careful fear

OUR GLUP SHITTO

Wakefield Poole’s Bible (1973) // dir. Wakefield Poole

anyway. that scene is still so fucking vile. i disagree that it was out of character for armand and think it makes sense that he is so bent on positioning himself as louis’s victim (lol) but this character beat no longer works because the narrative is on armand’s side and the narrative is even more invested in shaming and brutalizing louis

I think you're right that it's at least partially a reference to dreamstat's pocket inscription thing. It feels like another cruel callback to punish Louis; in s2 he imagines his partner romantically telling him that he had Louis' initials inscribed on his pocket so that Louis' name would always cradle his heart. In s3 the said partner vehemently denies that he'd ever do that and acts like it's an offense. Instead Louis has another partner to carve his initial over Louis heart in the most violent and dehumanizing way, brand him like he's a slave. It seems that the script didn't indicate why Armand as a character did that and the actors' are clearly struggling to explain his motives. Louis' reaction to it apparently also isn't indicated because the show isn't interested in Louis interiority anymore. Ultimately the main reason why it happened is that the writers wanted to brutalize Louis as much they could

Daemon and Baela

1. Writer’s Market 2019 is a great place to start– it gives you a list of magazines and journals that you can send your work to depending on the genre as well as lists a shit ton of literary agents that specify what genres they represent, how you can get in contact with them and how they accept query letters. this is a book that updates every year and tbh i only bought it this year so i dont know how critical it is to have an updated version  

2. do your research. mostly on literary agents because if you listed on your site that you like to represent fluffy YA novels and some asshole sends you a 80k manuscript about like…gritty viking culture, you will be severely pissed off. always go in finding someone who you know will actually like your work because they’re the ones who will try to advocate for you in getting published.

3. learn how to write a query letter. there are slightly varying formulas to how you can write an effective query letter. you’re also going to want to get feedback on your query letter because its the first thing the literary agent will read and based on how well you do it, it could be the difference between them rejecting you outright and giving your manuscript a quick read

4. unfortunately, you’re gonna want to get a twitter. Twitter is where a lot of literary agents are nowadays, and they host things like twitter pitch parties, where you pitch your manuscript in a few sentences and hashtag it with #Pitmad #Pitdark, some version of pit. a lot of literary agents and publishers will ALSO post their manuscript wishlists, which is just the kind of books they’d like to represent/publish, and they hashtag this with #MSWL (it is NOT for writers to use, only for agents/publishers)