hey. to the fat person reading this who wants to transition or is transitioning. make your transition goals fat like you. please. the things you aim to gain from transition can be gained while fat. you can be/express your gender and be fat. there is nothing wrong with that, no matter what anyone says. i promise.

let yourself exist. let yourself be happy. you have just as much of a right as every other person in this world to do that, especially as you transition. it's okay. you're going to be alright, and you're also going to look fucking awesome. you already look fucking awesome. it's your body. own it.

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MY BELOVED BESTIE, SAY!!!!!

Art!

Vampires!!!!

Tabletop Roleplaying Games that aren't d&d!!

Folk Punk!

hey, tag this with a food people get really upset about you not liking

you can recognize yourself through the fictional character. but watch out

the vampire eggstat

some of yall need to understand that "my body, my choice" also applies to:

addicts in active addiction with no intention of quitting

phys disabled people who deny medical treatment

neurodivergent people who deny psychiatric treatment (yes, including schizophrenic people and people with personality disorders)

trans people who want or don't want to medically transition (yes, including trans masc lesbians with top surgery and trans women without bottom surgery, yall are so weird to them wtf)

and if you can't understand that, then you don't get to use the phrase

you left out all of the real ladykillers in this game (they actually are ladies who kill).

my favorite lesbians in Dead By Daylight (ft. the dawn lesbian flag)

My favourite gender is actually women that are vampires

I do think... show!Louis as we've seen him... could say this, could say it with a similarly haunting weight. I wonder if it's something they'll include, a couple seasons down the line. Louis still mocked his brother and watched him die, heard his mother talk about how he'll definitely end up in hell.

I do think, though, that it would be a different feeling to the weight, even if it would have a similar impact. IDK I think it's neat that this show is so compelling that we can have these discussions.

Everyone’s talking about unreliable narration in S2 of Interview With The Vampire, but what I’d like to know most of all is if that scene with Paul and Louis will be revisited.

In the novel, Louis does say something to Paul. Paul tells Louis that he had a vision from the Virgin Mary telling him to convince Louis to sell everything and take the family to go be missionaries in France. And Louis laughs at him, tells him no, mocks him. Louis contemplates the shame of having to tell everything that Paul wasn’t acceptably sensitive, just delusional.

And then Paul kills himself.

It’s such a fundamental grounding for Louis’s character in the novels. His guilt, his horror, his sorrow, his regret. His genuine faults: inaction, supercilious judgement, casual cruelty, ableism.

By contrast, the television version feels uwuified — if you understand what I mean? Louis isn’t at fault anymore: he’s not at fault at all. The complexity of Louis grappling with his failure with Paul has been drawn away in order to present us with Louis who did absolutely nothing wrong.

And I’m not sure why. But it’s similar to the rewrite of Louis meeting Claudia, his predation of her replaced by his rescue of her.

Louis can have faults, Louis can make mistakes: that’s not in befitting a protagonist. The character doesn’t need to be sanitized. Let him make mistakes and struggle with that. His complexity is important to his character, to his dynamic with characters like David, Claudia, even Armand and Gabrielle, and especially Lestat.

But if they’re presenting us with a narrative where Armand has revised Louis’s memories, surely his memory of his last day with Paul would have been a prime target? If it had indeed gone down in a book-accurate way?

I suppose I’m just perplexed. I’m waiting to see what comes next.

I've been wondering about this too. There's a lot to be said about how the loss and subsequent alienation from his family, even though it's not his fault, can be seen as the explanation for why he became a vampire, or that they were just making him... idk more accurately moral, because this Louis is still a victimizer (albeit a pimp rather than a slaveowner) and actually *knows* it, "I profit off the miseries of other men and I do it easy", where the original one just kinda... didn't seem to realize slavery was bad until he became a vampire, and even until the modern day.

But you know all of this. Hell, I've probably said exactly this in a DM.  ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

The fact that the confessional scene could happen at all means, to me at least, that this Louis is simply less cold and less deeply casually cruel, in life and probably in death.

But the scene is *different*, and I can see them going either way.

Everyone’s talking about unreliable narration in S2 of Interview With The Vampire, but what I’d like to know most of all is if that scene with Paul and Louis will be revisited.

In the novel, Louis does say something to Paul. Paul tells Louis that he had a vision from the Virgin Mary telling him to convince Louis to sell everything and take the family to go be missionaries in France. And Louis laughs at him, tells him no, mocks him. Louis contemplates the shame of having to tell everything that Paul wasn’t acceptably sensitive, just delusional.

And then Paul kills himself.

It’s such a fundamental grounding for Louis’s character in the novels. His guilt, his horror, his sorrow, his regret. His genuine faults: inaction, supercilious judgement, casual cruelty, ableism.

By contrast, the television version feels uwuified — if you understand what I mean? Louis isn’t at fault anymore: he’s not at fault at all. The complexity of Louis grappling with his failure with Paul has been drawn away in order to present us with Louis who did absolutely nothing wrong.

And I’m not sure why. But it’s similar to the rewrite of Louis meeting Claudia, his predation of her replaced by his rescue of her.

Louis can have faults, Louis can make mistakes: that’s not in befitting a protagonist. The character doesn’t need to be sanitized. Let him make mistakes and struggle with that. His complexity is important to his character, to his dynamic with characters like David, Claudia, even Armand and Gabrielle, and especially Lestat.

But if they’re presenting us with a narrative where Armand has revised Louis’s memories, surely his memory of his last day with Paul would have been a prime target? If it had indeed gone down in a book-accurate way?

I suppose I’m just perplexed. I’m waiting to see what comes next.

news articles are referring to aaron bushnell as an anarchist in an attempt to disparage and discredit him. don't let them. according to those who knew him, aaron was a committed and principled anarchist who consistently showed up for his community. anarchism is not a bad thing. it is a liberatory ideology centered around the resistance to oppressive hierarchical power structures. aaron's commitment to endeavoring toward a better future is evident in both the way he lived his life and the means by which he chose to end it. may he be remembered as a revolutionary anarchist who is beloved by his comrades across the world.

People complaining about others "glorifying suicide" and "praising Aaron Bushnell for his actions" are so fucking stupid. That's not what's happening. If you've seen it, fine, but the vast majority of people are mourning that it came to this, that he felt this was the only way to get attention on Gaza. He wanted us to put everything into stopping what's happening. There's nothing glorifying about honouring his memory and message by working and fighting for a free Palestine.

Of course, mention that this should not be copied! It's a horrendously painful way to die, suicide is never the right answer to anything. But that doesn't mean we should demonise a man who gave his life for what he believed in.

Rose’s eyes grew wet, and she knew then that she would have to leave Amalie soon. That if she stayed too much longer, she never would.

It took another year.

I'm shamelessly stealing this from twitter, but writers !! Quick, reblog with the last line or two that you wrote, no cheating.

he wasn't a vampire, just a guy. we did abscond with the skooma but i forgot i don't have access to a fence so now it just sits there. in my inventory. tempting me with its fortify speed and strength 60 points.

Investigating this guy for vampirism w/ my bestie and we've found some skulls. I think this is a dead giveaway, but @is-a-vampire would like me to chill, because sometimes guys just have skulls. He also had skooma. What say you, friends?

fuck wall-e

you absolutely can't call yourself progressive if you're fatphobic btw

fatphobia is deeply rooted in racism, ableism, and classism and if you can't even examine your beliefs far enough to get too "fat people are also humans who deserve respect" then you absolutely aren't progressive, you're a bigot trying to act trendy.

NO ONE should be expected to completely change their whole body in order to be treated with basic respect! especially when the expected methods of change (that do not work, esp long term) are starvation and/or surgery with insanely high complication and morality rates... if you have to ask people to starve, mutilate, or even kill themselves to consider respecting them and their rights, then you are an atrociously cruel person.

i still find it so genuinely Weird when i think about the fact that fat people irl are a rather common occurrence. your family, your friends, your coworkers, people on the bus, random passerbys - there are fat people there. usually often. but when you look at Any form of media - movies, tv shows, video games, books are more complicated as not a visual medium but there too, fat people are almost nonexistent. one fat person for the whole movie. one fat person in the background of your fictional city. this is so insanely unrealistic but at the same time nobody comments on this and "we" accept it as normal!! and then people even think their own fatness makes them into some rare failure instead of one of the incredibly common body situations. crazy