Awhile ago I made this Trantjean sparring (read: trant taking the opportunity to bully jean) piece for a disco elysium pin-up thing! Excited to see and share everything compiled!

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▸ took from pilliapp / free to use [I have no credit on these, just copied & pasted for you to use easier.] / enjoy. *kiss*

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“Regular dialogue”

::Fantasy dialogue.::

《Some more dialogue.》

«I don’t trust that wizard.»

‹Hello, central? Apparently a hello-girl is a telephone operator. That makes more sense.›

⠴How sweet. How sad.⠦

[Cool art though.]

{Squigly wiggly brackets.}

_Old fashioned computer dialogue..._

—apparently a lot of countries used to just do this. and there's just no closing quote.

/Fanfiction.net dialogue/

why don't we spell it dialog yet.

Please suggest any I missed. I want to make a list

My ass could never be a writer because I refuse to bend my notion of quotation marks meaning literal strings. It's ENCAPSULATED it shouldn't affect or be affected by the outside sentence

Some examples:

"Proper": Did she say "What?" : Unclear if the question mark belongs to the quote, the encapsulating sentence, or both.

My way: Did she say "What?"? : You know EXACTLY where we stand. That's both of them baby!

xkit/xkit rewritten has a pretty good anticapitalism extension that blocks blaze!

Yeah i have it on desktop but not on my smart telephone.

Learn to use quotation marks!

Semicolon is the only right answer

why are there quotation marks in “do not eat”, is it a metaphor or something

Quotation Marks in Different Countries

Europe

Asia

North America

They aren’t remaking interview with the vampire…they are doing another adaptation of the book. It’s a series of 13 books. AMC wants to adapt all of the books. If you actually read the books, especially the first, you’d know that Brad Pitt is nothing like how Louis was described.

Sure, I am aware its based on the Vampire Chronicles series with more depth in the Lestats character background, what made him who he is, his background and credentials through the ages.

IwtV is among others books I like to revisit every other year or something, it's not that big of a read though it is narrative and description dense. A lot of booktubers use it as an entry review subject for a breakdown of Louise character and go over the "flawed" or "unreliable" narrator aspect, to give inference that Lestat is a character with morals and his own dilemmas to explain his behavior - and paint him in a sympathetic light. Which is a great critical analysis and a good initiator for new writers to review if they want to explore the aspect in writing.

But that is a simplification of the overall themes behind the VC series, and Anne Rice's work for those who are unfamiliar.

I typically refer to the series as film adaption verses series, not typically movie (singular), because it will be available as a live-action series. However, they are using the general formula of the original IwtV film adaptation with the reporter, the same titular characters, include more scenes exclusive to the book(s), and expand on the characters we didn't get to know through the two movies.

A lot of people are looking forward to the series, but the whole thing could easily be a different story fixed in the VC universe, with new characters based on or around the same events taking place around Louise, Lestat, or Armand. Just leave Louise, Lestat, and Claudie out of the way, and have actors undertake new characters and roles that don't have a face attached to them.

IwtV was a format that told the story and major events from Louise pov. Louise doesn't talk about anything outside of his field of context, nor how Lestat found him at the theater or other events; Lestat just sort of 'found him' and the theater vampires. Which is a wonderful way to avoid the explanation or details, and keep the pace of the story going.

And not excited about Claudia's character, since her whole point in the book was far darker and she was more disturbed as this child/adult in this purgatory existence, and Louise was as well unnerved by her. If you really analyze Claudia's character, we can gather that she was essentially 'born' a vampire, and didn't recall the events where she turned. She spent >5 years a human and a child at that, but the rest of her life was someone that 'evolved' detached and distanced from humans, and probably lacking the deeper development of morality or sympathy through lack of that connection. She pretty much became who she was through isolation and environmental context - aside from slaying and feeding, Claudia had no other interaction with humans. Except for the Madeleine women, who wanted an undying daughter (and was probably very unstable). The book version of Claudia was horrendous but at the same time a tragedy, and ultimately could lead to why Armand let what happened to her transpire - especially with her new vampire 'mother'.

Of course Louise spent centuries as a vampire and only a few decades as a human, but he did grow and experience life. Claudian didn't have any of that, and she didn't experience intimate love or anything a teen or adult would have felt, before she was turned. I'm sure the new Claudia will have a sordid story and a backstory to give the character depth, but it's going to erode the impact of "undying but condemned child", though this story will be written from a teens perspective. But maybe the baby from the trailer will give context to the situation, and tug at our heartstrings.

Even the movie adaptation had to 'age up' Claudia to get the characters portrayal, conform to child labor laws, and other scenes exclusive to the book but sort of 'manifested' into the scenes through the characters interactions on screen. But this new version of Claudia I don't think will carry the same gravity, even if she's... *sigh* trapped in perpetual puberty - as sited by Jones. It is a different take on the character, but doesn't hold a candle to the despair of a vampire child who is trapped not having the experiences of a child or teen.

Like I said, I wanted new actors to make new characters, and bring fresh viewer interest to the Vampire Chronicles as its own material, but there will likely be that sort of diversion and distraction with the Interview with the Vamp source materials. We might get deviation from the source story telling, to follow narratives and other characters - but Louise is used as the "Storyteller" to rekindled interest, and bring in new viewer/reader engagement.

Help I was animating something and I was DONE- I was DONE and the STUPID FILE CORRUPTED JUST AS I WAS EXPORTING IT

shoutouts to tumblr being kinda normal about homestuck for a while until that poll thing happened

A Little Thing "I" Have Noticed About "Numbers"

every even number has a j in it

bonus. tell me why

“technically”