this book would have been so much more insane if dracula also kept a journal
I'm absolutely dying at this kids adaptation of Dracula.
Obviously I'm not gonna post the whole book because we support the authors in this house, but omg, everyone just going, "Dracula! No biting!" and Dracula being like :(
Dream realises he wants to marry Hob while he’s following one of his lectures, and because he doesn’t want to wait any longer he proposes to Hob during the small break in the middle of class. Hob’s students find out first because Hob, perpetual oversharer, welcomes them back in class saying ‘hope you all had a good coffee break, mine personally was good, I got engaged. anyway the King James bible-‘ and then can’t get a word in anymore because his whole class is screaming
I see your Dream-proposes-during-coffee-break and I raise you this:
Hob @ class: “Does anyone have any questions?”
Dream: *rises his hand*
Hob, smiling: “Yes, love?”
Dream: “Hob Gadling, will you marry me?”
when I was very young my mother told me “they’re going to try and teach you that we came from monkeys but that’s not true and you shouldn’t listen to them because we were made from god” and she was my mom and I was like 7, so I pretty much just went “okay, noted, anyway”
anyway like 2 years later evolution comes up in class and one of my classmates goes “is this the we evolved from monkeys thing?”
and I’m on Red Alert. this is what my mom told me about!
the teacher replies, “well, we share a common ancestor, but we didn’t evolve directly from apes. if you go back way before apes or people existed, you’ll find a different third thing we both came from. we know this because of things like fossils”
and I was like whoo! dodged a bullet there, good thing my 4th grade science class isn’t trying to teach us we came from monkeys and instead figured stuff out using fossils and taught us that instead :)
Instructions Unclear, Ended Up Believing In Evolution Anyway
This scene is so funny now in hindsight. Like they really were basically having sex right in front of Daniel’s salad. Why. Just for shit and giggles? Voyeurism kink? To psychosexually terrorize Daniel? Just to commit to the bit? Either way forget all the killing and maiming this was literally the most deranged thing they’ve ever done
lestat's gonna hear louis call armand "the love of my life" and he's gonna go crazy stupid their beef is gonna be insane
so louis wanted to present the end of this chapter as him and claudia riding off into the sunset into this new adventure, to the point that the episode could have ended right there as they ride down the street with the music swelling. but then daniel tears the narrative apart, saying that claudia seemed to hate louis for a while, her diary shows us that louis had no interest in her quest to find vampires (in the diary entry she says she wants to go the places she’s read about in her books, and that louis doesn’t seem to care about it) and that he was anxious and morose over what they did. then we see the memories filtering in through the cracks of this construct. claudia did want to burn lestat, but louis refused, instead of both of them not wanting to burn lestat. he pinned her against the wall just like lestat did, her face in anguish. you chose lestat over her time and time again. louis screaming while holding lestat’s corpse in contrast to his numbness sitting a length away from lestat in his recollection. murder? what murder? you arranged everything just so that lestat could survive. trunks that lock from the inside. where does the trash go, louis? was it raining, louis? the biggest rat eater of them all. it was an act of mercy. you spared him. you saved his life. and you turned against your daughter, your sister, for the man you love. memory IS a monster, and it’s coming for louis in s2.
the fact that louis has been telling this whole story in front of the current "love of his life" and that he's tried to downplay or skip over all of the moments where he truly loved lestat and lestat loved him, and the fact that it's been slipping through the cracks anyway. i was hunted, he said, but we saw that he was courted. he had a way about him, and we saw that that was love. we were going to kill lestat, and yet he saved him in the end. this is too much for me
no but like. Louis literally saved Lestat's life from Claudia. cut his throat (and he was so fucking tender doing this too. the way Louis leans into him, pressing him closer. im unwell), purgining him from the poisoned blood, stopped her from burning him, send him inside of his coffin to the junkyard so he can recover in the dark and eat rats. it's all thanks to him. and YET he cannot accept it. he acts as if Claudia also didn't want to burn him, saying we expected him to just disappear (Claudia clrealy didn't), we wrapped him in a carpet (no they didn't, he put him in his coffin, per his dying wish), he literally, as Daniel said, chose Lestat over Claudia over and over again. and he can't to this day understand why, let alone accept it
I want to Thank Neil Gaiman for telling us about the cursed Sandman Sandglobe merch that was produced back in 2001.
It’s my new prized possession.
god. god. the significance of the diary pages about claudia’s assault being torn out raggedly by Louis, clearly in a fit of guilt and anguish and trauma, vs the diary pages about louis mourning lestat and regretting killing him being removed with surgical control and precision. by armand. this wasn’t a heat of the moment action it was deliberate and calculated and I can’t stop thinking about it
I am genuinely so excited to see how they explore the power dynamic between Armand and Louis in the second season.
Armand controls everything about Louis. His coming and goings, his memories, the story and pace of the interview, all under the guise of "protecting Louis from himself." But Daniel wasn't having any of it. His aggressive questioning of Louis's story has just slightly cracked through the carefully built narrative that Armand has been feeding Louis all these years. And like a windshield, one crack is all it takes for it to shatter entirely.
tumblr isn’t a social media it’s a farmers market and the people you follow are the vendors and your mutuals are regulars and sometimes a person I buy pumpkins from will start selling realistic models of sailboats and damn i’m not gonna buy any but I will come by and compliment you on your sailboats
INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE (2022- ) In Throes of Increasing Wonder… (1.01) || The Thing Lay Still (1.07)
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