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callisteios · 7 months
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Hi, feel free to take my new uquiz to discover what kind of vampire you are!
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ash-and-starlight · 4 months
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one day, in a thousand years
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dozydawn · 1 year
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Mayerling.
Melissa Hamilton and Rupert Pennefather.
Lauren Cuthbertson and Thiago Soares.
Natalia Osipova and Edward Watson.
Melissa Hamilton and Rupert Pennefather.
Natalia Osipova and Edward Watson.
Sarah Lamb and Steven McRae.
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josukespimphand · 2 months
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welcometogrouchland · 3 months
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[ID in alt text, transcripts for comics also found there!]
🎉🎇HAPPY NEW YEAR!🎇🎉
Sure was a year...This is just me taking the end of year opportunity to post the various DC comics doodles that have been gathering dust in my files! Disclaimer that I'm a heathen who mostly reads batfam comics (and also a lot of. Sidekick-y stuff? Like YJ98) and these are all for fun! (Image #3 is a direct adaptation of this text post I made)
#dc comics#dc#cassandra cain#damian wayne#roy harper#lian harper#cassie sandsmark#maya ducard#flatline dc#kathy branden#...im hesitant to tag steph bc i feel like everytime i tag her the post refuses to show in her tag#stephanie brown#anyway yeah uhhh recently bought the yj98 omnibus (IT'S FUCKING HUGE) so that's why cassie redesign#years and years ago i posted a draft of a cassie redesign that's like. similar to what i have but i vastly prefer this version#OH!#i forgot to tag stephcass :(#whoopsie#but yeah i did a lot of steph reading this year (STILL SO MUCH TO DO) and ouughh boy. she's had her claws in my brain ever since#damian and dick are there. nough said#<- I'm extremely mentally ill about them there's just still a lot for me to read. i have nightwing rebirth with them! and some early b&r 09#also robin 2021 issue. 4? i wanna say? the one where dick gives damian his bday present. makes me cry like a pressure washer#also I'm so sorry if I've somehow managed to (in my extremely limited presentation of them) present roy and lian as ooc in anyway#I've only read arsenal 1998 bc it was a mini. hit or miss but it did imprint a love of roy and lian on me#I'm only semi following the current green arrow run rn mostly for those 2#(also sidenote the guy who writes current GA is ALSO writing B&R AND SUPERMAN??? AND A G.I JOE COMIC????-#-girl say what you want about his work it's a miracle any of it is comprehensible at all w/ all those titles going on)#(he said he's not sure how long he'll stay on GA tho. I'm also low-key not sure how long he'll stay on B&R-#-though i imagine it'll be at least a years worth bc he said that's how much notes he has for plot? also idk if many other writers at dc-#-are interested in damian rn especially next to Bruce)#HOO this got away from me I'm outta tags. uhhhh see u guys in 2014! woo!
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vellichorsdesire · 6 days
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f/o who doesn’t know they’re touchstarved until they meet you.
the heavy want grows in their chest and is absolutely undeniably there whenever you two even just briefly touch. when you’re so close that they’re so desperate have you closer, wanting to feel their body pressed against yours in a tight embrace, that the thought of your hand in theirs is barely enough. when you two finally hug, or whenever you do, they sink into your embrace almost immediately, a deep sigh of content heard as they wrap their arms around you to return the tender hug. it’s a little hard to get their arms off you afterward, with those small mumbles of “just a little longer” and “i don’t want to let go yet.”
maybe they’re super embarrassed about feeling so at first and are so glad whenever you indulge in their desire to have you, to feel your warmth. or they’re incredibly stubborn about it but their actions always say otherwise, finding every little chance to have their skin touch yours, to quietly tug on your sleeve or any other sign that you immediately know what they want with it.
eitherway they’re forever thankful that you’re so understanding. with the little touches you guys end up doing like from simply pushing a strand of hair behind an ear or running fingers through each other’s hair, they’re absolutely addicted. smitten, even, so incredibly much that they can’t put their love for this, for you into words.
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happyheidi · 11 months
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erenthology · 6 months
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Assertive
Rugby boyfriend!Eren x fem!reader
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collage au, possessive but in an infatuated boyfriend type of way. Size differences are mentioned. No matter your size, Eren is bigger than you. (Note: going to be more active now that Aot is ending. Feel free to send requests ♡)
I don’t mind if you’re ignoring me, cuz I’m ignoring you. “ he watches you bounce around the room in your thin, white nightdress. 
You continue looking for your phone, ignoring him. There’s no way you haven’t searched every inch of his dorm room by now, so you finally look at him. He’s laying on the bed shirtless, hands behind his neck, looking at you innocently. That f’ckin bastard.
“Do you have my phone, Eren?”
He flashes his teeth, “ugh, baby, you have no idea how nice it is to hear your voice again. C’mere.” he pats his lap.
You sternly put your hand on top of your hip, arching it to the side, giving Eren the perfect view. “Do you have it or not?” He doesn’t even try to hide his smirk.
”Do I? I'm not sure. You should come over and look,” stretching his arms out in an inviting pose.
Earlier, Eren’s roommate, Floch, made a joke about how he can hear when you and Eren are having sex. When you told Eren, he rushed out of the room and ordered Floch to apologize. Completely scolding him like a dad. You felt embarrassed since you didn’t want his friends to think you can’t take a joke.
You know he’s just going to grab and pull you towards him, so instead, you start walking towards the door. Eren tenses immediately and rushes towards you,
‘’Hey, hey” he grabs your hand. ”where do you think you’re going?’’ he questions with furrowed eyebrows.
‘’To ask if the guys have they’ve seen it?’’ 
His eyes flash red for a second. To have his friends see the outline of your nipples through that thin fabric of your so called pajamas? He looks you up and down, nope, not happening. You should be wearing his t-shirts to bed anyway.
 ‘’Not like that, you’re not,’’ he gives you an ‘’end of discussion’’ look, but you huff and turn anyway. Not that you get far at all, he has you slung over his shoulders before you’ve even fully turned.
The con of having a rugby player as a boyfriend is that he throws you around a lot without so much as breaking a sweat. When you’re mad at him, he has this irritating habit of lifting you off the ground and cuddling you until you’ve cooled down. Claiming it “breaks his heart watching you walk away angry.”
He walks towards the bed, ignoring your fists punching at his back. “You’re such a brat sometimes.” He doesn't mind at all though, Eren has the patience of a saint when it comes to his girl, he enjoys being the one to set you straight.
He carefully lies you down on his bed, positions himself on top and grins, ‘’gotcha,’’ then smacks a kiss on your cheek. ‘’You’re annoying.” you pinch his ear in retaliation.
“Ow, hey, you know you’re stronger than you look.” he scratches his reddened ear. ‘’I'm being deadass, baby, you could go pro in armwrestling or some shit.’’ You burst out laughing over how dramatic he’s being and his eyes lit up from the sound. Your smile always captivates him.
Feeling yourself being stared at, you grin cheekily, unable to hide your smile “weirdo, stop staring,’’ brushing your fingers against his stubble. His eyes follow the movement of your hand and begin tracing the shape of your figure when all of a sudden he starts attacking you in tickles.
You’re both advancing on each other playfully, laughing hysterically. In an attempt to roll out of his reach, Eren quickly reacts by by grabbing your hands and pins them above your head. The laughter is quickly replaced with heavy pants as you stare at him naively, your chest rising up and down.
Snapping out of his thoughts, he lets go of his grip and rests his head on your chest, “you know, it doesn’t matter if you’re mad. I don’t want you to feel uncomfortable staying here.’’ he gently admits, then lifts his head,
‘’plus, I’m the only one who has a say about you in bed.” he wiggles his eyebrows.
“Gross,’’ you push his chest, apparently amusing him by the look on his face. ‘‘but it’s fine, really. I just wanted to ignore the situation, but I guess he should learn that not everything needs to be said.’’ At this, he grins and takes ahold of your chin,
‘’that’s a good girl.’’
You ignore the heat rising in your face and smack his hand away when you suddenly remember, ‘’speaking off, where is my phone? You know I need to do my nightly routine check.’’
He knows. It’s the reason he slipped it under his pillow the moment you started throwing a fit. It’s nice having the most predictable girl on the planet. ‘’You can do it later, let a man enjoy his girl for a moment. You can be mad at me after.’’
‘’I'm not mad at you’’ you look genuinely offended, causing him to snicker. “Besides, I kinda liked the whole sexy, scolding dad thing you had going on. It was kinda turning me on,” you admit, looking straight into his eyes.
His hands on your hips stiffen instantly and his whole demeanor changes. “Don’t even joke, [name] I will put a baby in you right this second,” large hands grab your ass and starts grinding your body against his.  
You attempt to leave but he drags you right back, looking at you confused. Looking down, you purr, “I really need to do my routine check,” sticking out your lower lip for extra effect.
You love to rile him up and have him mock you for being greedy and bratty. His face gets closer to yours with his eyebrows all furrowed.
“Did you just pout at me?”
“Nuh uh,” you lie and tease your hand against his belt, Eren’s eyes follow your movements then trace back up to your face, where you’re innocently meeting his eyes.
He grabs a fistful of your hair and looks down at your hand playing against his bulge. ‘’You wanna get fucked?’’ he spits with disgust, or admiration. It’s hard to tell with him.
“Know you enjoy keeping me on edge, acting all innocent when we both know,” He tucks a strand of hair behind your ear, eyes lingering just a second too long on your lips. Thoughts on ways to tame you running wild in his head.
‘’Telling me it turned you on when I was commanding,’’ he shakes his head as if disappointed.‘’It's good I’m here to keep you in line. A girl like you needs that.’’
You feel the imprint of him on your stomach as his hips press you down on the bed, leaving you no space to leave. You try your best to keep your voice steady. “Just wanna make you happy,’ you breathe out. He almost laughs. 
“You know what would make me happy?‘’ Eren stands and lifts you up with him.
‘’you with my cock in your mouth.” You almost go limp in his arms from how lewd he's being. 
Giving you an expectant look, he nudges your nose with his, “are you waiting for something? get to work.” he guides you down on your knees towards his crotch. The carnal look in his eyes makes you fumble a bit with his belt, but Eren is patient. Sometimes you suspect he enjoys seeing you nervous to perform for him.
Pressing a kiss on the tip, he returns his gratitude by patting your hair in a domineering act, “make me proud.’’ he smiles, in which you relish. Keeping eye contact, you swirl your tongue around his shaft before hollowing your cheeks and start working your way down. You can’t help but gag at his size, no matter how often you blow him. 
It’s been quiet for some time now and you’re growing impatient with the lack of praise. You decide to look up at him through the tears in your eyes and catch him smiling down at you. The scene feels so filthy you can’t help but slyly drag your fingers over your panties to relieve some of the pressure, secretly humping your hips against your hand to the sound of his pants. 
He just nearly cums in your mouth when he notices what you’re up to. Shamelessly playing with yourself, mouth filled with cock, you look straight out of Eren’s nastiest fantasies, it was perfect.
He bends down and pulls your hand out from under your nightdress, “Not yet, need you to be a good girl for me.’’ Then he does the hottest thing all night, he leans down to give it a kiss. You love him. He makes you feel like a princess getting fucked by her knight.
Feeling enthusiastic again, you eagerly reach for him to continue where you left off, but are stopped yet again. Whining, you wait for him any sort of command, just to do something, anything! but he looks so unaffected it’s making you wail even louder.
 “stop whining, you don’t deserve to suck my dick.” Despite the warning, you almost do it again but stop yourself when you notice the glare you’re given. “But I really needa feel you, Eren. It hurts down there.” you were so wet it felt like you were about to explode from the lack of release. 
He's only a man after all, even he has his limits when you wail pathetically about how wet your pussy is. Now he needs to have a look. He pulls you up by your torso, ‘’does sucking me off make you wet?’’ You nod and visibly see his ego lit up.  
A thin sheen of sweat connects your bodies as he effortlessly carries you over to his bed. You take advantage of your flexibility and spread your legs as far apart as you can once he lays you down, earning a groan out of him.
He doesn't hesitate a moment further to push his face in there and peek under your dress. “such a pretty cunt, princess. no idea how often I jerk off thinking about it, about this,” kissing through your soaked panties. Your hips jerk upwards at his erotic words, desperate for friction.
“Eren, please”
He pushes your panties to the side but keeps them on. It’s like he’s so needy for you he can’t be bothered to take off either of your clothes properly, but patient enough to check out every inch of you as if seeing you like this for the first time.
Eren’s broad body consumes your smaller frame as you lie beneath him. You love this feeling, him shielding your body from anyone and anything but himself. 
 His ring covered fingers play softly with your bud, observing your reactions before lining himself against you, causing goosebumps to erupt all over your skin. The sight of Eren being almost abnormally endeavored by your pussy as he spits on his hand and pumps his cock, increases the heat pooling in your abdomen. 
You lie still, enjoying the sensation of him rubbing and tapping himself against you. His eyes are fixated entirely on your cunt and you enjoy every bit of the attention. Not to say you’re not curious about what goes on in his mind when he’s focused and quiet like this. Like your body is art and he is studying and memorizing every part of it.
Once satisfied, he pushes through the tight hindrance and sucks in a breathe, “oh, fuck.” and finally looks up at you. His heart stops a beat when he’s reminded of how beautiful you are. The urge to hide you away from anyone's eyes but his, hits him strong but he bites it back.
Time slows for a moment as you both take each other in through half lidded eyes, and for some reason, your vision has never been as clear. His fingers thread through yours as he leans in for a kiss. When he pulls away, your eyes are still closed. Eren grins and places one last kiss on your forehead before thrusting his way in. 
He’s fucking you with his hips, hard. Hands pressing down your pelvic, holding you still for him to ram into. The strap of your nightdress has slightly fallen down your shoulders, so he pushes the fabric that’s hiding you from him down further, and exposes your breasts. The moan he lets out from the sight is pure filth. 
‘’Touch yourself.’’ he demanded, pupils dilated. With glazed over eyes, you comply and start playing with yourself, twisting and grazing your nipples. The act drives him to lift your hips to reach deeper into you,’’really thought i’d let you walk out of my room looking like this.’’ he grows almost annoyed at the thought. 
Tenderly cupping his cheek, he almost flinches from how lovingly you’re looking at him, “You’re all I want, Eren.’’ and he almost melts. When you say things like that it makes him want to keep you to himself even more, resting his forehead against yours, he looks at you with almost a pained expression. ‘’that’s good, because i'm a selfish man.’’
 With your legs lifted around his waist and upper body sprawled on the bed, you’re essentially at his mercy as he connects your bodies in repeated thrusts. Again, again and again, the sound of him pushing into you echoes in the room. 
He fucks like a deprived man and speaks like a man in love. “Does it feel good, princess?’’ You nod with lovestruck eyes. ‘’Yeah? taking me so well. making me so proud.’’ The pressure feels too intense, about to snap.
He’s stretching you on his cock and looking straight into your eyes as he's doing it. Your body dissolves into pleasure as you writhe beneath him.
Your body starts squirming uncontrollably, causing him to grip your hips ever tighter, overpowering you in strength. You let out a loud sob and rake your nails on his back when your vision suddenly fades to black. He stares at you, astonished.
He raises an eyebrow, “did you just cum?” the thusting has stopped completely now but you felt his dick twitch inside you as he asked. “Tried to hold it in for you,” you stare back apologetically, eyes still sprinkled with lust. Best part is, he knows you didn’t. And you know it too. 
“Turn around,” he orders. You obey and slump towards the bed with your back against him, hiding your face in the pillows. “Don’t act all shy with me now, let’s see your face,” he leaves no room for discussion, so you slowly turn your head and face him. He looks so big staring down at you from your vulnerable position. “That’s a good, good girl.” 
Next thing you know, your cheeks are being spread and played with. Still high on ecstasy from the orgasm you just had, the energy to perform is nonexistent, so he does the job for you.
Huge hands angle your limp body upwards, then press down your back to create a beautiful arch, only for his eyes to admire. He sinks back inside and buries his cock in your warmth.
It’s hard maintaining eye contact with him when he’s like this, it feels so shameless, almost taboo, still, you can’t look away. He’s pounding into you, pulling your hips hard against him.
“This is what you’re making me do, looking at me like that. No one else will ever be able to see you like this,” he occupies his thumb by rubbing it over your clit. The contact is so delicate but rapid nonetheless.
You nod agreeably, barely able to register his words. “Are you close, Eren?’’
“Yeah,” his hands pressed down tightly on your lower abdomen, the scream you let out is almost inhumane. ‘’yes, yes.” you’re grinding back against him in heated motions, shockwaves of heat pumping through your body.
He snaps his pelvic against your ass and feels you sucking him right back in.  He thinks back to what you said before about him as a dad and his eyes roll back. The thought of you carrying his child inside you makes him come undone.
“Ugh, fuck.” He comes audibly high etc, covering you in his cum. You expect him to catch his breath but he smoothly regains his composure and pushes you on your back, his thumb finding its way right back to your clit, barely even getting started before leading you to your second orgasm.
You scream in pleasure as he cups your face, lips brushing against your ear. “That's it, princess, you did so well for daddy. made me so proud.” he praises as he pushes your hair out of your face. 
The lack of response makes him laugh, realizing he’d fucked you to sleep, litterally. chuckling, he grabs a warm cloth and cleans you up to his best effort.
You’re usually sleepy right after sex so this is a regular routine for you both. He smacks a kiss on the top of your head and covers you with his comforter then goes for a shower.
Once he’s done, he carries you up bridal style to the bathroom. “Wake up, sleepy.” he’s back to his sweet self. You grunt in response. “C’mon, you need to pee.’’ It’s true, so you comply and he leaves you to it. 
This is a conversation you’ve both had before, he feels no need to leave when you do your business but you’ve kicked him out enough times so he knows the drill by now. Eren changes the bedsheets while you clean up.
When finished, you walk back to the bed and he opens his arm for you to rest on, your phone lying beside him. You jump at the invitation and he hugs you towards him, ‘’what do you feel like eating?’’ he’s playing with your hair as you lie comfortably on his arm. 
“Not hungry.’’ you murmur.
Eren fights the urge to sigh. “Sorry, not up for debate.’’ He saves himself the trouble and orders for you both, knowing you’ll feel hungry once you see him eat.
When the food arrives, you end up wanting exactly what Eren ordered for himself.
‘’You’re a big baby.’’ he sulks and rolls his eyes, but feeds you nonetheless. You don’t miss the look on his face as you take a bite from his hand. One thing about Eren? he can and will fuck multiple times a day if you let him.
‘’down, boy. i’m not tryna have my guts rearranged after eating food.’’
He grins, ‘’I didn’t say anything’.’ knowing he’ll do exactly that when you’re done eating.
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humming-fly · 8 months
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Just like Justin Mcelroy's callbacks to the chilean miners I have once again emerged to deliver this, More Team Greed Nonsense, this time featuring stupid questions ed asks to get out of work
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ngl drawing this is the most clear headed I've felt in weeks if i go longer then seven days without drawing greedling I start going through withdrawl
to that end have a second bonus:
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Team Greed Doodles Masterlist
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shitty ULTRAKILL moodboard
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16perceval · 1 month
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i’ve got a burnin’ desire for you, baby
just another lil friendly reminder to go follow backup in case i get deleted again pls: @still-ur-average-girlnextdoor ❤️‍🔥
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indiestarlight · 1 month
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I really do think it would be very, very beneficial for people in fandom to spend some time looking into how long it takes to create their favorite media, because oh my god I am so tired of seeing people say "[Thing] is taking so long to come out!!!" and then I look at how long they've been waiting for [Thing] to come out and it's like, 1/3 of the average time it takes to produce that form of media.
I am not an expert on all forms of media, but just to talk about the ones I'm familiar with:
Fiction podcasts are usually in production for at least a year before they start releasing episodes. Nonfiction podcasts can be anywhere from 3-12+ months IME. For a seasonal fiction pod, you'll probably need at least a year of production time per season.
Novels often take 2-3+ years to write. Keep in mind that "writing a novel" is more than just "typing out the words". Writing a novel is plotting, outlining, building a world, developing characters, creating multiple unique storylines that all somehow tie together into one coherent whole, and so much damn editing. It gets even more finicky once you bring traditional publishing into play, which has so many of its own weird, messy things to deal with (@xiranjayzhao has been talking about this a lot, and I really recommend checking out everything they have to say about it. Also, pre-order Heavenly Tyrant.)
I've never worked on a TV show or full-length movie before, though I have worked on the sets of short films before. I once acted in a 2-3 minute short film that required months of planning, a 14-hour filming day, and then a few more months of editing. And again, this was to produce less than five minutes of film!
If you're upset because the new season of your favorite TV show hasn't come out six months after the last one ended, or because it's taking a few years for the next book in your favorite series to come out: I am begging of you to understand that art takes time to make. Good art takes even more time. Good art made by artists who are being treated well takes more time still. The artists behind the art you love are people. Please remember to treat them like they are.
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oreegaanoo · 2 months
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I associate blue flowers with them even if they're the ones exchanging red roses, idk why :)
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capn-o-my-soul · 5 months
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okie i made an art but there is some context to it
so my sister was studying in the haunted theology building on her college campus because it was open and it had rooms to study in . and since it is a theology building lots of people who like catholicism go in there. so my sister finishes working on her paper or whatever and it's like 2 am and she sees a piece of paper in the hallway that says "what is your favorite saint?" with a bunch of names of catholic saints that people like that they put on there. so my sister (an atheist) makes up a fake saint name (st. chadwick the bold) and writes it on the paper.
however, since it was darkish and lateish she accidentally wrote "bold" in a way that it could be misinterpreted as "bald"
now the next day she's having a movie night with friends and tells them about it and one of them draws a very reverent, very bald monk-saint on a whiteboard . and then they make a prayer to st. chadwick the b[o/a]ld
and then when she told me about it this weekend i thought i could use it as a chance for calligraphy / gothic graphic design practice so i made this
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behold
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diasdelfuego · 1 month
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say a nazi walks into a bar (i'm not setting up a punchline). if you let that nazi buy a drink and hang out, soon you'll have a dozen nazis hanging out in your bar, and your bar will become a nazi bar.
the vampterview fandom is incredibly small: the number of 'active' fans —people creating and sharing fanworks or generally just posting and talking about the show, as opposed to watching without engaging— across tumblr/twitter/ao3 can't be much more than a couple hundred, the ao3 tag for iwtv 2022 has barely just broken 2k (and, in over a decade and a half, the vampire chronicles tag struggled to make 2k, with about a third of those works posted only after the show premiered), the most popular twitter accounts hardly reach 5k followers. yet i've seen bigotry in this space on par with the peak of the teen wolf or star wars sequels fandoms —fandoms with ~100k fanworks and over on ao3, with thousands of active fans across social media, with 'big name fans' with tens of thousands of followers; behemoths compared to iwtv. 
fandom racism is nothing new, but this fandom is something else. 
smarter people than me have already pointed to the primary reason for the particularly egregious bigotry in this space: anne rice herself. her work is ridden with racism, misogyny, homophobia and abuse apologia; her personal politics were just as nefarious as her writing; and she personally attacked anyone who dared criticize her, and encouraged her fans to do the same. it's no wonder that she spawned a fanbase as rotten as she was.
in the decades before the show, any criticism of the prevalent racism, misogyny, homophobia, abuse apologia and eroticization of pedophilia in the vampire chronicles was met with either dismissal or hostility; and that is still very often the case a year and a half after the premiere. 
from the moment the show was announced there was the usual racist backlash, including old-school vc fans review-bombing the show across platforms and posting all kinds of hate speech on social media. looking up iwtv on either tumblr or twitter would take you to a barrage of racism. back then, there was a small and loud minority of people who were excited, and any expression of such eagerness was likely to bring with it at least a few trolls in your mentions/comments/reblogs hating on the casting of louis and claudia. 
(a few of the show's early detractors have "rebranded" and, after saying shit like "the show only made louis black to appeal to the woke mob" and ranting about "disrespecting the source material" for ages, decided to start seeking clout with new show fans by presenting themselves as old book fandom scholars and whatnot.)
when the show finally aired, and for weeks (if not months) afterwards, fans posting fanfiction based on the show using the vampire chronicles tag on ao3 had their comments flooded with slurs and all kinds of violent harassment —though nobody ever batted an eye when people used the book tag for movie fanfiction, despite the several crucial differences between the source and both movies, and the fact that both movies have been historically reviled as bad adaptations.
many people who tried to "come into" the fandom while the show was airing saw the state of the tags and were discouraged from the very beginning, and many of those who actually tried to engage were met with such abuse that they promptly stopped posting about iwtv, or even deleted their accounts altogether. fans have been harassed out of the fandom for nothing more than calling the domestic abuse in the show what it is, for acknowledging the themes that the show itself is setting up regarding racist and patriarchal violence, or simply for being black. black people who are just watching the show and decide to share their thoughts are met with a barrage of condescension and insults; and every other day fans are getting racist and transphobic hate speech in their inboxes, or in their twitter mentions. 
but when self-proclaimed 'fandom spokespeople' decide to speak up about "fandom drama" it's to falsely accuse black fans of harassment or bullying, to defend bigots' right to completely unchallenged speech and a platform, or to publish 'block lists' made up of mostly black people, sending further harassment their way. this blatantly racist targeting of fellow fans is allowed, but anyone attempting to criticize actual bigotry is labelled as an 'anti' and a bully. it has long become evident that 'anti-antis' are 'anti' critical thinking, 'anti' anti-racism, and overwhelmingly anti-black, and nowhere is it as blatant as in this fandom.
now the argument is being made that this is "about shipping", about people being "anti lestat" or "anti loustat", about an entirely made up subset of fans who are (supposedly) convinced that armand is the hero come to save louis from lestat. mind you, nobody who has read the books is under any illusion about what kind of character armand is, we are all aware of what armand has done/will do, and we know that he's, at best, a different kind of evil, but just as evil as lestat. we know that the show is headed towards a loustat 'endgame', we know that sam has talked at length about how much lestat will have to endure in future seasons in order to be 'redeemed', and the loser who was pretending to be a naive loumand shipper has long come forward to admit to being a troll; but people love to misrepresent the discussion as if it were an issue of shipping, and not a conversation about racism.
but make no mistake, it is about racism, and that's been the case from day one. 
the rabid defense of lestat's name and honor and the frantic rewriting of canon to cast him in a better light can't be separated from the racism that runs rampant in this fandom. the vilification of claudia, louis and armand can't either. the fandom has consistently villainized brown and black characters to lionize a white man —hell, quite a few people have suggested that miss lily was probably a thief, or using louis for her own ends, of any other number of reasons why she apparently 'deserved' to be murdered by lestat (as if johns, and particularly sex tourists like him, needed any excuse to inflict violence on black sex workers). 
not unrelated, the tendency to frame show!louis as macho, violent, dominant and sexually aggressive —when nothing in the show indicates that and, on the contrary, he explicitly tells us that the masculine bravado which we see dissolve through the first three episodes and disappear completely in the fourth was only a facade he put on because of the society he lived in— is another trend that can't be looked at without taking into account racist bias, particularly the "mandingo" stereotype; and that also needs to be examined taking the source material and its reception into account: rice herself (gender essentialism aside) called louis "the woman" in the relationship, and there was never any real dispute among book fans that lestat was the dominant partner and the "patriarch" in the relationship. as the older fanfiction on ao3 will easily prove, show louis is interpreted in a completely different way —simply because of his race. 
from the moment the show was announced and especially once it aired, there were all kinds of claims that it made louis rougher, less gentle, less emotional, less sophisticated, etc. (blatantly untrue and patently racist interpretation of this iteration of the character). 
likewise, criticism of claudia's casting pretended to be about age —ignoring the practicalities that made it impossible for claudia to be a toddler in the show— but the adultification of black girls was always wrapped all around it, with claims that bailey looked too adult and too grown, or that a fourteen year old black girl could move freely through the jim crow south. and from the minute that claudia was recast there were people saying that delainey looked older, less innocent, scarier, less likable, uglier, more monstrous, that she could never replace bailey and her claudia won't be as sympathetic, none of which can be separated from the fact that delainey is a darker skinned black girl.
and some people saw the possibility that rashid was armand coming before the reveal, and more than a few were already racist about it (i remember a particularly ugly post, from a person excited by the possibility that the white teenage armand from the books could be posing as rashid through a body thief style swap, as if the way david's whole thing goes down in the books wasn't bad enough) but of course that the racism (and islamophobia!) escalated tenfold once this was confirmed. the "armand is mind-controlling louis" and "he's the real big bad" and "armand is so much worse than lestat" takes are still everywhere today. 
i want to mention two particularly rancid takes regarding armand, specifically islamophobic. on the one hand i have seen a myriad of people say that armand is not really muslim, many hoping that he's specifically still catholic orthodox. on the other, and in this case a singular example, i saw a fic, comments full of praise, in which armand's book backstory (in which he is kidnapped for no particular reason other than being in the path of slavers, by characters who are arab but never explicitly singled out as muslim) was altered so that he was specifically kidnapped by muslims who killed his father for painting the prophet muhammad (which wasn't even actually taboo when armand was alive, you can easily check that in wikipedia). 
a common (racist!) take i still see regularly is that the show lessened the source material by addressing racism explicitly, as if the books weren't ripe with antiblackness and orientalism —the difference being, of course, that in the books white supremacy is the uncontested foundation of the whole narrative, while the show actually tackles racism and other oppressive structures as something to be discussed and problematized.
likewise, the abuse that the novels portray mostly uncritically, and often doing blatant apologetics (again, inseparable from anne rice's own personal politics) is directly addressed, in a much more nuanced and more respectful manner, by amc's adaptation, but many fans either dismiss this treatment as "ruining" the books, or pull up the "justice for j0hnny d€pp" playbook to excuse lestat's violence and frame louis and claudia as equally and even more culpable. 
the argument that the show "made up" the abuse or fundamentally "changed" lestat's book character by featuring domestic violence and implied sexual assault (the bite at the end of e5) is ludicrous —plenty of people have provided text examples of lestat's violence in the books, including the implied assault of louis in his turning, his turning claudia to hold louis hostage, his threats to claudia's physical wellbeing, his physical fights with louis, his physical violence against nicki, his implied assault (the nonconsensual turning) of david and his literal rape of a woman when he's in a human body in tobt. the fact that this abuse apologia and denial has been allowed to run unchecked for the five decades since iwtv came out is simply insane to me. 
after episode three, people were basically calling louis frigid and saying he should have put out if he didn't want to get cheated on (on top of calling a gay black man in louisiana during jim crow privileged, dismissing the racism he experienced, and even blaming him for the riots at the end of the episode).
after episode five, i saw people saying that louis's "emotional withholding" or his fighting back meant that the relationship was "mutual abuse" or that the abuse was somehow deserved, and the arguments got even worse when it came to claudia. a popular lestat fan account was literally on twitter talking about how they'd cheer when she died because of her ploy to kill lestat (which is, mind you, the last resort of an abuse victim literally being held captive by her abuser). people have said that claudia was "no angel" (literal quote), and even that she orchestrated the domestic violence, manipulating lestat into attacking them. hell, one of these self-proclaimed fandom authorities was out there saying claudia and louis "don't act like abuse victims" and, later, that the 'rough sex' at the beginning of e6 amounted to louis 'raping' (they literally used the word 'rape') lestat. to this day people are insisting that louis (and claudia in her diaries) are both liars who made up or distorted the whole thing, and that next seasons will "reveal the whole truth" or "tell the real story", excited to see the narrative prove that louis and claudia were "just as bad" —and excited, in their own words, to see "that crowd", "those people", "that subset", etc. "humbled" and "put in their place". 
likewise, people discussing louis's inability to give meaningful consent during the later sex scene in e6, when he textually says that he was dissociating at the time, have been labelled as 'antis'. any discussion of the canon domestic abuse narrative that the show is setting up —even from people who actively ship loustat!— is immediately and aggressively shut down. 
and not only is any kind of critical analysis of loustat's canon relationship met with aggression, but positive engagement with loumand is equally derided. on twitter spaces, any attempt to talk about loumand's romance is immediately derailed to talk about loustat or devil's minion instead. on posts about louis and armand's relationship there's always tags, reblogs and comments about how armand is actually more concerned with daniel, or louis is actually thinking about lestat, or how their sex life has no spice. the "loumand bed death" takes abound and their prevalence isn't accidental —counterpart to the brown man as controlling and violent prejudice that motivates much of armand's vilification, the desexualization of asian men is a long racist stereotype and the incapacity to imagine a romantic or sexual relationship between two nonwhite characters also comes from what's fundamentally an inability to decenter whiteness. besides villainizing armand to recenter lestat, the overwhelming tendency to sideline louis in his own story for a hypothetical daniel/armand relationship speaks to the same mindset. 
(obligatory disclaimer that saying that a fandom-wide trend plays into, and is likely motivated by racist prejudice or stereotypes doesn't necessarily equal saying that every singular person who, for example, doesn't ship loumand, is being willingly and maliciously racist. but, at the same time, unconscious bias is real and if you don't ever stop to wonder if you might be falling into it, you will never break out of it.)
on that note, the amount of racist fanfiction in the tag is actually crazy. some of the most blatant examples include a fic equating louis bottoming for lestat to slavery, a literal rape porn fic in which louis and claudia are systematically tortured and raped by armand, and a fic which had louis referring to a black person as a gorilla. not to mention several inmate/prison guard fics, which i'm genuinely baffled to see posted completely unchallenged. other trends, like the aforementioned "armand is mind controlling louis" fics, are arguably more "subtly" racist, and for that reason all the more pervasive. 
meanwhile, in fanart, louis is drawn as taller, bulkier and darker than he actually is, especially when paired with lestat, but also with armand. 
on the other hand, armand is drawn slimmer, smaller and lighter, which necessarily has to be interpreted in light of emasculating stereotypes about asian men, as well as the pedophilia and grooming apologia in the vampire chronicles themselves. 
particularly egregious examples of this later trend are a few fanfictions where daniel is still an elder man while armand is a teenager, especially a few in which show!daniel is paired with book!armand. likewise, there's plenty of fanart where lestat is drawn with sam reid's face, but paired with a white louis, white claudia or white armand. in another specially disgusting example, a popular fanartist drew "armand" with the clothes that assad was wearing in the trailers, but the face of a light-skinned arab man, and several big fandom accounts jumped to defend this blatant whitewashing (ignoring, or not minding, that this same artist regularly draws erotic and explicit art of marius/armand in which armand looks not like the seventeen years old he's meant to be in the books, but a twelve years old child). 
artists who draw marius/armand erotica get shared far and wide, by some of the 'biggest' accounts too, and of course that, if you take issue with the rampant pedophilia apologia, you'll be labelled an 'anti' and told that you should leave the fandom altogether, that you don't have the range for anne rice's work, or that you should go read young adult romances instead. about a year ago, when the end racism in the otw campaign was going on, fans who discussed the need for a stronger ao3 policy against racist harassment were told that if they wanted a fandom space without racism, they should 'make their own'. 
perhaps most concerning, some of these marius/armand shippers are little more than children themselves. it's truly disheartening to see anne rice's pedophilia propaganda so effectively take root on teenagers, and i can only hope that these young people will come out of the other side unscathed and eventually figure out that what they were being sold was nothing but grooming apologia. 
because sure, fiction isn't reality, and i'll be the first to tell you everybody needs to read a fucked up book every once in a while, but at some point we gotta acknowledge the double standard. representation is so very important when it comes to white gay men, but racebent characters are 'appealing to the woke mob'. anne rice's 'gay vampires' changed so many gay kids' lives, but her pedophilia apologia is completely harmless. please, pick one! 
the last couple days have proven (as if it needed proving) that these rotten ideologies don't exist in isolation, that there's not even a degree of separation between online bigotry and 'real life'. these 'big' accounts are now rallying around fans who believe in 'reverse racism' and 'anti white racism', who think that affirmative action is 'the only real' racism, who consider that being called racist is 'a slur'. the loudest voices in the space will happily tell you that it's a worse offense to dislike lestat or be indifferent about sam reid than it is to spout blatant abuse apologia or be overtly anti-black. 
at some point we all gotta realize that it's not just ignorance or complacency that allow these people to remain in our fandom, it's that many people are more than content hanging out with racists. and the racists in question are not just being allowed to hang out, they're welcomed with open arms. their hate speech is defended and amplified, while any detractor is swiftly demonized; you have nothing short of white supremacist rhetoric being posted to the fandom's main tags, and in the comments everyone clapping. 
call this an attempt to balance out the discourse on the fandom tags, if anything.
sure, i try to 'curate my own space'. i use the block button liberally. i add these losers' usernames to my list of filtered words to make sure i am never extending their platform, not even to the few people who follow this account. but still, i'm not happy to sit at the bar with nazis. i don't want to be rubbing elbows with abuse apologists, i don't want to hang out with white supremacists, and i don't want to share a space with people who think that kind of bullshit is acceptable. 
i said, some months ago, that i believe there's value to transformative fandom. i still do, and a few dozen racist cunts certainly won't change that. 
i have seen quite a few fan communities —the scott mccall defense squad, iris west's candycanes, finn stans under the hashtag #rebelfinn, raven reyes fans, sambucky shippers— coalesce around antiracist ideas and foster wonderful spaces, and i'm hopeful that the same thing can happen here. 
i love the show and i have seen the creative potential in the fandom and i hope that, just like that first flood of loudest and most overt hate speech was eventually drowned out by the sheer number of new fans, this discourse will be crowded out as well and make way for smarter conversations. but we gotta start somewhere —at the very least, we gotta kick the guy who hates 'critical race theory' out of the bar, and all of their pals.
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