spending all of Harrow the Ninth drowning in Harrow’s grief and seeing the gaping maw that Gideon’s death has rent into her whole existance, and then getting smacked in the face by Nona the Ninth and the apperance of Kiriona Gaia and realizing that Gideon really just does not know. Gideon does not fucking know how much Harrow loves her. Gideon thinks she was abandoned and thrown away and that she gave her life for nothing and based on the information she has avalible to her that is like, a totally reasonable assumption.

head in hands i understand why she wanted to become Kiriona. she spent her childhood being told she was nothing and no one, abused by everyone who could have shown her care. she learned that she was created only to be a bomb. the one thing she had was Harrow. and then she felt like Harrow abandoned her, threw her away like trash. just like everyone else. fuck. no wonder she wants to just be the Daughter of God. no wonder she shed her name, given to her by the Ninth that hated her and the Mother that only created her for slaughter. no wonder she wants to reject everything that had rejected her. fuck.

Fully dying over the idea that newcomers are finding Lestat de Lioncourt ~problématique~

Like yeah you and literally every character who has ever interacted with him

expectations: intimidating dark vestal who took a vow of silence

reality: himbo with a dirty mouth

What was the first property/media you read fanfiction online for?  🌈

i must be really bad at interpreting facial expressions, because when this meme took off, everyone seemed to interpret the woman's face as "horny" or "yearning"

but i only saw simmering rage

My brother, reading out loud: Ianthe Tridentasaurus

Me: Yeah that’s her name you’re right

Alana bloom v Wendy Carr is really interesting as a watcher of the jdcu. despite filing the exact same role and being the same character prima facie, they are complete foils. Alana is what one might call spunky. she cares deeply about her coworkers and her patients. her character is in proximal conversation with the y2k rom com's best friend archetype. Wendy, on the other hand, is a frigid perpetrator of wlw mlm hostility. there has never been a person on earth she has liked enough to spend more than five minutes in a room with much less her coworkers. she is so profoundly bored by the thought of having patients that she exclusively teaches and reserches. if their positions were reversed I think that

1. Alana bloom would be a total buzzkill. she would say she was there for someone and genuinely mean it without getting distracted by a hot bartender. she would give everyone stern talking tos about being nice to each other.

2. if Wendy Carr was in Alana bloom's position, she would simply make will graham cry. a benefit of this is that it would be really funny

TV show: This is a TV show called Shits&Farts. It is about shits, & farts. The main characters are two men named Shit, & Fart. They tell shit & fart jokes to each other for the whole twenty-minute runtime.

at least one person you follow on tumblr, instantly: omfg im WITHERING from last nights ep….. the dynamic between shit & fart is so fucking  tense and erotic……im still fucking sobbing i hate my sweet babies….. why do they treat each other like this im fucking BATHING IN ACID….. its so good…….. im EMBALMING MYSELF and then DESECRATING MY OWN CORPSE…..

So, sifting through The Books again for deep lore meant I, of course, got sidetracked so I want to mention something. I've heard some people (citations are for losers) warn others that HtN isn't as funny as GtN. I suppose I concede, but I also just lost my shit reading the passage about John trying to explain how the River works to the baby Lyctors. With Mercy growing more and more irritated at the fact that John JUST WONT USE A RIVER METAPHOR ITS RIGHT THERE as it gets more obtuse until he's talking about Cassiopeia's explanation ("Oh, no, the lava," said Mercy) and the unkillable man-eating magma fish. I know it's a long and important exposition sequence, but it's also fucking hilarious how it builds up.

And also one scene that only hit me a few pages after I read it was the part where Cytherea is chasing Harrow. She runs to her room, slams the door, puts up all the fancy blood wards, then props up a chair under the door handle for good measure.

Then Cyth completely ignores the wards and is thwarted by the chair jamming the handle. Seriously, such a tense scene and you're like, phew! Then, wait a fucking minute... No. This is rediculous. And it is. It's so silly, a word I would hesitate to describe most of the book and yet here we are.

Melanie Martinez wishes she was Grimes. Grimes wishes she was Bjork. Bjork wishes she was 2 inches tall so she could go inside the computer and have a big adventure

Me: *Removes my cat from my lap to do something else.*

My cat: Father is...evil? Father is unyielding? Father is incapable of love? I am running away. I am packing my little rucksack and going out to explore the world as a lone vagabond. I can no longer thrive in this household.

interview with the vampire is so fucking good because it takes the two love triangle vampire boy archetypes (fun kinda evil bad boy and brooding morally tortured good boy) and instead of having them fight over a girl they just get into a toxic marriage and have an evil vampire baby

Cats understand "naughty". In fact I think they're the only animal who understands it. Dogs know "good" and "bad" but not Naughty. Same with theft. Cats know what theft is. They know when they are thieving and you can see it on their faces. Squirrels are thieves but they don't know that. They know "take" and "have" but they don't comprehend what it is to steal. Nor do raccoons or coyotes or any species of rodent. They may participate in theft but they are ignorant of the weight of what they do, the full meaning of it. Cats know what crime is and they do it on purpose.