“that’s such a dangerous/wrong/bad thing to write!”
wow, so unique, you sound like you just flew in from 1785.
“they can’t communicate, its SO UNHEALTHY.”
no, they’re having conflict and
IT’S SUPPOSED TO BE UNHEALTHY. NO ONE THINKS ITS REAL. EVERY SIXTEEN YEAR OLD GIRL READING IT KNOWS IT, STOP POLICING AUTHORS AND YOUNG WOMEN BECUASE YOU ONLY WANT THEM CONSUMING WHAT YOU CONSIDER TO BE MORALLY PURE MATERIAL.
You (or your parents) pay approx $40-$100 or higher for internet.
So that you can all use youtube, google, Twitter, Tumblr, Facebook, etc. etc. etc. This isn’t limited to social media.
Net neutrality says, “Okay, since you already paid x amount of money for the month, you don’t have to pay for each asset individually. Enjoy your internet.”
NO net neutrality means that your service provider (comcast, at&t, verizon, whatever it may be) gets to say “ACTUALLY, it lines our pockets so give us an extra $5.99 for Youtube, Facebook and Twitter. Oh, but that doesn’t include Tumblr; that comes with our premium package. That’ll be $5.99 on its own as well. Now about your Google docs and email…
That’s why it’s important. That’s why I’m spamming Net Neutrality crap. If you’re using the internet, it’s YOUR problem.
-Email your congressman (text resist to 50409) It’s easy, you don’t have to talk to anyone.
-Swim the #NetNeutrality tag on Twitter. Seriously, it’s helpful.
And lastly, GET THIS TRENDING. It’s trending on Twitter but it needs to trend here too. This is everyone’s issue.
Do you applying for jobs online?
Do you like randomly saying “wow this sounds neat, let me google it and learn more about it?”
How about “hey who played Horatio in last year’s performance?”
wHAT ABOUT DOING HOMEWORK WITH THE INTERNET?
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And of course….”wow this politician/company/group seems really shady, I should educate myself by more than just word of mouth so I can be an informed citizen.”
If you like the freedom of doing any of that, then yeah, this is important.
This isn’t about losing tumblr or twitter (Gods, if I had to pay for this hellsite I’d finally be able to Leave it and do something with my life anyway) this is about freedom of easy access to information.
Stay afraid, but do it anyway. What’s important is the action. You don’t have to wait to be confident. Just do it and eventually the confidence will follow.
Carrie Fisher
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Han & Leia Appreciation Week: Day 3, Part 1
There are so many wonderful things to say about Carrie Fisher, from her sense of humor to her kindness to her advocacy for mental health. But I think of this quote almost constantly. More than even Leia, the idea of “stay afraid but do it anyway” is a part of my daily life.
I’m one of those people who becomes paralyzed with fear. I have severe anxiety and I fight it every day.
I use procrastination as an unhealthy coping behavior. It started when I went to [insert snooty Ivy League here]: I didn’t think I belonged there, I didn’t think I was smart enough or good enough. So I stopped. I was so afraid of failing – or, of not being perfect – that I just didn’t do anything. I didn’t go to class. I didn’t do readings. I’d wait until the last second to turn in assignments. And I’d be terrified the entire time.
I’m in law school now, and I’m feeling those same feelings all over again. I’m literally paralyzed by my own fear. But I tell myself: stay afraid but do it anyway.
Paralyzed in fear is no way to live. Carrie knew this and she told all of us the best way she knew how to stop the cycle; her words help me every day.
I really enjoyed it but haven’t felt the need to really discuss it in depth. Aesthetically great. Acting was great. The story was… I’m really at a loss for how to describe it but just thinking about it gives me chills! Good scary movie chills 😉 I have some thoughts scattered in my #crimson peak tag, along with fanart for it.
I fully agree with what @annabellioncourt had said about it to me before I saw it:
YOU’RE GONNA LOVE CRIMSON PEAK ITS RIDICULOUS AND DARING, AND ITS FUCKED UP ENOUGH FOR ANNE RICE TO HAVE WRITTEN IT.
Aaaaand if that’s not endorsement enough, I felt like taking notes when I watched it so I could make: Lestat watches “Crimson Peak”here’s a snippet *SPOILERS*:
My lover’s sister tried to kill me, too. Hurts, doesn’t it????!!!
The dog is dying! Now I’m actually upset.
“You’re monsters, both of you!” Where have I heard that before? Now this is hitting too close to home. I’M NOT CRYING YOU’RE CRYING KEEP TAKING NOTES.
You stabbed him iN THE FACE. IN THE FACE!! Rude. What about the groundrules? Rule number 1: No touching of the hair or face… AND THAT’S IT!
You’re so welcome, glad you enjoyed it! Answering asks is so much fun for me, it makes me consider my own current and previous thoughts, sometimes I even ask around privately for more ideas… and try to write it out as best I can, it gives me an excuse to make fresh gifs/memes, sometimes it inspires others to make fanworks… and I always like to hear back from the original asker that the effort was appreciated *u* ((No, you only get one question per quarter. Pffft. Of course you can ask more!))
“in general, how do we as a base know what is unreliable information or not when it comes to our narrators because from what I’ve always gathered, they have the earnest desire to convey the truth as they can see it.”
You would think that, but just like in real life, people can narrate a story for their own motivations.
TL;DR:
The characters telling their stories don’t always have the earnest desire to convey the truth, so it’s not always clear what the reliable information is! When we have accounts of the same event where the details align, that seems to be the best way to confirm it’s canon, bc even Anne Rice can’t always answer fan’s questions about canon stuff to everyone’s satisfaction.
When there’s conflicting details, we have to rely on headcanons, which ppl can choose to agree on or not, hence the fandom phrase, #Your Headcanon May Vary.
For example of facts aligning: I think we can all agree that Armand was the unspoken leader at the Theatre des Vampires bc Lestat left him there in a position of authority in TVL, which is where Louis found him some 80 years later in IWTV, confirming that that was Armand’s role there.
In the scene above,
IDK at that point in canon whether Lestat believes in a God, but if not, he’s deliberately lying to Claudia, bc she’s never going to see her mother again. Even if he does believe in God, he still doesn’t know where his dead go! He’s trying to answer her in a way that will keep her calm and complacent. He knows Claudia’s mother is dead, he saw the corpse in the movie. But she is still a child and he doesn’t want to scare her or depress her, or make her feel guilty about killing, which she just did!
I also think he’s a little taken aback bc she’s asking him for the whereabouts of her biological mother just minutes after he turned her into a vampire, a process that’s been compared to birth. It’s the most intimate act a vampire can experience. His smile falls right after she asks bc in a way it seems like he’s a deflated that she wants her biological mother, it’s like she’s already saying, “You’re not my REAL dad!” It might also remind him of his own mother who abandoned him ;A;
Re: Lestat P.1: In TVL, Lestat tells Armand:
“I never lie,” I said offhand. “At least not to those I don’t love.”
I’m still not 100% clear on this, bc of the double negatives. Can we translate it to “I’m honest with those I don’t love.” –> “I lie to those I love.” ? He spent some 65 years lying by omission to Louis and Claudia about the other vampires, and all the secrets he knew. So who’s to say he doesn’t also lie to his readers, “those I don’t love” ? How much does he really love his readers?
Re: Louis: I’ve always felt, and there are others who share this opinion, who gave me this opinion, that IWTV was dictated to Daniel from Louis with the intention of pissing Lestat off enough that he would rise from wherever he was hiding and find Louis. While I don’t think Louis intentionallyLIED, I do think he might have embellished some things, exaggerated here and there, left out certain things, in order to achieve his goal. And it WORKED because…
Re: Lestat P.2: The Vampire Lestat was Lestat’s rebuttal to IWTV, containing all the secrets he couldn’t tell Louis during their time together, so I’m inclined to believe that Lestat earnestly wanted to correct the record and win Louis back, since he still loved Louis.
Re: Armand: TBH, I don’t know Armand’s story well enough, what I believe and what I don’t, in all of canon, to say that he’s a liar. I think, like Louis and Lestat, he embellishes, he lies by omission, and he tells people things when he wants a certain reaction out of them. He lied to his coven when he was a leader all those years since he never really believed in serving Satan. Or did he? It seems like he didn’t.
There is a particular scene that Armand describes in TVA that is questionable, as to whether it happened.
How he tried to “help” Claudia the night she died (fanart by @sheepskeletonhere, if you dare, it’s gorey). Personally, I sometimes believe it’s the truth bc Armand does like… experiments! But then I also remember how David was flirting excessively with Armand in that book, andso it’s possible that “this story was just something that Armand made up; somehow trying to intimidate the others, displaying the cruelty he could be capable of.” (quote from @annabellioncourt)
Off the top of my head, and in no particular order:
Salem’s Lot, by Stephen King
Anno Dracula, by Kim Newman
The Blood Opera trilogy (Dark Dance, Personal Darkness, Darkness I), by Tanith Lee
The Blood Wine sequence (A Taste of Blood Wine, A Dance in Blood Velvet, The Dark Blood of Poppies, The Dark Arts of Blood), by Freda Warrington
The Delicate Dependency, by Michael Talbot (the recently-published edition from Valancourt Books has a foreword by me!)
Fevre Dream, by George R. R. Martin
Lost Souls, by Poppy Z. Brite
Midnight Blue: the Sonja Blue Collection, by Nancy Collins
Still Life, by Michael Montoure
And, if you want super-sweet gothy YA vampires, the Vampire Kisses series by Ellen Schreiber are adorable.
-Sunshine by Robin McKinley
-The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova
-From the Dust Returned by Ray Bradbury
-Coldest Girl in Coldtown by Holly Black (where’s its cult following? because its really damn good for a vampire novel, lacking the over-sentimental-yet-emotionally-devoid clatter of a lot of YA books but not having the same levels of bitter cynicism that adult vampire novels have)
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