1300 new words in the "In Fog" short!
Muahaha!
It is at a little over 2k now.
Not entirely sure where it's going yet but it's looking like it'll be bloody and sad. So, that's fun.
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happy Valentine’s Day to them 💖✨
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there really was only one ending for atsushi
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I'm still on my fucking how did dazai realistically plan this agenda, because there is no way he thinks THAT far ahead, be so fucking for real right now.
"Hey babe, imma be locked away in a prison soon and this insane clown dude is going to make me and the russian rat man play a death game, so i need you to be a real one and come in vampire cosplay, pretend to be rat mans little bitch and then ill drown you but just for a bit but you then fake kill me, thnx boo."
Absolutely not, from this point on i'm team chuuya just decided to show up in vampire cosplay on his own volition and dazai just went "okay cool, that works ig" and played along accordingly.
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Positioning Louis as the "Edwardian wife who becomes trapped by her husband" in a literal sense does no justice to analyzing his actual place and role as a Black man in his society and in his relationship with Lestat. Any interpretation or analysis you do of him when it comes to their relationship cannot be stripped of the racial aspect because it's constantly there. Texts analyzing Edwardian wives (and particularly ones this fandom loves to bring up) typically were white and the dissection of their place in societal rules are always viewed from the aspect of gender that is within these texts only allowed to white women, but never to Black men or even Black women. And gender and race become inseparable when you discuss the latter, no matter how people may view it.
This is why I can't take this approach to analyzing Louis' story seriously because if you don't consider the racial aspect in his relationship even to himself and his sexuality, what's the point? You're still centering the standards that were more placed upon white male/female couples than you're willing to look into the unique structure of Black families, religion, their view of homosexuality and how that sooner heavily influences Louis than the family's "need" for him to be sold off to an Edwardian husband. Even in Louis' own story, him and Claudia being Black is more centered on than any demeaning "housewife" comment he tries to go against from Claudia's perspective. She makes that comment once, whereas we have at least two episodes from Louis' perspective that have very blatant hints and showings of the racism he still suffers from under the Jim Crow era and how it affects his self-worth as well as his relationship with Lestat who doesn't seem to take into consideration how any of the blatant racial aggressions and objections still affect Louis and what he considers to be important to achieve in his own life.
Then there's also the pointed topic of Louis' position as a Black man who is a pimp to the Black women he has as sex workers, as well as how his position as a Black father affects Claudia, another Black girl. If you insist on Louis being centered as this "Edwardian white wife" who is confined by his implicit gender in his marriage, where does that leave Claudia and the blatant misogyny and disrespect she gets from both him and Lestat? Lestat who is her white father abuses her. Positioning Louis within the strict confines of "being her mother" doesn't do her any favors because he didn't hesitate to choke her when he was deeply emotionally distressed, nor does it make him look any better when he's fine with chopping up her diaries and then delivering them on a silver platter so that Daniel, another white man, can read and dissect. Even if he does this under the sole pretense of "doing right by her", how does it in any way help when he also can't face up to his failures towards her?
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decrepit hag let out into the doodle page for a few minutes of recreational Once a Year Smile time
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Who'd win?
White slave owner vs Black pimp ?
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another fake vtmb screencap! this time with my sopping wet mess of a toreador, atlas
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Why tf is chuuya a vampire anyways BRO HOW DID YOU GET TURNED
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WIP
I'm trying to figure out a design thats a mix of both the 2000 movie and the 2017 3D movie. (Reference from mellon_soup on tictoc)
Somewhere in between these two.
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just realized that if i were to become a vampire i would be a gay vampire. thats cool i guess
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a calling
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finding out that some people like the Queen of the Damned movie and think it’s good in any way shape or form is about to make me yeet myself off a cliff. They straight washed the GAYEST VAMPIRE OF ALL TIME??? They didn’t even cast someone to play Louis. And they also got rid of all the cool girl boss genocidal sex Queen things that Akasha does???? He CANNOT be your favorite lestat. I am gate keeping now. Anne rice would be ashamed of you (not that that’s the end all be all cause she thought fan fic was BS so like, sorry queen)
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For some reason this guy decided to show up in my brain after 6 years but like not as the canon one, but as the version I made up in my brain when I was 14
I remember this was an AU I had where all of the Hyakuya orphans managed to escape and join the JIDA. Mika is still a vampire but instead of falling into depression and isolation, he annoys everyone for fun (in my defense, I was 14)
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Bat day! Bat day!!
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I get that the writers ‘needed’ Tara to die to get their surprise Big Bad of season 6 in Dark!Willow, but it destroys one of the better parts of season 6 for me. Which is -
Tara going back and trying with Willow is the culmination of one of the main conflicts I see in season 6; that being fear versus trust, and how various characters fail (or succeed) when confronted with a fork in the road. “Understand we’ll go hand in hand but we’ll walk alone in fear” is there for a reason. I think Willow acts out of fear for a lot of season 6, before starting to work on herself and trusting herself. Xander doesn’t go through with his marriage due to his fear. Giles *leaves the country* because he fears he’s holding Buffy back (and sub-textually, losing her again). But Tara comes back because she has spent that time alone, and chooses to trust in Willow, and to trust that letting go of the past is the right move. She triumphs where the others falter.
And she does so again and again in season 6. She becomes wholly realized as a separate character from Willow, with bonds with other members of the Scooby Gang (mostly Buffy and Dawn, but still) outside of Willow in a way other romantic partners don’t get to have. She has a life outside of Willow and outside of their group, and has more firmly found her place in that group.
And season 6 rips that away from us, for what to me is a lackluster exploration of Willow’s grief and insecurities and fears. The show that has as a running theme the tragedy of girls being used as tools for a greater “good” commits the same sin.
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