quod nocet nox

Thomas Hoepker: New York (1983)

this is going to sound uncharitable (it is) but louis just fails claudia again and again because he cannot for the life of him prioritize her. and his failures to do so exist alongside his love for her, his smothering of her, his enmeshment with her, his dependence on her. you’d think an overbearing parent like him would be utterly devoted to the well being of their child and put them above all else but really what louis appears to be most devoted to is his own grief and rage and desire and his almost navel gazey self loathing. he just cannot suck it up for long enough ever to be what claudia needs him to be. because to some extent he’s right about himself, he is weak; he was turned in a moment of weakness and he is stuck in that moment. and compared to what claudia is forced to become in the wake of his abdication of the role that he took upon himself (!!!) weak is a part of what he is. and yes of course saying it like this is very unfair to louis because his mortal life was spent being what other people (including his own family) wanted/needed him to be at great cost to himself, and his relationship with lestat was abusive, and he’s suffered countless traumas & indignities, he’s boiling over all the time, but claudia didn’t have anything to do with that. she didn’t ask to be made. she wasn’t even asked. the absence of metaphor is striking the family is a monster literally why did they make her then, just to suffer? to be an immortal repository for louis’ failures? this is a sick show for sick people. abolish the vampire family NOW let her OUT god you should see my drafts

teen wolf.. but make it pink

Self-Injury in Teen Wolf

Bowl Depicting a Swarm of Mice. Medium: ceramic and pigment Period: 180 BC - 500 AD. Culture: Nazca; South coast, Peru. Now on display at the Art Institute of Chicago. Illustration by Elena Izcue (1889-1970).

Thom Browne Fall 2013 Ready-To-Wear

Grrr

Gideon, honey, you're not even trying to hide it.

Ella Purnell for New York Magazine

Harrow's necromantic power includes the ability to create underlighting whenever it's necessary.

Bonus:

Hildegard von Bingen’s 23 litterae ignotae, letters for her constructed mystical language Lingua Ignota. ca. 1200

missing scenes i deserved: scott haunting theo

A family of performers - Interview with the Vampire (2022–)