I think that was the best day of my life

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Please don't talk to yourself. It's one of your more freakish Needy behaviors and it makes us both look like total gaylords.

James Fitzjames being my muse for expressing my gender dysphoria in visual form but also will I ever be as pretty as he is?

I personally feel in one sense, she's right, it's never been about her- it never got the chance to be, because the moment she had a chance to maybe become her own person and live her own life, she died. Her makers were always too wrapped up in their own shit and each other to let her breathe and there was always someone psychologically needing her to be something, rather than her getting to be whoever she actually was.

at the same time, it's all about her. It's been about her since Louis begged Lestat to make her a vampire and even long after she's dead it's still about her in their minds because she's this gaping hole in both Louis and Lestat's chest who, yeah, never quite got to be a person because of their own trauma. Maybe one day, they would have been able to see her, but she will not get to be a person to them, because she's dead

it's 2026 and there are several shows I've watched in the past few years centred on or heavily featuring Horrible People™️, many of which both experience abuse and enact abuse on others. It's fun to watch, it's entertaining! They pose a lot of questions, provoke a lot of emotions, and basically all of the ones I've watched have been very well done

but, I also don't begrudge anyone who is a bit tired of watching the stories of fictional men/abusers and the suffering they both endure and cause being elevated in the narrative, typically above the fictional victims (often women). Maybe it's just the stuff I've been watching lately, but I see it a lot. While I think The Vampire Lestat is doing EXCELLENTLY at what it's trying to do (and, being aware of the novels it's based on, I was always under the impression that Claudia would be a daughter-shaped wound the characters have to grapple with more than anything), I understand the frustration of wanting more focus on those most victimized.

Of course, everyone's impressions of the media landscape will be different and will be shaped by the stuff they personally have seen. Other folks may not have experienced so many shows recently that explore the abuse of and by men against people around them, but I see absolutely no dearth of "complex characters with grey morals" or "charismatic villains with a horrible backstory that explains but doesn't justify their abuse", I personally see that shit all the time and much of it is good, some of it is tiring, it depends on the whole experience not just the trope.

Nobody realizes this at first because they also didn’t find Gore’s body in canon. But after the commotion dies down the steward in charge of sorting out his cabin discovers that Gore’s clothes, books, etc. are nowhere to be found

This becomes public knowledge at Sir John’s funeral. There isn’t even a leg to bury. The Great Cabin on Erebus looks like it was unoccupied for the whole journey

Little leads the party walking back to Terror from Erebus. It’s dark, freezing, and windy. They reach the ship, and Little does a head count before they climb up to the deck. They are one man less than they started out with

Supplies keep disappearing mysteriously from the ship, one thing at a time and very gradually. A handkerchief, a pen, a gun…. This seems to be independent of the deaths but no one can figure out a logic in the disappearances

Dr. Stanley torches himself at Carnivale and walkstowards the men. After a few steps he collapses, but nothing hits the ground except for a big ball of flame. When the sun rises, the surviving men are standing in pure, untouched snow, as if the Carnivale tent had never existed

Koveyook watches the foreign man run up the hill. He is turning the strange, long object over in his hands when they suddenly become empty

Everyone at Mutineer Camp is aware that people will disappear after the last breath they take. They are hungry, and they want to live

Fitzjames’ throat flexes under Crozier’s fingertips until it isn’t there anymore. Little’s weight leans against Crozier’s shoulders until it isn’t there anymore.

#repressing trauma all by yourself, handsome?

Claudia Appreciation Week: Womanhood & Coming of Age

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In the scene where Smoke teaches the young girl how to negotiate, they're standing in front of of a cafe. The shot of them negotiating is framed so that you see a sign in the cafe window advertising a Ham and Eggs breakfast - in other words, a full meal - for 25 cents. The editing makes sure to put that sign back into frame whenever the question of the value of money arises in their discussion.

Smoke offers her 10 cents a minute and asks if that works for her. She says yes. He says no, it does not and tells her to negotiate higher. The 25 cent sign is framed in the shot when he tells her no, reminding us *why* it's not a good value.

She comes back with 50 cents - which the sign has informed us is the cost of *two* meals. Smoke tells her that's too much and counters with 20, which is just under a full meal but we now know that's a fairly respectable price because we just got the high/low contrast of 10 being too little and 50 being too much.

The negotiation ends with her getting 20 cents per minute and we now know 1) 25 cents is the cost of a filling meal in this environment 2) This girl only needs to do five minutes of work to be able to feed herself for a over day (20 cents per minute times five is a dollar, which is four meals) 3) Smoke has the kind of money to throw around that over a day's worth of food for someone can be to him - as it is to our modern eyes - mere pocket change and 4) Smoke's the kind of person who can both be a violent gangster but also care about teaching this girl how to look out for herself so that one day maybe she too can throw over a day's worth of food around like pocket change.

Combined with 5) you can now use that 25 cents = a meal to do the math every other time money gets mentioned in the movie to understand just how much cash the Smoke Stack boys are dealing with.