you can love somebody without using your hands

wait murderbot's mentioned once or twice that secunits were "originally designed for" stuff like de-escalation, quick and efficient rescues, absolute minimum force and the like. ive always wondered why exactly they were designed with human faces in the first place given they're mainly used to enforce corporate slavery and having visibly expressed emotions is a detriment to that. but it would make sense if they were "meant" to be used in more of a rescue capacity, where showing empathy and being visibly familiar would be advantageous. anyway this leads into: if secunits' emotional capacity and skillset are geared towards rescue and they're used as enforcers of abuse.... well it does explain something about how fucked up they are

i thought being a multishipper and diabolicule enjoyer would save me from caring too much about any particular shipping arguments but actually I have discovered one that pisses me off and it's when people jump to the interpretation of anything armand says that is the least charitable to the idea that he loved louis. when he says "it wasnt my love for louis" (a sentence which necessarily seems to imply that love for louis also existed) that means he didnt love louis at all. when he says louis knew that he was keeping tabs on daniel hes lying (even though louis literally tells daniel in s1 that hes been following his career and louis and armand repeatedly refer to daniel as "theirs" in various ways). man I dont think armand has ever stopped loving anyone hes ever loved in his life even when it would be probably better if I did, I dont think hes planning to start with louis de pointe du lac of all people

I need to stop replying to “how do you make friends in your 30s?” threads because all my answers boil down to “you have to want to know people instead of have friends” and I don’t think people wanna hear that

It’s like. People can tell if you don’t really like or connect with them. If you aren’t truly enamored with someone you will have a hard time coming up with activities to do together to deepen the friendship. Because you don’t really like that person that much.

Am genuinely waiting with bated breath for the loumand apology scene that treats their relationship as if it actually matters to the fabric of the show and wherein armand both sincerely apologizes and it is not enough, because how could any apology be enough for the gravity of what he’s done, and then louis yells at him and is simultaneously deeply cathartic and like the murder of bruce, cannot actually fix what’s broken for either of them. Because Claudia is still dead.

nobody wants to say it but loumand blood drinking in front of daniel while actively mocking him and waiting for him to call them on their weird servant roleplay nonsense and armand being a vampire while unbelievably horny the entire time was the best sex scene on iwtv and we will not reach such highs again

I couldn't make it to the Tayvis wedding. The search for Shelly Miscavige never rests

You’ve heard of Alice was Armand theory now get ready for Daniel’s unnamed second wife was Louis

For the record if we combine two fan theories here, one that Alice looked like Armand and one that season one Claudia looks like one of Daniel’s daughters, the natural conclusion is that Daniel has two ex-wives and they each look like one half of loumand. Which I’m sure loumand just loved