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do you think insight can be gained about an author from the stories they write?

no. authors are like squids and can only be understood through spirited but ultimately futile combat

#snort #writing

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"Don't use Libby because it costs libraries too much, pirate instead" is such a weird, anti-patron, anti-author take that somehow manages to also be anti-library, in my professional librarian-ass opinion.

It's well documented that pirating books negatively affects authors directly* in a way that pirating movies or TV shows doesn't affect actors or writers, so I will likely always be anti-book piracy unless there's absolutely, positively no other option (i.e. the book simply doesn't exist outside of online archives at all, or in a particular language).

Also, yeah, Libby and Hoopla licenses are really expensive, but libraries buy them SO THAT PATRONS CAN USE THEM. If you're gonna be pissed at anybody about this shitty state of affairs, be pissed at publishing companies and continue to use Libby or Hoopla at your library so we can continue to justify having it to our funding bodies.

One of the best ways to support your library having services you like is to USE THOSE SERVICES. Yes, even if they are expensive.

*Yes, this is a blog post, but it's a blog post filled with links to news articles. If you can click one link, you can click another.

#books & libraries #libraries #why are people still pirating non textbooks in the year of our lord 2024 #libraries are excellent and they want people to use them

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🖤💜 Happy international asexuality day! 🖤💜🐀

Asexuality is the lack of sexual attraction to others, or low or absent interest in or desire for sexual activity 🖤💜

#asexual pride #asexual #asexuality

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Daniel's memories of Alice being memories of Armand

Daniel first mentions Alice in episode 2 of season 1. He's served a dessert that he mentions he ate after asking his first wife Alice to marry him in Paris (a city significant to Armand). Why are Louis and Armand serving him something that would remind him of Alice? Hmm. He goes on to describe a unique physical trait she had:

I remember finding this a weird detail when I first watched this scene. But after the scene of Armand taking off his contacts to reveal his vamp eyes, I feel like it could be a reference to that. This still felt like a stretch but the proposal scene from today's episode convinced me.

Louis asks Daniel what Alice said when he proposed to her and Daniel suddenly has a memory of Armand from the past.

The timing of this memory as he's being asked about Alice can't be a coincidence. He looks at Armand in confusion. And when he finally admits that she said no. It's ARMAND who replies that she wanted to say yes.

Why would Armand know this? Why would he feel the need to tell Daniel this after seeing him looking wrecked by the memory?

And then there's Louis' remark about Daniel feeling more comfortable holding Alice's hand in Paris than in America:

Earlier in the episode, Louis talks about Paris being less racist than America. I think this line is about him thinking Paris is also less homophobic than America.

It's not the first time Louis hinted at Daniel being bi or gay.

I don't think this memory is about Daniel literally asking Armand to marry him. But pretty much the equivalent when you are a human in love with a vampire. He probably asked Armand to turn him so they could spend eternity together and Armand said no.

#amc iwtv #iwtv spoilers #iwtv #interview with the vampire #gif warning #this fan theory is such a twisty one for me #I think Alice is real but I am intrigued by the notion that some memories of her could be memories of Armand #like I keep thinking about that moment in last episode where Armand finished his supposed backstory and he and Daniel just stared #and it was like this moment of sympathy before Daniel makes a joke #and how Louis and Armand clearly aren’t currently in love the way they’re falling in love with the past #so intrigued on where this is going

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Mad Max: Fury Road (2015) dir. George Miller

#gif warning #weapon tw #gun tw #mmfr #mad max fury road #god what a superb film #let’s retell the Trojan cycle but penthesilea is the main character and it’s an apocalyptic future #bizarre perfect concept #and the furiosa max dynamic fascinates me #don’t know if I’ll see the prequel because this movie is so good on its own #though I’m glad to see appreciation for it appearing again

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Bothersome beast, comforting friend

#2d animation #cat #cats #art #no but this is 100% what cats are like #the deep love but also why aren’t you up and feeding me at 3 am #like samwise has developed jumping on me to wake him #which he sees as great fun but he also doesn’t realize he is a tall boy and not kitten sized anymore

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Dionysus and Ariadne: being already married for centuries

Dionysus: still being love struck by her 💘

#dionysus x ariadne #correct interpretation x5000 #dionysus #Ariadne #greek mythology #greco roman #Greek myth #fanart

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Sometimes a creative outlet is a fun little hobby and sometimes it's a lifelong affliction. Like I crochet because making little woven animals sparks joy and I'm a writer whether I like it or not because I'm tormented by visions

#writing #yeah it’s like making things and sewing is fun but I have no desire to make it my life #writing is like if I don’t do it my mental health tanks

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So, thanks to President Biden’s Infrastructure Bill, remote locations on the Navajo Nation Reservation will be receiving electricity for the first time — ever.

Also, water treatment devices are being developed to help the tribe access clean running water. After decades without.

#infrastructure bill #us politics #important #Biden is very much not great on all issues #but it’s important to see what is improving and what will be lost and be so much worse under the orange man

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what if i told you that a lot of “Americanized” versions of foods were actually the product of immigrant experiences and are not “bastardized versions”

#food tw #food #us culture #history #we say melting pot for a reason

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all of us who thought watcher’s “big announcement” was the return of the hotdaga rn

#I don’t post much about watcher and ex buzzfeed stuff but yeah #making a streaming service is a remarkably bad idea #feels like it goes against their whole ethos #watcher

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if you give “stupid” characters rural/southern accents i don’t like you and if you give “smart” characters rural/southern accents but it’s a punchline i don’t like you even more

#cursing tw #regionalism is a thing in the us and people don’t like to address that prejudice #because then people in the north and Midwest would have to fess up that they’re being racist #we’re all complicit you numbnuts #if you think people from the south (the region with the most poc) are dumb I judge you so hard

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FTLOH 2023 | David & Mocheal’s relationship

#gif warning #the lost boys #they knew #Joel Schumacher made it pretty clear on set

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HAPPY INTERNATIONAL ASEXUALITY DAY!!

-April 6th

#international asexuality day #asexual #ace #ace pride #asexuality #and yet no one has thrown me a parade today this is acephobic

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thoughts on hadestown? orpheus and eurydice oh my

Foaming at the mouth and clawing at the bars of my enclosure

#hadestown #musicals #greek mythology #Greek myth #Greco Roman #fanart #this is incredible #hades as a literal cyborg while he sings of the power of machinery a+++

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I’m so excited 😆

#the lost boys #musicals #musical theater #screaming #this is the second attempt at a musical for this show but I’m still so amped #if they don’t lean into the camp of the original it won’t work though #so I really hope they do Michael Arden tends to be excellent at stuff like this

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romance is DEAD

#NO #les mis #don’t do this to me spielbach #you met and fell in love on tour… #truly is romance no longer real #les miserables