You sweet thing, thank u! Since Iām sort of clawing my way back up to the real world from being sick, this was especially good timing ā¤
*~5 things that make me happy~*ā¦ in no special orderā¦
1. Retail therapy – not necessarily buying anything, sometimes just the hunt is plenty. But of course, if you find that one amazing jacket/dress/top, you gotta buy it, bc when youāre looking for an amazing jacket/dress/top for a specific event, suddenly no one makes good things anymore!!!Ā
2. 80s and 90s music – mostly the hits, one-hit wonders, and also other songs by artists from that time period that didnāt get as much radio play. I think I love it bc it reminds me of when I was riding the bus to/from school, the idea of being in that liminal space, no seatbelts, dappled sunlight, kids chattering around, the smell of the sunshine cooking the green faux-leather seats, being in transit, clutching a book in my hands, and these songs being so optimistic, even when they were angry (Nine Inch Nails) and/or miserable (Smashing Pumpkins). There was always a sparkle of hope that things could be learned from the darkness. Or maybe that was just my own interpretation.Ā
Among which: I love Duncan Sheik, apparently? Good writing music. I had a friend who was obsessed with his music in high school and kept looking for secret messages in the first letters of the track names, and kept trying to get me to listen to his non-hit stuff, and I justā¦ I think I was refusing to do it, just to keep the game of it up with her. That push-pull. I have to reach out to her and admit that I might be as big a fan now as she was then!Ā
3. My oil lamp – I used to buy candles and that gets so expensive and messy, and itās wasteful, bc I end up unable to burn through all the wax (unless itās tealights but those burn so fast), and I hate putting so much trash in the landfills. This is much more efficient bc I can have that friendly little flame and the clear kerosene isnāt too expensive. I like the historical feeling of it, and that ppl had to clean the glass just like Iām doing. I like the smell of the kerosene but some ppl donāt like it.Ā
4. Comfy shoes – I used to have giant pumpkin-shaped slippers and I wore them to their destructionā¦ I wear slippers around the house. I have 3 pairs of slippers now! Not slippers but: my fave black leather boots are comfy, too, and they make me feel like a BAMF. Iāll have to take pics. They fit my calf muscles perfectly, like a hug. Which is special bc my calf muscles are pretty big.
5. Short film viewings/art gallery crawls – I like going to gatherings and meeting new ppl, watch short films, see a bunch of art for a few hours. The variety of it all. I like picking out faves, and meeting the artists and asking them about their process and inspiration.Ā
^I think this last one also applies to my role in fandom, I really love encouraging fanartists and writers, even in other fandoms. Iām not rich by any means, but I scrape together money for commissions now and then. Fanworks are the lifeblood of a fandom and I like to add my applause to the mix. Sometimes I feel like the one in the audience who starts the applause, and thatās fine, too!Ā
When I was coherent enough I kept a journal. Writing, sketches – whatever I could think of and articulate at the time. Many pages filled with what I would say to Armand. The goid, bad and ugly sides if my psyche expressed there.
wait holdup where are all these people who think daniel is a throwaway? WE NEED A WORD.
IKR? Can we get some Daniel love and support on this post, plz? He puts up with SO MUCH.
Honestly Iāve never seen that be a commonly expressed sentiment in this fandom, and Iāve been here on LJ and tumblr since 2008. But tbh fandom drama/wank usually does involve someone going āeverybody / you all are always doing or saying X reprehensible thingā, whether or not thatās actually accurate. If OP could provide examples that would have been more helpful.
//Did someone say give Daniel Molloy love and support!! Mission accepted!! ššš
Abandoned by their writer this is canon, surname misspelt, continuity of narrative ignored or glossed over – sadly yes. But seen as a throwaway character, I havenāt gotten that impression no. As with most problematic favs (read all of vc characters tbh) heās not always the most popular but that doesnāt mean he has no fans or merits therein, I think as a character heād rather be limited edition than popular anyway! As a product of the āmodern eraā heās a rarity for the readers to identify with, a modernist human – just as easily he could be us – thrust into the vampiric world. Chased no less. A life or death love story. Even as a vampire heās not old and crusty like some of the ancients and latterly under Mariusā tender loving care *ahem* has blossomed into a dynamic free thinking member of the coven. Anyone who says āHey Marius, all due respect but No! Youāre wrongā has my vote! But Iām biased I guess being a Daniel mun and all.
He was a key figure in Louis, Lestats and Armands lives. Without him blowing the whistle and publishing Iwtv would L&L have reunited, maybe not. Armand would have survived as a ghost of himself in New Orleans without a striking reporter to stalk no doubt – But he wouldnāt have grown, unfurled in himself in the new age. Or rather gone back to a self he may have been if allowed to grow, mature and live as a mortal in Venice – mischevious, generous with a hint of brass impulse with a leaning for cruelty. The dynamic was off, unbalanced as Armand had the supernatural advantage over his eventual mortal beau, but Daniel wasnāt as much of an innocent as some like to paint him. Not that he deserved what happened to him, of course not but he possibly pre Armand had a unhealthy relationship with alcohol, and letās face it he went back to the guys place who told him he was a vampire? For a story!! This is not a man that had survival instincts primed.
Marius would have gone to ground, buried under a ton of earth and centuries of guilt and self denial without a broken person to heal. His mondus operandi this caretaker urge. He had tenacity in life and Iām glad to see it survives on on death, well from what little has been mentioned of him in PL and Plroa. More of him in the new book as long as that doesnāt make him Canon fodder, literally of course. Right more than enough cheerleading for Mr Molloy.
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