I also had boiled peanuts today. I like it when the peanut is wet. I don't eat boiled peanuts as much as I would prefer to, which would be all the time. They're so good!

I'm sorry I look so attractive in the damn witch hat that I think I just need to change my entire life to the point that I can be a person who is always wearing a witch hat. It's a great hat, it looks so good.

Before I went to Renfair I was waiting on a sidewalk for a friend and ended up taking this kinda too good photo of a local Cat Vagrant. He wanted to be my friend for food reasons but because I'm very allergic I basically just insulted him dearly.

Wearing jeans at the Renfair~

Mochi has been stressed since the Tree Thing (she can now see more things that she needs to yell at!) but sticks still matter more than anything else!

I will feel very happy when I am no longer irritable and incapable of focusing on anything even a little bit for any amount of time. That will be nice.

I worked on another book cover funzies project tonight. Moving pixels is very calming. Hopefully I can figure out this CONTRAST NIGHTMARE and post these and then. Then! There will be 18 matching TVA style ones for my big Nerd Nonsense Brain. Anne Rice was really obsessed with two painters ughhhhh

I recently remembered how Red Letter Media went on a tangent in this video about how Poe and Finn should have ended up together.

If you have not seen the 1946 La Belle et Le Bete movie you will probably take from this a different meaning than you will if you have seen it: I think it's one of Louis's favorite movies because the Beast in it reminds him of Lestat. Because the Beast in that version is a super emotional dweeb 🤣

Michaels tried to thwart me. We will see if they succeed.

I need to not look at drama, I need to follow my own rules. ...I need to cancel the vampire Marius de Romanus for going online and being incorrect about the concrete details of the events of Anne Rice novels to try to win arguments. Lydia wasn't from Greece! What's wrong with you?

I hate the concept of dating. Hate it Hate it Hate it. I feel incapable of liking someone on purpose, and rarely stumble into dating by accident. One day a woman will hit me with a car and then marry me, I suppose.

I'm sorry, this justification for the title is much better than the forced justification of the title that appears in the actual book and which makes no sense and is the clunkiest thing I have ever read in my life. (from The Hunger Games Wiki)

There was some stuff about this book that didn't work for me, but damn this trailer looks good- they do a good job with these films even when the story (coughmockingjaycough) is lacking, so I'm excited! Ampert is so tiny 😭

what Talamasca denies us, Miss Tanzania delivers... (genuinely though, damn, she looks amazing, and I love the concept!)

Looking at her journals, and having read the finished versions of the books she was writing.... she was right to tell her editor to never give her feedback again 😭

Mochi only loves me because she wants me to scratch her butt. That's all she wants! I feel so used, so underappreciated. I am a person, I am not a set of fingers for scratching dog butts!

Anyway, I think it is important for me to be cranky places other than social media, so I'm going to tell myself I'll read and instead probably rewatch What We Do In The Shadows some more.

I'm honestly on the verge of sticking my toe near drama and I need to STOP IT. NO. BAD.

I'm very sleepy and irritable, and I'm even more irritable because a book I have had on hold at the library for like a year that I am really looking forward to reading just came in and I really want to read it but I'm too sleepy! Damn it!

As a woman in my thirties, I'm going to confirm that you don't need to get plastic surgery. For example, I never got lip filler, but now my lips are enormous because I accidentally whipped myself in the mouth with the buckle of my seat belt 10 minutes ago, and I look terrible!

Fuck it, going to say something adjacent to drama that's actually about like fifteen other annoyances of mine and not even the recent thing: if you're going to say something is implied in The Vampire Chronicles, you better cite your source or say you are doing a non antithetical interpretive reading

You should use specific language in general. It's more useful. So often people are talking about two completely different things and therefore having two completely different conversations, and arbitrating the definitions of words instead of talking about things that have any meaning.

You can read at least five significantly different versions of Interview with the Vampire if you limit yourself to ones written by Anne Rice (and visit Tulane), I'm realizing. Short story, original ending, published version, Louis is a woman screenplay, Louis is a man screenplay. Very interesting.

Remember all that stuff about vague language in the content guidelines? "Glorification," "Grooming," "Bullying," surely these are all terms that are always used in the best faith and not by right wing morality panics. Like seriously, the things you THINK you mean by these matter, but not the words.

Having introvert lunch because my nose is running and I look horrible when I eat because of it. Great idea! A girl I went to all of kindergarten through senior year of high school with who I didn't recognize in the elevator yesterday until she pointed me out is ONE TABLE OVER. AMAZING.

I love the phrasing here.

The first half of American figure skater Starr Andrews ' long program ⛸️ for the 2025-2026 competitive season is set to "The Fantasy of Happiness" by Daniel Hart, which was used in S1E4 of 'Interview with the Vampire'. x.com/skatingarchi... #StarrAndrews #DanielHart #InterviewWithTheVampire #iwtv

People never talk about how Anne Rice was slightly obsessed with Haiti. I stumbled on a whole rabbit hole about this the other day while I was trying to do something much more specific, and it is a hyper fixation that appears in her work, but I didn't think about it until I saw it outside the books.

I was feeling kind of terrible (emotionally) all day, and couldn't really think of what could make me feel better about it? Anyway, I hope one day you get to read the rough draft of your favorite scene in your favorite book too.

Chicken korma? That's not for humans, that's for dogs. A dog has informed me of this today. Unfortunately, I am not giving dairy to this canine, I just cleaned the floors.

One of my issues with the Talamasca dialogue is that it's vulgar. I am not opposed to vulgar, I delight in the fucking glorious orgy of vulgarity that is the core of wit in the English language, but sometimes people mistake "vulgar" for "clever" and it's like, ugh. Put your dick away!

Okay, need to get a running start on this crochet gift, so... Talamasca.... ew....

56 granny squares, 2.5 weeks. Can I do it? I better!

Lovely friend (who recently watched the show for the first time, turning me into Gollum, in fact) brought me vampire gifts this weekend! Bookmarks are from a con, pin is from Pride. 🥰 I need something better to put pins on- I don't carry a bag except to work, my jackets aren't really for that...

Not that anyone on here would disagree, but 100% of the time, the moment I hear the word "demonic" or "demons" used unironically I stop listening and completely discount anything that person has said up to that point. It is never, and has never, not been an extremist spiral talking point.

I meticulously cleaned the rug. I cleaned the dog. I hear the extremely specific sounds... of the dog, drying her fur... on the rug...

Listen I know people go to other sites to see fandom drama... but tbh no fandom nonsense has actually been funnier to me, ever, than the Freeloading Leech Incident, which was 100% home grown organic iwtvsky.

I think I need to limit my ambitions, because I probably removed two entire dog's worth of dog hairs and an apocalypse of dust from the rugs, and if I keep going I will become more hive than human! God it'll be so nice that it's clean once I STOP. SNEEZING. The new rug rake I got is 100/10, great.

I have a severe dust allergy. I dusted my dusty-ass bedroom. You would think, why does she let her bedroom get dusty if she has a severe dust allergy? Because the dust on surfaces rarely BILLOWS INTO A CLOUD TOWARDS MY FACE RUINING MY ENTIRE DAY UNLESS I'M DUSTING ARGHHH

I'm used to working at companies with high turnover, and now I work at a company where half my department has been there 20+ years, and I feel insane when I am made aware of office rituals that assume you are still working?? With the same people?? This holiday season as last year???

There is a rug in my bedroom that is 80% doghair by volume. 18% is dust. Vacuums tremble before it, you have to rake it, with a rake. Every time I rake it I think, "ah, yes, this will help my severe dust mite allergy!" without remembering that the rake flings dust directly up my nose and eyes

Honestly I have an encyclopedic knowledge of fuck-ass bad takes on Interview with the Vampire. It would amaze you! I can even predict the next sentence of a bad take after reading the first one. It's a terrible skill, I do hate it. Not all takes are fuck-ass, but many are, and predictable.

I have PMDD and am also upset about things. Are they valid things? Guess I'll know in a few days! Good god I hate this.

Here's some random things about Lestat that are canon for no particular reason: - he's supposed to be muscular. He's not supposed to be super thin. Anne Rice was insistent on this. - He was, in fact, not rich, this is a plot point, characters mention it a lot in TVL, they even explain the context.

Well, it has a vague outline now. 🤷‍♀️

What if I write a Talamasca show. Six episodes. AMC universe. I don't like me as a writer, but I'm THINKING ABOUT IT

I will probably watch Talamasca this week because it is too short of a television show for me to not finish. That's my review of where we are to this point. I haven't even seen the fifth episode I just don't care.

I just saw La Belle et la Bête, the opera by Philip Glass written to sync with the 1946 film. It was so good! I'd only seen clips of the movie before- I didn't expect the dynamic between Belle and the Beast to be as funny as it was! And of course the magical design was insane, and the opera itself 💖

I mean-