The girl in the mist

Roger, talking about Rafa everywhere and anywhere 👀🩵

(On Uniqlo USA’s Instagram)

How long have you been together? Oh it's not–it's not like that. It certainly looks like that from here.

We could've been us.

Good Omens (2019-2023)

Interview with the Vampire | episode 7 teaser

JACOB ANDERSON & SAM REID “In Throes of Increasing Wonder…” — Interview with the Vampire (1.01)

Lucy Westenra in Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1992) Lestat de Lioncourt in Interview with the Vampire (2022)

INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE | S01E06 

Hey since fandom is reviving on tumblr...

We need to bring back fic rec lists but like, everyone needs to be so normal about it.

This will only work if you don't get publicly upset about your fic not being included on fic rec lists or people having frank reviews/warnings on their fic rec list (eg. I greatly enjoyed this fic but X was very OOC).

This will also only work if you're normal about clearly labeled content for fic recs. So none of the "you included a fic with implied incest side ship on a fic rec list for my otp and therefore we can't be friends anymore and I have to make a callout post" drama.

Cause like. Fic rec lists used to be so vital in fandoms for short fics, gen fics, semi-popular side-pairings, and underappreciated writers. Not everyone's taste match with the highest kudos fics on ao3. We should bring them back. We should reblog people's fic rec lists in our fandom/circle and add our own. We should second people's recs when we agree.

So the importance of fic recs in fandom culture is that it introduce secondary content curation. It's a way for people to share/see fics without the fic writer themselves having to market/promote their own fic. This benefits fic authors. But fic rec isn't for fic authors.

A rec list is from readers to other readers. (Even tho I'm a fanfic writer, when I make a fic rec, it's from POV of a reader to other readers.)

And it's important for everyone to have this distinction, because if a rec list says "7/10 great read but kinda slow" the rec-er is not speaking to the author or offering criticism, the rec-er is warning other readers. It's distinctively different from comments, which are directed at the author.

An author can "choose not to use archival content warning" and the rec for it can have detailed cw for everything. A fic can choose to have no spoiler in the tags but the rec-er can choose to decide actually knowing the couple broke up is pretty fucking important. This too is an important part of fandom and adds layers to ways people can engage with fan-fiction.

In the current era of intense self-promo fic authors have all the pressure of framing their own fic, but also all the power. This shouldn't be the case. We need secondary curation to balance the fandom ecosystem. It'll benefit both writers and readers.

But you see, it is precisely in the smallest things that you'll find I've loved you the most.

Enemies to lovers, 50k:

Sex and romance are integral to queer identity, but so are the ideas of power and defiance. Queerness is surviving in a world that’s determined to see you disappear or live as someone you’re not. In Interview, stakes are heightened to astronomical proportions and the show stretches that tension to supernatural limits. In doing so, it highlights the damage that this world is capable of, and the resources it takes to exist within it. It turns out that being a gay vampire and doing crime isn’t ideal, but it allows Louis to be closer to who he truly is — much more than the human world would ever allow him to be. (x)