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Armand spent the whole season being visibly anxious, and almost blew his cover at least once before he blew it at the end of ep 7 when Daniel was breaking down Louis’ Emotional Support Narrative. The whole reason Louis said that line about Rashid sharing unsolicited opinions—and the subsequent “honey and pineapple” bit—was to cut Armand off from saying something that would make Daniel more suspicious.

Not to mention Armand wasn’t very good at hiding the fact that he was not a normal human being. The man has way too much crazy to hide behind a metaphorical mask or a fake identity. Show!Armand seems rather bad at keeping secrets and holding back his emotions.

Meanwhile, show!Louis is extremely intelligent, observant, and perceptive. There’s very little information that gets past Louis, he notices and remembers very much of what’s going on around him. Whether he admits it to himself or not is a different matter. Considering Louis’ intelligence, the fact that he was most likely present or nearby if/when Claudia died, and has access to and is very familiar with the contents of her diaries, I think he could probably have figured out the truth for himself.

So considering their personalities, combined with the amount of time they’ve been together, the depth of insight they seem to have into each other, the comfort Louis seems to have with being with Armand, and the fact that Armand WANTS the interview to continue when it would make more sense for him to want to end it, I’m starting to question the idea that Armand is an expert manipulator who’s controlling the whole interview to hide his role in Claudia’s death. I’m not denying it, but I am questioning it. Because all the very strange, dynamic things we’ve seen of Armand so far make less sense and are less interesting if Armand is in complete control over the whole interview and every aspect of Louis’ life. He obviously has too much control, but I think it’s far from absolute—and Louis had a greater hand in orchestrating this arrangement than a lot of people seem to think.

Obviously s2 could completely shatter my theory, but as of right now, I think it’s unlikely that Armand has been straight-up lying to or misleading Louis about his role in Claudia’s death. I think either Louis knows and they just never talked about it because Louis seems to be dealing with difficult things by repressing them, or Louis knows and they’ve talked through it, or maybe Armand didn’t have as direct a role in Claudia’s death in the books.

God the bad takes on here about Lestat make it so clear who has and hasn’t read TVL. Y’all really just think he’s an evil cartoon character? Like he just woke up yesterday fully formed and nothing in his past has informed who he is, or his behavior in the show?

its not the tv audience's job to read a book whose material hasn't been adapted yet on the show. people are allowed to respond to the adaptation as a standalone story and develop their opinions as it unfolds.

I’ve been on my knees for this man since last friday🧎🏼‍♀️

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I had to draw Armand from the new Interview with the Vampire trailer before I did anything else. (Another adventure in me being not-quite-sure how to achieve a likeness but being too excited to stop.)

I saw a lot of people reblog that post bemoaning the death of National Geographic with the picture of Sharbat Gula that graced their cover prominently, and I think its worth considering the role that organisations like NatGeo and its photographers play.

That photo was taken coercively of a 12 year child, the photographer didn't care to find out her name and lied about her story to make her seem more sympathetic and it threatened her life considerably. There's also the dimensions of the exotic oriental being invoked when choosing a green eyed brown girl to represent Afghanistan.

Much of this tendency to imagine U.S. soldiers as Spartan warriors comes from Steven Pressfield’s historical fiction novel Gates of Fire, still regularly assigned in military reading lists. The book presents the Spartans as superior warriors from an ultra-militarized society bravely defending freedom (against an ethnically foreign “other,” a feature drawn out more explicitly in the comic and later film 300). Sparta in this vision is a radically egalitarian society predicated on the cultivation of manly martial virtues. Yet this image of Sparta is almost entirely wrong. Spartan society was singularly unworthy of emulation or praise, especially in a democratic society.

To start with, the Spartan reputation for military excellence turns out to be, on closer inspection, mostly a mirage. Despite Sparta’s reputation for superior fighting, Spartan armies were as likely to lose battles as to win them, especially against peer opponents such as other Greek city-states. Sparta defeated Athens in the Peloponnesian War—but only by accepting Persian money to do it, reopening the door to Persian influence in the Aegean, which Greek victories at Plataea and Salamis nearly a century early had closed. Famous Spartan victories at Plataea and Mantinea were matched by consequential defeats at Pylos, Arginusae, and ultimately Leuctra. That last defeat at Leuctra, delivered by Thebes a mere 33 years after Sparta’s triumph over Athens, broke the back of Spartan power permanently, reducing Sparta to the status of a second-class power from which it never recovered.

Sparta was one of the largest Greek city-states in the classical period, yet it struggled to achieve meaningful political objectives; the result of Spartan arms abroad was mostly failure. Sparta was particularly poor at logistics; while Athens could maintain armies across the Eastern Mediterranean, Sparta repeatedly struggled to keep an army in the field even within Greece. Indeed, Sparta spent the entirety of the initial phase of the Peloponnesian War, the Archidamian War (431-421 B.C.), failing to solve the basic logistical problem of operating long term in Attica, less than 150 miles overland from Sparta and just a few days on foot from the nearest friendly major port and market, Corinth.

guess who woke up and decided it was time to make a 3D pig w their extremely limited 3d modeling knowledge

people talking about australia like they do japan and korea

UGH this reminds me of bluey s2 e3 so bad… imagine growing up Australian and having fairy bread and pass the parcel at birthday parties 😩 its so crikeycore

Bronze statuette intended to hold a mummified cat, Ptolemaic Egypt, 330-30 BC

from The Metropolitan Museum of Art

#this is how tumblr callout posts are structured

weird girls should get an annual stipend and a subsidized apartment we can’t achieve our peak forms in these conditions we are stunting our weird girl’s potentials with all this ‘jobs’ and ‘rent’ stuff!!!

You gotta write for funsies sometimes. Everything doesn’t have to be groundbreaking. Like. Who cares if it’s a little silly it is made out of love