Laut und schräg, verwegen und frei

I'm watching AMC's Interview with the Vampire for the first time and I've gotten to s1 e3. To set the scene: Louis is describing Lestat as having improved the Wolverine Blues to which Daniel is pointing out the inconsistencies between the San Francisco telling (1973) and Dubai (where Louis is doing the interview now).

My watching partner has not read Interview with the Vampire or seen the movie. I've seen and read both numerous times. I had to pause because it was obvious to me but not them.

The San Francisco telling is the Book.

Dubai? That's *our* interpretation. Our nuanced view of Lestat after hearing the other's tales.

The book was important from a doylist perspective. Anne Rice wrote it during a serious depression after losing a child. And it shows, especially compared to The Vampire Lestat.

However, Anne Rice has passed. And her story isn't hers anymore. It is ours. And The Interview with the Vampire is, to quote Louis "the more nuanced portrait."

As readers we saw through the depressive lenses to what could truly be there. Only to have it reinforced with the Vampire Lestat. And this show is a love letter to us while using a in character representation of the books to give a Watsonian reason for the difference.

It wasn't necessary. The show would still be fantastic without it. But it seriously elevated it for me as someone who was obsessive as a teenager searching for Vampire content everywhere and *loathing* the majority of books marketed to my age group at the time.

The old material exists *in universe* and that is beautiful to me.

I have so much I want to yell about in regards to the old material and the show's underlying theme about memory and mis-remembering, and how it will use your memory, but it would spoil something towards the end of S2 and I do not want to ruin that twist for you if you haven't gotten to it yet

But know I am vibrating in my seat because the film student in me has COMMENTARY on what you just said. AMC's IWTV has such a clever writing team behind it fully aware they are making an ADAPTATION, and they are using that not as a limitation to their desired narrative, but exploiting it to it's fullest extent.

anyone else think this too

Ok, to prove to my husband that this is more a European device than a U.S. device I am going to need more non-US people to reblog this.

Do not reblog for science. No science will be happening. Reblog to help me prove a point!

(If I am right I will show him this poll. If I am wrong he will never know this happened)

I am from the U.S. and I know what it is BUT ONLY BECAUSE my wife was raised in Europe!!!

let the contemporary record show mr beast was pretty ignorable for his whole career if you were just like, busy.

“are we still… sisters?”

season 1 // season 2

apropros of nothing, i just wanna say that even though the split of british/american voices in video games kinda sucks, it's really nice that in veilguard the british female voice is a northern accent. you just so rarely see that in any form of media, unless the character involved is poor or mean, so it's just really lovely that there's some positive representation of such a traditionally dismissed accent. i'm genuinely so pleasantly surprised that they got bryony corrigan to keep her accent rather than force her into received pronunciation.

Having a historical figure as a special interest is rather embarrassing. Yes, that's my person. Yes, they've been dead for over a hundred years and I still have emotions about them. Seeing things that they owned or that were related to them makes me happy. I have Spotify playlists for them. I can tell you so much about their life that it would be very weird for a living person. Seeing historians get them wrong can and will make me frustrated for the rest of the day. I'd love to see them portrayed in a historical drama! Oh...wait, no, not like that. Definitely not like that. Forget I asked.

And this is all emotions for a long dead person. Humiliating.

Every single person who has refused to condemn or stayed silent in the face of the onslaught of rising global antisemitism, your silence is deafening and now we’re at the point of pogroms in European cities.

Never Again is Now.

I stand with the Jewish people in solidarity, today, every day, proudly, unhesitatingly and unapologetically.

Cortex's stupid hologram head popping up in Crash 2 when Crash comes out of the first level without any crystals

Reblog if your blog is boopable-safe so you can get all the (probably new) achievements. I don’t care about notes I just want boops