i wonder if we're going to get a blood bond video with sam and darlin' now that we've gotten the official biting stuff. i know blood bonds are rare and randomly form, but i can see their mating bond making it more likely to happen.
i imagine darlin has many a complicating feelings toward being bonded like that again since quinn, but then it's also sam. meanwhile, sam wouldn't mind knowing where they were, especially if an inversion like event were to happen again.
on my knees fucking begging spiderpunk fans (and most punks just in general tbh) to start listening to more uk punk + international punk (specifically poc punk music as well) because there's SO much of it and its SO fucking good like at least the fuckin clash man come on. crass, x-ray spex, bob vylan, death, the list continues. there's some pretty amazing south african and mexican punk bands i've found lately as well like national wake from johannesburg, los violadores and dangerous rhythm (both from mexico city) like. theres so much out there guys. we should all fuck with more niche punk bands (los violadores arent really niche I don't think but the point stands)
anyway. here are some personal favourites you should check out
There's so much anger in Sam in the imperium. And it got me thinking back to early Vincent videos, and maybe that first meeting with Darlin (and some videos that I've not actually seen and only heard about), and how we've seen signs of that anger and resentment before, with how isolated and alone Sam was after his turning.
Obviously, this is exacerbated ten fold in the imperium... but it helps understand why the character shift is so stark. Imperium Sam is petty as hell with probably nigh on two decades of anger, and no maker to take it out on (if we assume alexis turned him in the imp!verse too). Hell, even prime verse Sam stuck around as a 'fuck you' to alexis.
.........look, I'm still thinking about the end of cataclysm. Perpetuating cycles of pain. Would the d(a)emons step in, to help the members of their society survive in such a shitty world? Make little enclaves for empathy daemons?
I can’t find my imperium sam thoughts, and maybe that’s for the best, but I have thoughts about sam and anger.
as, looking at the imperium, the personality shift is so stark. and yes, it’s helplessness and no room for mercy after over a decade of being forced to sire countless vampires, and what that does on a magical level, but there’s also that deep-seated, petty, vicious anger that comes out, especially in cataclysm, where it turns wholly cruel.
…but we also get hints of that anger in canon, in sam’s early audios, although his time with darlin, and helping someone else work through that, has helped, a lot.
……I wonder what sam would have done, being stuck in that room with quinn, if it had been a year earlier? if all of this had gone down before inversion?