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But, you also have the "more" of it all. Shane doing as he's told from the off; Ilya effortlessly slipping into the dominant role right from the start and Shane revelling in the submission, before they've even gotten physical with each other. And you have "no" in that Vegas bathroom. 'No, you are not in charge here'. 'No, you cannot have what you want, even though you did exactly as I asked'. 'No, this is not on your terms'. 'No, you will wait until I decide I want you'. And then you have Shane standing there, at the cottage, revelling in the fact that Ilya is finally here, in his space, with him. He's preening, patiently waiting for Ilya to touch him; for Ilya to kiss him; for Ilya to decide what it is they will do now. Because he's a good boy. He won't act out of turn. He won't presume he's owed a kiss. He will wait for Ilya to decide what he deserves.

Dom Edward was huge in the Twilight fandom. Where is he in the source material? Fucking nowhere.

People were twisting every Sherlock line into a possible indicator of a D/s dynamic, when even just the romantic relationship between Johnlock was never canonised.

We were out here writing the nastiest little BDSM fics for Klaine, for God's sake. Spinning gold from fucking nothing.

And then Heated Rivalry comes along and just... makes it canon? Holy shit. Truly incredible work. We are so used to giving and now we get to receive.

what made daniel so interesting in season 1-2 of IWTV was his personality, straight up. he was witty, even if it could get him killed, he was incredibly intelligent, pressuring, and he still had that constant curiosity that kept the story moving along.

we were told he had a hunger for life in his youth that followed him even as he stopped fearing death as it grew closer. his strong sense of perseverance was what made it make sense for him to be in the story in the first place, what made it make sense for him to be holding together the pieces of a gothic romance. we could see how his methods of journalism were harsh, but effective, and he did actually feel like a person who someone like armand would find "fascinating" or someone like louis could find important enough to reach out to again.

TVL daniel is, to put it simply, an idiot.

there are some things i can give him props for, such as him maintaining some of his wit and fearless nature, but other than that, he doesn't even feel like daniel anymore.

the fandom has already been able to deduct one of the main issues the writers have, which is their problem with showing and telling, or lack-there-of. unfortunately, when it comes to daniel's intellect, curiosity, mystery, and empathy, the writers decided to do neither of the two and skip straight to lobotomy.

to start, his intellect was straight up not present this season. his questions felt less like a seasoned interviewer and journalist getting information he feels he has a right to access, and instead felt like he was desperately trying to get a word out every three seconds. daniel's dialog was rushed and empty, in IWTV if daniel had said any line of dialog at all, you'd feel like you were connecting pieces of a puzzle, like you could tell it was leading to a big reveal.

daniel this season had zero mystery to him. im sure we all know at this point that the writers said daniel was supposed to be a "moody teenage fledgling" this season. and yeah, that's fine. that's what he is, hes a new fledgling whos maker left him right off the bat. but daniel is also a full grown man with the life experience of one. in s1x1, after being called "boy" by louis he quite literally says "i'm not you're fucking boy, im an old man with all the triggers that come with it." this cannot be the same man that decided his whole personality this season should be built on being angry at lestat.

theres many arguments that could be made against this, and I accept them all, especially when they're about his nature as a character and how it would make sense for him to act the way he does this season. im alright with him turning to drugs and sex and party life after his turning, that makes sense. what doesn't make sense is that THATS the most life we see out of him this season.

what made him fascinating was his humanity and perspectives on the world. he was interested in politics, he was alive during the AIDS crisis as a man who slept with men for drugs or a place to stay, he wrote books and articles and news covers and let his need for information take him everywhere. compare that to TVL, where daniel now has a brand new perspective on the world, literally and figuratively. he can see new colors, hear new sounds, feel new textures, and most importantly, meet an entirely new side of the world he only had a taste of previously. and he has eternity to do it all. daniel this season should've been fucking thriving. daniel should've been doing interviews left and right, dealing with the newfound trauma of being murdered and left to deal with being born again by his maker, watch him maintain his love for living even through death.

instead we got him smoking a hookah, asking "did you have a stutter?" over and over again, talking to louis like last season never happened and louis just being chill with the fact the only mortal he ever told his full story to is acting like skipper from barbie life in the dreamhouse, and we didnt even see any of the things he claimed happened to him, happen. never saw him go through his transformational trauma, never saw him get turned at all, literally nothing.

TVL daniel makes his conversations with armand almost laughable, because armand will be spouting poetry at him about their past and his love for all of daniel and daniel is just like "lmao do you think lestat had a stutter?" this is not a character i could ever picture anyone, let alone an ancient vampire, finding fascinating. he no longer feels like he has a part in a dramatic gothic romance.

But, you also have the "more" of it all. Shane doing as he's told from the off; Ilya effortlessly slipping into the dominant role right from the start and Shane revelling in the submission, before they've even gotten physical with each other. And you have "no" in that Vegas bathroom. 'No, you are not in charge here'. 'No, you cannot have what you want, even though you did exactly as I asked'. 'No, this is not on your terms'. 'No, you will wait until I decide I want you'. And then you have Shane standing there, at the cottage, revelling in the fact that Ilya is finally here, in his space, with him. He's preening, patiently waiting for Ilya to touch him; for Ilya to kiss him; for Ilya to decide what it is they will do now. Because he's a good boy. He won't act out of turn. He won't presume he's owed a kiss. He will wait for Ilya to decide what he deserves.

Week 5 of @shanesummerfest and it's a...

Shane loves to chirp her wife so hard if she fucks up on the ice. Of course, this is just so Lilya can scold her while fucking her about it once they get home. This has worked every single time.

Not even summer hockey is safe from this. They're just.. Like That with each other. All the time.

HUDSON WILLIAMS as TJ All I Need for Christmas (2024) dir. David I. Strasser