OMG you like it that much??!! It took a week whut i need to get some more content on here STAT. Thank u, much flattered *u* This collection I’ve accumulated is addictive, isn’t it?
crap u probably noticed how poor my tagging was wayyyy back in the wayback OH WELL
I think some ppl have forgotten how to fandom or never knew, it’s not like there’s a manual of etiquette. That’s the short answer. And hasn’t this all been said in infinite variations?
Isn’t fandom about making/keeping friends who can revel in your deepest desires with you? Who can respect the fantasy world you want to live in, and go there with you?
Unfortunately, thanks to Tumblrland Hyperbole™ – which seems to have escalated exponentially in the past year – there are now:
Winner-take-all SJW attitudes about one-up-man-ship (”YOU ARE SO WRONG ABOUT YOUR HEADCANON AND IT OFFENDS ME GRRRR”; you can respectfully disagree, but do you need to take every opinion posted on someone else’s blog as a chance to soapbox?), or
Unnecessary competitions for popularity (”THERE CAN BE ONLY ONE RPer FOR THIS CANON CHARACTER”; no, they’re fictional, the internet is big enough for everyone to play with them, too).
There’s a daily parade of Real Life ppl who call us “creepy” for loving vampires, robots, thawed-out super soldiers, billionaire playboy philanthropists, aliens, women warriors, etc.
I’ve been called “creepy” at work. I tend to wear alot of black bc I don’t want to spend alot of money on work clothes, and sometimes I let my “macabre” interests slip out, seeking to make a connection; I shared a picture of Halloween makeup (Redditor Specialxk’s zombie walk face-and-throat trompe l’oeil makeup job) with someone at work I thought might be as impressed at the artistic skill as I was, and that person still won’t talk to me, some 3 weeks later.
Fandom, for me, is about making/keeping friends who can – and want to! – revel in our deepest desires, who can – and want to! – respect the fantasy world we want to live in, and go there together!
Specifically, currently, there are ppl in the fandom who seem to thrive on drama, and I considered answering this privately bc I don’t want to encourage it, but I’m going to take this as an opportunity to pay tribute to the one – yet another among MANY over the past several years that I’ve witnessed – who’s been pushed out because of it.
I don’t know what their public participation will be like in the future, I for one hope that the mun will take time off, and the fandom can collectively welcome them back, or the fandom can fracture, and let those who want to fandom with the mun do so, and those don’t should ignore ppl they don’t like, and invest the time and effort spent anonhating in more positive ways.
It seems like we’ve lost another RPer (merciful-death-archive), and what’s especially sad is that this RPer had been active for 3+ yrs, responding #ic and #ooc to all kinds of fandom topics, and these responses were often so well done that the mun was often complimented as sounding like the canon character! For their writing and all the mun did to encourage building friendships and welcome new people into the fandom, bringing ppl together to squee and critique and all the fun stuff we like to do about this series and its characters, this RPer was nominated as the fandom “Mom” figure, and it stuck.
This RPer was popular. Maybe it was the mun’s popularity that drove a group of ppl to try, time and time again, to tear the mun down with anonhate. They have their reasons. Supporters of the mun rallied time and time again to try to solve the issues as they arose, both privately and publicly, with little success, although there were periods when the anonhate tapered off.
This RPer was greatly appreciated by the fans in fandom who want to participate and actually make friends, isn’t that what fandom is about? The mun was someone who tried to promote building relationships in fandom, through fandom positivity. With the positivity blog, they did it anonymously, on their own time, spending tireless unpaid hours on it, so it wasn’t for self-promotion. It was for actual love of the fandom and the ppl in it who make it worth the effort by giving that love back through responses and fanworks.
We’ll miss merciful-death-archive, and I for one will welcome the mun (and all who have been pushed out) back when/if they are ready to return.
//Im out if i see one more hate anon about the pacific rim au. I thought you people would get your shit together for 5 seconds so we could have some fun but I guess not.
//Shocking notion to the haters out there; if you don’t like it, no one is forcing you to follow or participate.
Filed under: #OH BUT THEY ARE #U HAVE TO PLAY WITH ALL THE KIDS IN THE SANDBOX, #THE INTERNET IS #A VERY SMALL PLACE #AND EVERYONE THERE HAS TO PLAY WITH EVERYONE #AND GET ALONG #AND NO ICEPOPS FOR #PPL #WHO #DONT ##LIKE ###TO ###S#HAR#E ###BLARGHLARRARGHLERARGGGHLE
… seriously I don’t even know what’s going anymore, but that gif is so perfect, like, dramatic zoom on confused bird is pretty much the best response to anonhate that we have. Clearly:
Positivity is considered hypocritical at worst, and fluffy at best (whatever, I still like it and will promote it, I still have a bunch of it in my queue),
and rational arguments against anonhate have done little to reduce it,
♠ Louis here. I felt that I should answer this myself, since it is a question for me. Could I share this day with Lestat? If not directly with him, could I give him half? It would seem a beautiful gift to share in either fashion.
I admit that I’m not wholly prepared to answer, to consider this at all… the fact that I have never considered it is because I would never want to raise such an impossible dream in my heart, only to be crushed by the reality that it can never be.
Regardless, I’ll give you what comes to mind anyway. Assuming I must keep such a miracle to myself, here’s a small glimpse of ideas of what I might do:
Sunrise/sunset: Too obvious? Oh well. It’s the truth. I’d witness it, and feel that unique pleasure of sunlight climbing up my bare skin, that warmth spreading, not as a warning, but a loving embrace. That same feeling in reverse, as it slipped away at the end of the day.
Swim in the ocean, somewhere tropical, perhaps, and feel the tickle of the fish around my body. Maybe take one of those aqueous cameras to capture the composition of the scenery myself, as a memento. I don’t imagine wearing any cumbersome swimwear in this scenario. Maybe just diving equipment (Lestat and I are excellent divers).
Food and drink: it could be a gastronomic adventure. I was never what you call a “foodie” now, but I have some dishes that I would love to experience again.
Crêpe Suzette, for breakfast. Fruits, apple juice, coffee. Black coffee, café au lait, jasmine green tea. Beignets from the Cafe du Monde. Gumbo (with alligator). Crawfish
étouffée.
Other drink: I wouldn’t want to become so drenched in liquor that it would limit my experience, so I would opt for a few classic mixed drinks, rather than my previous mortal fare of anything in large quantities. A few glasses of St. Germain 75. Or
Mezcal. Perhaps something I never got to try as a mortal,
Aszú
Tokay. I’ve been told it’s very syrupy, but it may go well with vanilla ice cream.
Dancing
Go listen to a string quartet or trio in a garden.
Ride through my old plantation on horseback.
I would try to take notes throughout, so that I might relive the experience on those nights when eternity seems the most dreary, and I strain to recall the way the light caught the luster of the wooden body of a cello, the way it filtered through the water on the scaled backs of the fish, or shone in the eye of a lady – or man – as I took their hand to dance, as that light receded below the horizon once more.
I love this movie. This was the first vampire movie I ever watched. I was 8 years old. This movie literally changed my life. I spent years trying to remember the title because I had originally thought this was the Leslie Nielsen vampire movie. When I finally saw it again at 11. I read the entire series. A series that was far too mature for an 11 year old but I couldn’t put it down and my taste in literature dramatically changed. I went from being an extrovert to being an introverted book nerd. Throughout my teen years no other characters could compare to my love for Lestat. I was completely obsessed with the antagonists in books and always sided with them. So thank you Anne Rice for making a book series so powerful and moving that it changed my personality. I don’t know whether to hug you or slap the shit out of you.
^This happened to me similarly, too. Not quite the same, I was given IWTV when I was 11 and saw the movie after, sneaking over to a friend’s house bc it was rated R and I wasn’t allowed to watch it. I have the same feeling for AR, the VC had a huge enough influence. For better or worse *shrugs*
I was an ambivert. I was completely obsessed with antagonists, too. The VC encouraged me to develop all those extroverted traits I loved in Lestat, which other characters didn’t always approve of, but he dgaf! He marches to his own drum. Among so many things, he taught me that you don’t need anyone else’s validation or approval to be happy. The VC has been a huge source of strength. So much great advice. Here’s one:
“It’s an awful truth that suffering can deepen us, give a greater luster to our colors, a richer resonance to our words. That is, if it doesn’t destroy us, if it doesn’t burn away the optimism and the spirit, the capacity for visions, and the respect for simple yet indispensable things.” – Lestat, Queen of the Damned
I-want-my-IWTV 