IWTV S2 COSTUME DETAILS, Carol Cutshall for Emmy Magazine (2024 Issue #5)

my (very queer) friend is pregnant for the first time and she’s been on all the baby message boards (eg tiktok, facebook) and she found this tag that was like “ftm pregnancy” and she was like “oh cool! there’s whole tag for pregnant transmen!” and then was extremely confused as to why the tag was full of what appeared to be cisgender women. she was like “i mean i don’t wanna judge, maybe they are transmen but they don’t look how i expected them to, that’s okay, if they say they’re trans then they are” except she kept looking through the tag and literally NONE of them were transmen, ALL of them appeared to be ciswomen. she was VERY confused, seriously questioning what she knew about trans people (and not to be like “she has trans friends!” but literally her partner is trans, her sibling in law is trans, many of her friends are trans/nb, hell i think she’s a bit nonbinary herself, idk, we haven’t actually talked about that recently lol) and doubting reality in general.

and then she found out that, amongst a huge section of the internet to which she had never been exposed before, “ftm” stands for First Time Mom.

there’s no moral to this story i just thought it was funny

So we all know that Tumblr is US-centric. But to what degree? (and can we skew the results of this poll by posting it at a time where they should be asleep?)

Reblog to increase sample size!

trying to watch baby reindeer but dear god. how many bad decisions can one man make. and im on episode 2.

yesterday, Oct 4, was seminal pop author and horror icon Anne Rice’s 78th birthday, and if you care about that here are some words about it:

I think the best thing about Lestat’s character over nearly fifty years of canon is that he is a completely evil, unforgivable bastard whose consistent singular redeeming trait which allows him to perform heroic acts is that he unconditionally loves everybody he has ever met. I think this is maybe the funniest and best character concept I can imagine- a totally evil person who loves everyone he has ever met- ESPECIALLY because he is also Rice’s self-insert character. what a conception of yourself to have! if Lestat is handed something good, he doesn’t know how NOT to fuck it up. he is a sadist and a murderer and more than that, he is just an ass; but he takes everybody in good faith, including people who are obviously trying to fuck him over. Rice said that when she wrote Memnoch the Devil, she kept trying to make it work with a mortal protagonist but couldn’t write a human person evil enough for the Devil to appear to him and ask for help- so she realized it HAD to be Lestat. he is that bad. but also, Lestat fucked that one up by taking THE DEVIL in good faith. what a combination of things to exist in one character! the thing about Rice is that when you wind up reading a lot about her, you can’t help but develop a sympathy even though she is somewhat unlikable in basically every traditional way because she and her protagonist share the same fundamental character trait: they keep fucking up, being stupid and venally bad, and keep getting up again. to be so hurt and angry all the time and incapable of not taking it out on people, and to also believe fundamentally that people are basically good, even the ones who hurt you. to leave the Catholic Church, and then re-join the Catholic Church, and then to leave it again! to be an ex-Catholic TWICE! to pledge that you will never write about vampires again because you are trying to be Good For God, and then publicly go back on it because you think there’s worth in writing about vampires! Lestat knows he is unforgivably bad, but he still wants to be good. he is the villain and the hero of his own story, like Anne Rice, like everyone. the crux of Lestat is that he’s a character about, what do you do when you know you are too terrible to be alive, when you are irredeemable and just have to keep living? what DO you do, when your very existence hurts other people, but you can’t give it up? you hurt, mostly. other people and also yourself. it took eleven books and forty years for Anne Rice to write some novels where Lestat does some heroic things and DOES NOT fuck it up, and it turns out its because his superpower is that he is empathetic towards every asshole because he, himself, has been every kind of asshole. Lestat sees someone who is an annoying evil pain in the ass and goes: Damn, that guy is probably hurting. this is also how Anne Rice feels about Lestat. if you are bad down to your bones and you know it, the only thing you CAN do is love the people around you and try to make them a little less lonely. Oh, Anne, O Lestat, Patron Saint of the Inimitable Fuckup- you just keep getting it all wrong and getting back up again. your stories say: There IS life after death, life after making the biggest mistake, life after being the Worst. but what DO you do? well, you try again. you fuck it up. you get up, again. and you do it again. and you fuck up again. get up again. you keep singing songs, even if they’re sad ones. otherwise, what’s the point? the sun will never rise, but you gotta keep singing to it. 

i feel like spotify is always trying to get me to a bleachers concert. are they just perpetually touring?? does spotify put these recs out months in advance so i'm seeing the notification for the same one? its just so many

I regularly have dreams I refer to as "Big Luca Dreams", wherein my dog Luca is very big. They are my favorite dreams.

This is how big Luca is in the Big Luca Dreams

So, Daniel’s laptop background. The picture has been identified via this Reddit thread as being the St. Paul, MN old loading docs below Kellogg Street:

A lot of us have been commenting that this looked Romanesque. It did to me too. And my brain couldn’t let it go. I’ve been thinking obsessively about the Devil’s Minion story, (as one does? lol), and I remembered that the first blood exchange between Daniel and Armand was in the dining room of the Villa of the Mysteries in Pompeii, and when Daniel first sees Armand, he’s standing at the entrance of the house.

“As soon as he’d reached the ancient house, a stillness had descended. No guards here. No one living. Only the sudden silent appearance of Armand before the entrance. Armand again.” (QotD)

The modern entrance, according to research, is the South Colonnades, pictured here.

(pic source and floor plan)

“Armand’s lips had moved in a soft, slightly concealed smile. And then his eyes had misted and closed. He had bent close to Daniel, pressed his lips to Daniel’s neck.

And once again, as he had in a little room on Divisadero Street in San Francisco with the vampire Louis, Daniel felt the sharp teeth pierce the surface of his skin. Sudden pain and throbbing warmth. ‘Are you killing me finally?’ He grew drowsy, on fire, filled with love. ‘Do it, yes.’

But Armand had taken only a few droplets. He’d released Daniel and pressed gently on his shoulders, forcing Daniel down to his knees. Daniel had looked up to see the blood flowing from Armand’s wrist. Great electric shocks had passed through Daniel at the taste of that blood. It had seemed in a flash that the city of Pompeii was full of a whispering, a crying, some vague and pulsing imprint of long-ago suffering and death. Thousands perishing in smoke and ash. Thousands dying together. Together. Daniel had clung to Armand. But the blood was gone. Only a taste—no more.

‘You are mine, beautiful boy,’ Armand had said.

The following morning when he awoke in bed at the Excelsior in Rome, Daniel knew that he would not run away from Armand ever again.’” (QotD)

I mean. He’s doing a puzzle in the beginning episode of a Brueghel painting that’s on the walls of Armand’s Satanic coven in Paris. He’s having dreams, through Armand’s perspective, of his first meeting with them in the club. His laptop has a screenshot of an abandoned loading dock in St. Paul that resembles(?) the architecture of the South Colonnades at the Villa of the Mysteries where Daniel’s life officially changes forever. He’s dying, and in TDM, this is when Armand calls Daniel back to him for the final time. IMO, this is all Devil’s Minion related.

I’m NOT saying I’m right. Or that this isn’t up for debate. Or that they’re even connected.

I’m just saying it’s worth consideration.

Sam Reid really saw the lack of bisexual men on tv & said

The thing about Timmy Chalamet is that he’s truly a great actor and he even has good taste in projects and he’s not even overexposed when you calibrate for how overexposed all that group of 25-30 year old big stars are……however something is still off. any time he gets cast in something it feels like that movie instantly turns into a parody of a movie. I cannot explain this

I love a good identity porn trope, but particularly the type where the person is replaced with a different version of themselves, like a multiverse jump, time loop or time travelling. But they have to act like they belong in that universe and nothing is wrong.

But it made me question if I would be able to tell if someone was replaced with a different version and trying really hard to keep that a secret.

Just checking.... We all pronounce Miette like My-TAY in our heads, right?

FALLOUT (2024) - Episode 7: The Radio

Bonus:

good sensations can sometimes be extreme, and i know i personally enjoy a good few of those, so i wanted to know which of these types of pain are the most commonly enjoyed :)

basically my question is. am i such a touch deprived weirdo that i'll enjoy fucked up sensations no one else likes or am i normal

No see results option, I'm forcing you to perceive yourself. rb for more results plus