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Hi, I love your vampire reviews! Since you’re an expert in Anne Rice, have you heard anything about the supposed memorial celebration that was supposed to happen in New Orleans? I’ve been checking the Facebook page occasionally & signed up for the e-mail updates. But it feels like it was announced like 2 years ago & there’s been no further info? I completely understand Christopher isn’t obligated to throw a party for the fans. I know her family’s been organizing her substantial collection and grieving privately. But I do wish I had an idea of what they’re planning.
Really, I love NOLA street parties, & would be thrilled just to meet up with fellow fans!
Nope, there is no new news regarding that, unfortunately. I really hope it still ends up happening! During the weekend of the 2022 vampire ball, a second line memorial parade was held, and I walked in it with all my friends who'd come for the ball along with hundreds of other fans. They asked us to dress in Victorian mourning style and there was a band, and we marched through the Garden District waving lace handkerchiefs. We stopped to have a moment of silence by her 1st street house, and the parade ended at the bookshop where she liked to do all her signings. Christopher wasn't there for that, and it was all organized by the fan club (same people who host the ball).
If you like NOLA parties though, and want to meet up with fellow fans, I highly recommend trying to get tickets for this year's Anne Rice Vampire Lestat Fan Club Vampire Ball (not to be confused with other vampire balls happening that same weekend). It happens Halloween weekend. It looks like tickets are going to be much more limited this year than they were in the past few years, so keep your eye on the ARVLFC social media so you can snag tickets before they're all sold out! I've been going every year since they came back after Covid, and it's always amazing!
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man with big brown eyes save me :P
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What exactly is going on with Taylor swift? Did she do something wacky or just release a shit album that's so bad it's funny?
okay i have done time as a swiftie and i now watch over those weirdos like im david attenborough so you’ve come to the right place.
ur correct about it being an album so bad its funny. but theres more. im very sorry but this will be long.
so basically since like 2016 she was in an apparently steady and normal long term relationship with a blond man called joe alwyn whose only character trait is knowing how to shut the fuck up (and i love him for that)
then in april 2023 it was announced that they broke up while she was on tour but bc the relationship had been uneventful and boring this whole time, the general vibe from everyone was “huh thats kinda sad, oh well”
i might be mixing up the timeline a little here but a couple weeks later there were some articles about how she’s now dating matty healy from the 1975. people were mostly just like “pfft its just tabloid shit it cant be true” and then at the next 1975 gig, marty pointed into the camera and said “this is for you, you know who you are, i love you” before playing a love song. THEN at the next taylor gig she did the exact same damn thing and the swifties hit the fan.
to make a very long fuckin story short, they dug up a bunch of dirt about how this dude is a nasty little racist misogynist rat and he needs to get away from their poor little innocent billionaire princess. some people get kinda heated about whether these accusations are true and tbh id rather eat glass than get into that shit myself
SO, swifties outnumber us all and raised absolute hell online while taylor brought this guy to all her concerts and let him perform with the opening acts. her publicist released some statements saying taylor knows what her fans are saying and she doesnt give a fuck. but also said they’re not super serious and are just having fun together.
during all this, theres a small group of swifties that have decided to break away and become very pro-marty and essentially pit him against aforementioned blond man joe alwyn. their general narrative is that because joe loves being quiet and doesnt really do Celebrity Things, that must mean he was ashamed of his relationship with taylor. this is where we get the beloved He Lets Her Bejeweled meme
this fannade narrative becomes more relevant in a bit
at some point during this relationship she releases the joe alwyn breakup song You’re Losing Me, which just describes some very standard long term relationship breakdown stuff. they have different life goals and they’re drifting apart and the communication is breaking down. she kinda wants him to do something to save it at the eleventh hour but that wouldnt be realistic. very sad oh well.
theres a small amount of kicking off from the fandom about he’s awful for this but only bc they’re addicted to the idea that their favourite billionaire is the worlds most tragic victim and honestly whats new
and here starts the very fucking weird trend of her publicist releasing statements that are very clearly deliberately backing up the weirdo fan theories. a lot of “taylor and matty are showing up for each other UNLIKE HER LAST RELATIONSHIP and he is proud of her UNLIKE JOE ALWYN” like..alright.
anyway ratty and taylor break up after about a month of publicly dating and she sings some sad songs and cries at her concerts but everyone mostly forgets about the whole thing.
about a month later travis kelce asks her out and they end up dating and the white women of america collectively cream. personally i dont get it because i dont know what sports are and the only travis im familiar with is the tractor from bob the builder but i digress. the 35 year old deadbedroom swifties are going CRAZY. they’re saying these two are gonna get married and have ten kids and global superstar taylor swift can finally achieve the only real success for a woman: marriage and motherhood. because football man is the only Real Man she has been with due to the fact that he is tall and wide and bearded.
its severely tragic and vicarious
once again the focus does not remain on the couple. they’re turning on poor puppydog joe alwyn again. this time he’s evil not only for being “ashamed” of her but also for wasting her time by not marrying and impregnating her, because as we have established, thats the only point to life as a woman. how dare he waste all that time locking her away in the six mansions that she owns.
and her publicist does the same shit as before with the “he supports her and shows up for her UNLIKE JOE” bullshit. all of these people are over 30 and have never experienced a real problem.
this creates a cycle that is honestly kind of concerning, where the fans invent a strange theory, the publicist backs it up, the swifties add to the theory, the publicist back up the new additions, and so on. taylor continues dating travis and they go to each others concerts/games and act like a relatively normal honeymoon phase couple. the narrative has massively broken away from the reality.
so this continues, people hyping up travis and hating joe. at this point i want to note that taylor and her team have spent a lot of years crying about how the nasty misogynistic media only ever cares about her relationship drama and ignores her art because they hate powerful women or something. the irony is that just about every bit of publicity she’s done over the last year+ has been directly linked to whatever breakup or boyfriend she’s going through currently. they’re definitely not hiding that this is the PR direction they’re going with.
so, with the weird fan rumours continuing to reinforce themselves, the swifties become very confident that their imaginations are telling the truth. they stalk joe alwyns social media presence, of which there is very little. but if you go out looking for mess you never come back empty handed. they find that he has been around women. because he is an actor. and some other actors are women. anyway they fully believe this is proof that he cheated, and they launch harassment campaigns against these relatively small actors, who end up having to private their accounts. then the swifties find another woman to harass for being “the other woman”. it goes on.
then the abuse and domestic violence accusations against joe alwyn are created. not from taylor or anyone close to the situation. only from the fans. her PR team have at least stopped reinforcing the fan theories at this point, but the ball is already rolling.
when she announces her new album, the swifties ERUPT with joy that finally she is going to end joe alwyn, the man who im pretty sure has just been chilling in his house this whole time. the harassment of anyone and everyone deemed in any way guilty continues tenfold. they are openly tweeting about finding him in london and physically attacking and/or killing him (he’s not a huge celebrity and is often just hanging around alone with no security team or anything. im sure these threats arent serious but they feel kinda more dangerous when the target essentially just hangs around as a private citizen)
the album promo is pretty much just.. “hey i dated this dude and he made me sooooo sad isnt that interesting, swifties?” over and over again. each new post brings a bigger wave of joe harassment. they’re champing at the bit for taylor to tell them all the many ways he hurt her so dreadfully.
then the album leaks and its all about matty healy, which is very funny on the dismayed swiftie-violence front but also just..terrible in that she used the harassment of joe as an album promo tactic when the album barely mentions him. the only thing she really says about him is that he suffers from depression and it made their relationship difficult.
..and yeah, the album is about how she’s been obsessed with marty for over ten years and she fantasised about him while in her long term relationship, and theres maybe some overlap of the two relationships. the irony. all the “this man hurt me so much!!!”-type lyrics that were released to promote the album were actually about matty, not joe. a lot of the swifties are continuing to double down on hating joe bc they cant accept that the matty relationship even happened. theres a song about how much she hates her fans for hating her relationship with rarty. its called but daddy i love him. its a whole embarrassing mess for everyone involved, including me for typing all this out.
and after all that most of the songs fuckin suck
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"Hellfire" storyboards for The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996)
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She asks that I tell you to remember her. You won't.
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"it's just a question and all you have to do is answer" loses its exonerating force when you understand that one of the many tools used by institutions of power is epistemic extortion. it's just a question, but who is time and time again asked the same question and who is spared the trouble? who has explanations and disavowals demanded of them on the daily and whose innocence is assumed from the start? all we have to do is answer and you'll let it go? no, we've learnt better: it isn't about our answers but your license to ask the questions ceaselessly, directing scrutiny our way in a collective project to seek out our sins. it doesn't actually matter what we say—you'll be back here tomorrow demanding more words, more reasoning and defense. and because what you demand is perfection, which does not exist anywhere on this world, you will find a trivial fault if you press for long enough. so why answer at all? such a silly, silly, unrelentingly violent game.
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i will not lie, it was and continues to be tough (as a survivor of a good portion of my life where most of my problems could be directly attributed to the malice and negligence of two to three people) to recognize and accept situations where i am both Suffering and In The Wrong. u know? when 95% of ur suffering has someone to blame, and when that blame is constantly deflected or used as weaponry, u build defenses! robust defenses! it makes u much less able to see when someone is encroaching upon you or confronting you over something difficult and painful in a completely reasonable, justified, compassionate, etc. way
it's hard to come 2 terms with maybe occasionally having an unwarranted victim complex (mostly nonpathological, simply a mundane character flaw tht can be rectified) when you Have been made the victim and, upon expressing that, have been accused of Having A Victim Complex.
U still gotta work on that shit tho sometimes
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You know that Chris Fleming line that goes "Call yourself a community organizer even though you're not on speaking terms with your roommates"?
I honestly think every leftist who talks about the "revolution" like Christians talk about the rapture needs to spend a year trying to organize their workplace. Anyone who sincerely talks about building a movement so vast and all-encompassing that it overwhelms all existing power structures needs the dose of humility that comes with realizing they can't even build a movement to get people paid better at a badly run AMC Theaters where everyone already hates the manager.
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I have never seen an animal sleep in such a cursed way what
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Mitski for Pitchfork // Richard Siken for TinHouse
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I can't get over the fact that Dick fucking Cheney said, basically, that Trump is too evil of a dude for him to get behind.
That's like... fuck, idk... that's like Dick Cheney saying a politician is too fucking evil for him to work with. The dude who famously shot a dude in the face and the dude apologized to him. That fucking guy.
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