Nicki and Armand during their short time together in the theater. I’m really curious what other people see in this one because I intentionally left some details out of my own idea for this drawing!
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@indyfalcon got “what we do in the shadows” and “only lovers left alive” confused
happy halloween!
What makes Interview with the Vampire so bad is not that the erotic content is so explicit, but that the morbid content is so respectable.
Edith Milton’s bad review of IWTV haha! Tremendous! (via monstersinthecosmos)
Queen of the Damned: A Narrative in Rock n’ Roll
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So I recently realized that although the VC fandom has created so many great fan mixes and playlists, I don’t think I’ve seen anyone attempt to follow a cohesive narrative through music. So, I created the playlist that Lestat would have wanted all along: it tells the story of Queen of the Damned from the Lestat’s point of view, using Lestat’s favorite music: classic rock. Most of the songs are lyrically/tonally relevant, but a few of them are just for fun. Enjoy!
Songs 1-4: Lestat comes out of the ground, discovers rock music
Songs 5-7: Lestat writes The Vampire Lestat and reconnects with Louis before the concert
Songs 8-11: Lestat’s concert in San Francisco
Songs 12-14: Akasha’s arrival
Songs 15-18: Akasha teaches Lestat
Songs 19-22: Lestat questions Akasha’s authority/morality
Songs 23-24: Lestat witnesses Akasha’s downfall
Songs 25-28: The aftermath, self-reflection
peer pressure got me to watch Interview with a Vampire…I did not regret. And also did some Lestat studies at 4am
why do black people use you in the wrong context? such is “you ugly” instead of “you’re ugly” I know u guys can differentiate, it’s a nuisance
you a bitch
It’s called copula deletion, or zero copula. Many languages and dialects, including Ancient Greek and Russian, delete the copula (the verb to be) when the context is obvious.
So an utterance like “you a bitch” in AAVE is not an example of a misused you, but an example of a sentence that deletes the copular verb (are), which is a perfectly valid thing to do in that dialect, just as deleting an /r/ after a vowel is a perfectly valid thing to do in an upper-class British dialect.
What’s more, it’s been shown that copula deletion occurs in AAVE exactly in those contexts where copula contraction occurs in so-called “Standard American English.” That is, the basic sentence “You are great” can become “You’re great” in SAE and “You great” in AAVE, but “I know who you are” cannot become “I know who you’re” in SAE, and according to reports, neither can you get “I know who you” in AAVE.
In other words, AAVE is a set of grammatical rules just as complex and systematic as SAE, and the widespread belief that it is not is nothing more than yet another manifestation of deeply internalized racism.
This is the most intellectual drag I’ve ever read.
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