You said you're a pro shipper? That means problematic shipper which means that you either ship abusive relationships or children with adults, etc. do you ship those or something gross like that?
my brother in christ you cannot be more wrong and I'm so tired. also if you ask a random stranger this in real life, a random stranger who's mature enough to understand the difference between fiction and reality, they will look at you like you speak gibberish.
proship stance = anti harassing real people over goddamned fiction. your kink is not my kink and that's okay. don't like don't read. there are some prompts that trigger the fuck out of me. I don't read it. I don't even like it. but I will defend its rights to exist because
1.) it is fiction
2.) no one in real life is harmed
3.) it cannot harm you unless you go searching for it, knowing it will upset or trigger you
4.) a lot of victims and survivors cope and heal through fiction, a safe and controlled environment
5.) censorship is a fascist tool. once you allow one thing to be censored because someone somewhere doesn't want it to exist, anything and everything can and will be censored.
but if you want to know my ship, it's myself and your dad โค๏ธ
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TIL The Double Empathy Problem theory suggests social difficulties experienced by autistic people when interacting with non-autistic people are due to reciprocal differences, not an inherent deficiency, most autistic people are able to display good social reciprocity with most other autistic people
okay but the BEST part of the first study discussed (conducted by an autistic person!) Is that it shows that while easy, calm, mutual communication and social interaction is often more natural between two autistic people than it is between an autistic person and a non-autistic person, it is ALSO like this when an autistic person encounters a non-autistic person who imitates the autistic individualโs behaviours- neurotypical parents copying autistic childrenโs play, for example, apparently receive more positive engagement from their child- which is SERIOUSLY FUCKING IMPORTANT and VERY VERY GOOD because it is, once again, scientific evidence that bullshit like aversion therapy and enforced conformance and FUCKING โquiet handsโ arenโt โโโโโsolutions to the autism problemโโโโโ and that โโโโโproblemsโโโโ with autism donโt stem from BEING autistic, but rather, from how NON AUSTISTIC PEOPLE TREAT AUTISTIC PEOPLE.
IE, once again, there is nothing bad or wrong about being autistic
I feel like this is the perfect time to remind people (or inform them in they don't already know) that Armand and Daniel's YouTube video is a direct adaptation of this scene from the Devil's Minion chapter
It's so funny how I thought Daniel was going to go absolutely HAM over the incest reveal Ep3 Evil Callous Journalist-style and he actually didn't give a single damn. ๐คฃ๐คฃ๐คฃ
Didn't even register because he's going to walk in the sun with his daddyyyyy!
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They just released a poster for Merrick Mayfair and it has two shadows. If your theory about what it means is correct, then it looks like they will have her eventually become a vampire. Given the changes from the book to the show, do you think theyโll still have Merrick cast a love spell on Louis to get him to turn her? Or do you think theyโll use some other plot device that will result in her turning? If the latter, do you think sheโll move completely over to Mayfair Witches or will she come back as a character in TVL and future seasons if they go thru another name change down the road.
*runs to find the poster in question*
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Oh no. Oh no..... ๐ ๐ฐ
Yeah, it looks like she's going to get turned if the poster theory I have holds.
๐ฌ 2ย ย ๐ 36ย ย โค๏ธ 148ย ยทย As someone who knows the Alice books backwards and forwards, because they are my favorite children's books of all time -
And if the show sticks to the books on this, and I honestly have no reason to think they won't, then Louis is very likely going to be her Maker.
I... don't think they'll have Merrick cast a love spell on Louis to get her to turn him, but... I'm not going to 100% rule it out? Because I can't, as I don't know exactly what might be going on right now that could maybe change Louis' motivation for turning her, and make it different from the book.
But I'm still "oh no" about her getting turned at all. Frankly, I'm worried about anyone who is being turned right now because of the Akashlypse that is coming.
Because 50,000 vampires are way, way, WAY too many! And, with the way this show works and is turning things up to 11? While I can see Akasha maybe sparing the direct fledglings of people she cares for? I don't see that same grace extending to the fledglings of those fledglings.
Like, in the QotD book, Armand clearly got spared because he was Marius' fledgling. And Akasha cared for Marius because he's been her keeper for so long.
However, in the book, Daniel clearly got spared because he was Armand's fledgling. Marius had never even met Daniel at that point. But Akasha could have very easily spared Armand and killed Daniel, with no thought to it if she had wanted to.
And that scenario is very much what happened during the second burning during Prince Lestat. During those bunrings, one of Lestat's direct fledglings, Mona Mayfair, was killed during it even.
And I have a sneaking suspicion that Akasha's burings are going to mirror the second burnings more than the first.
Meaning, fledglings might still get spared (which would save Louis and Gabriella, as per book canon), but fledglings of those fledglings... might not.
Leaving Merrick to die via fire, just like she did in the books. ๐ฃ
Oh, I am not happy about this, not at all. Because I don't think my poster theory is wrong, meaning Merrick will, at some point, become a vampire. And her life as a vampire might just be a very brief one, just like her book counterpart. ๐ญ
Which is very much why I was wary about her showing up on the show in the first place. ๐ญ ๐ญ
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We're at the "JK Rowling is personally funding litigation to try and destroy AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL" stage of rabid UK terf brain.
Screenshot via Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net on bluesky
Tldr Amnesty International, global human rights organisation, published a report called 'A growing threat: the anti-rights movement in the UK'. In it is detailed, amongst others, a whole bunch of transphobic groups and organisations, including Beira's Place, JK Rowling's trans exclusionary sexual violence support service. JK Rowling threw a shit fit and got Amnesty to take the report down by threatening libel. This was obviously not enough, because you can't appease a fascist, so now she's going to bankroll a bunch of lawsuits anyway through the JK Rowling Women's Fund.*
You can read an archived version of the report here, please save it and share it.
*Not so friendly reminder there is no way to engage in the wizard books without enabling this shit.
jacob and sam did say in after dark that they L/L were basically back together by the seanceโค๏ธ๐ฆ
Yes.
Claudia asks Lestat during the seance if he's back with Louis and Louis, mistakenly believing she's addressing him, says that he's sorry, which is him inadvertently confirming that he considers them back together. The bench scene further confirms this with Louis telling Lestat that he's thinking about the future, and he wants that future to include Lestat.
Delainey said on After Dark that the root of Claudia's beef with Louis is jealousy, because Louis has Lestat. She doesn't have that. She's jealous of Louis, because Louis has Lestat that loves him unconditionally and will go to the ends of the earth for him, and that was the big driving force behind her tirade against Lestat during the seance. It basically amounted to her saying Lestat was pathetic for loving the likes of Louis and for, essentially, being Louis' bitch. Hence why she killed Lestat over Louis.
All of this was set up in S1 when Claudia asked "Who's my Lestat? Who's my Louis?"
Claudia is now in a version of hell, separated from Madeleine, while Louis gets to go on living his life with Lestat and experiencing Lestat's love.
It was a very bitter, harsh truth for Louis, but as established in S2, Louis doesn't truly care. Lestat has always been his priority, and Claudia has always been the throw pillow.
armand's version of reality is so lonely. either he gives himself completely to another person or he has no one and everyone else is just part of the sea of noise he can't cut through to reach the individual. armand going to the concert with two followers he doesn't exchange a single spoken word with. armand surrounded by his coven members, listening to their petty squabbles, directing, commanding, even sleeping with them but never connecting in a way that matters. armand giving himself completely to the people he loves, including his past, his submission, his utter devotion. creating these dichotomies between the people he has to rule over and therefore resents and the people who rule over him and he therefore worships.
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Jones came to Anderson while the writers were working on the script, asking him what he thought Louis should say to Claudia during the seance. Anderson told him that whatever Louis ended up saying had to be "deeply inappropriate." He continued, "It has to be something that is about him, so that there's a real shift when they both realize that this has to be about her. This is her moment to vent." However, when it came time to film, Anderson wasn't entirely sure how to play it. "I don't know if I should really be revealing this," he laughed. "But I think one of the ugliest traits in a parent is, like, your kids don't really owe you anything. But that doesn't mean that you don't have moments where you're like, 'Do you know how much I do for you? Do you know how much of my life revolves around you?'" In the final version of the scene, he goes down the route of a scorned father, allowing "Daddy Lou" to jump out as Louis informs his daughter of her supposed ungratefulness.
