Occupation: complaining

God, I want to do so much more of [Lesmand]. I’m dying to do more with Sam, because their dynamic is beautiful, so juicy. 

having thought about it this is a generationally anti-consumer announcement that will have a profoundly detrimental impact on consumers and retail markets. this will price out new consumers even more than a $600 PS5 and $80 games will. this will make games less accessible and more nickel-and-dimed. this will make games impossible to share irl without giving your console up, and will stop institutions like libraries from being able to loan copies of modern games. and most importantly, it will be for a minimal profit, as most of the sales in video games are already digital.

“I don’t think Lestat’s pro-vampire dying[.] I think for Lestat, killing vampires–unless you’re a sh*tty regional vampire–those old great ones, I don’t think he would want to kill. He has respect for Armand in that regard. [...] Armand speaks to a self-destructive element in Lestat that is part of his ignition. He also knows exactly why Armand is there. He knows exactly what he’s doing is wrong. He knows he’s breaking the rules again, as he’s always done. He’s been the rule breaker. Armand has been the goody-two-shoes who follows the rules and is weirdly obsessed with law, which is kind of so irrelevant and has no value whatsoever.  But Armand, bless him, is just trying to put meaning in their totally meaningless existential existence[.]”

thinking about louis and armand again. they lived 77 years together. my grandparents are celebrating 53 this year and they are practically telepathic. so coordinated, never separated. it makes me nauseous to think about. "drawing numbers on each other's backs and pretending to guess them wrong." yeah, because no matter how much pain and resentment there is between two people, spend enough time together and you'll grow attached regardless. small gestures come to mean so much. the pressure on a shoulder to calm the other down, finishing each other's sentences. "keep selling it." no one wants to buy it because it's hard won knowledge that only reveals itself through time and patience. such an impossibly fragile a thing to persist.

showing up to kill a man’s whole coven and rip out his spine and burn him alive. in converse high tops.

I do think the ability to emoji-react is a net win for human communication. not only does it give you an outlet for 'I see and acknowledge this but don't have a verbal response' but it also adds a pleasing alethiometer element to things