by my unending love for new orleans food!

[averseunhinged]

it's wip wednesday again, and because i'm incapable of just looking at something and then putting it aside for later for my own good, here's a new chonk of last week's soulmates au.

“Tell me, how have you been feeling the past six months or so?” He tutted at her preemptively. “The truth, please. No polite, little social niceties. There is method to my asking.”

“Awesome. Love talking about my feelings with people I barely know.” Caroline stared at her feet as she walked, arms wrapped around her waist, and struggled to speak. “Not great. But things have been busy and stressful and a lot has happened. I haven't had time to do anything but keep cleaning up the next mess. And no, I'm probably not totally okay, but people are counting on me. So, I have to be.”

"How has that manifested," Elijah pushed and then specified, "for you?"

“I don't need a therapist," she snapped back, and Elijah watched her expressive face solidify, blank and hard with a nearly inhuman stillness, a struggle with temper he had become familiar with after living with Klaus for so many years. 

“Fortuitous, as I am not one.”

“Oh, please!” she laughed with an edge of agitation. “I'd bet my entire college fund that you used to hang out with Freud and Jung just to learn how to do your whole shtick a little better. How to intimidate your enemies most effectively in under ten words.”

“Ten? Excessive. Under five, whenever possible.”

She laughed again. “See! You're trying to be funny! That has to be some kind of sneaky, psychological warfare thing.”

“It's a matter of honor. My sense of humor is nowhere near as terrible as my brother's, as you previously implied.”

The remains of her fit of temper dissipated with her laughter, tendrils of it drifting away like smoke. She sighed. “Fine. I'm...sad. Which makes sense. Everyone keeps leaving. Or dying. Which is also sort of leaving. I might have a few abandonment issues, which is totally understandable and a normal thing to have. Just because I can't brush things off like everyone else, that doesn't make me crazy or weak. I try so hard to make everything okay for everyone, but sometimes it's too much. i'm supposed to be the strong one. The good one. The one who solves everything, even when no-one will listen. But I can't sleep. And nothing tastes good anymore, not even fries or ice cream or anything. Sometimes, I even have to force myself to feed. And I–” she stopped speaking and glanced hesitantly at him. “It's going to sound crazy. Are you sure you want to hear this?”

“I would appreciate it,” he said truthfully.

She slowed down, strides shortening, and stared into the distance as though the answers might exist there. “It's like this restlessness inside of me. Like I need something, but can't figure out what that thing is. I just know I don't have it, but I have to keep trying. It makes me so frustrated with people and I don't even understand why. They never say or do the right things, but I can’t fix it or even explain what the right things are, because I don’t know. I just know it’s all wrong. Nothing feels right anymore," her voice broke. She swallowed more than once, but it still came out in a choked murmur, "And I'm always so alone."

She further stretched her shoulders, tightening her arms around her torso. Hugging herself, he realized. An attempt to hold herself together, as she'd likely been for over six months. He stopped walking. He reached out to the girl and stopped her as well.

“Thank you, Caroline,” Elijah said, his hand gentle on her elbow, their only point of contact. “My apologies, but thank you for explaining.”

“Why? I don't understand why you'd even want to know.”

“Because I had to be sure. And because Niklaus tried, but you're far more lucid than he is at the moment.”

[officialpenisenvy]

I cannot believe I spent my time speculating on the sexuality of nick cave and blixa and with all that focus there I never even found out led zeppelin was like. Gay. until you posted about it today. Is that really what all that moaning in the music was about???

well they never explicitly said they were Gay it's not a mick jagger or even a morrissey situation. however and im being so genuine about this when you look at the extant texts it's incredibly hard not to see how heavily queer-coded their stage presence and to a degree their public perception was and also how gay-adjacent they were (this is obviously most notable wrt plant and page who even aside from all the truthing and onstage moaning just had an extraordinarily toxic yaoi personal relationship).

[sheepkebby]

Once again plagued by wanting to write a huge badass groundbreaking "blew my cock and balls right off" comment-generating scene, yet I am forced to write the entire story that leads up to that specific scene first.

[grim-has-issues]

i wish had theories on escaped but that man is so erratic, i never know what hes gonna do.

he took the phrase, “never let them know your next move” a little too seriously.

[spaceandfiction]

Interview with the Vampire x Dislocation

In the Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado | Interview with the Vampire (2022) | Medea by Euripides (trans. Philip Vellacott)

[darchildre]

Ultimately, I don't love Dracula's Daughter as much as I love Son of Dracula, mostly because Marya spends most of her movie trying (and failing and being punished for failing) not to be a monster while Kaye spends hers totally gung ho about becoming a monster and one of those is just a much more appealing story to me than the other. One is a straight up tragedy and one comes within an inch of being a triumph, and the triumph is more fun.

But I do love Marya. I love the questions the movie lets us ask about her (is she actually a vampire or does she only think she is?), I love her trying to escape the shadow of what was clearly an unhealthy relationship with Dracula (and I wish the movie was more interested in spending time on that relationship) and figure out who she's able to be without him. I love the slightly stiff prickly sense of discomfort she has in nearly every scene, like she doesn't know how to hold her body in order to act like a human and isn't even sure that she wants to. I want her to have more space to figure herself out.

Marya Zaleska deserves better than Jeffrey Garth (everyone deserves better than Jeffrey Garth), and she deserves better than this movie, really.

[nashvillethotchicken]

"Lestat would get woken up by the macarena" "No he'd get waken up by dubstep" "No he'd get waken up by Call Me Maybe" You fool's. You absolute fools. Lestat is buried/out in the dump of New Orleans, a city that's 60 percent black. He's getting woken up by Back That Azz Up by Juvenile

[jellogram]

My new spot in Toronto is pretty comfy but I also have to consider that for the last five days I have been sleeping in an unmarked, windowless room above a vape shop in Montreal so my standards aren't exactly sky high right now. Like, I didn't have to go through a smelly murder stairwell to get here and the sink isn't backing up black goop, this might as well be the ritz-carlton to me

[adventuressclubamericas]

Registration for Miss Fisher Con 2024 - July 18 - 20 in New Orleans - is now open for members of the Adventuresses' Club of the Americas!

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[winnie-the-monster]

Remember how in 3x02 when Hope wanted to send Landon to live in the PW with Raf. And he told her no bc that’s not living to him. That wasn’t a life he wanted for himself. Then by 4x20 he’s trapped in the PW that is limbo, eternally living a life he does not want.