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Maura & Jane | Rizzoli & Isles 2x08

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Suite!verse

Kind of need to know if anyone else has read this series???

#supernatural #spn #dean winchester #sam winchester #It’s dark #it has shipping #set in season 3 #pre-hell dean #Posting on my side-b #tumblr is messed up #and i don’t have messaging capabilities on my main #Wincest

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That’s the ugliest snowman I’ve ever drawn seen, Thor. Luckily, Loki is gonna fix it. Merry Christmas! 

#thor #loki #kid loki #kid thor #fanart

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happy holidays from the vampire family!

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little halloween illustration i did this year with papamin and the children 🐅

#nanami kento #yuji itadori #jjk fanart #fanart #megumi fushiguro #nobara kugisaki

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my babies as team rocket (aka just me redrawing my old work bc i hv no interesting idea for them in halloween)

twt

#sashisu #jjk #jujutsu kaisen #gojo satoru #geto suguru #shoko ieiri

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happy halloween!!! gohan and his two little devils hehe 👀😈 had so much fun with this one!!

quick doodle of goku and gohan because the idea came to mind while drawing the halloween picture 😭😭😭

and ofc… an alternative version because i needed to draw beast gohan as a devil too… 😩

#dragon ball z #dragon ball super #dbz #dbs #dragon ball super hero #gohan #son gohan #videl #pan #son pan

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i got more papamin au drawings to show off here so have my halloween 2021 version 🎃 🐅

#jjk fanart #jujutsu kaisen #nanami kento #yuji itadori

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happy october

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Not celebrating the 4th of July, but I will celebrate one of the best moms in anime. Happy birthday, Inko!

#inko midoriya #my hero academia #bnha #mha

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Happy birthday to Dido Elizabeth Belle (c.1761-1804), whose birthday was celebrated around 29th June.

Source: English Heritage

Images:

Gugu Mbatha-Raw in Belle (2013)

Cropped Painting by David Martin

Portrait by Mikéla Henry-Lowe

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Happy Mother’s Day

#Thor #Loki #frigga

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richard siken - the torn-up road / jennifer s. cheng - so we must meet apart / alejandra pizarnik - extracting the stone of madness / marie howe - the gate / richard siken - boot theory / taylor swift - my tears ricochet / unknown / richard siken - you are jeff / richard siken – a primer for the small weird loves / mitski - a pearl / carole maso - the art lover / andrés cerpa - the vault / fortesa latifi

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jam reiderson at SDCC 2022

#sam reid #jacob anderson #jam reiderson

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Who's your favorite VC character and ✨why✨?

Easy answer, anon. Always and forever Armand.

That's the easy part of the answer. Here comes the hardest part: Why?... Why, indeed.

Believe it or not, 'The Vampire Armand' was the first book I ever read out of the entire Vampire Chronicles series. No, I am not Assad Zaman. Truth is I never had access to any of the VC books until one day I found a brand new copy of the hardcover 'The Vampire Armand' for the equivalent of 2 dollars. Yes, I mean the book with this gorgeous cover.

It was a no-brainer. I got it. I read it in one sitting. The sun began to rise outside the window as I read the last pages. He became almost substancial to me in the wake of that dawn. And that was the moment I realized I was utterly in love with Armand... forevermore.

The circumstances of his life and his introduction to vampirism struck me as something utterly tragic and beautiful, in the way a wilting bouquet of flowers can be beautiful. The way he uses language to convey—no, to paint—feeling caught me off guard entirely, drawing me further and further into his world with each page. I can still feel the humidity he describes permeated the convent where Lestat lay comatose. I will never forget the translucent red velvet curtains around his and Marius's bed. Nothing will ever erase from my mind the heat of the bonfire where he lost his brothers. And no, I will never ever hear Beethoven's Appassionata without picturing Sybelle convulsing against the piano.

Now, understand I read (and re-read twice) 'The Vampire Armand' and only one year later did I finally get access to 'Interview with the Vampire' and the rest of the books in the series. I swam in Armand's words, only half understanding some of his references to other circumstances and characters, for an entire year.

As I read the series, seeing Armand through other character's eyes, I knew his voice already. I knew when Louis misunderstood his simplicity in 'Interview with the Vampire', I cried when Lestat dismissed his pleas in 'The Vampire Lestat', I understood his conflict and pain in the turning of Daniel and I raged when Marius demanded his unconditional love and support in 'Queen of the Damned'. Now, don't get me wrong, I loved him, but I understood as I kept reading he had the habit of doing terrible terrible things to others while failing to see, in his simplicity, how that impacted them and himself in the process. Of course I knew that in his own "biography" he had skipped over entire traumatic and violent actions he had done and disregarded his role in his misery. But I saw the cycles he was falling into. I knew he didn't, but I did.

And as I read on, book after book, I understood his silence and aloofness, his throbbing sorrow. And even as I passed 'The Vampire Armand' and kept reading, I knew I could never love another character as I loved him.

Do I defend some of his actions? No, absolutely not. But I understand his depth. I approached the entire VC series through his eyes, really, and that is why I could never truly love Lestat. Most of VC readers are drawn in by Lestat's charisma but I was drawn in by Armand's depth of feeling.

He is my favorite character because he is flawed and desolate, stricken by a grief so profound it is almost pathological... but it isn't. He is my favorite because he ultimately learned that grief can be conquered through love.

No matter how much pain and abuse, manipulation and violence he suffered and made others suffer, he eventually understood that devotion is not love, and faith doesn't have to be fervent to be true. Ultimately he embraced his passionate nature, working his way into a safe expression of it. By the end of the series ('Blood Communion') he is just beginning his real journey, and that is so... healing to both him and us as an audience. And for that... I will always love his journey and his place in this universe.

He always deserved to be surrounded by flowers... and flowers he got. Even if it took him a while to understand they didn't have to be funeral to be for him.