If writers took every bit of writing advice that was in the format ‘Don’t use X part of the English language’, all English fiction would read like Spot the dog
In my younger days, it was spelled "teeny boppers" and referred more to “a young teenager, especially a girl, who keenly follows the latest fashions in clothes and pop music,” especially boy bands. So… maybe the definition has changed since then? But it still comes across as strange w/ an unnecesary negative connotation the way the Anon used it.
To suggest that “going through X phase” leads to serious mental health problems is wrong on so many levels, totally separate from the fact that I am not “going through a vampire phase,” I just have a blog that is largely focused on a subject and a specific media interpretation of it, but that’s fandom. It’s not “going through a phase.” Just sharing appreciation for something using social media.
And then: “all my friends went through that phase and one has serious mental problems now.” If we take this as fact and not trolling (which it IS)(not that I want to engage in a real discussion over this):
So, that’s 1 out of how many? 2? 10? 1,000?
“serious mental problems?” What is their definition of “serious mental problems”?
Are those "serious mental problems" so awful as to be ALL considered “unsafe”?
How does Anon know the “serious mental problems” weren’t brought on by, say, genetics, a difficult family life, an aggressive duck situation, a unicycle accident, the stress brought on by the pressure of wanting to measure up to societal ideals, or, like, VIRTUALLY ANY NUMBER OF THOSE OR OTHER THINGS INDIVIDUALLY or compounded together?
It’s most likely a troll, who has become active in the last month or so, and asked me other things trying to get some kind of reaction like a little kid prodding an adult for attention.
Reminder to that Anon: I’m not required to answer anything.
ooc; also never forget that in the original Interview with the Vampire short story, Lestat was a farmer, Louis had a thing for his niece, and Daniel met Louis in a bar called the Pink Baby which was definitely a gay bar.
wHY U DO THIS?
YOU’VE NEVER HEARD OF THE ORIGINAL STORY????
FIND IT READ IT QUESTION ANNE’S SANITY
(even more then we do now tbh)
I know of this version here but I don’t think it has what merciful-death mentioned specifically… is there another version out there? Halp!
But really, read that short story, it made me just…
lol no, it’s a top hat. I think. I mean keep in mind this is the 1978 edition so perhaps buckets could be worn as top hats? Or were considered dapper? Or merely served as the inspiration for top hats?? IDEK I AM OLD BUT NOT THAT OLD.
A very unusual white top hat, hella dapper, on Alice Cooper:
what about like. a vampire who is just this weird immortal relative. like maybe at one point they were a parent, and were turned into a vampire, and in stead of like abandoning their family out of guilt or fear, they stuck around through generations and generations in their family and its been hundreds of years and they still stick around and have this huge extended family of people who love them, that weird distant relative who like nobody is sure how they’re related but they are
like a child in their family is born and the mom is like, this is your weird relative who is nocturnal, and the vampire gets to hold the baby and is in all the family photos and everyone is like ‘yeah this is fine, my grandpa knew them so’
This just makes me think of the sims.
This is the perfect position for the maiden aunt who grows her own food and is vaguely into witchcraft that we all have
Like imagine a kid being raised with an “Aunt Mel” and just assuming she’s their mother’s sister but when they’re a teenager their mum is like “oh no she’s actually my aunt, she’s your grandad’s sister” and eventually the kid asks their grandad and he’s like “I’m pretty sure she’s my aunt. Or my great-aunt? She might be some kind of family friend, anyway.”
I will defend Antonio 5ever, so I respect you (and others) for defending actors in roles that others disagree with.
You have a valid point, and I actually rather like this production still is he wearing red velvet?? (I think it’s velour but it counts!)
…and yet, we also have Lee Pace…
I liked the idea of the druids not letting him cut his hair. Something about that felt like another means of trying to break him, by taking away his ability to even choose his own grooming, they were trying to chip away at his sense of self, the better to give himself over to what they wanted him to be for them.
Maybe part of why Marius was drawn to rescue Armand from the brothel is that he could relate to the frustration of imprisonment, though his own abuse was very different from Armand’s.
I have been making this exact face literally all day.
I am now just waiting to be brought wine.
Try some of this vintage:
#pls never resist because I died loling.
So like
basically everyone is undead up in here.
PS: I went and got wine. Good for me.
was it the two of you guys who once spitballed what would happen if Tony Stark and Lestat met and that it would be a bad thing? cause that’s what I’m getting here XD
Yeah it was. They both love metal and capitalism. They’d both… strongly dislike literally everything else about each other. Their modes of peacocking are too mildly askew.
Now I have this image of them onstage together, doing a cover of Springsteen or smtg, glancing at eachother in the spotlight, sharing it like old rockstar buds, Being in the Moment and all cool, then the SECOND the show is over, they pick the stupidest little fight. Probably about sunglasses.
… So who would win in a fight? Iron Man (in the suit, fully charged, of course) or Lestat dL (fully fed, not sunburnt)?
I think the body’s original owner is described as Anglo-Indian, a term that makes me think of the British Raj, though Wikipedia says it’s still in use today.
Yep! I think we’re going to need to be mutually supportive. It has a 99% chance of being… um… therapy-inducing. I think we all just want our fave characters to be represented properly and not pushed ooc (LOUIS IN MERRICK OMG)(I mean he was bewitched but STILL)(ugh)
I think the People Off the Page are the discontented possum… the People Of the Page are going to be a contented possum from page 1, line 1 😉
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