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I’ve just released 145 Japanese furniture map assets on my website, which you can download for free! They’re the very ones I used to furnish my recent castle battle map. 🏯
My blog post: The Japanese Furniture Map Assets
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The divine love triangle of “Interview with the Vampire”
The theory is that the novel can be read in two ways: as a regular vampire story or a theological allegory. Allow me to explain.
LESTAT – THE GOD:
- Offers eternal life, creates new life – The Maker, Creator.
- Immersed in light, associated with divine, godlike imagery: enchanting, described as “luminous” and “radiant”, an “overwhelming experience.” Compared by Louis to a biblical angel and Jesus, he comes like a solace to save Louis from his misery (“I’ve come to answer your prayers”) and offer this wondrous life after death. Lestat’s general love for light is often emphasized, even later in the series. His iridescent eyes “burn with an incandescence” and “convey the power to walk on water.”
- Louis dying and becoming a vampire (“afterlife”) as Heaven: Louis seeing light as Lestat’s taking his life, everything suddenly becoming more beautiful and vibrant and angelic, Lestat waiting for him all radiant and happy, his laughter like “peals of bells”, the night like “a chorus of whispering women.”
“It sounds as if it was like being in love.”
The vampire’s eyes gleamed. “That’s correct. It is like love.” He smiled.
- Perceived by Louis as unattainable, distant, emotionally inaccessible like a celestial being – wants Louis to stay and follow him, but also keeps pushing him away as far as emotional intimacy and communication are concerned, “taunting him with sealed lips” when asked about God or the Devil, making Louis instantly suspect that he’s hiding something about his true identity.
“There was always the promise behind his mocking smile that he knew great things or terrible things, had commerce with levels of darkness I could not possibly guess at.”
- Avoids answering difficult questions or answers them vaguely, and so Louis has no choice but to secretly adore him from afar, “studying him with a detached fascination”, and the act of gazing at him is described like a self-transcendent experience, a religious one almost:
“Sometimes I’d find myself staring at his wrist from which I’d drawn my vampire life and I would fall into such a stillness that my mind seemed to leave my body or rather my body to become my mind (…)”
- Is desperate to keep Louis close and prevent him from leaving, and out of this desperation creates Claudia, the token of his love for Louis: the dark immortal child, “evil of [Lestat’s] evil.” Claudia is the actual victim of the story, an innocent sacrificed in order to stop Louis from turning his back on Lestat, her martyrdom for Louis’s “repentance.” She dies abandoned, forsaken by her father. (For the record, I do NOT believe Claudia’s entire purpose is martyrdom or Louis’s character development!!! Claudia is a completely separate, fascinating character, one I could write a whole other essay about. I’m pointing out the circumstances of her creation and death merely in regard to Lestat’s godhood.)
“MADELINE, the Doll Maker, resplendent in green taffeta, sitting like a Madonna with Claudia on her lap.” (‘92 movie script)
- Like a judge of a sort, Lestat mostly takes the lives of evildoers (interestingly, he’s actually the only vampire in the story who doesn’t really follow the “indiscriminate killing” rule, though it is something he teaches his fledglings/“angels”).
- Represents Louis’s dreams and aspirations, what he longs for, what he wishes he was: liberated, lively, unapologetic, self-assured and without regrets (in Louis’s eyes at least). In TTOTBT, when asked “Why do you love me?” Louis replies: “I wish I could be you.”
- Lestat’s godhood reveals itself in the duality of his personality, too. He’s cruel, vengeful and full of wrath, yet surprisingly forgiving and capable of unconditional love: doesn’t hold a grudge against Claudia, loves and is ready to take Louis back despite his rebellion. The roles are even reversed at the end of the story: it is the fallen “God” who asks for forgiveness and absolution rather than the other way around. Louis leaves, but even then, it’s like “the sorrow hadn’t left [him] suddenly, but had been near [him] all this time, hovering, saying, ‘Come.’”
“But you’ll come back… you’ll come to visit me… Louis?”
Literally has a god and hero complex and thinks he’s Dionysus?
ARMAND – THE DEVIL:
- Takes/destroys what Lestat creates.
- Immersed in darkness, magnetic and eerie, serious and collected in nature unlike Lestat. Associated with dark, satanic symbols and red/black colors: the edgy paintings of Hell and The Devil surrounding Armand, his dark angel aura, his deceptively innocent appearance; eyes inscrutable, deep and dark, hair red/auburn. The contrast between him and Lestat is plain, from the way they look to the way they act: Lestat being this bright, loud, flamboyant, careless persona; Armand, on the other hand – dark, quiet, composed, distinguished.
- Théâtres des Vampires as Hell: the underground dungeons (“underworld”), Armand as the Devil, Armand’s minions as demons, the audience and tortured human “actors” as souls, even the black waters Louis crosses while traveling to Europe and fantasizing what it would be like to look into Satan’s face – like a journey to Inferno itself. Visiting the theatre, Louis immediately feels uneasy, like something’s wrong with the place and its aura, though he’s too enthralled to draw any conclusions.
“The very ceiling writhed with skeletons and moldering dead, with demons and the instruments of pain, as if this were the cathedral of death itself.”
- Very open and accessible; suspiciously, temptingly so – reaches out to Louis himself, seeks contact, answers questions, willing to actually talk – attracts Louis’s attention by giving him what Lestat couldn’t: a connection, a lesson.
“God? Or Satan? It struck me suddenly what consolation it would be to know Satan, to look upon his face, no matter how terrible that countenance was, to know that I belonged to him totally, and thus put to rest forever the torment of this ignorance.”
- Represents Louis’s dark instincts, including his inner resentment towards Claudia. Louis’s attraction to Armand might be rooted in his initial “desire to be thoroughly damned.” Armand mirrors Louis’s deepest, darkest secrets. A little push from him is all Louis needs to forsake Claudia entirely. Curious about how far down he can possibly go, he follows, distancing himself and getting rid of the only remaining element of the bond between him and Lestat at that time: the rock bottom he’s been trying so hard to hit.
LOUIS – THE FALLEN:
- The Rebel, The Angel of Death: calls himself the Grim Reaper (“Dark Angel” and “Merciful Death” also sound quite suggestive), his weapon of choice is a scythe, he takes life regardless of whether someone’s a good or a bad person, their age, identity, social status, etc. He doesn’t even mention Lestat tends to kill mostly “evildoers”, probably because it doesn’t really matter to him. The “angelic” side of Louis’s nature reveals itself in his emotionality, empathy, preference for peace and quiet and fascination with humanity.
- Filled with this inner rage, he rebels against God, literally and figuratively, even during his mortal life (going against his “saint” brother, beating up a priest, not to mention Paul’s visions and Lestat’s arrival seem suspiciously related…) Lestat comes as a saviour from his faithless, pointless life, as if to give him a second chance, but Louis keeps resisting regardless, projecting his own issues and anger at God and himself onto Lestat, always shifting the blame, always fighting, disobeying and stubbornly disputing his tenets on every occasion.
“(…) I believed I was damned when I went over to [Lestat], just as Judas must have believed it when he put the noose around his neck.”
- Says he’s “damned like angels put in hell by God” and simultaneously associates his doom with Lestat. The motif of Louis’s rebellion and Lestat “damning” him/”condemning him to hell” is also apparent in the scene where Louis imagines Lestat’s face right before feeding on Claudia, then bites her almost out of spite.
“(…) and I saw Lestat in my mind and hated him, and I felt, yes, damned and this is hell, and in that instant I had bent down and driven hard into her soft, small neck (…)”
- Louis feels about Lestat the same way he feels about God. The indecisive, love/hate nature of his relationship with his Maker(s), the guilt, the secret adoration, the miscommunication, the detachment, the betrayal: characteristics of a God/Rebel dynamic. Louis biting, Lestat reaching out anyway. Louis reaching out, Lestat not responding. Damned and bitter and stubborn and proud, he hates. Though spellbound and intrigued, he can’t help but idealise Lestat in secret, yearning for emotional connection and contact.
“But aren’t angels capable of love?” asked the vampire. “Don’t angels gaze upon the face of God with complete love?” The boy thought for a moment. “Love or adoration,” he said. “What is the difference?” asked the vampire thoughtfully. “What is the difference?” It was clearly not a riddle for the boy. He was asking himself. “Angels feel love, and pride… the pride of The Fall… and hatred. The strong overpowering emotions of detached persons in whom emotion and will are one.”
- Struggling with moral doubts and repressed sexuality, confused about Lestat’s enigmatic motivations, Louis initially suspects Lestat of being the Devil that came to tempt and “damn” him. It is only after he’s met Armand that he realises he was wrong, that his accusations were misplaced and baseless, and his judgement of Lestat faulty.
“It seemed more than ever absurd to me that Lestat should have died, if in fact he had; and looking back on him, as it seemed I was always doing, I saw him more kindly than before.”
“I have wronged Lestat, I have hated him for the wrong reasons.”
“What right had I to be so bitterly disappointed in Lestat that I would let him die! Because he wouldn’t show me what I must find in myself? Armand’s words, what have they been? The only power that exists is inside ourselves…”
- Oblivious and blind to his Maker’s love, he insists Lestat only stayed for his wealth, though secretly wishes that wasn’t the case. His confusion about Lestat’s motives seems to parallel his religious existential crisis.
“‘I want to die. You have it in your power to kill me. Let me die.’ I refused to look at him, to be spellbound by the sheer beauty of his appearance. He spoke my name to me softly, laughing. As I said, he was determined to have the plantation.”
“Why, if God exists, does He suffer me to exist! (…) Why does He suffer me to live!”
- “(…) why, Louis, you know…” says Lestat in their last scene together. And when he despairingly tries to Tell Him Something once again, Louis “speaks of it with great reluctance”, and when Lestat fails to speak the words again, Louis feels “a profound, undeniable relief.” It’s less about him not knowing or failing to see the real reasons, and more about denial, the fact that the answers he’d been seeking scared and overwhelmed him at the time, challenging him to question things about himself and his beliefs. Maybe there is no God. Maybe the God he’s been searching for has been right there the entire time, and he loves him back.
Louis presents his story as an allegorical journey to eternal damnation: first death, Heaven and becoming one of “God’s angels”, then rebellion, Fall, Hell and eternal damnation. Finishing the book, the reader is left with this intense feeling of emptiness, this profound sadness and regret, a yearning for something irrevocably lost. Indecisive and conflicted, torn between Heaven and Hell and not really belonging to either in the end, Louis is sort of stuck in this gray area between the two, behind the “veil that hangs between [him] and the world feeling”, through which – even when he joins Armand “in Hell” – he still perceives Lestat, like a damned angel who in spite of himself keeps looking up, wishing to get rid of that insufferable numbness, to reascend and step through “the veil” to see the face of his Creator once again, as clearly as he used to.
Customizable RPG Consent Checklist
Not the type of thing I normally post, but I like the idea of MonteCooke’s “Consent in gaming” checklist and decided to make a Doc version that you can easily edit yourself.
Google Forms version (Save copy to your drive)
…I also added a few things I thought were missing, and reorganized ones I thought were misplaced. It’s not as pretty as the original, but its the function that matters.
Monte Cook’s Consent in Gaming booklet is available for free from DriveThruRPG, or direct from Monte Cook Games.
New Caverns and Lair Props @Roll20
This set is a collection 93 props that will allow you to bring visual flair & flavour to your caves, caverns and lairs.Covering a broad range of common objects: Fungus, Ruins, Crystals, Stalagmites, Bones and more! LINK
Muslim brothers and sisters
So I found this app called Scan Halal where you scan the bar code of your food and it tells you if its halal or not. It’s a free app too. Pass this on so others can see and worry a little less about their food/snack choices
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Yessss, it is very handy especially in non-muslim countries
If you reblog this for no other reason, do it because it’ll piss off Pauline Hanson. And pissing off Pauline Hanson is reason enough to do anything.
Pissing off Pauline Hanson is my favourite pass time
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If you reblog this for no other reason, reblog it to make a Muslim feel safer, more accepted, and/or more informed about food.
Other people and their needs are not your game pieces to use to offend others or make yourself feel better.
This is actually a cool app! I had a customer come into my candy store and we discovered that certain flavors of the same brand of candy sticks were okay to eat! It was really handy for them to be able to scan it rather than rely on the ingredient list, which could be flawed sometimes!
Ooooh this is neat!
Nice!
For those wondering “why don’t you just read the ingredients”: Even if you trust the ingredient list, you don’t know which “natural flavors” were used, and you may not know where the various chemicals came from. And a lot of people have a hard time reading tiny print, and don’t want to stand in the aisle for five minutes trying to work their way through 95 words of 4-point type.
So glad this exists! We need more ways for people to find the info that’s important to them!
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Baccano Locations || The Advena Avis
Obtaining the cure-all elixir is our, the alchemists’, eternal desire.
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Baccano Locations || The Flying Pussyfoot
And on December 30, 1931, the curtains would rise on the tragedy that took place on this train.
ok so i made the mistake of standing on the beach in the dark and listen…….. listen. there is nothing that cares about you less than the ocean in the dead of night. it is tangible. you can’t fuckin see a thing. there is no horizon. it’s a ceaseless void and she cares for no one and loves nothing. you have to respect her bcs she clearly has no fuckin love for you and if she wanted she could take you and NO ONE WOULD KNOW
Abandoned Shrine - DnD Battlemaps
Hey everyone!
This map recently came up in a recent adventure module so we wanted to reshare it here for those who hadn’t seen it yet. An old abandoned shrine in the woods, slowly being reclaimed by nature. Perhaps your druid or cleric has unfinished business here or your warlock is searching out old knowledge of their patron deity.
If you like this and want to see the other variations of this map, head here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/overgrown-magic-33259206
You can also get this map and many others directly from Roll20 here: https://marketplace.roll20.net/browse/publisher/327/czepeku
when albert camus said “the sea; i didnt lose myself in it. i found myself in it” and when sylvia plath said “if i lived by the sea i would never be really sad” and when hozier said “love, when the sea rises to meet us” and when an anonymous writer said “and yet my heart wanders away, my soul roams with the sea” and when homer said “I’d rather die at sea”
and when marguerite duras said “there is one thing i am good at, and that’s looking at the sea” and when agnès varda said “it’s important to always be by the sea. the sea is the element of love”
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and when hermann broch said “those who live by the sea can hardly form a single thought of which the sea would not be part,” and when keri hulme said “I know about me. I am the moons sister, a tidal child stranded on land. the sea always in my ear, a surf of eternal discontent in my blood,” and iain pears said “being by the sea is like a permanent baptism; the light and air hypnotizes, and your soul is washed by vastness.”
and when julia de burgos said “the sea, the true sea, almost mine now” and when saadi youssef said “but to the sea, to this sea, i return” and derek walcott said “you want to know my history? ask the sea.”
Ok so I really do love the mariner’s revenge song with all my heart (give it a listen if you haven’t it’s GREAT) but I cannot stop hearing all the fucking OwOs
“Then one day in spring my dear sweet mother died”
“OwO”
Please does anybody else find this as hilarious as I think it is
What have you done. Oh no oh no. I’ll never be able to hear it the same again.
@2happy-little-trees you know why I’m tagging you
I’m so glad to have done you such a disservice!! Enjoy one (1) edgy boy recounting a life’s sorrows and hate while also owo-ing with all he has
Hey, do you guys ever think about how like,, the sea and it’s bounty are largely what brought us into humanity as we think of it today? How much about a settlement you can learn just by knowing it was on the coast?
That the sea is where all life in earth owes its origin?? Where we no longer truly belong but are called back to at every turn? That we have been longing for the sea and all it offers (wings, fins, sails, freedom, freedom, freedom) for as long as we’ve been aware enough to want.
And how when we’re hurting, bleeding, aching, we reach for salt water like a mother’s hand to make it all better? (On cuts and sore throats and aching muscles and splinters and a thousand other ailments)
About how she will hurt us too, with storms and drowning and thirst and wind and the hungry hungry mouths of her other children?
Do you guys ever think about the sea?
A vision of a vivid escape, a glimpse of another world. The soft light catching, the speckles of dust dancing through the air in the hot summer sun. From the careful creeping rays of the morning’s slumber to the perfectly placed flowers as though Mother Nature was dabbling in interior design, we often overlook the smallest things.
For artist 鱼俞木, he makes sure to depict everyday things like doors and entrances as magical portals to another world, full of surprises and adventure.
I had an idea for an NPC so I thought I’d put it on paper so other people could maybe get some use out of him. If you aren’t aware, the Adventurer’s Guild this write-up makes mention of (which you can read about HERE) is a pretty prominent feature of Vallonde, so if you care about the setting and how all the pieces of it fit together then that will be a valuable read.
As always, questions and comments are welcome. I’d love to hear your thoughts!
