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Emmy magazine Carol Cutshall interview

“It was such a drastic change going into season two,” says Cutshall of the drama, returning May 12 to AMC and AMC+. “We went from the height of glamour, which we last saw during a Mardi Gras party, to the polar opposite in the premiere. When you look at Louis and Claudia in their shearling coats in Romania and the amount of mud and blood on them, those looks are built for surviving and searching and starting over.”

But glamour returns to their lives as the pair forge ahead in Paris. In short order, they are welcomed into a theatrical coven of thespians operating out of the Théâtre des Vampires. Seduced by their habit of living loudly and proudly — at least at night — Louis relaxes into his post-Lestat life, taking up photography and exploring his sexuality in subtle ways.

“The look I landed on for him was that of artists and café society, and French workwear with a little bit of a blue-collar look,” Cutshall says. “It’s not the finery that we are used to for Louis, but his fastidiousness in how he wears it — tucked and belted — is still there.”

There is a visual hierarchy among these old-world vampires. Louis wears the costume of the common man, placing him below the coven’s creative director, Armand (Assad Zaman), the so-called love of his life who was unmasked as an ancient vampire in season one. When they meet, Armand is dressed in warm colors and loosely draped outfits with open collars, fearlessly baring the neck — a vulnerable point for humans and vampires alike.

“We want to break away from the disguise he had in season one, because he is the mega predator,” Cutshall says. “He’s not threatened by anyone. So, in everything he does and wears, he can be like an animal who is not afraid to lie on their back and bare their belly.”

Claudia, meanwhile, sees kindred spirits in the coven’s distinctive personalities. She has grown intellectually beyond her eternally teenage shell and now uses vibrant clothes — like the dress she wears for their first theater outing — to grasp at an intangible womanhood. That signature dress and cape were scripted as lavender and white, but Cutshall dyed the fabric an orchid color and added a gray crosshatched cape that glows onscreen; the ensemble stands out against the make-do fashion of a post-war world.

“For Claudia to have this pristine dress made for her, and because she is seeing who she is for the first time, she needs to be the freshest flower there,” Cutshall says.

#Mega predator #new boyfriend megalodon… #also claudia’s onstage character named WHAT???

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nothing beats halal blood [wip]

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bail funds for pro-palestine activists

a15 bail and legal defense fund (supporting community members criminalized in the us for solidarity with palestine)

university of texas at austin students bail fund venmo @ psc_atx (livestream)

columbia students bail fund venmo @ bcabolitioncollective

as of april 15 ct dissenters (new york and connecticut) need bail funs for arrested activists: zelle: [email protected] cashapp: $BristolAntiRacism (use "april gift" in your memo so contributions can be tracked)

the palestine legal defense fund supports acitvists across the united states

palestine legal defence also supplies free legal support for activists

the national bail fund network may update with local bail fund efforts as events continue to unfold

this list is updated as of 24 april 10pm EST. i'll try to update as i find further bail funds and legal supports: if you know of other funds or if information shared here is incorrect, please reblog with updated info (+ a timestamp) so people can give and access support.

palestine will be free, solidarity forever 🍉 🇵🇸

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Sketches by Gustav Gaudernack, 1910

#blue light #flotsam #q

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Can I please have a cappuccino but with oat milk and a big pump of sugarfree chocolate syrup and... Lol I remember your stupid ass from 2,300 years ago. We were living in seleucis on the tigris river during the same span of summers... do you rememver a red ibis bird with beautiful plumes? Yeah U were a sort of dull brown goat that didn't train and dint make milk or kids. Yeah? No? Eventually the Zoroastrian homesteaders who owned you started feeding you contaminated barley to try and kill you lol. Maybe you remember the ergotism? Anyway. also I want one of these 🫵stupid little breads in the case

#syncopation

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Our “by any means necessary” t shirt bringing up a lot of questions already answered by the shirt….

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quiktea chai latte i love u

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James Baldwin and Bob Dylan, December 13, 1963.

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yes girl I think it’s incredibly sexy how indecisive you are about every single decision in your life. I also love how you haven’t let anything go since you were 12. can we make out now

#🫶

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Isolated Marcille hanging off Falin in this panel

#던전밥

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the guerrilla moves among the people as a fish swims through water i sit by the river i condemn the fish. i condemn the water.

Liberal Poem for Palestine, Noah Mazer in Protean Magazine, 1 March 2024

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On that note, I want to spotlight the fundraiser for an Afro-Palestinian journalist, and Lama Jamous' uncle. He has less of a following amongst allies because he posts almost entirely in Arabic, so I'm going to spotlight him on my blog and put him on the fundraiser list as well.

And please follow him on IG as well, even if you only speak English he has small captions on the videos he posts that translate his Arabic.

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Ocean Vuong, king of missing the point and invoking Palestine for self serving reason

#I SAW THIS LIKE WHAT IS WRONG W YOU..

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The fourth way that anticommunist extermination programs shaped the world is that they deformed the world socialist movement. Many of the global left-wing groups that did survive the twentieth century decided that they had to employ violence and jealously guard power or face annihilation. When they saw the mass murders taking place in these countries, it changed them. Maybe US citizens weren't paying close attention to what happened in Guatemala, or Indonesia. But other leftists around the world definitely were watching. When the world's largest Communist Party without an army or dictatorial control of a country was massacred, one by one, with no consequences for the murderers, many people around the world drew lessons from this, with serious consequences.

This was another very difficult question I had to ask my interview subjects, especially the leftists from Southeast Asia and Latin America. When we would get to discussing the old debates between peaceful and armed revolution; between hardline Marxism and democratic socialism, I would ask:

"Who was right?"

In Guatemala, was it Árbenz or Che who had the right approach? Or in Indonesia, when Mao warned Aidit that the PKI should arm themselves, and they did not? In Chile, was it the young revolutionaries in the MIR who were right in those college debates, or the more disciplined, moderate Chilean Communist Party?

Most of the people I spoke with who were politically involved back then believed fervently in a nonviolent approach, in gradual, peaceful, democratic change. They often had no love for the systems set up by people like Mao. But they knew that their side had lost the debate, because so many of their friends were dead. They often admitted, without hesitation or pleasure, that the hardliners had been right. Aidit's unarmed party didn't survive. Allende's democratic socialism was not allowed, regardless of the détente between the Soviets and Washington.

Vincent Bevins, The Jakarta Method: Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World

#투쟁

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“Palestinian women dancing at a wedding in Yatta.”

Photographed by Eddie Gerald, 2006.

#people #raw like sushi #q

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21st GAY PRIDE DAY PARADE, Washington DC (June 1996) by Elvert Barnes

#lovers #q