People Who Don't Experience Hyperfixation Don't Know What It Feels Like To Hyperfixate So Much On Something

a writing competition i was going to participate in again this year has announced that they now allow AI generated content to be submitted

their reasoning being that "we couldn't ban it even if we wanted to, every writer already uses it anyway"

"Every writer"?

come on

don't you guys love it when women

was trying to go to sleep last night when it hit me how the adoration with the shepherds scene is a refutation of AR's whitewashing her characters in real time by having vampirism take their melanin. like she very clearly associates power/beauty/mystery with whiteness, framing it as part of her allegiance to aesthetics over morality or social convention. but of course aesthetic is all about social convention, who is considered beautiful and who is not by cultural standards. in the adoration scene Amadeo's whitewashing is very explicitly linked to an intimate form of violence, a line of betrayal that leads to Armand turning his own internalized racism on Louis and Claudia.

ntm that the very fact that Amadeo's whitewashing is never mentioned aloud is what makes it so striking--Louis doesn't ask about why Armand looks so different from the painting, the differences are supposedly confined to Amadeo being "meatier in the forearms." they don't need to discuss it because they both already recognize the aesthetic strain of white supremacy that has been dominating their lives, their stories, for so long. and to top it all off you've got Lestat (the memory of Lestat, more omnipotent and inescapable than the real Lestat ever was) as the specter of whiteness, too, the mocking perfect ideal Amadeo and Louis have both been expected to modulate

it's white supremacy as a matter of course, like it was with Anne Rice's world building, except at the same time it's being held up to the light with the same kind of ruthless clarity that the show holds on Marius and Armand's relationship. which is of course also built on white supremacy (or ethnocentric supremacy in bookmand's case) and Marius's desire to create some kind of perfect vampire from the ground up, violently slicing Armand/Amadeo's perceived weaknesses by force if necessary and abandoning him for failing to live up to expectations. white supremacy and sexual violence are twisted-up threads that have always run through Anne Rice's work, rarely if ever questioned by the narrative or the characters, but the adoration painting combines and exemplifies them in a way that's impossible to ignore.

Anyone else freaking out over the Hannibal reunion happening in Chicago this April ಠ_ಠ

Armand dragging Daniel out of bed but having coffee ready for him is so sweet

the reason i need the weirdo armand who blends drinks based on nothing but colour and feeds garbage disposals and makes weird home movies in the show is because as much as i talk about armand and the cycles of amadeo and marius they're like...the ultimate proof that he is not what anyone has tried to make him. he's not an eternal sex slave or child bride or cult leader or abusive figure. he tries to be all these things because they're how he experienced the world in his most formative years but at the end of the day he has a big heart and he wants to be loved and he wants to experience the world as it is and he wants to watch the same movie over and over again and he wants to protect those he cares about and he wants to ride jet skis and he wants to make a human boy coffee in the mornings and he wants to build a terrible consumerist island and and he wants to be a good father and

Hannibal (2013-2015)

One of the crew members said it took six people holding the door up on the other side to keep Mads from breaking it down

All this "wait till I get my hands on you" and I'm like 'haha. Yeah, very on point very nasty can't wait to see what they will do' and then I remember reading somewhere Eric basically admitted to have a very experimental youth.

I kinda understand Assad being giddy.

They will be making history (adapting a very awaited duo) and having fun while they are at it!!

it's 1am, time to post klaasje snort a line

okay but WHYYY is no one talking about louis and daniel WHYYYYYYYYYY is no one talking about the greatest grandpa4grandpa relationship known to man and i don’t even mean romantically i mean in the most basic human platonic level their relationship is FASCINATING.

like louis SAUGHT HIM OUT after FIFTY YEARS he FOUND HIS BOY, this horrible infant who DID NOT UNDERSTAND A THING HE TOLD HIM, who saw his raw, decades-old pain and wanted in on it, AND HE GOES BACK FOR HIM BECAUSE HE KNOWS HE’S CHANGED. he can understand now. he can help him find the truth.

and like, they’re both absolutely terrified by each other because they’re both uniquely skilled at getting under each other’s skin and finding that truth (and also because… louis could just up and eat daniel anytime but shhhh…) and it’s because they UNDERSTAND EACH OTHER. louis’s interviewing daniel as much as daniel’s interviewing him, just. pulling teeth from each other’s head, trying to pull out all the rot with such violence and cruelty (from both of them!! daniel is a cockwallop!!) but they want to help each other they CARE ABOUT EACH OTHER.

LIKE THIS????

THIS FUCKING SHIT?????

GAGGED ME. RUINED ME. I HAD TO STOP AND TAKE A WALK AROUND THE ROOM.

(the gifs are from @loumands account btw. great work my guy)