i kinda feel sad for armand – i mean, people seem to like lestat even though he’s a pain in the ass but when armand is like please love me!!!?? literally everybody goes hmmm nah
Most definitely not ink, but my pens need a break and I miss my pencil! But, there is ink there, so, technically, yes—inktober.
Louis and Lestat stargazing, because this one scene in Queen of the Damned as narrated by Lestat never fails to hurt me— it’s actually very easy to hurt me but:
“When [Louis] saw the stars, I felt him tense against me; his face was perfectly smooth and serene; and if he was weeping the wind was carrying it away. Whatever fear he’d felt was gone now, utterly; he was lost as he looked upward; as the dome of heaven came down around us, and the moon shone full on the endless thickening plain of whiteness below.”
Maybe that applies to fandom in some way, too… bc the joke “When you’re motivated to write smut out of spite,” that’s being salty about someone’s sour opinion about a ship, I would guess, and OP writing smut of that ship just to rebel, that’s the sour to the saltiness?
Salty, sweet, sour, bitter, spicy, umami… all the flavors can be applied to fandom, too, and they’re all of value. We consume canon, fanon, etc… we create our own. This is probably not any kind of definitive statement on flavor (partly bc they’re lumping umami and salty? oddly?) butthis article has some interesting info on flavor interactions that could probably be applied to fiction/media/fanworks/etc….
I-want-my-IWTV 